Chapter 14: Gao Yuyao

Seeing that Song Qingming seemed to recognize him, Qin Zhen looked at the wooden sign in front of the stall and continued: "Seeing that your sign says you need elixirs, I happen to know a friend who often sells elixirs. However, the other party doesn't want other things, only spirit stones. I wonder if you are interested?"

"Fellow Daoist Qin, I am also collecting elixirs that increase cultivation for my clan while I am here. If someone can provide them long-term, that would be excellent, and it would save my family from having to go to the market often to buy them."

So it was a nearby family cultivator. No wonder this person was young and could take out dozens of spirit talismans for sale at every gathering. It turned out that most of these spirit talismans were refined by his family elders.

Elixirs, such tight cultivation resources, are basically controlled by major cultivation families in Qinghe County. Relying on the accumulation of several generations, most of them have complete alchemy inheritance and are easier to cultivate alchemists than rogue cultivators.

Even if there are a few outstanding rogue cultivators who rely on their own opportunities to obtain some alchemy inheritance and become alchemists, if they want to obtain more alchemy formulas to improve their alchemy level, they can only choose to join them and become a guest of these cultivation families, helping them refine elixirs for a lifetime.

The only market in Qinghe County, Qinghe Market, was jointly established by the various cultivation families in Qinghe County. The elixirs refined by rogue cultivators in Qinghe Market cannot compete with these cultivation families.

Of course, there are still some alchemists who are unwilling to collude with these cultivation families and choose other ways of survival. However, the elixirs they refine can generally only appear in these small gatherings.

The elixirs sold here are generally a little cheaper than in the market. Nearby cultivation families, coveting the profit of a few spirit stones, often come here to purchase elixirs.

After hearing Song Qingming's words, Qin Zhen felt relieved and said: "I was wondering, Fellow Daoist is young, why would he need so many elixirs? It turns out he is purchasing for his family."

"If Fellow Daoist can introduce a way, in the future, if you come to me to buy spirit talismans, I will give you a ten percent discount on the market price, how about that?"

After speaking, Song Qingming also pulled out a few Clear Heart Talismans that this person loved most from the pile of spirit talismans in front of him and stuffed them into Qin Zhen's hands.

"That's fine, that's fine. After the gathering ends, Fellow Daoist, wait for me here for a moment."

Seeing that Song Qingming was so sensible, Qin Zhen happily agreed. Like him, rogue cultivators often mix in various gatherings. Besides going out to take risks and hunt demon beasts, they can only rely on buying and selling information in market gatherings to exchange for some cultivation resources.

Seeing that Song Qingming had made up his mind to leave, the person did not continue to persuade him and quickly helped Song Qingming exchange his remaining merit points into spirit stones and handed them to him.

After leaving the Feiyun Guard, Song Qingming went to Tianfeng Building again, booked a banquet, invited Shi Chun and the other two, and bid them farewell.

In the many years Song Qingming has been in Guiyun Market, he has not made many real friends. Shi Chun and the other two had extended a helping hand to him when he needed help the most, and Song Qingming always kept this in mind.

Shi Chun's cultivation has also progressed very quickly in the past few years, and he is not far from the late stage of Qi Refining. After Zhang Tieshan broke through two years ago, his cultivation has also reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. Only Qin Yuniang seems to have little interest in cultivation, and her cultivation is still only at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Although Hu Daozhen of Tianfeng Building has average cultivation talent, relying on a spiritual chef skill, he has also earned many cultivation resources. Born as a rogue cultivator, he has already cultivated to the fifth level of Qi Refining before the age of thirty, which is no slower than those cultivators from small families like the Song family of Mount Funiu.

The few people gathered in Tianfeng Building from day to night.

Until the moment they were about to part, Song Qingming suddenly said to Shi Chun and the other two: "Fellow Daoists, I have always forgotten to explain one thing to you. Actually, my name is not Song San. I am Song Qingming, a family cultivator. In the future, if you want to find me, you can come to Mount Funiu in Qinghe County to find me."

Hearing Song Qingming's words, Shi Chun and the others did not show much surprise. Just as Song Qingming expected, they were all rogue cultivators who had been mixing in the market for many years and were long used to cultivators like Song Qingming who did not use their real names.

Qin Yuniang giggled and said: "Actually, we already knew that you couldn't be called such a common name as Song San. But Brother Song, you can tell us frankly, which can be considered as really treating us as friends."

"Song San was also my name before I practiced the Dao, it is indeed very common."

After bidding farewell to Shi Chun and the others, Song Qingming, who had packed his luggage, set off to leave Guiyun Market early the next morning.

Before closed-door cultivation, Song Qingming had already decided that as long as he successfully broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he would return to Qinghe County immediately.

He has been out for nearly four years. Although Song Qingming failed to accurately find news about the Foundation Establishment Pill, his cultivation base broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, which can be considered as achieving a goal he had set in his heart.

In the past few years in the Feiyun Guard, both his fighting ability and his mentality when facing danger have grown a lot. Compared to four years ago, it can be said that he has undergone a very obvious transformation.

After leaving Guiyun Market, Song Qingming operated the Gale Technique he had just learned, and his figure turned into a breeze, quickly jumping among the mountains and forests.

After reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, his speed of travel was much faster than before. After operating his magic power to reduce his own weight, he could even run quickly on thin branches in the trees, as if gliding in the air.

Just as Song Qingming was rushing back to Qinghe County, on Mount Funiu in Qinghe County, the Song family's Great Elder Song Gubai, with a worried face, was discussing a major event concerning the future fate of the Song family with the Clan Leader Song Gushan.

"Clan Leader, we cannot let Qingze join the Xiaoyao Sect. He is the person with the highest cultivation talent in our Song family in the past few decades, and he is also the hope for the future prosperity of the family."

Song Gushan looked at the Great Elder who had been working for the Song family with him for decades. After a long time, he nodded and said with some difficulty: "Third Brother, how could I not know what you said? You also know that the candidate we pre-selected this time was originally Qingyu, but now Qingze has taken the initiative to propose that he wants to join the Xiaoyao Sect. He came to me to speak, and he has already made up his mind. How can I force him to stop? After all, this concerns his Dao path."

"Qingyu is still young, and we don't know if her future Dao path will be smooth. Currently, the only one in the Qing generation who can shoulder the heavy responsibility is Qingze. If he goes to the Xiaoyao Sect, once Changfeng and the others are gone, if the family cultivators are not connected, I am afraid that the family will decline immediately and it will be difficult to escape the fate of being annexed by other family forces around." Song Gubai sighed unwillingly and continued.

Song Gushan smiled bitterly and said: "You don't have to be too discouraged. How many setbacks and hardships has the family experienced in the past two hundred years? Haven't we all survived? Qingze chose to take the initiative to propose joining the Xiaoyao Sect, which shows that the development of the family in his heart is far less important than his own Dao path. To be honest, if the family is really handed over to him in the future, Fourth Brother, can you be at ease?"

"Since he chose to join the Xiaoyao Sect, after thinking about it, I still decided to let him go. If we force him to stay, it is inevitable that he will have grudges against the family in the future, which may not be a good thing for the family. It's just that the road to the Xiaoyao Sect is long and far, and his future can only depend on himself. The family has done its best for him for so many years."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 92 =====

Qin Zhen seemed to be a little respectful to this woman, and his tone was full of fear that she would not be satisfied with Song Qingming as a trading partner.

Hearing Qin Zhen's introduction, the pink-clad woman asked Song Qingming another question.

"Are you from the Song family of Mount Funiu?"

"Mount Funiu, Song family, Song Qingming."

Seeing that this woman knew his origin at once, Song Qingming thought she must be someone who had been cultivating in this area for many years, so he didn't hide it anymore and generously said his name.

After hearing Song Qingming's answer, the pink-clad woman thought for a long time. Finally, as if she had made up her mind, she threw a yellow cloth bag at Qin Zhen.

After Qin Zhen took the cloth bag and took a look, he nodded happily at the two and quickly left.

Not until Qin Zhen walked out of their sight did the woman in white speak slowly: "I don't know what kind of elixirs Fellow Daoist Song needs?"

"Like Nurturing Qi Elixir, I want all elixirs that can increase magic power, the more the better."

"I only want spirit stones, not other things."

"That is natural."

After the pink-clad woman finished speaking, she took out several identical purple jade bottles and placed them in Song Qingming's hands. Song Qingming took them and saw that all three bottles were full of Nurturing Qi Elixirs he had dreamed of. He was shocked and couldn't help but have a few more guesses about this pink-clad woman.

Being able to take out so many Nurturing Qi Elixirs at once, this woman's alchemy level must be very superb. It is not something that a low-grade alchemist like the second sister can compare with. She is at least a mid-grade alchemist. Such people are not many in Qinghe County.

"The quality of my elixirs is excellent. If you want a whole bottle, I can give you two fewer spirit stones."

Song Qingming nodded in agreement. After accepting a bottle of elixirs, he took out a bag of spirit stones and handed them to the woman.

"I came out in a hurry this time and didn't bring many spirit stones. Today I only need one bottle. For the rest, you can come to the place of the last gathering next month to find me. I will come here to set up a stall every month. As long as the quality is guaranteed, I can purchase long-term."

"As long as you have spirit stones, the quality of the elixirs I refine is guaranteed. However, if you want long-term cooperation... I have one more requirement."

"Fairy, please speak."

"You cannot reveal the transaction between us to your clansmen. This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

Regarding the strange request of the pink-clad woman, although Song Qingming was a little puzzled, he didn't think too much about it. The pink-clad woman's alchemy inheritance might come from Qinghe Market, and she didn't want them, these family cultivators, to know her identity. This is also understandable.

"Yes!"

Compared to her, Song Qingming didn't want the clan to know the secret of how he earned spirit stones now. For him, being able to stably exchange for elixirs to improve his cultivation is the most important thing.

At most, he only dared to take a little of these elixirs to the family Golden Treasury Pavilion to exchange for talisman-making materials. If he took them all, and the Fourth Elder asked where he got the spirit stones to purchase the elixirs, how could he explain it clearly? In the eyes of other members of the Song family, he could have at most twenty or thirty spirit stones on him.

The pink-clad woman counted the spirit stones, put them into the storage bag with satisfaction, and was about to leave gracefully.

"May I ask for Fairy's name?"

"Gao Yuyao."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 81 =====