Chapter 253: Pros and Cons

"Not bad! You can see it so quickly. It seems that you haven't delayed your cultivation in these years, and you have made a lot of progress."

As Song Qingyu said, Song Qingming spent more than three months in seclusion this time, and finally broke through to the fourth level of foundation building.

"Seventh brother, don't flatter me too much. If you hadn't been there to guide me all these years, my cultivation would probably be a lot worse than it is now." Hearing Song Qingming's praise, Song Qingyu hurriedly smiled and said modestly.

After four years, although Song Qingyu's cultivation has not yet broken through. But it is not too far from the second level of foundation building. As long as there is another one or two years, her cultivation breakthrough will be a natural thing.

"That's all the help I can give you. You still have to rely on yourself in the future. You are better than me in terms of spiritual talent, and you may be able to go further than me in the future. Don't let your heart down."

"Qingyu will definitely remember the teachings of the seventh brother."

Song Qingming nodded to her and continued, "Has Uncle Six come here recently? Has anything happened in the clan?"

"Uncle Six came here once half a month ago. This year, the output of the mines in Lingyuan Mountain has decreased by 20% compared to last year. Some miners living there have nothing to do. Uncle Six wants to discuss with you to see if we should migrate some mortals back first."

"You have also lived in Lingyuan Mountain since you were a child. How do you think we should deal with this matter?" Song Qingming did not answer directly, but asked Song Qingyu, wanting to hear her opinion.

Seeing that the seventh brother seemed to want to test him, Song Qingyu quickly said, "There are already more than 3,000 mortals in Lingyuan Mountain, but the fertile land that can be cultivated in the deep mountains is very limited, and the food supply has to be provided by Funiu Mountain every year. It is indeed too much of a burden.

Now the black iron vein is almost exhausted, and the family has no other industries there except this vein. If this continues, it will be a matter of time before some mortals migrate back.

However, the family now has two mortal towns, Mujiao Town and Mugu Town. The population is already saturated. It may be difficult to settle so many mortals who have migrated back at once. Our top priority is to quickly build another mortal town to expand the living space of mortals under Funiu Mountain. "

"You are right. The family has developed too fast in the past 20 years. It is indeed time to make some preparations in advance. Let's do as you said. Hurry up and choose a suitable place to build a town. Let Uncle Six and others do it first!" Seeing that Song Qingyu still had some opinions on things, Song Qingming nodded with relief.

After Song Qingyu left, Song Qingming walked to the edge of the cliff not far in front of the cave alone, sat down quietly, and enjoyed the scenery under the mountain in the cool breeze.

After more than 200 years of changes, Funiu Mountain has changed from a dangerous place where monsters and beasts are rampant to a place where smoke rises and thousands of families are happy. This change is also the painstaking management of five generations of cultivators in the Song family.

This time, Song Qingming's breakthrough to the fourth level of foundation building was not very smooth. If he had not made up his mind to take the earth spirit dew given to him by the fire phoenix, he would not have been able to break through successfully this time.

Song Qingming had seen the earth spirit dew in the classics. This kind of natural spiritual object is only produced when the monster beast passes the golden elixir thunder tribulation. It is an extremely precious spiritual object and rarely falls into the hands of the human race.

The effect of this thing is similar to what the fire phoenix said. Generally, if a foundation-building cultivator takes it directly, it can help improve his cultivation by one level. Song Qingming originally wanted to save it for the breakthrough of the ninth level of foundation building.

The reason why Song Qingming took this thing so anxiously was that when he broke through the fourth level of foundation building, he found himself in a big bottleneck again. If he didn't use the earth spirit dew to help, he didn't know when he would have to wait to break through this bottleneck normally. It is estimated that it might not be successful in ten years.

There will not be too big bottlenecks in the first three levels of the foundation building realm. Generally, cultivators can cultivate to the third level of foundation building in about twenty years.

But when it comes to the fourth level of the middle stage of foundation building, the difficulty starts to change. Almost every level will be much more difficult. More than half of the foundation building cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation will be stuck here for a long time.

When they slowly break through to the late stage of foundation building, their life span is no longer enough, and these cultivators will completely lose the opportunity to form a pill.

Among the foundation building cultivators that Song Qingming is more familiar with, Lu Yuanfeng of Qinghefang, Gao Jinhe of the Gao family, and Wang Chengliang of the Wang family are almost the same, including Huang Shengyue and Lu Xingde, who will have the same fate in the future.

Foundation building cultivators only have a life span of 250 years. Without a lot of resources or special opportunities, few people can improve their cultivation to the ninth level of foundation building within a hundred years of their foundation building.

In the entire Qinghe County, there is only one genius, Huang Shengxin, who cultivated to the ninth level of foundation building before the age of 160 and had a chance to form a pill. It’s a pity that he was not well prepared for the formation of the pill that year and failed.

If Song Qingming wants to form a pill, he must speed up his cultivation and improve his cultivation to the ninth level of foundation building as soon as possible, so that he can give himself more opportunities to form a pill.

After discovering that his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, Song Qingming had only two choices. Either he could wait for time to pass and save the Earth Spirit Dew for the late stage of foundation building. Although this would maximize the effect of this spiritual object, it also had a disadvantage that his cultivation could not be improved now, and his own strength could only stay at this level temporarily.

Or he could decisively use the Earth Spirit Dew to break through, so that he could enter the middle stage of foundation building faster, so that his own strength could be improved immediately, but he could only rely on himself to find other spiritual objects for future breakthroughs in cultivation.

After weighing the pros and cons, Song Qingming decided to take the Earth Spirit Dew immediately to help break through his cultivation and give priority to improving his own strength. Although he also wanted to make better use of this spiritual object, his current strength was not particularly outstanding among the foundation building cultivators. Compared with the future, he still had to consider his own strength to save his life.

However, this earth spirit dew not only helped him break through the bottleneck of the fourth level of foundation building, but the extra spiritual power in it also helped him shorten the time of hard cultivation by at least five years. His current cultivation level is not too far from breaking through to the fifth level of foundation building.

The sky has gradually darkened, and various lights are slowly lit up at the foot of the mountain, adding a lot of vivid scenes to the entire Funiu Mountain. Song Qingming, who had been sitting for a long time, slowly stood up and returned to his cave.