[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-173":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Qinghe Immortal Clan",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1927428,2615,"Chapter 173: Foundation Establishment Level 2","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-173",173,"\u003Cp>After Huang Siyuan sent over the Soul-Bewitching Banner, Song Qingming had assumed they were about to set off for the Fuyun Mountain Range. Unexpectedly, the Huang family was in no hurry, delaying the departure date by another half a year. After handing over his garrison duties to Gao Jinhe, Song Qingming simply took the Song family cultivators who had been stationed at the market back to Funiu Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, Huang Siyuan had wanted to return to Funiu Mountain with Song Qingming, but in the end, she was persuaded by him to stay at Qinghe Market for the time being. After all, the Xianfeng Pavilion was considered a Song family asset; her sudden departure would certainly have a significant impact on the shop's business. It would be better to wait until a suitable replacement was found before letting her leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That gluttonous Skyfire Peng was also left with Huang Siyuan by Song Qingming. Over the past six months, she had taken care of this spirit beast quite diligently, which was indeed much better than Song Qingming, who was often out or in seclusion. Even when she was busy, there was still that girl Li Hongyu who could help look after it. All in all, paying her three spirit stones a day to look after the spirit beast was a bit expensive, but it certainly saved Song Qingming a lot of trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to Huang Siyuan's careful nurturing over the past six months, the Skyfire Peng had grown quickly and could already carry a cultivator on its back to fly around. To better train it, Huang Siyuan often took it to the outskirts of the market to hunt for wild beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at Funiu Mountain, after nearly half a year of preparation, Bai Yunhua had already set up the Level 2 Spirit Gathering Array used for upgrading the spirit vein. Once the remaining spirit stones were refined by the array, the spirit vein upgrade would be completely finished in another two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent months, everyone had clearly felt that the spiritual energy on the mountain was becoming increasingly abundant. Every Song family cultivator was very much looking forward to this improvement of the Funiu Mountain spirit vein; with a Level 2 spirit vein for cultivation, it would be much more convenient for everyone to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For over two hundred years, Funiu Mountain, this ancestral land of the Song family that had always been obscure, finally began to change. Not only did the concentration of spiritual energy increase, but the height of the entire spirit mountain also rose by several hundred zhang, making it much more majestic and magnificent than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months later, after the spiritual energy concentration reached the standard of a Level 2 low-grade spirit vein, it gradually stabilized, and the Song family's spirit vein upgrade was completely finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to be said that Bai Yunhua's array formation skills were truly impressive. The time required for this spirit vein upgrade was nearly two months earlier than Song Qingming had expected, and even Song Qingsi, who had been his assistant for half a year, had improved her array formation skills significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a pity that there was no suitable Level 2 mountain-protecting array on hand; otherwise, they could have taken this opportunity to have Bai Yunhua help replace the existing Funiu Mountain array. With a Level 2 mountain-protecting array, the defensive capabilities of Funiu Mountain would be greatly enhanced, and even if Song Qingming were not there, ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators would find it very difficult to break into this spirit mountain in a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After accepting the two hundred spirit stone reward given by Song Changfeng, Bai Yunhua found Song Qingming to bid farewell and soon left Funiu Mountain to return to the Xiaoyao Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a cultivator with such mature cultivation techniques like him, the Xiaoyao Sect would normally strongly support their Foundation Establishment. After all, for the Xiaoyao Sect, as long as there were Foundation Establishment Pills, they could easily cultivate Foundation Establishment cultivators, but cultivators who could raise a cultivation technique to Level 2 were not something they could have just whenever they wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming's talisman-making and array formation skills had long since reached Level 1 high-grade, but he had tried several times to break through the Level 2 bottleneck, and without exception, all had failed, costing him quite a few materials, which made him give up this idea for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once a cultivation technique reaches Level 2, as long as you make a name for yourself, you often don't need to go out of your way to collect materials. Others who have materials will take the initiative to come to you and ask for your help. Just like Song Qingming going to find Bai Yunhua to set up an array or finding Huang Shengyue to refine magic tools, this shows how sought-after Level 2 cultivation techniques are.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire Qinghe County, among thousands of cultivators, only five possessed Level 2 cultivation techniques, which was even fewer than the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than two months after the spirit vein was upgraded, the last remaining Gu-generation cultivator of the Song family, the former Third Elder Song Gulan, also passed away on Funiu Mountain. This Song family elder lived to be one hundred and twenty years old and could be considered one of the few cultivators of the Song family who could pass away naturally and reach the end of their lifespan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She not only saw someone in the Song family reach Foundation Establishment and become a Foundation Establishment family, but before she left, she also witnessed the Song family upgrading the Funiu Mountain spirit vein. For her, who had cultivated on the mountain for her entire life, it could truly be said to be very fulfilling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the spirit vein upgrade, Song Qingming opened up a new cave dwelling at the top of Funiu Mountain, where the spiritual energy was most concentrated. He was now a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the spiritual energy he needed to absorb was far greater than that of Qi Refining cultivators, so naturally, he could no longer cultivate together with other Qi Refining cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the cave dwelling, Song Qingming sensed the concentration of the upgraded spirit vein; it should be able to supply two or three Foundation Establishment cultivators to cultivate on this mountain. At the very least, for the next few decades, the Song family would not need to worry about the issue of the spirit vein.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivating on such a higher-level spirit vein did not benefit only Song Qingming, this one Foundation Establishment cultivator; every Song family cultivator could obtain more abundant spiritual energy than before, which was of some help to every cultivator breaking through their realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in order to raise spirit stones to upgrade the spirit vein, the Song family had almost emptied all the spirit stones in the treasury. For the next few years, the entire family's finances were almost in a deficit. The Ninth Uncle Song Changxin, who was responsible for managing the family's Golden Treasury, could only throw this problem to the two people in charge of the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discussing it with the Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng, Song Qingming decided to stop issuing salaries to all cultivators for two years, with all of it converted into merit points recorded in the Golden Treasury. They would slowly make up for it after the family's finances recovered. Only the children in the family school who had not yet broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining were not included in this policy. These people were the future of the family, and unless it was a last resort, the family could not affect their current cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the five years Song Qingming was stationed at Qinghe Market, another three-spirit-root cultivator was discovered among the new generation of the family. This person was named Song Xinyu, ranking eighth among the Xin-generation, and was a gold, wood, and fire three-spirit-root cultivator, just able to cultivate the family's inherited technique, the \"Red Flame Art.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as nothing went wrong with this child, his cultivation talent should exceed that of Qingyu, and although he could not catch up to the Third Brother Song Qingze of those years, the difference would not be too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tidying up the new cave dwelling, Song Qingming soon entered into closed-door cultivation again. It had been nearly six years since he broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm, and the magic power in Song Qingming's body had already reached a critical point. A few months later, he, who had been in closed-door cultivation, finally successfully broke through his realm to the second level of Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Foundation Establishment realm, it generally takes at least five years for a cultivator to break through one level of cultivation. Song Qingming spent six years breaking through one level, which was already considered relatively fast. This was also thanks to the fact that he had never lacked the elixirs and spirit veins needed for cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breaking through his cultivation, Song Qingming had not been out of the cave dwelling for long when the Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng hurried over to find him.\u003C\u002Fp>",1549,"2026-06-14T03:09:34.521Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","06484e37147153d5f668a558733c3273bcabb42f1fba47bbfc94389df7d73be0","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-174","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-172",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]