Spring passed, autumn came; time flowed on.
In the blink of an eye, another fifty years had gone by.
Inside the cave abode at the summit of Qingyun Mountain.
Beneath the Azure Treasure Tree, a figure sat cross-legged upon a crystalline Jasper Treasure Bed.
Before him lay all manner of jade boxes, porcelain bottles, and a large pile of ancient-looking jade slips. From time to time came the sound of items being turned over.
Having just completed a round of cultivation, Song Qingming was staring intently at the jade slip in his hand, patiently studying the mysteries within.
Some of these jade slips had been gathered from all over at Song Qingming's request, while others had been obtained when he and Yuzhen Zi had previously ventured into an ancient secret realm in the Northern Nether Immortal Continent.
Besides manuals recording alchemy and artifact refining, they also contained quite a few ancient cultivation technique scriptures.
Yet after tens of thousands of years, most of these cultivation technique jade slips had become somewhat incomplete. Very few had preserved their techniques in their entirety.
Even so, Song Qingming remained exceedingly serious when faced with the jade slips before him.
Nearly every jade slip he picked up was read over and over several times. Only after he had comprehended it flawlessly in his heart would he reluctantly set it down.
Song Qingming was doing this because the self-created cultivation technique he practiced had currently only been deduced to the third level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and he had already reached a cultivation bottleneck.
To avoid affecting his normal cultivation, he had to find a way to continue deducing the Azure Jade Treasure Refining Art further upward.
There were already few cultivation techniques in the Cultivation World capable of reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm.