Chapter 79: Intermediate Spiritual Stone

After listening to Song Qingming's words, Shi Chun raised his wine glass and said slowly with a serious face: "Brother Song, after this time, we can be regarded as a life-long friendship. If you encounter any troubles in Guiyunfang in the future, as long as we can help, you can come to my cave to find us."

Song Qingming also raised his wine glass, drank a glass with Shi Chun, and then said:

"Brother Shi, you know a lot of people in Guiyunfang. I need a middle-grade spirit stone recently. I wonder if you know where to exchange it."

"Middle-grade spirit stone, does Brother Song want to break through the late stage of Qi Refining?" Shi Chun did not rush to answer, but looked at Song Qingming and asked with some doubts.

The middle-grade spirit stone mentioned by Song Qingming is also a kind of spirit stone, but this kind of spirit stone contains much more spiritual energy than the low-grade spirit stones on Song Qingming. In the world of cultivating immortals, the value of a middle-grade spirit stone is about equal to one hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Ordinary Qi Refining cultivators usually use low-grade spirit stones for cultivation. Only cultivators above the Golden Core stage will directly use medium-grade spirit stones for cultivation. Seeing that Song Qingming needed this kind of thing, Shi Chun quickly guessed that he needed medium-grade spirit stones to break through the realm.

The spiritual energy contained in medium-grade spirit stones is more than ten times that of low-grade spirit stones, and the spiritual energy is more refined. Like the Qi Gathering Pills that Song Qingming used before, it is also an excellent spiritual object used to assist Qi Refining cultivators to break through bottlenecks.

Seeing that Shi Chun guessed his intention, Song Qingming smiled and nodded and continued: "That's true. After leaving Bailong Mountain, I found that it was difficult to improve my mana during cultivation. Now that I have returned to Guiyunfang and have time, I want to try to see if I can make further progress."

"I didn't expect that in less than five years, Brother Song has already gone ahead of me on his path." Shi Chun said with some envy.

"Brother Song is going to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining so soon. Are you also a cultivator with three spiritual roots?" Qin Yu Niang asked curiously when she heard that Song Qingming wanted to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining by exchanging the middle-grade spiritual stone.

Song Qingming shook his head and said modestly: "Don't tease me, it's not that easy to break through the late stage of Qi Refining. This is my first time to try to break through. I estimate that I will not be able to break through the realm. I will be satisfied if I can loosen the bottleneck."

"Brother Song, don't be anxious since you are still so young. There is plenty of time to break through the realm. I do know a few people who have medium-grade spirit stones, but Brother Song, it takes about 110 spirit stones to exchange for a medium-grade spirit stone in Guiyunfang. You should know this."

"Brother Shi, don't worry. I know all this. If you can help me exchange for a medium-grade spirit stone, please come to me directly at the Feiyunwei garrison in Guiyunfang."

Although the value of a medium-grade spirit stone on the market is equal to that of 100 low-grade spirit stones, medium-grade spirit stones are much more useful than low-grade spirit stones. Qi Refining cultivators can use them to break through the realm, and foundation-building cultivators can also restore their physical power faster by using medium-grade spirit stones in battle.

This also led to the fact that people with medium-grade spirit stones would basically not take the initiative to exchange them for low-grade spirit stones, unless you are willing to exchange them at a premium. Even so, in places like Guiyunfang, there is still no demand for them.

The three of them chatted happily in Tianfeng Tower for more than an hour, and only left reluctantly after they had enough food and drink.

After leaving Tianfeng Tower, Song Qingming went directly back to the Feiyun Guard station. Xu Ziyan and the others had not returned from the Fuyun Mountains, so Song Qingming could only put the Qingyu Pill in his own residence and give it to her after she came back.

Unexpectedly, after the gathering at Tianfeng Tower, only a few days later, Shi Chunzhen brought medium-grade spirit stones to find Song Qingming, and brought him two at a time, which made Song Qingming very happy.

Originally, Song Qingming was going to go to other places to inquire about the news of medium-grade spirit stones in the next few days, but he didn't expect that the problem would be solved so quickly after the gathering with Shi Chun.

Song Qingming used the 220 low-grade spirit stones on his body to exchange for the two medium-grade spirit stones.

After getting the middle-grade spirit stone, Song Qingming, who wanted to relax for a while, had to start preparing to break through his cultivation realm.

Breaking through from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level of Qi Refining is also a big bottleneck, which is naturally not so easy to break through, so Song Qingming naturally has to prepare properly.

In order to have a higher chance of successful breakthrough, Song Qingming also went to Guiyun Mountain to spend more than a dozen spirit stones and rented a cave with more abundant spiritual energy.

After using the Qingxin Talisman to adjust his state, Song Qingming spent three days carefully dissolving the middle-grade spirit stone in his hand. With the extremely abundant spiritual energy in the spirit stone, Song Qingming began to try to break through the bottleneck in his meridians.

Unfortunately, after Song Qingming spent more than ten days, consuming a middle-grade spirit stone and many other spiritual objects, he not only failed to successfully break through, but also almost hurt his meridians. He had no choice but to end his retreat with a disappointed look on his face and walked out of the cave.

Although he had been prepared in his heart, knowing that it was not so easy to break through the late stage of Qi Refining, most cultivators could not succeed in breaking through the late stage of Qi Refining in one go.

However, this time Song Qingming was so well prepared and spent so much time, but the spiritual energy gathered in Dantian during the breakthrough could not even rush into the meridians, let alone touch the bottleneck, which really made him a little disappointed.

After this failed breakthrough, he would have to spend at least another half a year to polish the mana in his body before he could continue to use spiritual objects to break through. Fortunately, Song Qingming still had a medium-grade spiritual stone on him, so he didn't have to worry about the spiritual objects needed for the breakthrough for the time being.

After leaving the rented cave, Song Qingming came to a shop in Guiyunfang, intending to sell some of his spiritual objects in exchange for some spiritual stones.

After a trip to Bailong Mountain and the exchange of two medium-grade spiritual stones this time, Song Qingming had spent most of his spiritual stones. This failed breakthrough also made him realize that it was not that easy to break through the late stage of Qi Refining. In order to successfully break through his cultivation next time, he must make some preparations early.

After discussing the value with the shop assistant, Song Qingming took out the magic tools he got from Zhao Tiepao and Guitou, as well as some of his spiritual talismans.

"There are 368 spiritual stones in total. I will give you 370 spiritual stones directly. Daoist friend, do you think this is feasible?"

A middle-aged female cultivator with a smile on her face asked the shop assistant to order all the spiritual objects Song Qingming brought out, and then quoted a price that made Song Qingming very satisfied.

Song Qingming, sitting on a chair, took a sip of the spiritual tea given by the shop, nodded and said calmly: "Then let's do as Daoist friend said. Give me 20 kilograms of spiritual rice and a bottle of nourishing pills, and exchange the rest for spiritual stones."

Soon, Song Qingming walked out of the shop with the spiritual stones and spiritual objects he had just exchanged.

After renting a cave in Guiyun Mountain, Song Qingming had moved all his things directly from the Feiyun Guard station to the new cave.

Since there is no mission now, taking advantage of the abundant spiritual energy on Guiyun Mountain, Song Qingming hurriedly made some spiritual talismans and prepared to follow Feiyun Guard to the Floating Cloud Mountains next time.

Not long after Song Qingming devoted himself to making talismans, Xu Ziyan and their eleventh team of Feiyun Guards finally completed the mission and returned to Guiyunfang.