Chapter 618: East Sea Tiandan League, confirms the candidate for foundation building
Before he had formed his elixir, Song Qingming had participated in several auctions of the "Tian Dan League", but because of his low cultivation level at that time, he did not know much about this organization.
He only knew that this was a large-scale commercial organization that mainly engaged in alchemy and spanned more than a dozen countries around the Floating Cloud Mountains. It also opened a shop in Yangshanfang, Weiguo, selling various first- and second-level elixirs.
Except for attending several auctions and buying some required elixirs in Yangshanfang, Song Qingming did not have much interaction with the cultivators of the "Tian Dan League".
Until six years ago, Song Qingming was looking for five-element elixir spiritual objects for Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan. By chance, Song Qingming met a golden elixir elder named Gu Qing in the "Tian Dan League" through Chu Fengping's relationship.
Because they were both third-level alchemists and Gu Qing happened to be in charge of the business in Weiguo, Chu Fengping and he met very early. The two often discussed the Dao together and exchanged their experiences in alchemy. Their relationship was quite good.
It was also through the relationship with Gu Qing that Song Qingming finally had a deeper understanding of the "Tian Dan League".
The headquarters of the "Tian Dan League" is not in the Floating Cloud Mountains, but in the East China Sea Xiuxian World thousands of miles away from here. There are three Yuanying elders in the organization, all of whom are fourth-level alchemists who are famous in the East China Sea Xiuxian World.
However, these three Yuanying elders are not from the same sect. One of them is a casual cultivator. They all joined the "Tian Dan League" because they were obsessed with alchemy.
In addition, there are not many restrictions and regulations on the recruitment of members of the "Tian Dan League". Whether you are a casual cultivator, a family or a cultivator from other sects, you can join this organization.
As long as you are a cultivator who joins the "Tian Dan League", you can view the various pill recipes and alchemy notes left by some predecessors in the league, and enjoy the various alchemy resources provided by the league.
In addition, the "Tian Dan League" will regularly organize alchemists of different levels to discuss the way of alchemy and exchange their experience in alchemy. If you are lucky enough to be appreciated by the Yuanying elders in the league, you can also get some advice from these high-level alchemists.
"Tian Dan League" is also an alchemy organization that all alchemists in the East China Sea Xiuxian world dream of joining. Even near the Fuyun Mountains, there are many cultivators who love alchemy and choose to join the "Tian Dan League".
However, once you join the "Tian Dan League", you cannot withdraw at will without the approval of the elders in the organization. Although you are not subject to any control at ordinary times, when there is a need within the organization, you must choose to work for them.
In order to improve his alchemy skills, Chu Fengping also considered joining the "Tian Dan League", but later he gave up the idea because the sect did not agree.
After all, he was the only third-level middle-grade alchemist in Xiaoyao Sect. If Chu Fengping joined the "Tian Dan League", he would inevitably distract too much energy there. At that time, the sect might not even have anyone to refine some commonly used high-level elixirs, which would have a huge impact on a Yuanying Sect.
At that time, under Chu Fengping's introduction, Song Qingming met the deacon elder Gu Qing of the "Tian Dan League" in Tiandan Pavilion.
Unfortunately, although the "Tian Dan League" would occasionally auction the five-element pill spiritual objects, they were very rare, at least one would appear every ten or twenty years. At that time, Gu Qing did not have the five-element spiritual objects that Song Qingming urgently needed.
A few days ago, because Song Qingyu joined Xiaoyao Sect, the sect gave her a lot of merits from the Good Merit Pavilion. Song Qingming planned to combine her and his own merits from the sect and go to the sect's Good Merit Pavilion to exchange for a foundation-building pill.
As a result, on the way to Guyang Mountain, he happened to meet Gu Qing who was going to Yangshan Square. After the two met and greeted each other and chatted for a few words, Song Qingming just happened to know that Gu Qing had refined a furnace of foundation-building pills not long ago.
After learning the news, Song Qingming took out two beads of third-level lower-grade spiritual medicines and five or six beads of second-level spiritual medicines, and exchanged them for a foundation-building pill from Gu Qing.
These two beads of third-level spiritual medicines were brought out by Song Qingming from the "Babel Tower". They were originally intended to be exchanged for five-element pill-forming spiritual objects for Song Qingyu and others, but they failed to get what they wanted after going to Wu Kingdom twice, so they were kept with Song Qingming.
As a third-level alchemist, Gu Qing's most desired things are naturally high-level spiritual medicines, spiritual fruits, and other spiritual objects that can be used to refine pills.
Seeing that Song Qingming took out two third-level lower-grade spiritual medicines in one breath, Gu Qing immediately agreed and exchanged a foundation-building pill for Song Qingming on the spot.
Originally, Song Qingming wanted to exchange one more with him, but unfortunately, he had no spiritual medicines above level three, and the other spiritual objects he could take out were not very worthy of the other party, so he could only give up and wait for the next opportunity.
With the rapid development in recent years, the Song family can now cultivate to the ninth level at around the age of 60, and more and more cultivators can build the foundation, and the demand for foundation-building pills is also becoming greater and greater.
Spiritual objects such as foundation-building pills, whether in Weiguo or in other neighboring countries, are precious spiritual objects that are very difficult to obtain, just like the five-element pill spiritual objects.
In recent years, the Song family has mostly relied on Song Qingming to exchange with Xiaoyao Sect for his own merits and other spiritual objects, and occasionally has the opportunity to obtain them through some external channels.
Song Qingming occasionally used the meritorious deeds accumulated in the Xiaoyao Sect to exchange for elixirs and spiritual objects needed for his own cultivation. There was no way he could exchange all of them for Foundation Establishment Pills, so the amount of Foundation Establishment Pills he could exchange for his family was also very large. limited.
After explaining to Song Qingyu, Song Qingming turned to Song Yuanfang and said:
"Yuan Fang, please first tell me which candidates are suitable for foundation building in the clan. We don't need to consider those with relatively low cultivation levels. Only those who can confidently reach the ninth level of Qi Refining within five years can be included in this group. Among the candidates selected for foundation building.
Secondly, I would like to add two requirements. One is that the age must be under eighty years old, and the second point is that in the family's golden pavilion, there must be a clan member with more than 1,000 points of merit. There are no other requirements.
You should consider it carefully and write down a list first. The three of us will discuss the matter initially. Later, when Chang Ze and Yuan Xue come back, we will convene a meeting with the family elders to discuss and decide. "
Song Yuanfang nodded after hearing the words, took out a pen and paper from his body, and quickly wrote down all the clan members who could probably meet the requirements mentioned by Song Qingming and handed them to the two Jindan elders.
The number of monks in the Song family now is almost ten times what it was when Song Qingming came down from the mountain. Excluding the core elders of the family who are in the foundation building and golden elixir stages, there are now a total of 247 monks in the Qi refining stage. people.
Among these monks, there are a total of sixty-eight who have reached the late stage of Qi refining.
Then according to Song Qingming's request, those who are older, those who have only broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining in the past few years, and those whose merits do not meet the requirements are screened out. There are still a dozen people left.
Taking the list handed over by Song Yuanfang, Song Qingming read it carefully, and couldn't help showing a hint of embarrassment on his face.
Unlike before, you only had to choose between a few people. Nowadays, even two foundation-building pills are not enough for these family monks who have reached the foundation-building barrier.
After Song Qingyu on the side read the list, she raised her head and happened to see the embarrassment on Song Qingming's face, and she said softly:
"So many people meet the requirements. I think we should raise the requirements this time. Otherwise, the two Foundation Establishment Pills will be too few, making it difficult for us to make a decision."
Song Qingming nodded slightly and said: "Then lower the age to less than seventy years old and increase the merit points to 1,500 points. Then there should not be many people left."
A moment later, when Song Yuanfang placed the crossed-out candidates in front of Song Qingming and Song Qingming, there were only five people left.
After Song Qingyu glanced at the revised list, he took the lead and said: "Although Yuan Qian is a little older, it is obvious to all of us that she has assisted Yuan Fang in managing family affairs over the years.
Moreover, she is also a first-level high-grade alchemist with good skills, and her alchemy level will have the opportunity to be upgraded to second level in the future. I agree to keep one Foundation Establishment Pill for her.
Among the remaining people, Changwen and Changrui both have good cultivation talents. I think Changyi will be better. This kid is more stable and kind-hearted than Changwen. "
"I also agree with Yuan Qian. Her cultivation skills are stronger than those of the others. In addition, she has taken life-extending spiritual substances in the past few years, so her foundation-building status should actually be no worse than others.
I think Changwen and Changrui have similar conditions, and the difference in their chances of building a foundation is not very big. "After hearing Song Qingyu's analysis, Song Yuanli on the side also expressed his opinion.
Song Qingming nodded to the two of them and said: "Then let's decide on Yuan Qian first. As for the other four, we can discuss it together at the next family meeting. Whether it is Changwen or Changrui, as long as everyone is unified. Opinions will do.
The family currently lacks the source of Foundation Establishment Pills. It is always limited if Qingyu and I go to the sect to exchange for them. We still have to find more ways to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills. "
Song Yuanfang nodded slightly and said:
"What the Seventh Uncle said is that the nearly mature chalcedony golden mushroom transplanted from Tuoyun Mountain in the family elixir garden a few years ago, after Yuan Xue's careful cultivation for so many years, it will be enough in another ten years or so. After picking and using the medicine, we can take it directly to the sect and exchange it for a foundation-building pill.
However, the other two Five Elements Spirit Fruit trees and several other chalcedony golden mushrooms planted in the elixir garden are only over 500 years old. According to the current progress, it is estimated that it will take at least a hundred years to mature. It will only take a year, and now we can only go outside and think of a solution first. "
The "Chalcedony Golden Zhi" and "Five Elements Spiritual Fruit" mentioned by Song Yuanfang are both the main medicines commonly used in the world of immortal cultivation to refine the "Foundation Building Pill".
However, to refine the Foundation Building Pill, it must be a mature elixir.
The cultivation method of "Chalcedony Golden Zhi" is slightly faster. It only takes about 800 years to mature and can be directly used to refine the "Foundation Pill".
The "Five Elements Spiritual Fruit" is a little more troublesome. It takes the spiritual tree to reach a thousand years of medicinal age before it can bear spiritual fruit, and the fruit on it will take another hundred years or so to mature.
The so-called age of medicine is not the actual growth period of the elixir, but a unified term created by spiritual planters in the world of immortality in order to judge the specific quality of the elixir.
For example, a second-level elixir needs at least two hundred years to mature in a wild place with poor spiritual energy. However, if it is placed in a high-level spiritual land with abundant spiritual energy, and a high-level spiritual planter invests in spiritual energy every day, Carefully cultivating spiritual objects such as stones or spiritual water can shorten the time of a hundred years and mature them in advance.
Although the elixir cultivated in this way only took a hundred years, it is of the same quality as the elixir grown in the wild for two hundred years, so the age of the elixir must still be calculated based on two hundred years.
The time it takes for a monk to cultivate a spiritual medicine to maturity is closely related to the grade of the spiritual land planted, the amount of resources invested, and the personal ability of the spiritual planter. This is why major families and even large sects such as Xiaoyao Sect will spend resources cultivating spiritual plants. The biggest reason for being a teacher.
When the Song family was still a Qi Refining family, the family's elixir garden had always grown only first-class elixirs. The oldest elixir was only over a hundred years old, and there was no spiritual planter above the second level in the family.
It was not until Song Qingming succeeded in building the foundation more than a hundred years ago that he slowly began to plant some second-level elixirs. However, because the family had not yet cultivated its own second-level spiritual planters, these elixirs matured very slowly.
Some of the second-level elixirs planted by Song Changfeng when he was the clan leader have not yet fully matured. Therefore, Song Qingming did not put too much energy into running his own elixir garden. Most of the elixirs and fruits on his body Basically I got it from outside.
It was not until the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan that the first second-level spiritual planter Song Yuanxue was born. In these years, the Song family began to increase investment in this area. The scale of the Back Mountain Spiritual Medicine Garden has now expanded several times. .
Under the careful care of Song Yuanxue, a second-level spiritual plant master, in just over twenty years, the annual output of the Song Family Spiritual Medicine Garden has increased several times compared with before, and on average, one or two of the spiritual medicines mature every year. The second level elixir comes out.
Today's family elixir garden, after careful investment by generations of monks from the Song family, has finally seen some results and can already bring a good fixed income to the family every year.
In order to facilitate the sect's rule over the Immortal Cultivation World of the Wei Kingdom, the Xiaoyao Sect ordered that it prohibit its foundation-building and Qi-refining families from secretly cultivating the two main medicines that can refine the foundation-building pill, and only allowed them to plant some auxiliary spirits. medicine.
Prior to this, in addition to the elixir garden of Xiaoyao Sect, the only places in the entire Wei Kingdom that existed before the accident were Tuoyunshan and Tiexianbao, as well as another Wu family with fake elixir monks in Donglin County in the south of the Wei Kingdom. Grow some of this main medicine for refining Foundation Building Pills.
Before the Song family was promoted to the Golden Pill Immortal Clan, they had never cultivated and planted the main medicine for refining the Foundation Building Pill. Now the two "Five Elements Spiritual Fruit Trees" and the five or six Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi plants in the family's elixir garden are all It is an immature elixir that the Song family has collected from various places in recent decades.
One of the nearly mature "Chalcedony Golden Zhizhi" was found by a foundation-building casual cultivator when Song Qingming was guarding Tuoyun Mountain and sold it to the Song family at a high price.
Most of these immature foundation-building elixirs were only two to three hundred years old when the Song family obtained them. Even if they were transplanted to the Song family's back mountain elixir garden, which has a richer aura, if they wanted to cultivate them to maturity, they would have to be at least 200 years old. It will take one or two hundred years.
Moreover, cultivating such high-level elixirs requires more than just time. Without the care of professional spiritual cultivators and sufficient investment of resources, the elixirs will mature prematurely or suffer spiritual damage, which will also lead to The efficacy and value of the whole bead elixir are greatly reduced.
It can be said that it is basically impossible for an emerging Jindan family like the Song family to rely on its own cultivation of elixirs to achieve self-sufficiency in "Foundation-Building Pills" in a short period of time.
Even before the incident, the Ma family had accumulated more than five hundred years of gold elixir monks from two generations, and they could barely manage to make enough for themselves.
Once there is a chaos of monsters and the foundation-building monks under their command suffer heavy losses, the Ma family will also have to exchange some foundation-building pills with the sect to make up for the lack of the family's combat power.
After hearing Song Yuanfang talk about the main herbs for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill in the family elixir garden, Song Qingming smiled and nodded slightly:
"There is no need to rush things in the Spiritual Medicine Garden. The family can appropriately increase investment in this area, but don't put too much pressure on Yuan Xue and the others.
This time I had a chat with an ancient Taoist friend. According to him, the spiritual resources in the world of immortal cultivation in the East China Sea are much richer. It is much easier to purchase spiritual objects such as Foundation Establishment Pills there than around our country.
I already have a plan. After Qingyu retreats and refines the natal magic weapon, I will go to the East China Sea to have a look and try to buy some foundation-building pills.
Yuan Fang, you also need to make some preparations in advance. Change the low-level spiritual objects accumulated in the family treasury into spiritual stones or other high-level spiritual objects. It will be more convenient for me to take them out when the time comes. "
Hearing this, Song Qingyu said with a face of joy: "Seventh Brother, if you really go to the East China Sea to cultivate the immortal world, you must take me with you. I have traveled there once before, and I still know the general situation there.
If we can't find any news about the Foundation Establishment Pill, we can also go to Sister He and the others to help inquire. It will definitely be easier for you with me. "
"Well! Let's talk about it after you come out of seclusion. There's no rush on this matter. We still need some preparation time!"
After a preliminary discussion between Song Qingming and the others, a few days later they sent out a message to summon many family elders who were away to Funiu Mountain to discuss the ownership of the family's two foundation-building pills.
Except Song Yuanli who was unable to attend the battle due to his expedition to the frontline of Lu State, the remaining dozen elders of the family were basically all present, including Huang Siyuan who stopped her retreat to heal her wounds and participated in this very important meeting for the family.
In the meeting room, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, the three most senior ancestors of the family, sat at the top.
The dozen elders of the family sitting below were all family foundation-building cultivators, or people who held important positions in the family and managed important family industries.
After Song Yuanfang, who was in charge of family affairs, mentioned the several candidates for foundation-building pills that had been drawn up, and after a discussion, the final ownership of the two foundation-building pills was quickly decided.
They were Song Yuanqian, who had managed the family's gold storage pavilion for many years, and Song Changwen, who had decent talent and qualifications in the "Chang" generation.
Song Yuanqian ranked low among the "Yuan" generation cultivators of the Song family. Although he was of the same generation as Song Yuanfang and others, he was much younger than them.
She is already 68 years old, but because she has taken some longevity and anti-aging pills, her face does not show any signs of aging.
Song Yuanqian is a cultivator with four spiritual roots because of her poor spiritual root talent. Therefore, her cultivation speed is not very fast. She just cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining a few years ago.
The reason why she was able to successfully cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining and reach the stage of building a foundation is that, on the one hand, she is flexible in doing things and has won the trust of her brother Song Yuanfang. After serving as the elder of the family, she can receive a lot more family salary every year than other members of the family.
On the other hand, Song Yuanqian has invested a lot of resources and energy in alchemy. She has raised her alchemy level to the first-class upper grade very early. Now she is the one with the highest alchemy level in the family except Huang Siyuan, the second-level alchemist.
Relying on these two points over the years, Song Yuanqian is now earning spirit stones and family merits at a speed far exceeding other ordinary members of the family. Among the many cultivators of the Song family, except for Song Qingming and Song Yuanfang, who are golden elixir and foundation-building cultivators, she is already the richest one at present.
Another person, Song Changwen, who ranks 21st in the "Chang" generation, is one of the few cultivators in this generation whose talent is currently second only to Song Changze.
Compared with the "Yuan" generation, which has produced two talented geniuses, Song Yuanli and Song Yuanhao, the Song family's "Chang" generation cultivators are also numerous, but their overall talent is obviously much worse than that of the "Yuan" generation.
Among the dozens of cultivators in this generation, there is not a single double spiritual root cultivator. Song Changze, who has the best talent and has successfully established his foundation, is also only a three-spiritual root cultivator.
Among the remaining three-spiritual root cultivators, Song Changwen is already considered to have a good talent for cultivation, but he was almost fifty years old when he cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and his foundation was not as stable as Song Yuanqian.
The other few people who were not selected were not much different from Song Changwen. Although they were all cultivators who cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining and reached the stage of foundation building, their foundation talent was somewhat different from that of Song Changze, Song Yuanhao and others who had established their foundation before.
After receiving the foundation-building pills supported by the family, Song Yuanqian, the elder who had participated in the family meeting but did not speak because of Song Yuanfang's special instructions, also shed tears of excitement on the spot.
After receiving the foundation-building pills, Song Yuanqian and Song Changwen soon began to retreat in Funiu Mountain to break through the foundation-building realm. (End of this chapter)