[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-24":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},1927279,2615,"Chapter 24: Breakthrough in Cultivation","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-24",24,"\u003Cp>After dealing with the items in Liu Tianlong's storage bag, Song Qingming continued to walk south for a few days and entered a somewhat desolate hilly area. Seeing the sunset, the sky gradually darkened, and Song Qingming stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After observing the surroundings, he found a mountain wall, released the Lieyang Sword to hit the mountain wall, and after a while, finally dug out a small cave. Then he set up a simple Five-Element Maze Array outside the cave, put a spirit stone on it to activate the array, and then walked into the cave with satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the last time he was chased by a high-grade demon crocodile, he would rather choose to take a few more detours these days, try to walk on wild mountains and flat ground, avoid those deep mountains and swamp areas where demon beasts appear, and find a cave at night to set up an array outside before going to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lighting a bonfire, Song Qingming took some spirit rice from the storage bag and boiled it. Qi Refining cultivators cannot yet abstain from grain and need to eat every few days. Fortunately, he brought a lot of spirit rice, so he doesn't have to worry about food for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dinner, Song Qingming rested for a while, then took out a Qi-Nurturing Pill and took it, running the Kunyuan Technique to slowly dissolve the elixir power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It has been almost a month since he came out. There is no spirit vein to cultivate in these deep mountains, and he can only absorb a little spiritual energy relying on the spirit rice he brought. His cultivation has not improved much. Fortunately, today he has finally reached the time when he can take spirit elixirs at a fixed time every month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cultivating for half a cycle, Song Qingming suddenly felt that the bottleneck of his fifth layer of Qi Refining seemed to have loosened a bit, thinking that this might be the time when his cultivation was about to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, according to the normal cultivation speed, it would take Song Qingming at least two or three years to break through to the fifth layer of Qi Refining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since he got the incomplete map, he has saved a lot of spirit stones by making talismans in the past two years and has exchanged five or six bottles of elixirs to refine his cultivation from Gao Yuyao. Except for taking two bottles of Qi-Nurturing Pills to the family's Gold Treasury Pavilion to exchange for some talisman-making materials, most of the elixirs were left in his own hands. In the past two years, relying on the continuous consumption of elixirs, his cultivation has been raised to the peak of the fourth layer of Qi Refining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out a Clear Heart Talisman and sticking it on his body, Song Qingming then crushed more than a dozen low-grade spirit stones in his hand, and a large amount of spiritual power instantly filled this small cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a cultivator breaks through his cultivation, he needs to inhale a large amount of spiritual energy. The breakthrough location is best chosen in a spirit vein with abundant spiritual energy. Unfortunately, in this wild mountain and ridge, Song Qingming could not find a spirit vein at once, so he could only use the spirit stones in his hand to provide spiritual energy. Although he now has a lot of spirit stones, such an extravagant behavior still made him frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on this spiritual power, Song Qingming increased the speed of the technique running in his body, only feeling that the fifth spirit point in his body gradually began to vibrate continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Song Qingming was secretly happy, patiently continuing to absorb spiritual power and pour it into his dantian. Finally, after an hour, the spiritual energy in his meridians flowed into the river like a bend of clear water, successfully rushing open the fifth spirit point, his cultivation was raised to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, and the magic power in his dantian also rose by a large margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, his breakthrough to the fifth layer of Qi Refining was so smooth. Song Qingming was overjoyed in his heart. Twelve years of cultivation, and now twenty-two years old, his cultivation can finally keep up with most of the cultivators in the clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Song Qingming, who has stepped into the path of cultivation for more than ten years, nothing can make him happier than the breakthrough of his cultivation. Without enough powerful cultivation, no matter how many treasures and spirit stones he has, he cannot protect them, but will instead make wedding clothes for others. He has always understood this point clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty-two years old and cultivated to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, he can be considered a cultivator with a fast cultivation speed in Qinghe County. If the items in Liu Tianlong's storage bag can be successfully exchanged for cultivation resources, Song Qingming already has a trace of confidence to cultivate to the ninth layer of Qi Refining before the age of sixty. Adding the Water Spirit Fruit in the storage bag, he can exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill at the Xiaoyao Sect at that time. His path of Dao is now very bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming, whose cultivation had broken through, did not rush to leave the customs, and slowly ran the spiritual energy dozens of times again to nourish the newly opened spirit point. It was not until five days later that he completely stabilized his cultivation that Song Qingming walked out of the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting away the magic array, Song Qingming continued on the road, using the Light Body Technique, and felt that his magic power was much more profound than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Song Qingming climbed over a high mountain, he suddenly found a few figures in the valley under the mountain in the distance, and there was a roar of demon beasts from time to time, and a look of surprise and joy appeared on his face instantly. Since Song Qingming was rolled into the pool by the Black-Feathered Python, he had been walking alone in this dangerous mountain range for nearly ten days, and finally saw someone appear in front of him, which made him feel a little excited and quickly went down the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After walking closer, he found that it was a few cultivators who were besieging a giant bear. The burly man in the lead had high cultivation and was already at the late stage of Qi Refining. He had always been the main force on the battlefield. The other three mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators who assisted in the attack, and a woman with only the third layer of Qi Refining, did not participate in the battle and had been watching the surroundings of the battlefield not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this situation, Song Qingming did not show up immediately, stopped on a tree on the side and watched from a distance, and only jumped down from the tree trunk and walked toward the crowd after the high-grade giant bear was knocked down by these people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop, who are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Song Qingming walked to a distance of ten zhang, the burly man with the highest cultivation discovered him first and shouted, his tone still somewhat unkind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others were still collecting materials on the giant bear. When they heard that someone was coming, they hurriedly released magic tools to guard the surroundings, fearing that Song Qingming was not good and had other accomplices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that these people were very wary of him, Song Qingming hurriedly stopped and spread his hands to explain:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow Daoists, don't misunderstand. I am a rogue cultivator in Qinghe County, and I am also here to hunt demon beasts. A few days ago, I was unlucky. Our demon-hunting team encountered a second-tier demon beast. When I fled for my life, I accidentally lost contact with my teammates. I didn't carry a map with me, and I walked in the mountains for a few days without finding my companions. Today, I happened to meet you. May I ask in which direction Pingyang County is and how far it is from here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it's a fellow rogue cultivator, you scared me. Fellow Daoist, don't blame me, I thought you were one of those bastards from the Fire Wolf Gang.\" The burly man in the lead looked like a straightforward person, and Song Qingming had been mixing in Caolu Mountain for two years, and he liked dealing with this type of person very much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's a bit of a distance to Pingyang County. It's about five or six days' journey to the southeast. If you don't have a map, it's a bit difficult to walk. I think it's better for you to wait for us at the mountain pass in the back for a day. We are also going to return to Guiyun Market tomorrow, and we can just take you along.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person who spoke was a middle-aged Confucian scholar among them, with a Confucian shirt fluttering, holding a cyan green treasure sword in his hand, with fifth-layer Qi Refining cultivation, full of scholarly spirit, and his speech was unhurried, looking like a person with goods in his belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's fine, I would like to thank you fellow Daoists here first.\" Song Qingming nodded. As long as he could walk out of this dangerous Fuyun Mountain Range faster, it didn't matter to him to wait for another day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others, including the burly man with the highest cultivation, did not express opposition when they heard the middle-aged Confucian scholar wanting to take Song Qingming along. It was obvious that although the Confucian scholar's cultivation was not high, he was the one who counted among the five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting with the crowd, Song Qingming walked out of the valley to the east for the time it took to eat a meal, and saw a red tree more than ten zhang high appearing in front, which was the meeting place agreed with the Confucian scholar yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming found some dead wood nearby, borrowed some branches and leaves from this big tree, and simply built a small hut under this big tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, Song Qingming was meditating in the hut when he suddenly heard a burst of spiritual power fluctuation from the array outside the hut. Song Qingming went out to see that a green-clothed girl in front was slashing in the mist of the array with the flying sword in her hand, and occasionally released a few low-grade spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This woman was about twenty years old, with a cyan jade hairpin inserted in her head, combed into two black braids behind her, and wearing a green skirt. It was the girl with the third layer of Qi Refining among the rogue cultivators encountered in the valley yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that at this time, the woman seemed to be trapped in the direction by the array, and her face looked a bit panicked. Her companions were standing not far outside the array, seemingly discussing how to rescue her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this situation, Song Qingming also smiled bitterly. He set up this array to guard against the harassment of demon beasts in the mountains. Unexpectedly, this girl was so careless that she plunged into this array and was trapped by this array at once. It would be difficult for such a person who does not understand the array to walk out of this array by herself for two or three hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming hurriedly made a few gestures and put away the array. The mist that surrounded the square few zhang under the tree instantly dissipated in the world, revealing the red big tree and Song Qingming under the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 25 =====\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1976,"2026-06-14T03:09:34.521Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","40e99347e178c335481b28e58d701dcaebf62ccfd1123972a31e8b57c41ade61","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-25","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-23",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]