Chapter 197 The Patriarch's Retreat

Before leaving Tiandan Pavilion, Song Qingming specifically asked when the Tiandan League auction would be held again, wanting to see if he could have a chance to sell some of the remaining thousand-year spiritual milk in his hands at the Tiandan League auction.

Unfortunately, Deng Zhongkuo told him that the Tiandan League auction was generally held only once a year, and it happened to have just been held a few months ago. If Song Qingming wanted to participate, he could only wait until next year to see.

Song Qingming dared not sell the thousand-year spiritual milk, which was a very precious spiritual object, in the market casually. Once someone was eyeing it, I'm afraid those Jindan ancestors would be tempted. Now he wanted to deal with it inconspicuously, and he could only hope for the Tiandan League auction, a place that paid attention to protecting customer information.

Fortunately, after selling this batch of spiritual medicines, he was not so anxious to use the spiritual stones at present. As long as he could sell it safely, waiting for a while would not have any impact on him.

Next, Song Qingming went to several pharmacies and finally sold all the remaining spiritual medicines in his hand, and exchanged them for nearly two thousand spiritual stones.

Seeing that there were more and more spiritual stones in the storage bag on his waist, Song Qingming was satisfied and slowly walked towards the gate of the market, ready to return to Qinghe County.

Foundation-building cultivators fly on swords, coming and going quickly. It took less than ten days for Song Qingming to return to Funiu Mountain from Yangshanfang.

After handing the marrow cleansing pill to Song Changfeng, Song Qingming spent some time to compile some foundation-building experiences he had when he was building his foundation and some foundation-building experiences told to him by Xu Ziyan into a foundation-building experience book, and gave it to his sixth uncle Song Changfeng, hoping that it would be of some help to him.

Although there were already two auxiliary foundation-building spiritual pills, Song Qingming knew very well that as long as there was no foundation-building pill, it would be very dangerous for cultivators to force their foundation-building.

In the two hundred years of the Song family's history, in addition to Song Changfeng, there was another elder of the Song family who had taken this step a hundred years ago. This elder of the Song family also prepared an auxiliary elixir at that time, but unfortunately he failed in the end. A few months later, he failed to build his foundation and sat in his cave directly, without even leaving a last word.

At that time, the power of the Song family was much weaker than it is now. The sudden loss of a strong man at the peak of Qi Refining also hit the entire Song family for a time, attracting many scattered cultivators around to spy on the spiritual land of Funiu Mountain.

Fortunately, the entire Song family united as one, and after repelling several attempts by scattered cultivators, they overcame the difficulties and did not lose the ancestral land of Funiu Mountain. Otherwise, the Song family of Funiu Mountain might have disappeared in the long history of Qinghe County.

Since then, more than a hundred years later, no one in the Song family who later cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining dared to force the foundation.

First, the risk of forcibly building a foundation without a foundation pill is too great. If you are not careful, you will die immediately. This is a choice that leaves no way out for yourself. To dare to take this step, the cultivator needs to be determined to die.

Secondly, every cultivator in the Song family who can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining and have the opportunity to build a foundation is very important to the entire family. Once such a pillar is easily lost, the Song family is very likely to suffer a catastrophe, which also adds a little worry to them when making such a choice.

As the patriarch of this generation of the Song family, Song Changfeng made this choice now, partly because after Song Qingming built his foundation, his concerns in this regard were greatly reduced.

As long as Song Qingming, the foundation ancestor, does not fall, even if the Song family loses a patriarch like him who has trained at the ninth level of Qi Refining, the impact on the entire family will not be too great.

Since Song Qingming established his foundation, all the cultivators in the Song family have been greatly encouraged. In the past few years, not only the sixth uncle Song Changfeng has taken this step, but also several people in the Song family who have reached the ninth level of Qi Refining and are qualified to establish their foundation, including the ninth uncle Song Changxin and the second sister Song Qingwan, have more or less had some ideas of forced foundation building in their hearts.

After all, outsiders may not know, but they are very clear that Song Qingming's qualifications in the Song family were also very ordinary. He, a person with four spiritual roots, can finally succeed in establishing his foundation, which greatly reduces the estimation of the difficulty of foundation building by the Song family.

What they don't know is that when Song Qingming established his foundation, he not only had auxiliary spiritual pills such as the Marrow Cleansing Pill, but also used two foundation-building pills to succeed in the end.

The clan members underestimated the difficulty of foundation building, and Song Qingming actually began to have some concerns in his heart. Even if the news of the failure of the third brother Song Qingze's foundation building had spread to Funiu Mountain, everyone's views on this point did not change much.

However, for this reason, the Song family cultivators have generally practiced harder than before in recent years, and several late-stage Qi-refining cultivators have been added. Song Qingming is very pleased about this.

After the clan leader Song Changfeng went into seclusion to build his foundation, all the affairs of the clan fell on Song Qingming's head, which made him a little busy in Funiu Mountain, and he didn't even have time to go shopping in Qinghefang.

After just over a month of busy work, Funiu Mountain welcomed another unexpected guest, which made Song Qingming, who had already started to have a headache, smile. This person was Shi Chun, his old acquaintance in Guiyunfang.

After learning about Shi Chun's arrival, Song Qingming, who happened to be drawing talismans in the cave, heard the news and happily threw the unfinished talismans in his hand aside, and hurried down the mountain to greet him in person.

Shi Chun was also very surprised to see Song Qingming, the senior foundation-building cultivator, personally come out to greet him. After all, he was just an ordinary late-stage Qi-refining cultivator, and he didn't have any powerful cultivation skills. He didn't expect Song Qingming to value him so much.

In the cultivation world, the various cultivators have strict hierarchies. It is rare to see someone who can still care about an ordinary Qi-refining friend after building a foundation. On that day in the Floating Cloud Mountains, Song Qingming was able to put aside his status and take the initiative to help. To be honest, this was already a rare thing in Shi Chun's eyes. This was also the biggest reason why he finally made up his mind to come and seek refuge with Song Qingming in the past few months.

In general, Qi-refining cultivation families are too weak and can only trust their own bloodline. They will not actively recruit outside cultivators into the family, so as to avoid being overwhelmed by outside cultivators, or causing unwarranted troubles due to poor judgment.

Only when the foundation-building family becomes powerful will it actively absorb some outside cultivators with some skills to serve as guest officials in the family to help manage the family industry.

After Song Qingming established his foundation, the Song family also recruited several independent cultivators with clean backgrounds like Li Quan in the market to help manage several shops in Qinghefang.

Before this, the Song family had just become a foundation-building family, and there were not many industries under their name. Their own cultivators could still handle it. Since they started to operate the Duanliu Mountain Copper Mine with the Huang family, the Song family sent a lot of cultivators to help garrison there. The Funiu Mountain side suddenly became much emptier. Shi Chun's arrival was indeed at the right time.