Qinghe Immortal Clan

Qinghe County, Weiguo, Donghuangxianzhou.

In the northeast corner of Qinghe County, there is a fairy mountain shrouded in mist and filled with fairy spirit, called Funiu Mountain.

Funiu Mountain is nearly a thousand feet high and covered with green grass and trees, just like a giant green cow lying among the mountains.

Dozens of pavilions and pavilions with immortal energy stand on the top of the mountain. They are the habitat of the Song family, a family that refines energy and cultivates immortality in Qinghe County.

The ancestor of the Song family was originally a foundation-building monk in the "Xiaoyao Sect", the overlord of the immortal cultivation world in Weiguo.

After his death, his descendants were ostracized by the sect, so they had no choice but to lead their clan members to leave the sect and come to the relatively remote Qinghe County. They occupied the high-grade spiritual vein of Funiu Mountain and have been taking root and thriving for nearly two hundred years.

On the west side of Funiu Mountain, in a secret cave.

A youthful-looking young man in green clothes was sitting in front of the wooden table, looking at an khaki animal skin bag placed on the table.

After a while, the young man picked up the bag in front of him and slowly opened the small purple rope tied to the mouth of the bag. Then there was a "ding" sound of metal colliding, and a pile of faintly shining stones rolled out of the bag. .

These stones are all colorful, and each of them exudes a dazzling light.

The young man then took out two stones from his body that also emitted a faint red light, placed them among these stones, and began to count the pile of glowing stones in front of him softly.

"A total of seventy-five yuan, plus the fifteen points of merit recorded in the family's Golden Pavilion, no more, no less, exactly ten spiritual stones are missing.

According to the current speed of accumulating spiritual stones, I should be able to successfully exchange for a Qi Gathering Pill in half a year at the fastest, so that I can break through the middle stage of Qi Refining. "

After thinking quickly, the young man who calmed down repacked all the spirit stones on the table and carefully hid the bag in a wall in the cave.

The young man in green is named Song Qingming, and he is the seventh among the fourth generation monks of the Song family who are named "Qing".

Ten years ago, he was a mortal. Fortunately, his tribe discovered that he carried spiritual roots that could be cultivated, and he was able to enter the family's holy land, Funiu Mountain, to practice. He happened to be twenty years old this year, and he was at the third level of Qi refining.

If an ordinary mortal possesses spiritual roots like him, and successfully introduces Qi into the body after practicing, he can enter the Qi refining period and become a cultivator, also known as a monk.

During the Qi refining period, monks can cleanse their body and strengthen their physique through daily practice of inhaling the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

It can also drive the spiritual power refined in the body to use various spells. High-level monks can even ride on the wind and clouds, move mountains and fill seas, and turn decay into magic.

In this world of immortality, ordinary mortals can only live to be seventy or eighty years old at most, while monks in the Qi refining stage can normally live for two decades and one hundred and twenty years, which is almost twice as long as ordinary mortals.

If you break through to a higher level of cultivation, your lifespan will be doubled. When you practice to become an immortal, you will be able to ascend to the immortal world and live as long as heaven and earth like the legendary immortals. This is also the path to longevity that all monks pursue.

The cultivation levels of monks in the human world are mainly divided into five levels: "qi refining, foundation building, pill formation, Yuanying, and god transformation".

It is said that there are higher levels for monks who transform themselves into gods, but the spiritual energy in this world is relatively thin and cannot support the monks in the world to practice to higher levels.

After a monk reaches the late stage of divine transformation, if his cultivation reaches higher levels, he will be repelled by the power of the interface and automatically ascend to other upper interfaces. Therefore, the highest cultivation level of the monks in this world can only reach the late stage of divine transformation.

The luminous stones in Song Qingming's hands are an item in the world of immortality that can increase the speed of monks' own cultivation. They are also the mainstream currency used among monks in this world to trade various cultivation resources needed for cultivation.

And the "Qi Gathering Pill" he just mentioned is a common pill in the world of immortality that helps monks like him in the early stage of Qi refining to break through to the middle stage of Qi refining.

Every time a monk reaches the peak state of a level of mana in his body and needs to break through to the next level, he will encounter a bottleneck. Unless you are a genius monk with outstanding spiritual roots, you don't need to think too much about this issue.

Ordinary monks can only rely on slowly cultivating to absorb spiritual energy to eliminate bottlenecks during normal cultivation. It is difficult to break through in a short period of time.

If you want to break through the bottleneck quickly, you need to rely on the help of external objects such as swallowing some pills and spiritual objects.

Although the Qi Gathering Pill is not a rare elixir in Qinghe County, it is still a top-grade elixir. One normal elixir in the market costs at least one hundred spirit stones. Song Qingming has been saving for a long time, but he is still short of ten spirit stones.

There are not many ways for low-level monks like him to earn spiritual stones. The spiritual stone salary distributed by the family every year, plus occasionally receiving some low-level family tasks, can follow the elders of the family to hunt monsters.

After deducting what is needed for cultivation in a year, I can only save a dozen spirit stones at most.

Song Qingming also learned a formation technique in the clan in the past few years. He usually helped other people in the clan draw some auxiliary formation diagrams and arrange some low-level magic formations on the magical weapons and robes they refined, and earned some extra spiritual energy. stone.

Coupled with the frugal spending in recent years, we are finally getting it together.

Although his own cultivation speed is average and he has not yet broken through the middle stage of Qi refining at the age of twenty, fortunately he was born in a family of cultivators. He has been protected by the elders of the clan since he was a child, and his cultivation has been smooth.

Compared with those wandering casual cultivators, at least Song Qingming had a fixed spiritual practice since he started practicing, and he could always be taught by the elders of his clan if he had any questions about his cultivation.

In Qinghe County, the monks who have more backgrounds are still practicing in various walks of life. Most of them do not have a fixed spiritual practice, and have long been running around all day for a few cultivation resources.

Spiritual veins are the foundation of a monk's cultivation. A monk who cultivates on the spiritual veins will be full of spiritual energy, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will be several times faster than that of the outside world, so he can practice with twice the result with half the effort.

A high-grade spiritual vein like Funiu Mountain can easily be used by more than twenty monks in the Qi refining period of the Song family.

If you don't have spiritual veins and practice in the barren mountains and ridges of the outside world, the supply of spiritual energy from heaven and earth is limited. If a cultivator wants to increase his cultivation speed, he can only rely on refining spiritual stones to fill it, which requires a lot of cultivation resources.

Song Qingming also tried to break through the middle stage of Qi refining in the past two years, but not only did he not succeed in breaking through, but the backlash caused by the failed breakthrough damaged his meridians, and it took several months of cultivation to fully recover.

Only then did he gradually give up and realize that he was not a cultivation genius.

Nowadays, Song Qingming wants to successfully break through the cultivation level, and slowly cultivates and polishes the bottlenecks. For him, it normally takes five to ten years to successfully break through naturally.

But this way, it is too time-consuming to practice, so I choose to take pills to help the monks break through quickly. This is also a method used by most monks in the world of immortality.

Although Song Qingming has been working very hard in cultivation, he is only a monk with the four spiritual root attributes of gold, wood, fire and earth. This is just an ordinary low-level spiritual root qualification in the world of immortality.

There are also high and low types of spiritual roots in a monk's body.

Generally, they are specifically classified according to the number of the five elements spiritual roots in the body. The spiritual roots have five attributes: gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

The monks who have fewer spiritual roots in their body. During cultivation, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will be refined to be purer, and the cultivation speed will be correspondingly faster. On the contrary, the more spiritual roots exist in a monk's body and the refined spiritual energy will be too complex, the slower the cultivation speed will be.

A monk with mixed spiritual roots who has all five elements in his body and five spiritual roots has the slowest cultivation speed.

Unless such monks have a large supply of resources, it will be difficult for them to even reach the late stage of Qi refining.

The four types of spiritual roots like Song Qingming are pseudo-spiritual roots, and their cultivation speed will be slightly faster. If you practice harder, and if your family can provide some resources and help, you will have a good chance of cultivating to the late stage of Qi refining. .

More than 80% of the monks in the entire world of immortality are ordinary monks like him with four or five spiritual roots.

Normally, it would be difficult for monks like them to break through to the next big realm, the foundation-building stage.

However, in the path of cultivating immortality, in addition to spiritual roots and qualifications, luck and opportunity are also important.

Although Song Qingming's spiritual qualifications are average, he has been diligent in the past ten years since he entered the path of cultivation, and he has never slackened in his cultivation.