Year six after contracting with the blessed land.
Within the Mysterious Heaven Sect, Ye Qingxuan had already collected most varieties of first-tier spirit ores.
Nowadays, his Tianfu Shop rarely acquired any new types of first-tier spirit ores, which severely hindered the growth speed of the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.
For the time being, Ye Qingxuan was not collecting various second-tier spirit ores. The reason was that a first-tier cave-heaven blessed land processed and analyzed second-tier ores far too slowly; the effort simply wasn’t worth the gain.
Furthermore, the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land had already been at the peak of the first tier, not far from advancing to the second tier.
With the massive amount of resources Ye Qingxuan had invested over recent years, the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land was nearing its breakthrough point.
Faced with this current bottleneck, Ye Qingxuan remained patient.
At the moment, he was sitting in the stone pavilion at the entrance of the Qingxuan Blessed Land, sipping lightly scented tea.
This was a second-tier spirit tea he had cultivated himself—Serene Heart Tea, which had the effect of calming and clearing the mind.
Originally, he had planned to study winemaking within the Qingxuan Blessed Land. Later, he realized that compared to wine, he personally preferred tea.
So, from among many low-tier spirit teas, he selected the Serene Heart Tea, which best suited his taste, and began cultivating it.
As he drank his tea, Ye Qingxuan pondered the current problem.
Although the Mysterious Heaven Sect was vast, it was insignificant compared to the entire Earth Profound Realm. The variety of spirit ores commonly circulating within the sect was naturally limited.
If he advanced to the Golden Core stage and condensed a clone, he could personally travel across the Earth Profound Realm to collect various spirit ores and plants. The problem he faced now would then be easily solved.
But for now, he had to find a way to resolve this issue within the Mysterious Heaven Sect.
He wasn’t short on spirit stones, but the influence of his Tianfu Shop was still too small, and its effectiveness was limited.
As for the Hundred Treasures Pavilion? Bai Wenyang was merely a team leader there and didn’t have the authority to make the pavilion spend significant time specifically collecting first-tier spirit ores from outside the sect for Ye Qingxuan.
Of course, part of the reason was also that Ye Qingxuan didn’t want to be taken for a fool, unwilling to pay dozens of times the market value for first-tier ores.
After all, the situation hadn’t reached that point yet.
Mentally reviewing all the information he had about the Mysterious Heaven Sect, Ye Qingxuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He paused his teacup and murmured,
“Seems like I have the authority to post missions in the Mission Hall, don’t I?”
Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan took out his disciple token, extended his spiritual sense into it, and entered the Mission Hall interface.
Soon, he obtained the desired information from the miniature Mission Hall within his disciple token.
As a Blessed Land Cultivator disciple, he possessed the privilege of spending contribution points to post missions of various tiers in the Mission Hall ahead of schedule.
To post a long-term first-tier mission required only 1000 contribution points.
Ye Qingxuan submitted two additional Earth Spirit Flower planting missions each year, earning 600 contribution points as rewards. Combined with his annual stipend and his previous savings, he now had a total of 6632 contribution points accumulated.
Paying the contribution points needed for a long-term first-tier mission was more than enough.
However, most who paid attention to first-tier missions were Qi Condensation realm disciples, and Qi Condensation disciples simply didn’t have permission to leave the sect.
Therefore, Ye Qingxuan could only choose to spend 5000 contribution points to post a long-term second-tier collection mission.
The items to be collected were various first and second-tier spirit ores.
With the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land nearing its advancement, it was time to start collecting second-tier spirit ores.
As for spirit plant seeds, these low-tier items weren’t valuable enough to warrant a dedicated mission. Setting the price too low would attract no interest, while setting it too high wouldn’t be cost-effective.
Thus, Ye Qingxuan’s posted mission only involved purchasing first and second-tier spirit ores.
Only one cubic unit of each ore type was needed. The mission included an ore catalog; once an ore was acquired, it would be removed from the catalog.
For first-tier ores, Ye Qingxuan offered twice the market price. For second-tier ores, he offered a price 30% above market value.
Second-tier and higher missions, once posted, would quickly be synchronized to the disciple tokens of Mysterious Heaven Sect members outside the sect.
Moreover, as the mission poster,
Ye Qingxuan could choose to synchronize his mission to the major Mission Halls located in the prefectural cities, commandery cities, and provincial cities within the Mysterious Heaven Sect’s territory, allowing people outside the sect to accept it.
However, once he chose to synchronize the mission externally, Ye Qingxuan needed to pay an additional 10% of the mission cost and also prepay the rewards for the acquisition tasks.
When someone outside the sect completed a task, the reward would be settled directly at the corresponding Mission Hall in the prefectural, commandery, or provincial city.
The mission items would then be uniformly delivered to Ye Qingxuan by sect personnel.
After pondering for a moment, and to collect various first-tier ores more quickly, Ye Qingxuan ultimately chose to synchronize the mission externally.
After selecting synchronization, a Mysterious Heaven Sect disciple soon came to collect three million low-grade spirit stones from him as prepaid mission rewards.
Afterwards, on Ye Qingxuan’s orders, his Tianfu Shop also began purchasing second-tier spirit ores.
He delegated the management permissions for his posted mission to the brothers Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu. Each time a new ore type was acquired, they would remove the corresponding ore from the mission catalog.
Although occasional delays in updates led to the acquisition of duplicate ores, it was inconsequential.
With everything arranged, Ye Qingxuan began to relax, quietly awaiting the advancement of the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.
In the following days, Ye Qingxuan spent his time cultivating, alchemy refining, occasionally savoring tea in the stone pavilion, and enjoying the scenery beyond his mountain peak, living a very leisurely and content life.
Year seven after contracting with the blessed land.
Since the Tianfu Shop’s accounts were flush with funds, Ye Qingxuan began to spend spirit stones lavishly, purchasing large quantities of fourth-tier spirit herbs and materials.
He was preparing to sprint towards becoming a fourth-tier alchemist, fourth-tier artifact smith, and fourth-tier talisman master!
The material cost for fourth-tier pills ranged from about 100 to 3000 mid-grade spirit stones per batch, while the market price for a single fourth-tier pill was roughly 100 to 9000 mid-grade spirit stones.
For example, among the common fourth-tier pills on the market currently:
One of the cheapest pills was still the fourth-tier Spirit Augmentation Pill. The herbs required for refining cost 100 mid-grade spirit stones per batch, and the market price was also 100 mid-grade spirit stones per pill.
However, the successful pill formation rate for the Spirit Augmentation Pill was among the highest for fourth-tier pills, and it was also one of the most consumed fourth-tier spirit pills.
Upon reaching the fourth-tier Golden Core realm, the auxiliary effect of the fourth-tier Spirit Fusion Pill had become very minor.
Therefore, among fourth-tier pills, the fourth-tier Spirit Fusion Pill had been replaced by the fourth-tier Spirit Stabilization Pill.
The fourth-tier Spirit Stabilization Pill, as the name implied, accelerated the process of a cultivator’s spiritual power solidifying and integrating into the golden core.
The fourth-tier Spirit Stabilization Pill similarly required herbs costing 100 mid-grade spirit stones per batch, had a market price of 100 mid-grade spirit stones per pill, and its refining difficulty and successful formation rate were almost the same as the fourth-tier Spirit Augmentation Pill.
Among the common fourth-tier spirit pills on the market, the currently highest-priced one was still the fourth-tier Spirit Cleansing Pill. The required herbs cost 2800 mid-grade spirit stones per batch, and the market selling price was 8000 mid-grade spirit stones per pill.
Although there were other fourth-tier pills with even higher prices, those pills were not commonly used and were only suitable for special circumstances or specific groups.
Apart from herbs, there were the costs of fourth-tier spirit ores and materials.
The price of fourth-tier spirit ores ranged from about 10,000 to 30,000 mid-grade spirit stones per cubic unit. They could be used to forge top-grade and high-grade True Artifacts for Golden Core realm cultivators.
As for the material costs for fourth-tier talismans, due to the smaller amount of materials used, the price per batch was generally only a quarter of the price of one cubic unit of spirit ore.
Typically, mid-grade and low-grade fourth-tier talismans normally had a market price also only a quarter of the market price of a high-grade True Artifact.
After all, talismans were one-time consumables and posed limited threat to cultivators of the same tier.
After spending a massive amount of spirit stones, Ye Qingxuan easily attained the ranks of fourth-tier alchemist, fourth-tier artifact smith, and fourth-tier talisman master.
However, the fourth-tier pills, talismans, and the top-grade/high-grade True Artifacts he refined were not chosen for sale within the Mysterious Heaven Sect.
Instead, he planned to have his future clone take them outside the sect for disposal.
