Chapter 197 The Patriarch's Retreat
Before leaving Tiandan Pavilion, Song Qingming specifically asked when the Tiandan League auction would be held again, wanting to see if he could have a chance to sell some of the remaining thousand-year spiritual milk in his hands at the Tiandan League auction.
Unfortunately, Deng Zhongkuo told him that the Tiandan League auction was generally held only once a year, and it happened to have just been held a few months ago. If Song Qingming wanted to participate, he could only wait until next year to see.
Song Qingming dared not sell the thousand-year spiritual milk, which was a very valuable spiritual object, in the market casually. Once someone was eyeing it, I'm afraid those Jindan ancestors would be tempted. Now he wanted to deal with it inconspicuously, and he could only hope for the Tiandan League auction, a place that paid attention to protecting the information of customers.
Fortunately, after selling this batch of spiritual medicines, he was not so anxious to use the spiritual stones at present. As long as he could sell them safely, waiting for a while would not have any impact on him.
Next, Song Qingming went to several pharmacies again, and finally sold all the remaining spiritual medicines in his hands, and exchanged them for nearly two thousand spiritual stones in one go.
Seeing that there were more and more spiritual stones in the storage bag on his waist, Song Qingming was satisfied and slowly walked towards the gate of the market, ready to return to Qinghe County.
Foundation-building cultivators fly on swords, and they come and go quickly. It took Song Qingming less than ten days to return from Yangshanfang.
After handing the marrow cleansing pill to Song Changfeng, Song Qingming spent some time to compile some of his foundation-building experiences and those told to him by Xu Ziyan into a foundation-building experience book, which he handed to his sixth uncle Song Changfeng, hoping that it would be of some help to him.
Although there were already two auxiliary foundation-building spiritual pills, Song Qingming knew very well that as long as there was no foundation-building pill, it would be very dangerous for cultivators to force their foundations.
In the two hundred years of the Song family's history, in addition to Song Changfeng, there was another elder of the Song family who had taken this step a hundred years ago. This elder of the Song family also prepared an auxiliary spiritual pill at that time, but unfortunately he failed in the end. A few months later, he failed to build his foundation and sat in his cave directly, without even leaving a last word.
At that time, the power of the Song family was much weaker than it is now. The sudden loss of a strong man at the peak of Qi Refining also hit the entire Song family hard for a time, attracting many scattered cultivators from the surrounding area to spy on the spiritual land of Funiu Mountain.
Fortunately, the entire Song family united as one and repelled several attempts by scattered cultivators. They overcame the difficulties and did not lose the ancestral land of Funiu Mountain. Otherwise, the Song family of Funiu Mountain might have disappeared in the long history of Qinghe County.
For more than a hundred years since then, no cultivator of the Song family who later cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining dared to force the foundation.
First, the risk of forcibly building the foundation without the foundation pill is too great. If it is not done well, it will be immediate death. This is a choice that leaves no way out for oneself. To dare to take this step requires the cultivator to be determined to die.
Secondly, every cultivator in the Song family who can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining and have the opportunity to build a foundation is very important to the entire family. Once such a pillar is easily lost, the Song family is very likely to suffer a catastrophe, which also adds a little concern to them when making such a decision.
As the patriarch of this generation of the Song family, Song Changfeng made this decision now, partly because Song Qingming's foundation building greatly reduced his concerns in this regard.
As long as Song Qingming, the foundation-building ancestor, does not fall, even if the Song family loses a patriarch like him who has cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining, the impact on the entire family will not be too great.
Since Song Qingming built his foundation, all the cultivators in the Song family have been greatly encouraged. In the past few years, not only the sixth uncle Song Changfeng has taken this step, but also several people in the Song family who have reached the ninth level of Qi Refining and are qualified to build a foundation, including the ninth uncle Song Changxin and the second sister Song Qingwan, have more or less had some ideas of forcibly building a foundation in their hearts.
After all, outsiders may not know, but they are very clear that Song Qingming's qualifications in the Song family were also very ordinary. He, a person with four spiritual roots, was able to successfully build a foundation, which greatly reduced the Song family's estimation of the difficulty of building a foundation.
They don't know that when Song Qingming built his foundation, he not only had auxiliary spiritual pills such as the Marrow Cleansing Pill, but also used two foundation-building pills to succeed in the end.
The clan members underestimated the difficulty of building a foundation, and Song Qingming actually began to have some concerns in his heart. Even though the news that his third brother Song Qingze failed to build a foundation had spread to Funiushan, everyone's views on this point did not change much.
However, for this reason, in recent years, the Song family's cultivators have generally practiced harder than before, and several late-stage Qi Refining cultivators have been added. Song Qingming is still very pleased about this.
After the clan leader Song Changfeng retreated to build a foundation, all the affairs of the clan fell on Song Qingming's head, which made him a little busy in Funiushan, and he didn't even have time to go to Qinghefang.
After just over a month of busy work, Funiushan welcomed another unexpected guest, which made Song Qingming, who had already started to have a headache, smile. This person was Shi Chun, his old acquaintance in Guiyunfang.
Song Qingming, who happened to be drawing talismans in the cave, heard the news and happily threw the unfinished talismans in his hand aside, and hurried down the mountain to greet him.
Shi Chun was also very surprised to see Song Qingming, a senior foundation-building cultivator, personally come out of the mountain to greet him. After all, he was just an ordinary late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and he didn't have any powerful immortal cultivation skills, but he didn't expect Song Qingming to value him so much.
In the world of cultivating immortals, the levels of various monks are very strict. It is rare for people to care about an ordinary friend in the Qi refining stage after building a foundation. That day in the Fuyun Mountains, Song Qingming was able to put down his identity and take the initiative to help. To be honest, This was already a rare thing in Shi Chun's eyes, and it was also the biggest reason why he finally made up his mind to join Song Qingming in the past few months.
Ordinary cultivating families in the Qi Refining Period are too weak and can only trust their own bloodline. They will not actively recruit outside cultivators into the family to avoid being turned against the masters by outside cultivators, or causing unprovoked troubles due to unknown people. .
Only when the foundation-building family becomes stronger, will they take the initiative to recruit some skilled casual cultivators from outside to serve as guest ministers and other positions in the family to help manage the family industry.
After Song Qingming established the foundation, the Song family also recruited several casual cultivators with relatively innocent wealth like Li Quan in the market to help manage several shops in Qinghefang.
Before that, the Song family had just become a foundation-building family, and they didn't have much property to their name. Their monks were still able to cope with it. Since they started operating the Duanliu Mountain fine copper mine together with the Huang family, the Song family sent many The monks helped stationed there, and Funiu Mountain suddenly became a lot empty. Shi Chun's arrival was indeed timely.