According to the previous contract.
Ye Qingxuan needed to hand over thirty percent of the value of the spiritual plants cultivated on his Fortune Land to the Ye family.
For a normal Fortune cultivator within the Xuantian Sect, a first-grade Fortune Land could only plant about 3,000 first-grade spiritual plants per year.
Even with a 100% survival rate, a normal Fortune cultivator could only produce 3,000 first-grade spiritual plants a year.
Depending on their quality and effectiveness, the market price for a first-grade spiritual plant ranges from 1 to 10 low-grade spirit stones.
Even if we calculate everything at the highest price of 10 low-grade spirit stones, a normal Fortune cultivator’s first-grade Fortune Land would yield only 30,000 low-grade spirit stones a year.
The family’s share of the output is thirty percent, which would be 9,000 low-grade spirit stones per year. Over a hundred years, that’s 900,000 low-grade spirit stones, which converts to 90 high-grade spirit stones.
But Ye Qingxuan is different.
His Qingxuan Fortune Land is now second-grade. A second-grade Fortune Land can plant at least 30,000 spiritual plants without affecting their growth.
Moreover, thanks to the existence of the Qingxuan Blessed Grotto, where the grotto and the fortune land complement each other, the survival rate of the spiritual plants has greatly increased, reaching an astonishing 99%.
Additionally, the formations Ye Qingxuan has set up can continuously convert earth energy, providing enough nutrients for the spiritual plants and reducing constraints on their growth.
This second-grade grotto-fortune land can even cultivate fourth-grade spiritual plants, greatly increasing their value.
Now, on Ye Qingxuan’s Fortune Land, aside from a small portion of first-grade spiritual plants he needs to grow to complete sect missions, the second and third-grade spiritual plants take up about one-third of the total.
The rest are basically fourth-grade spiritual plants.
Although fourth-grade spiritual plants take much longer to grow—currently, the cycle for cultivating ordinary fourth-grade spiritual plants in the Qingxuan Blessed Grotto-Fortune Land is about twelve years—
their market price, depending on quality and effectiveness, is roughly between 90 and 900 medium-grade spirit stones.
Their value is far beyond what first-grade spiritual plants can compare with.
Even though Ye Qingxuan grows a wide variety of spiritual plants to support the growth of the Qingxuan Blessed Grotto-Fortune Land, resulting in varying values,
even so, the total value of the spiritual plants produced by the Qingxuan Fortune Land over a hundred years is probably nearly one million high-grade spirit stones.
Therefore, according to the signed contract, Ye Qingxuan needs to give the Ye family 300,000 high-grade spirit stones this time.
Fortunately, Ye Qingxuan’s nine-grade Lightning Source Fruit Tree, seven-grade White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vine are all planted within the Qingxuan Blessed Grotto. Otherwise, the total value would be even higher.
Although these special, high-grade spiritual plants are still far from maturity, now that they’ve survived, their value isn’t something ordinary fourth-grade spiritual plants can match.
“Forget it, I won’t think about it anymore. If anyone asks, I’ll just say I earned it myself.”
Having made up his mind, Ye Qingxuan took out a sound transmission talisman and sent a message to Ye Yuhong:
“Family head, the hundred-year term is up. You can come and collect the family’s share of the Fortune Land’s profits.”
After sending the message, Ye Qingxuan returned to his own Qingxuan Blessed Grotto.
Watching the White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vine growing vigorously, Ye Qingxuan felt very pleased.
Now, the seeds of the seven-grade White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vine have successfully sprouted and grown into seedlings.
Having become seedlings, they can now absorb other energies to grow on their own, no longer needing to be nourished by primal source energy.
However, spiritual plants of the seventh grade and above also condense primal source energy as they grow, which is why their growth rate is extremely slow.
Now, several decades later, the earliest planted nine-grade Lightning Source Fruit Tree, along with the seven-grade White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vine, have only reached the second grade.
Aside from these four high-grade spiritual plants, the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land itself has also advanced to the middle stage of the second grade.
Although the area hasn’t increased, the primal source of the grotto-fortune land has become considerably richer.
In truth, with the large number of first and second-grade spiritual minerals Ye Qingxuan had invested and the assistance from the wide variety of planted spiritual plants,
the elemental rules analyzed by the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land should have been enough for it to reach the peak of the second grade.
The reason it’s only at the middle stage of the second grade now is that the speed at which the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land converts various energies into primal source is too slow.
Even with the help of the many formations Ye Qingxuan has set up, these can only increase the grotto-fortune land’s absorption of energy, but they can’t change the efficiency of the primal source conversion.
Most of the other excess energy is basically converted into earth energy, which is then absorbed by the various spiritual plants growing on the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land.
This is also one of the reasons spiritual plants in the grotto-fortune land can overcome the grade restrictions of the grotto-fortune land and grow to the fourth grade.
In an ordinary Fortune Land, there isn’t this much extra energy in the earth for spiritual plants to absorb.
After nearly decades of experimentation, Ye Qingxuan has discovered that if he wants to shorten the time needed for the grotto-fortune land to accumulate primal source and significantly increase its primal source,
currently, there is only one way: provide a vast amount of primal source energy that contains primal source, or directly provide primal source for the grotto-fortune land to absorb.
Only this can allow the grotto-fortune land to grow quickly and shorten the time the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land needs to accumulate primal source.
Relying solely on the primary primal source energy purified from the demonic primal source brought by Ye Qingxiao is undoubtedly just a drop in the bucket.
In the short term, Ye Qingxuan has no way to solve this problem.
Just as Ye Qingxuan was deep in thought, an excited roar sounded from not far ahead of him:
“Roar!”
Hearing this sound, a hint of a smile appeared in Ye Qingxuan’s eyes as he looked ahead.
There, a small azure juvenile dragon, having sensed Ye Qingxuan’s presence, was flying towards him excitedly.
After arriving by Ye Qingxuan’s side, the small dragon circled him several times before starting to playfully spin and act coy in front of him.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan couldn’t help but smile, reaching out his hand to gently stroke the small dragon’s head.
Feeling Ye Qingxuan’s touch, the small dragon’s lively eyes immediately narrowed, an expression of enjoyment appearing on its beastly face.
This azure dragon was the Azure Dragon Ye Qingxuan had raised by his side.
Now, the Azure Dragon had grown to the peak of the second grade, reaching a length of about three meters.
Although spirit beasts have exceptionally long lifespans, the energy they require to grow is also enormous.
Even with Ye Qingxuan’s unlimited supply, the speed at which the Azure Dragon could absorb energy was limited.
So, after several decades, the Azure Dragon had only grown to the peak of the second grade.
Over these years, Ye Qingxuan had continuously provided the Azure Dragon with Bloodline Pills, so the dragon often fell into deep sleep.
After the Azure Dragon advanced to the second grade, Ye Qingxuan started giving it second-grade Bloodline Pills.
A single second-grade Bloodline Fruit, needed for a second-grade Bloodline Pill, costs 1,000 contribution points. This value far exceeds the price of ordinary second-grade spiritual plants.
I suppose rarity is what makes something precious. Although Bloodline Fruits are only useful for spirit beasts and demonic beasts, due to the special characteristics of their growing environment, they are currently too scarce.
Even Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land, without the blood of demonic beasts, couldn’t cultivate a Blood Tree to mass-produce Bloodline Fruits.
The contribution points needed for second-grade Bloodline Fruits are naturally not something Ye Qingxuan can afford.
Fortunately, he doesn’t lack spirit stones. After contacting Zhu Dafu, he had Zhu Dafu purchase second-grade Bloodline Fruits at the Tianfu Shop, offering a thirty percent premium on the price.
This ensured a continuous source of Bloodline Fruits, providing enough Bloodline Pills for the Azure Dragon.
Ye Qingxuan has high hopes for the Azure Dragon and eagerly anticipates the day it might transform into a true dragon.
Aside from the Azure Dragon, the ten Earth Spirit Turtles Ye Qingxuan had free-ranged in the Qingxuan Grotto were still at the peak of the first grade, growing very slowly.
As for the other creatures—Earth Dragons, Myriad Flower Spirit Butterflies, and Nectar Gathering Bees—their numbers had roughly doubled over the decades.
The reproduction rate of spirit beasts is just too slow.
After decades, the Qingxuan Fortune Land now only has:
2,081 first-grade Earth Dragons, 590 second-grade Earth Dragons, 56 third-grade Earth Dragons
21,036 first-grade Myriad Flower Spirit Butterflies, 9,986 second-grade Myriad Flower Spirit Butterflies, 963 third-grade Myriad Flower Spirit Butterflies, 391 fourth-grade Myriad Flower Spirit Butterflies
1,623 first-grade Nectar Gathering Bees, 5,982 second-grade Nectar Gathering Bees, 1,966 third-grade Nectar Gathering Bees, and 3 fourth-grade Nectar Gathering Bees.
The third-grade Nectar Gathering Honey produced by the third-grade Nectar Gathering Bees is helpful for Ye Qingxuan’s cultivation; unfortunately, the yield is too low.
Currently, the 1,966 third-grade Nectar Gathering Bees produce just enough honey each year to sustain double the cultivation speed for about two months for Ye Qingxuan.
As for the other three fourth-grade Nectar Gathering Bees, they advanced later, so their numbers are still very small and can’t serve much purpose for now.
After pacifying the Azure Dragon for a moment, Ye Qingxuan fed it some spirit stones.
Then he brought it out of the grotto to the stone pavilion, waiting quietly for Ye Yuhong’s arrival.
Ye Qingxuan didn’t confine the Azure Dragon within the Qingxuan Grotto-Fortune Land; he would occasionally take it out for some fresh air, as long as the Azure Dragon didn’t wander too far.
