Chapter 15 Qingyu Returns

Gao Yuyao,

Watching a wisp of pink smoke drifting away with the wind, Song Qingming couldn't help but mutter the name he just heard.

Song Qingming finally got a bottle of elixir that could increase his cultivation. After hurriedly returning to Lingyuan Mountain, he hurried back home to try the effect of the elixir.

The Yangqi Pill is a mid-grade elixir. The spiritual energy contained is almost equal to the spiritual energy that a normal mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator refines in a month. After Song Qingming refined a pill of Yangqi Pill, he clearly felt that the spiritual energy in his body had increased a little, which made him secretly happy.

The effect of this Yangqi Pill did not disappoint him. The bottle of elixir in his hand could save him almost a year of hard cultivation time. It's a pity that such an elixir can only be taken one pill a month at most.

Pills are made of plant essences, spiritual water and spiritual objects. Ordinary pills have a little bit of elixir poison and cannot be used indiscriminately. For low-level elixir like Yangqi Pill, the elixir poison takes about a month to be completely discharged from the cultivator's body.

If the pills are taken without restraint for a long time, the pill poison will accumulate in the body, which will bring great risks to the cultivator's subsequent cultivation.

This bottle of Qi-nourishing Pill is enough for him to cultivate for a year, and the extra pills can be taken to the Golden Pavilion to earn a few spiritual stones.

With the cultivation pills provided by Gao Yuyao for a long time, Song Qingming finally has a way to improve his cultivation speed. Whether it is the previous refining array or the later learning to make talismans, Song Qingming's purpose of earning spiritual stones is always for his own cultivation.

If you can't build a foundation, the life span of a Qi-refining cultivator is limited, and after a hundred years, he will eventually turn into a pile of yellow earth.

The life span of a Qi-refining cultivator is only about 120 years, and after building a foundation, the life span can be increased by two generations. In addition, you can take some second-level life-extending spiritual medicines and generally live to about 250 years old.

If a cultivator wants to build a foundation, it is best to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of 60. After the age of 60, the energy and blood in the body of a Qi-refining cultivator will gradually deplete, and the difficulty of building a foundation will become increasingly greater.

Although the foundation building is still too far away for him, if he practices normally, it is a question whether Song Qingming can practice to the late stage of Qi Refining at the age of 60. He must speed up his practice.

After practicing all night, the next morning, Song Qingming was about to go to the mine cave for inspection. Just as he walked to the edge of Crescent Lake, he suddenly felt a slight fluctuation in the mountain protection formation. A white communication talisman slowly passed through the formation and entered Lingyuan Mountain.

The four martial artists guarding the formation at the entrance of the village saw the communication talisman flying in from outside the formation. They were about to report to Song Qingming, but they saw him coming from afar. Song Qingming took the talisman and took a closer look. A smile appeared on his face, and he hurriedly ordered the martial artists guarding the formation to open the mountain protection formation.

Outside the formation, there were more than a dozen figures standing, and the first two had already arrived in front of Song Qingming.

The leader was a beautiful woman in white clothes, who looked about 30 years old, and there was a little girl in her teens beside her.

The beautiful lady is a cultivator of the first generation of the Song family. Song Changling is at the sixth level of Qi Refining and is also the only top-grade talisman maker in the Song family.

Song Changling has average talent for cultivation. She is only a cultivator with four spiritual roots, but she is quite talented in making talismans. Song Qingming had previously learned the art of making talismans and had specially gone to ask her for advice.

"The little girl has made good progress in cultivation recently, but she is a little homesick. The elder allowed her to go home for a day and asked me to bring her here and collect the black iron ore for the past six months." Song Changling said as he pointed to the little girl behind him.

The little girl next to Song Changling was Song Qingyu, who Song Qingming had sent to Funiushan a few months ago. At this moment, she has already drawn Qi into her body and has become a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.

The cultivator with three spiritual roots is indeed extraordinary. It took Song Qingming half a year to successfully enter the Dao after drawing Qi into his body. This little girl has reached this level in just three or four months. This cultivation speed is not a little bit fast.

Looking at Song Qingyu behind him, with an impatient look in his eyes, Song Changling nodded slightly at her. Seeing this, the little girl smiled and greeted Song Qingming, then ran towards her home in two steps.

"Fifth Aunt, why are you the only one coming this time?"

Song Qingming was also a little surprised when he saw the two of them. Transporting black iron ore worth forty spiritual stones was enough to arouse the greed of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators. In the past, when the Song family came to transport ore, they would at least appoint three mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators or above, so that even if they encountered ordinary late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, they could support until the family came to help even if they were defeated.

Only Song Changling came this time, and he had to take care of Song Qingyu who had just embarked on the road of cultivation. If he met the gang of bandits last time, it would definitely be dangerous.

Seeing Song Qingming was a little worried, Song Changling smiled and explained: "Last time, the Gao family took the lead in making trouble. Recently, Qinghe County has been much more peaceful. This time, the second elder is here too, waiting for us at the foot of the mountain. How can the family dare to let me come alone for such an important matter as escorting the black iron ore?"

Song Qingming took Song Changling and others to the warehouse where the ore was stored and collected the black iron ore mined in the past six months.

The dozen family martial artists brought from Funiushan this time have been to Lingyuanshan many times to transport ore and are very familiar with this place. Song Qingming called dozens of miners to help. They spent half a day moving the supplies from several carriages and then loading the black iron ore collected during this period on the carriages.

Lingyuan Mountain is located in a valley, and it is full of rugged mountains, unlike Mujiao Town, which is flat and can cultivate a large amount of farmland. The family mortals here have always been short of food supply, and they need to receive some subsidies from Mujiao Town every year.

Every time the family comes to collect ore, they will transport some daily necessities that the mortals in the mountains cannot get here to meet the needs of the mortals here. At this time, every family in Lingyuan Mountain will happily take large and small sacks and bamboo baskets to the village's threshing ground to wait for these daily necessities. It's so lively.

Song Qingyu has been practicing in Funiushan for several months. There are not many children of the same age in the mountain. She faces boring study and practice all day long. Returning to Lingyuan Mountain can be regarded as liberating her child's nature.

Not long after returning home to see her parents, Song Qingyu ran out to find her former playmates in the village. While talking about what she saw and heard in the mountains, she showed her extraordinary abilities after practicing, which stunned the eyes of the children of the same age in the village.

The strength of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage is several times that of an ordinary mortal. The little girl ran around the village with the children, showing off the few small spells she had just learned.

The flames and rain in her hands frightened the surrounding villagers and quickly took their children back home, fearing that this ignorant little fairy would accidentally hurt their children.

The little girl took a last look and found that she was the only one left by her side. She felt a little bored and could only return home alone with some sadness.

After Song Qingming came to Lingyuan Mountain, the operation of the black iron ore vein has been relatively smooth. This year's output is half a percent more than last year. Song Changling looked at the black iron ore quantity account book handed over by a martial artist and nodded to Song Qingming with satisfaction.

The black iron ore in Lingyuan Mountain can produce hundreds of pieces of ore every year. The Song family usually does not sell these black iron ores directly in the market, but first transports them to Funiushan Mountain, and then the family refiners make them into various magical instruments, and then sell them in the family store in Qinghefang, so that the value of the original black iron ore can be doubled.

It was just after noon, and after everyone had their meal, they were ready to return, and the little girl also reluctantly left her parents.

Song Changling led everyone slowly down Lingyuan Mountain.