After Ye Yuhong left, Ye Qingxuan did not linger in the stone pavilion either.
Once he finished his tea, Ye Qingxuan turned and entered the Qingxuan Blessed Land.
Ten years had passed, and Ye Qingxuan’s mastery in the four arts of alchemy, artifact refining, formations, and talismans had all advanced to the mid sixth-rank.
A sixth-rank artifact refiner could forge upper-grade and supreme-grade spiritual artifacts.
With Ye Qingxuan’s current level as a mid sixth-rank artifact refiner, he could already forge upper-grade spiritual artifacts of excellent quality.
In the three arts of alchemy, formations, and talismans, Ye Qingxuan could also refine sixth-rank mid-grade pills, formation disks, and talismans corresponding to the mid Nascent Soul stage.
Not only that.
During these ten years, Ye Qingxuan had also cultivated many high-level and top-level spells, and had trained all of them to the perfected realm.
Ye Qingxuan cultivated high-level and top-level spells not only to increase his means against enemies and raise his own combat power,
but most importantly, to refine fifth and sixth-rank combat puppets.
Only fifth-rank puppets inscribed with high-level spells and sixth-rank puppets inscribed with top-level spells could unleash the corresponding power of the puppets.
Although Ye Qingxuan’s main body was currently only at the late Nascent Soul stage, and cultivating top-level spells could not fully unleash the power of top-level spells,
this did not stop Ye Qingxuan from comprehending top-level spells relying on his heaven-defying comprehension.
As long as he comprehended top-level spells to the perfected level, Ye Qingxuan could rely on the power of the cave heaven and blessed land to inscribe top-level spells onto sixth-rank combat puppets.
After returning to Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment and said softly:
“It’s time to prepare for my external incarnation to establish a city in the Eastern Pole Region.”
It had now been about fifty years since his external incarnation boarded the Tianyuan Commerce Guild’s tower ship to head to the Eastern Pole Region.
There were probably still about twenty years left before his external incarnation would reach the Eastern Pole Region.
Before that, he needed to make preparations for his external incarnation.
Low-rank resources were not lacking.
But fourth and fifth-rank finished pills, formation disks, talismans, and mid and low-grade spiritual artifacts were not very plentiful in Ye Qingxuan’s current inventory.
More than half of the inventory he had accumulated before had been allocated by Ye Qingxuan to the Mysterious Commerce City in the Xuanmu Realm.
However.
Ordinary pills, formation disks, talismans, and magical treasures below sixth-rank,
as long as Ye Qingxuan provided enough raw materials, the Tianfu Shop’s channels could continuously refine them.
Although the efficiency was not high, the advantage was endurance.
With twenty years left, Ye Qingxuan could completely take his time accumulating inventory.
As for the sixth-rank level?
Although the Tianfu Shop was developing well at present, it was not yet to the point where a Nascent Soul stage direct disciple of the Xuantian Sect would lower himself to become a channel tool for the Tianfu Shop.
So sixth-rank pills, formation disks, talismans, and magical treasures still needed Ye Qingxuan to refine personally.
There was also the fifth-rank nuclear explosion pill series, which also required Ye Qingxuan to mass-produce through fifth-rank production lines.
After the nuclear explosion pill formula was published by the Earth Mystic Realm Alliance,
outside the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan no longer needed to have too many concerns and could unscrupulously let his clones use or sell nuclear explosion pills.
So Ye Qingxuan now not only needed to supply the Tianfu Shop’s nuclear explosion pill source, but also needed to supply the Mysterious Commerce City’s nuclear explosion pill source.
Once his external incarnation established a city in the Eastern Pole Region, Ye Qingxuan would then need to supply nuclear explosion pills to three sales points.
With production lines in existence, Ye Qingxuan was not worried about being unable to supply nuclear explosion pills to three sales points.
But the source of demon cores was a big problem.
Ever since the nuclear explosion pill formula was published by the Earth Mystic Realm Alliance, the price of demon cores had risen again and again.
According to the difference in demon beast cultivation, the current prices of demon cores were:
Second-rank demon core: 1,000–3,000 low-grade spirit stones each.
Third-rank demon core: 7,000–15,000 low-grade spirit stones each.
Fourth-rank demon core: 600–6,000 mid-grade spirit stones each.
Fifth-rank demon core: 300–3,000 upper-grade spirit stones each.
Sixth-rank demon core: 150–1,500 supreme-grade spirit stones each.
And even at this price, demon cores were still somewhat in short supply.
After all, within the five regions of the Earth Mystic Realm, there was no living space for demon beasts.
The demon cores currently circulating outside were all inventory left over from the long ages before.
Do not be fooled by the relatively large price range among demon cores of the same rank.
In reality, on the current market of the Earth Mystic Realm, early-stage demon cores of each rank were the most sought-after.
When using demon cores to refine nuclear explosion pills, if energy was lacking, one could simply infuse energy of the same rank into them.
For example, an early second-rank demon core could be infused with second-rank energy to refine a second-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pill.
A peak second-rank demon core did not need extra energy infused, and what was refined was also a second-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pill.
But a peak second-rank demon core was much more expensive than an early second-rank demon core.
So in the Earth Mystic Realm market, the demon cores with the highest transaction rate were still early-stage demon cores of each rank.
Because of the soaring price of demon cores, in several large provinces of the Earth Mystic Realm near the Endless Sea Region, quite a few cultivators had already formed groups to enter the Endless Sea Region to hunt sea demon beasts.
Currently, in the demon core market, most of what was traded were demon cores below sixth-rank.
Demon cores of sixth-rank and above were far more useful than those below sixth-rank, so not many circulated out.
Even Ye Qingxuan’s Tianfu Shop, backed by the Xuantian Sect, had so far only acquired thirty-seven sixth-rank demon cores.
These thirty-seven demon cores, Ye Qingxuan did not plan to use for the time being.
He planned to wait until his mastery in the four arts of cultivation advanced to the peak sixth-rank level, and then refine these thirty-six demon cores into sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pills.
The energy level unleashed by a sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pill was enough to rival a strike from an early Void Piercing stage cultivator.
Although it did not pose much danger to high-rank cultivators or high-rank beings with extraordinary intelligence, in certain special scenarios, it could produce unexpected effects.
After all, the current nuclear explosion pill series, although only a pure energy attack,
the energy level of a sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pill had at least reached the threshold of the Void Piercing stage.
In terms of destructive power alone, it was no longer something an ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivator could compare to.
A sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion pill could already barely touch the edge of seventh-rank items, so its value was naturally extraordinary.
Therefore, these thirty-seven sixth-rank demon cores, Ye Qingxuan would not easily use.
As for demon cores below sixth-rank,
what the Tianfu Shop acquired every day, plus the previous inventory, could still barely supply the nuclear explosion pill sources for the Tianfu Shop and the Mysterious Commerce City.
But relying only on the demon core source within the Xuantian Sect was not a long-term solution.
Especially after his external incarnation established a city in the Eastern Pole Region, the demand for nuclear explosion pills would inevitably surge again.
Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment.
Recalling the introduction in books about the four outer regions of the Earth Mystic Realm, Ye Qingxuan unconsciously narrowed his eyes slightly and said:
“Perhaps the Eastern Pole Region will be a good source of demon cores.”
According to what Ye Qingxuan had learned from books in the Xuantian Sect’s library,
the four outer regions of the Earth Mystic Realm were currently in a situation where demon beasts and the human race coexisted, or even stood evenly matched.
In other words, in the four outer regions of the Earth Mystic Realm, the number of demon beasts must be extremely large.
Once his external incarnation successfully established a city in the Eastern Pole Region,
with the realm gate carried by his external incarnation, he could transport demon cores from the Eastern Pole Region to the five inner regions of the Earth Mystic Realm at extremely low cost.
In this way, his nuclear explosion pill industry would inevitably flourish again and no longer be limited by raw materials.
Moreover, demon beast essence blood, scales, hides, and so on were all good raw materials.
Once a stable channel for obtaining demon beasts was built, it would inevitably bring him enormous profits.
Thinking of this, a smile could not help but appear on Ye Qingxuan’s face.
