[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-238":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},1927493,2615,"Chapter 238: Azure Water Bell","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-238",238,"\u003Cp>This bottle of Earth Spirit Dew can almost be worth nearly ten years of bitter cultivation for a Foundation Establishment cultivator. As the Fire Phoenix said, with Song Qingming's current cultivation base, refining this bottle of Earth Spirit Dew now is almost enough for him to break through to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Song Qingming did not intend to refine this spiritual item immediately. He had only broken through to the third level of Foundation Establishment for a year; if he improved his cultivation again right now, it might attract the attention of others or the Carefree Sect. After thinking it over, to avoid unnecessary trouble, he decided to wait a few years before refining this item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming began to enter seclusion, preparing to first refine the copper bell magic tool he had obtained in the secret realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning from this trip to the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm, Song Qingming deeply felt that his strength was still lacking. Facing slightly more formidable Foundation Establishment cultivators of the same rank, he had no confidence that he could defeat them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that battle with Chen Yuan, although Song Qingming ultimately defeated and killed the other party, it mainly relied on strategy and luck. At that time, once his luck was bad and the other party did not fall for the trap, the one who would have died in the secret realm could very well have been himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Song Qingming reached Foundation Establishment, he had actually been quite strapped for resources. The family had consumed a large number of spirit stones to upgrade the spiritual vein and could not provide him with much of a subsidy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spirit stones he earned himself by making talismans and other methods, after maintaining the daily cultivation and purchasing elixirs for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, did not leave much behind. For so many years, although he had a few Tier 2 magic tools, they were all the most ordinary low-grade ones, which were of very limited help to him in battles with cultivators of the same rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after this trip to the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm, Song Qingming, now having more resources on hand, finally had the means to improve his own strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Refining this magic tool is only the first step. Next, he also plans to go around to the surrounding marketplaces and find a way to get a few more powerful Tier 2 magic tools for self-protection, so that next time he goes out and encounters an ordinary cultivator like Chen Yuan whose cultivation is similar to his, he won't have to worry too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, refining the magic tool took Song Qingming nearly a whole month to complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting in the cave dwelling, Song Qingming's magic power was continuously pouring into the small, palm-sized copper bell in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under his control, this copper bell suddenly began to grow slowly, stopping only when it completely touched the highest point of the cave dwelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the widest part where this copper bell touched the ground was already several zhang wide. As Song Qingming once again channeled his magic power, the copper bell suddenly shrank several times, returning above his head and slowly descending, protecting his entire person within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days after refining this magic tool, Song Qingming was finally able to fully control the copper bell beside him and slowly understood some of the special abilities of this magic tool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This copper bell, in addition to its outstanding defensive capabilities, can also be released to control the opponent. Once covered by this bell, as long as the opponent is not a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator or spirit beast, it is absolutely impossible for them to escape in a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides its outstanding defensive and containment capabilities, this bell can also release several very powerful water-attribute defensive spells when facing an enemy, which also has a restraining effect on cultivators and magic tools that practice fire-attribute techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aiming at this characteristic, Song Qingming gave this bell a name: Azure Water Bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming's current cultivation is only at the third level of Foundation Establishment. Although he can use the Azure Water Bell, a Tier 2 high-grade magic tool, he can only exert sixty or seventy percent of its power. When his cultivation improves to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, the power of this bell can be further improved significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After refining the Azure Water Bell, Song Qingming's ability to fight others has improved by at least thirty to forty percent compared to before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as long as he doesn't encounter a cultivator with strength above the late stage of Foundation Establishment when he goes out, facing people whose cultivation is one or two levels higher than his, even if he cannot defeat them, he will not have much worry for his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reaching Foundation Establishment, the greatest goal of all cultivators is to form a Golden Core and become a high and mighty Golden Core True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Shengxin of the Huang family, who has spent these years deep in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range plucking high-grade spiritual herbs and entering the Taiyue Lake Secret Realm to find life-extending spiritual items, is all willing to risk such great danger for that sliver of ethereal opportunity to form a core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if there is a sliver of hope, these powerhouses who have already cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment will be willing to take the risk for a fight. This is the fate that all cultivators cannot escape. If they cannot successfully form a core, after more than two hundred years, their cultivation will ultimately only turn into yellow soil. Having already cultivated to the peak of Foundation Establishment and being only one step away from changing their destiny, who would be willing to fall here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Wei Kingdom, almost all large-scale mineral resources are controlled by the Carefree Sect. Immortal cultivation families like the Song family, apart from regularly sending disciples with better spirit root aptitude to the Carefree Sect, are merely managers helping the Carefree Sect control some remote territories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for those immortal families with several Foundation Establishment cultivators in the clan, the resources they can control are equally very limited. If they want to establish a marketplace in their own territory to collect cultivation resources, they still have to share a portion of the benefits with the Carefree Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire cultivation world, those cultivators below the Golden Core stage can only be considered the lowest-level cultivators. It is also very difficult for them to obtain too many cultivation resources. Without sufficient cultivation resources, whether it is a Qi Refining cultivator or a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it is very difficult to improve their own cultivation to strive for more resources. Having entered this vicious cycle, generation after generation, they can only become vassals of the major sects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To break free from the control of the Carefree Sect and obtain more cultivation resources, unless someone in the clan successfully forms a core and becomes a Golden Core family like the Ma family of Iron Immortal Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivation world around the entire Floating Cloud Mountain Range is much the same. Only cultivators above the Golden Core stage have the qualifications to sit at the table to allocate resources, and powerhouses at the Nascent Soul level have the qualifications to control the power of a region and issue orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Foundation Establishment, the difficulty for a cultivator to form a core is at least ten times harder. In the entire Wei Kingdom, major immortal cultivation families plus rogue cultivators, almost every year there will be people like Song Qingming with better luck who can successfully reach Foundation Establishment. But for Golden Core cultivators, in the past hundred years, only one rogue cultivator, Li Xianyun, has successfully formed a core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xianyun, as a rogue cultivator born in the Wei Kingdom, was gifted with extraordinary talent. He cultivated the Dao for less than a hundred years and relied on his dual-spirit root aptitude to successfully form a core on his first attempt. This feat of his shocked even the Supreme Elder of the Carefree Sect, Li Mufeng, at the time, who personally came forward to invite him to join the Carefree Sect. Unexpectedly, Li Xianyun had high aspirations and was unwilling to be tied down by the sect, directly refusing the matter. He did not even give face to the Nascent Soul ancestor. Not long after, he left the Wei Kingdom to travel, and has not returned here for decades.\u003C\u002Fp>",1446,"2026-06-14T03:09:35.509Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","d1727b63cbb2e9d409c9f3cbb028aa2dd85cca42f56187824a00d7712002d84d","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-239","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-237",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]