Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 1502: Chapter 1080: Reward Selection

On the verdant Spirit Mountain, the various halls were already covered in thick dust, and several chairs had even begun to rot.

In front of the grand hall, an area Ye Xuecang and the others hadn’t searched, the two men spotted another spring.

The spring wasn’t large, only about a foot wide. The Spirit Water inside was exceptionally clear, and it gushed out at a rapid pace. As the spring gradually overflowed, copious amounts of Spiritual Radiance appeared above it. Clearly, this was a Tier Three Middle Spiritual Eye Spring. It seemed as though, with the death of the Tier Four Locust Tree Wood Demon, the spring had come back to life.

“We shall reward this spring to the Li family,” Ye Xuecang said.

The two then headed toward the grand hall. With a cast of the Dust Cleaning Skill inside, the hall became spotless in the blink of an eye, even gleaming with a translucent sheen. The grand hall was originally built with magnificent grandeur. Now cleaned, even without any furnishings, it already exuded a certain majesty.

Li Shangwu and a few Li Family Members were also summoned here. At this moment, they felt somewhat apprehensive, but upon seeing the palace, Li Shangwu felt relatively reassured. If the Ye family really wanted to dispose of them, they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of calling them to the palace—they could have just killed them outright. After all, inside the Grotto Heaven, they were no match for Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan; outside of it, they similarly couldn’t escape Ye Jingcheng’s grasp.

Therefore, Li Shangwu saw the situation with utter clarity.

“The harvest from the Secret Realm has been tallied.

“In total, we obtained one stalk of Transformation Spirit Medicine, one piece of Tier Four Wood Demon Spirit Wood, one Tier Three High-Grade Spiritual Spring, three Tier Three Spirit Medicine Gardens, one Tier Four Spirit Medicine Garden, one Tier Four Spirit Mountain, three Tier Three Spirit Mountains, over three hundred stalks of Tier One, Tier Two, and Tier Three Spirit Medicine, one stalk of Tier Four Spiritual Medicine Cyan Heart Profound Cry Grass, and over eighty Jade Talismans…” Ye Xuecang listed them off one by one.

Hearing this, Li Shangwu grew exceptionally excited. Even excluding the Transformation Spirit Medicine and the Old Yin Locust Tree, just receiving a twenty percent share of the remaining treasures would be a massive windfall for the Li family. Since the Secret Realm had been abandoned for too long, there wasn’t much Spirit Medicine that the Ye family desired. However, for the Li family, those Tier Two and Tier Three Spirit Medicines were exactly what they needed.

“According to our previous agreement, your Li family receives a twenty percent share. However, we won’t be distributing any part of the Transformation Spirit Medicine or the Wood Demon corpse to your family this time.

“As compensation, the Spiritual Eye Spring is bestowed upon your Li family. At the same time, your family may select one Magical Treasure below the Tier Four Middle grade from the Ye family’s Treasure Vault. Alternatively, you may wait until the Ye family refines Gold Condensing Pills and receive one then. Choose one of the two options,” Ye Xuecang continued.

At this, Li Shangwu was ecstatic. He had guessed that given the Ye family’s style of doing things, they would share some treasures, but he never expected to be given a Spiritual Eye Spring, nor did he anticipate receiving either a Tier Four Magical Treasure or a Gold Condensing Pill. He selected the latter without a second thought.

The Li family would certainly need a Gold Condensing Pill in the future. Rather than taking a Magical Treasure to marginally increase their already meager Combat Power, it was far better to save the pill to cultivate an additional Golden Core Cultivator for the family. Of course, this came with risks. If the Ye family were to collapse in a few decades, the Li family would get nothing. But even if that worst-case scenario were to happen, Li Shangwu was willing to accept it. Based on his understanding of the Ye family, even if something went wrong with Medicine King Valley or the Taiyi Sect, the Ye family would likely still emerge unscathed.

“Ye Daoist, I choose the Gold Condensing Pill.”

“Very well. Once the Ye family refines the Gold Condensing Pills, we will reserve one for your Li family,” Ye Xuecang nodded.

The Li family had gifted the Ye family a Gold Condensing Fruit Tree, which was capable of yielding quite a few Gold Condensing Fruits. Giving them one Gold Condensing Pill was naturally not a big deal.

The Ye family’s gains from this trip to the East Wuyu Islands Sea Domain were already immeasurable.

After the treasures were divided, Ye Xuecang took out a Spirit Diagram of the Secret Realm and roughly split the territory into two halves, with the larger portion belonging to the Ye family and the smaller to the Li family. Comparatively speaking, the Ye family had provided the Li family with a bit of extra support, considering the initial agreement was only a twenty percent share for them.

After seeing the arrangement, Li Shangwu bowed deeply in salute. He knew that the Li family had been able to escape this deadly trap entirely thanks to the Ye family. And regarding the doubts raised back then over gifting the Gold Condensing Fruit Tree, he could now proudly tell all the Li Family Members that his choice had not been wrong.

Once the Li Family Members took their leave, Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan began reviewing the Jade Talismans.

These Jade Talismans were all left behind by the Cultivators of the East Wuyu Sect. Although too much time had passed—and coupled with the fact that the East Wuyu Sect was merely a Tier Four Sect, leaving little information to glean—the Ye family still managed to find a Sea Diagram leading to the Star Sea.

In addition, they found quite a few Cultivation Techniques. While these Cultivation Techniques were nothing spectacular to the Ye family, the number of Ye family Cultivators had now surpassed twenty thousand, making it so that the more Cultivation Techniques they possessed, the better. From the Jade Talismans, they also read many biographies, though it remained somewhat ambiguous whether East Wuyu Island was located in the East Sea or the South Sea. But overall, the Ye family now at least had a route to the Star Sea.

“We’ll wait for the family to inquire with our clansmen embedded in the Profound Celestial Demon Sect first. Then, we can head to the Star Sea to grasp the situation,” Ye Xuecang said.

Having said that, the two exited the Secret Realm.

Outside the Secret Realm, a Dream-Devouring Worm was currently prostrating before Ye Jingcheng.

As early as half a day ago, he had already received the message sent out by Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan. Having obtained the Transformation Spirit Medicine in the form of the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng, he was naturally overjoyed. This intact Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng, combined with the two portions he had acquired previously, was enough to refine Nascent Soul Pills four times. Even if one attempt failed, he would still yield at least three Nascent Soul Pills.

For the Ye family, this meant that not only would Ye Xuecang and Chu Yanqing have the opportunity for Nascent Soul Formation, but there would also be at least one spare Nascent Soul Pill left for other Spirit Beasts, thereby increasing the number of Nascent Soul Combat Powers within the family. This way, before the next opening of the Earth Immortal Realm, the Ye family might be able to assemble over ten Nascent Soul Combat Powers. When that time came, not even the former Medicine King Valley would be able to compare to them. Coupled with the Primordial Magnetic Mountain Spirit and three Spirit Treasures, Ye Jingcheng was naturally brimming with confidence.

After his initial joy, Ye Jingcheng also began capturing some of the nearby Great Demons. He had his Dream-Devouring Worm perform Soul Searches on them. After all, the two Demon Kings knew limited information and didn’t even know the location of the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor. The big talk they spouted before submitting had just been casual nonsense.

Therefore, if Ye Jingcheng wanted to seek out the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor to test his skills, he still needed to Soul Search other Demon Beasts or Cultivators to find it. However, after rounding them all up, there was still no information regarding the Primordial Shark Demon Emperor.

Instead, he learned about the territories of two nearby Demon Kings. One Demon King was to the north and the other to the east. They were a Dragon Beard Fish and a Purple Yuan Sea Elephant, respectively. For the Ye family, it was still worth attempting to tame them. Only with enough Demon Kings could the Ye family’s Purple Mansion Cultivators swiftly break through to the Golden Core stage, allowing the family’s mid-to-high-level Combat Power to be rapidly replenished. As a Nascent Soul Clan, their Golden Core Cultivators currently numbered fewer than ten, which was naturally somewhat insufficient.

“Second Granduncle, Fourth Granduncle.” Spiritual Light flashed at the Secret Realm Entrance as the two men stepped out together.

Although a full day had passed, their faces still brimmed with festive joy. This was not due to a lack of composure on their part; rather, the fact that things were going increasingly smoothly for the Ye family was inherently a cause for celebration. Right now, it could be said that the Ye family was flourishing on all fronts.

The moment Ye Xuecang came out, he retrieved a Jade Box. This was the exact Jade Box containing the Transformation Spirit Medicine, the Nine Curves Spirit Ginseng. Looking at the Jade Box, Ye Jingcheng immediately stored it inside his Grotto Heaven.

“Jingcheng, from now on, I will be stationed here,” Ye Xuecang then said. “I am perfectly at ease with Haicheng guarding the Desert Sea. Xuefan needs to research Arrays, while Jing Hu and Yun Xi are currently operating in the Central Domain.”

“Second Granduncle staying here is naturally a good thing,” Ye Jingcheng nodded.

He knew Ye Xuecang was staying behind in order to slay more Demon Beasts to elevate his Sword Dao Cultivation. A Sword Cultivator could not achieve success through Seclusion alone. They required a vast amount of Magical Combat. The Eastern Domain and Central Domain naturally lacked the conditions for this, but the East Wuyu Archipelago was perfectly suited to fulfill that need. Moreover, the two Demon Kings he had inquired about were at the Early Stage of Fourth Tier and the Tier Four Middle stage respectively, making them perfect targets for Ye Xuecang to take action against.