Ye Qingxuan didn’t plan to form a contract with this batch of spirit beasts from the Spirit Beast Sect himself. After releasing all the spirit beasts, he used the methods provided by the Spirit Beast Sect to suppress them. Then, he directly used the power of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to contract and control them.
Among the five types of spirit beasts, the Earth Dragon looked like an oversized earthworm. The Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterfly was colorful and dazzling, with specks of spiritual light shimmering all around it.
After gaining complete control over these spirit beasts, Ye Qingxuan split the Earth Dragons and Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterflies into two groups, settling them respectively in the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and the Qingxuan Blessed Land.
The Nurturing Spirit Bees looked crystal clear, giving off an ethereal feeling. Because the yield of Nurturing Spirit Honey is very low, Ye Qingxuan didn’t split the bee colony. Instead, he raised them directly in the Qingxuan Blessed Land.
As for the ten Earth Spirit Turtles, they looked like dark yellow statues. If you didn’t look closely, you’d think they were lifeless objects. Ye Qingxuan found them quite unappealing and simply tossed them into the spiritual stream within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven to fend for themselves.
Only the sole Green Spirit Flood Dragon hatchling, its small body giving off a greenish glow and a tiny, sharp horn on its little head, stared blankly at Ye Qingxuan. This little guy seemed to have just hatched not long ago, only as thick as Ye Qingxuan’s arm.
Ye Qingxuan beckoned it over, stroked its little head, and said with a smile, “From now on, I’ll call you Azure Dragon! I hope you’ll have the day you turn into a real dragon.”
The little one seemed to understand Ye Qingxuan’s words. The light in its eyes gradually became more spirited, and it gently rubbed its small head against Ye Qingxuan’s palm.
Although Azure Dragon was only first-tier, it could already hover in the air. Ye Qingxuan planned to keep it by his side. He tossed a low-grade spirit stone to it. Azure Dragon’s small eyes lit up, and it immediately swallowed the spirit stone.
In the early stages of raising a Green Spirit Flood Dragon, you just need to continuously feed it high-energy spiritual items. Things like spirit stones, spiritual medicines, and pills, which contain high amounts of energy, can all be given to it. To increase Azure Dragon’s potential, Ye Qingxuan planned to refine a batch of Bloodline Pills to subtly strengthen its bloodline from the very beginning.
The main ingredient for refining Bloodline Pills is the Bloodline Fruit. This fruit is produced by a Blood Tree after it absorbs the essence blood of demon beasts over a long, long time. In the current Earthly Profound Realm’s five regions, there’s basically no living space left for demon beasts, so Bloodline Fruits have become quite rare in the outside world.
However, there are demon beasts raised by the Xuantian Sect within the Xuantian Mountain Range. So, although they aren’t available in outside markets, Bloodline Fruits of various tiers can be exchanged for contribution points at the Xuantian Sect’s All Things Hall.
Ye Qingxuan took out his disciple token, accessed the All Things Hall, and checked the exchange price for Bloodline Fruits. A single first-tier Bloodline Fruit cost 100 contribution points, far more than the price of an ordinary first-tier spiritual plant.
Ye Qingxuan hadn’t used his contribution points for years. On the surface, he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator, earning 60 points a month, which comes to 720 points a year. On top of that, besides the mandatory one first-tier planting task each year, he also submits two extra first-tier planting tasks annually, earning him an additional 600 contribution points. So, Ye Qingxuan currently accumulates a total of 1320 contribution points per year. Temporarily exchanging for first-tier Bloodline Fruits to cultivate first-tier Azure Dragon was more than enough.
Ye Qingxuan went ahead and exchanged for ten first-tier Bloodline Fruits. From one first-tier Bloodline Fruit, you can refine eight or nine first-tier Bloodline Pills. Feeding one first-tier Bloodline Pill every seven days, the pills from ten fruits would be enough for Azure Dragon for over a year.
As for the supplementary herbs needed to refine the Bloodline Pills, Ye Qingxuan didn’t exchange for them at the Xuantian Sect’s All Things Hall. Instead, he instructed Ye Zhaoheng to purchase them at the market. Contribution points are hard to come by, so it’s better to use them sparingly.
After the Bloodline Fruits arrived, Ye Qingxuan spent a day refining all the first-tier fruits into first-tier Bloodline Pills, resulting in 86 pills. After feeding one to Azure Dragon, the little guy immediately got sleepy, fell into a deep slumber on the spot, and began steadily absorbing spiritual energy from its surroundings. Ye Qingxuan casually placed a pile of spirit stones around Azure Dragon and then left.
Just as he stepped out of the Qingxuan Blessed Land and arrived at the stone pavilion, Ye Qingxuan received a message from Zhu Dafu. It said that several of Tianfu Shop’s branches outside the Xuantian Sect had been smashed, and someone had put out word to blockade Tianfu Shop within Xingzhou.
Hearing this news, Ye Qingxuan knew it was retaliation from the major factions that had bought the Nuclear Explosion Pill formula after realizing they’d been tricked. As for the branches outside the Xuantian Sect being smashed, not only was there no proof it was those factions, but even if there were, with Tianfu Shop’s current strength, there was nothing they could do about it. And blockading Tianfu Shop in Xingzhou? Ye Qingxuan didn’t really care. As long as the main Tianfu Shop inside the Xuantian Sect wasn’t harmed, he wasn’t worried about their blockade.
After this transaction, Ye Qingxuan had already collected most types of second- to fifth-tier spiritual mines around the Xuantian Sect, so he wasn’t concerned about the market outside the sect anymore. Once he laid low inside the Xuantian Sect until he reached the Golden Core realm, condensed an external incarnation, and changed his identity, a blockade by a few mere third-rate factions with only God Transformation cultivators would be insignificant.
The Earthly Profound Realm is huge. Even a hegemonic power couldn’t blockade a specific person or faction across the entire realm. Unless all the hegemonic powers acted together, maybe then. So, facing the current situation, Ye Qingxuan wasn’t the least bit flustered.
What truly surprised Ye Qingxuan was that the internal turmoil within the Xuantian Sect was much smaller than he had imagined. He originally thought someone would directly come to the Qingxuan Blessed Land and threaten him into handing over a portion of the profits from the Nuclear Explosion Pill. Unexpectedly, no one came to see him. Although he didn’t know the reason, fewer troubles were ultimately a good thing.
From now on, all he needed to do was settle down, focus on improving his cultivation, and raise his spiritual plants, spirit beasts, and his grotto-heaven and blessed land. Regarding resources, Ye Qingxuan didn’t need to worry about them for at least several hundred years.
Nowadays, Tianfu Shop’s business was gradually stabilizing. The profits from the Nuclear Explosion Pill series, combined with channel profits, meant the shop was making about 150,000 high-grade spirit stones a day.
Inside the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, with the Earth Dragons and Ten Thousand Flowers Spirit Butterflies present, the growth rate of various spiritual plants had improved somewhat. The first batch of spirit plants Ye Qingxuan planted—Gathering Spirit Grass, Spirit Purifying Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers—were almost reaching the fourth tier. As special types of spirit plants, Gathering Spirit Grass, Spirit Purifying Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers can all be cultivated continuously, with no tier limit below the ninth tier.
However, the current Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was only second-tier, and a major breakthrough wasn’t possible in the short term. So, after this batch of Gathering Spirit Grass, Spirit Purifying Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers grew to the fourth tier, Ye Qingxuan would need to suppress their growth rate. A combined second-tier grotto-heaven and blessed land, even with a continuous supply of earth energy, could only support spiritual plants up to the fourth tier. Exceeding this limit would affect the growth rate of the grotto-heaven and blessed land itself.
As for other first, second, and third-tier spiritual medicines, Ye Qingxuan would harvest them as soon as they matured, storing them inside the grotto-heaven with their medicinal potency sealed. He chose not to sell these spiritual medicines at the Tianfu Shop inside the Xuantian Sect. Instead, he planned to save them. After condensing his clone and going outside to establish a trading platform, he would use them as the initial source of goods for developing his presence in the outside world.
With everything back on track, Ye Qingxuan returned to his previous cultivation routine, settling into a steady and orderly state of practice. Each day, he either checked on the spiritual plants, played with the spirit beasts, or cultivated, drank tea, and enjoyed the scenery. Now that he had accumulated enough resources, Ye Qingxuan planned to let Tianfu Shop slowly become low-key. He didn’t want to stir up trouble or make too much noise again. This time, he was destined to cultivate in peaceful seclusion for a very long time.
