Chapter 431: Anything Else

Deep in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, in a cave located underground.

Song Qingming, dressed in green, was sitting calmly on a round stone with his eyes closed in meditation, and flashes of green and red light would appear on his body from time to time.

Not long after, a woman dressed in red brought two giant birds, each more than a person tall, into the cave.

Seeing Song Qingming sitting on the stone, still motionless as before, one of the gray giant birds suddenly said, "Your Highness, this kid's cultivation talent is really not very good. It's been so long, and looking at him, it seems he hasn't fully absorbed the medicinal power of the Red-Green Fruit. I estimate that his hope of Core Formation this time should not be very high."

"Hmph! If this kid really fails and wastes the Red-Green Fruit that Your Highness obtained with great effort, I will throw him directly outside to feed those wild wolves." The one who spoke was another green giant bird standing beside it.

"Looking at him, he should be able to finish refining it in a few days. Let's go first!"

The woman in red standing in front of these two giant birds looked at Song Qingming in front of her carefully, said a word softly, and then left the cave with the two giant birds.

Two months ago, Song Qingming, who had prepared everything, had already quietly left Mount Funiu and went deep into the Floating Cloud Mountain Range to come to Fire Phoenix, preparing to go into seclusion for Core Formation here.

The reason why he planned to go into Core Formation at Fire Phoenix's place was, on the one hand, because the spirit vein where Fire Phoenix and the others were located was not of low grade and was completely enough for ordinary cultivators to use for Core Formation. On the other hand, it was also because Fire Phoenix had promised Song Qingming that she would help him when he was in Core Formation.

After Song Qingming arrived here this time and said that he was going to try Core Formation next, Fire Phoenix really didn't deceive him and directly gave him a green spirit fruit of not low grade, which was the Red-Green Fruit that Song Qingming was currently refining.

According to Fire Phoenix, this Red-Green Fruit is a very rare third-tier middle-grade spirit fruit, which can help cultivators strengthen and improve the dantian in their bodies. Whether it is for monster beasts or human cultivators, refining the Red-Green Fruit has a very good help effect during Core Formation.

As long as he can fully refine this spirit fruit, the probability of Song Qingming's success in Core Formation will increase by at least 20%. However, this is only the most ideal state that everyone imagines.

Under normal circumstances, the human body is very difficult to be as strong as monster beasts of the same level. For high-grade spirit fruits that grow naturally like the Red-Green Fruit, Song Qingming's direct consumption is definitely not as effective as monster beasts like Dragon Wind swallowing it directly.

Not long after taking the Red-Green Fruit, Song Qingming felt a large amount of powerful spiritual power appear in his body, which began to constantly rush toward several meridians and spirit acupoints around his dantian.

Because the spiritual power obtained after refining the Red-Green Fruit was very powerful, it quickly began to run around Song Qingming's dantian, bringing him unbearable pain. Song Qingming relied on his own strong perseverance to persist.

This seclusion quickly passed for two months. Although Song Qingming tried his best to refine most of the spiritual power in the Red-Green Fruit, there was still a lot of spiritual energy that had not been absorbed and refined by Song Qingming in time before it slowly flowed away from his body.

However, there is no other way. Humans are not as strong as monster beasts, especially when low-grade cultivators refine high-grade spiritual items. Facing the huge spiritual power that suddenly appears in the body, it is difficult to fully refine and absorb it.

Many times, human cultivators choose to use the power of alchemists to refine these spiritual items into elixirs with relatively gentle spiritual power. Only then can they fully absorb the spiritual power contained in these spiritual items and maximize the role of these spiritual items.

This time, Song Qingming refined the Red-Green Fruit, although it took more time than ordinary monster beasts refining this fruit, he did rely on the spiritual power obtained from the Red-Green Fruit to successfully strengthen the dantian in his body, laying a certain foundation for his next Core Formation.

Three days later, Fire Phoenix, who was lying in her cave dwelling tasting delicious spirit wine, suddenly felt something. Her originally somewhat lazy expression changed slightly and became serious immediately.

Soon, as Fire Phoenix's jade hand waved lightly, the spirit wine and wine glass on the table suddenly disappeared, all of which were collected by her into a golden jade bracelet on her hand, and then she slowly got up and left the cave dwelling.

Song Qingming had been in seclusion for two months this time. Just as he walked out and wanted to go to the hall outside for a walk, he didn't expect to run into Fire Phoenix who was walking toward him as soon as he arrived outside.

"Although it was a bit slow, you still refined a lot of the Red-Green Fruit's spiritual power. With your talent, it can be considered not bad."

Song Qingming smiled somewhat awkwardly and bowed, "Thank you, Your Highness, for bestowing the spiritual item. If I can succeed in Core Formation in the future, I will definitely not forget this great kindness of Your Highness."

"Hmph! Less of this human set. Giving you this is also because I promised you before, but this is all I can help you with. As for whether you can succeed in Core Formation, this is not something I can decide."

Having known Fire Phoenix for so many years, Song Qingming naturally knew her temper. This eldest lady of the Monster Emperor, although her temper is a bit strange, as long as what she says, no matter how long it has passed, it can basically be fulfilled. As long as he is still of some use to her, Song Qingming basically doesn't have to worry about her killing the donkey after the mill is done.

"Your Highness! I plan to go into seclusion for Core Formation next, but before that, I want to ask you for one more spiritual item, hoping you can fulfill it."

"What thing, tell me and see!"

Song Qingming looked at Fire Phoenix's expression and saw that it was still calm, then paused and said softly, "I have obtained some thousand-year spirit milk here at Your Highness's place before, but it has been almost used up over the years. Can Your Highness bestow some more?"

"Mm... anything else?" After Fire Phoenix heard Song Qingming finish speaking, she narrowed her eyes and asked again.

"No more. I only need some thousand-year spirit milk. I have prepared everything else myself." Seeing Fire Phoenix staring at him, Song Qingming explained somewhat puzzledly.

Hearing Song Qingming say this, Fire Phoenix frowned slightly and said sternly, "I have never promised to give you this before. You come to me to ask for things, do you intend to just reach out and ask for them for nothing?"

"This... Your Highness, please don't be angry. It was my dullness. I came in a hurry this time and brought fewer things. Please forgive me. Your Highness, just say whatever you want. As long as I have a way to take it out, it's all fine."

Coming to Fire Phoenix this time, Song Qingming also knew that he was asking for help. In order to please Fire Phoenix and Dragon Wind and the others, Song Qingming spent a lot of effort and spirit stones to prepare many things they liked. However, he had already taken them out when he came, and now he had no spiritual items on him that could move them.

"If I had known, I shouldn't have taken everything out at the beginning." After hearing Fire Phoenix's reminder, Song Qingming cursed himself secretly in his heart.