Chapter 300: Skyfire Roc Advancement

The one standing in front of everyone was Song Qingming, who had been away from home for more than ten days. At this moment, he greeted everyone happily.

Looking at the several elders who were dumbfounded, Song Qingming raised his hand and pointed at the Skyfire Roc still in the sky, saying to Song Changfeng and the others:

"Don't worry, it won't attack us. Everyone, stop looking, hurry up and close the mountain-protecting formation, lest you waste spirit stones later!"

Hearing Song Qingming say this, Song Changfeng also came to his senses and let the few people who were still in a daze hurry to close the mountain-protecting formation first.

Long Feng didn't break his promise. Half a year later, Song Qingming, who went to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range again, really rode the Skyfire Roc that had advanced successfully when he returned.

Although the advancement of demonic beasts is relatively more difficult than that of human cultivators, Long Feng is good at being a Golden Core demon king who dominates one side. With his strength, supporting a demonic beast to advance to the Foundation Establishment realm is not a big problem, and the Skyfire Roc successfully advanced to the second tier.

Logically, most of Song Changfeng and the others had seen the Skyfire Roc. The reason they didn't recognize it just now was because after the Skyfire Roc advanced, its body size increased by more than double compared to before, and the color of the feathers on its body changed from the golden yellow at that time to the gray-white now, so Song Changfeng and the others didn't recognize it all of a sudden.

After the mountain-protecting formation was lifted, under Song Qingming's guidance, the Skyfire Roc finally landed beside his cave dwelling at the top of Mount Funiu. After the demonic beast advanced to the second tier, its spiritual wisdom was already comparable to that of a human child. For some simple instructions from Song Qingming, the current Skyfire Roc could fully cooperate with him.

After returning to Mount Funiu with the Skyfire Roc, Song Qingming planned to open a separate secret room for the Skyfire Roc beside his cave dwelling. From now on, he wouldn't let the Skyfire Roc go to Qinghe Market again. As an important trump card of the family, he would let the Skyfire Roc stay on Mount Funiu for a long time in the future. With it guarding this spiritual mountain, Song Qingming could be more at ease when he went out.

The Skyfire Roc, which had already advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm, still had no small strength. It had several powerful fire-attribute supernatural powers in its own talent. After Song Qingming sparred with it, he found that this guy's combat ability was already comparable to a human cultivator who had just established his Foundation.

The demonic tribe has too low spiritual wisdom in the Qi Refining stage, so their strength will be worse than human cultivators of the same rank. After advancing to the Foundation Establishment realm, not only will their spiritual wisdom be greatly opened, but their own supernatural powers will also be much stronger. A demonic beast with strong natural bloodline like the Skyfire Roc, after advancing to the second tier, its own strength is already not inferior to human cultivators of the same Foundation Establishment rank.

After hearing Song Qingming tell the process of the Skyfire Roc's advancement, Song Changfeng, who was the clan leader of the Song family, couldn't help but be excited. If the previous Song family was still a bit insufficient as a Foundation Establishment family, now that the family had an extra second-tier town-mountain spirit beast, it had completely made up for this shortcoming.

The lifespan of demonic beasts is generally two or three times that of human cultivators. Like this feather tribe demonic beast, the Skyfire Roc, it can normally live for six or seven hundred years. As long as it is there, even if the Song family loses all Foundation Establishment cultivators, it will not decline rapidly. As long as this spirit beast has no accidents, the Song family can still be glorious in Qinghe County for at least a few hundred years.

After returning to Mount Funiu, Song Qingming soon summoned a beast tamer who had just entered the sect, handed the Skyfire Roc to him for daily care, and not long after the Skyfire Roc was settled, Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng came to find him with a smile.

"Qingming, at the family spiritual root test ceremony a few days ago, two more cultivators were added to the Yuan generation this year, which can be considered a rare happy event. I want to hold a grace ceremony in the Song family for this matter, to celebrate for these children of the Yuan generation who have come up the mountain in these few years, to encourage them. What do you think?"

Song Qingming nodded and said: "Sixth Uncle's idea is good. Since we are going to hold it, let's notify the cultivators outside. Tell them to come back if they can. If they really have something to do and can't come back, then forget it. We can't delay the proper business at hand for this."

This suggestion made by Song Changfeng, in fact, Song Qingming had also had this idea in his heart. Now that it was proposed by him, Song Qingming also went with the flow and agreed to Song Changfeng's suggestion.

Back then, when Song Qingyu established her Foundation, the Song family was also going to hold a Foundation Establishment ceremony for her. In the end, it was Song Qingming who blocked the matter for the sake of keeping Song Qingyu's Foundation Establishment secret. At that time, some cultivators didn't quite understand the family's approach to this matter.

Nowadays, the Song family is developing steadily and is becoming more and more like a Foundation Establishment family. Song Qingming and Song Qingyu are both not very old and can still protect the Song family for quite some time. It is also time to let the clansmen relax and celebrate properly.

Under Song Changfeng's personal handling, the Song family began to get busy. After receiving the news, the Song family cultivators outside also asked for leave one after another and returned to Mount Funiu, and the entire Mount Funiu also ushered in a lively scene that had never been seen before.

Not only the family cultivators on Mount Funiu, but even the mortals at the foot of the mountain also relaxed and celebrated in this festival.

In the council hall of Mount Funiu, five children of different heights and around ten years old, under the guidance of their elders, were kowtowing and saluting to the two Foundation Establishment ancestors of the family sitting at the top.

Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, who had specially rushed back from Qinghe Market to participate in the grace ceremony, gave each of these Yuan generation juniors a gift to encourage them to cultivate diligently in the future.

Looking at these still immature little faces in front of him, Song Qingming couldn't help but recall the green appearance when he first came up the mountain.

At that time, the Song family was still just a small Qi Refining family with an average foundation, and all the cultivators added up to only twenty people. Back then, Song Qingming didn't hold much hope for his cultivation path at the beginning, and it was only by relying on his own step-by-step steady progress that he fought out a cultivation path.

Now these children are growing up in the Song family, which has risen to a Foundation Establishment family, and have a higher and better starting point. In the future, these people might also be able to surpass their predecessors and carry forward the entire Song family even more.

The Song family has developed rapidly over the years, and the newly built town at the foot of the mountain has also given mortals a lot of room for development. The overall number of mortals has almost doubled compared to when Song Qingming just established his Foundation, and the generation of cultivators has also passed from the Xin generation to the Yuan generation.

It is precisely because of these mortals as the foundation that the number of cultivators in the Song family has also doubled in the past few decades. The Chang generation and the Qing generation only had a dozen people each, and by the Xin generation, they began to usher in explosive growth. The youngest one has already been ranked twenty-sixth.

The birth of a new generation of cultivators also means the aging of the older generation of cultivators. The cultivators of the Chang generation have gradually begun to wither. Among the old cultivators of the Chang generation who are still alive today, the oldest Second Uncle Song Changwu returned home to retire a few years ago.