Ever since obtaining this mysterious Incomplete Map, Song Qingming's mana recovery speed had far surpassed that of ordinary people, while the speed at which he refined spiritual items within his body was likewise several times that of normal cultivators.
The Level 4 High-grade demon core, which should have taken several years to refine completely, had remained in Song Qingming's dantian for less than half a year before turning into a mass of pure Spiritual Energy.
Once the demon core had been fully refined, Song Qingming swallowed the prepared Mysterious Spirit Pill.
The next instant, an astonishing aura erupted from his dantian, and the high-level Spirit Gathering Array that had long been set up beside him immediately began operating on its own.
A vortex of Spiritual Energy gathered above the cave abode in an instant, and countless streams of pure Spiritual Energy surged directly toward the secluded chamber where Song Qingming was in closed cultivation.
This unusual movement soon alerted Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu, who lived closest to his cave abode.
"Is this... could Seventh Brother already be preparing to break through?"
"It's Junior Brother Song..."
At that moment, while cultivating in seclusion within their own cave abodes, they sensed the surrounding Spiritual Energy gathering toward Song Qingming's cave abode.
Fearing that they might affect him, the two of them stopped their own cultivation and yielded all the Spiritual Energy atop the mountain to Song Qingming, who was undergoing his breakthrough in seclusion.
As early as ten years ago, Song Yuanhao, Zhang Yurong, and the others had followed Song Qingming's instructions and successfully accumulated more than seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones in the Treasury.
Together with the contributions donated by Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and the others, Crimson Cloud Mountain soon gathered the eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones needed to