In the time that followed.
Apart from cultivation every day, Ye Qingxuan spent his time refining various sixth-tier pills, formation discs, talismans, and top-grade spirit artifacts, as well as fifth and sixth-tier puppets.
Refining sixth-tier items required a great deal of time and energy.
So in the cultivation years that followed, Ye Qingxuan lived every day in a state of constant busyness.
Aside from his cultivation time, the energy fluctuations from Ye Qingxuan’s refinement of sixth-tier items in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven practically never stopped.
Still, Ye Qingxuan would occasionally take some time to play with the spirit beasts in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
Especially the Azure Spirit Flood Dragon, Qinglong, which Ye Qingxuan had painstakingly cultivated in the early days, and the two Ethereal Immortal Cranes, Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling.
About forty years had passed since these three spirit beasts last broke through.
Now, forty years later, Qinglong’s cultivation had only risen from the early fourth tier to the late fourth tier.
But Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling, whose talent was comparable to a human’s nine-element spiritual root talent, had already risen from the early fifth tier to the late fifth tier, and were not far from the peak of the fifth tier.
Ever since the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land advanced, its area had increased greatly.
The activity space for the three spirit beasts, Qinglong, Xiao Kong, and Xiao Ling, had increased tremendously, and now there was no longer any need to frequently take them outside for a spin.
As for the spirit beasts Earth Dragon, Myriad Flower Spirit Butterfly, and Spirit-Nurturing Bee, Ye Qingxuan did not pay them much attention.
However, as the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land advanced, these spirit beast populations raised freely within the blessed land had also expanded considerably.
Overall, the expansion of these spirit beast populations was also somewhat helpful to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
Therefore, toward the population expansion of the Earth Dragon, Myriad Flower Spirit Butterfly, and Spirit-Nurturing Bee, Ye Qingxuan had always maintained a tacitly permissive attitude.
Besides these, there were also the half-spirit beasts gifted to Ye Qingxuan by the couple Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun: the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit.
Although the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit had started with small base numbers, their reproductive capacity was unmatched by other spirit beasts.
Especially the Spirit Rabbit.
Over all these years, the number of Spirit Rabbits had already surpassed five thousand.
The numbers of Eight-Treasure Chickens and Fragrant Pigs had also reached around two to three thousand.
Although the meat of the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit was excellent in flavor, Ye Qingxuan could not eat them every single day.
Now Ye Qingxuan himself could hardly keep up with eating them all.
Moreover, these half-spirit beasts—the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit—were of no help to the growth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land, and they would also eat quite a few of the low-tier spirit medicines Ye Qingxuan planted.
Now Ye Qingxuan was already considering whether to put the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit up for sale in the Tianfu Shop.
But after weighing it for a moment, Ye Qingxuan decided to wait a while longer.
What precious spirit mountain delicacies and spirit sea treasures had the disciples of the Xuantian Sect not eaten? Mere half-spirit beasts could basically fetch no price at all within the Xuantian Sect.
Ye Qingxuan planned to wait until his external incarnation had established a city in the Eastern Pole Domain.
Then he would toss some of the half-spirit beasts—the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit—from the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land into the Eastern Pole Domain to be raised in enclosures and sold there.
Perhaps he could even use the Eight-Treasure Chicken, Fragrant Pig, and Spirit Rabbit to attract a batch of gluttonous cultivators.
Only after thinking of this did Ye Qingxuan dismiss the idea of dealing with these half-spirit beasts within the Xuantian Sect.
Time flowed on, and amid Ye Qingxuan’s busyness, another eleven years passed.
In those eleven years, Ye Qingxuan’s mysterious merchant city in the Xuanmu World had thoroughly developed.
Although the profits it brought Ye Qingxuan were still not as much as the Tianfu Shop, its pure profit had already reached 10,000 top-grade spirit stones per day.
Although the mysterious merchant city was a city, it was, after all, located in a fallen lower realm, and most of the active customers in the city were also rogue cultivators from the Earth Xuan World.
Naturally, it could not compare to the profits of a large-scale shop within the Xuantian Sect.
Though the Xuantian Sect was only a sect, its mid and low-tier disciples numbered nearly ten million.
Moreover, the disciples within the Xuantian Sect were far wealthier compared to those rogue cultivators.
Therefore, although the Tianfu Shop was only a single shop, its daily net profit was about ten times that of the mysterious merchant city.
Ye Qingxuan did not have his Explorer clone bring the net profits generated by the mysterious merchant city back to the Qingxuan blessed land.
All of these net profits, Ye Qingxuan used entirely to purchase low-tier Qing Demon Clan corpses.
Now the war between the human race and the low-tier cultivators of the Qing Demon Clan in the Xuanmu World was growing ever more intense, and every day a large number of cultivators from both sides fell.
Ye Qingxuan’s mysterious merchant city in the Xuanmu World had already gradually gained a stable source of low-tier Qing Demon Clan corpses.
In the mysterious merchant city, besides the shops Ye Qingxuan himself had opened, he had also reserved many cave dwellings and separate courtyards for renting out to outside cultivators.
Now quite a few cultivators had already chosen to temporarily settle in the mysterious merchant city.
When these cultivators settled in the mysterious merchant city hunted Qing Demon Clan members, any Qing Demon Clan corpses they could not use themselves would basically all be sold in the mysterious merchant city.
Now every year, Ye Qingxuan’s mysterious merchant city would purchase a large number of Qing Demon Clan corpses.
Then, through Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer clone, they would be brought back to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land to accelerate the growth rate of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven blessed land.
Besides this, the Ye family cultivators had also, under Ye Yuhong’s leadership, found the mysterious merchant city.
As for the Ye family cultivators, Ye Qingxuan did not let his clone come into excessive contact with them, still maintaining his previous mysterious style.
Ye Qingxuan only provided the Ye family cultivators with a fixed foothold in the mysterious merchant city.
Giving the Ye family cultivators a safe base camp.
As for other matters, Ye Qingxuan did not interfere excessively.
After all, among the Ye family cultivators who entered the Xuanmu World, aside from Ye Yuhong and Ye Qingshuang, Ye Qingxuan was not familiar with the other Ye family cultivators.
His care for the Ye family was also merely because he himself had come from the Ye family.
After not seeing her for more than two hundred years, Ye Qingshuang, with her three-element spiritual root talent, was now still only an early-stage Purple Mansion realm cultivator.
If there were no other accidents, the Purple Mansion realm might perhaps be the endpoint Ye Qingshuang could reach.
When he saw Ye Qingshuang again, there was also a slight stir in Ye Qingxuan’s heart.
After all, Ye Qingshuang could be considered one of the few close friends he had when he first set foot on the immortal path in his youth, right?
As for Ye Yuhong and Ye Qingshuang, Ye Qingxuan had no intention of letting his clone meet them either.
His arrangements for the Ye family were all carried out through puppets in the city.
And Ye Qingxuan himself resided high above the Shangxuan Pavilion, silently watching the arrival of the Ye family group.
He could give the Ye family certain help in secret.
But he was unwilling for his connection with the Ye family to be completely exposed.
Especially, he did not want his own clone to have too much involvement with the Ye family and have outsiders learn of it.
His true body lived deep within the Xuantian Sect and would not establish powerful enemies.
Even if someone wanted to deal with his true body, with the Xuantian Sect standing in front, it would not be so easy for outsiders to strike at his true body.
Not exposing his connection with the Ye family was for the Ye family’s own good.
Although the probability of Ye Qingxuan’s true body provoking powerful enemies was extremely low, Ye Qingxuan still had to be prepared for it.
As for his clone, developing outside the Xuantian Sect would inevitably lead to conflicts of interest with others, and there was no telling when it might provoke a powerful enemy.
If the clone perished, then it perished.
If the clone became too deeply entangled with the Ye family cultivators, it would easily bring disaster upon the Ye family.
So after the Ye family cultivators arrived, Ye Qingxuan’s clone did not meet any one of them.
The entire process was handled just as when other cultivators settled in the mysterious merchant city.
