Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Demon Pass Mansion, Demon Cloud Abyss, at this moment, countless black-robed cultivators gather, landing before the abyss.

Several arrays obstruct here, clearly to prevent cultivators from escaping Hezhong Mansion and entering Demon Pass Mansion.

Just then, two figures flew in succession from two places in the abyss.

One of them wore a White Bone Crow Robe, small in stature but with spirited eyes; the other wore a broad Profound Celestial Nether Robe, exuding extraordinary presence.

Evidently, they were True Monarch Gui Xuan and True Monarch Xuanming.

True Monarch Gui Xuan first shook his head, indicating that no cultivators were intercepted.

True Monarch Xuanming’s face instantly turned grim.

If the first incident of Hezhong Mansion being invaded by Xiaoshan Prefecture cultivators could be excused for lack of preparation, now, only a little over thirty years have passed, and Righteous Sect cultivators have again entered Hezhong Mansion, slaughtering sect disciples, which is striking at his dignity.

Hezhong Mansion is not like Jiayuan Prefecture or Demon Pass Mansion, these border prefectures.

Especially now that True Monarch Gui Xuan was watching him.

”Xuanming Daoist, is it that something happened to Silver Spear Friend of Blood Spear Sect?” True Monarch Gui Xuan represents Gui Xuan Sect, also a Nascent Soul Sect.

He was not very interested in besieging the cultivator, but he was quite interested in the cause of True Monarch Xuanming’s anger.

True Monarch Heiyu of Celestial Demon Sect has yet to surface.

”Destroyed several powers, it’s no longer mere vengeance!” True Monarch Xuanming replied, his voice carrying anger, yet he did not directly answer True Monarch Gui Xuan’s question.

”Gui Xuan Daoist, your Gui Xuan Sect has always had the Hundred Ghosts Seeking Qi Secret Technique, the person must be Golden Core Peak, can you use the Profound Cold Qi here to search?” True Monarch Xuanming again looked at True Monarch Gui Xuan.

The latter nodded and responded:

”If the person is still in Hezhong Mansion or Demon Pass Mansion, it can indeed be tried. However, Xuanming Daoist, do you have anything left by that cultivator, like essence blood or cold hair?”

”I don’t have that, but I have a drop of Silver Spear Friend’s spirit blood. Since the other party killed him, you can use this essence blood to retrieve Silver Spear’s residual soul and find the person!” True Monarch Xuanming took out a jade bottle, inside was indeed a drop of spirit blood.

Yet this spirit blood appeared slightly dim, evidently aged somewhat.

True Monarch Gui Xuan received the spirit blood and began forming finger formulas.

Soon, various spirit patterns appeared on his body and hands, and next, as he wiped his forehead, countless cold energy surged in above the abyss, eventually forming a dark portal.

The portal was filled with more eerie patterns, True Monarch Gui Xuan threw the essence blood.

But the portal remained closed, only shaking furiously.

Under the surge of cold energy, the essence blood quickly turned from red to black and finally vanished.

True Monarch Gui Xuan immediately frowned:

”Xuanming Daoist, there is no residual soul, the other party is likely a demon cultivator too, they have collected the residual soul thoroughly!”

True Monarch Xuanming then took out several drops of essence blood, these belonged to Blood Spear Sect members.

Yet, when True Monarch Gui Xuan activated them, similarly the Hundred Ghosts Gate refused to open.

Seeing this, True Monarch Xuanming’s expression drastically changed.

Previously, he considered it was Righteous Sect individuals, but now unable to find even a residual soul, it could also be the work of demon cultivators.

After all, only in demon cultivator techniques, are residual souls mostly utilized.

Though Nascent Soul powers aren’t many in Nanman Province, under Profound Celestial Demon Sect, Nascent Soul demon cultivators aren’t few.

If the opponent is some hidden demon cultivator, who came to Hezhong Mansion to kill, deliberately framing Righteous Sect, it’s highly possible.

This significantly increases the difficulty of locating them.

”Xuanming Daoist, I’ll try using the Hundred Ghosts Patrol technique of the Hundred Ghosts Seeking Qi, though this method is far less accurate than before.” True Monarch Gui Xuan at this moment had already guessed some matters.

His mood was much better.

Ordinary Master Silver Spear hardly warrants demon cultivators collecting residual souls, and it’s quite crucial to True Monarch Xuanming.

Of course, outwardly True Monarch Gui Xuan still activated the secret technique.

With the gathering of Profound Yin Cold Qi, over a hundred spirit shadows formed, heading towards Purple He Commandery of Hezhong Mansion.

Hundred Ghosts Patrol is a pursuit and tracking technique of Ghost Dao Secret Technique, sometimes more effective than a cultivator’s divine sense.

But after a long time has passed, with no essence blood to guide, after over a hundred spirit shadows returned and dissipated over Demon Abyss, True Monarch Gui Xuan also shook his head.

Though he didn’t speak, it already indicated much.

At this moment, despite being helpless, True Monarch Xuanming could only give up.

Yet True Monarch Xuanming still waited by Demon Abyss for several days before departing.

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Hezhong Mansion, Great Abyss Commandery.

This is the least conspicuous commandery within Hezhong Mansion, with few cultivators and spiritual objects, the only benefit perhaps is having more mortals.

But mortals here are likewise controlled by various major sects.

Don’t be fooled by demon cultivators sometimes being bloodthirsty towards mortals, but it’s bloodthirsty towards mortals of other cultivators, within their own regions, they’re not only gentle but employ techniques to offer protection.

Even mortal cemeteries here are guarded by arrays.

Great Sleep Mountain is precisely such a burial ground.

At this moment within the cemetery, in an ordinary mortal grave, the black coffin has been replaced by a stone coffin.

And within the stone coffin, a Jade Ring Rat quietly listens.

Beside the Jade Ring Rat is the true form of the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven.

Meanwhile, Ye Jingcheng and the others had already entered the grotto heaven.

The stone coffin is an ancient treasure, once the most relied upon ancient treasure by Zhang Zhiqiu, its hidden abilities need not be mentioned. If not for Ye Jingcheng’s Dream-Devouring Soul-Searching, Zhang Zhiqiu’s avatar would have never been found back then.

This also explains why Ye Jingcheng dared to enter Hezhong Mansion to kill enemies.

The reason for not leaving immediately was due to discovering during the soul search of True Monarch Heiyu that he had already joined the Profound Celestial Demon Sect, and in his storage bag, there was a Tier Five Nascent Soul Pill.

Of course, this wasn’t the generosity of the Profound Celestial Demon Sect, but the Spirit Materials for the Nascent Soul Pill were obtained by True Monarch Heiyu and True Monarch of Heaven Demon in the Earth Immortal Realm.

Upon leaving the Earth Immortal Realm, they were handed over to the Profound Celestial Demon Sect, refining two portions, with one portion going to the Celestial Demon Sect.

Hence, last time True Monarch Xuanming handed the Nascent Soul Pill to True Monarch Heiyu.

Instructing him to recover and quickly find a suitable Golden Core in the Celestial Demon Sect to use it.

If there weren’t a Nascent Soul Pill, Ye Jingcheng would still take the risk to escape into Wangqing Prefecture, directly seeking trouble with the Hundred Beasts Sect.

But considering he might be tracked, even if alarming the Hundred Beasts Sect, Ye Jingcheng couldn’t care less.

After all, the Nascent Soul Pill holds significant importance for the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng, currently at the Golden Core Peak, considers refining the Nascent Soul Pill — one portion to yield one pill is already quite good.

However, if Ye Jingcheng breaks through to Nascent Soul and becomes a rightful Tier Five Alchemist, the effects of refining Nascent Soul Pills would be naturally different then.

Besides these treasures, Ye Jingcheng also acquired the complete Crow Wings of the Taiyin Ancient Crow.

The most wasteful approach would be extracting all the Essence Blood.

The next option would be forcibly stimulating it to master the Ancient Yin Flame Divine Techniques and use it for escape, though it would increase the burden on the physical body.

Ye Jingcheng certainly doesn’t intend to choose either; he plans to find a Tier Five Artifact Refiner to refine it into a Tier Five Middle-Grade Flying Treasure.

This way it can fully play its effect.

The cultivation of the Taiyin Ancient Crow should be at the late stage of Tier Five, and despite losing some Spiritual Might, it’s still possible to refine it into a Tier Five Middle-Grade Flying Treasure.

The remaining treasures are two Tier Five Lower-Grade Treasures.

Among them is the Black King Banner that can release countless tentacles, belonging to the binding type treasure, somewhat similar to the vine treasure of Wood Attribute Cultivators, but obviously more mysterious, and unaffected by Fire Attribute Cultivators or Sword Cultivators.

The final treasure is that black conical hat treasure, known as the Wuyuan Conical Hat.

Don’t be deceived by its appearance as a simple conical hat; its defense is extremely strong, definitely considered very precious among Tier Five Treasures.

At Gemini Peak, this Wuyuan Conical Hat defended against the joint attack of Xu Huai True Monarch and Liu Zhou State Governor.

Besides Tier Five Treasures, the other gains, despite being numerous and varied, aren’t considered much. Ye Jingcheng wasn’t particularly interested in them.

Yet, with the foundation of the two sects, Ye Jingcheng has also gathered the pill formula for Tier Four Blood Spring Pill, and has found most of the Spirit Medicines for Tier Four Golden Quenching Essence Fruit Pill Formula.

This trip to Hezhong Mansion can be said to be extremely fruitful, having even gained the Yin Yang Demon Corpse, and a method for a Demon Cultivator to break through to Nascent Soul.

Beside Ye Jingcheng, Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuefan at present were also feeding Spirit Pills and Spirit Medicines to Ye Jingcheng’s various Spirit Beasts.

Although Ye Jingcheng had already given some rewards, according to his two elders, these Spirit Beasts’ utility shouldn’t be limited to a mere reward.

Thus at this moment, the Spirit Beasts were gleaming with Spiritual Light, lying quietly in their nests, refining and resting.

Once they finished feeding the Spirit Beasts, the two of them went to look at the Celestial Dream Butterfly.

They had also heard of this beast’s reputation.

And felt particularly intrigued by it.

They observed it for a long time.

Upon seeing Ye Jingcheng approaching, they finally spoke:

”Jingcheng, once you return to Desert Sea, you can take a trip to the Eastern Domain. Master Mo Dao expressed willingness to share more insights on Tian Dao True Monarch’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul.”

”Having obtained the Nascent Soul Pill, you can immediately enter seclusion!” Both were somewhat excited and touched.

With Ye Jingcheng’s breakthrough, the Ye Family would become a Nascent Soul Clan, though still insignificant in the Great Yu Realm, they would have some footing.

Spirit Beasts as Demon Emperor ultimately fall short compared to cultivators being Nascent Souls themselves.

Moreover, Ye Jingcheng is an Alchemist; his breakthrough ensures there would be numerous Nascent Souls in the future Ye Family.

”Yes, this time I owe thanks to Fourth Uncle and Great Grandpa accompanying me, otherwise if separated, there wouldn’t have been this opportunity!” Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but smile.

”This has nothing to do with us, the entire family is basking in your glory now!” Ye Xuefan waved his hand dismissively.

The few of them all smiled instantly.

The three of them had no intent to leave right away, rather planning to drag for half a year.

Although this would impact the Spiritual Energy within the grotto heaven, since the Ye Family prepared numerous Upper-grade Spirit Stones, and recently collected over a thousand Upper-grade Spirit Stones, there wouldn’t be any concern over the Spiritual Energy issue for a year or two.

With such abundant harvests, there is naturally no worry about expending a few Upper-grade Spirit Stones; there’s no need to risk due to insufficient Spirit Stones and Spiritual Energy.