Chapter 1 Qinghe Song Family

Qinghe County, Weiguo, Donghuang Xianzhou.

In the northeast corner of Qinghe County, there is a fairy mountain with clouds and mist, named: Funiushan.

Funiushan is nearly a thousand feet high, and the mountain is full of green grass and trees, like a giant green bull lying among the mountains.

On the top of the mountain stand dozens of pavilions and towers with fairy air, which is the habitat of the Song family, a Qi-refining and immortal family in Qinghe County.

The ancestor of the Song family was originally a foundation-building cultivator in the "Xiaoyao Sect", the overlord of the Weiguo immortal world.

After his death, his descendants were excluded by the sect, so they had no choice but to lead their clansmen to leave the sect and come to the more remote Qinghe County, occupying the top-grade spiritual vein of Funiushan, and have taken root and multiplied for nearly two hundred years.

On the west side of the mountainside of Funiushan, in a hidden cave.

A young man in green clothes with a green face was sitting in front of a wooden table, looking at a yellowish animal skin bag on the table.

After a while, the boy picked up the bag in front of him and slowly opened the purple rope tied to the bag. Then there was a "ding-dong" sound of metal collision, and a pile of faintly shining stones rolled out of the bag.

These stones are colorful, with all kinds of colors, each emitting a dazzling light.

The boy then took out two stones that also emitted a faint red light from his body, placed them in the middle of these stones, and began to count the pile of glowing stones in front of him quietly.

"A total of seventy-five pieces, plus the fifteen points of merit recorded in the family's gold pavilion, there are exactly ten spirit stones missing.

At the current speed of accumulating spirit stones, it should be possible to exchange for a Qi Gathering Pill in half a year at the fastest, so that you can break through the middle stage of Qi Refining."

After a quick thought, the calm boy repacked all the spirit stones on the table and carefully hid the bag in a wall in the cave.

The young man in green is named Song Qingming. He is the seventh among the fourth generation of "Qing" cultivators in the Song family.

Ten years ago, he was originally a mortal. Fortunately, his clan members discovered that he had spiritual roots that could be cultivated in his body, so he was able to enter the family's holy land, Funiu Mountain, to practice. This year, he just turned 20 years old and has reached the third level of Qi Refining.

If ordinary mortals have spiritual roots like him, they can enter the Qi Refining stage after successfully drawing Qi into the body after practicing, and become a cultivator, also known as a cultivator.

Cultivators in the Qi Refining stage can cleanse their marrow and strengthen their physique by inhaling and exhaling the spiritual energy between heaven and earth through daily practice.

They can also drive the spiritual power refined in their bodies to use various spells. High-level cultivators can even ride the wind and clouds, move mountains and fill the sea, and turn decay into magic.

In this world of cultivating immortals, ordinary mortals can only live to 70 or 80 years old at most, while cultivators in the Qi Refining stage can normally have a lifespan of 120 years, which is almost twice that of ordinary mortals.

If one breaks through to a higher level of cultivation, his life span will increase exponentially. When he reaches the stage of immortality, he can ascend to the immortal world like the legendary immortals and live as long as the heaven and earth. This is also the longevity path that all cultivators pursue together.

The cultivation levels of cultivators in the human world are mainly divided into five levels: "Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Dan Formation, Yuanying, and Shenhua".

It is said that there are higher levels above the Shenhua cultivators, but the spiritual energy in this world is relatively thin and cannot support the cultivators in the world to cultivate to a higher level.

After the cultivators reach the late stage of Shenhua, if they break through their cultivation, they will be repelled by the power of the interface and automatically ascend to other upper interfaces. Therefore, the highest cultivation level of cultivators in this world can only be cultivated to the late stage of Shenhua.

These glowing stones in Song Qingming's hands are exactly the items in the world of immortal cultivation that can improve the cultivation speed of the cultivators themselves. They are also the mainstream currency used by cultivators in this world to trade various cultivation resources required for cultivation.

The "Qi Gathering Pill" he just mentioned is a common pill in the world of immortal cultivation that helps cultivators like him in the early stage of Qi Refining to break through to the middle stage of Qi Refining.

When a cultivator reaches the peak state of the mana in his body and needs to break through to the next level, he will encounter a bottleneck. Unless you are a genius cultivator with outstanding spiritual roots, you don't have to think too much about this problem.

Ordinary cultivators can only rely on slowly practicing to absorb spiritual energy to grind the bottleneck, which is difficult to break through in a short period of time.

If you want to break through the bottleneck quickly, you need to swallow some external objects such as pills and spiritual objects to assist.

Although the Qi Gathering Pill is not a rare pill in Qinghe County, it is also a first-class spiritual pill. One pill in the market normally costs at least 100 spiritual stones. Song Qingming has been saving for a long time, but he still needs 10 spiritual stones.

For low-level cultivators like him, there are not many ways to earn spiritual stones. The spiritual stone salary issued by the family every year, plus the occasional low-level tasks of the family, follow the elders in the family to go out and hunt monsters.

After deducting the cost of cultivation, at most, only a dozen spirit stones can be saved in a year.

Song Qingming also learned a formation technique in the tribe in the past few years. He usually helps other people in the tribe to refine some auxiliary formation diagrams and arrange some low-level formations on the instruments and robes, and earns some more spirit stones.

In addition to the frugality in recent years, now it is finally almost enough.

Although his own cultivation speed is average and he has not yet broken through the middle stage of Qi Refining at the age of 20, fortunately he was born into a family of immortal cultivators. He has been protected by the elders of the family since he was a child, and his cultivation has been stable all the way.

Compared with those wandering casual cultivators, at least Song Qingming has a fixed spiritual vein to practice since he started practicing, and the elders of the family can always teach him about the puzzles in cultivation.

In Qinghe County, more cultivators are from various casual cultivators. Most of them do not have a fixed spiritual vein to practice, and they have to run around all day for a little cultivation resources.

Spiritual veins are the foundation of cultivators' cultivation. When cultivators practice on spiritual veins, they have abundant spiritual energy, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will be several times faster than the outside world, so they can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

A high-quality spiritual vein like Funiushan can easily provide more than 20 Qi Refining cultivators of the Song family for cultivation.

If there is no spiritual vein, cultivating in the wild mountains and ridges outside, the supply of spiritual energy in the world is limited. If a cultivator wants to improve his cultivation speed, he can only rely on refining spiritual stones to fill it, which requires a lot of cultivation resources.

Song Qingming has also tried to force a breakthrough in the middle stage of Qi Refining in the past two years, but not only did he fail to break through successfully, but the backlash caused by the failure of the breakthrough hurt his meridians, and he took several months to recover completely.

This made him gradually give up and realize that he is not a cultivation genius.

Now Song Qingming wants to successfully break through his cultivation and slowly practice to polish the bottleneck. For him, it will take five to ten years to successfully break through.

But in this way, it will consume too much time for cultivation. Choosing to take pills to assist cultivators to break through quickly is also the method used by most cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.

Although Song Qingming has been very hard in cultivation, he is only a cultivator with four spiritual roots of gold, wood, fire, and earth, which is just an ordinary low-level spiritual root qualification in the world of immortal cultivation.

The types of spiritual roots in the bodies of cultivators are also divided into high and low levels.

Generally, it is divided according to the number of five elements of spiritual roots in the body, which has five attributes: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The fewer spiritual roots in the body, the purer the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will be when practicing, and the faster the practice speed will be. On the contrary, the more spiritual roots there are in the body, the more mixed the spiritual energy will be, and the slower the practice speed will be.

The five elements are all in the body, and the mixed spiritual roots of the cultivators with five spiritual roots have the slowest practice speed.

Unless there is a large supply of resources, it is difficult for such cultivators to practice to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Four spiritual roots like Song Qingming belong to pseudo spiritual roots, and the practice speed will be slightly faster. If you work harder and the family can provide some resources, there is a great chance that you can practice to the late stage of Qi Refining.

More than 80% of the cultivators in the entire cultivation world are ordinary cultivators with four or five spiritual roots like him.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for cultivators like them to break through to the next great realm, the foundation-building stage.

However, in addition to spiritual root aptitude, luck and opportunity are also very important in the path of cultivating immortals.

Although Song Qingming's spiritual root aptitude is average, he has been very diligent in the past ten years since he embarked on the path of cultivation, and has never slacked off in his own practice.