Chapter 426 Support
Seeing Song Qingming's gaze towards him, Song Qingshi, whose hair and beard had already turned white, slowly stood up and nodded, admitting that he knew about this matter, without saying much.
Song Qingming took the blue sword in his hand, observed it carefully again, and then said with a serious face:
"Although my weapon refining level is not very good, it can be seen that the level of this magic weapon is very close to the second-level magic weapon. Since Xinde's weapon refining level has reached this level, why didn't you arrange for the family to support him again?"
Song Qingshi nodded calmly and said: "Xinde is really not easy. Although his spiritual roots are not very good and his cultivation talent is average, he does have some talent for weapon refining and has made a lot of efforts to study it.
Over the years, he has helped many cultivators in the family refine magic tools, and his level of refining tools is now the best in the family. Logically speaking, the family should support him. I, as an elder, neglected this matter. Qingming, since you already know about this, just make a decision on how to deal with it! "
"Patriarch, in the past few years, the family's spiritual veins were improved, and almost the entire Tibetan Gold Pavilion was emptied. We also owed a lot of spiritual stones to the cultivators in the family. My eldest brother had no choice but to let Xinde down. Don't blame him." Song Qingsi stood up and explained for Song Qingshi with an anxious look on his face.
Over the years, Song Qingming, the patriarch, has been in seclusion for many years. Most of the affairs of the family have been handed over to several elders. Among them, his eldest brother Song Qingshi has helped him the most and is Song Qingming's right-hand man in managing the family.
Since Song Qingshi took over the hand of his sixth uncle Song Changfeng and became the general manager of family affairs, the burden on his shoulders has always been the biggest among all the cultivators in the Song family. Song Qingming is naturally very clear about this.
This time, after Song Qingming came back, he happened to hear on the mountain that Song Xinde was borrowing spirit stones from other clansmen. After asking him carefully, he learned about his deeds over the years.
Song Xinde is the fifth cultivator of the new generation of the Song family. He is an ordinary four-spiritual root cultivator. He is almost seventy years old and has just cultivated to the seventh level of Qi Refining. A cultivator with ordinary cultivation talent like him has almost no hope of building a foundation in the Song family.
Because he knew early on that his cultivation talent was poor, Song Xinde began to slack off on his own cultivation after breaking through the middle stage of Qi Refining. Most of his energy was spent on the way of refining instruments that he liked since childhood.
Although his own cultivation talent is average, Song Xinde has some talent for refining instruments. In recent years, under the policy of Song Qingming encouraging everyone to practice immortal cultivation skills, his refining level has been improved to the level of the first-class upper grade more than 20 years ago.
However, because of his own low cultivation level, Song Xinde's refining level can only reach the first-class upper grade. It would be a bit difficult to improve it to the second-class lower grade refiner.
If Song Xinde had only focused on refining first-level magic tools throughout his life, as the best refiner of the Song family, he would not be rich, but he would never be so poor that he needed to borrow spirit stones from his clan members everywhere.
The reason why it became like this was that Song Xinde was unwilling to refine only first-level magic tools for his whole life, and wanted to break through to become a second-level refiner. Most of his spirit stones in recent years were spent on this.
At the beginning, in order to promote Song Qingming's policy of attaching importance to the family cultivators' improvement of their cultivation skills, Song Qingshi did support Song Xinde with some materials and spiritual objects. However, after he failed several times in succession, other cultivators in the family began to have many opinions about wasting those precious spiritual objects on Song Xinde.
It just so happened that Song Qingming announced that he would upgrade the family's spiritual veins soon, and the spirit stones in the family's gold storage pavilion became very tight. Song Qingshi had no choice but to stop supporting Song Xinde's spiritual material support.
But Song Xinde himself was not willing to fail. After the family stopped supporting him, Song Xinde relied on his own savings and borrowed spirit stones from his brothers and friends. After several attempts to refine a second-level magic weapon, he really refined a somewhat defective second-level flying sword a few years ago.
However, although he barely refined this second-level flying sword, it was only a defective product. If he took it to the market, he might not even be able to exchange it for the spirit stones to buy materials. Although Song Qingshi heard about it afterwards, he didn't care too much at the time.
Although the Song family itself does not have a second-level refiner, the Huang family and the Gao family in Qinghe County both have second-level refiners. The Song family now has a good relationship with them. If they want to refine a second-level magic weapon, they only need to spend some spirit stones to ask them for help, which is not a troublesome thing.
However, although Song Qingshi handled the matter well, Song Qingming didn't think so in his heart. Although the family is developing very rapidly now, in fact, the foundation in all aspects is still much worse than those old-fashioned immortal families.
For the foundation-building immortal family like the Huang family, which has been passed down for thousands of years, common immortal cultivation skills such as alchemy, talisman making, formation, and weapon refining have been completely inherited at level 2 or above.
Therefore, even if the older generation of cultivators in their family who mastered level 2 immortal cultivation skills passed away, the new generation of cultivators could easily cultivate new talents in this area by relying on the inheritance left by the family, and there would not be a gap easily.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now the Song family has Song Qingming, a second-level talisman maker and array master. After Song Qingming's compilation of the second-level inheritance of talisman making and array formation, the family's gold storage pavilion has a relatively complete one, and many young cultivators will develop more smoothly in this direction.
There has never been a cultivator who can break through to the second level in the alchemy and weapon refining clan. These two have always been what Song Qingming wants to cultivate. As long as he can cultivate a second-level weapon refiner to leave a legacy, even if it requires more cost, Song Qingming is willing.
"Brother, since Xinde has been able to refine this kind of magic weapon, it seems that this kid is indeed confident of breaking through to the second-level refiner. Then give him a few more chances. If anyone talks nonsense, let him come directly to the top of the mountain to find me, the clan leader.
Although the family has more cultivators now, the inheritance of various immortal cultivation skills is still relatively weak. No matter what others have, it is not as convenient as having it in your own family. As long as a second-level refiner can be cultivated, the family should support him as much as possible."
Hearing what Song Qingming said, Song Qingshi immediately nodded and said:
"What the clan leader said is right. I have also neglected this aspect. Most of my affairs have now been handed over to Qingsi. Let me handle Xinde's breakthrough to the second-level refiner. It's just right that I can have a good rest.
Although my energy is not as good as before, I am still confident that I can do this. Don't worry, Qingming."