Chapter 499: Golden Core Level 2

Tuoyun Mountain in the northwest of Weiguo.

As the smoke of the monster riots slowly dissipated, the number of cultivators near the Fuyun Mountains gradually increased. Many of the casual cultivators who temporarily fled to the south of Weiguo for refuge have slowly returned to the north.

Since Chen Jinliang and Xiaoyao Sect reached an agreement more than 30 years ago, it didn't take long for the two sides to rebuild a larger new market on the basis of the original market in Tuoyun Mountain.

This market stretches from Jinyun Pavilion to the west for an entire mountain ridge. Although its size is not as large as Guiyunfang and Yangshanfang, it is already a rare large market in Weiguo, attracting countless casual cultivators in the north of Weiguo to buy and sell spiritual objects.

On Tuoyunfang Street, a teenager cleverly shuttled through the dense crowd and walked into a shop selling elixirs with ease. Then he carefully opened the small cloth bag on his waist, took out two spiritual stones from it and placed them in front of the shop owner.

"Five rejuvenation pills again. Has your mother's injury gotten better recently?" The shopkeeper of the medicine shop looked at the spiritual stones on the table and asked the boy with concern.

The boy, who still looked very young, curled his lips and did not answer directly, but just nodded slightly.

A hint of disappointment appeared on the boy's face. The shopkeeper sighed softly, took out a white porcelain bottle from the back counter, poured out five yellow pills, counted them, and took out an empty bottle to fill the pills and handed it to the boy.

"There are many people on the street, don't run too fast, and make sure to keep the pills."

"Thank you, Uncle Liu, I know!" After taking the pills in the bottle, the boy bowed slightly and then walked out of the shop quickly.

After coming out of the market, the boy walked a long way and finally came to a cave at the foot of the mountain where a Tuoyun Mountain cultivator had been renting for many years.

Although this cave looks simple, it is quite spacious inside. There are two separate rooms on both sides. On the bed in one of the rooms, there is a pale, thin and haggard woman lying.

"Mother, I have bought the rejuvenation pill. I will put it on the table for you. I will go to cook first."

"Don't worry, Yuan Hao, come here and I want to talk to you." Hearing the voice of the young man, the woman lying on the bed sat up sideways and waved to the young man beside her with a smile.

Hearing his mother's call, the young man quickly put down the spiritual rice he had just picked up, smiled and came to the bed and leaned against his mother.

Looking at the young boy in front of her, the woman coughed a few times and slowly said, "Yuan Hao, there are some things that mother didn't want to tell you so early, but you have spiritual roots, and sooner or later you will have to go your own way. I can't be so selfish and keep you by my side, delaying your future path."

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On the top of Funiu Mountain, one day, the top of the mountain suddenly overflowed with spiritual light, and even the white clouds passing by were illuminated into gold.

Song Qingyu, who was meditating in the cave, felt the strangeness in the spiritual energy beside him, opened his eyes and showed a hint of surprise, and immediately ended his retreat and walked out of his cave.

When Song Qingyu arrived at the east side of the top of Funiu Mountain, a figure had already arrived here. After seeing Song Qingyu coming over, Song Yuanfang hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, saying, "I just heard that someone on the mountain discovered a spiritual light. I came up to take a look and found that it came from the cave of Uncle Qi."

"It seems that Brother Qi has reached a critical moment in his retreat. Yuanfang, go and ask someone to activate the mountain protection formation and ask the law enforcement team to guard the mountain gate. From now on, everyone on the mountain can only enter but not leave, and is not allowed to approach the top of the mountain or talk about this matter casually."

After hearing Song Qingyu's instructions, Song Yuanfang responded and hurriedly left the place. After a while, the mountain protection formation on Funiu Mountain immediately lit up.

After half a day, the rosy glow on the top of Funiu Mountain finally slowly dissipated. After Song Qingyu, who was sitting on the top of the mountain, discovered this situation, she immediately came to Song Qingming's cave. Just when she took out the sound transmission talisman and wanted to send it in, the restriction at the entrance of the cave suddenly opened from the inside, and Song Qingming, with a smile on his face, strode out from inside.

"Seventh brother, you look so happy. You have been in seclusion for such a long time this time. You must have made a breakthrough in your cultivation, right?" Song Qingyu said, put away the sound transmission talisman in his hand, and walked slowly towards Song Qingming.

"I have been in seclusion for so long. Finally, I have not wasted more than two years. Today I finally gained something. The time of Jindan cultivation is really unpredictable. I didn't expect that I would be in seclusion for so long just to break through a small realm." Song Qingming nodded slightly and smiled.

After more than two years of seclusion, Song Qingming finally got what he wanted. With the help of "Bailu Pill", he successfully broke through the second level of Jindan. His cultivation can be regarded as a small step forward in the realm of Jindan.

The effect of the third-level middle-grade pill is very domineering. The reason why Song Qingming spent so long in seclusion this time to break through was that most of the time was spent on refining "Bailu Pill". This step alone took Song Qingming nearly a year to completely absorb and refine all the medicinal power of the pill into his body.

This "Bailu Pill" almost instantly increased Song Qingming's mana by more than ten years. After refining more than a dozen medium-grade spirit stones, it didn't take long for Song Qingming's mana to successfully break through the realm and enter the second level of the Golden Core. This retreat breakthrough was actually quite smooth overall.

"Has Yuan Xue started to retreat to build her foundation? My breakthrough just now has no effect on her, right?" After walking out of the cave, Song Qingming immediately felt the spiritual energy outside. It seemed that there was something strange about his breakthrough this time, so he quickly asked.

"Don't worry, Seventh Brother. Yuan Xue is not in retreat in the mountain. I asked her to go to Jingyuan Mountain. She started retreat three months ago. Yuan Li is there to protect her."

"Well! Fortunately, you thought it through and asked her to go to Jingyuan Mountain in advance. I only know now that the breakthrough of the Jindan stage will have such a big impact. The next time I retreat, the family should make more preparations and notify those cultivators who are eager to retreat and break through to go to other spiritual places of the family to practice first." Song Qingming smiled and nodded.

"The spiritual energy in Funiu Mountain is still not sufficient. Last year, I discussed with Yuan Fang and others, and now some of the cultivators have been moved to Jingyuan Mountain. Now there are many spiritual fields there, which can accommodate many cultivators."

"I have been in seclusion for a long time, and I just want to go out for a walk. Qingyu, you can go to Jingyuan Mountain with me. Yuanxue has been in seclusion for three months and can already see some situations."

After chatting with Song Qingyu for a few words, Song Qingming directly set up the second-level flying boat on his body. Not long after, the two arrived at Jingyuan Mountain, located in the southwest of Funiu Mountain.

After the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan, the Song family's sphere of influence has expanded to the entire Qinghe and Pingyang counties. In these two counties, except for the market and mines currently managed by Xiaoyao Sect, all other spiritual veins are nominally under the jurisdiction of the Song family.

Jingyuan Mountain is also a second-level spiritual vein, very close to Funiu Mountain, less than two hundred miles away, and was the spiritual mountain of the Liu family in Qinghe County.

More than a hundred years ago, the Liu family was directly destroyed by Xiaoyao Sect because of the exposure of the water spirit fruit tree. Jingyuan Mountain also became a land without an owner. Xiaoyao Sect directly assigned this second-level spiritual vein to Qinghefang for management.

For Jingyuan Mountain, a second-level inferior spiritual vein, many immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County have coveted it for a long time in the past hundred years. However, Lu Yuanfeng, a foundation-building cultivator of Xiaoyao Sect who managed Qinghefang at that time, was reprimanded by the sect because of the Liu family's affairs. He hated Jingyuan Mountain very much.

In order to warn other immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County, Lu Yuanfeng simply abandoned the spiritual vein of Jingyuan Mountain. Even if many immortal cultivation families who intended to occupy this spiritual mountain went to Qinghefang to find Lu Yuanfeng to purchase Jingyuan Mountain, they were directly rejected by him. Over time, no one ever thought of taking Jingyuan Mountain again.

Until a hundred years later, because Song Qingming succeeded in forming a golden elixir, the Song family was promoted to the Golden Elixir Immortal Clan. Xiaoyao Sect divided the entire Qinghe County into the territory of the Song family. In order to please Song Qingming, the guest elder of the sect, Feng De, who managed Qinghefang, simply handed over all the ownerless spiritual veins in Qinghefang to the Song family, including the second-level inferior spiritual vein of Jingyuan Mountain.

Compared with other messy spiritual veins in Qinghe County, Jingyuan Mountain not only has a spiritual vein quality of second level, but is also very close to the Song family's Funiushan Mountain, which is a very good gift for the Song family.

Because more than a hundred years have passed, the spiritual fields on the Jingyuan Mountain spiritual vein are now all abandoned, and many low-level monsters are now gathered on the mountain, which has become a deserted place.

After obtaining the Jingyuan Mountain spiritual vein, the Song family immediately organized a monster hunting team. Under the leadership of the foundation-building elder Song Yuanli, the entire spiritual mountain was cleaned up. Then Song Qingming personally set up a second-level mountain protection formation on Jingyuan Mountain.

After more than ten years of operation by the Song family, the Song family has now stationed dozens of cultivators here, and has gradually migrated tens of thousands of mortals here. The current Jingyuan Mountain has long since recovered its former population, and is no worse than when the Liu family was here a hundred years ago.

As soon as they arrived at the foot of Jingyuan Mountain, Song Yuanli, who had received the news and was waiting here, immediately came to greet them and quickly led Song Qingming and the others to a cave on the top of the mountain.

After scanning the cave, Song Qingming said happily: "It seems that the spiritual energy fluctuations near the cave are very stable. Yuan Xue should have successfully passed the stage of body forging. It seems that she is very likely to succeed in building her foundation this time."

"Seventh brother, this is really great!"

Hearing Song Qingming say this, Song Qingyu and Song Yuanli on the side also showed a trace of joy on their faces. The cultivation of the two of them is only at the foundation building stage, and their perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is far less sensitive than that of Song Qingming, a Jindan cultivator.