[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-254":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},1927509,2615,"Chapter 254: Family Council","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-254",254,"\u003Cp>Song Qingming, who was cultivating in his cave dwelling, suddenly had a wisp of faint green smoke rising continuously from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the green smoke on his body became more and more abundant, Song Qingming finally put away his cultivation technique. After his body returned to normal, he opened his eyes and muttered to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really didn't expect this spell to be so exquisite. No wonder it has the effect of assisting in Golden Core formation after being cultivated to great success.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breaking through to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming once again practiced the various spells he had cultivated before to see how much his strength had improved. He didn't expect to have an unexpected gain this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he established his foundation, the Hidden Origin Art, which he had not been able to master for many years, had finally been successfully initiated this time. He didn't expect this spell to have such high requirements for the spiritual power within one's body; it was impossible to initiate it before reaching the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, he had almost wanted to give up because he had been cultivating this spell without results. He didn't expect that this time he would actually find the way, which was a big surprise to him. According to the description in the Jade Profound Scripture, this technique could help cultivators condense a Golden Core. If it could really be cultivated to great success, it would be much more useful than ordinary Golden Core-forming spiritual objects. Thinking of this, a happy smile gradually appeared on Song Qingming's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When cultivating the Hidden Origin Art, one can refine the spells cultivated on ordinary days into one's own flesh and hide them. Although these spells cannot be taken out and used on ordinary days, after cultivation, they can strengthen one's physical body and can also be used at critical moments to protect one's weak points for a moment. It can be considered a defensive supernatural power and is still somewhat useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like this, Song Qingming fell into seclusion for a long time again. It wasn't until half a month later that Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng sent a sound transmission to notify him to attend the family's annual council, which finally brought him out of the cave dwelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming arrived at the council hall in front of the mountain and saw that many Song family cultivators, including Song Qingyu, had been waiting there for a long time. After greeting everyone with a smile, he sat down next to Song Changfeng at the head of the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Song Qingyu established her foundation, although Song Qingming had ordered the clan to keep this matter secret, it was difficult to hide such things for a long time. Most of the cultivators within the Song family had actually known about it for the past few years. As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Song Qingyu would certainly have to participate in such important family meetings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Song Qingming established his foundation, he had basically not missed the annual council held by the family. This time, Song Changfeng had arranged it at this time after discussing it with him long ago. It wasn't until today, when all the elders were gathered on the mountain, that he sent a sound transmission to invite him out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone is here, so let's start the council. The old rules apply: report the accounts under your management one by one. Let's start with Qingwan!\" Seeing that everyone was present, Song Changfeng first announced the start of the meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first to speak was the second sister, Song Qingwan, who was responsible for managing the family's industries in Qinghe Market. She took out the accounts she had prepared long ago and said to everyone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This year, the four shops we operate ourselves in the market had a total income of 4,612 spirit stones. After deducting the costs of the shops and personnel expenses, the total balance for this year is 861 spirit stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The elixir shop, the grocery store, and the restaurant are all fine, but the business of the shop selling magic tools and spiritual talismans was really poor this year. The accounts can just barely cover the expenses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qinghe Market, only second sister Song Qingwan's alchemy skills were worth mentioning. Other skills like artifact refining and talisman making could not compete with the Huang and Gao families at all. In previous years, they could only eat the leftovers of others. He didn't expect that they wouldn't earn a single spirit stone this year. Although this result was within Song Qingming's expectations, he still found it hard to accept after hearing it. He silently noted this matter, thinking he would have to find a way to improve this problem in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After deducting expenses, the family's several mineral veins had a total income of 600 spirit stones this year, which is quite normal. However, the black iron mine at Spirit Source Mountain is nearing exhaustion, and this income will start to decrease year by year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth Uncle Song Changxin had been responsible for managing several mineral veins outside for the past few years. He spent most of his time at Broken Flow Mountain and rarely had the opportunity to return to Funiu Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next to speak was the sixth brother, Song Qinghe, who had only recently become a family elder. His cultivation talent was not high, and he had only just broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, but with his spiritual planting skills, he was now a high-grade spiritual planter and had completely taken over the family's spiritual fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are a total of twelve mu of spiritual fields on Funiu Mountain. The spiritual rice, medicinal herbs, and other spiritual objects planted this year had a total harvest of 1,450 spirit stones. The spiritual rice offered by the vassal families below totals 120 spirit stones. Added together, after deducting expenses, the balance is 840 spirit stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ever since the Supreme Elder established his foundation, the family has increased the planting of many spiritual herbs. Now, some spiritual herbs have begun to mature, and the income in this area will continue to grow year by year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual fields were actually the most stable source of income for the Song family over the years. This was also the area that large and small cultivation families in the cultivation world valued the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, when the Song family was still a small Qi Refining family, they were afraid of bringing disaster, so they didn't plant many spiritual herbs and didn't dare to cultivate spiritual fields on a large scale. It wasn't until Song Qingming established his foundation, the family's spiritual vein was upgraded, and they had a second-level mountain-protecting array to guard them that everyone slowly let go and began to increase investment in this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the three items mentioned above, the hunting team managed by the thirteenth uncle and the general affairs managed by the eldest brother had no spirit stone income, so they did not speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the clan leader Song Changfeng, who was in charge of the Hidden Gold Pavilion, summarized the accounts for everyone present based on everyone's reports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This year, including the Hidden Gold Pavilion I manage, the family had a total income of 2,733 spirit stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, I want to talk about the expenditure part.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Currently, excluding those hired from outside, the family has a total of 53 cultivators, including two Foundation Establishment cultivators, ten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, twenty-nine middle-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and twelve early-stage Qi Refining cultivators.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to the standards, the total salary paid to all family cultivators is 1,400 spirit stones per year. Maintaining the spiritual vein arrays requires about 500 spirit stones per year. Besides these two major items, there are some miscellaneous expenses that add up to about 200 spirit stones. The total expenditure for this year is about 2,100 spirit stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, the final balance for this year is no more than 600 spirit stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the news about this year's accounts, Song Qingming was slightly surprised. The accounts in previous years' councils hadn't been this ugly. He didn't expect that the number of family cultivators had increased so much in the past few years, and the burden had also increased accordingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for the shares in the Phoenix Head Mountain mineral vein, which provided 500 spirit stones every year, the entire Song family's annual income would be left with only 100 spirit stones. If they encountered a disaster year, they would likely have a significant deficit, not to mention wanting to take out spirit stones to cultivate new spiritual veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, the Song family's foundation was still too thin. Whether doing business in Qinghe Market or mining mineral veins themselves, they were still far behind other veteran Foundation Establishment families.\u003C\u002Fp>",1496,"2026-06-14T03:09:35.509Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8f1a5675d5b7ad7ced1aa8ed2edefbdf012b5ee8202ebc60f09cf6d68e98cb56","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-255","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-253",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]