After completing all of this.
Ye Qingxuan left the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven blessed land and arrived at the entrance of the mountain cave outside.
This outer mountain could actually be considered part of the peripheral territory of the blessed land. Ye Qingxuan could exert a slight influence on it through the blessed land, but this influence was limited to just this single mountain peak.
If Ye Qingxuan were now a true ‘blessed cultivator,’ his range of activity would be restricted to within this mountain.
However, he was currently cultivating an alternative path of the Earth Immortal, which had freed him from the constraints of the grotto-heaven. His true self could now freely enter and exit the blessed land.
But Ye Qingxuan had no such intention. The identity of a blessed cultivator was his best cover and the key reason he could continue his secluded cultivation within the Profound Heaven Sect. Naturally, he would not voluntarily expose his true situation.
After all, once he broke through to the Golden Core realm, he could condense a Divine Ability Seed for a clone and use an external incarnation to move about freely.
Arriving at the entrance to the spiritual site in front of the mountain, Ye Qingxuan cast a spell to slightly expand and tidy up the cave entrance, and even constructed a stone pavilion!
Sitting in the stone pavilion, Ye Qingxuan could easily view the scenery beyond the mountain!
After finishing these tasks, Ye Qingxuan used his divine sense to scan the surroundings. He quickly located Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, the two brothers, who were in secluded cultivation within a cave dwelling at the mountain’s base.
The divine sense of an ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul realm cultivator typically covered a radius of about a hundred li.
But Ye Qingxuan’s consciousness was integrated with the essence of his vital energy, spirit, and soul. Coupled with the existence of his immortal soul, the range of his divine sense was about ten times that of other cultivators. Currently, he could probe an area with a radius of a thousand li.
During the more than four months of Ye Qingxuan’s seclusion, the cultivation of the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, had already broken through to the second level of the Qi Refining stage.
Without disturbing their cultivation, Ye Qingxuan merely left a transmitted message at their cave dwelling. He instructed them to focus on improving their cultivation for now and said he would summon them if needed.
Immediately after, Ye Qingxuan retrieved his disciple token from his storage ring and released the seal he had placed on it. For these past four-plus months of seclusion, the disciple token had been sealed within the storage ring.
The moment the seal on the disciple token was lifted, it began to vibrate incessantly.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan was slightly surprised:
“So many messages?”
He had only been in seclusion for a little over four months, right? Normally, even after several years of seclusion, the messages he received weren’t as many as these from just over four months!
Extending his spiritual sense into the token, Ye Qingxuan began to check the messages.
“Has something major happened?”
After scanning the messages, Ye Qingxuan was somewhat puzzled. Most of them were from Ye Qingxiao.
At first, this fellow was simply asking about the progress of his land contract. Seeing that Ye Qingxuan didn’t reply, he started frequently sending messages to bother him.
In the last month, Ye Qingxiao began mysteriously and exaggeratedly saying that something major had happened in the Earth Profound Realm, chattering on and on, while keeping it a secret and urging Ye Qingxuan to guess what the big event was!
Ye Qingxuan could practically picture Ye Qingxiao’s mysterious and annoyingly smug expression in his mind!
The other messages were from the couple, Hong Miaomiao, mainly inquiring if his land contract had gone smoothly. Later, they also mentioned that a major event had occurred in the Earth Profound Realm and that the two might need to leave the Profound Heaven Sect for a period.
Some were from Bai Wenyang. Besides initially asking about his land contract situation, the messages Bai Wenyang sent in the final month also mentioned a major event in the Earth Profound Realm and inquired about Ye Qingxuan’s current alchemy skills.
“What on earth is this major event? Why is everyone being so cryptic!”
After checking all the messages, Ye Qingxuan became even more curious about the event everyone mentioned!
Ye Qingxuan first sent a message to Ye Qingxiao:
“Qingxiao, the blessed land contract went smoothly. Come to my blessed land for a chat!”
He didn’t directly ask Ye Qingxiao what the major event was. Given Ye Qingxiao’s personality, asking him would likely result in him taking a long, roundabout way to explain in the transmission.
Then, Ye Qingxuan sent a message to Bai Wenyang:
“Senior Brother Bai, your junior brother has just concluded his seclusion after contracting the blessed land. What exactly is the major event that happened in the Earth Profound Realm?”
Ye Qingxuan sent the messages. After a short while, Bai Wenyang’s reply came:
“It’s good to hear your cultivation progressed smoothly. The matter isn’t easy to explain in just a few words. I’ll send you a detailed account shortly.”
“The Hundred Treasures Pavilion is currently purchasing large quantities of second-tier and above pills for spiritual power recovery, healing, and purification. If Junior Brother is now capable of refining second-tier pills, I would greatly appreciate your support in this business venture!”
Seeing Bai Wenyang’s message, the look of confusion in Ye Qingxuan’s eyes deepened.
Previously, the market within the Profound Heaven Sect for second and third-tier spiritual power recovery, healing, and purification pills wasn’t particularly good. Why had it suddenly changed now?
While still puzzled, the disciple token in Ye Qingxuan’s hand vibrated again.
Ye Qingxuan looked closely and saw it was from Bai Wenyang—probably the detailed information about the so-called major event.
Extending his divine sense into it, the information was instantly received by Ye Qingxuan, who suddenly understood:
“So that’s what it is!”
The matter traces back ten thousand years!
Ten thousand years ago, the Green Demon Realm, home to one of the demonic races, the Green Demons, drifted near the Earth Profound Realm. Upon discovering the Earth Profound Realm, they launched a large-scale invasion.
The Green Demon Realm was a peak Middle Thousand Worlds-level realm, but the Earth Profound Realm was also a peak Middle Thousand Worlds-level realm.
Moreover, the path of immortality within the Earth Profound Realm had been flourishing, with numerous powerful experts residing there. Facing the invasion from the Green Demon Realm, and holding the home-ground advantage, they gained the upper hand from the start.
After their initial defeat, the Green Demons did not give up. While confronting the Earth Profound Realm outside its boundaries, they catalyzed the Green Demon Realm’s origin power to entangle with the Earth Profound Realm.
A vast extradimensional battlefield gradually formed between the Green Demon Realm and the Earth Profound Realm!
Within this extradimensional battlefield, each side lost its home-ground advantage. The Earth Profound Realm and the Green Demon Realm were nearly evenly matched, leading to a confrontation that lasted for ten thousand years in the extradimensional battlefield.
During this confrontation, great beings within the Earth Profound Realm discovered that killing Green Demons and bringing their corpses into the Earth Profound Realm for decomposition and absorption by the world would yield origin power feedback from the Earth Profound Realm, directly enhancing one’s cultivation.
The Green Demon Realm operated similarly; killing cultivators from the Earth Profound Realm and bringing them back yielded origin power feedback from the Green Demon Realm!
The bodies of cultivators from both realms contained the origin power of their respective worlds, which could be parsed and devoured by the opposing world, becoming foundational power for its advancement.
With this discovery, even though the Green Demons of the Green Demon Realm knew they could not conquer the Earth Profound Realm in the short term, they still had no intention of retreating.
Seeing the Green Demon Realm’s persistent refusal to withdraw, the paramount forces within the Earth Profound Realm, after discussions, took the lead in forming an alliance. They commenced a prolonged confrontation with the Green Demon Realm within the extradimensional battlefield.
After ten thousand years of entanglement and continuous clashes between the origin powers of the two realms, the current extradimensional battlefield had grown to the size of one entire region of the Earth Profound Realm. It was not only fraught with dangers but also teeming with countless rare treasures and materials.
Faced with such a massive piece of origin power represented by the extradimensional battlefield, neither the Earth Profound Realm nor the Green Demon Realm could possibly abandon it. Major battles would erupt from time to time.
Fortunately, the Green Demons also understood that the Earth Profound Realm was not to be trifled with, so the scale of warfare had always been kept within controllable limits.
