Chapter 414: Sneaky
Compared with the huge changes in the succession of the old and new in the Huang family, the Gao family has been similar to the Song family in recent years, and has not undergone much change.
After Gao Yubai took over as the patriarch, he successfully broke through to the seventh level of foundation building a few years ago. The path of the new Gao family patriarch is indeed smoother than that of the older generation Gao Jinhe. If nothing unexpected happens, Gao Yubai will have the opportunity to cultivate to the peak of foundation building and reach the stage of forming a pill in the future.
Although the overall strength of the Gao family has always been inferior to that of the Huang family, with only one foundation building cultivator left, the talents of the foundation building cultivators in recent generations are very good. Whether it is Gao Jinhe who had dealt with Song Qingming in the past, or the previous patriarch who disappeared a hundred years ago, they all cultivated to the late stage of foundation building before they passed away.
Moreover, the Gao family has Gao Yuyao in Xiaoyao Sect, who is expected to form a pill. If the luck is good and Gao Yuyao succeeds in forming a pill, the Gao family will have the hope of replacing the Huang family and sitting on the throne of the first immortal cultivation family in Qinghe County in the future.
The Lu family has been increasingly turbulent in recent years. Lu Xingde is a cultivator of the same generation as Huang Shengyue. He has reached the age of 200 but has not yet reached the late stage of foundation building. He is considered a cultivator who has exhausted his potential in this life.
Clan leader Lu Xingde's path was not smooth and he could not break through to the late stage of foundation building. The Lu family finally had to use the family's heritage and spent a lot of effort to exchange for a foundation building pill from Xiaoyao Sect. As a result, the foundation building seed selected by the Lu family was the same as Song Xintang's, and in the end, it failed to successfully build the foundation.
The situation of the Lu family is getting worse and worse now. The old patriarch Lu Xingde has a short life span and has not been able to cultivate new foundation building cultivators. Even the Lu family cultivators in Qinghefang are now beginning to have a trace of sadness on their faces.
For a foundation building family like the Lu family, which has a shallow heritage, once there is no foundation building cultivator in the family, it is basically a fat piece of meat in the eyes of surrounding families and other forces. What awaits them is naturally the family's step-by-step decline.
Overall, although there have been some changes in Qinghe County over the past decade, the changes are not very big. Although the Huang family has lost Huang Shengxin, the patriarch at the peak of foundation building, the Huang family, which has three foundation building cultivators, is still the number one immortal cultivation family in Qinghe County.
Although many things have happened in Qinghe County in recent years, the most talked about by the casual cultivators in Qinghefang is another major event that has shocked the entire northern immortal cultivation world of Weiguo.
Just three years ago, another golden elixir cultivator was born in Tuoyun Mountain, thousands of miles away. This person is Feng Yangde, the fourth disciple of Chen Jinliang.
Compared with the celestial phenomenon caused by Chen Xuanxin's formation of the elixir in Xiaoyao Sect, there seems to be no big movement in Tuoyun Mountain this time. There are also rumors that Feng Yangde's elixir formation was not actually on Tuoyun Mountain. Chen Jinliang took him to find a place outside to form the elixir before returning to Tuoyun Mountain.
After the battle of Dahei Mountain, Song Qingming and Fang Wuqian had heard him mention this when they were chatting. In addition, it is rumored that Feng Yangde's formation of the elixir this time did not cause too much of a strange phenomenon in the world. Song Qingming estimated that Feng Yangde's success in forming the elixir this time was most likely the same as what Fang Wuqian said back then, that is, using the inner elixir of the black flame tiger to form the outer elixir.
On Tuoyun Mountain, Chen Jinliang was so eager to help Feng Yangde form the outer elixir. It seems that this Jindan ancestor's life span is indeed running out, and he will not be able to survive until the next time when the monster beasts in the northern border riot. The reason why Feng Yangde was chosen to refine the outer elixir is actually a helpless thing.
Among the several disciples under the seat of Patriarch Chen, the one who has the most hope of forming the elixir is actually the eighth disciple Zhang Rong. This person's talent for cultivation is not inferior to that of Patriarch Chen in the past. If he is given more time and with the support of Patriarch Chen, Zhang Rong does have a great hope of successfully forming the elixir.
Although the third disciple Liang Wenxu has reached the ninth level of foundation building, his life span is not enough, and he is not suitable for refining the outer elixir of monster beasts. The eighth disciple Zhang Rong is also a cultivator with extraordinary talent. Under normal circumstances, he will not choose to take the path of outer elixir. The only one left who is most suitable for refining demon pills is the fourth disciple Feng Yangde, which is why Fang Wuqian was so sure that Feng Yangde would form a pill within ten years.
Although Feng Yangde has now entered the golden pill realm, he is only a fake pill cultivator who takes the outer pill path. Compared with the strength of Chen Laozu, there is a huge difference. It is really hard to say whether the Tuoyun Mountain cultivators can still defend this sacred mountain in the future.
No matter what fate Tuoyun Mountain thousands of miles away will face in the future, these are also decades later. The most important thing for Song Qingming now is to find a way to improve his cultivation as soon as possible and strive to advance to the ninth level of foundation building as soon as possible.
Less than two years after the battle of Dahei Mountain, Chen Jinliang sent his sixth disciple Lin Yutang to deliver the Jade Dust Pill promised to Song Qingming and others to Funiushan.
Song Qingming would not doubt the credibility of this old man Chen, but he did not expect that before he could take it, the other party would personally deliver the spiritual object to Qinghe County from a long distance, which really surprised him.
After obtaining the Jade Dust Pill, a pill that can assist in forming a golden elixir, Song Qingming stepped up his cultivation, hoping to break through the bottleneck of forming a golden elixir as soon as possible.
Although Song Qingming's life span is still relatively sufficient now, the sooner a cultivator forms a golden elixir, the better. Among the more than a dozen golden elixir cultivators in the entire Wei Kingdom, more than half of them formed a golden elixir before the age of 120. It is indeed very rare for someone like Chen Xuanxin to form a golden elixir at the age of nearly 200.
No matter what, as long as he could reach the Jindan realm earlier, even if he failed to form a Jindan for the first time, he would still have a chance to form a Jindan next time. Song Qingming was very clear about this.
After making up his mind, Song Qingming left a message to his elder brother Song Qingshi, and then quietly left Funiu Mountain alone and went south.
This time he was going to Yangshanfang again. It was the only place in the whole Wei State where it was easier to buy high-quality pills such as Wangyue Pill. Song Qingming made up his mind this time and must find a way to get one, otherwise he would not return to Funiu Mountain for the time being.
Not long after Song Qingming set out, a dozen monks were surrounding two mysterious monks in black robes beside a small hill outside a market thousands of miles away in the east.
"You two have been sneaking around the market for several days. We finally caught you today. Tell us who you are and what you are doing here?"
Hearing the threat from the middle-aged man who was the leader of the dozen people surrounding them, the two men in black robes did not show any fear, but instead laughed contemptuously.
"Don't worry about what we are here for. As for our identities, haha! You will know in a moment."