[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-21":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Qinghe Song Clan",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1927276,2615,"Chapter 21: Black-Feathered Python","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-21",21,"\u003Cp>The Song family cultivators by the pool, except for those responsible for setting up the array together, others had more or less injuries, and at this moment they were all choosing a place by the pool to use healing elixirs to slowly recover their injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming, Great Elder Song Gubai, and Twelfth Aunt Song Changyun were not injured, and at this moment the three were collecting the remaining demon beast materials by the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, the Liu family also died a cultivator. An elderly cultivator put away the corpse of this clansman and was about to go to ask the clan leader how to deal with it, but found that he had been looking for a long time and did not see the figure of his clan leader. A few of the few people who knew the truth among the Liu family cultivators hurriedly pulled the old man to one side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the Song family, the Wu family was relatively lucky, with no cultivators killed in action, only one clansman with serious injuries, and others were only minor injuries. Accepting this mission could be considered to have earned a lot. Clan Leader Wu Xiyun was smiling and urging the Wu clansmen to collect demon beast materials quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Shaokang, the leader of the Du family, did not smile as easily as Wu Xiyun. Although the cultivator who died in the Du family did not have high cultivation, he was a close junior of the Du clan leader. He did not want to be careless and perish here. Although so many clansmen on the scene saw it and could testify for him, his own clan leader was a character who protected his shortcomings. This time, he, the leader of the team, would inevitably be blamed. Thinking of this, he also kept his frowning brows tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Liu family gave a lot of remuneration for this mission, two hundred spirit stones for each family. Plus the first-tier demon beast materials distributed by the three families, each family also received demon beast materials worth about 150 spirit stones. If no clansmen died, this trip would be worth the family's income for a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High returns also mean high risks. Except for young cultivators like Song Qingming who went out for the first time, others were already used to such bloody battlefields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as everyone was about to finish collecting the remaining demon beast materials, a few bubbles suddenly appeared in the center of the pool. Liu Tianlong, with a pale face, jumped out of the pool and shouted at the Liu family cultivators by the pool while running.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run, there is another second-tier demon beast below!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pool, which was calm just now, suddenly appeared a huge black vortex after Liu Tianlong jumped out. Several people with lower cultivation by the pool were instantly sucked into this vortex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Gubai saw that the situation was not right and hurriedly pulled Song Changyun, who was closest to him, and jumped to the shore quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone fled the pool and looked back, only to see the black vortex rolling in a larger and larger range, and suddenly disappeared into the pool not long after. Not long after, a huge black head slowly protruded from the water in the middle of the pool, opening a pair of blood-red big eyes and staring dead at the crowd on the shore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a Black-Feathered Python, everyone run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Wu Xiyun saw this huge head, he recognized the origin of this demon beast and hurriedly took the Wu clansmen to flee for their lives without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Black-Feathered Python came from the depths of the Fuyun Mountain Range and was a second-tier mid-grade demon beast. Two years ago, it came to this pool, occupied this cave that was originally the Silver-Armored Crab's, and ate many of its clansmen. The Silver-Armored Crab could not beat this demon python and had to swallow its anger and change to another cave in the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Liu family would send people to check this pool every half a year, but they dared not go deep into the pool and never noticed the changes at the bottom of the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black-Feathered Python cultivated on the water vein at the bottom of the pool all day long, wanting to swallow the Water Spirit Fruit on the Water Spirit Fruit Tree to help itself advance when it broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Unexpectedly, it was cut off by Liu Tianlong and the three, who picked the Water Spirit Fruit in advance. At this moment, it was furious and finally rushed out of the pool, revealing its sharp fangs to these cultivators on the shore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of cultivators on the shore heard the name of the Black-Feathered Python and were also shocked. Seeing that this demon beast was already at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, they had no courage to fight. Soon, led by the Wu family cultivators, they scattered like frightened birds and ran in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black-Feathered Python roared angrily, flew out of the pool, danced its huge body, and chased toward the Liu family cultivators in front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming only felt that he, along with the demon beast corpse under him, was instantly sucked into the center of the vortex by a huge force, and instantly sank to the bottom of the pool with the water flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a period of darkness, Song Qingming felt that he had fallen into a cave at the bottom of the pool. He took out a night-luminescent pearl the size of a fist from his storage bag. Relying on the faint light of the night-luminescent pearl, Song Qingming found that he was sitting in an underwater cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night-luminescent pearl is just a common object in the secular world. Although such a large night-luminescent pearl is a priceless treasure in secular towns, this thing is just a fun item in the hands of cultivators. When Song Qingming set up a stall at Caolu Mountain, he only used a low-grade spirit talisman to exchange for this item from an elderly mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on the faint light emitted by the night-luminescent pearl, Song Qingming used a water-avoidance spell to separate the clear water from his body. Just as he was about to get up, he found a burst of pain in his abdomen. It seemed that several bones were broken. He checked other parts of his body and found that there were some injuries all over his body. He hurriedly poured out a few water-stopping elixirs and took them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the pitch-black cave entrance in front of him and the piles of demon beast bones beside him, Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a little scared. He seemed to have been rolled into its cave by some demon beast. Before being rolled into the vortex, he also clearly heard Liu Tianlong's shouting. There seemed to be a demon beast at the bottom of the water, and the cave in front might be the cave of that demon beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must leave here quickly to find a place to heal his wounds and recover his spiritual power, otherwise, if the demon beast comes back, he is afraid that his life will not be guaranteed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking a dozen zhang toward the cave exit, Song Qingming quickly walked out of the cave and came to the bottom of the pool. Fortunately, the demon beasts in this pool were basically wiped out by everyone before, otherwise, even if a mid-tier demon beast came in this water, Song Qingming was afraid that he would have no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carefully exploring the surroundings, seeing that there was no danger, Song Qingming left the cave and swam toward the top of the pool. Just after swimming a few zhang away, his eyes were attracted by a few spirit grasses on the reef not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming swam over and saw that this seemed to be a few first-tier Xuan-You Flowers, which looked like they were about fifty or sixty years old. These few spirit grasses could be exchanged for seven or eight spirit stones in the market. Looking around and seeing no movement, he happily picked these few herbs and put them into his storage bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to leave, he found another exquisite small red bag hanging on the other side of the reef.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This seems to be... a storage bag.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming picked up the red bag and looked at it carefully. It was indeed a cultivator's storage bag. It's just that ordinary cultivators' storage bags are set with restrictions. He cannot open the bag now and doesn't know who dropped it here. But what he can be sure of is that this storage bag is definitely not from the Song family, because all the storage bags used by the Song family, including his own, are uniform blue-yellow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It should be some unlucky cultivator like me who dropped it here when he was rolled into the pool just now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming looked at the style of the storage bag, which seemed to be of higher quality than the low-grade storage bag he used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The storage bag Song Qingming used had always been the one he received from the family's Gold Treasury Pavilion when he broke through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining. This kind of low-grade storage bag has limited space, and the inside is only three feet in circumference. And the one in his hand now should be a high-grade storage bag, and the space inside is several times larger, six feet in circumference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he goes up later, if someone comes to check, he will definitely have to hand it over actively. If that person has already died in this pool, then he can naturally deny it. This pool is full of crises, and there are unknown demon beasts, and it is normal for the storage bag to be swallowed in one bite. They may not necessarily dare to come down to look for it. Such a storage bag can be sold for at least a hundred spirit stones in the market. Even if the storage bag is empty, it is worth him taking this risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He worked hard to sell spirit talismans for two years, but he only saved more than a hundred spirit stones. The value of this storage bag is worth his income from making talismans day and night for two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming looked around carefully to make sure no one was there, quietly put away the storage bag, and swam quickly toward the top of the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jumping out of the pool, he saw that the shore was a mess, but there was no one, only a pile of demon beast materials they hadn't had time to collect, and two corpses of Liu family cultivators not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming was startled. This must have been an incredible demon beast. Even these demon beast materials, which were priceless to him, he couldn't care about at this moment, and he ran away in a panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 22 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1874,"2026-06-14T03:09:34.521Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","7dc5cfcea5a2460ed03f87b040030898258ef869426e8771adb747d50743dca6","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-22","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-20",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]