Chapter 123: Qi Refining Level 9

After chatting with Fourth Uncle's family for a meal, Song Qingming got the mountain-protecting grand formation and strolled around Qinghe Market to purchase some pills needed for cultivation. When he returned to the Song family shop again, he found that Song Qingyu, the girl, had also returned and was asking for pills from Second Sister Song Qingwan in the back hall.

"Second Sister, just give me a new Rejuvenation Pill. Or you can count it as me borrowing it from you. Recently, in order to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining, spirit stones have really been spent."

"No, how long has it been since you borrowed ten spirit stones from me last time? You haven't returned them to me yet. Besides, Rejuvenation Pills only have an effect when taken by older people. You little girl, how old are you? What do you want this for? Can pills be eaten casually?"

Facing Song Qingyu's coquetry, Second Sister Song Qingwan remained unmoved. Seeing that Song Qingming had returned, the little girl hurriedly leaned over and transferred her hope to him.

Looking at the pitiful Song Qingyu, Song Qingming shook his head helplessly and said to Song Qingwan: "Second Sister, is that kind of new Rejuvenation Pill easy to refine? How many are left now?"

"That kind of Rejuvenation Pill requires a kind of Qingli Grass, which is very rare now. I accidentally received two plants last time and only refined a dozen or so pills in total. Now there are only four left." Song Qingwan said with some difficulty.

"Is that so? Then give me all these four pills. I will give you spirit stones directly!"

"This kind of pill can only be taken once in a lifetime. Why do you want so many?" Song Qingwan asked with some confusion.

"Hehe, this kind of pill is rare after all. I want to take a few back to give to people."

Seeing that this kind of pill was not easy to refine, Song Qingming simply collected all the remaining four Rejuvenation Pills in one breath, and then made an agreement with Song Qingyu that when she broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining in the future, he would definitely give her a Rejuvenation Pill, indirectly encouraging her to practice.

It was already dusk when he left Qinghe Market. Song Qingyu, the girl, kept arguing to return the next day until before departure. Song Qingming did not spoil her this time and directly scolded her with the majesty of an elder, which made her follow behind reluctantly. The two did not delay on the road and soon returned to Funiu Mountain.

Song Qingming set up the new high-grade mountain-protecting grand formation in Mugu Town, returned to his cave dwelling, and immediately closed his door, taking out the pills purchased this time, preparing to break through his cultivation to Qi Refining Level 9 in one breath.

Qi Refining Level 9 is the last level of the Qi Refining stage and is also the most difficult bottleneck. Song Qingming had already practiced his magic power to the peak of Qi Refining Level 8 half a year ago and tried several times to break through to Qi Refining Level 9, but none of them succeeded.

After going to Qinghe Market this time, he finally found a pill in the market that could help break through the late stage of Qi Refining, which gave him the confidence to impact the bottleneck again.

The pill Song Qingming bought this time is called Jade Green Pill, which is a Level 1 high-grade spiritual pill refined from Jade Green Flowers over a hundred years old. It can assist in breaking through the late stage of Qi Refining. The value of this pill in the market is 150 spirit stones. Even so expensive, there are still many cultivators who want to buy it. Song Qingming was able to buy one this time because of the relationship he established when he was in Qinghe Market.

With this pill plus a medium-grade spirit stone, Song Qingming now has great confidence that he can successfully break through to Qi Refining Level 9.

After Song Qingming used a Clear Heart Talisman to adjust his state of mind to the best, he swallowed this precious Jade Green Pill in one gulp.

A moment later, a violent spiritual energy quickly spread from his dantian, and then began to impact the many meridians and acupoints in his body.

Although the Jade Green Pill is still a Level 1 spiritual pill, the spiritual power in the spiritual pill is very large, already close to half of an ordinary Level 2 spiritual pill, and the spiritual energy contained is far more domineering than the many spiritual pills Song Qingming had taken before.

Such a very domineering spiritual energy flowing into the spiritual veins is a great test for every Qi Refining stage cultivator.

Enduring the severe pain of the meridians, Song Qingming concentrated his mind, fully guided the operation of magic power in the meridians in his body, and then slowly guided the violent magic power back to the dantian bit by bit.

As time passed slowly, the magic power in Song Qingming's dantian accumulated more and more, and finally reached a critical point a few days later.

Without any hesitation, Song Qingming quickly ran the powerful magic power in his dantian to the ninth meridian in his body. With a roar in his body, he soon successfully broke through the barrier in this last meridian, allowing him to advance to Qi Refining Level 9.

After the violent spiritual power in his body gradually calmed down, Song Qingming took out a medium-grade spirit stone again, slowly refined it, and stabilized his cultivation realm. Only then did Song Qingming breathe a sigh of relief. This breakthrough was finally successful.

In the previous breakthroughs, Song Qingming also successfully broke through the bottleneck and entered Qi Refining Level 9 once, but because of insufficient preparation, he failed to stabilize the realm in time and fell back to Qi Refining Level 8. Therefore, when he broke through this time, he prepared a medium-grade spirit stone in advance, which is precisely why he did not repeat the same mistakes this time.

Although breaking through like this costs much more spirit stones than ordinary cultivators, this is also a helpless thing for Song Qingming. His spiritual root quality is too poor. Although he practiced a relatively good technique like the Jade Profound Scripture, his cultivation speed is far behind those geniuses with excellent spiritual roots. In order to establish his foundation early, he can only continuously refine pills to increase his cultivation speed, which naturally led to his unstable foundation and increased the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck.

After breaking through to Qi Refining Level 9, he will face the biggest difficulty of Foundation Establishment. Even if he practices to Qi Refining Level 9, he is still the lowest existence in the cultivation world. In the eyes of high-level cultivators, Qi Refining cultivators are all chess pieces in a chessboard whose fate is manipulated. Only by successfully establishing his foundation can he better control his own fate.

Once a cultivator successfully establishes his foundation, he can not only learn various more powerful magic spells, but his lifespan will also increase by two Jiazi. After becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if he cannot get rid of the fate of a chess piece, he is also a larger chess piece in the chessboard and will not be easily abandoned by the person playing chess.

This time breaking through to Qi Refining Level 9, Song Qingming closed his door for a full month until his cultivation was completely stabilized before opening the cave dwelling door.

After walking out of his cave dwelling, Song Qingming went directly to find Patriarch Song Changfeng.

The mountain-protecting grand formation of Mugu Town has been set up, and Song Qingsi's formation level has also successfully entered the door and can set up some simple formations. Song Qingming does not have any relatively important things on Funiu Mountain for the time being, so he is ready to go to the Profound Heaven Sect first.

Song Changfeng did not say anything more this time, and after telling Song Qingming a few words, he agreed to his request and let Song Qingming go to the Hidden Gold Pavilion to receive dozens of spirit stones. After all, traveling far away is expensive, and when going to the Profound Heaven Sect to see a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it is good to spend some spirit stones to handle things.

The beast unrest has passed for a year, and the entire Wei Kingdom, except for the Pingyang County in the north which suffered heavy losses and is still a bit chaotic, other places have slowly returned to the stable state before the unrest.