Chapter 1330
New Bond Formation, Sealing Array
"Floating Clouds Mountain Range", Qingyun Mountain.
Outside a cave on the west side of the mountaintop, as the surrounding restrictions slowly dissipated, the cave door slowly opened, revealing a figure in white behind it.
The man in white strode out with his head held high, a hint of triumphant joy on his face.
It was Song Xinyuan, who had been in seclusion for several years.
Having just emerged from seclusion, he was still enveloped in a faint golden light, and his cultivation aura had already reached the Golden Core realm.
"Congratulations, Junior Brother, on achieving the Golden Core Path!"
"Senior Brother Wei, Senior Brother Song, Senior Sister Chu, thank you for protecting me all these years."
When Wei Yunlong, Chu Ling and others came to congratulate him on his completion of seclusion, Song Xinyuan immediately smiled and raised his hand in greeting, thanking each of them for protecting him during his seclusion.
"Junior Brother, you're too kind. We have received great kindness from our Master and Mistress, and protecting you is only our duty."
Now that our junior brother has successfully formed his core, his future is limitless. We will likely need his help in the future.
"Yes, Junior Brother, you've already successfully formed your core at less than a hundred years old. Apart from Uncle Su, you're the fastest in the sect right now."
"Junior brother, when you achieve the Nascent Soul stage in the future, don't forget to help us."
"Xin Yuan has only just formed his core, how dare he presume to talk about the path to the Nascent Soul stage? Senior Sister Chu, please don't laugh at me."
As Song Qingming's eldest son, Song Xinyuan is not only exceptionally talented, but he also received dedicated instruction from Li Xuanyi, Song Qingyu, and others from a young age.
With dual spiritual roots, he successfully established his foundation at the age of twenty-three, and now, before he is even a hundred years old, he has already successfully formed his golden core. His future path in the Dao is immeasurable.
Looking at this junior brother in front of them, Wei Yunlong and Chu Ling, who had formed their core earlier than him, also had some envy on their faces.
Just as Song Xinyuan was sharing his joy at successfully forming his core with everyone.
However, he couldn't find the two familiar figures he most wanted to see in the crowd, and a hint of doubt appeared in his delicate eyes.
"Senior Brother Wei, are Father and Mother still in seclusion? Why haven't we seen Aunt Qingyu?"
"Uh, Junior Brother Song, Master and Mistress are not on the mountain. They went to Donghuang Kingdom a few years ago to handle sect affairs, and they don't know about your emergence from seclusion yet."
But don't worry, Uncle Yuan Hao has already arranged for someone to send a message to Donghuang Kingdom.
"I estimate that once my junior brother's cultivation has stabilized, Master, Mistress, and Uncle Qingyu should return!"
"Yeah! I understand."
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Having successfully formed his core, he had hoped to immediately share his joy with his mother and make a good impression on his father.
Unexpectedly, they heard that Song Qingming, Li Xuanyi, and the others were not on the mountain, but had gone to Donghuang Kingdom.
Although Song Xinyuan nodded, she could not hide the disappointment on her face.
After bidding farewell to Wei Yunlong and the others, Song Xinyuan returned to her cave dwelling, intending to go into seclusion to stabilize her cultivation.
Just then, a slight disturbance came from the "storage bag" at his waist.
Seeing this, Song Xinyuan immediately took out a talisman from inside.
Looking at the words displayed above, a smile slowly appeared on his delicate face, which had initially shown slight disappointment.
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Wei State, Guyang Mountain.
On a mountain peak surrounded by a sea of clouds to the north of "Guyang Mountain", two figures sat facing each other.
"This Cloud Mist Immortal Tea is a unique spiritual substance found only in Taiyue Lake. Our sect went to great lengths to acquire some, and it is specially prepared for entertaining distinguished guests."
"Fellow Daoist Long, why not try it and see how it tastes!"
"Zi Yun, thank you for your hospitality, Headmaster Bai."
"This tea tastes excellent; it's truly a rare find!"
Faced with Bai Yuxian's enthusiastic offering of spiritual tea, Long Ziyun, who was sitting opposite her, quickly got up, took the tea, and took a sip, her face still showing a hint of barely concealed restraint.
After putting down her teacup, Long Ziyun hesitated for a moment before continuing:
"Master Bai specially invited Zi Yun to Guyang Mountain this time, which should not be just for tasting and discussing the Dao."
I wonder if you have any other instructions? You might as well speak frankly with Ziyun.
"Senior Song has now advanced to the Nascent Soul realm, and your sect has had a long-standing cooperative relationship with our alliance. As long as it's something our Four Seas Merchant Alliance can do, Zi Yun will certainly do her utmost to assist you."
Decades ago, with Song Qingming's help, Long Ziyun killed Lin Yuan and successfully wrested back the "Four Seas Merchant Alliance" from him, succeeding him as the Grand Elder.
The inner demons and obstacles that had plagued her for years vanished at the same time.
In previous years, Long Ziyun, who was the Grand Elder of the "Four Seas Business Alliance", had successfully broken through the seventh level of the Nascent Soul realm and become a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
Under the initiative of Elder Long Ziyun, the "Four Seas Business Alliance" and the "Free and Unfettered Sect" quickly restored their cooperative relationship.
After decades of development, many places in the cultivation world of the "Floating Cloud Mountain Range" now have shops opened by the "Four Seas Business Alliance".
Six months ago, Long Ziyun, who was in the "Four Seas Business Alliance", suddenly received a message from Bai Yuxian.
Not only did he inform her of Song Qingming's successful advancement to the Nascent Soul realm, he also took the initiative to invite Long Ziyun to "Guyang Mountain" for tea and philosophical discussions.
Having dealt with people in the business alliance for many years, Long Ziyun knew perfectly well that Bai Yuxian's purpose was definitely not just to enjoy tea and discuss philosophy.
Having stayed at "Guyang Mountain" for almost half a month, she finally couldn't help but ask about it.
Faced with Long Ziyun's straightforward question, Bai Yuxian smiled slightly, put down her teacup, and her expression became serious.
“Fellow Daoist Long, I have come here specifically because I have something I wish to discuss with you.”
Originally, I planned to wait until Junior Brother Song returned before taking you to discuss it with him. But since you've spoken up today, I won't hide it from you anymore.
"In previous years, the northern part of our Floating Cloud Mountains suffered from demonic afflictions. Many spiritual vein markets were destroyed by demons and remain in ruins to this day. We do not know when they will recover."
I invited you here because I wanted to ask Fellow Daoist Long a question.
Would your esteemed alliance be willing to cooperate with our sect to rebuild the Northern Spirit Mountain and help our Floating Cloud Mountain Range recover as soon as possible?
If this can be achieved, our Free and Unfettered Sect can give you 30% of the market's profits. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Long?
Several years ago, under Song Qingming's leadership, the cultivators of the "Floating Cloud Mountains" successfully quelled the demonic threat.
However, apart from Qingyun Mountain, many spiritual mountain towns in the north have suffered severe damage from demons.
Even sacred mountains like "Golden Feather Mountain" and "White Dragon Valley," which had been managed by the Free and Unfettered Sect for hundreds of years, have been reduced to ruins.
After the war, major sects such as the "Xiaoyao Sect" began to make every effort to rebuild and restore the Lingshan Market in the north.
However, they themselves had already suffered heavy losses in the demonic invasion, and now the major sects could not spare much strength to complete the reconstruction.
Bai Yuxian took the initiative to invite Long Ziyun to come because she wanted to cooperate with the "Four Seas Business Alliance".
With their help and financial resources, we can assist the "Xiaoyao Sect" in rebuilding the northern Lingshan Market as soon as possible, and help the northern part of the Fuyun Mountains recover quickly.
Upon hearing that Bai Yuxian wanted to cooperate with her to rebuild the northern market of the "Floating Cloud Mountains", Long Ziyun was somewhat surprised, but she quickly calmed down.
"With a 30% profit margin, this deal is quite profitable."
If Master Bai were willing to publicly recruit partners, given Senior Song's prestige, I think there would be quite a few people in Donghuang Immortal Continent willing to cooperate with the Xiaoyao Sect.
Why would you go to such lengths to ask me to come all the way to Guyang Mountain to discuss this matter?
As Song Qingming's cultivation advances to the Nascent Soul stage, his status and reputation will rise accordingly, both within the "Free and Unfettered Sect" and the Floating Cloud Mountain Range.
Rebuilding the Ling Shan Market in the northern part of the "Floating Cloud Mountains" would not be a problem for the current "Xiaoyao Sect," as long as they were willing.
Seeing Long Ziyun's doubts, Bai Yuxian nodded directly. "Fellow Daoist Long is right. If our sect is willing to openly recruit, many people will naturally come to us seeking cooperation."
However, we are already quite familiar with each other, and Junior Brother Song is an elder of your alliance, so you are practically one of us.
Now that there's a suitable business opportunity, we should certainly help each other out, don't you think, Fellow Daoist Long?
Having said that, Bai Yuxian proactively filled Long Ziyun's cup with spiritual tea and presented it to her with a smile.
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"Sect Leader Bai, to be honest..."
Back when Ziyun was the Grand Elder of the Merchant Alliance, she was weak and had no choice but to invite Senior Song to take up the position of Guest Elder in the Merchant Alliance, just to help me bolster my reputation.
Now that Senior Song has advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, how could Zi Yun dare to force herself to climb up to him?
"Please rest assured, Sect Leader Bai, I will publicly explain the matter of the Merchant Alliance's guest elder upon my return, and I will absolutely not allow it to affect Senior Song's reputation."
In order to secure her position as the Grand Elder of the Business Alliance by leveraging Song Qingming's reputation, Long Ziyun even went so far as to sacrifice her reputation by spreading rumors about their "special relationship."
This matter is no secret within the "Four Seas Business Alliance" and has even been rumored in the "Floating Cloud Mountains" over the years.
However, due to Song Qingming's status in the "Floating Cloud Mountain Range".
Openly, no one dared to discuss this matter publicly; it was mostly just rumors circulating behind people's backs.
Upon hearing Bai Yuxian's words, Long Ziyun thought she was intentionally reminding her of this matter, and quickly offered an explanation.
Upon hearing this, Bai Yuxian immediately waved her hand.
"Fellow Daoist Long, you misunderstand. The main reason I invited you here today is to discuss cooperation, not to interfere in the affairs between Junior Brother Song and your alliance."
"Don't worry, since it was your junior brother who agreed to this guest elder position, Junior Sister Huang, Junior Sister Li, and I naturally won't have any objections."
"This is very kind of you, Fellow Daoist Bai. I am deeply grateful."
Fellow Daoist, rest assured, I have no problem with the cooperation.
"As long as Fellow Daoist Bai trusts Zi Yun, the Four Seas Merchant Alliance will fully cooperate with your sect in rebuilding the Northern Market. Afterwards, our alliance only needs to take 25% of the profits."
"Since Fellow Daoist Long is willing to give up half of the profits, our sect cannot let you suffer a loss."
I heard that your alliance wanted to find a place to establish a branch in Donghuang Immortal Continent. There happens to be an unclaimed level four spiritual vein on the west side of Qingyun Mountain.
"If Fellow Daoist Long takes a liking to it, our sect will gladly grant it to you."
"In that case, thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Bai!"
Seeing that Long Ziyun was willing to give up half of the profit, Bai Yuxian gave her a fourth-grade low-level spiritual vein in the north that had not yet been sold.
Both sides quickly reached a preliminary cooperation agreement, and smiles appeared on their faces.
"Fellow Daoist Long, please don't be so polite with me. Now that this matter has been settled, please continue to enjoy your tea."
To be honest, I've known you for many years, and this isn't the first time we've collaborated. Using this form of address makes us seem a bit distant.
If Fellow Daoist Long is willing, you are welcome to visit Guyang Mountain often to enjoy tea and discuss Dao with me.
From now on, unless there are outsiders present, we can address each other as sisters.
"Since Sister Bai says so, Ziyun won't stand on ceremony with you."
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The back mountain of Yuxuan Island in Donghuang Kingdom.
"Master Jiuyue", Song Qingming, Chen Qingxuan, and "Zen Master Baiyue" sat in the four directions around the altar.
As four beams of light flew into the sky, a golden rune, dozens of feet wide, slowly gathered in mid-air, instantly covering the entire altar below.
"Gentlemen, please lend this old Taoist a hand!"
At the shout of "Master Jiuyue", Song Qingming, Chen Qingxuan, and "Zen Master Baiyue", who were already prepared, immediately activated the array flags in their hands.
The spiritual light was infused into the runes, which quickly transformed into four golden flying swords.
The flying swords fell one after another, disappearing precisely into the area surrounding the sealing array of the altar below.
The next moment, streams of golden liquid appeared above the "sealing array," quickly merging into the missing corner of the array.
Once the golden liquid had completely covered it, the chilling winds emanating from it were also completely sealed within the great formation.
As the golden liquid above the "sealing array" slowly solidified, the entire array suddenly began to shake, as if a powerful force was trying to break free from it.
Seeing this, "Master Jiuyue" immediately activated his whisk, and several beams of spiritual light landed on the runes above the golden liquid, adding several more restrictions.
On Song Qingming's side, he also used the array flag in his hand to land on a restriction covering it.
After the two of them worked together to cast spells, the "sealing array" finally stopped shaking and gradually calmed down.
Seeing that the golden liquid gradually solidified, and that all the damaged parts of the sealing array had been successfully sealed, everyone began to withdraw their own magical power.
After getting up, he carefully scanned the large formation in front of him.
The "Nine Mountains Immortal" once again shot out several beams of spiritual light from his whisk, quickly concealing several key points of the formation.
Only then did a hint of satisfaction appear on his face, and he nodded slightly to the people around him.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I have repaired about 70-80% of the great formation. Although the sealing power of the formation has not been fully restored, there should be no problem for the time being."
I'll take this array diagram back with me for now; perhaps I can find a way to completely repair it in the future."
Although "Master Jiuyue" was the one with the highest mastery of formations among them, his formation skills were only at the fifth-level low-grade realm.
Faced with the fifth-grade "Earthly Origin Spirit Sealing Array" set up by the ancient powerful cultivators, he and Song Qingming and others studied it for several years, but could only restore 70% to 80% of its power.
To fully restore the great formation, it would probably require the intervention of a mid-level fifth-grade formation master.
In the entire "Huayang Realm," only a handful of individuals possess this ability, and all of them are extremely difficult to find.
Faced with the idea of "Master Jiuyue" wanting to take the array diagram back for research, Chen Qingxuan did not object and immediately nodded.
He then took out a storage artifact from his person and tossed it to the other party.
"Thanks to your initiative to stay and help, we were able to reseal the great formation so smoothly. This is just a small token of my appreciation, and I hope you will not refuse it."
"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Chen, you're too kind."
Repairing the sealing array is a matter of life and death for the entire Huayang Realm. How could this old Daoist possibly intervene because of these spiritual objects? Please, fellow Daoist, take them back quickly!
Speaking of which, the old Taoist priest and Fellow Taoist Chen are about the same age, so they will probably have to discuss leaving together in the future.
"Consider today's matter a favor I'm doing you in advance, so that Fellow Daoist Chen can lend a hand in the future."
"That's easy to agree to!"
"Master Jiuyue" is slightly older than Chen Qingxuan, and is now three thousand years old. In recent years, he has been searching for a way to leave this world.
Faced with the "Master Jiuyue's" proactive reminder, Chen Qingxuan simply nodded calmly without saying anything more.
"Fellow Daoists, I have been away for several days and have some matters to attend to, so I will be taking my leave now!"
"Fellow Daoist, please wait!"
Song Qingming and the others stepped forward to return the greeting and watched "Master Jiuyue" fly away.
"Fellow Daoists, this humble monk has a favor to ask of you. I wonder if you two could do me a favor?"
(Sorry, I had something to do and came back late today, so I only wrote this much. I'll try to make up for the rest tomorrow.) (End of Chapter)