Chapter 81 The Wanderer Returns Home
After breaking through his cultivation, Song Qingming melted more than a dozen low-level spirit stones at once, and used this spiritual energy to slowly stabilize his cultivation.
It was not until five days later that Song Qingming completely stabilized his cultivation at the seventh level of Qi training. Then he ended his more than half a month of seclusion and walked out of his cave.
Standing a thousand feet high on Guiyun Mountain, Song Qingming looked at the small market below the mountain, which was as small as stars. Song Qingming's thoughts were surging like a sea of clouds.
Since he went down the mountain to Lingyuan Mountain to guard at the age of twenty, it has only been ten years. Song Qingming has gone from a confused cultivator who had just broken through the fourth level of Qi training to a mature cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.
When the cultivation reaches the late stage of Qi training, the cultivator's spiritual consciousness can be projected out of the body. Song Qingming closed his eyes and used his spiritual consciousness to explore the surroundings. He found that he could sense every blade of grass and every tree within a radius of ten feet from him with his spiritual consciousness.
After releasing the spiritual consciousness, the cultivator can more easily sense the opponent's moves in advance during the battle. This is also the biggest reason why the fighting ability of the cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining is far stronger than that of the cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
Half an hour later, Song Qingming put away his thoughts, slowly walked down Guiyun Mountain and came to the Feiyun Guard station in the market.
In the station, the cultivators of Xiaoyao Sect who were on duty saw that Song Qingming had successfully broken through his cultivation level, and said with some envy:
"Congratulations to Brother Song, you finally broke through your cultivation level during this retreat, but you came at an unfortunate time this time. The eleventh guard received the mission and set off a few days ago. Do you want to wait or should I introduce you to other guards for the time being?"
In order to break through this retreat, Song Qingming had already asked for leave from Feiyun Guard early, and this was the third time in the past two years.
Song Qingming shook his head and replied, "Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Li. I'm going to leave Guiyunfang for a while. This time I want to temporarily resign from the Feiyun Guard. Please help me handle the handover. When Captain Lu comes back, please tell him for me."
Hearing that Song Qingming was going to resign from the Feiyun Guard, the Xiaoyao Sect's on-duty monk hurriedly persuaded him. In recent years, the Feiyun Guard has been short of manpower. The departure of every Feiyun Guard monk is a headache for them.
"This time I'm leaving because when I left home, I agreed with my family on the date to return. Now that the agreed date is almost here, I'm really afraid that I'll be late and make my family worry."
Seeing that Song Qingming had made up his mind to leave, the man didn't continue to persuade him to stay. He quickly helped Song Qingming exchange all his remaining merits for spirit stones and handed them to him.
After leaving Feiyunwei, Song Qingming went to Tianfeng Tower again, ordered a banquet, invited Shi Chun and the other two to come here, and said goodbye to them.
Song Qingming has been in Guiyunfang for so many years, and he has not made many real friends. Shi Chun and the other two have helped him when he needed help the most, and Song Qingming always remembers this in his heart.
Shi Chun's cultivation has also improved rapidly in recent years, and he is not far from the late stage of Qi Refining. After Zhang Tieshan broke through two years ago, his cultivation has also reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. Only Qin Yu Niang seems to be not very interested in cultivation, and his cultivation is still only the fourth level of Qi Refining.
Although Hu Daozhen of Tianfeng Tower has an average talent for cultivation, he has earned a lot of cultivation resources by relying on a spiritual cooking skill. He was born as a casual cultivator and has cultivated to the fifth level of Qi Refining before he was 30 years old. He is not slower than the cultivators from the small families of the Song family in Funiushan.
Several people gathered in Tianfeng Tower from day to late at night.
When they were about to part, Song Qingming suddenly said to Shi Chun and the other two, "Fellow Daoists, I have forgotten to explain one thing to you. Actually, my name is not Song San. I am Song Qingming, a family cultivator. If you want to find me in the future, you can come to Funiu Mountain in Qinghe County to find me."
Hearing Song Qingming's words, Shi Chun and the others did not show much surprise on their faces. Just as Song Qingming expected, they were all casual cultivators who had been in the market for many years, and they were not surprised by cultivators like Song Qingming who did not use their real names.
Qin Yu Niang smiled and said, "In fact, we have long known that you can't be called Song San, such an ordinary name, but Brother Song, you can tell us frankly, which means you really treat us as friends."
"Song San is also my name before I became a Taoist. It is indeed very ordinary."
After saying goodbye to Shi Chun and the others, Song Qingming packed up his luggage and left Guiyunfang early the next morning.
Before the retreat, Song Qingming had already decided that as long as he successfully broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he would immediately return to Qinghe County.
After nearly four years of training outside, although Song Qingming failed to find accurate information about the foundation-building pill, his breakthrough to the late stage of Qi Refining was also a goal he had set in his mind.
In the past few years in Feiyunwei, both his fighting ability and his mentality when facing danger have grown a lot. Compared with four years ago, he can be said to have a very obvious transformation.
After leaving Guiyunfang, Song Qingming used the wind technique he had just learned, and his body turned into a breeze, jumping quickly among the mountains, rivers and trees.
After reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, he traveled much faster than before. After using his magic power to reduce his weight, he could run quickly on the thin branches of the tree, as if gliding in the air.
Just when Song Qingming rushed back to Qinghe County, on the Funiu Mountain in Qinghe County, the Song family's eldest elder Song Gubai, who looked worried, was discussing a major matter concerning the future fate of the Song family with the clan leader Song Gushan.
"Clan leader, Qingze cannot be allowed to go to Xiaoyao Sect. He is the most talented cultivator in our Song family in the past few decades, and he is also the hope for the future prosperity of the family."
Song Gushan looked at the elder who had worked hard for the Song family for decades with him. After a long time, he nodded and said with some embarrassment: "Third brother, I know what you said. You also know that the candidate we chose in advance this time was Qingyu, but now Qingze took the initiative to say that he wanted to go to Xiaoyao Sect. He came to me and said that he had made up his mind. How can I force him to stop it? After all, this is related to his path."
"Qingyu is still young, and it is not known whether her future path will be smooth. At present, Qingze is the only one in the Qing generation who can take up the responsibility. If he goes to Xiaoyao Sect, once Changfeng and others are gone, the family cultivators will be in a lack of successors. I am afraid that they will decline immediately, and it will be difficult to escape the fate of being swallowed up by other family forces around them." Song Gubai sighed unwillingly and continued.
Song Gushan smiled bitterly and said, "Don't be too discouraged. The family has experienced so many setbacks and hardships in the past two hundred years, and we have survived. Qingze chose to take the initiative to propose to join Xiaoyao Sect, which shows that the development of the family in his heart is far less important than his own path. To be honest, if he is like this, can you rest assured if the family is really handed over to him in the future?"
"Since he chose to go to Xiaoyao Sect, I thought about it and decided to let him go. If we force him to stay, it is inevitable that he will have a grudge against the family in the future, which may not be a good thing for the family. It's just that the journey to Xiaoyao Sect is long and difficult, and his future can only rely on himself. The family has done its best for him over the years."