Time is too much to count, and old friends are not as they once were.
In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed since Ye Qingxuan established his mysterious emporium.
During these ten years, the cultivators of the two races who poured into the Xuanmu Realm did not decrease—on the contrary, there were more and more of them.
Whenever a cultivator killed a Qingmo tribesman in the Xuanmu Realm and made great progress in their cultivation, it would spur even more cultivators to rush into the Xuanmu Realm one after another to hunt the Qingmo tribesmen.
The situation on the Qingmo tribe’s side was much the same.
Or rather, it was not just the Xuanmu Realm—within the nine fallen lesser thousand realms, more and more cultivators from both realms were pouring in to fight and kill.
Even in the other lesser thousand realms attached to the Earth Xuan Realm, and the demon domains attached to the Qingmo Realm, quite a few cultivators had entered.
Cultivators from the Earth Xuan Realm entered the demon domains, while cultivators from the Qingmo Realm entered the lesser thousand realms.
However, most of these cultivators were only at the Nascent Soul stage.
Although entering the demon domains was much more dangerous for Earth Xuan Realm cultivators, the rewards were also much greater.
These cultivators did not enter the demon domains to hunt same-stage Qingmo tribesmen and improve their cultivation, but rather to hunt low-stage Qingmo tribesmen and sell them for spirit stones.
Within the demon domains, one could hunt a large number of low-stage Qingmo tribesmen.
After selling the corpses of these low-stage Qingmo tribesmen, one could gain enormous profits.
Everyone had their own needs, and everyone’s goals were different.
Not all cultivators were willing to fight same-stage Qingmo tribesmen to improve their own cultivation.
In the seemingly dangerous demon domains, as long as those at the Transformation Spirit stage did not make a move, and one avoided same-stage cultivators, the danger was still controllable.
Now, within the other lesser thousand realms attached to the Earth Xuan Realm, there were also quite a few of these Qingmo tribe cultivators who slipped into the lesser thousand realms to hunt low-stage human cultivators.
However, the true main battlefield for human and Qingmo tribe cultivators at the middle and low stages was still within the nine fallen realms.
The nine fallen realms had now completely become a killing ground for all cultivators at the Transformation Spirit stage and below from both realms.
Those at the Transformation Spirit stage could not, without cause, take the initiative to attack cultivators below the Transformation Spirit stage in the lower realms, but that did not mean they had withdrawn from the battlefield.
On the contrary, the battles between Transformation Spirit stage cultivators of both realms had only grown more intense.
Especially those Transformation Spirit stage cultivators whose lifespans were nearing their end—they emerged from seclusion one after another and headed to the lower realms to hunt demons, giving off a feeling of each fighting alone to cross the river.
However, the Transformation Spirit stage cultivators who entered the battlefield were basically all below the perfected Transformation Spirit stage.
After their cultivation rose to the perfected Transformation Spirit stage, most cultivators chose to withdraw from the battlefield and return to their respective main worlds to enter seclusion, comprehend the rules of profundity, and seek the opportunity to break through to the Void Piercing stage.
In the successive great battles, the environment within the nine realms suffered severe damage once again.
Quite a few energy sources that had already transformed into demon veins were destroyed, and a large number of demon vein sources were brought back by Earth Xuan Realm cultivators, allowing the high-level members of the Earth Xuan Realm Alliance to purify them back into spirit veins.
In the Earth Xuan Realm, many small clans were now frantically accepting missions from the Earth Xuan Realm Alliance and accumulating contribution points.
They were preparing to exchange for high-grade spirit vein sources to upgrade their clan lands.
After these spirit vein sources were exchanged, they were reestablished in the Earth Xuan Realm, which could also be considered an indirect improvement to the Earth Xuan Realm.
As more and more cultivators from both realms poured in, the foot traffic within Ye Qingxuan’s mysterious emporium also grew day by day.
Over the ten years, quite a few cultivators from other cities had come to Ye Qingxuan’s mysterious emporium, wanting to establish interconnected teleportation arrays with it.
Ye Qingxuan did not refuse this request.
Interconnected teleportation arrays also brought certain benefits to Ye Qingxuan.
So all those who were willing to take the initiative to make contact and establish interconnected teleportation arrays—Ye Qingxuan agreed to every one of them.
Now the teleportation plaza within the mysterious emporium was much livelier than before, with cultivators constantly entering and leaving the teleportation plaza.
Over ten years, the mysterious emporium had successively purchased quite a few low-stage Qingmo tribe corpses.
In addition, Ye Qingxuan’s explorer clone had hunted a large number of low-stage Qingmo tribe corpses in the Xuanmu Realm.
Under the purification of the sixth-stage grand purification array within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, these Qingmo tribe corpses were converted into a large amount of origin energy and channeled into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
Now, Ye Qingxuan had already raised the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land to the mid third stage.
The Qingmo tribe corpses collected over these ten years had saved nearly ninety years of growth time for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
In the stone pavilion outside the Qingxuan blessed land, Ye Qingxuan brewed a pot of tea and was quietly waiting for Ye Yuhong’s arrival.
Now, it was already the second hundred-year period since he had opened up the blessed land.
The hundred-year period had arrived, and the Ye family’s thirty-percent share of the blessed land’s dividends was also due for handover.
During this hundred-year period, in the latter few decades, Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land had advanced to the third stage, and its area had greatly increased.
Although the newly planted spirit plants had not yet grown to the fifth stage, the first few hundred Earth Spirit Flowers, Purifying Spirit Trees, and Spirit Gathering Grasses that had been planted had already grown to the fifth-stage level.
In addition, with the greatly increased planting area, in the latter dozen or so years, Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan blessed land had also produced quite a few fourth-stage spirit plants.
So this time, the share handed over to the Ye family would be much greater than last time.
Ye Qingxuan made a rough estimate: the Ye family’s share over the hundred years was worth nearly one million high-grade spirit stones in total.
As for the spirit medicines grown within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land, aside from what Ye Qingxuan consumed for his own alchemy, most were refined into various pills through the channels of the Tianfu Shop.
Some of these finished pills were stored away by Ye Qingxuan.
He planned to leave them for his external incarnation, Gui Xuanzi, so that after the external incarnation established a city in the Eastern Pole Domain and opened a marketplace, they could fill the gaps in the marketplace’s goods.
Another portion Ye Qingxuan directly placed in the Tianfu Shop for sale.
At present, the profits brought by the Tianfu Shop were still mostly from the nuclear explosion pill series and the pills refined from the spirit medicines produced by the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
Whoosh!
A sound of something cutting through the air came, and Ye Qingxuan looked up.
The newcomer was none other than Ye Yuhong, who had hurried over from Qingzhou.
Ye Qingxuan stood up and walked outside the stone pavilion to wait for Ye Yuhong to descend.
After Ye Yuhong landed, Ye Qingxuan gave a slight bow and said with a light smile:
“Hahaha! Patriarch, long time no see—I trust you have been well?”
Hearing Ye Qingxuan’s words, Ye Yuhong laughed heartily and said:
“Thanks to you, I have already broken through to the late Golden Core stage, hahaha!”
It was clear that this breakthrough in cultivation made Ye Yuhong very happy.
Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan did not quite agree.
But with Ye Yuhong’s talent of four-element spiritual roots, plus the fact that the Ye family’s Yunwu Mountain was only a fourth-stage spirit land, this cultivation progress could already be considered fast.
Although there were abundant resources provided by Ye Qingxuan, these resources could only play a supporting role.
Pills that aided cultivation only maximized the efficiency of spiritual root usage; they did not directly increase a cultivator’s cultivation.
So after the Ye family obtained Ye Qingxuan’s pill resources, their overall cultivation speed improved somewhat, but it was not a leap-forward improvement.
To bring about a qualitative change, enough time was still needed for accumulation.
“Patriarch, please take a seat!”
After saying that, Ye Qingxuan led Ye Yuhong into the stone pavilion and had him sit down.
Just after sitting down, Ye Yuhong noticed something was off.
He subconsciously touched the beast-hide cushion beneath him and sensed the aura emanating from it.
Ye Yuhong looked down and asked with some uncertainty:
“This is… a spirit artifact?”
