Chapter 600: An old friend is dead, the interests of the city (joint chapter)

Chapter 600: An old friend is dead, the interests of the city (joint chapter)

Funiu Mountain, in the Song family meeting hall.

Song Yuanfang is sitting at the top, discussing some issues in the construction of the "Chiyan Mountain" city with Song Yuanxue, Song Changze and other Song family elders.

While everyone was exchanging opinions, a monk from the Song family law enforcement team who was guarding the door suddenly walked in, walked lightly to Song Yuanfang, and whispered in his ear.

After hearing the other party's message, Song Yuanfang's face changed slightly, showing a strange look. Then he greeted everyone in the hall and left the meeting hall directly.

A moment later, as Song Yuanfang quickly returned to his cave, a purple-clothed woman in her thirties saw his figure and immediately came forward anxiously.

"Yueqing, didn't I tell you before that you should try not to disturb us when the family is discussing matters? What on earth is going on that makes you have to call me back in such a hurry?"

Huang Yueqing, with a smile on his face, looked at his beloved Taoist monk Song Yuanfang in front of him, and said helplessly: "The third brother just came over from Taiyuan Mountain. He has something to do with you. I think the third brother seems a little anxious. I just asked someone to call you."

Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan family, the status of the Song family has also increased. Not only the Huang family, but also the major immortal cultivating families around Qinghe County have more or less taken the initiative to marry into the Song family.

Huang Yueqing, like Huang Siyuan, was also a monk who married into the Song family from the Huang family in Taiyuan Mountain. She had been a Taoist couple with Song Yuanfang for almost twenty years, and their relationship was relatively good.

"Oh! He had something urgent, didn't he tell you? Isn't it about Chiyan Mountain this time?"

Hearing this, Huang Yueqing shook his head slightly and said: "It doesn't look like him. I didn't see him so anxious last time. I just asked him something, but he didn't tell me directly. He insisted on seeing you before talking.

If it's the same as last time, I asked him if he must have said it just now. It seems that he has something urgent to come to you this time. Please come with me and take a look. "

"Okay, let's go take a look first!" Hearing his wife say this, Song Yuanli nodded thoughtfully.

Song Yuanfang and Huang Yueqing became a Taoist couple, which was different from Song Qingming's situation back then. They came together voluntarily after seeing each other in the eye.

Huang Yueqing is a direct descendant of Huang Shengxin, the former patriarch of the Huang family, and her status in the Huang family has always been relatively high. Although this woman has average cultivation talent, she has some business acumen. She took charge of the Huang family's business in Qinghefang at a young age. Many industries.

Not long after Song Yuanfang established the foundation, he also took over the management of the Song family's outside properties, so he soon met Huang Yueqing in Qinghefang.

Although Song Yuanfang had successfully established the foundation at that time, Huang Yueqing was still just a Qi Refining monk, and there was already a big gap in his status.

However, the two still have a lot of consensus with each other when it comes to running the family business, and they often meet to discuss some business issues.

After a long period of love, Song and Yuan conveniently asked Huang Siyuan, an elder of the family, to come forward and take the initiative to go to the Huang family with the betrothal gift, thus promoting this marriage.

After the two got together, Huang Yueqing quickly became Song Yuanfang's good wife. Although he had not participated in any affairs of the Song family over the years, he had secretly helped Song Yuanfang with many good ideas.

The Song family's idea to build a market in "Chiyan Mountain" was originally thought up by the couple when they were chatting. When Song Yuanfang handed the suggestion to Song Qingming, he got the family ancestor's approval on the spot. and appreciation.

After the couple exchanged a few words, Huang Yueqing took Song Yuanli out of the cave together and came to a courtyard with a more elegant environment not far away.

As soon as he entered the door, an elderly monk from the Huang family sitting nearby saw Song Yuanfang and Song Yuanfang. He immediately stepped forward and bowed to Song Yuanfang.

"I've met Senior Song!"

Seeing this, Song Yuanfang waved his hand slightly and said, "I don't need to be more polite. I heard Yue Qing say that you came to see me for something this time."

The monk from the Huang family nodded when he heard this and handed a letter in his hand directly to Song Yuanfang.

"When I came here, my ancestor only said that I should hand this letter to you in person as soon as possible. He didn't say anything about it, and I don't know yet. You should open it and read it first."

Song Yuanli glanced at the envelope in his hand and realized that the name of Huang Sibo, the foundation-building monk of the Huang family, was written on it.

Seeing that something seemed amiss, Song Yuanfang opened the letter in his hand in front of the two of them.

After Song Yuanfang glanced at the contents of the letter, Huang Yueqing saw his Taoist companion's face suddenly became a little unsightly, and he asked again in a hurry:

"Husband, what exactly happened?"

Song Yuanfang slowly put down the letter in his hand, sighed softly and said to the two of them:

"The letter said that Patriarch Shengyue has passed away. It should have happened yesterday."

"What, the ancestor has passed away!" Hearing the words spoken by Song Yuanli, Huang Yueqing and Huang Yueqing suddenly exclaimed, and their faces immediately became a little sad.

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On the top of Tuoyun Mountain, in a cave full of spiritual energy.

Song Qingming, who was standing on the side of the cave in Tsing Yi, disappeared immediately after a spiritual light flashed across his body.

The next moment, Song Qingming's figure suddenly appeared out of thin air on the other side of the cave a dozen feet away from where he was just now. A moment later, another spiritual light flashed, and Song Qingming appeared in another position in the cave.

After changing positions more than a dozen times, Song Qingming finally stopped with a satisfied look on his face.

"After spending so long, I have finally mastered this escape technique. Although it is still far away from Dacheng, it is basically enough for now."

What Song Qingming used was the secret technique he brought out from the "Babel Tower" back then, Nine Palaces Meteor Escape.

After more than six years of hard training in seclusion, Song Qingming is now able to skillfully perform this escape technique. If his escape speed is now coupled with the "Phantom Boat", I am afraid that ordinary late-stage Jindan monks will not be able to catch up with him in a short time. .

In the past few years, Song Qingming has basically been practicing in seclusion at Tuoyun Mountain. Not only has he mastered the "Nine Palace Meteor Escape" escape technique, but his own cultivation has also steadily improved a lot.

Having already refined the "Emerald True Water", his cultivation speed has improved a lot compared to before. In addition, he has refined a third-level "Blood Dragon Fruit" and many high-level elixirs over the years.

The magic power in Song Qingming's body is now close to reaching the third level of the golden elixir. It is estimated that in a few years to polish his magic power, he can try to retreat and break through the fourth level of the golden elixir.

It took less than fifty years for him to cultivate to this level. Song Qingming's current cultivation speed has surpassed most of the golden elixir elders in the Xiaoyao Sect, except for Bai Yuxian and a few other people with outstanding cultivation talents. .

After putting away his own magic power, Song Qingming sat down cross-legged again, closed his eyes and began to practice another skill of his, "Tongtian Ten Thousand Spirits Jue".

Although his own cultivation and other skills were going very smoothly, Song Qingming had been a little disappointed with the "Tongtian Ten Thousand Spirits Art" that he had practiced for so long.

Not only is this technique a bit painful to practice, but the progress of the practice is too slow, which really tests the practitioner's mind.

For more than six years, Song Qingming has never neglected the practice of this technique. Even though he has worked very hard, he has only reached the advanced stage of Qi refining until now.

Just one period of Qi refining tortured him so much that Song Qingming really couldn't imagine what it would be like to practice this ghost technique to the realm of foundation building and golden elixir in the future.

In the early stage of "Tongtian Wanling Jue", apart from helping monks purify the mana in their bodies, it has no other great uses. Ordinary monks spend a lot of time practicing this technique, which will also affect their practice of other techniques. In the early stage, it is indeed Some are not very cost-effective.

Fortunately, Song Qingming had the help of residual pictures, and the speed of recovering his mana was much faster than that of ordinary monks.

Under such circumstances, practicing the "Tongtian Ten Thousand Spirits Jue" at the same time will not affect Song Qingming's own daily practice, as well as the practice of other secret techniques.

It is precisely because of this that Song Qingming has been working hard to persevere.

After practicing the "Tiantian Ten Thousand Spirit Art" for a while, Song Qingming suddenly felt a wave of spiritual power coming from the entrance of the cave.

As soon as he opened his eyes, a yellow sound transmission talisman flew in front of Song Qingming. After opening it and looking at it, Song Qingming immediately stood up and opened the ban on the door of the cave.

After a while, Huang Siyuan, dressed in purple, walked in with a sad look on her face.

Seeing that she looked a little unhappy, Song Qingming hurriedly asked: "Siyuan, what happened?"

Huang Siyuan sighed slightly and said: "Yuan Fang just sent a message saying that Patriarch Shengyue has passed away. I want to go back to Taiyuan Mountain to see her off. After all, she also watched me grow up."

Song Qingming was slightly surprised when he heard the news that Huang Shengyue had passed away. After doing some calculations in his mind, he found that her lifespan was indeed almost up, and she couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Huang Shengyue is considered to be the last person in Qinghe County who is a generation older than Song Qingming. When Huang Shengyue first established the foundation, Song Qingming was just an ignorant boy who had just entered Taoism.

Although his path was smooth when he was young and he succeeded in establishing the foundation early on, Huang Shengyue's cultivation talent was average, and his cultivation before his transformation was only at the seventh level of foundation construction, and he had not reached the stage of forming a core.

On the contrary, Song Qingming's performance during the Qi refining period was average, and his cultivation talent was not particularly outstanding.

But after building the foundation, Song Qingming's path gradually became more open, and soon he came from behind, surpassing Huang Shengyue, who had built the foundation decades before him. In the end, he successfully formed the elixir, and set foot on the golden elixir avenue that is the envy of thousands of monks. .

"Since Daoyou Huang is an old friend of mine, he was also the one who brought about the marriage between you and me, so it's time to send him off. Don't worry, Qing Yu and I will say hello and go back with you!"

Seeing that Song Qingming wanted to accompany her back to Huang's house, Huang Siyuan felt warm in her heart, and nodded slightly without saying anything more.

After leaving a message for Song Qingyu who was still in retreat, the two quickly set off back to Qinghe County.

In the past few years, in addition to Song Qingming's improvement in cultivation, the "Tibetan Yuan Technique" practiced by Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu is almost complete.

After another year and a half to polish their magic power, the two of them can almost try to start retreating to form elixirs.

Because this is Huang Siyuan's first attempt to hit the realm of golden elixir, even with the assistance of "Tibetan Yuan Technique", the certainty of success is still not too high, only about 30% at most.

Fortunately, Huang Siyuan's life span is still sufficient. She is less than 150 years old now. Even if she fails this time, she still has the opportunity to form a pill next time. There is no need to be too nervous about this.

Compared with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu is much more confident of forming a pill next time. With the experience of the last failed breakthrough, and now practicing the "hidden essence technique", Song Qingyu's probability of successfully forming a pill this time should be about 50% to 60%.

Compared with other cultivators who are trying to reach the Jindan realm, this is already very high.

Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan took the "Phantom Boat" to return to Funiu Mountain first, and after taking Song Yuanfang and his wife, they rushed to Taiyuan Mountain together.

Seeing Song Qingming, the Jindan ancestor, coming in person, Huang Sibo and Huang Mengde, the heads of the Huang family, were also a little surprised, and hurried to the outside of the mountain protection formation to greet him.

"Greetings, ancestor!"

"No need to be polite, get up!" After glancing at the two people in front of him who were saluting, Song Qingming paused slightly when he looked at Huang Mengde.

Compared with Huang Sibo, who has a mediocre cultivation prospect, Huang Mengde's path is much smoother. He has now broken through to the seventh level of foundation building. If he cultivates at this speed, he will definitely be able to cultivate to the stage of forming a pill in the future.

After Huang Shengxin passed away, although the Huang family has not developed very fast in recent years, compared with a hundred years ago, the overall strength of the Huang family has not weakened much, and the number of cultivators and mortals has increased.

This is also mainly due to the rise of the Song family, which brought a relatively peaceful time to Qinghe County. Many immortal cultivation families in Qinghe County, such as the Huang family, have lived a much more stable life and have more or less obtained some development opportunities.

After several people went up the mountain together, they first went to the mourning hall to pay tribute to Huang Shengyue, and then met and greeted everyone. Song Qingming accompanied Huang Siyuan to the back mountain to pay tribute to her relatives.

With Song Qingming's success in forming a pill, the status of the Song family has become higher and higher, and the weight of Huang Siyuan in the hearts of the Huang family has also risen to a very high level.

The Huang family not only rebuilt her father's tomb in recent years, but also built a cenotaph for her mother, who had long been forgotten by the family, and buried her next to her father. It was really thoughtful.

Perhaps because of the long time, Huang Siyuan was no longer as sad as before when facing her parents' tombstones. She burned some paper money for the two elders with a calm face, and after saying a few words, Huang Siyuan smiled and left with Song Qingming.

After bidding farewell to the elder Huang Shengyue, Song Qingming took the Song family and left Taiyuan Mountain together.

As soon as the "Phantom Boat" left Taiyuan Mountain, Song Yuanfang immediately bowed to Song Qingming beside him and asked: "Seventh Uncle, Huang Sibo just came to me again and asked about Chiyan Mountain.

Now the spiritual veins over there are almost ready. Do you think we should send a message to gather all of them and give them a briefing first?"

After hearing Song Yuanfang mention "Chiyan Mountain", Song Qingming thought for a moment and nodded and replied:

"Well! Let's do as you say. We can talk to them about other things first, but we shouldn't let them participate too much in the specific construction of the market. It's better to use our own people."

Although Song Qingming has been far away in Tuoyun Mountain these years, Song Yuanfang will send a message to Tuoyun Mountain every once in a while to report to him about the family affairs. Song Qingming is basically well aware of the important things happening in Qinghe County.

The reason why the Song family created the new market of "Chiyan Mountain" was not only to earn spiritual stones, but Song Qingming also wanted to take this opportunity to enhance the control of the Song family within their own territory.

Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan and led the northeast of Weiguo, many immortal cultivation families in Qinghe and Pingyang counties have been affiliated with the Song family in recent years, although they have been affiliated with the Song family on the surface, but each family has its own territory and business.

Except for occasionally coming to Funiushan to pay tribute, the Song family has not had much influence on them, which has made Song Qingming somewhat dissatisfied.

Now it is a peaceful and prosperous era, and nothing happens. Once the Song family encounters a powerful opponent or crisis, they need to rely on these people to help, and the situation is a little uncertain.

If you want to control these foundation-building families under the door and let them follow the Song family wholeheartedly, it is obviously not enough to have superficial deterrence. You also need to find a way to give them some sweetness that the Song family can always control.

It is often easier to win the hearts of the people below by combining kindness and force.

Qinghe and Pingyang counties have been established for a thousand years, and the large mineral veins in the territory that can be found have basically been developed by Xiaoyao Sect and major families.

The Song family has also organized spirit explorers to explore in the two counties in recent years, but they can only find some small mineral veins of low value. It is indeed a coincidence that the Wang family can easily find a large Gengjin mineral vein at their doorstep.

Qinghefang and Jinshanfang are also involved by Xiaoyao Sect, and the Song family cannot get full control of the discourse there. These are not suitable for the Song family to win over and control the immortal families under their command.

Since the old interests can no longer be redistributed, it is better to develop new interests. Therefore, Song Qingming quickly set his sights on the new market of "Chiyan Mountain".

When the Song family leads these immortal families together in the future, they will slowly operate this market.

While earning spirit stones, they can also bring certain benefits to the Immortal Cultivation Family under their command. Then these people must be willing to follow the Song family wholeheartedly. After all, no one can think of having trouble with spirit stones.

As long as they control this Xinfang City, the Song family will be able to firmly control part of the interests of these immortal cultivating families in their own hands, which will not only make it easier to beat them at any time, but also save themselves a lot of energy.

In these days, Song Yuanfang has been giving a cold response to the major immortal cultivating families who came to Funiu Mountain to inquire about information and wanted to invest in the "Red Flame Mountain" market together.

It was also to highlight in their minds the importance of "Red Flame Mountain" to the Song family and the Song family's determination to invest heavily in the management of this Xinfang city.

It is precisely because of this idea that the Song family deliberately did not recruit other foundation-building families in Qinghe County to participate in the previous battle of "Red Flame Mountain". They only brought the Wang family with them, and they were directly affiliated with the Song family near Funiu Mountain. Several cultivating families went there.

The construction of the "Red Flame Mountain" market was proposed by Song Yuanfang. Song Qingming basically gave him full authority to handle this matter, only occasionally reminding him.

After returning to Funiu Mountain, it was a rare trip back. Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan also stayed at Funiu Mountain for a few days.

In recent years, the two of them have basically been practicing in separate retreats in Tuoyun Mountain. This rare free time also makes Song Qingming seem to have returned to a few decades ago, when he had not yet formed an elixir.

A few days later, a white light flew from the foot of Tuoyun Mountain, and Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, with relaxed expressions on their faces, landed from the flying boat together.

"Siyuan, I still want to go to Guyang Mountain, so I won't go up with you."

"But there is something wrong with the sect. How long will it take to come back?" Huang Siyuan asked with concern when she heard that Song Qingming was going to Guyang Mountain.

Song Qingming smiled and shook his head slightly and said: "It's not that the sect is looking for me for something. Some time ago, I went to see the head brother again and asked him to help exchange for a pill-forming spiritual object.

Thinking about it, there should be news almost there. I'd better go over there first to take a look and bring it back quickly, so as not to be targeted by others and something else happens. "

"Well! If not, don't be too anxious. We Qingyu have enough longevity, so we don't need to worry about this moment.

It really doesn’t work here in the sect. We will try our luck elsewhere in the future. Although the pill-forming spiritual objects are rare, the world of immortality is so big that there is always a way. "

Knowing that Huang Siyuan was worried that she was too anxious, Song Qingming smiled and nodded in agreement, and then took a flying boat to Guyang Mountain alone.

In order to help Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan form elixirs in recent years, Song Qingming also tried to find ways to find elixir-forming spiritual objects, and even went out to Wu State with Chu Fengping again.

However, pill-forming spiritual objects, after all, are relatively precious spiritual objects everywhere, so naturally they are not so easy to buy.

Song Qingming inquired in Qixing Pavilion for a long time, but still did not get the information about the Five Elements Spiritual Item that he wanted. He only relied on his familiar relationship with Liu Zongping to exchange for a "Jade Dust Pill" in Qixing Pavilion.

A few years ago, the Xiaoyao Sect obtained a five-element spiritual object "Jasper True Water" from a mineral vein within its territory that was very suitable for Song Qingyu's martial arts.

It's a pity that after Song Qingming heard the news, he ran to the sect's Shanggong Pavilion and wanted to exchange his good deeds for this thing. It happened that Lu Boyang, another golden elixir elder of the sect, was also trying his best to support one of his disciples in forming elixirs.