[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-275":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},1927530,2615,"Chapter 275: Second-Level Formation Master","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-275",275,"\u003Cp>The reason for being in such a hurry to go back was not that Song Qingming was really afraid that the people he offended at the exchange meeting would come to find him, but mainly because Song Qingming was anxious to go back to collect materials so that he could quickly break through his formation level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trip to Guiyun Market could be considered very smooth. Song Qingming not only had a pile of spirit stones on him but also unexpectedly obtained 'Qingxi Notes' to improve his formation level. It could be said that half the credit should go to Shi Chun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just before leaving Guiyun Market, Shi Chun specifically distributed the portrait of Huang Siyuan he had someone draw over the past few days to some of his former loose cultivator friends, asking them to help keep an eye on this person. Once there was news, they should quickly send a message to Mount Funiu, and there would definitely be a reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people had been wandering in Guiyun Market and the Floating Cloud Mountain Range for years. As long as Huang Siyuan really came here, she would inevitably not be able to completely avoid their eyes after a long time, and news would come sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two left Guiyun Market, they hurried all the way and returned to Mount Funiu smoothly. In a happy mood, Song Qingming specifically gave Shi Chun a second-level talisman as his reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Chun was personally recruited into the Song family by Song Qingming, the family’s helmsman. Over the years on Mount Funiu, even when the elders of the 'Chang' generation dealt with him, they were polite out of respect for Song Qingming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the years, Shi Chun’s life in the Song family had been quite good. As soon as he arrived at the Song family, Shi Chun served as a guest elder of the family. His status in the Song family was only slightly worse than that of the several managing elders, and he was deeply valued by Song Qingming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years after arriving at the Song family, under the matchmaking of Patriarch Song Changfeng, Shi Chun also married a female cultivator of the Song family’s 'Xin' generation as his wife, which could be considered as having completely taken root in the Song family. The two had given birth to two children over the years, but unfortunately, neither tested for spiritual roots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming had been studying talisman-making for the past few years, and he already had many second-level talismans on him. For every ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator in the family who could use second-level talismans, he had found an excuse to reward each of them with a second-level talisman for protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Chun’s cultivation had also improved to the ninth level of Qi Refining a year ago. Song Qingming happened to have an excuse this time, so he treated him equally and gave him one to use for self-defense in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Song family, those who could cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining were the absolute backbone of the family. The safety of these people was also what Song Qingming worried about most. Now, with Song Qingming’s intentional reward, each of them had an extra second-level talisman, and their combat ability naturally improved by a large margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators holding second-level talismans had strength far exceeding ordinary Qi Refining cultivators. Even when facing Foundation Establishment cultivators, they could have a chance to threaten the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming immediately fell into seclusion again. However, this time he was not for talisman-making, but was preparing to start refining second-level formations to break through his formation skill level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, he still needed to spend a little time collecting various materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half a month later, under Song Qingming’s instruction, the Song family cultivators immediately began to collect special materials for refining formations in the market on a large scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second-level formation Song Qingming chose this time was of average difficulty, and the materials needed for refining were not particularly rare. The Song family only spent a few days collecting seven or eight out of ten in Qinghe Market. After Song Qingming personally made a trip to Jinshan Market to get the remaining most difficult second-level materials, he soon collected them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After half a year of seclusion and pondering, Song Qingming, as expected, successfully refined his first set of second-level formations, breaking through his formation skills to the second level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second-level formation he refined was the most ordinary second-level Spirit Gathering Formation. Arranging it in the cave dwelling where he cultivated could greatly increase the concentration of spiritual energy around his cave dwelling in a short time, and it was also a relatively common formation in the cultivation world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The classic 'Qingxi Notes' was written by the old man surnamed Gu’s close friend, Qingxi Sanren.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Qingxi Sanren was once a loose cultivator with a quite resounding reputation near Guiyun Market, and his formation level had been cultivated to the second-level top-grade. Although this person was a genius and had cultivated to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment early on, he had failed several times in forming a Core. Decades ago, his lifespan was already insufficient. Before he passed away, because he had no descendants to entrust his spiritual items to, he had to give all his spiritual items to his close friends, letting them help pay attention to some of his descendants left in Guiyun Market based on their past friendship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This old man surnamed Gu was a friend of Qingxi Sanren back then and was assigned the formation classic left by Qingxi Sanren. It was just a pity that his formation talent was average, and after obtaining this classic, it didn't come in handy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Decades passed, and the old man surnamed Gu’s friendship with Qingxi Sanren gradually faded with the passage of time. After all, when people leave, the tea goes cold, and ordinary friendships are hard to maintain for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, because he was anxious to break through his realm, the old man surnamed Gu was preparing to ask someone to help refine a furnace of spirit pills and happened to be missing several spiritual medicines, so he simply took this item out and put it at the exchange meeting. It happened that he met Song Qingming, a predestined person who liked formations, and exchanged it for some spiritual items that were more useful to him. The two could be considered as getting what they needed this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingxi classic didn't have much effect in his hands, but in Song Qingming’s eyes, this classic still far exceeded the things he had paid at that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this classic, Qingxi Sanren not only recorded all kinds of formations he encountered during his two-hundred-year Dao path but also specifically noted his various insights when refining and arranging formations. It was precisely because of the help of such good annotations that Song Qingming refined the second-level formation so smoothly this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the breakthrough in talisman-making, Song Qingming’s interest in the formation path was clearly more talented. His talisman-making could improve so fast entirely by practice making perfect, but his research on formations indeed still had a bit of his own talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time coming out of seclusion, Song Qingming could be said to have double happiness. Not only did he improve his formation level, but his cultivation also broke through to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment a month ago as a matter of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the existence of the remnant map, he could greatly shorten the time for his magic power to recover. Even though Song Qingming had been focusing on talisman-making and formation refining for the past few years, his own cultivation had not fallen behind at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivating to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment at the age of seventy, this cultivation speed was already catching up to ordinary two-spiritual-root cultivators. Song Qingming was very satisfied with his current cultivation realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the entire Qinghe County, the only ones who cultivated faster than him at the same age were Huang Shengxin and Gao Yubai of the Gao family. Being able to keep up with their pace by relying on a four-spiritual-root pseudo-spiritual root could already be called a miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the improvement of cultivation, the magic power in Song Qingming’s body also increased by a large margin. Now, whether he was making talismans or refining formations, his success rate would also slightly increase.\u003C\u002Fp>",1433,"2026-06-14T03:09:35.509Z","2026-06-18T03:34:23.509Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","43aca3925cf4baa88e8f7727c5881a43c3984999a742728044872e7fabb4480b","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-276","the-song-clan-of-qinghe-chapter-274",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]