Ye Qingxuan didn’t have to wait long.
No sooner had he finished brewing the tea than Bai Zichun arrived outside the stone pavilion as a beam of rainbow light.
Seeing that Bai Zichun had arrived, Ye Qingxuan immediately stood up, walked outside the stone pavilion, and greeted him with a bow:
“Disciple Ye Qingxuan greets the manager!”
Bai Zichun looked at Ye Qingxuan before him, a satisfied expression appearing in his eyes, and said with a smile:
“You don’t need to be so formal. Over a hundred years have passed, and you haven’t let me down.”
The aura around Ye Qingxuan said it all.
For a blessed land cultivator of the Xuantian Sect, temperament was the most important thing. Sometimes, being too impatient would only backfire.
Clearly, Ye Qingxuan’s unhurried and unflappable nature, combined with the refined, easygoing, and gentle aura he now carried, showed that he had greatly benefited from these past hundred years.
Since it was his first time visiting, Bai Zichun couldn’t help but take a good look at the stone pavilion Ye Qingxuan had built. He chuckled and scolded affectionately:
“You rascal, you sure know how to enjoy yourself!”
Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan smiled lightly and said:
“Disciple is just making the best of a tough situation! Manager, please, have a seat!”
With that, Ye Qingxuan led Bai Zichun into the stone pavilion to sit down and poured him a cup of the freshly brewed Calming Heart Tea.
Bai Zichun’s nose twitched slightly as he took in the tea’s aroma. He couldn’t resist taking a small sip, and his eyes immediately lit up. He asked:
“What tea is this? It suits your personality quite well.”
Seeing that Bai Zichun also seemed to enjoy the Calming Heart Tea, Ye Qingxuan’s lips curled slightly upward, and he explained:
“This is Calming Heart Tea. If you like it, Manager, I’ll give you some to take with you.”
“Calming Heart Tea?”
Bai Zichun’s eyes showed a hint of confusion. He glanced at Ye Qingxuan and said:
“Rascal, you’re not trying to fool me, are you? Calming Heart Tea is a second-order spiritual tea—I’ve had it before! This tea, although similar to Calming Heart Tea, definitely isn’t second-order Calming Heart Tea.”
Hearing Bai Zichun’s doubt, Ye Qingxuan just smiled and didn’t say a word.
He hadn’t expected Bai Zichun to actually know about Calming Heart Tea. Since he couldn’t explain it, he simply decided not to.
Seeing that Ye Qingxuan wasn’t talking, Bai Zichun shook his head, took another sip of the tea in his cup, and savored it carefully.
But after quite a while, he still couldn’t figure out what tea it was. So Bai Zichun could only look at Ye Qingxuan with an amused expression and say:
“Interesting. I’ve tasted countless teas in my life, and yet today, I’ve been stumped by you, you rascal.”
“If you won’t tell me, fine, but when I leave, you’d better give me a good amount of this tea.”
Bai Zichun didn’t stand on ceremony with Ye Qingxuan. He planned to take the tea back and have a few old friends taste it, so he could show off a bit.
Seeing that Bai Zichun wasn’t going to press the matter, Ye Qingxuan smiled faintly and said:
“Don’t worry, Manager. From now on, there’ll be plenty of this tea.”
After saying that, Ye Qingxuan took out a packet of tea leaves and handed it to Bai Zichun:
“Take this tea for now, Elder. Come find me again when you finish it.”
Ye Qingxuan didn’t really care what others guessed about him nowadays. As long as no one could enter his blessed land, they wouldn’t be able to see his true hidden cards.
Having been in the Xuantian Sect for many years, Ye Qingxuan naturally understood the sect well enough.
As long as he stayed within the Xuantian Sect, even if others made all kinds of guesses about him, Ye Qingxuan wouldn’t let it bother him.
Facing such things, he would no longer be anxious or uneasy like before. He would probably just let it go with a smile.
He, Ye Qingxuan, wasn’t stealing or robbing anyone. He walked upright and stood tall. So why should he panic and disturb his own state of mind just because of some people’s guesses?
Even if they could tell he was somewhat extraordinary, so what? As long as he didn’t leave the Xuantian Sect, he could naturally be safe and worry-free.
Bai Zichun, sitting across from him, watched Ye Qingxuan’s calm and unruffled demeanor—light as the wind and gentle as the clouds—and felt even more deeply comforted.
After all, Ye Qingxuan was the very blessed land cultivator disciple he had first taken a liking to.
Now, seeing that Ye Qingxuan seemed to be developing quite well, without any negative emotions from becoming a blessed land cultivator, and still able to maintain his true heart and forge ahead through hardships—
Of course, Bai Zichun felt very pleased.
He reached out and took the tea leaves Ye Qingxuan handed him. Seeing that enough time had already been spent, Bai Zichun finally got down to business:
“It’s getting late. Give me the Purification Trees. I’ll tally them up so I can transfer the alliance contribution points to you.”
However, Ye Qingxuan didn’t rush to bring out the Purification Trees. Instead, he asked in return:
“Manager, may I ask what the prices are for Purification Trees above the first order?”
“Hmm?”
Bai Zichun was a little puzzled, but in the end, he explained:
“According to the alliance’s unified purchase price, a first-order Purification Tree is worth 9 alliance contribution points. A second-order tree is worth 90 points. A third-order tree is worth 9,000 points. A fourth-order tree is worth 90,000 points.”
“The value of one contribution point is the same as one low-grade spirit stone. However, the supplies within the alliance can only be exchanged using alliance contribution points.”
Alliance contribution points could mostly only be earned by carrying out missions from the Earth Profound Realm Alliance.
Those who formed their own teams to go down to the lower realms and hunt Green Demons wouldn’t get alliance contribution points, because the corpses and cultivation origins of the Green Demons were already the best reward.
But to encourage enthusiasm among the cultivators of the Earth Profound Realm for demon hunting—
After opening the spatial passages leading to the demon domains subordinate to the Green Demon Realm, the Earth Profound Realm would freely provide returning cultivators with spatial anchor array plates to get back to the Earth Profound Realm, eliminating any worries they might have.
After learning the value of the Purification Trees, Ye Qingxuan had a good idea in mind.
Third-order Purification Trees were a major threshold. Their price was a hundred times higher than second-order trees, while fourth-order trees were only ten times the price of third-order ones.
But based on the current purchase prices, even though cultivating fourth-order Purification Trees took longer, it was still more cost-effective to cultivate fourth-order trees.
He took out a storage pouch he had prepared long ago and handed it to Bai Zichun, then casually said:
“Manager, inside this pouch are one hundred first-order Purification Trees and five hundred fourth-order Purification Trees.”
The first-order Purification Trees were mainly to mislead outsiders. The fourth-order trees were the real main haul.
It wasn’t that he feared others’ speculation—that was one thing—but he still needed to maintain some cover. After all, he had to give outsiders a reasonable direction for their imaginations, right?
Five hundred fourth-order Purification Trees weren’t all the fourth-order trees in the Qingxuan Blessed Land. Ye Qingxuan had only taken out half.
Because Purification Trees were quite helpful to a blessed land, helping purify the occasional bit of negative energy that appeared. So, he didn’t plan to touch the other half.
Upon hearing the numbers Ye Qingxuan mentioned, Bai Zichun quickly checked the storage pouch Ye Qingxuan had given him, then exclaimed in surprise:
“How on earth do you have so many fourth-order Purification Trees?”
Facing Bai Zichun’s question, Ye Qingxuan had already prepared his explanation. He smiled faintly and said:
“Disciple had nothing much to do these years, so I arranged for someone to open a small shop at the sect’s marketplace. Business turned out pretty well. These fourth-order Purification Trees—I had my shop help me purchase them.”
Hearing this, Bai Zichun gave Ye Qingxuan a deep look but didn’t ask any more questions.
Although Ye Qingxuan had exceeded his expectations a bit, as long as he didn’t violate the sect’s rules or harm the Xuantian Sect, Bai Zichun wouldn’t interfere too much.
After becoming a blessed land cultivator, Ye Qingxuan was stuck sitting in one place.
Under these circumstances, if Ye Qingxuan could still get his hands on so many fourth-order Purification Trees, that was his own skill.
Though he was a little curious, Bai Zichun saw that Ye Qingxuan didn’t seem inclined to say more, so he didn’t press further. Instead, he began calculating Ye Qingxuan’s alliance contribution points:
“One hundred first-order Purification Trees are worth 900 alliance contribution points. Five hundred fourth-order Purification Trees are worth 45 million alliance contribution points.”
As he spoke, Bai Zichun glanced at Ye Qingxuan again, a teasing tone in his voice:
“You’re loaded now. Want me to round it down for you?”
Hearing that, Ye Qingxuan gave a sheepish smile and said:
“Manager, you’re joking. These alliance contribution points—they might seem like a lot, but for this disciple, they won’t last long either!”
Bai Zichun let out a breath and stopped teasing Ye Qingxuan. He took out a scroll and handed it to Ye Qingxuan, saying:
“Here’s a list of things you can exchange alliance contribution points for. Take a look.”
Ye Qingxuan took it and opened it. On it were all kinds of magical treasures, pills, array plates, talismans—everything you could think of. There was even a seventh-order Origin Source Pill available for exchange.
The seventh-order Origin Source Pill could directly raise one’s cultivation without any side effects, much like the origin feedback from the Earth Profound Realm, but its price was extremely expensive.
Ye Qingxuan’s contribution points weren’t even enough for the spare change, let alone the full price.
After scanning through the list, Ye Qingxuan’s gaze locked onto the Spirit Vein Origins.
Although the Earth Profound Realm and the Green Demon Realm had only been at war for a year, the Earth Profound Realm Alliance had already harvested quite a few Spirit Vein Origins from the lower realms.
The listed prices for each order of Spirit Vein Origin were:
First-order Spirit Vein Origin: 100,000 alliance contribution points each.
Second-order Spirit Vein Origin: 1 million alliance contribution points each.
Third-order Spirit Vein Origin: 10 million alliance contribution points each.
Fourth-order Spirit Vein Origin: 100 million alliance contribution points each.
Not only did a Spirit Vein Origin contain immense energy and elemental laws within itself,
but once it was settled in place, it could automatically open nodes connecting to chaos and the void, then begin continuously absorbing chaotic and void energy to convert into spiritual energy, condense spirit stones, and even help the world speed up the accumulation and conversion of world origin.
Inside Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land,
each time he integrated a Spirit Vein Origin, it would not only instantly increase the blessed land’s energy by quite a bit, but also add an extra spirit vein, increasing the blessed land’s efficiency in converting origin.
After thinking it over for a moment, Ye Qingxuan spoke:
“Manager, this disciple would like to exchange for five second-order Spirit Vein Origins and four third-order Spirit Vein Origins.”
Hearing what Ye Qingxuan wanted to exchange, Bai Zichun wasn’t surprised.
Having been the manager of the Blessed Land Court for many years, he naturally understood how important Spirit Vein Origins were to a blessed land.
So Bai Zichun simply nodded and said:
“Alright. I’ll bring the Spirit Vein Origins to you tomorrow.”
Then, Bai Zichun took out his own token and performed a few operations. Ye Qingxuan’s disciple token trembled slightly.
Ye Qingxuan checked it and saw that 900 alliance contribution points had been added to his account, along with a temporary record of the nine Spirit Vein Origins he had exchanged for—marked as not yet delivered.
With all this done, Bai Zichun didn’t linger any longer. He flew directly into the air and left Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan Blessed Land, heading to the next blessed land belonging to another blessed land disciple.
However, when it came to the other blessed land disciples, Bai Zichun’s attitude was a complete one-eighty.
His face was cold, and throughout the conversations, he was purely businesslike. He didn’t even sit down at all.
The whole process took very little time.
But that was only normal. Bai Zichun had been a manager for many years. If he handled every matter with the same chit-chat and pleasantries as he did with Ye Qingxuan, who knows how much cultivation time it would waste?
So, for cultivators, efficiency came first.
Aside from a few close acquaintances, they wouldn’t waste time on unnecessary social niceties.
It wasn’t that they didn’t understand social graces. It was just that most cultivators, though they seemed to have long lifespans, were actually under tight time constraints.
Striving along the immortal path—how could one afford to slack off?
For those lacking talent, even a slight relaxation might cause them to fall at the doorstep of the next realm, living the rest of their lives in regret.
