Chapter 6 Lingyuan Mountain

After leaving Mujiao Town, he used a light body technique to rush eastward. He was already in the middle stage of Qi Refining, and now he was much faster than in the early stage of Qi Refining. He arrived at the foot of Lingyuan Mountain in just half an hour.

Lingyuan Mountain is only more than 100 feet high, which is not so conspicuous compared to the 600-foot-high Funiushan Mountain. Song Qingming came to a place on the mountain covered with dense fog and handed a token to the formation in the fog. Soon, a spell fluctuation came from the formation, and then the fog in the formation gradually dissipated, and a figure came out.

"Second sister, the fourth elder arranged for me to come here to guard for you"

"Xiaoqi, I didn't expect it was you who came. Yesterday, Uncle Jiu said you were coming, but I didn't believe it"

A woman in white stood in front of her, with her hair tied up and silk coiled. It was Song Qingwan, the second in the Qing generation of the Song family, who was also in the fourth level of Qi Refining.

There are now nine people in the Qing generation of the Song family. Except for the third brother Song Qingze, who has outstanding cultivation, the other eight have similar talents. They are all four or five spiritual root cultivators, so the cultivation realms of the Qing generation cultivators are not much different now.

For people with the same spiritual root aptitude, the difference in cultivation in the early stage is generally not too big. Only those geniuses with outstanding spiritual roots can quickly open up the gap with ordinary cultivators like them in cultivation.

The third brother Song Qingze is the one with the highest cultivation talent among the cultivators of Song Qingming's generation. A cultivator with three spiritual roots like him is also called a true spiritual root cultivator.

This type of cultivator not only cultivates faster, but also breaks through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining period more easily. It will be easier for them to cultivate to the late Qi Refining period than the four or five spiritual root cultivators like Song Qingming.

Among ten ordinary cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation, there can only be one or two such cultivators with true spiritual roots. As long as these cultivators do not die in the middle, they can basically cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining smoothly. This kind of cultivator is also the backbone of the major sects and families. If there is a supply of resources, there will be hope for foundation building.

Among the more than 20 cultivators in the entire Song family, the cultivators with the best spiritual roots are the three spiritual roots.

As for the dual-attribute spiritual roots with better qualifications, also known as earth spiritual roots, these cultivators have no bottlenecks before foundation building, and the cultivation speed is faster. They are basically the foundation-building seeds in major sects and immortal cultivation families.

There is also a kind of cultivator with different spiritual roots in the world of immortal cultivation, which is the result of the mutation of the spiritual root attributes in the dual-attribute spiritual root cultivators. The cultivation speed is similar to that of the dual-attribute spiritual root cultivators, but the latter will be more powerful than the former in fighting, and it is also more rare.

The top cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots in the world of immortal cultivation can be said to be one in a million. They have never appeared in the history of Qinghe County for nearly a thousand years. It is said that such cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots have no bottleneck in cultivation before forming a pill.

As long as this kind of cultivator appears, they are often the objects of competition among the top forces in the world of immortal cultivation. After all, as long as they can have a cultivator with heavenly spiritual roots, they have a potential strong man who can at least reach the stage of forming a pill.

Although Song Qingwan's cultivation is not high, she has learned the most difficult alchemy skill among the hundred arts of immortal cultivation. She is already a low-grade alchemist. This is also what makes Song Qingming and others envy her the most.

All kinds of cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation will learn several immortal cultivation skills to earn spiritual stone resources, such as alchemy, talisman making, refining, array formation, spiritual plants, beast control, puppet making, etc. These are also called the hundred arts of immortal cultivation, and the most honorable one among them is the alchemist.

Alchemists are not only noble, but also very rare. The reason for this is that compared with other skills, the cost of training alchemists in the early stage is too high. Each alchemist is basically a pile of spiritual herbs and immortal medicines.

Song Qingming is now also a beginner array master. He chose to become an array master because it takes a lot of time to learn.

Compared with other skills, array masters save the most spiritual stone investment. They are also more useful in hunting monsters. That is why even though his cultivation is not high, Uncle Thirteen and his friends like to bring him with them every time they go down the mountain to hunt monsters, so that they can help set up arrays and hunt monsters.

"I didn't expect that Xiaoqi was so diligent in cultivation and caught up with me so quickly. When my second sister was your age, she had not yet cultivated to the fourth level of Qi training."

"Second sister, you are joking. If you hadn't spent so much time inheriting the family's alchemy, you would not be far from the third brother. The fourth elder said yesterday that you should also go back to retreat and break through your cultivation this time. We brothers will inevitably rely on you, the alchemist, to take care of us in the future."

"How can it be as fast as he said? I'm still far from breaking through. Let's not talk about this for now. I'll take you to see Uncle Jiu first."

The two walked through the fog and walked forward for a while. They came to a village. Song Qingming saw some family mortals living and working here. Most of them were family members of those who mined the veins.

These people were protected by the family cultivators and basically had no big worries. Most of them had happy smiles on their faces. Seeing Song Qingming and the others passing by, they all stopped and saluted.

After passing through the village, a crescent-shaped lake appeared in front of them. On one side of the lake was a tall two-story building. Song Qingwan led Song Qingming into the building one after the other.

In the middle of the house, there was a square eight-immortal table. Behind the table sat a middle-aged man who was reading a book. It was Uncle Nine Song Changxin.

"Uncle Nine, Qingming is here"

"Nephew greets Uncle Nine"

Song Changxin put down the book in his hand, raised his head and said: "Since Qingming is here, Qingwan, you go back and pack up, go back early, so that the clan leader and others don't worry."

Song Qingwan responded after hearing it, nodded to Song Qingming next to him and walked out.

"Go to the mine for inspection twice a day, practice in the mountain if you don't have anything to do, and don't go down the mountain without my permission."

"Nephew understands"

Ninth uncle Song Changxin, who usually doesn't like to talk much, although he is only a four-spiritual root qualification like Song Qingming, is a famous hard-working cultivator in the clan. He is only in his sixties and has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining. He is also one of the only four late-stage Qi Refining cultivators in the family. If there is no accident, he will definitely be able to cultivate to the peak of Qi Refining.

Half a day later, after a simple handover with his second sister Song Qingwan, Song Qingming did not choose to live in the house where his second sister moved out, but cleaned up another older yard next to it and lived there, and began his daily life of inspection and practice.

Half a year had passed before he knew it. Now Song Qingming had completely understood the locations of Lingyuan Mountain and had become familiar with the mortals of his family here.

In addition to daily inspections of the mines and supervision of mining progress, he occasionally dealt with some minor disputes between the mortals here and dealt with and drove away low-level monsters that mistakenly entered the magic circle outside the mountain.

A little busy but also free and easy.

After half a year, Song Qingming felt that his uncle Jiu was quite confident in him. After teaching him how to handle daily affairs, he often stayed at home for ten days and a half a month. Basically, all the affairs of Lingyuan Mountain were handed over to Song Qingming. Only when there were two high-level monster attacks, Song Qingming was a little difficult to deal with alone, so he had to ask Song Changxin to help deal with it.

When Song Qingming first arrived in Funiushan ten years ago, Song Changxin happened to be traveling. Song Qingming didn't have much contact with this uncle Jiu. He only knew that he had practiced alone in Ziyun Mountain near the dangerous Fuyun Mountain Range for many years, and his cultivation and knowledge far exceeded most of his peers in the family.

After Song Qingming arrived at Lingyuan Mountain, he encountered some problems in cultivation at the beginning, and took the initiative to ask him for advice. At the beginning, Song Qingming was a little reserved, but he didn't expect that this uncle Jiu was a cold-faced but warm-hearted person, and was very enthusiastic about discussing the way of cultivation.

In the past six months, he patiently pointed out many of Song Qingming's doubts in cultivation, and even taught Song Qingming some of his previous insights and experiences in hunting monsters and fighting in Ziyun Mountain without reservation.

It must be said that Song Changxin still has some unique experience in cultivation, which has also benefited Song Qingming a lot during this period of time. Many of the doubts in cultivation before have now become much clearer.

That day, Song Qingming had just returned from inspecting the mine early in the morning, and saw a martial artist who usually guarded the magic circle from a distance, running towards him in a hurry.

It seems that there are monsters coming to invade again.

Qinghe County has been occupied by human cultivators for thousands of years. After countless clearings by successive generations of cultivators, although there are no second-level monsters in the territory, there are still many first-level monsters, and many remote mountains are still the territory of monsters.

Lingyuan Mountain is not as quiet as Funiushan and Mujiao Town. Because it is close to Yunwu Mountain where monsters are entrenched, there are still many low- and medium-level monsters around.

Every half a month or so, monsters will accidentally invade and harass here, which is why there are not many cultivators in the family, and two cultivators must be stationed here.

After receiving the report from the visitor, Song Qingming hurriedly cast a spell and rushed to the village entrance.

After a while, he arrived at the control point of the formation at the entrance of the village. Several martial artists guarding the formation were nervously looking at a huge figure in the formation, and they were relieved until they saw Song Qingming arrive.

Song Qingming took a look at the huge figure in the formation and said, "Just guard the formation here. This is a mid-level monster. You can't hurt him."

These martial artists are some of the mortals in the family who have practiced secular martial arts. This kind of people are also called acquired martial artists. They hold some weapons made of black iron, which can also cause some damage to the monsters in the early stage of Qi Refining.

There are more than a dozen such martial artists in Lingyuan Mountain. They are more than enough to deal with ordinary wild beasts. They can also fight against low-level monsters in the early stage of Qi Refining together.

But facing this mid-level monster, it seems not enough. Pig monsters are thick-skinned and hard as iron. After advancing to the mid-level, some monsters will instinctively awaken some spells. These martial artists can't help at all when facing mid-level monsters. If they are not careful, they will lose their lives in vain.