Chapter 413: Failure at the Edge of Success

After chatting with Song Qingshi for a few words, Song Qingming began to ask about what happened in the clan during his six months of seclusion.

Since Song Qingming succeeded the position of clan leader, Song Qingshi and several clan elders have been basically concerned about the trivial matters of the family for decades. Only when they encounter some difficult decisions will they come to the top of the mountain to ask for the opinions of Song Qingming, the clan leader.

However, although Song Qingming, the clan leader, does not care much about specific matters, he still calls Song Qingshi, the clan elder, to talk to him every few months to learn about some recent events in the family.

"You have been in seclusion for half a year recently, and the clan is still safe and nothing major has happened. It's just that Baiyang Mountain was harassed by a group of monsters for a few days last month. Xintang has taken the law enforcement team to repel the monsters, but in order to prevent the monsters from coming back, it is estimated that they will stay there for a while. This child is diligent in his work. With him around, nothing major will happen unless we encounter a level 2 monster."

"Since the monsters have been repelled, let's replace him with someone else. In recent years, Xintang has been carrying out family missions everywhere, and even his cultivation has been neglected. Let him rest for a while. If he refuses to come back, you can say that it was my order." Hearing Song Qingshi mention Song Xintang, Song Qingming sighed slightly with a calm face.

After seeing off his elder brother Song Qingshi, Song Qingming came alone to the boulder that Song Qingyu liked the most at the beginning, looking at the few smoke from cooking at the foot of the mountain.

With the spirit gathering array set up by Song Qingming ten years ago, after consuming nearly 20,000 spirit stones, the spirit vein of Funiu Mountain was successfully upgraded to the second-level middle grade, and the mountain is now more majestic than it was more than a decade ago.

With the continuous development and growth of the family, the number of Song family cultivators has increased compared to more than a decade ago. The promotion of the spirit vein of Funiu Mountain has finally temporarily met the needs of the Song family cultivators for daily cultivation, and also made Song Qingming, a late-stage foundation-building cultivator, no longer troubled by insufficient spiritual energy during cultivation.

Since Song Qingyu and his friends left, the Song family, which has been relatively peaceful for more than ten years, has also experienced several major events.

In addition to the upgrade of the spirit vein, the biggest event is Song Xintang's impact on the foundation-building realm.

Half a year after obtaining the foundation-building pill, Song Xintang, who had prepared everything, began to retreat to impact the foundation-building stage. In order to give him a place with sufficient spiritual energy, Song Qingming also specially gave him his cave.

Although he had prepared his own cultivation base and auxiliary spiritual medicine for this foundation building, and Song Qingming personally taught him a lot of foundation building experience before he went into seclusion, Song Xintang still failed in his attempt to reach the foundation building realm this time, and walked out of Song Qingming's cave with a disappointed look on his face.

For a cultivator with four spiritual roots like Song Xintang, even with the assistance of foundation building pills, the chance of success in foundation building is less than 40%, which Song Qingming was very clear about. Therefore, after Song Qingming knew that Song Xintang had failed in foundation building, he did not blame him, but patiently comforted him.

When Song Qingming decided to give the foundation building pill to Song Xintang, he was prepared in his heart. No matter who he gave the foundation building pill to, it was impossible to guarantee that he would succeed in building the foundation 100%. The foundation building matter mainly depends on the cultivator himself.

Even when Song Qingyu was building her foundation, Song Qingming's expectations for her were only this high. In addition to her own efforts, Song Qingyu was able to successfully build her foundation. In addition, there was also a little favor from God to the Song family. However, whether it is an individual or a family, luck cannot always be on the side of the Song family. Song Xintang's failure to build his foundation just proved this point.

However, although the family decided to give the foundation-building pill to Song Xintang after many elders of the family discussed it, and Song Qingming and other family elders did not blame him openly afterwards, Song Xintang himself seemed to have not walked out of the shadow of the failure of building his foundation in the past ten years.

Especially after the failure of building his foundation, his thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong, who loved him very much, passed away. Song Xintang felt more and more guilty in his heart, and felt sorry for the support of these elders in the family. In the past few years, he has been working hard to carry out family tasks and rarely stayed in Funiu Mountain to practice.

In recent years, many elders, including Song Qingshi, have repeatedly persuaded and enlightened Song Xintang, but with little effect, which made him gradually close his heart.

Song Qingming did not intervene too much in this matter. He was chosen by the family to support the foundation building, but he failed in the end. In just one year, Song Xintang experienced such ups and downs, which really put a lot of pressure on him. It is difficult for others to comfort and persuade him to really get out of the shadow in his heart. He still needs to let it go in his heart in the future to completely get out of it.

In addition to the two major events that happened in the Song family over the years, other places have changed a lot. The family as a whole is still developing in a good direction step by step.

More than a decade has passed, and the other major foundation building families in Qinghe County have also undergone a lot of changes.

The biggest thing that happened to the Huang family in Taiyuan Mountain was naturally that Huang Shengxin began to close the death gate to form the elixir more than a decade ago. However, in the end, this rare cultivation genius in Qinghe County in a hundred years finally spent his whole life and failed. He did not get out of the elixir formation step. A few years ago, he was found to have passed away in his own cave. The head of the Huang family has now been officially succeeded by Huang Shengyue.

In addition, ten years ago, Qinghe County had another foundation-building cultivator. This person was a cultivator of the younger generation of the Huang family, named Huang Mengde.

Huang Mengde was the one with the best spiritual root talent among the young cultivators of the Huang family. He was less than 40 years old when he successfully built his foundation. His cultivation talent was better than that of his predecessor Huang Sibo.

Song Qingming was also a little surprised when he learned that another cultivator of the Huang family had built his foundation. At the Tuoyun Mountain Trade Fair that year, Huang Shengxin did exchange for a precious spiritual object in the end, but Song Qingming, who was traveling with him, didn't know what the Huang family had exchanged for at that time. He always thought that he, who was still trying to break through the Jindan realm at that time, must have wanted to exchange for spiritual objects that were useful for Jindan.

It was not until the news of Huang Mengde's foundation-building reached Funiushan that Song Qingming suddenly remembered this matter. The Huang family was able to successfully build another foundation in such a short time. The foundation-building pill was most likely from the Tuoyun Mountain Trade Fair a few years ago. Now it seems that Song Qingming was a little wrong at the beginning.

As a great family of immortal cultivators with a history of thousands of years, it is not surprising that the Huang family can produce a spiritual object to exchange for the foundation-building pill.

Although the two older generation cultivators Huang Shengxin and Huang Shengyue have not had smooth journeys in recent years, the younger generation of cultivators seem to have much better luck. Huang Sibo and Huang Mengde have successfully built their foundations one after another, which can be regarded as a fresh blood for the Huang family, which was originally in a period of transition.