Chapter 734

Bai Yuxian's closed-door cultivation to break through to the Nascent Soul realm has always been the most secret matter in the "Xiaoyao Sect." For these years, the Xiaoyao Sect has always blocked the news and kept this matter strictly confidential.

Even Song Qingming knew about this because Xu Ziyan had a good relationship with him, so she indirectly revealed a little to him.

However, the time required to close-door cultivate to break through to the Nascent Soul realm takes at least ten-plus years. Bai Yuxian has not appeared in front of people for these years, so it is impossible to keep it completely hidden after a long time.

After Song Qingyu returned, she did not see the sect master, Bai Yuxian, several times when she went to the sect, so she naturally heard some rumors about her closed-door cultivation to form the Nascent Soul.

However, she had always had a skeptical attitude toward this matter. It wasn't until Song Qingming said it directly to her face just now that Song Qingyu confirmed her previous guess.

Song Qingming nodded and confirmed: "Senior Sister Bai has been in closed-door cultivation for more than ten years. According to the time required for a general cultivator to condense the Nascent Soul, she should be coming out of closed-door cultivation in these few years."

"Seventh Brother, do you think Senior Sister Bai has a high chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm this time?"

Song Qingming shook his head and smiled at Song Qingyu: "Hehe! Your Seventh Brother doesn't have the experience of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm; how could I talk nonsense about such things?"

"Senior Sister Bai has heavenly spiritual root aptitude and already has the experience of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm once. Logically speaking, her chance of success this time should not be low."

"It's just that breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm is far more difficult than forming the core. How many genius cultivators in the cultivation world have been blocked at this step? I really can't say for sure whether Senior Sister Bai can succeed this time."

"Regardless of what changes the sect will have next, we all need to take precautions and make some preparations in advance."

"Hmm! Seventh Brother, you always think further than I do. With you in the family, it will definitely get better and better in the future."

Hearing Song Qingyu's flattery to his face, Song Qingming couldn't help but shake his head slightly: "The development of the family is not just my business alone. You and Yuanfang and the others are also very important to the family."

"Regardless of whether I am here in the future, I hope the family can be carried forward in your hands."

"There were only a dozen people on the mountain back then, and we have walked step by step to the present. Now, what is there in the family that could be worse than that time?"

"Seventh Brother, don't worry. Even if we are all gone, I believe Yuanfang and the others can take good care of the family." After Song Qingyu finished speaking, a confident smile appeared on her face.

Seeing this, Song Qingming nodded slightly: "You are right. One generation has one generation's mission. No matter what happens in the future, the family will always have to be handed over to these juniors."

"All we can do is try our best to pave the way forward for them!"

"Hmm! Anyway, no matter what happens, I will definitely listen to you."

"Seventh Brother, I can take care of Sister-in-law here. You just came out of closed-door cultivation and must have many things to do. You should go back and busy yourself with your own affairs these few days! When Sister-in-law comes out of closed-door cultivation, I will notify you immediately."

Seeing that Song Qingyu wanted to take the initiative to stay and guard the law for Huang Siyuan's closed-door cultivation, Song Qingming did not say much, nodded slightly in agreement, and then turned to walk toward his cave dwelling.

For these years, Song Qingming has been concentrating on closed-door cultivation to attempt to break through his cultivation. Although he has not succeeded yet, however...

If it weren't for Huang Siyuan breaking through the realm today and triggering the celestial phenomenon, making Song Qingming, who was closed-door cultivating in the cave dwelling, suddenly feel the change in spiritual energy around him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have come out of closed-door cultivation so early.

Song Qingming, who had just returned to the cave dwelling, took two bottles of pills from the wooden shelf on the side of the outer hall and came to a newly opened stone room inside the cave dwelling.

Although the area of this stone room is not small, five or six zhang long and wide, it is very empty inside and almost has nothing. Only a small spiritual gathering formation is arranged in the middle of the stone room, emitting bursts of dazzling spiritual light.

Song Qingming walked directly to the "Spiritual Gathering Formation," waved his hand to open a layer of restriction outside, and then walked directly into the formation.

In this "Spiritual Gathering Formation" that is operating, two people wearing mysterious iron masks are still sitting, absorbing the spiritual energy around them to meditate and cultivate.

Song Qingming came to the side of the two and handed out the two porcelain bottles he had just brought. The two masked men saw this and immediately reached out to take one of the porcelain bottles.

Afterward, the two of them uniformly opened the porcelain bottles, poured out a pill from inside, threw it into their mouths, and continued to meditate and cultivate.

Throughout the whole process, these two people wearing mysterious iron masks did not say a word, as if they were controlled by someone, and completed the action just now.

After giving the pills to the other party, Song Qingming released his spiritual sense to scan the two people sitting on the ground, and then a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

"Although it consumed a lot of pills, the current cultivation speed is indeed not slow. As long as there is a sufficient supply of pills, you will sooner or later be able to catch up with me."

These two people wearing mysterious iron masks are not normal cultivators, but corpse puppets that Song Qingming refined with his own hands.

One of them is "Jin Feng," who has followed Song Qingming for many years, and his cultivation has now broken through to the fifth layer of the Jin Dan.

The other person is another corpse puppet "Yinjia" that Song Qingming spent time refining over these years. His cultivation is lower, and he has only just broken through to the third layer of the Jin Dan not long ago.

When Song Qingming was strolling in the "Donghuang State" cultivation world for more than half a year, although he did not find the high-tier fire-attribute material he most wanted to repair the formation, he also purchased many good things.

In a large market in Liangzhou, Song Qingming happened to see someone selling a "Ghost Pill" of good quality in a shop, so he spent many spirit stones to buy it.

After returning to Wei, except for daily cultivation, Song Qingming spent most of his time refining corpse puppets. After more than a year of effort, he finally used this "Ghost Pill" to refine his second corpse puppet, "Yinjia."

Because he happened to have a bottle of "Flame Spiritual Water" obtained from Duan Longshan's storage bag back then, after washing and refining it with the secret method given by Li Xuanyi, Song Qingming did not spend much time raising "Yinjia's" cultivation to the third layer of the Jin Dan.

The main reason Song Qingming spent so much resources and energy to cultivate a second Jin Dan corpse puppet was to arrange the "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation" he obtained from the Heavenly Corpse Daoist back then.

After studying for so many years, Song Qingming discovered that this "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation" was not a formation created by the Heavenly Corpse Daoist himself, but was imitated from an ancient formation map he obtained by chance.

After obtaining the numerous cultivation techniques and secret books left by the Heavenly Corpse Daoist, Song Qingming also quickly found the original ancient formation map inside and discovered that the power of this formation was even better.

It's just that this formation map was already a bit incomplete, and Song Qingming tried it but still couldn't fully restore it.

In the end, he could only give up helplessly, take a step back, and transform the original "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation" through his own realization, obtaining a brand-new formation, the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Formation."

The power of this formation is not much different from the original "Heavenly Corpse Puppet Formation," but the arrangement requirements are much simpler. As long as there are three corpse puppets or puppet beasts of the same level, one can try to arrange a relatively simple magic formation.

Moreover, as the number of puppet beasts and corpse puppets increases, the power of the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Formation" will become stronger and stronger. If there are more than a dozen Jin Dan corpse puppets of the same level forming a formation, even if a Nascent Soul cultivator comes, they can fight with it.

It's just that this situation is only something Song Qingming can think about in his heart for the time being, and it is very difficult to truly realize it.

Corpse puppets are things that, because a cultivator's spiritual sense is limited, generally can only control one corpse puppet of the same level. Even if Song Qingming's spiritual sense is much stronger than ordinary cultivators of the same level after cultivating the "Soul Devouring Technique," he can now only control two at the same time at most.

If he replaces them with puppet beasts with weaker strength, Song Qingming can control quite a few at the same time, but the puppet beasts controlling the formation have weakened strength, and the power of the formation will also weaken significantly.

Moreover, puppet beasts above the third tier are basically treasures collected by large sects and are very rare in the market.

Song Qingming strolled in the "Donghuang State" for several years and only saw one third-tier low-grade puppet beast, and did not have the opportunity to purchase more high-tier puppet beasts.

Not to mention the resource-rich "Donghuang State" cultivation world, let alone a remote place like the Fuyun Mountain Range.

Wanting to collect enough puppet beasts to form a formation to fight across tiers is not something that can be done overnight. Song Qingming can only do his best and cannot ensure that he will definitely be able to do it.

However, fortunately, from the moment Song Qingming obtained the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Formation," he understood the difficulties and did not force it too much. He was already very satisfied that he could arrange the simplest set now.

After letting "Jin Feng" and "Yinjia" stay in the inner room to cultivate alone, Song Qingming walked out quickly and walked into another stone room next to it that stored his spiritual insects and demon beasts.

As soon as he entered the door, the "Golden Illusion Butterflies" that sensed Song Qingming's appearance swarmed over, and the "Ice-Fire Dragon" that was coiled in a corner of the stone room also smelled the familiar scent and immediately leaped toward Song Qingming.

Seeing this, Song Qingming hurriedly took out the pills he had already prepared and a bottle of white spiritual water brought from the "Tianyuan Sect" secret realm, and poured them together into a water trough placed to the side.

Seeing Song Qingming's action, the greedy "Ice-Fire Dragon" soon led a group of "Golden Illusion Butterflies" and pounced directly toward the water trough, and not long after, they swallowed the spiritual items brought by Song Qingming clean.

Ten years have passed, and these spiritual beasts and spiritual insects following Song Qingming have also had significant changes. Under the feeding of the white spiritual water used by Song Qingming, the cultivation of the "Ice-Fire Dragon" and "Golden Illusion Butterflies" has improved very quickly, and they are already close to the Foundation Establishment peak.

Even the "Heavenly Fire Roc," which cultivates more slowly, successfully broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment a few years ago with the help of a spiritual fruit Huang Siyuan exchanged from the "Tian Dan Alliance." If these spiritual beasts relied on their own cultivation in the wild, I am afraid they would at most be just Foundation Establishment. These years, following Song Qingming, they have had good food and drink, and they have never lacked pills and spiritual items, and their cultivation speed has increased by at least double.

However, they have also helped Song Qingming a lot over these years, especially the "Golden Illusion Butterflies," which can help explore the way and alert silently, and can also contain a mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator when attacking in groups; their strength is also not weak.

Spiritual beasts are things that, although the early investment is a bit large, it is difficult to see returns in a short time, but their potential is far greater than dead objects like corpse puppets if cultivated properly.

Song Qingming is now spending so much effort to cultivate them, also hoping that they can help him a lot in the future.

After taking care of his spiritual beasts, Song Qingming turned and came to the outer hall of the cave dwelling, collecting some cultivation classics that were scattered around the cave dwelling before.

After tidying up his cave dwelling, Song Qingming did not choose to continue sitting down to cultivate, but came to the stone table on the side and took out a high-tier spiritual talisman illustration book to savor it carefully.

After returning from the "Donghuang State," the strength of the spiritual beasts and corpse puppets around Song Qingming has increased significantly over these years, but his own cultivation has not changed much until now, still stuck at the seventh layer of the Jin Dan.

Although Song Qingming, who returned to "Mount Funiu," brought back many pills and spiritual items from the "Donghuang State" cultivation world, he had already cultivated to the peak of the seventh layer of the Jin Dan three years ago.

However, in recent years, Song Qingming attempted to break through the realm several times, but discovered that he had encountered a bottleneck that was difficult to touch, and several attempts ended in failure.

This bottleneck of the late Jin Dan stage is far more difficult than Song Qingming imagined, and it is no wonder that among the Jin Dan cultivators Song Qingming knows, most people will be stuck at the sixth or seventh layer of the Jin Dan for a long time, and very few people can quickly cultivate to the ninth layer of the Jin Dan.

After cultivating for so many years, Song Qingming also knows that when the cultivation realm reaches a certain point, one cannot blindly and forcefully cultivate hard to seek a breakthrough in the realm. Many times, one still needs to wait for an opportunity or a turning point to successfully break through the bottleneck and go further.

Seeing that his own cultivation could not break through quickly, Song Qingming changed his mind and gave up continuing closed-door cultivation, intending to shift his energy to other things and slow down before talking about it later.

This high-tier spiritual talisman illustration book was also brought back by Song Qingming from the "Donghuang State" cultivation world. It records many high-tier spiritual talismans above the third tier, and even several types of fourth-tier spiritual talismans are recorded.

Ever since his talisman-making technique broke through to the third-tier mid-grade, Song Qingming has suffered from not having many high-tier spiritual talisman illustration books over these years, and rarely has the opportunity to improve his talisman-making skills.

Last time in the "Donghuang State" cultivation world, he happened to find a high-tier spiritual talisman illustration book, which also finally gave him the opportunity to make progress in this talisman-making aspect.

Over these years, Song Qingming has not only drawn many third-tier mid-grade spiritual talismans but also started to try to make third-tier top-grade spiritual talismans.

However, up to now, after consuming several sets of materials, he has only successfully drawn one defective product with slight flaws and has not truly improved his talisman-making skills to the third-tier top-grade.

Although he has not successfully improved his talisman-making skills, Song Qingming already has great confidence in improving his talisman-making skills after having this high-tier spiritual talisman illustration book.

After cultivating the Dao for so many years, Song Qingming has always liked spiritual talismans, and he always prepares a few useful spiritual talismans of high grade on his body for emergencies.

It's just that with the improvement of his own cultivation, it has become very difficult for Song Qingming to purchase third-tier top-grade spiritual talismans that match his cultivation in the market over these years.

In the "Xiaoyao Sect," the person with the highest talisman-making skills is currently the Law Enforcement Elder Li Wutong. Although he is already a third-tier top-grade talisman maker, because of the lack of talisman-making materials in the Fuyun Mountain Range, Li Wutong rarely draws third-tier top-grade spiritual talismans.

Therefore, among the many Jin Dan elders in the entire "Xiaoyao Sect," there are not many people who hold high-tier spiritual talismans like the third-tier top-grade. Song Qingming had always wanted to exchange for one from the sect but never got his wish.

Since it is very difficult to get them outside, Song Qingming thought that it is better to rely on himself than on others, so he simply wanted to find a way to improve his talisman-making skills, so that in the future, whatever spiritual talismans he wants, as long as he can find the materials, he can easily draw them.

Improving talisman-making skills can not only satisfy his own needs in the future, but also exchange the extra spiritual talismans for other spiritual items he needs outside. These are also very critical for Song Qingming.

After studying the spiritual talisman illustration book in his hand carefully for a long time, Song Qingming suddenly stood up, took out a high-tier talisman paper and spread it on the table, then picked up the talisman brush on the table and dipped it in some cinnabar placed to the side, and shifted his gaze to the blank talisman paper in front of him.

Immediately afterward, he adjusted his breath, recalled the steps he had just thought of in his mind again, and his gaze gradually became very focused.

With the movement of spiritual light on his body, the magic power in Song Qingming's body poured into the talisman brush in his hand along the meridians, and he began to control the talisman brush to move slowly on the talisman paper.

In a blink of an eye, three days and three nights passed quickly. As the last stroke of the talisman brush in Song Qingming's hand fell, the talisman scripts that had been connected into one piece suddenly began to emit bursts of flashing spiritual light.

Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately put down the talisman brush and pinched the formula with both hands, quickly casting a spell to release a restriction that fell on the talisman paper, sealing all the spiritual light on it.

High-tier spiritual talismans above the third tier, because the spiritual power contained in the talisman scripts is very powerful, even if they are kept in the storage bag, they are very easily sensed by others.

Therefore, when a talisman maker draws a spiritual talisman, they will finally arrange a small restriction on it to cover its aura, which is conducive to the cultivator achieving an unexpected effect when using it.

After doing this step, Song Qingming picked up the spiritual talisman in his hand, observed it carefully, and saw that there were no flaws in the talisman scripts on it before he smiled with satisfaction.

"After consuming so many high-tier materials, it finally succeeded this time!"

Although he did not successfully break through his cultivation after being in closed-door cultivation for so long, he successfully advanced to become a third-tier top-grade talisman maker, and Song Qingming was still very happy in his heart.

Song Qingming, who put away the spiritual talisman in his hand, was just about to go out for a walk when a sound transmission talisman happened to fly into his cave dwelling at this moment.

After opening the spiritual talisman and scanning it, Song Qingming's face revealed a hint of joy again. He hurriedly tidied up the remaining talisman-making materials on the table, then walked out of the cave dwelling directly and walked quickly to the "Hui Xian Pavilion" on the mountain peak.

Song Qingming, who had just walked to the third floor, saw Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, who had just come out of closed-door cultivation, chatting, and immediately stepped forward to congratulate Huang Siyuan.

"Hehe! I was just about to go out for a walk. I didn't expect you to have come out of closed-door cultivation in advance. It seems that your breakthrough in cultivation this time is a bit different and much smoother than mine back then."

Huang Siyuan, who had just broken through her cultivation, was also very happy in her heart at this moment, nodded and smiled: "My closed-door cultivation this time indeed had a significant harvest. Not only did I successfully break through my cultivation, but I also felt that the path ahead of me became much clearer."

"However, speaking of which, experiencing mortal life in the world these years has indeed improved my state of mind significantly, which helped me a lot when I was breaking through in closed-door cultivation."

"I also want to thank my husband for his guidance back then; otherwise, I am afraid my breakthrough in cultivation this time would not have been so easy, and I would inevitably have wasted quite a few days."

Seeing Huang Siyuan suddenly cupping her hands to thank him, Song Qingming hurriedly stepped forward and waved his hand: "We have supported each other for many years; why be so polite?"

"Moreover, entering the world to cultivate is not something everyone can have such a big harvest from. How much you can realize from it depends entirely on your own opportunity. You don't need to count all the credit on me."

"Hmm! Seventh Brother's words are right. Sister-in-law, look, I have also been cultivating with you for quite a few days, but I have always been unable to calm down. Now it seems that I don't have this opportunity."

Ever since returning to the family after traveling abroad, Song Qingyu, who often saw Huang Siyuan going down the mountain to cultivate, was also curious and followed her a few times.

It's just that compared to Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu's experience in entering the world to cultivate was clearly much worse. She did not have much patience in cultivation and only persisted for less than a month before slowly becoming slack about this matter.

At this moment, seeing Huang Siyuan finally having a harvest after many years of entering the world to cultivate, Song Qingyu's face was both very envious and had a bit of helplessness.

Seeing the expression on Song Qingyu's face, Song Qingming immediately comforted her: "Qingyu, you cultivate the sword path, which emphasizes decisiveness in killing. Entering the world to cultivate is not necessarily useful for you, so you don't need to dwell on this matter all the time."

"You have a complete sword cultivation inheritance on you, which can at least be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. This is the greatest opportunity in your cultivation; why do you need to envy these?"

"That's right! Qingyu, you cultivate the sword path, and both your fighting methods and cultivation are half a point stronger than ours. In the future, your chance of condensing the Nascent Soul will definitely be greater than ours, so don't envy my small opportunity."

Song Qingyu smiled and opened her heart upon hearing this: "Hehe! I was just unable to resist envying it with my mouth. Since Sister-in-law has said it so nicely, how dare I not follow?"

"Seventh Brother, hurry and sit here. Today is the spiritual tea I brewed myself. You try it first and see how it tastes!"

Seeing Song Qingyu holding a cup of freshly brewed spiritual tea and placing it in front of him, Song Qingming hurriedly took it and found an empty seat to sit down.

The three of them hadn't gathered together for a long time, and this time they encountered the happy event of Huang Siyuan breaking through her cultivation, so they celebrated it well.

After chatting for a while, Song Qingming discussed with the two about the family's development to the north next, wanting to hear the opinions of the two women.

Regarding Song Qingming's idea of developing to the north, Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu both supported this matter very much and gave many ideas. The three of them soon drew up a rough action plan together.

(Finally, insert a word: the Mid-Autumn Festival lucky draw event has reached the last day, and the draw will be tomorrow. Book friends who haven't joined the group should hurry up.) (End of chapter)