Guests from Beyond the Mountain, Xu Qingyin

When they heard that the secret art Song Qingming was passing on to them could actually aid in forming the Golden Core, Song Changze and the other two all showed surprise on their faces.

Having cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, they had naturally heard of the various methods in the Cultivation World for increasing one's chances of forming a Golden Core.

Aside from Five Elements Spiritual Items and supplementary pills such as the "Jade Dust Pill," the greatest help to cultivators attempting to break through to the Golden Core Realm came from the various secret arts that aided Golden Core formation, which the major sects would never pass on to outsiders.

The Song Family had only become a Golden Core Family a little over a century ago. Furthermore, Song Qingming and the other two had never revealed the "Returning Origin Art" to anyone else. Though they were Foundation Establishment elders of the Song Family, they had never imagined that the family possessed a secret art that could aid in forming the Golden Core.

After all, those who possessed such Golden Core formation secret arts were generally Nascent Soul great sects like the "Carefree Sect," or other Golden Core forces with deep foundations. It was exceedingly unlikely for a cultivation power like the Song Family, which had only advanced into a Golden Core Immortal Clan a little over a century ago, to possess one.

Over the years, several Song Family ancestors had succeeded in forming their Golden Cores one after another. Outsiders all said that the Song Family's fortune was simply too good, and Song Changze and most of the others had actually thought the same.

Only now, when they saw Song Qingming produce the "Returning Origin Art," did Song Changze and the others understand that forming a Golden