Chapter 11: Remaining Map

Five or six days passed in a flash. The Song family searched for the robbers several times in the vicinity, but found nothing. They could only report the matter to the nearby Huang family, a major foundation-building family. Unexpectedly, the Huang family did not care about the matter and only verbally appeased the people of the Song family.

Unexpectedly, half a month later, another major event happened in Qinghe County. A Qi-refining cultivator of the Huang family was attacked and killed by robbers from Yingchao Ridge outside Qinghefang.

This really touched a hornet's nest. The Huang family is an old foundation-building family in Qinghe County. There are still three foundation-building cultivators in the family. It has been the largest family of immortal cultivators in Qinghe County for a hundred years.

In the following days, several major foundation-building families in Qinghe County, led by the Huang family, gathered dozens of law enforcement cultivators with great momentum and began to conduct a large-scale investigation of foreign and unfamiliar cultivators within Qinghe County. Seeing that the matter was exposed, the bandits of Yingchao chose to flee.

Outside forces killed people and robbed treasures outside Qinghefang, which would seriously affect the reputation of Qinghefang. Qinghefang is the foundation of many immortal cultivation forces in Qinghe County. All the large and small immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County have some industries in Qinghefang.

The major immortal cultivation families showed extraordinary unity in the face of common interests. This operation not only captured and killed more than a dozen well-known bandits, but also accidentally discovered that a store in Qinghefang had been colluding with Yingchaoling bandits for many years.

This store was originally jointly operated by several old-fashioned casual cultivators in Qinghe County. Driven by interests, they have been selling customer information to Yingchaoling bandits for a year.

This angered several major foundation-building families, and they once again joined forces with the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators stationed there to check all the major stores in the market, causing Qinghefang to be in chaos for half a month before slowly returning to its former prosperity.

In Lingyuan Mountain, Song Qingming, who had fully recovered, didn't know what was happening outside. He had been recuperating at home for more than ten days, and he didn't have to go out to inspect the mines, which made him free.

At this moment, he was in the small room where he usually practiced, staring thoughtfully at a piece of gray ancient animal skin in his hand, and there was a beautiful green jade box not far away.

This animal skin was only four or five inches in size. There were some mountain and river patterns painted on the front, but they were very incomplete and there was no clue at all. There were a few fairy clouds painted on the back, and a few nameless spells were engraved, which were also incomplete.

Speaking of the origin of this incomplete picture, we have to go back to the cave where Song Qingming almost died a few days ago.

On that day, Song Qingming hid in the wasteland in the cave to deceive Zhu Wu, and his body just happened to be pressed on this jade box. After Zhu Wu left, Song Qingming climbed out of the mound and dug out this little thing that made him feel uncomfortable for a long time. Seeing that the jade box outside was very exquisite, he put it in the storage bag and took it back.

It was not until more than ten days later that Song Qingming, who was too bored, remembered that he thought there might be a treasure in the jade box, but he didn't expect it to be a broken picture that he couldn't understand at all, which made him a little disappointed.

"This jade box is quite beautiful. I can use it to exchange a few pills of Qi Refining Powder with my second sister, or keep it to store something."

"As for this broken picture"

Song Qingming raised his hand and threw the picture into the air, and released a fireball with his left hand.

After a burst of flames, what he didn't expect was that the animal skin broken picture was intact, without any changes.

Could it be that this map is not an ordinary object, but a spiritual object? Even if it is a spiritual object, it would not be unchanged in the flames. Could it be a high-level magic weapon?

"Forget it, I'll ask Uncle Jiu tomorrow."

Song Qingming, with a surprised look on his face, carefully put away the remaining map and put it back into the jade box.

The next morning, after inspecting the mine cave, Song Qingming came to Song Changxin's small building.

Song Changxin looked at the gray fragment and thought for a while before speaking:

"It looks like this should be a broken piece of magic weapon. I have seen similar things in the nearby market when I was training in Ziyun Mountain. Magic weapon is a powerful magic weapon that can only be refined by Jindan cultivators. Even a fragment is much tougher than ordinary magic weapons."

"This kind of broken thing can be exchanged for a few spirit stones, which can be used as high-level materials to refine new magic weapons. I think these patterns must have been deliberately drawn by someone to disguise it as the treasure hiding place of senior cultivators. People in the market often use this thing to deceive you young people who have just entered the world."

Song Qingming, who left Song Changxin's residence, was still calm in his heart. This thing was picked up by himself by accident. Although it was not a high-level magic weapon, it was already very good to be worth a few spirit stones.

He didn't plan to sell it in the market. After experiencing life and death, Song Qingming urgently needed to arm himself.

"Although this fragment of the map has no other use, it is very tough. Find a robe and sew it on the vital part. Maybe it can save your life at a critical moment. In this day and age, the most important thing for cultivating immortals is to save your life."

Song Qingming returned to his residence, found his worn-out robes, sewed the fragment of the map on his chest, and wore it inside his robes as an inner shirt.

At night, it was another day of boring practice. Song Qingming sat cross-legged as usual and began to practice "Kun Yuan Jue".

Song Qingming had only broken through the fourth level of Qi Refining for more than half a year. With his four spiritual roots, it was still a long way to go for him to cultivate to the fifth level. He wanted to take pills to save time for cultivation. Now he only had a dozen spiritual stones on his body, and he still owed Uncle Thirteen and the others more than twenty spiritual stones, which was even more impossible.

Just when he was halfway through his cultivation, he felt a sense of overflowing spiritual energy in his body, which made him feel extremely confused.

"On weekdays, I need to meditate and cultivate for three or four hours to fully recover my spiritual energy. Today, it has only been an hour, and the spiritual energy in my dantian is about to overflow."

Feeling the same, Song Qingming hurriedly entered into meditation and used his spiritual sense to check the abnormalities in his body.

"I haven't broken through my cultivation, so why is the speed of absorbing spiritual energy so much faster? What's going on?"

"Could it be."

Song Qingming took off his outer robes and started to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy by running the "Kun Yuan Jue". At this time, a faint white light suddenly emanated from his chest, and the flow of spiritual energy in his body was several times faster than usual.

After repeated efforts, Song Qingming finally confirmed the reason for his abnormal cultivation, which was the broken picture he had sewn on his chest today.

"This broken picture can actually affect the speed at which I absorb spiritual energy. This is a bit too amazing."

It seems that this thing is not the fragment of the magic weapon that Uncle Jiu said, and I don't know what it is.

A month later, Song Qingming, who was nestling in the room, was looking at the two complete sets of low-grade formations in his hand with satisfaction.

The speed of recovering spiritual energy was inexplicably accelerated, so that his injuries that should have been healed in a month were basically healed in less than half a month, which was also beyond Song Qingming's expectations.

Especially because of the trauma to his spiritual consciousness caused by excessive consumption of spiritual energy, he had a pain in his brain from time to time before. Song Changxin said that it would take half a year to slowly recover.

In the past few days, he has felt that his spiritual consciousness has recovered by more than half, and he has tried to use spells that consume more spiritual energy several times, and the previous tingling sensation has not appeared again.

At this time, Song Qingming slowly felt a little terrified. This incomplete map might be a treasure. In addition to several kinds of elixirs that help restore spiritual energy, Song Qingming has not heard of any spiritual objects that can speed up the recovery of spiritual energy.

If other cultivators discover its use, the Song family will definitely not be able to protect themselves. I am afraid that those high-ranking foundation-building cultivators will be jealous of this thing.

Although Song Qingming stayed in the room all day, he did not dare to use the incomplete map too much to practice. Fortunately, when this incomplete map is used, it will not cause much noise, and it will only emit a white light that can be emitted by ordinary magic tools. Sew it on the inner shirt, and when practicing, wearing the robe outside will not show any abnormality, and it will not attract the attention of ordinary people.

The speed of restoring spiritual energy several times faster allows Song Qingming to make a set of formations in three months in the past, but now he can complete one set in one month. If there are enough materials, at this speed, he can pay off the spiritual stones of his thirteenth uncle this year.

After more than a month of thinking, Song Qingming gradually saw a business opportunity. Although the incomplete map on his body did not improve his usual cultivation speed, it could help him save a lot of time for meditation and practice, and he had several times more time to concentrate on making arrays.

Normal cultivators need to spend four or five hours a day to meditate and practice to restore spiritual energy, but now he can almost complete it in one hour. The spiritual power consumed in making arrays can be restored several times faster than usual.

The key is that he has no materials on hand now. The seven or eight spiritual stones left on him are barely enough for his usual cultivation. Apart from the medium-grade flying sword purchased last time, only these two sets of arrays are worth some money in the storage bag. He has to find a way to go to the market again and use these two sets of arrays to exchange for spiritual stones to buy new talisman making materials. "

Song Qingming understood that the biggest disadvantage of a formation master was that it took too much time to make a formation. To make a low-level formation without delaying cultivation time, it usually took about three months to complete.

Excluding the cost of materials, a low-level formation could only earn four or five spirit stones. Fortunately, making a formation generally did not waste materials, and the income was relatively stable compared to the more risky talisman making, alchemy, and qi refining.

It was just that after the last attack, the elders of the clan had explained that Song Qingming could not travel far alone within a year, which also made his plan to make money a big problem. The materials used for the formation in Song Qingming's hand, It was Song Changxin who asked him to help buy it when he went to the market.

The last time he was injured, the elders of the clan were also worried that his spiritual consciousness had not recovered completely, and he might have an accident if he went out alone. For a weak immortal cultivation family like the Song family, every cultivator is very important to the family, and low-level cultivators cannot be allowed to take too many risks. Only by ensuring that young cultivators in the clan grow up can they make more contributions to the family.

But they didn't know that Song Qingming's spiritual consciousness had almost recovered. Song Qingming didn't dare to reveal the special ability of the incomplete map, nor did he dare to explain his injuries to them. He could only wait patiently for another opportunity to go to the market.