Chapter 734 Family Talent, Yuanying Puppet Beast
Song Xuande is a Qi-refining monk from the "Xuan" generation of the Song family. His talent for cultivation is relatively average. Like Song Qingming, he is only a Four-Spirit-root monk.
However, Song Xuande has a very rare "spiritual detecting skill" and is currently the only first-class "spiritual explorer" in the Song family. He was the one who discovered the Song family's spiritual stone veins in "Shuangfeng Mountain".
At that time, Song Qingming was very happy when he learned that Song Xuande had found the spirit stone vein. When he came back, he arranged to reward Song Xuande for his great contribution to the family.
He also announced at the family meeting that after he reaches the ninth level of Qi refining, the family will reward him with a foundation-building pill to support him in reaching the foundation-building realm in the future and use it as an example to inspire other clansmen to contribute more to the family.
Song Xuande, who received a large amount of rewards from his family, used this spiritual stone resource to successfully reach the ninth level of Qi Refining five years ago as no one expected, and also received the Foundation Establishment Pill given by his family.
It's just a pity that although Song Xuande obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill a few years ago and went into retreat to attack the Foundation Establishment realm, due to his poor qualifications, he ultimately fell short and failed to succeed in Foundation Establishment.
After the failure of foundation building, Song Xuande, who recovered from his injuries, did not give up on foundation building. He continued to practice diligently every day to polish his cultivation, hoping to hit the foundation building realm again.
Recently, a "Golden Bough of Chalcedony" happened to ripen in the family's back mountain elixir garden. Huang Siyuan used this medicine and a five-element spiritual fruit from the sect to refine five "Foundation Pills". The Song family finally divided Got two of them.
After learning that the family had a new Foundation-Building Pill, Song Xuande took the initiative to find the family's Golden Pavilion, hoping to exchange the family's merits and some spiritual objects for a "Foundation-Building Pill".
Since Song Qingming established the foundation, the family has developed for more than two hundred years. As long as the people selected to support the foundation have failed in the past, because the redemption of the "Foundation Pill" consumed all the family's merits, there will basically be no second chance. An opportunity to build a foundation.
The first "Foundation-Building Pill" that Song Xuande received earlier was a direct reward from his family and did not use his years of accumulated merit, so this time he had the confidence to exchange it for the "Foundation-Building Pill" from his family.
Although Song Xuande had enough family merits to redeem the "Foundation Building Pill", he had already caused dissatisfaction among some people in the clan because of his previous failure to build the foundation.
In participating in the "Foundation Building Pill" competition this time, many family elders are not very optimistic about Song Xuande, fearing that he will waste one of the family's Foundation Building Pills, and the probability of getting the "Foundation Building Pill" is obviously not as good as other clan members of the same level.
However, because Song Xuande had made many great contributions to the family as a "spiritual explorer", and Song Qingming had said that he would support him in building the foundation, Song Yuanfang was not able to make a decision for a while, so he took this opportunity to ask Song Qingming to make the decision. .
When Song Yuanfang mentioned Song Xuande's foundation building, Song Qingming didn't think too much and nodded directly to him:
"Xuande is a man who has made great contributions to the family. Not to mention the other mineral veins he has found over the years, the Shuangfeng Mountain Spirit Mine he discovered back then has brought a lot of benefits to the family. How can these be a foundation-building pill? Comparable.
You first leave him a foundation-building pill, and ask Xuande to retreat as soon as possible to build the foundation. Other spiritual objects that should be used for foundation-building must also be arranged for him. If his merits are not enough, give him some from my side.
Tell Xuande that if the family has said that it will support him in foundation building, he will try his best to do so, so that he can prepare for foundation building without too much pressure. Even if he still fails this time, I will find a way to arrange foundation building for him again. Dan.
I agree with the family's support of Xuande's foundation building. Regardless of whether he can succeed in building the foundation in the future, if anyone has any opinions or thoughts on this matter, please ask him to come to me at the top of the mountain. "
After receiving Song Qingming's support, Song Yuanfang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately nodded in agreement and said:
"Seventh uncle is right. Although Xuande's talent and qualifications are average, his achievements in finding so many mineral veins for the family over the years are not much worse than those of us foundation-building monks. No matter what, the family cannot treat him badly.
You can rest assured that before Xuande retreats this time, Yueqing and I will definitely take the time to give him some guidance, so that he can successfully build the foundation as soon as possible and live up to the cultivation of the seventh uncle. "
"Well! As long as you understand this, the family is developing so fast now, and there will always be different opinions when there are more people. These are inevitable in the future.
But no matter what, those of us who are in charge of the family must take a longer-term view. People like Xuande who will be of great use to the family in the future should be supported as much as possible.
Regardless of whether I am here or not in the future, you must understand this and never bury the talents of your family just because of these petty profits. "
"What the Seventh Uncle said is true, Yuan Fang understands it!"
Seeing Song Yuanfang who was listening to the teachings attentively, Song Qingming nodded slightly and continued: "There have been a lot of things at home recently, and you guys have been working hard too.
Now that Xuanyu and the others are back, if you are too busy, you can share more with others, and don't delay your personal cultivation.
This spiritual fruit was found by Yuan Hao and others in Hongyueling. It should be helpful to your breakthrough in cultivation. You should keep it first and try to break through to the later stage of foundation building as soon as possible. "
After saying that, Song Qingming had a flash of inspiration in his hand and took out a black wooden box from the storage artifact and delivered it to Song Yuanfang.
Opening the wooden box and seeing that it contained a second-grade high-grade spiritual fruit, Song Yuanfang's face immediately showed a bit of surprise, and he looked at Song Qingming slightly excitedly.
Although Song Yuanfang has been in the rear "Funiu Mountain", no matter how many monsters and spiritual objects the monks on the front line of "White Lion Ridge" kill every day, they will be passed back to the family on time. Song Yuanhao and the others have naturally heard about the spiritual fruit they found. Said it before.
Song Yuanfang's cultivation has now reached the peak of the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, and he needs to find spiritual objects to reach the later stage of Foundation Establishment. This second-grade high-grade spiritual fruit in front of him happens to be useful for his breakthrough in cultivation.
Originally, Song Yuanfang wanted to wait for Song Qingming to return to the family before finding an opportunity to ask for this thing from him. Unexpectedly, Song Qingming had been harboring this matter in his heart and took it out before he could speak.
Seeing the spiritual fruit in his hand, Song Yuanfang was extremely excited and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Song Qingming to thank him.
Seeing this, Song Qingming also immediately waved his hand and said: "We are all members of our own family, why are we giving so many gifts?
Although you guys did not go to the front line to perform meritorious service this time, you still have meritorious service by staying to guard the family and protect our rear. This time the family successfully captured Baishi Ridge, so naturally we cannot treat you badly.
Tell Yuan Qian and the others that all the monks who have not gone to the front line to stay with their families, as long as they have done nothing wrong within half a year, will go to Cangjin Pavilion to receive 20 points of family merit. Each of you foundation-building monks will be given 200 points. "
"Thank you, patriarch, for your cultivation!" Song Yuanfang heard this and immediately responded with a smile.
After sending Song Yuanfang away, Song Qingming went to the family alchemy pavilion to find Huang Siyuan who was refining alchemy in seclusion, and handed over to her all the elixirs that the family monks had collected in the "White Lion Ridge" near the second level and above.
Since Huang Siyuan became a third-level alchemist, as long as the entire family has high-level elixirs of level two or above, she will basically use them to make alchemy.
If the many immortal cultivating families under the Song family find valuable high-level elixirs that they cannot use, they will also get "Funiu Mountain" to pay tribute to the ancestor of the golden elixir in exchange for some useful elixirs. medicine.
But even so, Weiguo is a place with relatively few cultivation resources after all, and it is still difficult to meet the needs of Huang Siyuan, a high-level alchemist.
Most of the time, Huang Siyuan still has to go to "Guyang Mountain" or "Tiandan City" to find a way to get all the auxiliary elixirs needed to refine high-level elixirs.
In response to this, the Song family has also increased its efforts in cultivating medicinal fields in recent years, expanding the planting of the "spiritual medicine garden" behind the family, and cultivating more "spiritual planters".
However, due to the fact that the family does not have a third-level spiritual planter or above, the Song family's family background in spiritual planting is far inferior to those large sects that have established sects for more than a thousand years. If they want to be self-sufficient in spiritual medicine, they have to There is quite a way to go.
After returning home for a few days, Song Qingming boarded the large flying boat that had been rented from the sect in order to attack "White Shiling", and planned to go to "Guyang Mountain" to return the flying boat to the sect's Shanggong Pavilion in person.
After all, he had borrowed this thing in the first place, so Song Qingming didn't feel comfortable asking others to return it, so he might as well go there himself and it wouldn't take him more than a few days anyway.
In order to help deliver some goods along the way, Song Qingming also specially asked the flying boat to take a detour to "Yinfeng Ridge". After loading all the ores collected in the past year onto the flying boat, he turned to "Guyang Mountain" in a mighty manner.
Just as the flying boat was moving slowly, Song Qingming, who was leisurely flipping through a formation book in his hand in the warehouse, suddenly felt that the light inside the flying boat suddenly dimmed, and he suddenly felt a little strange.
I got up and went to the window to open it, only to find that a strange black cloud suddenly appeared above the originally clear sky, covering the entire spaceship. The surrounding area was dim and dark, as if it had suddenly entered the dark night.
"Hey! What's going on?"
Seeing the strange scene outside, Song Qingming suddenly had doubts on his face. Just as he was about to go out to check the situation, he heard a knock on the door from behind.
Song Qingming hurriedly came to the door. When he opened the door, he saw that he was a middle-aged man with a fifth-level cultivation level. He was one of the Xiaoyao Sect who was hired by him from "Guyang Mountain" half a year ago to help control the flying boat. disciple.
The man's face was a little panicked. When he saw Song Qingming, he quickly said: "Uncle Song! There seems to be something following us in the sky. It looks like a golden elixir demon king."
"Golden Core Demon King! This place is not far from "Guyang Mountain". How could there be a Golden Core Demon King who dares to come here? Have you seen it wrong?"
After hearing what the visitor said, Song Qingming asked with confusion, obviously not believing what he said.
Seeing Song Qingming say this,
"Reporting to Uncle Song, we didn't see this clearly either, but just now Junior Brother Chen said that he saw the shadow of a big white bird in the black clouds, which indeed looked like some powerful monster.
This place is less than a thousand miles away from Guyang Mountain. Logically speaking, there should be no such powerful monsters. This is the first time that the disciple has encountered such a situation near this place in so many years of controlling the flying boat, ah! . "
Before the Xiaoyao Sect disciple could finish speaking, Feizhou suddenly seemed to be hit by something, and a violent shaking interrupted his words.
"You guys stay on the flying boat, activate the formation and keep moving forward. I'll go see what the hell is causing trouble up there."
Seeing this situation, Song Qingming's face suddenly changed, and he became a little angry. After explaining something to the "Xiaoyao Sect" disciple who had just stood up, he immediately turned around and walked out of the warehouse.
When Song Qingming arrived in front of the flying boat, a sudden thunder struck from the sky towards the flying boat, but at this time several Xiaoyao Sect disciples had already activated the formation on the flying boat.
The lightning fell on the formation, immediately sparking a spark that illuminated the surrounding darkness, and the entire flying boat shook violently again.
Fortunately, this lightning that fell from the sky seemed fierce, but in fact it was not as powerful as imagined. It did not cause any other damage except that it made the flying boat shake a few times.
"Hmph! You are a man who hides his head and shows his tail. Let me test how capable you are."
With the help of the lightning just now, Song Qingming also clearly saw a large bird phantom several feet high appear in the black cloud. As the foundation-building disciple just said, it looked like a demon king with a high cultivation level.
However, the magical power displayed by the other party seemed scary, but Song Qingming did not take it seriously. Now his cultivation has reached the late stage of the golden elixir, and ordinary golden elixir demon kings are not his opponents at all.
Moreover, this place is not far from "Guyang Mountain", and he can send a message to the sect for help at any time.
As long as the opponent is not a Yuanying demon king, even if he encounters a great demon king at the peak of the Jindan stage, Song Qingming, who has powerful magic weapons and magical powers, does not need to be afraid of the opponent.
After Song Qingming snorted coldly, he summoned his life magic weapon "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" with a move of magic power in his hand, and then escaped directly from the flying boat formation to kill the black cloud in the sky.
Encountering obstacles near "Guyang Mountain", Song Qingming was also very curious in his heart, which blind man had the courage to dare to act presumptuously here.
Just as Song Qingming was about to sink into the black cloud, there was a sudden flash of lightning and thunder above his head, and then a white lightning of the same color as before suddenly flashed, and it quickly rushed to Song Qingming's position.
Seeing this, Song Qingming immediately cast a spell to control the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror" to turn into a huge bronze mirror to block above his head, trying to directly take this attack.
As soon as the lightning fell on the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror", a burst of fire immediately lit up and directly illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime.
What surprised Song Qingming was that although this lightning was obviously cast by the same person, its power was much stronger than the one that the flying boat just endured.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, Song Qingming felt a very powerful wave of lightning from the "Five Elements Divine Light Mirror", which made his hands, which were controlling the magic weapon, suddenly feel numb, and he almost couldn't control his own magic weapon.
The power of this lightning is no longer at the level of an ordinary Jindan demon king. If the opponent is not a special demon beast that is naturally good at lightning, then at least his cultivation is not weaker than his own.
Feeling that he seemed to have underestimated his opponent, Song Qingming became more curious. He just blocked the attack in front of him, and immediately flashed into the black cloud and went straight up to the position of the opponent.
However, as soon as he moved, another white lightning fell on his head, and the pressure of this lightning seemed to be a little stronger than before.
"Still coming, you're not going to stop, are you?"
Seeing the other party's decisive move, with powerful lightning waves after waves, as if he didn't want to let him get close, Song Qingming's face suddenly changed and became a little solemn.
After spitting out a few words with some displeasure, Song Qingming waved his hand and quickly took out another golden sphere, and directly held it above his head.
After the golden sphere appeared, it immediately turned into a shield in front of Song Qingming. With this layer of protection, Song Qingming's face immediately relaxed a lot.
This time he did not choose to stay in place and resist, but instead flew up directly, facing the fierce lightning head-on.
Soon, Song Qingming's figure collided with the white lightning falling from above.
However, this time, the two sides did not collide with very fierce sparks as before.
As soon as the white lightning fell on the shield formed by the golden sphere, it was immediately firmly absorbed by the golden sphere, and its power was immediately weakened by 80% to 90%, and only a few small sparks appeared before it completely disappeared.
This golden round bead was a treasure that Song Qingming had obtained from the Fire Phoenix that year, a spiritual object called "Thunder Gathering Bead" that was specifically used to restrain thunder magic.
Although this object was not a powerful high-level magic weapon, it was very restraining against various thunder magics in the world of immortal cultivation. Even the powerful thunder magic that Jindan cultivators could hardly resist would be greatly reduced in front of the "Thunder Gathering Bead".
In recent years, Song Qingming has relied on this object to survive several crises, so he has always carried it with him and never separated from it.
Seeing that the "Thunder Gathering Bead" easily blocked the lightning as expected, Song Qingming took this opportunity to immediately perform the "Nine Palace Meteor Escape", quickly breaking through the barrier of the dark clouds and coming to the location of the opponent above.
"What is this?"
Song Qingming, who had just rushed into the sky, saw the white bird that had just launched a lightning attack on him not far away, and his face showed a bit of shock.
Although the white bird looked lifelike, it did not exude the aura of a monster. Its eyes were dull and it looked like a dead thing staring at Song Qingming in front of it.
What shocked Song Qingming the most was that after seeing the other party at close range, Song Qingming's consciousness just probed into the other party, but was suddenly blocked by a more powerful consciousness, so that he could not see the other party's true cultivation.
"Is this a Yuanying puppet beast?"
Since advancing to the late Jindan stage, Song Qingming's consciousness is no worse than those Jindan peak cultivators. In these years, he has hardly met a Jindan cultivator who is stronger than him in consciousness.
And for the other party to be able to surpass me in spiritual consciousness by so much, it is obviously not something that a monk at the Golden Core level can show. If he does not possess some special treasure, it must be a monk at the Nascent Soul level who can do this so easily.
In addition, the big bird did not have the aura of a living thing on it. Song Qingming quickly made a comprehensive judgment that the opponent might be a level four puppet beast at the level of Nascent Soul, but he still didn't know who controlled it and why it appeared here. .
Song Qingming, who was standing there at the moment, looked at the big white bird in front of him with a very solemn expression.
Before coming up, he had always thought that what he might encounter was a golden elixir demon king without eyes, and he could not imagine that the one attacking him would be a level four "puppet beast" at the Nascent Soul level.
Spiritual objects of level four or above are extremely rare in the entire world of immortality. Taking out any one of them can cause a shock in a place like Fuyun Mountain Range.
Although Song Qingming thought he was a late-stage golden elixir cultivator who had been practicing for more than two hundred years, he had seen very few fourth-level spiritual objects with his own eyes over the years, let alone even rarer fourth-level "puppet beasts" Something.
Although the "puppet beast" is not as powerful as corpse puppets and spiritual beasts of the same level, it is relatively simple to control and has low requirements on users. It is still loved by many monks in the world of immortality.
However, because making "puppet beasts" is very complicated, except for a few large sects that specialize in this way, there are very few monks in the entire world of immortality who can upgrade their puppetry skills to level three or above. Therefore, high-level "puppet beasts" in the world of immortality have always been It is a relatively rare existence.
Although the "Xiaoyao Sect" is a Nascent Soul sect that has been established for thousands of years, due to the relatively scarce resources deep in the Fuyun Mountains, there is only one third-level mid-level "puppet beast" that has been passed down for a long time.
As far as Song Qingming knew, there were hundreds of sects of various sizes in the entire Fuyun Mountains, including Jindan and above, and only a few of them combined could produce spiritual objects of the level of the fourth-level "Puppet Beast".
"May I ask who you are, why are you here to attack my Xiaoyao Sect's flying boat?"
Seeing the big white bird in front of him, Song Qingming knew that he was definitely no match for the opponent. However, this place was not far from "Guyang Mountain", so he could still try to see if using his sect's name could make the opponent afraid.
Moreover, the fourth-level "puppet beast" is not a real Yuanying monk after all. It can only exert half of the strength of a Yuanying monk at most. If there is a real fight, he will not have no chance of escaping.
Hearing Song Qingming's question, the big white bird suddenly let out a strange laugh, and then said something that made Song Qingming a little confused.
"I've heard about your name for a long time, and it's like thunder in my ears. I'm here today to ask for advice. I hope fellow Taoist Song can give me some advice!"
"I've been practicing in the mountains for a long time, and I haven't offended anyone outside. My Taoist friend has misunderstood me."
Song Qingming has always been relatively low-key in life since he entered Taoism. Even when he goes out to practice and interact with people, he rarely uses his real name. He never likes to be in the limelight outside. Logically speaking, there should not be such a mysterious master who comes to his door specially. to deal with him.
Song Qingming had no impression of this big white bird, but after hearing the words coming out of the big bird's mouth, the other party knew that his surname was Song, and it was obviously for him.
This sudden situation made Song Qingming a little confused for a while, and he couldn't figure out what was going on. (End of chapter)