Chapter 41: Ninth Uncle Leaves the Mountain

In these few months, Song Qingming spent most of his time managing Lingyuan Mountain, and even the Caolu Mountain, which he had to go to every month, he only went to once in these three months.

Ninth Uncle Song Changxin saw that Song Qingming had become very familiar with managing mortals and mines in the past few years, so he simply handed over all the affairs of settling mortals to him during this period.

Song Qingming was so attentive to these things during this period because he knew that he would be full of three years on Lingyuan Mountain soon, and he wanted to handle the affairs here as smoothly as possible before leaving, so that it would be convenient for the new resident family cultivators to take over.

Unexpectedly, just when Song Qingming had prepared almost everything, Ninth Uncle Song Changxin summoned him into the house and told him an unexpected piece of news.

After years of development, the population of Mujiao Town had been increasing every year, and the family had received thousands of mortals from the Liu family, so they could only build several new villages next to Mujiao Town. Now the family's mortals were managed by Fifth Aunt Song Changling alone, which was really too busy. After discussing with the Fourth Elder and the Clan Leader, they decided to mobilize Song Changxin to help her first.

In this way, only Song Qingming was left on Lingyuan Mountain, and Song Changxin also knew that Song Qingming's guarding period was just about to expire, so he found him to discuss it.

"Qingming, I just received news from the Fourth Elder, asking me to return to Mount Funiu to help Changling manage the mortals under the family's jurisdiction. Now the family is short of manpower, and you are already familiar with the situation of Lingyuan Mountain. The Fourth Elder and I discussed it, why don't you stay here to cultivate for the time being, and when I am busy there, I will come back to replace you. What do you think?"

Song Changxin's words were a bit embarrassed. Although the words he said today were all arrangements of the family, he was still a bit afraid that Song Qingming would directly refuse. After all, as a cultivator choosing a place to cultivate, the spiritual vein of Mount Funiu was definitely better. Staying on Lingyuan Mountain all the time would more or less delay some cultivation progress.

Song Qingming was a bit surprised when he heard this news, but he didn't think much about it. Although returning to Mount Funiu to cultivate with spiritual veins was better, he didn't lack this bit of cultivation speed now. On the contrary, Lingyuan Mountain was more hidden, which was conducive to him hiding these spiritual items on his body that could not be seen.

The remnant map on his body, the things in Liu Tianlong's storage bag, and the Jade Profound Scripture he obtained for no reason, he didn't dare to let others know now.

Thinking that the Liu family had brought about the disaster of extermination just because of a Water Spirit Fruit, the value of the remnant map on his body was far more than that. If he could make good use of it, it might give him a glimmer of hope for Foundation Establishment in the future. Once those high-level cultivators knew about it, the Song family would definitely follow in the footsteps of the Liu family, and the end might be even worse.

As for the Jade Profound Scripture, after Song Qingming cultivated this cultivation technique, he felt more and more that the mystery of this cultivation technique was far from as simple as he thought at the beginning. Since cultivating the Jade Profound Scripture, Song Qingming slowly felt that the spiritual power on his body was much thicker than before. This cultivation technique seemed to have the mystery of forging the spiritual energy in his body.

A cultivation technique that could have this effect was naturally not comparable to the Kunyuan Decision that Song Qingming originally cultivated. The Kunyuan Decision was just an ordinary Qi Refining five-element cultivation technique. When facing cultivators of the same level, it was often easy to fall into a disadvantage and could only rely on external objects like magic tools and spiritual talismans to make up for his strength.

After cultivating the Jade Profound Scripture for more than three months, Song Qingming had already felt that the spiritual power he released now had improved a lot compared to before. Cultivating the Jade Profound Scripture for such a long time, his spiritual power would definitely be much thicker than that of cultivators who cultivated ordinary cultivation techniques. If he had the fate to unlock the cultivation technique above Foundation Establishment, there might be even greater supernatural powers.

This point also made him feel more and more the extraordinary nature of this cultivation technique. Fortunately, he hadn't had time to copy this cultivation technique to the family, and no one else in the family knew that he had cultivated this cultivation technique, otherwise, it would be difficult for him to hide it even if he wanted to.

Now he was cultivating the Jade Profound Scripture on one side, and the Kunyuan Decision cultivation technique was not left behind. In front of people, ordinary Qi Refining cultivators definitely couldn't see the strangeness of his cultivation technique. Even Ninth Uncle Song Changxin, a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, hadn't felt that he had cultivated other cultivation techniques recently.

Thinking of this, Song Qingming hesitated slightly and then agreed. Even without this reason, facing Song Changxin, who had taken good care of him for these years, Song Qingming really couldn't refuse.

Seeing that Song Qingming didn't refuse, Song Changxin was relieved and nodded with satisfaction. Among the young cultivators of the Qing generation in the family, except for the genius Song Qingze, the cultivation bases of others were not high. Song Qingming reached the fifth level of Qi Refining at the age of twenty-three, although he had some opportunities, he could be considered a diligent person.

"Don't worry, I will talk to the Fourth Elder when I go back this time and give you some more spirit stones, so as not to delay your cultivation. When I am not here, you must take good care of Lingyuan Mountain, and the Xuantie mine must not be neglected."

This diligent cultivator, Ninth Uncle, liked the diligent younger generation in the family and had always been very concerned about Song Qingming's cultivation path.

"Ninth Uncle, only I am left on Lingyuan Mountain for the time being. My cultivation base is still low, I'm afraid I'm not capable enough." Song Qingming nodded and said his worries slightly after a pause.

Song Changxin smiled slightly, took out a red spiritual talisman from his storage bag and handed it to Song Qingming, saying solemnly:

"This is a high-grade communication talisman, keep it well. If you encounter harassment from high-level monsters, release this talisman, and the family will receive the news within an hour and send people to support you. This spiritual talisman is not easy to come by in the family, so don't use it easily unless it is necessary. In a few days, the Fourth Elder should arrange for someone else to come and help you. In this way, you should have no problem here, right?"

"Since Ninth Uncle has already arranged it properly, nephew will naturally not fail the mission." Song Qingming nodded and agreed, and the worry on his face also disappeared.

He had long been proficient in operating the protective formation of Lingyuan Mountain for these years. As long as he didn't encounter those difficult high-level monsters, he had absolute confidence that there would be no problems.

Even if high-level monsters attacked, with the communication spiritual talisman Song Changxin just gave him, as long as he could persist for an hour, he could wait for the family's reinforcements, which was not too difficult for him now.

That day, after Song Changxin exhorted him, he went back to pack his luggage and left Lingyuan Mountain with the sunset. He was a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and his speed was naturally much faster than Song Qingming's. He could easily return to Mount Funiu before dark.

After Song Qingming waited alone for a few days, he finally welcomed the family cultivator who helped him guard, Sixth Brother Song Qinghe.

Song Qinghe was two years older than Song Qingming, and his talent was even worse than Song Qingming's. He was a Five-Spirit Root cultivator. Although he was also relatively diligent in cultivation, his cultivation base was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Song Qinghe had a dull personality. Apart from closing his doors to cultivate, he was helping in the family's spiritual fields. He was a spiritual planter. He might be more interested in flowers and plants than people on weekdays. Song Qingming didn't talk much with this Sixth Brother in the past, but he also knew that his personality was relatively honest.

After Song Qinghe arrived at Lingyuan Mountain, Song Qingming saw that his cultivation base had already surpassed him, and he was also a bit envious of this Seventh Brother's opportunity. Although his spiritual root talent was not good and he didn't have any great ambitions, he hadn't given up his Dao path yet. Seeing someone around him get an opportunity, he was naturally very longing for when he would be favored by heaven.

It's just that things like opportunities, hiding at home and cultivating diligently, are naturally difficult to obtain. Song Qingming was able to be favored by heaven, which was also after a narrow escape from death.

After Song Qinghe arrived at Lingyuan Mountain, Song Qingming arranged him to the mine to be responsible for patrolling and supervising the mining of the mine. He himself went to the side of Crescent Lake to build a small house again, responsible for guarding the Lingyuan Mountain formation and managing the mortal affairs here, and by the way, guiding the cultivation techniques of those martial arts masters.

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