"Don't worry! I know Senior Sister Bai well enough. Even if she and I have differences of opinion in the future, it won't be anything too serious.
If there truly comes a day when the conflict between me and the sect cannot be reconciled, then at worst, I'll take all of you and leave the sect together. We can stay on Crimson Cloud Mountain and cultivate."
Facing Song Qingyu's far-sighted question, Song Qingming still wore a somewhat relaxed expression.
Ever since Song Qingming formed his Nascent Soul, the Song Family had developed at a breakneck pace over the past several centuries and had become the foremost cultivation family in the entire Floating Cloud Mountain Range.
Within the sect alone, there were already two Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Song Family—Song Qingming and Song Qingyu—along with the Nascent Soul spirit beast, the Ice Fire Flood Dragon.
Among the Golden Core Elders close to Song Qingming were Huang Siyuan, Song Yuanhao, Zhang Yurong, Song Linxi, Song Linrui, Song Siqing, Song Yu'ping, Song Yuanfang, Bai Jingyun, and many others.
Without exception, these people either bore the Song Family name or were direct descendants personally fostered by Song Qingming.
Although Song Qingming now lived permanently on Crimson Cloud Mountain to cultivate, his influence within the Carefree Sect had quietly surpassed that of Bai Yuxian and Li Mufeng, who had formed their Nascent Souls earlier than him.
Li Mufeng was already over twelve hundred years old. By the standards of a Nascent Soul Cultivator's lifespan, he had only a little more than two hundred years left.
Once Li Mufeng passed away, if the Carefree Sect could not cultivate a new Nascent Soul Cultivator—
Bai Yuxian's influence alone would certainly be unable to contend with Song Qingming and Song Qingyu within the sect. The Carefree Sect