Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 207: Chapter 207: Spirit Ascension Garden?

At dusk, as the afterglow of the setting sun stretched longer and longer, it fell on the dense fog of Cloud Valley, making it appear even more thick and serene.

The golden expanse of the mountain peaks on both sides of the valley formed a distinct upper and lower structure.

From a distance, it looked like a small beast half-covered by a veil, crouching in the wilderness.

On both sides of the entrance to Cloud Valley, many Purple Poison Thorns were planted, seemingly convenient for the cultivators inside to use the Wood Vine Skill to spur them on, ready to face any enemy at any time.

The two approached the entrance of the valley, and for safety, Ye Jingcheng released the Jade Ring Rat, which ran to the valley entrance, making sure it was secure even though it was the family’s array.

After all, the array might be somehow coincidental, and the power of the array, coupled with a peak Qi Cultivation cultivator, could inflict severe injury or even death to a Foundation Establishment cultivator in a surprise attack.

Accompanied by two squeaks of the Jade Ring Rat.

A figure dressed in a black robe emerged from the valley, with a puzzled look in their eyes.

The figure looked familiar, and in the next moment, a few Five Poison Bees appeared on his shoulder.

Ye Jingcheng immediately understood.

“Seventh Uncle!” Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu stepped out from the side.

“Jingcheng, Jingyu, you’ve arrived?” The black-robed figure was indeed Ye Xingqun.

He then frowned a little, because Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu were not wearing Spirit-Blocking Robes at the moment.

This was a major taboo in the way the Ye family conducted themselves.

If news of their visit to the Li family were to leak, it would be a significant hassle.

“Supreme Taihao has already handed over the disposal rights to our Ye family, don’t worry Seventh Uncle!” Ye Jingyu smiled and added, dispelling Ye Xingqun’s doubts.

For the family, whether or not Supreme Taihao handed over the Li family to the Ye family doesn’t hinder the Ye family from taking advantage.

So, Ye Xingqun and the others hadn’t received the news; the news they received was to control Cloud Valley and await further instructions.

“Third Uncle sent us over to have a look, this time the family has become a Purple Mansion Clan, and the first tribute might need to be more generous!” Ye Jingcheng also said.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xingqun was all smiles and welcomed the two inside.

Previously, they were worried about being able to defend Cloud Valley, but now with Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingyu, no amount of Tribulation Cultivators would suffice.

Even if the Mo Family and Xu Family didn’t deploy their top Foundation Establishment cultivators, they couldn’t break through.

If such cultivators were deployed, the risk would be immense, as long as one Ye family member escaped.

Both the Mo Family and the Xu Family would have a hard time, as the sect’s rules are quite effective.

“Everyone can start planting the acquired spiritual medicines, be sure to ensure careful transplantation!” Ye Xingqun also shouted toward the inside of the valley, then looked at Ye Jingcheng and the others.

At this time, there were other Ye family members at the valley entrance.

“Seventh Uncle, how did the attack on Cloud Valley fare?” Ye Jingcheng asked with some curiosity.

As he entered Cloud Valley, his Divine Sense already covered the entire valley. He discovered that there were as many as four medicine gardens distributed here.

Three gardens of different attributes were located within the valley.

And the other garden was located on that steep mountain, somewhat resembling terrace agriculture.

This made the utilization of the valley’s land extremely efficient.

The spiritual content of the spirit fields was far better, compared to Ye Jingcheng’s own meager fields.

From this, it seems that what dragged down the Li family wasn’t just the Li family’s elixirs, but also this vast Cloud Valley.

Of course, the Li family’s ambitions were indeed not small; the scale of spiritual medicines in Cloud Valley directly equaled that of a Tier Two Spirit Medicine Garden, while the Xu Family, specializing in spiritual medicines, openly had only two such gardens.

The investment in such a spirit medicine garden is considerable, with the spiritual stones buried into the Spirit Array each year possibly numbering in the hundreds, along with various Spirit Nurturing Liquids, and knowing that the cycle of spirit medicines is extremely long, suitable for long-term development.

With this calculation, the annual investment could reach nearly a thousand spirit stones; otherwise, attempting dense planting of spirit medicines in this valley would be impossible.

“Don’t even mention it, the attack was fine, the only high cultivation one was in the process of breaking through to the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment, not even worth dealing with, but the spiritual medicines were all pulled out and packed into storage bags, and some were deliberately destroyed before they died!”

“Some even wanted to set fire before they died, fortunately, they set up some arrays themselves that couldn’t be closed in time, otherwise, our loss would have been great this time.”

Evidently, the Li family had made two preparations, if the ambush on Ye Jingcheng failed, the spirit medicines and Buqing Mountain Clan Mountain on this side would be arranged for evacuation.

Such complete uprooting of spiritual medicines would naturally cause a considerable loss of their spirit, and if the Ye family were to replant, the cost of Spirit Nurturing Liquids would be considerable.

Fortunately, the Ye family proceeded simultaneously, so there wasn’t a problem after all.

“Jingcheng, it’s good that you’ve come, a few of these spiritual medicines have me somewhat worried!” Ye Xingqun spoke next, having reached Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer after many years.

However, Ye Xingqun was already over sixty, now seeking stability.

Hearing this, the two guessed something and followed a blue stone path inward.

In the medicine gardens on either side, the Ye Family cultivators were still busy.

The spiritual medicines that hadn’t matured needed to be replanted into the gardens now.

These included many spiritual medicines familiar to Ye Jingcheng, such as Red Dragon Fruit, Falling Flame Grass, and others…

Many were commonly seen spiritual medicines, used in elixirs like Cyan Spirit Pill, Cyan Grain Pill, and Red Ganoderma Pill.

Among them, there were also spiritual medicine materials for Tier One Red Flame Pill and Tier One Jade Qilin Pill, though the herbal content was somewhat low.

The density of Spirit Medicine planted here is not low, and Ye Jingcheng also noticed that there is roughly one Spirit Gathering Array for each acre of Spirit Field, specifically gathering Spiritual Energy from the valley’s Spirit Vein.

As he walked deeper, on both sides there were materials for Tier Two Elixirs like Fire Heart Pill, Purple Wood Pill, Barrier-Breaking Pill.

These are Spirit Medicine that the Ye Family is focusing on.

For the family, the cultivation of the upper-level cultivators is always the most important.

When he reached the innermost Spirit Medicine, a wall was separately built to cover the core Spirit Medicine Garden.

“Spirit Ascension Garden!” There is even a plaque hanging at the gate of the wall.

Seeing these three words, Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but smile.

This Li Family really seems to have structure.

In the Cultivation Realm, ordinary Spirit Medicine Garden is just Spirit Field, so usually Tier One and Tier Two Spirit Medicine Gardens do not have names, only Tier Three Spirit Medicine Gardens are given names.

The implication is similar to Purple Mansion Cultivators adding a title, all hoping to add some fortune for themselves in the unseen.

Ye Xingqun continued to lead Ye Jingcheng inside, only to see that the inside of the wall is covered with dense Black Wood Ants, obviously a measure by Ye Xingqun to prevent someone from exploiting array loopholes to sneak in.

Upon entering this Spirit Ascension Garden, there were only a few Spirit Medicine sparsely planted inside.

Unlike the outside with one Spirit Gathering Array per acre, inside was one Spirit Plant per Spirit Gathering Array, making it extremely luxurious.

These Spirit Gathering Arrays were Tier One High-Grade, and each was placed with Middle Grade Spirit Stones.

The Spiritual Energy content inside also reached the level of Tier Two Middle Grade.

Of course, according to Ye Xingqun, this Cloud Valley is still a Tier Two Lower Grade Spirit Vein, but the numerous Spirit Gathering Arrays in the middle of the Spirit Medicine Garden, situated at the very center of the Spirit Vein, have pushed the Spiritual Energy content up a level.

Although slightly inferior compared to a genuine Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Vein.

But it is still enough that ordinary cultivators would feel their cultivation techniques automatically starting as soon as they enter.

Even Ye Jingcheng was somewhat surprised at this, as the Wood Phase Spiritual Energy absorbed by his Four Phase Celestial Essence Scripture was faster than the other three phases.

Looking at it this way, this might just be his treasure land.

Of course, as an Alchemy Master, Ye Jingcheng is most concerned about what kind of Spirit Medicine are here, what pills are they suitable to refine, and whether they are useful to him.

He glanced around, seeing there are five Spirit Medicines, and one Spirit Wood inside.

Each Spirit Plant was glowing with spiritual light, lush and vibrant.

Among them were three millennial Spirit Medicines and two of eight hundred years old.

The three millennial Spirit Medicines were Thousand-Year Black Head Ganoderma, Thousand-year-old White Jade Flower, and Thousand-Year Celestial Star Grass.

These three Spirit Medicines are extremely common in Tier Three Pill Formulas, and even as auxiliary materials in some Tier Four Pill Formulas.

In the market, they can often sell for three or four thousand Spirit Stones, and are not even available for sale.

In other words, just collecting these three millennial Spirit Medicines, the Ye Family harvested more than ten thousand Spirit Stones.

The two Spirit Medicines of eight hundred years old were the Celestial Red Flower and Blue Purple Leaf.

Seeing the Celestial Red Flower in front, Ye Jingcheng also trembled slightly.

He couldn’t help but introspectively view his Treasure Book, seeing the Celestial Red Flower prominently listed on the Red Flame Fox’s pill formula.

The Celestial Red Flower resembles a flame in appearance, and once bloomed, it never withers, it can even be considered a Spirit Grass resembling a Spirit Flower.

The age can be judged by the length of the flower.

It takes a century to grow one inch, and the one before him was exactly eight inches, just reaching eight hundred years old.

And the pill formula only requires five hundred years old, meaning this Celestial Red Flower, if refined, would be more effective.

Counting the Fox Red Grass he had previously bought at Taichang Market, he now has two main ingredients for the Tier Two Red Flame Pill.

He’s close to gathering all ingredients for the Red Flame Fox’s Tier Two Pill Formula.

Thinking about this, Ye Jingcheng felt quite pleased, as he is the first Alchemy Master on the surface in the Ye Family, he still has the qualification to keep this Celestial Red Flower.

As for the Blue Purple Leaf beside it, Ye Jingcheng was less concerned, although a rare Spirit Medicine, being rare also means fewer applicable pill formulas, so Ye Jingcheng didn’t pay much attention.

He only focused on the last Spirit Wood.

This Spirit Wood was not tall, just over five feet high, with small leaves the size of coins.

And it seemed somewhat sparse.

“This is the Celestial Spirit Fruit Tree!” Ye Jingcheng was somewhat incredulous.

This Celestial Spirit Fruit is one of the three main ingredients for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and the most precious one at that, of course, this is not the Foundation Establishment Pill using Demon Pill refined by the Ye Family, but the Foundation Establishment Pill openly issued by the Taiyi Sect.

“I wonder if the Li Family is fortunate or unfortunate!” Ye Jingcheng finished viewing the Spirit Medicine, feeling a burst of emotion.

The Li Family has risen as a Foundation Establishment Clan in the recent hundred years, having such a foundation already shows their fortune is excellent.

But the Cultivation Realm is just like this, sometimes, if you take smaller steps, you may be overtaken by others.

And if you take larger steps, you might also trip.