In response to Ye Qingxuan’s words,
Ye Yuhong just shook his head and said nothing.
The support the Ye family had given Ye Qingxuan, compared to the three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones he was giving back, seemed rather insignificant.
But Ye Yuhong didn’t continue exchanging pleasantries with Ye Qingxuan either.
After all, Ye Qingxuan was still from the Ye family by birth. The fact that he had prepared three hundred thousand spirit stones for the family this time proved that the Ye family still had a place in his heart, and that was enough.
Remembering why he had come, Ye Yuhong first told Ye Qingxuan about the current state of the Ye family, then asked:
“Qingxuan, that’s about how things stand. I’d like to exchange all of these resources for cultivation supplies. Do you have any way to make that happen?”
He wasn’t a disciple of the Xuantian Sect, after all. Even if he had the spirit stones, he might not be able to exchange them for resources within the sect.
And even if someone was willing to trade with him, the price would certainly be different. So Ye Yuhong hadn’t planned on exchanging the resources himself from the very beginning.
Originally, Ye Yuhong had intended to ask Ye Zhaoyang to handle it, but it turned out that Ye Zhaoyang was in seclusion and hadn’t responded at all.
Now that he saw how easily Ye Qingxuan could produce three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones,
Ye Yuhong figured he’d try asking Ye Qingxuan to see if he had the connections to exchange them for enough cultivation resources.
Hearing Ye Yuhong’s request, Ye Qingxuan didn’t refuse. He agreed readily:
“That’s simple enough. No problem!”
Then, after thinking for a moment, Ye Qingxuan waved his hand and laid out a long list of resources in front of Ye Yuhong, continuing:
“Patriarch, just pick whatever you need. Once you’ve made your choices, I’ll have Zhaoheng and Zhaoyu go exchange them for you.”
Ye Yuhong looked up. On the list Ye Qingxuan had provided were all kinds of pills, magical treasures, formation plates, talismans, and Core Explosion Pellets.
He had heard of Core Explosion Pellets before.
Over the years, the eight major powers that Ye Qingxuan had tricked hadn’t just sat around doing nothing either.
Since they had already bought the Core Explosion Pellet formulas, they naturally weren’t going to just give up on them easily.
Decades had passed, and the eight major powers had long since joined forces. They pooled together enough alchemists, artifact refiners, formation masters, and talisman makers to start producing and selling Core Explosion Pellets.
It was just that this method of four people working together to make a single Core Explosion Pellet had a very low success rate and low output, so for now, they were only selling them within Xingzhou anyway.
Looking at the various resources Ye Qingxuan had listed, Ye Yuhong did some mental calculations for a moment, then said:
“Just exchange them for one million first-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills, five hundred thousand second-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills, five hundred thousand second-grade Spirit Fusion Pills, two hundred thousand third-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills, two hundred thousand third-grade Spirit Fusion Pills, one hundred thousand fourth-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills, and one hundred thousand fourth-grade Spirit Stabilization Pills.”
“As for third-grade Core Explosion Pellets, give me a thousand of those. And for the third-grade Spirit-Refining Core Explosion Pellets, give me three hundred.”
“I’ll take the remaining spirit stones back to the Ye family.”
The market price for first-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills within the Xuantian Sect was twelve low-grade spirit stones per pill. One million pills were worth twelve hundred high-grade spirit stones.
Second-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and second-grade Spirit Fusion Pills both had a market price of one hundred low-grade spirit stones per pill. Five hundred thousand second-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and five hundred thousand second-grade Spirit Fusion Pills were worth ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.
Third-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and third-grade Spirit Fusion Pills both had a market price of one thousand low-grade spirit stones per pill. Two hundred thousand third-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and two hundred thousand third-grade Spirit Fusion Pills were worth forty thousand high-grade spirit stones.
Fourth-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and fourth-grade Spirit Stabilization Pills both had a market price of one hundred medium-grade spirit stones per pill. One hundred thousand fourth-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and one hundred thousand fourth-grade Spirit Stabilization Pills were worth two hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
Third-grade Core Explosion Pellets cost two thousand medium-grade spirit stones each. A thousand pills were worth twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones.
Third-grade Spirit-Refining Core Explosion Pellets cost three thousand medium-grade spirit stones each. Three hundred pills were worth nine thousand high-grade spirit stones.
Added all together, the total value came to two hundred eighty thousand two hundred high-grade spirit stones.
The pills Ye Yuhong wanted to exchange for were all either unavailable outside or very hard to get.
These pills might seem cheap, containing far less energy than, say, healing pills, but they were the best auxiliary cultivation pills for different cultivation levels.
Take the Spirit Enhancement Pill series, for example. They could speed up how efficiently a spiritual root converted spiritual energy. The formulas had been refined over generations by the Xuantian Sect and were exclusive to them.
Every other major power basically had their own unique pill formulas for auxiliary cultivation that they had researched.
These formulas weren’t available to the outside world, so the number of these pills in circulation outside was also extremely small.
Other healing pills, although expensive because they contained a lot of energy, could at least be bought with spirit stones outside if you had them.
Even though the amount Ye Yuhong was exchanging for seemed large, the consumption of these pills was just as huge.
If you were supplying a single person who was cultivating at full capacity, for example, with matching Spirit Enhancement and Spirit Fusion Pills, or Spirit Enhancement and Spirit Stabilization Pills, that person could consume at least three of each type per day.
Originally, Ye Yuhong had also wanted to buy a set of low-grade spiritual artifacts, one offensive and one defensive.
But a single offensive low-grade spiritual artifact cost fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones, and a defensive low-grade spiritual artifact cost fifty-five thousand high-grade spirit stones.
If he bought the low-grade spiritual artifacts, the Ye family wouldn’t be able to buy this many pills.
Spiritual artifacts were powerful, but they were still somewhat difficult for Golden Core cultivators to use effectively.
So after weighing his options for a bit, Ye Yuhong gave up on the spiritual artifacts and went with the pills.
With that many fourth-grade Spirit Enhancement Pills and fourth-grade Spirit Stabilization Pills available, his rate of accumulating spiritual power was bound to increase dramatically. He might even get a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Compared to low-grade spiritual artifacts, his own cultivation level was more important.
As for formation plates? The Ye family’s current defensive formation was already fourth-grade.
If he exchanged for a fifth-grade formation, given that the Ye family’s spiritual vein was only fourth-grade, making the fifth-grade formation work at full power would require a lot of spirit stones and manpower.
That just wouldn’t be worth it.
Right now, it was peacetime, and the Ye family was located within Xuantian Sect territory. There was no need to exchange for a fifth-grade formation.
After making his choices, Ye Yuhong took out the corresponding spirit stones and handed them back to Ye Qingxuan:
“Qingxuan, I’ll leave it to you, then!”
“No problem.”
Ye Qingxuan glanced at the spirit stones Ye Yuhong handed over and didn’t refuse them.
After putting the spirit stones away, Ye Qingxuan passed them to Ye Zhaoheng and instructed him:
“Zhaoheng, go to the Tianfu Shop. Follow the patriarch’s request and exchange these spirit stones for the corresponding resources.”
“Yes, sir!”
Ye Zhaoheng didn’t waste any time. He took the spirit stones and immediately headed off toward the Xuantian Sect’s marketplace.
After Ye Zhaoheng left, Ye Qingxuan gazed into the distance, a trace of reminiscence in his eyes, and asked softly:
“Patriarch, how are my parents and my younger brother and sister doing now? Are they living well?”
He had joined the Xuantian Sect at the age of twelve, and it took him twenty-two years to reach perfected Qi Refining and open his Blessed Land.
Now, a hundred years had passed since he opened his Blessed Land. He was already a hundred and thirty-four years old.
And his parents were now over a hundred and sixty years old.
Ordinary mortals in the Earth Mystic Realm, due to the subtle nourishing effects of spiritual energy, had a maximum lifespan of about a hundred and thirty years.
If Ye Qingxuan hadn’t gone back last time and left his parents a lot of pills to help extend their lives by sixty years, they would have already passed away from old age.
But even so, his parents didn’t have much time left.
Hearing Ye Qingxuan’s question, Ye Yuhong glanced at him, set down his teacup, and said reassuringly:
“Your younger brother and sister have long since married and had children of their own. Your parents are already great-grandparents. They’re carefree and living very happily, so don’t you worry.”
For people in the Earth Mystic Realm, even though their lifespans were longer due to the presence of spiritual energy, the chances of having children were also lower.
It was very common for people who married in their twenties to not have their first child until their thirties or forties.
Some people, without any intervention, might never have a child in their entire lifetime.
Ye Qingxuan’s parents had him when they were about thirty years old, which was actually considered early.
But then again, because spiritual energy existed, all kinds of miraculous and wondrous things were also common in the Earth Mystic Realm. Increasing the fertility chances of ordinary mortals wasn’t difficult.
It was just that most people chose to let nature take its course and weren’t in a hurry to have children.
Hearing about his parents and his younger brother and sister, Ye Qingxuan felt a flood of mixed emotions.
For mortals, a hundred years is an entire lifetime; for immortals, a hundred years is but a single fleeting moment.
Thinking about his parents, Ye Qingxuan always felt like the last time he said goodbye to them wasn’t that long ago. It still seemed as vivid as if it were yesterday.
Thinking back to when he first met his younger brother and sister, in the blink of an eye, they were already over a hundred years old and had become grandparents themselves.
It gave Ye Qingxuan a strong sense of how much things had changed.
But as long as they could live happily and pass through this life without a care in the world, he could rest easy.
