Chapter 2268 - 1952: Meeting the Father-in-law

Chapter 2268: Chapter 1952: Meeting the Father-in-law

The Spiritual Origin Pill isn’t a high-grade elixir, but for Song Yun, crafting it isn’t easy.

He doesn’t have pill fire or a cauldron, entirely relying on high-tech tools to craft elixir pills, which is quite a technical task.

After all, the difference between boilers, aviation combustion, and cauldrons, pill fires is vast, and many methods recorded in "Yin Xi’s Manual" are often inapplicable.

After failing more than fifty times, Song Yun finally succeeded in crafting five Spiritual Origin Pills.

The five Spiritual Origin Pills aren’t important; what matters is that he grasped the trick.

The subsequent success rate in alchemy significantly improved, gradually reaching ten percent, then twenty percent, thirty percent, finally stabilizing at seventy percent.

Of course, by this time, the ingredients were nearly exhausted, and in total, he managed to craft two hundred and twenty-five Spiritual Origin Pills.

He kept fifty for himself and distributed the rest to others at the Azure Dragon Villa.

Everyone was overjoyed to receive the Spiritual Origin Pills, especially the six men of the Nine Stars, who immediately started consuming the pills for cultivation.

They felt a significant dissatisfaction with their realm and aimed to catch up with Song Yun’s pace.

With the aid of elixir pills, their cultivation speed could increase noticeably, making Song Yun feel slightly at ease.

Next, he planned to get some jade stones to craft Tokens to access Taoyuan.

He dialed Wang Ling’s number, and as soon as it connected, even before he could speak, Wang Ling’s anxious voice came from the other end: "I was about to call you when you rang. I’m telling you, there’s been a major incident, something terrible happened."

Song Yun, puzzled, asked: "What happened?"

Wang Ling replied in a grave tone: "I had completed all the preliminary preparations before, and today, as I led people to the mine, I found over thirty corpses. These were the same people who warned us previously, claiming the mine was a cursed place. They’ve all died and were buried by the sand, likely for quite a while."

Upon hearing this, Song Yun’s heart sunk, thinking: "It appears I’ve been careless, it must be the work of the Sky Demon Sect. They are not just Yang Ze and three others, there are more of them."

Following that, Wang Ling briefed Song Yun on the specifics, noting that aside from indicating these people were killed by the same individual, there were no other useful clues.

Once Wang Ling finished explaining, Song Yun cautioned: "Leave the mine immediately, refrain from mining for now."

The Spirit Stones were taken, and the Sky Demon Path will certainly investigate, there may still be people at the Hetian Jade Mine, which is highly dangerous.

"Pause mining, this..."

Wang Ling hesitated somewhat, noting her considerable effort and impending commencement, making it hard for her to stop.

After a brief silence, she opted to trust Song Yun: "Alright, I’ll listen to you."

Song Yun added: "Also, be cautious lately."

"Okay," Wang Ling agreed, then asked quietly: "Song Yun, who have I provoked, why is the mine so unsettled?"

"You haven’t provoked anyone, it was me."

Song Yun smiled bitterly, acknowledging that he killed Yang Ze and others, and stole the Spirit Stones, which had nothing to do with Wang Ling besides occurring at the Hetian Jade Mine.

Nevertheless, this incident undoubtedly implicated Wang Ling, and if the Sky Demon Sect investigated, they would soon trace it back to her.

Wang Ling inquired: "Who is the opponent?"

Song Yun replied: "Their background is large, beyond what you could imagine. To best assure your safety, I recommend moving to my villa."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ling was greatly shocked.

Having witnessed Song Yun’s power before, Wang Ling understood the opponent must be extremely formidable if they prompted him to treat the matter so seriously.

She hesitated: "Moving to your place... I’ll consider it."

"Arrange your affairs there swiftly and hurry back to Yanjing."

Song Yun cautioned before ending the call.

"It seems my trouble isn’t small; the Sky Demon Sect will visit eventually, and the Xuan Family will sort everything out eventually. Either of these forces alone is tough to deal with; now with both coming, unless I employ Yin Xi’s residual power, I’m dead."

"However, Yin Xi’s residual power is ultimately limited, and the opponent has many people. Even if I kill a hundred of them, I can’t eliminate them all. It seems I must rapidly advance my power to achieve a higher realm."

Considering carefully, Song Yun concluded that only cultivation might save him.

Without delay, he returned to his room, took out Spirit Stones, and began cultivating the "Nine Revolutions Star Technique."

The growth of star energy remained slow, condensed in his Dantian as a thin, pale blue mist, shrinking to a corner of the Dantian, amounting to less than one-thousandth of True Qi.

On the contrary, True Qi continued to increase rapidly; it might not take long before Song Yun progresses to late-stage Foundation Establishment.

"At this rate, who knows when the ’Nine Revolutions Star Technique’ will complete its first rotation."

Song Yun paused his cultivation, lamenting.

"After cultivating star energy, I haven’t used it yet. The ’Nine Revolutions Star Technique’ mentions that star energy can amplify True Qi power. I should try it out, see how strong it is."

Song Yun left the villa, heading to the back mountain.

This mountain was entirely purchased by him; testing the power of star energy here, he need not worry about being observed.

"Condensed Explosion Palm!"

Song Yun swung his palm, executing the Condensed Explosion Palm, channeling True Qi, whilst infusing a thread of star energy.

The so-called thread was actually all the star energy infused into the palm shadow of the Condensed Explosion Palm.

Because he had too little star energy in his Dantian, even if he wished to release less, he couldn’t.