As for the Spirit Beast Sect, they mainly focus on raising various kinds of spirit beasts.
So, the Spirit Beast Sect directly gave Tianfu Shop a list of spirit beasts, intending to use spirit beasts as a trade to offset part of the spirit stones.
At this moment, inside the stone pavilion outside the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan was holding the list of spirit beasts provided by the Spirit Beast Sect, picking out the ones he wanted.
Most of these spirit beasts were mainly meant for combat and protection, with very few being the supportive type.
Moreover, the Spirit Beast Sect was only a third-rate sect with a God Transformation realm cultivator keeping watch. The bloodlines of the spirit beasts they provided weren’t very high-grade, and their growth potential was quite limited.
In the end, after reading through all the spirit beast introductions on the list, Ye Qingxuan chose five types:
They were the Earth Dragon, Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterfly, Nurturing Spirit Bee, Green Spirit Flood Dragon, and Earth Spirit Turtle.
Earth Dragon: It can help unclog the energy of a spiritual land, speeding up the flow of spiritual energy there. Although low-level Earth Dragons aren’t very useful for a grotto-heaven or blessed land, Earth Dragons at the fifth tier or above can connect low-level spiritual veins together, accelerating their growth speed. Therefore, high-level Earth Dragons can provide considerable help for the growth of a grotto-heaven or blessed land.
Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterfly: It can speed up the growth of flower-type spiritual plants, and its supportive effects are pretty good.
Nurturing Spirit Bee: It can produce Nurturing Spirit Honey, which contains extremely pure and concentrated spiritual energy. For example, if a Qi Condensation realm cultivator takes first-tier Nurturing Spirit Honey produced by first-tier Nurturing Spirit Bees, refining one wisp of spiritual energy from it is as effective as two ordinary wisps. That essentially doubles the cultivation speed of a Qi Condensation realm cultivator. And Nurturing Spirit Bees can be raised up to the sixth tier. The sixth-tier Nurturing Spirit Honey produced by sixth-tier bees can double the cultivation speed of a God Transformation realm cultivator. So, Nurturing Spirit Bees are extremely valuable. Their only downside is their very low yield. The honey produced by a thousand Nurturing Spirit Bees might only be enough for one cultivator to use for about a month.
Green Spirit Flood Dragon: This is the lowest level spirit beast among flood dragons. Its combat ability is average, and its bloodline’s growth limit is the sixth tier. Moreover, its growth requires a huge amount of resources. However, there’s a very small chance that a Green Spirit Flood Dragon can undergo a bloodline transformation and break through its growth limit.
Earth Spirit Turtle: This is a mid-level spirit beast among turtles. Its defensive power and vitality are astonishing. A cultivator less than one full tier higher than it cannot break its defenses. Its bloodline growth limit is also the sixth tier, but its growth speed is extremely slow.
After Ye Qingxuan chose these five types of spirit beasts, the specific quantities for the transaction still needed to be determined by the Spirit Beast Sect itself. After all, spirit beasts are part of the sect’s foundational heritage, and the sect couldn’t possibly tell Ye Qingxuan the exact numbers they had.
However, the Spirit Beast Sect didn’t keep Ye Qingxuan waiting too long. After he confirmed the spirit beasts he wanted and sent the information over, they quickly replied with an offer:
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1000 first-tier Earth Dragons, 300 second-tier Earth Dragons, 30 third-tier Earth Dragons, offsetting a total of 30,000 high-grade spirit stones.
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10,000 first-tier Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterflies, 5000 second-tier ones, 1000 third-tier ones, 200 fourth-tier ones, offsetting a total of 800,000 high-grade spirit stones.
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8000 first-tier Nurturing Spirit Bees, 3000 second-tier ones, 1000 third-tier ones, offsetting a total of 300,000 high-grade spirit stones.
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1 first-tier Green Spirit Flood Dragon hatchling, offsetting 100,000 high-grade spirit stones.
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10 first-tier Earth Spirit Turtle hatchlings, offsetting 500,000 high-grade spirit stones.
After getting Ye Qingxuan’s agreement, the Spirit Beast Sect finally delivered 14.27 million high-grade spirit stones along with the corresponding spirit beasts.
After everything was transferred to Ye Qingxuan under Zhu Dafu’s arrangement, Ye Qingxuan looked at the mountain of high-grade spirit stones piled up in his blessed land and could no longer contain his excitement.
But Ye Qingxuan wasn’t the only one excited; Zhu Dafu, grinning foolishly at Tianfu Shop, was over the moon too. This time, just by acting as a messenger, he had earned 2.56 million high-grade spirit stones. That was basically enough resources to cultivate all the way to the Nascent Soul realm.
But the one who gained the most was still Ye Qingxuan. With this windfall, Ye Qingxuan wouldn’t have to worry about resources for his grotto-heaven and blessed land for a good while.
Each of the eight factions contributed 16 million worth of spirit stones or resources, for a total value of 128 million spirit stones.
However, only 70.27 million of that was in high-grade spirit stones.
The rest consisted of spiritual mines worth 54 million high-grade spirit stones, spiritual plant seeds worth 2 million high-grade spirit stones, and spirit beasts worth 1.73 million high-grade spirit stones.
After deducting the 1% fee for signing the contract from the Xuantian Sect’s External Affairs Hall and the 3% rebate promised to Zhu Chuixiang, Ye Qingxuan actually ended up with 65.15 million high-grade spirit stones.
Among the spiritual mines worth 54 million high-grade spirit stones, second- to fifth-tier mines made up the bulk, accounting for about 60% of the value. They basically covered most of the second- to fifth-tier spiritual mine types near the Xuantian Sect.
Fifth-tier spiritual mines are the main material for refining low and mid-grade spiritual artifacts. Depending on their quality, they’re worth roughly 3000 to 10,000 high-grade spirit stones per cubic meter. Although their value is considerable, they aren’t considered too precious for businesses with God Transformation realm cultivators, so they accounted for about 35% of the transaction value.
However, the sixth-tier spiritual mines, used to refine top-grade and high-grade spiritual artifacts, are worth about 60,000 to 200,000 high-grade spirit stones per cubic meter. Even businesses with God Transformation realm cultivators don’t have much stock of these, so they only accounted for 5% of the transaction value.
As for seventh-tier spiritual mines, used to refine low-grade spirit treasures, there wasn’t a single bit!
Spiritual mines and materials at the seventh tier and above contain traces of elemental essence, causing their value to skyrocket. Even if the factions trading with Ye Qingxuan had any seventh-tier mines, they definitely wouldn’t trade them away. Ye Qingxuan wasn’t too bothered by this, after all, seventh-tier mines for low-grade spirit treasures are still far beyond his reach.
After finishing his inventory of the spiritual mines, Ye Qingxuan moved all the mines and spirit stones into the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.
Then he started looking through the spiritual plant seeds.
Spiritual plant seeds aren’t very valuable because even if you have the seeds, they might not sprout; and even if they sprout, they might not grow to maturity. Among factions in the Earthly Profound Realm, as long as they’ve existed for a long time and aren’t too weak, they generally have stockpiles of high-tier spiritual plant seeds. Because once you obtain a high-tier spiritual plant, getting its seeds isn’t too difficult. High-tier seeds are hard to cultivate and grow extremely slowly, so many people choose to sell them directly after obtaining them. You often see high-tier spiritual plant seeds appear at major shops and auctions. Those truly great factions, having been established for many years, don’t lack these kinds of seeds and naturally wouldn’t care about some ordinary seeds circulating at auctions.
So, even though the Ancient Pill Sect and the Ten Thousand Herbs Valley only had God Transformation realm cultivators, it wasn’t hard for them to collect various high-tier spiritual plant seeds over time.
Most of the seeds given by these two major factions were sixth-tier spiritual medicine seeds, with a smaller portion being sixth-tier spiritual plant seeds that have supportive effects or can be used as refining materials.
Besides those, there were also twenty-three seventh-tier spiritual medicine seeds and three special seventh-tier spiritual plant seeds. Regarding these twenty-six seventh-tier seeds, Ye Qingxuan could even sense the aura of soil from them. Ye Qingxuan strongly suspected that these two factions had been cultivating them for a long time without success and took this opportunity to dig them up from the ground on short notice to pawn them off to him.
But Ye Qingxuan wasn’t surprised. Seventh-tier and above spiritual medicines already contain various types of primal energies, making them the main ingredients for refining Primal Source Pills. And Primal Source Pills are the kind of pills that can directly increase a cultivator’s cultivation without any side effects. Therefore, to cultivate seventh-tier or higher spiritual plant seeds, you need a significant amount of primal energy to continuously nourish them for a considerable time just to activate them. Ordinary factions simply cannot cultivate them. Even Ye Qingxuan himself, despite being able to tap into the primal energy of his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, wouldn’t cultivate those twenty-three seventh-tier spiritual medicine seeds or those three special seventh-tier spiritual plant seeds for a short while.
The current level of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land is still too low. If he used too much primal energy to cultivate and nourish those seeds, it would risk the collapse of his grotto-heaven and blessed land. After all, seeds are different from seedlings. The Thunder Source Tree seedling Ye Qingxiao gave him before had already successfully sprouted and passed the initial nourishment period. Once a seedling is planted, as long as you continuously supply it with various energies, it can slowly convert those energies into primal energy by itself, without consuming too much of the grotto-heaven’s primal energy.
Ye Qingxuan wanted these fifth-tier and above spiritual plant seeds for future preparation, just being proactive. After putting these seeds away safely, Ye Qingxuan took out the five spirit beast pouches given by the Spirit Beast Sect, ready to inventory these spirit beasts.
