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, try not to disturb us when the family is discussing matters, what on earth is going on, why do you have to call me back in such a hurry."
With a smile on his face. The smiling Huang Yueqing looked at his beloved Taoist monk Song Yuanfang in front of him, and said helplessly: "The third brother came from Taiyuan. Shan just came over. He has something to do with you. I saw that the third brother seemed a little anxious, so I helped call someone to call you."
Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan family, the Song family has become a member of the Jindan family. Not only the Huang family, but all 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, is also a monk who married into the Song family from the Huang family in Taiyuan Mountain. He has been a Taoist couple with Song Yuanfang for almost 20 years. The relationship between the two is relatively good. of.
"Oh! He has 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: "I don't think it looks like it. , I didn’t see him in such a hurry last time. I just asked him, but he didn’t tell me directly and insisted on seeing you before talking. < br>
If it's the same as last time, I asked him if he must have said it just now. It seems that there is something urgent to come to you this time. Come and see with me."
"That's fine. , then let’s go and 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.
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 built the foundation at that time, Huang Yueqing was still just a Qi Refining monk, and there was a big gap in his status.
However, the two of them 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 virtuous wife. Although he had not openly participated in any affairs of the Song family in recent years, he secretly helped Song Yuanfang come up with many good ideas.
The Song family's idea of building 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 it on the spot. The approval and appreciation of the family ancestor.
After the couple said 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!”
When Song Yuanfang saw this, he waved his hand slightly and said: "My family doesn'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. Nodding, he handed the letter in his hand directly to Song Yuanfang.
"When I came here, my ancestor just said, let me quickly hand this letter to you in person. He didn't say anything about it, and I don't know yet. You should open it and read it first. You should know it. "
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 content of the letter, Huang Yueqing saw that his Taoist companion's face suddenly became a little unsightly, and he asked anxiously:
"Husband, what on earth is this?" What happened?”
Song Yuanfang slowly put down the letter in his hand and sighed softly. He angrily said to the two of them:
"The letter said that the ancestor of Shengyue has passed away. It must have happened yesterday."
"What, the ancestor has passed away. "Yeah!" After hearing what Song Yuanli said, Huang Yueqing and his wife 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. A moment later, another spiritual light flashed, and Song Qingming appeared in the cave again. In another position.
After changing positions more than a dozen times, Song Qingming finally stopped with a satisfied look on his face.
"It took me such a long time to finally master this escape technique. Although there is still some distance between it and Dacheng, it is basically enough now."
Song Qingming performed, It was the secret technique that he brought out from the "Tower of Babel" back then, the Nine Palaces Meteor Escape.
After more than six years of seclusion and hard training, Song Qingming is now able to skillfully perform this escape technique. Now that his escape speed is coupled with the "Phantom Boat", I am afraid that ordinary late-stage Jindan monks will not be able to perform this escape skill in a short time. It's hard to catch up with him.
In the past few years, Song Qingming has basically been practicing in seclusion at Tuoyun Mountain. Not only has he mastered the escape technique of "Nine Palace Meteor Escape", but his own cultivation has also steadily improved a lot.
Having already refined the "Cui Ling 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 pills over the years. medicine.
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 already surpassed that of Xiaoyao Sect, except for a few people with outstanding cultivation talents such as Bai Yuxian. Most of the golden elixirs are elders.
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 exercises were going very smoothly, Song Qingming had been a little disappointed with the "Tiantian Ten Thousand Spirit Art" that he had practiced for so long.
This technique is not only painful to practice, but the progress of the practice is too slow, which greatly tests the practitioner's character.
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, "Tongtian Wanling Jue" has no other great use except to help monks purify the magic power in their bodies. Ordinary monks spend a lot of time practicing this skill, which will also affect their other skills. The early stage of cultivation is indeed not very cost-effective.
But 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 "Tongtian 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 Ancestor Sheng Yue has passed away. I want to go back to Taiyuan Mountain to see her off. After all, she also watched me grow up."
Hearing the news of Huang Shengyue's death, Song Qingming was slightly surprised. After calculating silently 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 he had a smooth path when he was young and succeeded in establishing the foundation early, 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 began to become more open, and he soon 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 envied by thousands of monks. .
"Since Huang Daoyou is an old friend of mine, he was the one who brought about the marriage between you and me, so it's time to send him off. Don't worry, Qingyu and I will say hello and go back with you." Let's go!"
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, Huang Siyuan and Song Qingyu's "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 attack the realm of golden elixir, even with the assistance of "Zangyuan Technique", the certainty of success is still not too high, only about 30% at most.
But fortunately, Huang Siyuan's lifespan is still relatively sufficient. She is less than 150 years old now. Even if she does not succeed this time, she still has a chance to form a pill next time. This does not need to be taken too seriously. nervous.
Compared to Huang Siyuan, Song Qingyu is much more certain about forming an elixir in the future. With the experience of the failure of the last breakthrough, and now that he has practiced the "Zangyuan Technique", Song Qingyu has a higher probability of succeeding in forming an elixir this time. , it should be about 50% to 60%.
Compared with other monks who have hit the realm of golden elixir, this is already very high.
Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan first returned to Funiu Mountain on the "Phantom Boat". After taking Song Yuanfang and his wife with them, they rushed to Taiyuan Mountain together.
Seeing Song Qingming, the ancestor of the Golden Pill, coming in person, Huang Sibo and Huang Mengde, the heads of the Huang family, had some surprises on their faces, and hurriedly came outside the mountain guarding formation to greet him.
"Greetings to the ancestor!"
"No need to be more polite, please get up!" Glancing at the two people saluting in front of him, Song Qingming paused slightly when his eyes looked at Huang Mengde.
Compared to Huang Sibo, whose cultivation prospects are average, Huang Mengde's path is much smoother. He has now broken through to the seventh level of foundation building. If he practices at this speed, if nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely be able to practice in the future. To the stage of forming pills.
After Huang Shengxin was enthroned, 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 monks and mortals has actually increased.
This is mainly due to the rise of the Song family, which has brought a relatively peaceful time to Qinghe County. Many immortal cultivating families in Qinghe County like the Huang family have lived a much more stable life, more or less. All have received some development opportunities.
After several people went up the mountain together, they first went to the mourning hall to pay homage to Huang Shengyue, and then met and greeted everyone. Song Qingming accompanied Huang Siyuan to the back mountain to pay homage to several of her relatives.
With the success of Song Qingming's elixir formation, the Song family's status has become higher and higher, and Huang Siyuan's importance in the hearts of the Huang family has also risen to a very high level.
The Huang family has not only rebuilt her father's grave over the years, but also built a tomb for her mother, who had long been forgotten by the family, and buried her next to her father. It is indeed very attentive.
Perhaps due to the passage of time, Huang Siyuan was no longer as sad as before when facing her parents' tombstones. She burned some paper money for her parents with a calm expression. After saying a few more words, Huang Siyuan left with Song Qingming with a smile. .
After bidding farewell to the elder Huang Shengyue, Song Qingming left Taiyuan Mountain with several members of the Song family.
As soon as the "Phantom Boat" left Taiyuan Mountain, Song Yuanfang immediately raised his hands to Song Qingming and asked: "Seventh uncle, Huang Sibo just came to me again and asked about Chiyan Mountain.< br>
Now the spiritual veins over there are about to improve. Okay, do you think we should send a message to summon them all and give them a brief explanation first?"
Hearing Song Yuanfang mention "Red Flame Mountain", Song Qingming thought for a moment. After that, he nodded and replied:
"Well! Just do as you say. You can talk to them about other matters first. However, we don't want them to be too involved in the specific construction of Fangshi. It's best to use our own people."
Although Song Qingming has been far away in Tuoyun Mountain these years, Song Yuanfang would send letters to Tuoyun Mountain every once in a while to report to him on family affairs. Song Qingming basically had no idea about the important things that happened in Qinghe County. Knowing everything.
The reason why the Song family wants to create the new city of "Chiyan Mountain" is that in addition to earning spiritual stones, Song Qingming also wants to take this opportunity to improve the Song family's control within their own territory. right.
Since the Song family was promoted to the Jindan Immortal Clan and took charge of the northeastern part of the Wei Kingdom, many immortal cultivating families in Qinghe and Pingyang counties in recent years have officially belonged to the Song family, but each family has its own Land and business.
Except for occasionally coming to Funiu Mountain to make offerings, the Song family has never had much influence on them, which has always made Song Qingming a little dissatisfied.
Nowadays, it is a peaceful and prosperous time, and nothing happens. But if the Song family encounters any powerful opponent or crisis and needs to rely on people like them to help, the situation will be a little uncertain.
If you want to control these foundation-building families and make them follow the Song family wholeheartedly, superficial intimidation is obviously not enough. You also need to find a way to give him some benefits that the Song family can control at all times. Just fine.
It is often easier to win the hearts of the people below by applying kindness and power together.
Qinghe and Pingyang counties have been established for thousands of years. Basically, all the large mineral veins that can be found in the territory have been developed by Xiaoyao Sect and other major families.
The Song family has also organized spiritual explorers in the past few years to explore in the two counties, but they can only find some small mineral veins of low value. Like the Wang family, who is so lucky that they can easily find one at their doorstep. The matter of the large Geng gold vein can indeed only be an accident.
Qinghefang and Jinshanfang also have the participation of the Xiaoyao Sect, and the Song family cannot gain full control and say there. These are not suitable for the Song family to win over and control the immortal cultivating 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 Xinfang City of "Chiyan Mountain".
In the future, the Song family will lead these immortal cultivating families to slowly run this city.
While earning spiritual stones, you can also bring certain benefits to the Immortal Cultivation Family under your command. Then they must be willing to follow the Song family wholeheartedly. After all, no one will I can't bear to think about having trouble with Lingshi.
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. It will not only be convenient to beat them at any time, but also save a lot for themselves. strength.
These days, Song Yuanfang has been giving a cold response to the major immortal cultivating families who come to Funiu Mountain to inquire about information and want to invest in the "Red Flame Mountain" market together.
It is also to highlight the importance of "Chiyan Mountain" to the Song family in their hearts, 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, like this in Funiu Mountain. Several nearby immortal cultivating families who were directly affiliated with the Song family went there.
The construction of the "Chiyan Mountain" city 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. Will it take a long time to come back?" I heard Song Qingming was going to Guyang Mountain, Huang Siyuan asked with concern.
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.
After doing the math, 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 still have enough Qingyu and 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 pill-forming spiritual objects are rare, the world of immortality is so big that there can always be 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 over the years, When people formed pills, Song Qingming also tried to find ways to find pill-forming spiritual objects, and even went out to Wu Kingdom with Chu Fengping
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" in Qixing Pavilion. Dan".
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 another sect’s golden elixir elder, Lu Boyang, was also fully supporting one of his subordinates. Disciples form elixirs.
(End of this chapter)