When Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar appeared once more, it was already standing in the central teleportation plaza of Star Battle City.
He was just about to leave Star Battle City.
But the moment he stepped off the teleportation plaza, a thin man with a smiling face immediately came up to him and asked:
“Little brother, do you happen to have any Green Demon Clan corpses you don’t need and would like to sell?”
Several other people nearby saw that this man had snagged Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar before they could, and they all looked rather disappointed.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan was a bit confused.
Hearing the man’s question, Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar studied him for a moment, then gave a slight shake of his head:
“No.”
He then glanced at the other people coming out of the teleportation plaza and asked in puzzlement:
“Why don’t you go ask them?”
At that, the man laughed and shook his head:
“They all have their regular partners already. I asked you because you looked like a new face, little brother.”
Ye Qingxuan gave a slight nod, understanding dawning on him.
So that was why his Mysterious Shop had been open for so long without being able to acquire a single Green Demon Corpse!
Turns out the goods were getting snagged right at the teleportation plaza before they could even leave.
He took a step forward, ready to leave, but the man pressed a transmission talisman into his hand and said cheerfully:
“Little brother, I’m Li Ruo, the manager of Baoxuan Hall in Star Battle City. If you ever have any Green Demon Corpses to sell in the future, feel free to contact me. I promise you’ll be satisfied with the price.”
With that, before Ye Qingxuan could even refuse, the man turned and walked away.
Ye Qingxuan looked at the transmission talisman in his hand. Though he had no need for it, he didn’t throw it away on the spot.
After leaving Star Battle City.
Ye Qingxuan found a secluded spot and casually tossed aside the transmission talisman Li Ruo had given him.
Sure, it was just a transmission talisman—but who knew if it contained some kind of tracking method?
Since he had no intention of selling Green Demon Corpses anyway, there was no reason to keep it.
After getting rid of the talisman, Ye Qingxuan carefully inspected his Explorer Avatar. Only after confirming there were no issues did he leave the area.
He made his way to a mountain range far from Star Battle City.
Even then, Ye Qingxuan didn’t rush to open the realm gate and send his Explorer Avatar back to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise.
Instead, he had his avatar stay in that mountain range for three full days.
Only after he was certain no one had followed him did he perform a spatial jump and enter a cave he had discovered earlier.
Once inside the cave, Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar finally opened a faint realm gate and stepped into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise.
The moment his avatar returned.
Ye Qingxuan, without a second thought, willed the avatar to disperse into nothingness—essentially causing it to perish on the spot.
He could just spend some spirit stones later and recondense the avatar anyway.
With his Explorer Avatar roaming outside, Ye Qingxuan couldn’t afford to be careless.
If someone had left a tracking mark on his avatar that led back to his main body, the trouble would be enormous.
Taking the storage pouch his Explorer Avatar had brought back, Ye Qingxuan took a single step and appeared inside the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
He took all the Green Demon Corpses below the Golden Core realm, along with their cultivation essences, as well as the demon vein sources, demon stones, various low-tier materials from the demon domain, magical treasures, and more—all from the storage pouch.
And he tossed them all into the Five-Tier Cave Heaven Purification Grand Array.
Rumble!
Under Ye Qingxuan’s activation, the Cave Heaven Purification Grand Array began spinning at full speed, continuously refining everything within it.
The ten years’ worth of spoils from Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar—
Aside from several dozen demon vein sources and countless demon stones—
His avatar had killed only one early Golden Core Green Demon.
But he had slain forty-one Purple Mansion realm Green Demons, one hundred and twenty-eight Foundation Establishment realm Green Demons, and an untold number of Qi Refining realm Green Demons.
Apart from the Golden Core Green Demon corpse and its cultivation essence.
All the other Green Demon corpses and cultivation essences were now inside the Five-Tier Cave Heaven Purification Grand Array before him.
They were being continuously refined, transformed into vast amounts of first-, second-, and third-tier primordial energy, which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise then absorbed.
Primordial energy is ordinary energy suffused with a trace of origin itself.
So by absorbing primordial energy, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise could greatly accelerate its conversion of origin power.
In Ye Qingxuan’s perception, the origin power of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise was growing at a visibly rapid pace.
This rate of origin conversion was roughly a hundred times faster than before.
However, the Green Demon corpses, cultivation essences, demon vein sources, demon stones, various low-tier materials from the demon domain, magical treasures, and so on that Ye Qingxuan had thrown into the Five-Tier Cave Heaven Purification Grand Array were also being consumed at a swift pace.
By Ye Qingxuan’s estimate, the spoils his Explorer Avatar had gathered over these ten years in the Third Demon Domain.
Would likely only last about three months before being completely purified by the Five-Tier Cave Heaven Purification Grand Array.
Even so, this haul from the demon domain could save the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise roughly twenty-five years of growth time.
And for that, Ye Qingxuan was more than satisfied.
After all, his Explorer Avatar had only been hunting low-tier Green Demons.
So the fact that it could contribute this much to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise was already more than he could ask for.
Next, Ye Qingxuan made his way to another grand array.
This array was a small sacrificial altar he had set up over the years, using the connection between the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise and the Earth Mystic Realm.
A true sacrificial grand array, without relying on the connection between a cave heaven and the Earth Mystic Realm, would have to be at least tier-nine.
With his current cultivation level, there was no way Ye Qingxuan could set up a tier-nine sacrificial grand array.
So he had to settle for the next best thing—constructing a small sacrificial array through the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise.
With the connection between the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Paradise and the Earth Mystic Realm in place, even this small sacrificial array could still achieve the same effect as a full-scale one.
Ye Qingxuan placed the remaining Golden Core Green Demon corpse and its condensed, spherical cultivation essence into the small sacrificial array.
He didn’t need to activate the array himself.
The moment the small sacrificial array sensed the Green Demon corpse and the extracted, concentrated orb of cultivation essence, it burst into dazzling light.
That light enveloped both the corpse and the essence within the array.
In just a few breaths, the Green Demon corpse and cultivation essence inside the small sacrificial array had vanished completely.
In their place, a golden beam of light shot straight through the sky, appearing out of nowhere above the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, and shrouded Ye Qingxuan’s body.
Instantly, a faint stream of origin power began pouring into his body, elevating his cultivation.
But before Ye Qingxuan could even register the sensation, the golden beam had already faded away.
Seeing it disappear so quickly, Ye Qingxuan was taken aback.
That’s it?
Having experienced the exhilarating rush of origin infusion from the Cave Heaven Paradise multiple times, Ye Qingxuan really couldn’t get excited over this meager amount of origin power.
Smacking his lips, he took a moment to sense the change in his cultivation.
One early Golden Core Green Demon corpse, plus its cultivation essence, had increased his cultivation by roughly six years’ worth of progress at the late Golden Core stage.
As a cultivator’s cultivation rises, their physique undergoes continuous transformation.
Though his spiritual roots didn’t show any obvious change, his body’s ability to compress spiritual energy, as well as its capacity to withstand the intensity and duration of spiritual energy floods, had both improved.
So six years of cultivation at the late Golden Core stage was still a massive boost for anyone below that level.
Unfortunately, while an early Golden Core Green Demon could still offer some help to Ye Qingxuan at the late Golden Core stage, that help wasn’t all that significant.
“It seems,” he mused, “if I want to raise my cultivation quickly, I’ll have to start hunting Nascent Soul realm Green Demons instead.”
