Chapter 339: White Jade Elixir

In Mount Yunwu, after scaring Song Qingyu away, the Fire-Scaled Leopard summoned its subordinates scattered everywhere again. However, it did not choose to return to its lair next, but looked at the huge volcano not far away with great fear, roared softly, and took these low-level monsters to change direction and go south.

Not long after the Fire-Scaled Leopard left, a somewhat cold voice suddenly sounded in a scorching rock cave behind the volcano.

"Sigh! Someone has already arrived nearby. Good disciple, it seems we have to change places again!"

"This ghost place is too stuffy and hot, and I haven't wanted to stay here for a long time. Now there are still a few spiritual items left to refine this last magic treasure, and I still need to go to the market to look for them. Master, don't worry, we are about to succeed."

"Haha... Disciple is right!"

After a burst of crazy laughter, these two voices soon disappeared in the rock cave.

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Under Mount Guyang, in a guest shop in Yangshan Market, Song Qingming was carefully watching a golden elixir in his hand in the room.

"Senior Feng He, after I refine this White Jade Elixir, is there really hope for me to break through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment?"

After Song Qingming muttered to himself, a breeze blew past his ear, and a voice that was somewhat old suddenly sounded from the mouth of a palm-sized crane puppet beast on the table.

"Your magic power has long been polished to perfection, but you have failed to break through. What you lack is just a spiritual item that can guide the cyclone of magic power in your body. Although the effect of the White Jade Elixir is not as good as the Breakthrough Elixir, for you, the hope of breaking through your cultivation base after refining this elixir is still very great.

It's also because your aptitude is too poor. If it were an ordinary cultivator with better spiritual roots, they wouldn't even need the White Jade Elixir in your state, and they could almost automatically break through their cultivation base in no time."

Hearing this Senior Feng He mention his spiritual root aptitude again and strike him, Song Qingming could only shake his head helplessly.

Spiritual root aptitude was something a cultivator was born with, and there was no way to change it acquiredly. Although he had deeply felt the many disadvantages brought by his spiritual roots not being as good as others since he started practicing, he had long been used to it after so many years.

What Feng He said was not wrong. Some people were born with powerful spiritual roots and could stand at the top of the cultivation world without much effort. But what this Nascent Soul bigwig, who was once gifted and stood high, couldn't see was that more people in this cultivation world didn't even have spiritual roots and could only be ordinary mortals with a lifespan of a few decades.

Although Song Qingming knew very early on that his four-spiritual-root talent would not have much cultivation prospect, he had never complained about the unfairness of heaven in this regard all these years. Compared to the playmates who had turned into yellow soil in his childhood, his fate of being able to enter the Dao and practice to live to this day was already better than many people.

Whether it was a cultivator or an ordinary mortal, people should always be content to be better.

He had been in Yangshan Market for four or five days. This time, Song Qingming was lucky. The several spiritual items he wanted to purchase were all settled, and he was lucky enough to find a White Jade Elixir in the Heaven Elixir Pavilion that might help him break through his cultivation base.

Since his cultivation base reached the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming soon discovered that his cultivation base had encountered the biggest bottleneck since Foundation Establishment. Even though he had tried many elixirs, he had never been able to successfully break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Song Qingming succeeded in establishing his foundation at the age of forty-six, and forty years had passed since then. In the first thirty years, he broke through one level of cultivation base on average every five or six years. Although this was not particularly fast among Foundation Establishment cultivators, it had already exceeded seventy or eighty percent of cultivators of the same rank.

However, after reaching the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, nearly twelve years had passed. Although Song Qingming had long polished the magic power in his body to perfection, he had never been able to successfully break through his cultivation base. The last time he encountered such a powerless situation in his cultivation base was when he broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining before going down the mountain.

At that time, Song Qingming finally relied on the help and support of his eldest brother and others to gather enough spirit stones to exchange for a Qi Gathering Elixir from the family's Golden Treasury Pavilion to assist in the breakthrough.

Now that Song Qingming's cultivation base had reached the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, the elixir with the best effect to help Foundation Establishment cultivators break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage was a third-grade spiritual elixir called the Barrier-Breaking Elixir.

It was a pity that third-grade or higher spiritual items basically would not appear in the market in the Wei State. The only place Song Qingming knew that had this kind of spiritual elixir was the Merit Pavilion in the Carefree Sect. However, the merits required to exchange for the Barrier-Breaking Elixir were very high. The merits accumulated by the Song family for so many years could not be exchanged for such spiritual items.

Although Song Qingming was not short of spirit stones now, he had not found a way to exchange for this kind of spiritual elixir. He had also gone to Yangshan Market many times in recent years to inquire about the news of the Barrier-Breaking Elixir, but he had never found a way.

Even in the several auctions of the Heaven Elixir Alliance he participated in, he had never seen this kind of elixir, which really made Song Qingming a bit disappointed. If the White Jade Elixir in his hand still couldn't help him break through his cultivation base this time, he could only go to other countries near the Wei State to inquire about the news of the Barrier-Breaking Elixir.

The White Jade Elixir Song Qingming obtained this time was also a suggestion given to him by Feng He after his several failures to find spiritual items to break through. Unexpectedly, he was lucky enough to buy one such elixir from Yin Ling of the Heaven Elixir Pavilion this time.

The White Jade Elixir was different from the Barrier-Breaking Elixir. Although it also had some help for Foundation Establishment cultivators to break through their cultivation base, the effect was far worse. This kind of spiritual elixir was generally used by cultivators to assist other spiritual items to break through.

Although the White Jade Elixir was not a particularly popular spiritual elixir, it was also a Grade 2 high-grade spiritual elixir. This kind of spiritual item was already the highest-grade spiritual elixir even in the Heaven Elixir Pavilion. Song Qingming had also reserved it with Yin Ling for more than a year before he got one from her.

"Senior! The junior promises you that as long as I can successfully break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage this time, I will set off as soon as possible to help you visit the body you want to get, and I will not let you wait too long."

"Hmm! It's good that you haven't forgotten this matter. Although my lifespan is not much left, there are still many things that have not been completed. If you can successfully help me find a body, when I recover to my previous cultivation base, it will not be difficult to help you form a Golden Core in the future. You can rest assured about this."

Although Feng He occasionally reminded Song Qingming to go out to help him find a suitable body over the years, he also knew that Song Qingming's current cultivation base and strength were not high, so he did not urge him too much.

When Feng He first talked to Song Qingming about their cooperation, he also promised to help Song Qingming successfully form a Golden Core. Although Song Qingming was still far from forming a Golden Core, Feng He also understood in his heart that if he had no way to help him pass the late Foundation Establishment stage now, it would be difficult to inspire Song Qingming again if he said words like forming a Golden Core in the future.