Gao Yuyao,
Watching a wisp of pink smoke drifting away with the wind, Song Qingming couldn't help but mutter the name he had just heard.
Song Qingming finally got a bottle of elixir that could increase his cultivation level. After hurriedly returning to Lingyuan Mountain, he quickly returned home to try out the effect of the elixir.
The Qi-Nourishing Pill is a mid-grade spiritual pill. The spiritual energy it contains is almost equal to the spiritual energy that a normal cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining can refine in a month. After Song Qingming refined a Qi-Nourishing Pill, he clearly felt that the spiritual energy in his body had increased a little, which made him secretly happy.
The effect of this Qi-nourishing Pill did not disappoint him. The bottle of elixir in his hand could save him almost a year of hard training time. It was a pity that he could only take one pill of this kind per month.
Pills are all made from the essence of plants, spiritual water and spiritual objects. Ordinary pills contain a trace of poison and cannot be used indiscriminately. Low-level spiritual pills such as Qi-nourishing Pills will take about a month for the poison to be completely eliminated from the cultivator's body.
If you take elixirs without restraint for a long time, the elixir poison will accumulate in the body, bringing great risks to the cultivator's subsequent practice.
This bottle of Qi-nourishing Pills is enough for him to practice for a year. He can take the extra pills to the Gold Storage Pavilion to earn a few spirit stones.
With the cultivation elixirs that Gao Yuyao had provided for a long time, Song Qingming finally had a way to improve his cultivation speed. Whether it was the previous refining of formations or the later learning of talismans, Song Qingming's purpose of earning spirit stones was always for his own cultivation path.
Unable to build a foundation, cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage have a limited lifespan and will eventually turn into a pile of dirt after a hundred years.
The life span of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage is only about 120 years, but after building the foundation, the life span can be increased by two decades. In addition, if they can take some second-level longevity elixirs, they can generally live to about 250 years old.
If a cultivator wants to build a foundation, it is best to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before the age of sixty. After the age of sixty, the energy and blood in the body of a Qi Refining cultivator will gradually deplete, and the difficulty of building a foundation will become increasingly greater.
Although the foundation building stage is still a long way off for him, if he practices normally, it is a question whether Song Qingming can reach the late stage of Qi Refining by the age of sixty. He must speed up his practice.
After a night of practice, the next morning, Song Qingming was about to go to the mine for inspection. Just as he reached the edge of Crescent Lake, he suddenly felt a slight fluctuation in the mountain protection formation. A white communication talisman slowly passed through the formation and entered Lingyuan Mountain.
The four martial artists guarding the formation at the village entrance saw the communication talisman flying in from outside the formation. They were about to report to Song Qingming, but they saw him walking towards them from afar. Song Qingming took the talisman and looked at it carefully. A smile appeared on his face, and he hurriedly ordered the martial artists guarding the formation to open the mountain protection formation.
Outside the formation, there were more than a dozen figures standing, and the first two had already arrived in front of Song Qingming.
The leader was a beautiful woman in white, who looked to be around thirty years old, and was accompanied by a little girl of about ten years old.
The pretty and beautiful lady is a cultivator of the eldest generation of the Song family, Song Changling, who has reached the sixth level of Qi Refining and is also one of the only two top-grade talisman makers in the Song family.
Song Changling's talent in cultivation is average, she is just a cultivator with four spiritual roots, but she is quite talented in making talismans. Song Qingming had previously learned the art of making talismans and had even gone to her to ask for advice.
"The little girl has made good progress in her cultivation recently, but she is homesick. The Great Elder allowed her to go home for a visit for one day and asked me to bring her here and collect the black iron ore for the past six months." Song Changling pointed to the little girl behind him as he said this.
The little girl next to Song Changling was Song Qingyu, whom Song Qingming sent to Funiu Mountain a few months ago. At this moment, she had already drawn Qi into her body and became a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.
The cultivators with three spiritual roots are truly extraordinary. Back then, it took Song Qingming half a year to successfully enter the Dao by drawing Qi into his body. This little girl reached this level in just three or four months. Her cultivation speed is not a little bit fast.
Looking at Song Qingyu behind him with an impatient look in her eyes, Song Changling nodded slightly at her. The little girl giggled and greeted Song Qingming, then ran towards her home in two steps.
"Fifth Aunt, why are you the only one here this time?"
Song Qingming was also a little surprised when he looked at the two of them. Transporting black iron ore worth forty spirit stones was enough to arouse the greed of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining. In the past, when the Song family came to transport ore, they would at least appoint three cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining or above. In this way, even if they encountered ordinary cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining, they could hold on until the family came to help even if they were defeated.
Only Song Changling came this time, and he also had to take care of Song Qingyu who had just embarked on the path of cultivation. If he encountered the group of bandits from last time, he would definitely be in great danger.
Seeing Song Qingming a little worried, Song Changling explained with a smile: "Last time, the Gao family led a commotion, and Qinghe County has been much more peaceful recently. This time, the Second Elder is here too, waiting for us at the foot of the mountain. How could the family dare to let me come alone for such an important matter as escorting the black iron ore?"
Song Qingming took Song Changling and others to the warehouse where the ore was stored and collected the black iron ore mined in the past six months.
The dozen or so family martial artists brought from Funiu Mountain this time had been to Lingyuan Mountain many times to transport ore and were very familiar with this place. Song Qingming called on dozens of miners to help. They spent half a day moving the supplies from several carriages, and then loaded the black iron ore collected during this period onto the carriages.
Lingyuan Mountain is nestled in a valley, a series of rugged terrain, unlike Mujiao Town, which is flat and suitable for cultivating vast tracts of farmland. The mortal families here have always been short of food, requiring annual subsidies from Mujiao Town.
Every time a family comes to collect ore, they will also deliver some daily necessities that are usually unavailable to ordinary people in the mountains here to meet their needs. At this time, every family in Lingyuan Mountain will happily carry large and small sacks and bamboo baskets to the threshing ground in the village, waiting to receive these daily necessities. It is so lively.
Song Qingyu practiced in Funiu Mountain for several months. There were not many children of the same age on the mountain, and she faced boring study and practice all day long. Returning to Lingyuan Mountain finally liberated her childlike nature.
Not long after returning home to see her parents, Song Qingyu ran out to look for her former playmates from the village. While talking about what she had seen and heard in the mountains, she also demonstrated her extraordinary abilities after practicing, which stunned the eyes of the children of the same age in the village.
The strength of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage is several times that of an ordinary mortal. The little girl ran around the village with this group of children, demonstrating the few little spells she had just learned.
There was flame and rain in his hands, which scared the surrounding villagers so much that they quickly took their children back home, fearing that this ignorant little fairy would accidentally hurt their children.
The little girl took a last look and saw that she was the only one left around her. She felt a little bored and could only return home alone with some sadness.
After Song Qingming came to Lingyuan Mountain, the operation of the black iron ore vein has been relatively smooth. This year's output is half a percent more than last year. Song Changling looked at the black iron ore quantity account book handed over by a martial artist and nodded to Song Qingming with satisfaction.
The black iron ore in Lingyuan Mountain can produce hundreds of pieces of ore every year. The Song family usually does not take these black iron ores directly to the market to sell, but first transports them to Funiu Mountain. Then the family's weapon refiners make them into various magical weapons, and then sell them in the family store in Qinghefang. This way, the value of the original black iron ore can be doubled.
Just after noon, everyone had their meal and prepared to return. The little girl also reluctantly left her parents.
Song Changling led everyone down Lingyuan Mountain slowly.