Chapter 386 Minghe Sect
When Song Qingming brought back the news that Song Xinyu had succeeded in building the foundation, the entire Funiu Mountain became lively. The Song family had a foundation-building monk in the Xiaoyao Sect. From now on, the family would finally have a reliable one within the sect. Now that the person is talking, this is also a great improvement for the Song family's status.
A few months later, Song Xinyu, who had already established his foundation, returned to Funiu Mountain. Under the instructions of Song Qingming, the ancestor of the family's foundation, the Song family arranged a grand banquet for him and specially invited the surrounding vassals of the Song family. Various Qi refining families came to Funiu Mountain to watch the ceremony.
Although there are not many vassal families of the Song family, since they became attached to the Song family, except for the Wu family in Longtan Mountain, which experienced a demonic cultivator rebellion decades ago, there has never been any major turmoil in the territories of the other families. In recent years, the strength of each company has increased compared with before.
Especially the Wang family of Fengtoushan who discovered the Geng gold vein. Over the years, they have obtained a lot of spiritual stones through the division of the vein. The strength of the Wang family has also increased. There are now several monks in the ninth level of Qi refining in the family. , has risen from the second-rate Qi-refining family in Qinghe County to the first-rate ranks.
The Wang family earns spiritual stones like this every year, which naturally makes the surrounding family forces very jealous. In recent years, they have also tightened their grip on the Song family. Every year, the spiritual objects supplied to the Song family will automatically be more valuable than other Qi refining families. There are more, and they have already taken the initiative to marry with the Song family.
This time, in order to celebrate Song Xinyu's founding foundation, the head of the Wang family, Wang Ziyuan, was the first to arrive at Funiu Mountain early in the morning, and specially presented a second-level spiritual peach worth nearly a hundred spiritual stones as a congratulatory gift, which really won the Song family's favor. Despite the goodwill of few people, Song Qingming was naturally very satisfied with the Wang family's performance.
The banquet was held for two consecutive days, and many people who had not received the invitation also came to Funiu Mountain after hearing the news, including Feng De from Qinghefang and Ma Boshan who were stationed at the Fengtoushan Mine.
These two people are both foundation-building monks in Xiaoyao Sect. After knowing that Song Xinyu, a new junior fellow student, returned to Qinghe County, they naturally got together. They are both fellow disciples, and they also want to take this opportunity to meet Song Xinyu. Establish a good relationship first.
In addition, after the Huang family learned the news, they also took the initiative to send a monk to congratulate them, because their master Huang Shengyang was a monk of the Huang family. Song Xinyu also gave the Huang family Qi refining monk enough during the banquet. In order to save face, he personally took him to the room where only a few foundation-building monks were present.
Song Xinyu's successful foundation building has greatly inspired the younger generation of the Song family. The new generation monks who are about the same age as him all looked envious when they saw him enjoying the banquet. look.
Among the new generation, apart from Song Xinyu, who has the best cultivation talent, there are only two people who have the greatest hope for foundation building, namely the eighth-old Song Xintang and the nineteenth-year old Song Xinhe.
Among them, Song Xintang has reached the eighth level of Qi refining and is already an alchemy master. He has no shortage of cultivation resources in these years. He is absolutely sure to upgrade his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi refining before he is sixty years old. It's just that like Song Qingming, he is a pseudo-spiritual root monk with four spiritual roots. Even if he can have a foundation-building pill, the hope of successful foundation-building is only about 30 to 40% at most.
Another nineteen-year-old Song Xinhe, although his cultivation has just reached the seventh level of Qi refining, he is still in his thirties. He will be able to reach the ninth level of Qi refining more than ten years later. Moreover, his spiritual roots are even better. The three spiritual root monks have the bonus of foundation-building pills. On the surface, Song Xinhe's hope of establishing foundations is higher than Song Xintang's.
Now that the Song family has gathered enough good deeds in the Xiaoyao Sect's Shanggong Pavilion, they can definitely exchange for a Foundation-Building Pill within ten years. However, who will use this Foundation-Building Pill in the end? Song Qingming still has some doubts in his heart. I haven't decided yet, I'm still considering it.
There is only one Foundation Establishment Pill. Should it be given to Song Xintang, who has made greater contributions to the family, or to Song Xinhe, who has better spiritual roots, or should it be reserved for Song Yuanli, who has greater control over the Foundation Establishment in the future? This is very important to the elder Song Qingming. It is indeed a difficult choice.
No matter which one you choose, someone is bound to lose the opportunity to advance further on this path forever. Moreover, with such a large investment, once the selected person fails to build the foundation, it will also be a difficult problem to explain to the other monks in the family. .
There are countless monks in the world of cultivation, but cultivation resources are always limited. Every monk who wants to go further has to risk his life to fight for this little cultivation resource. Unless you can ascend and leave this world, no one can Escape this final fate.
After the banquet, Song Xinyu originally wanted to stay in Funiu Mountain for a few more months, but just over a month later, his master Huang Shengyang sent a letter to Funiu Mountain and called him back.
Not long after Song Xinyu left, Song Qingming entered seclusion. It was not until more than half a year later that he replaced all the materials in his hands with the talismans he had already made. This time, Song Qingming had made hundreds of secondary talismans. There are many, and it has been able to exchange for a lot of spiritual stones for him.
This time he spent a long time in seclusion to make a large number of talismans. Song Qingming's talisman-making skills have also improved greatly. Now he can stably produce many second-level middle-grade talismans and has become a second-level middle-grade talisman maker.
After reaching the second level of Immortal Cultivation and Hundred Arts, it is not easy to improve. Song Qingming's talisman making skills are now considered to be the highest level in Qinghe County.
This time, except for a small part of the talismans he made, which were kept in his own shop in Qinghefang, Song Qingming took the rest to Guiyunfang, Jinshanfang and other nearby markets and sold them scatteredly.
Second-level spiritual talismans are more popular than those first-level spiritual talismans in the market, especially the second-level lower-grade spiritual talismans, which can be used by ninth-level Qi refining monks. Almost every Qi refining family in Qinghe County will have a few of them. As a family The town clan's heritage is prepared for unexpected events.
This time the magic talisman was sold very smoothly. It didn't take long for Song Qingming to earn nearly 10,000 spiritual stones. After having enough spiritual stones, Song Qingming immediately went to Xiaoyao Sect and directly bought the magic talisman that he had been thinking about for a long time from the Shanggong Pavilion. Now that I have the Foundation Establishment Pill in my hands, I have finally solved a major matter in my heart.
After getting the Foundation Establishment Pill, Song Qingming hid it directly in his cave on Funiu Mountain. However, Song Qingming did not directly inform all the clan members that he already had a Foundation Establishment Pill. He only revealed it to several elders in the clan. There are rumors that the family's meritorious service in the Xiaoyao Sect's Shanggong Pavilion can be exchanged for a Foundation Building Pill within ten years.
Song Qingming has not yet decided how to decide on the ownership of the Foundation Establishment Pill. He wants to observe it for a while and listen to the suggestions of several family elders before deciding on the matter. Anyway, how many people in the family can Those who use the Foundation Establishment Pill have not yet reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, so there is still plenty of time for everyone to consider this matter.
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There is a city on the east side of Zheng State that is about the same size as Guiyunfang, called Xianhefang. The manager of this city is the Minghe Sect, the only Jindan sect near the city.
The Minghe Sect, as one of the two major Jindan sects in the immortal cultivation world of Zheng State, controls the territory of the entire three eastern counties of Zheng State. There are three Jindan ancestors within the sect.
During the last time the demonic beasts were in turmoil, about one-third of the territory in the northern part of the Zheng Kingdom fell into the hands of the demonic beasts. In order to resist the demonic beasts' attack, the Minghe Sect lost many monks, including one The ancestors of Jindan all fell into the hands of monsters.
Fortunately, Weiguo and several other neighboring countries came to help in time, which finally allowed them to slow down the situation, survive the monster turmoil, and later regained a lot of lost territory.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Not long after the monster turmoil ended, Zheng Guo once again fell into internal fighting among the sects.
The Minghe Sect and the Tianxing Sect in the west of the Zheng Kingdom are old rivals that have not dealt with each other all year round. The two sides have been attacking each other for many years, but the difference in strength is not big. Neither one has the strength to defeat the other.
However, in the past ten years or so, the situation of the Minghe Sect has become worse and worse. The Tianxing Sect began to receive a force of support at some point, and its strength gradually overwhelmed the Minghe Sect and took a great advantage. This Over the past ten years, the Tianxing Sect has encroached on a lot of the Minghe Sect's territory.
The power between the two sides has gradually become unbalanced. If the Minghe Sect does not make some changes, it will be a matter of time before it is swallowed up by the Tianxing Sect in the future. For this reason, the current Minghe Sect is also very worried.
In Xianhefang, in a small courtyard that was very inconspicuous in the city, two monks were talking softly.
"Junior sister Liu, I heard that you found two good helpers this time. I received the news from you on the mountain and rushed over immediately. This matter is of great importance. Can you tell me first."
The woman surnamed Liu looked at the somewhat uneasy head brother in front of her and said anxiously: "Don't worry, head brother, the two people I have found this time are not inferior to me in strength. As long as I can recruit them, , we are sure to go to Gufengling this time, and we also ask our senior brothers to come forward and help us to try to win these two Taoist friends to join us."
The senior brother mentioned by the woman surnamed Liu is none other than Tao Hede, the head of the general affairs of the Minghe Sect. He came to the foot of the mountain this time just for an important matter concerning the sect.
"Junior sister Liu, don't be too anxious. Let's first talk about the origins of these two people and what their strength is."
The woman surnamed Liu nodded and said: "These two people didn't seem to know each other before. It was also the first time they came to Fang City. They came to find pills to improve their cultivation. One of them came from Weiguo and claimed to be a casual cultivator. , although this person's cultivation is still at the fourth level of foundation building, his strength is no longer inferior to mine.
The other person looks a little mysterious, and I can’t tell any background. It just feels like he came from the east. His cultivation has reached the peak of the sixth level of foundation building. This person has a very powerful magic weapon. I have sparred with him before, and it’s very good. We were soon defeated. With the help of these two people, our confidence will definitely increase a lot this time. If there is nothing wrong with me, senior brother, then come with me to have a look. You will naturally understand when you get there. "
"Well, according to what junior sister said, we have found many Taoist friends this time. If we add two more people, we can be more sure. In order to regain Gufengling, the great elder has already issued a message. Zong The second-level spiritual objects in the Menzang Golden Pavilion can be taken out, and as long as these guys are willing to help, anything can be discussed. "
After Tao Hede finished speaking, under the leadership of the woman surnamed Liu, the two of them soon arrived at a restaurant in Fangshi.
As soon as they entered the door, they saw two women covering themselves tightly with bamboo hats from a distance, sitting by the window and slowly admiring the surrounding scenery.
After the woman surnamed Liu glanced at the two men, she quietly winked at Tao Hede, and then walked over with him.
As soon as the two of them sat down, one of the women in a bamboo hat casually raised her hand in the air and quickly set up a relatively simple soundproof barrier. She said to the woman surnamed Liu: "Fellow Daoist Liu, why are you inviting us here this time?" , please just say it.”
"The two fellow Taoists must have guessed my identity a long time ago. I won't beat around the bush this time. This is my senior brother Tao Hede. The two of us are here this time just to ask the two fellow Taoists for help. Come and follow us to Gufengling to recapture a spiritual stone mine. I wonder if the two fellow Taoists are interested."
Hearing what the woman surnamed Liu said, the two women in bamboo hats looked at each other and slowly stood up.
"Fellow Daoist Liu, we are just casual cultivators and have no intention of getting involved in the affairs of your sect and the Tianxing Sect. I would also like to ask you, fellow Taoist, to hire someone else to avoid getting things wrong with us."
Seeing that these two people were about to leave, Tao Hede said with a smile: "Two fellow Taoists, please wait a moment. Can you please listen to what I have to say before making a decision?"
"Fellow Taoist, please speak!"
Tao Hede paused and said: "We, the monks, seek the Tao, and we also seek an opportunity. Now there is an opportunity in front of you. If you two miss it so easily, aren't you afraid that you will regret it too late in the future? "
"Haha! I want to ask the two of me to work for you. I don't know what the opportunity is. Can you tell me first?"
Hearing that the other party had stopped intentionally, Tao Hede also knew that his purpose had basically been accomplished. He smiled and took out a white scroll from his sleeve and placed it on the table.
"As long as you two agree to this matter, you can choose any of the spiritual objects here as reward. Once the matter is completed, you two will be my friends of the Minghe Sect. From now on, no matter where you go in this city, You can enjoy a 10% discount directly in the store, I don’t know if you two are satisfied.”
After the woman in the bamboo hat who just spoke heard what the other party said, she took the scroll directly from Tao Hede's hand, glanced at it calmly, and then handed it to her companion.
After another woman looked at it carefully, she said directly: "Fellow Taoist said that you can take out the things above right away, right?"
"That's right! As long as fellow Taoists choose it, they can take it away directly. Although our Minghe Sect is not a big sect, we are not joking with you two over this little thing. You two can rest assured." Tao Hede He spoke with a confident look on his face.
"Okay! It's settled then. When will we set off? Please tell fellow Taoist monks in advance, and the two of us will go first."