[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-202":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},1927457,2615,"Chapter 202","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-202",202,"\u003Cp>\"Daoist Song, if you ask this, the old man really doesn't know. You also know that we are all businessmen in Tiandan Pavilion, so how dare we casually inquire about such big things in the Xiaoyao Sect? However, seeing that the movement on the mountain this time is so big, I estimate that the probability of success for the cultivator forming a core this time should not be small. It seems that it won't be long before the Xiaoyao Sect will have another Golden Core cultivator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really makes us envious. After cultivating for so many years, I have never seen the scene of someone forming a core, so I was curious and asked a few more questions. I hope you won't blame me.\" Song Qingming was full of envy, smiled, and explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After inquiring, Song Qingming finally understood the reason why the Xiaoyao Sect suddenly imposed martial law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe! Daoist Song, you don't have to worry. The Xiaoyao Sect is so nervous now that the person forming the core on the mountain must have reached the final stage of Core Formation. It is estimated that there will be results in half a month at most. By then, Daoist, you can enter Guyang Mountain.\" Seeing that Song Qingming had never seen the scene of Core Formation, the old man stroked the corners of his mouth and smiled, comforting him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Senior, for your guidance. It seems that the junior will indeed have to stay in the market for a few more days. I actually have another question for coming here this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elixirs I bought from you last time were always normal when I took them back, but I don't know why I found that the effect was much worse when I took them for cultivation recently. Can you tell me the reason for this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, Song Qingming took out the remaining spiritual elixirs and placed them on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deng Zhongkuo's face changed after listening. He carefully took the elixir Song Qingming took out and looked at it, and then his face gradually eased. He sipped his tea and smiled at him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The quality of these elixirs is no problem, and they can be taken normally. As for the decline in effect, I estimate that it should be because Daoist Song's cultivation has improved again, and this kind of elixir is best taken by cultivators who have just reached Foundation Establishment. Now that your cultivation has improved and your dantian spiritual power has increased, it is normal to feel that the effect is not as good as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I think you should try my higher-quality elixirs. The old man guarantees that the effect will definitely satisfy you. Don't worry, these remaining elixirs can be exchanged for new elixirs at an equal price in this shop. What do you think?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that's how it is. Let's do as you say, Daoist! Please help me exchange them all for elixirs suitable for my current use!\" Song Qingming smiled and nodded, agreeing to the old man Deng's suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, after another half an hour and spending more than 1,000 spirit stones, Song Qingming finally walked out of Tiandan Pavilion smoothly. Facing an old fox like the old man Deng, he really had no resistance. If he didn't have enough spirit stones, he would have mortgaged his magic tools here after a few more visits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After purchasing some new elixirs at Tiandan Pavilion, Song Qingming went to a material shop on the side to buy some second-tier talisman-making materials, and then returned to the inn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past few years, although he had been to Yangshan Market a few times, besides purchasing elixirs needed for cultivation, he had also participated in a few auctions held once a year by the Tiandan Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is now considered an old customer of the Tiandan Alliance and has obtained the qualification to go to the second floor. He also participated in all the auctions in the past few years without missing one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tiandan Alliance auction not only auctions their own elixirs but also charges commissions to help cultivators participating in the auction to auction other magic tools and spiritual objects. When Song Qingming participated in the auction for the first time, most of the boutique magic tools taken out for auction were in this situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years ago, he, who was short of spirit stones, also took out a few drops of thousand-year spiritual milk and handed them to the Tiandan Alliance for auction. Unexpectedly, at that auction, this bit of thousand-year spiritual milk caused a sensation, earning him 5,000 spirit stones in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Tiandan Alliance had kept the privacy of customers very confidential, the appearance of such a rare and precious spiritual object as thousand-year spiritual milk still attracted the attention of many people at that time. Song Qingming even heard someone inquiring about the origin of this spiritual object on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he relied on the separate teleportation array prepared by the Tiandan Alliance to leave the auction smoothly, he was still a bit scared in his heart until now, and he hadn't participated in the auction for the past two years. Even every time he came to Tiandan Pavilion now, Song Qingming was a bit afraid that the old man Deng would guess this matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since his cultivation improved to the Foundation Establishment stage, the spirit stones needed for daily cultivation had also increased a lot. Relying on making those low-level spiritual talismans, he had gradually been unable to keep up with the speed of his spirit stone consumption now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past few years, Song Qingming had also started to buy high-level talisman-making materials and tried to make second-tier spiritual talismans. It was just that his talent in talisman-making had never been very high. It was just practice makes perfect. After paying the cost of thousands of spirit stones and trying many times, he had only barely made a few second-tier spiritual talismans of average quality, and still failed to raise his talisman-making level to the second tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spirit stones and elixirs needed for daily cultivation, the investment in improving talisman-making skills, plus having to raise the foodie Skyfire Roc, soon made Song Qingming's spirit stones a bit tight. Although the family had slowly improved over the years and would give him a little spirit stone subsidy as a family pillar every year, that was just a drop in the bucket for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, after hesitating again and again, Song Qingming chose to take a risk and sold a few drops of thousand-year spiritual milk at the Tiandan Alliance auction to exchange for spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that auction, Song Qingming thought about it again and again, and soon calmed down, deciding not to take this risk to exchange for spirit stones anymore. He started to open source and reduce expenditure, reduced the investment in talisman-making, and also reduced the food for the Skyfire Roc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of the Skyfire Roc, this spiritual beast had already cost Song Qingming thousands of spirit stones, and it had only just broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining until now. Its strength was not as good as an ordinary late-stage Qi Refining cultivator. He didn't know when it would be promoted to the second tier. Its biggest role now was to occasionally carry family cultivators back and forth between Qinghe Market and Funiu Mountain. The investment and return in the early stage were really not proportional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming gradually reduced this part of the investment in the past few years. The spirit stones used by Huang Siyuan to cultivate it had changed from three spirit stones a day to one spirit stone now. After Song Qingming reduced the investment of spirit stones, Huang Siyuan had no choice but to reduce the elixirs used to cultivate it as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, every month she would still take the Skyfire Roc to hunt a few low-level demon beasts around Yunwu Mountain to cultivate its hunting ability. Now Song Qingming mainly wants to improve his cultivation, and he really doesn't have too many resources to cultivate spiritual beasts, so he can only wait until he is rich in the future to consider how to help the Skyfire Roc reach the second tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some adjustments, Song Qingming slowly broke his bad habit of spending spirit stones indiscriminately. Besides daily cultivation and the elixirs needed, he no longer paid attention to other strange spiritual objects like before. He participated in the Tiandan Alliance auction a few times, but only bought a little elixir to improve his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After these few years of hiding his strength and biding his time, Song Qingming was finally slowly becoming well-off. He had only reached Foundation Establishment for more than ten years, and he had already broken through to the third level of Foundation Establishment. Such a cultivation speed was still relatively fast, which was thanks to the fact that he had never lacked the spirit stones and elixirs needed for cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, the two of them lived in Yangshan Market for more than ten days, until one day, Song Qingming, who was meditating with his eyes closed in his room on the second floor, suddenly felt a burst of exclamation from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking out of the room, he saw a strange phenomenon in the distant sky, with rolls of white clouds emerging. This large piece of spiritual cloud occasionally released a burst of dazzling golden light. Even at a distance of more than a hundred miles, Song Qingming could see it clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the spiritual clouds slowly gathered in one place, they formed a huge golden vortex, standing on Guyang Mountain, which also made the crowd walking on the street stop and start to watch this spectacle.\u003C\u002Fp>",1646,"2026-06-14T03:09:34.521Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","771159e7ab180ae0f1b02614c6a683720e47bb977abb6d365d63cf93abf89c0c","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-203","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-201",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]