Chapter 611: Golden Illusion Butterfly Advances, Zhang Rong's Choice
During this retreat, Song Qingming was not confident that he could successfully break through to the fourth level of the Golden Core at once.
He did not expect that the process of this retreat would be much easier than he had imagined.
It should be noted that it has only been fifty years since Song Qingming formed his elixir.
Among the Xiaoyao Sect, only Yao Qianshu, Bai Yuxian, and Li Wutong were able to break through to the fourth level of the Golden Core within fifty years after forming the elixir.
Even Chen Xuanxin, who had been practicing very smoothly after forming the elixir, broke through to the fourth level of the Golden Core a few years later than Song Qingming now.
Being able to break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core at this time, Song Qingming's current cultivation speed has almost surpassed more than 70% of the Golden Core cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.
In addition to the contribution of the "Golden Flame Pill", there are two other key factors that played a very important role in the successful breakthrough this time.
The first is that Song Qingming obtained a complete set of cultivation experience of the Nascent Soul cultivator when he passed the illusion trial in the first level of the "Tongtian Pavilion" on the ninth level of the Tongtian Tower.
Although these cultivation experiences cannot directly help cultivators break through the realm, they can let him know in advance some of the things he needs to pay attention to when breaking through, so that Song Qingming can avoid many wrong choices and attempts in the process of breaking through.
Another point is that Song Qingming's previous practice of "Tongtian Wanling Jue" has been helping to purify his mana in the past few years, which has given Song Qingming a lot of help at the critical moment of breaking through the bottleneck.
Song Qingming actually didn't feel the benefits and effects of the "Tongtian Wanling Jue" before, until this breakthrough, he suddenly discovered this and was surprised.
After the mana in the body was refined by practicing "Tongtian Wanling Jue", at the critical moment of breaking through the bottleneck, it was much smoother than before, which provided him with a lot of help in breaking through the realm this time.
Fortunately, Song Qingming has been persistent in these years and has not slacked off in the "Tongtian Wanling Jue" practice. Now he has practiced this somewhat strange practice to the peak state of Qi Refining as he wished, and he may break through to the foundation building realm at any time.
If these two reasons had not affected his breakthrough, Song Qingming estimated that even with the assistance of the "Golden Flame Pill", his chances of success would not exceed half, and he would still have a high probability of failure.
In any case, the success of this breakthrough was a surprise to Song Qingming, and he was very happy at the moment.
Breaking through from the third level of the Golden Core to the fourth level of the Golden Core is not a small realm like the previous two levels. This is a larger realm from the early stage of the Golden Core to the middle stage of the Golden Core, and the difficulty is relatively much higher.
In the world of immortal cultivation, many talented cultivators who can cultivate to the Golden Core realm will be stuck in this realm for a long time. Some people even need hundreds of years to polish their magic power before they can slowly break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core.
Among the more than ten elders of Xiaoyao Sect, the last one to break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core was Guangling Zhenren, who stayed at the third level of the Golden Core for almost ninety years before barely entering the fourth level of the Golden Core.
For cultivators like Guangling Zhenren who have been stuck in the bottleneck of the middle Jindan stage for nearly a hundred years, their potential in the Jindan stage has basically been exhausted. It is unlikely that they will break through the late Jindan stage in this life, let alone reach the Yuanying stage.
Song Qingming can cultivate to the fourth level of Jindan within fifty years, and his prospects are better than most Jindan cultivators.
In addition, he has refined the "Cui Ling Zhen Shui" before, which has improved the spiritual root qualifications in his body. I dare not say whether there is hope to cultivate to the Yuanying stage in the future, but at least breaking through to the late Jindan stage will definitely not be a big problem for Song Qingming.
Just after returning to the cave, more than a dozen dark golden butterflies with their wings spread flew towards Song Qingming, landed on him, and emitted bursts of flashing spiritual light.
These butterflies are the "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" that Song Qingming has been feeding for many years. After decades of careful cultivation, many of them have now advanced to the mature stage.
"This ice crystal jade liquid is really effective. More than a dozen have advanced to maturity so quickly!"
Looking at the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" in front of him whose color had turned dark gold, Song Qingming showed a faint smile.
Since he got these "Golden Fantasy Butterflies", Song Qingming has spent a lot of time and resources to cultivate them carefully. However, because the "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" advance too slowly, most of them have already exhausted their lifespans before they can successfully advance.
In the past few decades, less than 30 have successfully advanced. Because of the small number, these "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" cannot form much combat power and cannot provide any help to Song Qingming in the battle of the Golden Core level.
In fact, Song Qingming rarely used them in these years. He would only summon a few of them when he needed to explore the way and scout the enemy.
A few years ago, in the Yuanying Cave, Song Qingming and his friends found the "Crystal Lotus" and heard He Mengxin say that the "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" in the pool had the effect of cultivating spiritual plants and spiritual beasts.
Song Qingming followed He Mengxin's example and took out a lot of "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" from the pool.
In the past few years, when Song Qingming was in seclusion, he often took out some "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" to feed the "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" on his body.
What he didn't expect was that after more than two years and consuming several bottles of "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid", he actually cultivated nearly a hundred "Golden Fantasy Butterflies".
These "Golden Illusion Butterflies" that have advanced to the foundation-building stage, although the combat power of a single one is not strong, it cannot be compared with the normal foundation-building cultivators.
However, when the number increases, hundreds of mature "Golden Illusion Butterflies" act together, and the power is very different.
The "Golden Illusion Butterflies" on Song Qingming's body now have all awakened the magical power of illusion. As long as they are properly controlled, it should be no big problem to entangle a Jindan cultivator who has just formed a pill in a short period of time.
There are only more than 100 cultivated. When more spiritual insects that advance to the foundation-building stage are cultivated in the future, these "Golden Illusion Butterflies" will be able to match the combat power of a Jindan stage.
Thinking of this, Song Qingming's face also showed a bit of satisfaction.
However, this "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" does not have such a good effect on all spiritual beasts. In the past two years, Song Qingming specially brought a lot to feed the "Sky Fire Peng" that has been living in the back mountain of Funiushan.
As a result, this guy swallowed and refined a large can of "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid", but except for a slight increase in his mana, there was no significant effect.
This also made Song Qingming disappointed and a little distressed.
Such a large can of "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" was enough for him to cultivate dozens of mature "Golden Fantasy Butterflies", but it was wasted on Tianhuo Peng, a foodie, which was indeed a bit too uneconomical.
However, this is also unavoidable. Many spiritual objects in the world of immortal cultivation will have better effects on some specific spiritual beasts, which is not a very certain thing.
Just like now Song Qingming used "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" to feed the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly", he would get better results, but he did not see similar records in the notes recording the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly".
It may be that the person who recorded the notes at that time did not know these things and did not try to cultivate spiritual insects in this way. It may also be that Song Qingming was just lucky, and the batch of "Golden Fantasy Butterflies" in his hand happened to be more compatible with these spiritual waters, so he could get these unexpected effects.
After checking the "Golden Fantasy Butterfly" on his body, Song Qingming took out a spirit beast bag and put all the spirit insects into the bag. Then he went into the cave and isolated a small stone room for feeding these spirit insects.
After looking at the state of the immature "Golden Fantasy Butterflies", Song Qingming took out some "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" and poured it directly into a small pool.
Then, he opened another stone jar more than one foot high next to the pool and took out a golden spirit beast egg from it.
Looking at the spirit beast egg that still looked the same, Song Qingming shook his head and sighed slightly, and then put it back into the storage magic tool on his waist with a disappointed look.
The spirit beast egg that Song Qingming just took out was the "Millennium Spirit Beast Egg" he brought out from the Tower of Babel.
Over the years, Song Qingming has asked many beast masters who are proficient in the way of beast control, and has tried many methods of hatching spirit beasts. As a result, after all the trouble, this somewhat strange spirit beast egg still hasn't changed much.
After knowing that "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" has some miraculous effects on spirit beasts, Song Qingming filled half a jar of spirit water and tried to put the spirit beast egg into the spirit water to see if it could help hatch the spirit beast egg.
Up to now, the spirit beast egg has been soaked in "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" for almost a year. On the surface, it still looks the same. Song Qingming, who is a little disappointed, can only temporarily give up this idea.
After doing all this, Song Qingming returned to the cave and meditated for about half an hour before getting up and leaving the cave on the top of the mountain and walking towards the market at the foot of the mountain.
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In the Xianfeng Building in Tuoyun Mountain Market, Song Qingming ordered a table of delicious spirit food. After feasting on it, he soon showed a satisfied look on his face.
Although the Jindan cultivator has already practiced fasting, he only needs to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on time to maintain his daily needs.
However, after nearly two years of seclusion, Song Qingming, a somewhat greedy Jindan ancestor, felt a little uncomfortable. He took advantage of his free time to go down the mountain to comfort his stomach.
Song Qingming had just finished enjoying himself when there was a slight knock on the door. After Song Qingming responded, a middle-aged waiter in the clothes of Xianfeng Building carefully opened the door and walked in quickly.
"Ancestor, Senior Lin and Senior Zhang are here. They are at the door downstairs and said they want to see you!"
Song Qingming glanced at the young waiter in front of him, who looked respectful and a little nervous, and nodded slightly in a calm tone: "Well! Let them come up first, then clean up this place and brew a pot of spiritual tea.
If there are other people who want to see me, just say that I have something to do and I am not free today. Let them go to the top of the mountain to pass the message tomorrow!"
The waiter nodded immediately after hearing this, and then hurriedly retreated carefully.
Song Qingming, who had just eaten, was slightly surprised to hear that Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong came here to ask to see him.
In these years in Tuoyun Mountain, whenever these two brothers had something to do, they would basically send a sound transmission note to the top of the mountain and wait for Song Qingming to summon them. It was rare for them to block the door directly after learning that he had come out of seclusion.
After a while, after cleaning up the private room as Song Qingming said, the waiter brought Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong, who had been waiting downstairs for a long time, in.
"Congratulations, senior, for your success in seclusion and your cultivation!" As soon as they entered the door, Lin Yutang and Zhang Rong hurriedly bowed respectfully to Song Qingming in front of them.
Song Qingming waved his hand, signaling Lin Yutang and the others to sit down, and then helped the two waiters out.
"I just came out of seclusion and went out to walk around. I didn't expect that I would alert you so soon after arriving in Fangshi."
When Lin Yutang heard this, he quickly stood up and said in a panic: "Don't be surprised, Ancestor. We didn't know about Ancestor leaving seclusion. It was someone who happened to see you at the gate of Fangshi just now, so he told us two."
Lin Yutang was several decades older than Song Qingming. Although he had taken some life-extending spiritual products, he was already close to 220 years old and his lifespan was running out, only 20 or 30 years.
In recent years, Lin Yutang's appearance has also aged rapidly. His long hair has become slightly whiter, and there are a lot of wrinkles on his face. In just over ten years, he has gone from a middle-aged man to a middle-aged man. He quickly transformed into an old man.
Seeing that Lin Yutang was a little nervous, Song Qingming sighed and said: "I'm just a little surprised. I don't mean to blame you. You are so anxious to see me today. Could it be that you are in some emergency?"
After Lin Yutang breathed a sigh of relief, he immediately took out a long wooden box from his body, placed it in front of Song Qingming, cupped his hands and said:
"Senior Song, this was half a year ago. We received a third-level low-grade elixir from Jinyun Pavilion. We don't have much use for holding this thing. It just serves as a gift for senior's breakthrough in cultivation. Please don't dislike it, senior."
Song Qingming glanced at the wooden box on the table without saying anything, and quickly turned his eyes back to Lin Yutang beside him.
Lin Yutang and the two came to see him in such a hurry, and they definitely didn't just want to give him a third-level low-grade elixir. When the other party didn't tell him the purpose of coming to see him, Song Qingming didn't have much interest in the bead elixir in front of him.
Seeing this, Lin Yutang thought for a moment and then said: "Senior Song is like this. Half a month ago, I heard someone said that Senior Chen killed a demon king at Taiyue Lake and got A level three demon pill.
Junior Brother Zhang and I discussed it and asked you to come forward and ask Senior Chen whether this demon pill can be transferred to us. No matter what Senior Chen's request is, we will try our best to satisfy him. "
"Level 3 demon elixir, what use do you want this thing for? You are not thinking."
When Song Qingming's eyes turned to Zhang Rong aside, Lin Yutang nodded directly and replied: "Senior's guess is good, Junior Brother Zhang and I have already considered it, and we want him to try to form a fake elixir.
I have found a Jade Dust Pill for Junior Brother Zhang. After Senior Brother Feng formed the fake pill, he also left a copy of his process and experience of forming the pill at that time. If I can successfully obtain the Demon Pill from Senior Chen this time, Junior Brother Zhang's certainty of forming a fake elixir is not low.
I would also like to ask my seniors to come forward and recommend me. If this can be done, we will be extremely grateful and will never forget the great kindness of our seniors. "
After Lin Yutang finished speaking, he took Zhang Rong with him and bowed respectfully to Song Qingming who was sitting in front of him.
Since Song Qingming came to Tuoyun Mountain, Zhang Rong, whose cultivation has reached 90% of the foundation level in the past few decades, has tried to form pills twice, but both failed.
When he just heard Lin Yutang and the others mentioned the third-level demonic beast inner elixir, Song Qingming immediately thought that they wanted to use this item to help Zhang Rong on the side, and follow the path of Fengyangde's fake elixir.
When Patriarch Chen passed away, he actually worked hard to pave the way for his fellow disciples.
First, he took the initiative to give up some of the interests of Tuoyunshanfang City and made friends with the Xiaoyao Sect. Then he used the name of the Sword Discussion Conference to organize an army of monks to kill the hidden danger of the Black Flame Tiger Demon King near Tuoyun Mountain. Support Fengyang De to form a false elixir.
According to Chen Jinliang's prediction, after his death, with the help of the Xiaoyao Sect, Fengyangde and the others should be very confident in guarding the spiritual veins of Tuoyun Mountain with all their strength.
As long as Tuoyun Mountain survives the once-in-a-hundred-year monster chaos, with the full support of Feng Yangde, the fake elixir brother, and some of the foundation left behind by Chen Jinliang after his incarnation, Zhang Rong will be able to form a Jin Dan, the situation on Tuo Yun Mountain will be completely stable.
However, things are fickle. Chen Jinliang was ahead of his time, but he did not expect that the Ma family would choose to betray the Xiaoyao Sect after the monster turmoil. He did not expect that Ma Hongshan and the others would directly attack the people who had helped them during the previous monster turmoil. Tuo Yunshan took action.
After the Ma family united with the Jiuyuan Sect and killed the Fengyang Deshi brothers and leveled Tuoyun Mountain, only Zhang Rong, Lin Yutang and a handful of Chen Jinliang's descendants escaped this catastrophe.
Although in the subsequent battle at Tiexian Castle, the Xiaoyao Sect killed Ma Hongshan, which was regarded as avenging Lin Yutang and the others.
However, after this battle, the situation on Tuoyun Mountain changed dramatically. Lin Yutang and the others no longer had the ability to hold on to the spiritual line of Tuoyun Mountain, let alone support Zhang Rong in forming pills.
Although someone later suggested it, Brother Lin Yutang found the Song family in Funiu Mountain, made a deal with Chen Jinliang's skills and alchemy inheritance, and invited Song Qingming to guard Tuoyun Mountain, temporarily stabilizing the situation on the mountain.
But in recent years, because they had no backers, the two brothers had no ability to find good auxiliary pill-forming spiritual objects for Zhang Rong, so they could only let him use the least effective "Jade Dust Pill" to form pills.
For decades, Zhang Rong has tried to form a pill twice in a row, but both failed. Facing the cruel reality, the two brothers are a little discouraged, so they have no choice but to follow the old path of forming a fake pill by Feng Yangde.
Although Jinyun Pavilion still firmly controls the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain, Lin Yutang's life span is insufficient. If Zhang Rong still cannot form a pill successfully, his path will definitely stop here, and there will only be a few decades left.
Among the remaining cultivators of Chen Jinliang's lineage, those with higher cultivation talents almost all died in the battle of Tuoyun Mountain that year.
Among the remaining people, the highest cultivation level is only in the late stage of Qi Refining. Even if they can support a foundation-building cultivator in the future, they will not be able to maintain the current situation with only a cultivator in the early stage of foundation-building.
Let alone the spiritual vein of Tuoyun Mountain, even the most important industry left by Chen Jinliang, Jinyun Pavilion, will probably change hands soon and become the property of others.
After hearing Lin Yutang's earnest words, Song Qingming was silent for a moment, then sighed slightly and said, "You also know that although it will be easier to take the path of fake pills, the path will basically stop here.
Junior apprentice brother Zhang, you are less than 170 years old. Even if you fail to reach the golden pill realm now, you still have the opportunity to form a pill next time. You are too anxious to rashly choose to take the path of fake pills now."
Lin Yutang nodded helplessly and said, "Senior, you probably know that we have spent a lot of thought over the years, but we still can't make it. Unable to find a better spiritual object for Junior Brother Zhang to form a pill, it is helpless to take the path of fake pill now.
According to the note left by Senior Brother, even if you want to form a fake pill, it is best to do it before the age of 200, otherwise the chance of success will be greatly reduced.
Although Junior Brother Zhang still has time, the third-level demon beast inner pill is not so easy for us to obtain. We are also afraid that if we miss this opportunity of Senior Chen, we may not even have the opportunity to form a fake pill in the future. "
Being in Weiguo, where cultivation resources are relatively scarce, Song Qingming is naturally very aware of the concerns of Lin Yutang and the others.
The third-level demon king inner pill, this level of spiritual object is also very rare, and it is not easier to find than the five-element pill spiritual object.
In the entire Xiaoyao Sect, except for the opportunity to get a few during the demon beast turmoil once a hundred years, it is also difficult to have the opportunity to see this rare spiritual object in the Good Merit Pavilion at ordinary times.
And even if Zhang Rong wants to take the path of fake pill, after getting this inner pill, it is not certain that he can succeed in forming a pill.
Although fake elixir cultivators can use external elixir to help solidify the elixir liquid, it is easier than ordinary golden elixir cultivators to form elixir, but generally there is only about 30% chance of success, and the chance of failure is also very high.
Seeing this, Song Qingming nodded and said: "Since you have made a decision, I will help you write a letter to Brother Chen.
But I have to remind you in advance that although Brother Chen and I have some contacts, he will not easily hand over the demon king's inner elixir to you because of this letter. Whether this can be accomplished depends on your own luck and opportunity."
"Junior knows, thank you for your kindness!" (End of this chapter)