In summary.
Nowadays, Ye Qingxuan’s Tianfu shop, on average, brought him a daily income of around 5,300 mid-grade spirit stones.
This rate of wealth accumulation had far surpassed that of the Ye family, the Golden Core clan he originated from.
According to the contract, the Ye family held a 30% share of the spiritual plants produced by Ye Qingxuan’s Blessed Land. However, this share only pertained to the produced plants and did not include the profits from Ye Qingxuan’s Tianfu shop.
Based on a first-tier Blessed Land cultivating three thousand first-tier spiritual plants annually, even if Ye Qingxuan calculated at a 100% survival rate, he would only need to deliver 333 first-tier spiritual plants to the Ye family each year.
If all were valued at the price of Earth Spirit Flowers, it would be worth roughly fifteen hundred low-grade spirit stones. Compared to his current income, this was a mere drop in the bucket.
However, his Blessed Land now cultivated numerous second and third-tier spiritual plants, generating actual profits far exceeding normal circumstances.
Consequently, the value of the 30% share to be delivered would inevitably far exceed the norm. To conceal his true situation, Ye Qingxuan would need to come up with an excuse to explain this away when the time came.
Nevertheless, according to the initial agreement with Family Head Ye Yuhong, the profit-sharing from Ye Qingxuan’s Blessed Land was to be settled once every hundred years. So, that time was still far off.
In the third year after bonding with the Blessed Land.
Ye Qingxuan very smoothly refined a mid-grade True Artifact, leaving him just one step away from becoming a fourth-tier Artificer capable of forging high-grade True Artifacts.
His progress as a Pill Refiner was similarly advanced.
With his actual Purple Mansion realm cultivation base and the assistance of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he could fully strive to break through to the realms of fourth-tier Pill Refiner and fourth-tier Artificer.
But!
“Let’s wait a bit longer, no hurry.”
He did not rush to break through to fourth-tier Pill Refiner and Artificer.
The prices of fourth-tier spirit herbs and spirit ores were insignificant to him now.
However, even if he refined fourth-tier pills or high-grade True Artifacts, he would not choose to sell them within the Xuantian Sect.
Some things need to be done in moderation; one shouldn’t risk exposing one’s own unique characteristics for the sake of some benefits.
If the Xuantian Sect were to investigate thoroughly, even with Dao Oaths as constraints, the sect could still trace clues back to him through various means.
On the surface, he was currently at the Foundation Establishment realm. With the help of the Blessed Land’s power, refining third-tier pills and mid or low-grade True Artifacts one tier above his own cultivation level could still be explained, at most revealing his heaven-defying comprehension ability.
But if he refined fourth-tier pills two tiers above his own cultivation level, there would be no reasonable explanation for it then.
Currently, the resources gained from occupying a portion of the third-tier market within the Xuantian Sect were barely sufficient for Ye Qingxuan’s needs anyway.
As for the rest, he would wait until his cultivation broke through to the Golden Core realm and he condensed a doppelganger!
Choosing not to break through to fourth-tier Pill Refiner and Artificer, Ye Qingxuan began purchasing large quantities of spiritual materials needed for talisman-making and formation-laying, preparing to delve into Talisman Dao and Formation Dao.
Under the effect of Ye Qingxuan’s heaven-defying comprehension ability, his Talisman Dao and Formation Dao also began to advance by leaps and bounds.
Gradually, the Tianfu shop could also sell various talismans and formation discs.
Starting from first and second-tier, and finally reaching third-tier.
Once Ye Qingxuan elevated his Talisman Dao and Formation Dao cultivation to the third-tier, he outsourced the production of talismans and formations as well.
Talismans required mass production, which Ye Qingxuan didn’t have time for.
He earned spirit stones to assist his own cultivation; he couldn’t put the cart before the horse and delay his cultivation time just to earn spirit stones.
As for Formation Dao, relying solely on formation discs didn’t yield significant profits.
Only by being invited to set up large-scale formations for others could one obtain substantial gains. This obviously didn’t align with Ye Qingxuan’s development path.
However, Ye Qingxuan did not stop comprehending Formation Dao.
In the fourth year after bonding with the Blessed Land!
After Ye Qingxuan’s Formation Dao reached the third-tier limit, he still chose not to stop his comprehension. Instead, he purchased a large amount of fourth-tier formation spiritual materials, preparing to break through to fourth-tier Formation Master.
Unlike Alchemy Dao, Talisman Dao, and Artifact Dao, Formation Dao could play a huge support role in the growth of a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
Therefore, in the fourth year, Ye Qingxuan began to focus on his breakthrough in Formation Dao.
Among the four paths of Alchemy, Talisman, Artifact, and Formation, the ones with the highest initial comprehension difficulty were actually Formation Dao and Talisman Dao.
This was because, from the very beginning, Formation Dao and Talisman Dao required comprehension of various Dao patterns, veins, elemental mysterious patterns, and so on between heaven and earth.
Only in this way could Formation Masters and Talisman Masters leverage formations and talismans to harness the power between heaven and earth for their own use.
However, in the later stages, the four paths of Alchemy, Talisman, Artifact, and Formation would converge, and their comprehension difficulties would become roughly equal.
Ye Qingxuan was currently only at the Purple Mansion realm in cultivation.
Even with the assistance of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, which allowed him to enter a state of communion with heaven and earth within it without worrying about spiritual energy depletion, it still took him a full three months to break through to the realm of fourth-tier Formation Master.
During the comprehension process, Ye Qingxuan and his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land entered a state of enlightenment, a union of man and nature.
His primary spell, Gentle Breeze and Drizzle, unexpectedly advanced during this enlightenment, reaching the level of an intermediate spell.
This unexpected gain delighted Ye Qingxuan.
Although the Earth Immortal inheritance contained countless intermediate spells, Gentle Breeze and Drizzle at the intermediate spell level was, after all, the first one he had comprehended and advanced himself. The feeling was naturally different.
Moreover, after achieving union with his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, the growth rate of Ye Qingxuan’s spiritual roots instantly skyrocketed. In just three days, the progress for the birth of his second spiritual root attribute reached 50%.
This meant half of the progress that originally required 200 years to complete was achieved instantly. Now, Ye Qingxuan only needed to spend another hundred years to successfully condense his second spiritual root attribute.
In the fifth year after bonding with the Blessed Land.
Within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.
Ye Qingxuan stood in mid-air, throwing large quantities of various first-tier spirit ores into a massive furnace below.
This furnace was formed by a fourth-tier Refining Formation that Ye Qingxuan had set up.
Through the fourth-tier Refining Formation, spirit ores below the fourth-tier could be smelted into ore essences, which would then be absorbed and analyzed by the Grotto-Heaven, thereby promoting the growth of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
After the spirit ores were absorbed and analyzed by the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, they could not only promote its growth but also allow the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to derive corresponding mineral veins.
However, this process would take a very long time.
Of course, if Ye Qingxuan actively intervened and expended a large amount of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land’s energy, he could significantly shorten this time.
But for Ye Qingxuan, there was no need for that at the moment. The Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had just begun its development. Doing so would be tantamount to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Besides this fourth-tier Refining Formation, Ye Qingxuan had also set up a fourth-tier Energy Conversion Formation and a fourth-tier Earth Vein Formation each within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and the Blessed Land.
The fourth-tier Energy Conversion Formation could help the Grotto-Heaven and the Blessed Land increase their conversion efficiency of chaotic energy and void energy.
The fourth-tier Earth Vein Formation could accelerate the condensation speed of the earth essence within the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land, and speed up the growth of spiritual plants.
Both had considerable auxiliary effects on the growth of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
Setting up these five fourth-tier formations alone cost Ye Qingxuan 1,500 high-grade spirit stones worth of materials.
But for the current Ye Qingxuan, this was nothing. Relying on the Tianfu shop, his accumulated assets had now reached over one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
And this was after he had purchased large quantities of first-tier spirit ores. Otherwise, the amount of spirit stones would have been even greater.
It could be said that in just a few short years, Ye Qingxuan’s wealth had already surpassed that of ordinary Nascent Soul realm cultivators.
