[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-268":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},1927523,2615,"Chapter 268: Falling into the Demonic Path","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-268",268,"\u003Cp>In a pitch-black cave hundreds of miles away from Black Stone Valley, a middle-aged man wearing the Carefree Sect's uniform was sitting in meditation with his eyes closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike other cultivators, the spiritual power occasionally emitted from his body was actually a pitch-black color, with a trace of gloomy chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good apprentice, I didn't expect you to have some talent in cultivating my technique, and you have already mastered it and raised the technique to the second level so quickly. I really didn't misjudge you.\" A somewhat desolate voice suddenly appeared in this empty cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that the middle-aged man didn't open his mouth, but this sound came from his body, which made people feel a bit strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the middle-aged man immediately opened his eyes, knelt down to the empty space in front, and said respectfully, \"Being able to have a way to successfully establish a foundation in such a short time is all thanks to the mystery of the technique passed down by Master. From now on, the disciple will definitely serve Master faithfully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha... Since the apprentice has already entered the demonic path, you are a demonic cultivator of ours. When we rescue Master from the seal thoroughly in the future, this Donghuang Continent might become our territory, and we won't have to live such hiding days anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe! Master, don't worry. When the disciple's cultivation is higher, I will definitely find a way to rescue you first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh! I have just sensed that the seal on the main body has been strengthened again. It seems that someone has already found that place. With your current cultivation, it is impossible to break the seal in a short time, so don't waste that effort.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The top priority is to go and handle another matter for Master. As long as this matter is handled properly, I will have a way to restore my cultivation in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After feeling a piece of information suddenly enter his primordial spirit, the middle-aged man nodded hurriedly and got up to leave the cave quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Song Qingming were here, he would definitely be able to recognize the middle-aged man kneeling on the ground just now as Du Yucheng, who almost killed him back then. It's just that he would definitely not think that the Carefree Sect disciple who was a bit insidious back then had now completely fallen into the demonic path and become a demonic cultivator who was talked about with fear in the cultivation world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few years ago, after Du Yucheng's Foundation Establishment failed, he also had a long period of losing the motivation to cultivate, spending his days drinking to drown his sorrows and playing with others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He abandoned his family back then and betrayed the Liu family to exchange for an opportunity to join the Carefree Sect and obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, after joining the Carefree Sect, in order to prevent him from successfully obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill promised to him by Guangling Zhenren, his cheap master not only ignored his cultivation but also secretly let other senior brothers make things difficult for him everywhere, wanting him to know the difficulties and retreat, and drive him out of the Carefree Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he relied on his own perseverance, endured humiliation and survived, and after years of risking his life to perform tasks in exchange for resources, he finally successfully cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of sixty and received his own Foundation Establishment Pill from the General Affairs Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought he could successfully establish his foundation and fly into the sky, washing away the bullying of these years, but he didn't expect that the only opportunity he had worked for half his life would still fail in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when Du Yucheng was self-abandoning and frustrated, a senior brother who had performed tasks with him before suddenly came to the door and invited him to explore an ancient cultivation cave dwelling in Black Stone Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ancient cultivation cave dwellings, one can often get unexpected benefits. Although Du Yucheng was very frustrated after his Foundation Establishment failed, he hadn't completely given up the hope of Foundation Establishment. Hearing that there was such an opportunity, he immediately agreed to this matter and helped him invite Song Qingze, who was also urgently looking for opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that he didn't expect that after the few of them worked hard and traveled for a month to reach Black Stone Valley, and after opening the seal outside the cave dwelling and arriving inside, they found that there were no spiritual objects in the cave dwelling found by this senior brother, only a strange stone tower that made people feel cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing the dense seals on the stone tower, although they didn't recognize the Demon-Suppressing Tower, they had already felt that something was wrong. Just when they were hesitating whether to leave this place immediately, they didn't notice that one of them had been bewitched by the demon in the Demon-Suppressing Tower and touched the seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This released a part of the demon's primordial spirit, and everyone immediately felt that something was wrong. When they wanted to escape, they found it was too late and were instantly sucked dry of their essence blood by the demon that had just escaped. Only Du Yucheng, who had a relatively cautious personality and was further away, didn't suffer immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when he thought he was also going to be unable to escape, he didn't expect that this demon didn't kill him immediately, but directly opened his mouth to accept him as an apprentice. To save his life, Du Yucheng didn't care about anything else and could only agree. Just like this, Du Yucheng was voluntarily planted with a restriction by this demon and became his apprentice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon sealed in this Demon-Suppressing Tower was originally named Xiao Huang. This demon had already cultivated to the Golden Core ninth level realm hundreds of years ago. Just when he was about to break through to the Yuan Ying realm, he didn't want his luck to run out and encountered a Yuan Ying cultivator who came to hunt him down. Knowing he was no match, he wanted to give up his flesh and possess another body to re-cultivate, but he didn't expect this Yuan Ying expert to have great supernatural powers and still trap his primordial spirit, finally causing him to be sealed in Black Stone Valley for hundreds of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of years of sealing not only made the reincarnation substitute he prepared early on lose its effect, but his current lifespan is also insufficient to possess another body to re-cultivate, so he can only find a way to untie the seal of the main body to have hope of breaking through to Yuan Ying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Xiao Huang planted a restriction on Du Yucheng, he wanted him to step forward to open the Demon-Suppressing Tower to release the main body. It's just a pity that although this Demon-Suppressing Tower has loosened after hundreds of years, Du Yucheng is just a small Qi Refining stage cultivator, and his cultivation is really too low, so he still couldn't completely untie the seal after trying for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Yucheng and the others were disciples of a large sect. If they didn't go back for a long time, it would definitely attract the investigation of the Carefree Sect. In desperation, Xiao Huang could only let him take his part of the primordial spirit and leave Black Stone Valley, thinking of a way to wait for Du Yucheng to improve his cultivation before coming back to untie the seal for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After everyone walked out of the underground cave, Bai Yuxian set up a seal at the entrance of the cave again, hiding the entrance. After these things were handled, everyone left Black Stone Valley with the two Golden Core cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to Guyang Mountain, Wang Mengxiao and others checked the identities of the disciples who died near the Demon-Suppressing Tower again and soon confirmed that Third Brother Song Qingze was the corpse Song Qingming had discovered earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cooperating with the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate the identity of the corpses of the disciples who had an accident, Song Qingming unexpectedly discovered that among all the Carefree Sect disciples who went to Black Stone Valley, the corpse of one person was never found. This person was Du Yucheng, whom he had dealt with several times.\u003C\u002Fp>",1426,"2026-06-14T03:09:35.509Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","c4d63f9418c2d811b695db4393af8fa7cab804358077cce30074938189c41467","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-269","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-267",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]