Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1536 Ranking Secret Realm Trial (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Penglai Island, Sanyuan City.

The city was built on Sanyuan Mountain, which itself is composed of three sacred mountains.

The leftmost mountain has now been completely transformed into a teleportation array, also known as the Array Origin Mountain. The rightmost mountain has been entirely developed into cave dwellings, also known as the Cave Origin Mountain. The middle one is where most cultivators trade and communicate, also known as the Central Origin Mountain.

The city is more prosperous than ever before. Unlike the previous Penglai, the Ye family has opened up the Eastern Region and adopted a unique policy of paying tribute to the prefectures. Now, two Nascent Soul forces have come from the Central Region to become the Ye family's vassals in the Eastern Region.

There are more than ten Golden Core vassals, and this is only because the Southern Region has a lot of vacant spiritual lands; otherwise, there would definitely be more coming to the Eastern Region.

At this moment, in the Ye Family Restaurant, a cultivator sat by the window, looking at the streets and alleys, listening to the casual conversations of other cultivators, and was somewhat surprised.

Beside the restaurant, besides the original preaching hall, there was a huge plaque.

This signboard isn't a shop sign; it's a string of names.

There are only ten gold names, fifty silver names, and two hundred ordinary black names.

Ye Jingcheng had never heard of this before.

"The Foundation Establishment Hero Ranking has been updated, and this time there are indeed quite a few more cultivators from the Jiang family and the Xuan Kui Sect!"

"That's for sure. But this time, two rogue cultivators have made it onto the Purple Mansion Ranking. It seems that both Bamboo Fence Master and Purple Flute Master are exceptionally strong."

……

The cultivators were discussing animatedly, and even though it wasn't the day for the Ye Family Restaurant to give a lecture, the restaurant quickly became packed with people.

The cultivators on the side finally understood and couldn't help but smile as they watched this scene.

This cultivator was naturally Ye Jingcheng, who had been teleported from the Sand Sea. However, he did not teleport to Penglai Island, but to Sanyuan Mountain. He wanted to see what changes had occurred in the Ye family after they became a Nascent Soul family.

Deep down, he was terrified that the Ye family members had forgotten their original aspirations after becoming members of the Immortal Sect, and had become arrogant, domineering, and reckless.

Fortunately, he did not witness any scene of Ye family cultivators bullying others along the way.

At the same time, even in restaurants, members of the Ye family would show basic respect to every cultivator.

This was enough for Ye Jingcheng.

It should be noted that many families that rise rapidly do not perish during their growth, but rather often become complacent after their success and then fall into an abyss.

Of course, what surprised him were these three lists.

These three lists were clearly recently released by the Ye family.

Ye Jingcheng was also extremely curious, but he did not see the names of any members of the Ye family on the list. However, there were members of the Wan family in the Purple Mansion, and the strongest among the Golden Core cultivators was none other than the Spirit Blade True Person of the Heavenly Blade Sect.

This Spirit Blade Master was not the Golden Core cultivator that Ye Jingcheng originally brought into the Central Region, but a disciple he later recruited in the Central Region.

This disciple possessed exceptional talent for the sword, quickly reaching the Foundation Establishment stage and the Purple Mansion stage. In recent years, he even reached the Golden Core stage and was personally trained as a disciple by the True Monarch of the Mo Dao.

Ye Jingcheng finished the spiritual tea and did not linger. Instead, he flew towards the teleportation array and was teleported directly to Penglai Island.

"Father." As soon as Ye Jingcheng stepped out of the teleportation array, he saw Ye Qingnian and Ye Tengming, one in front of the other, clearly having waited for a long time.

"How long have you been waiting?" Ye Jingcheng asked calmly, looking at the two of them. "Not long, we just arrived. Father, you came out of seclusion this time for the Purple Clay God Monarch Conference in the Purple Clay Realm. I have prepared some sixth-grade spiritual herbs, as well as some spirit stones and materials for you..." Ye Qingnian took out a storage bag and respectfully presented it to them.

Although he has been the head of the Ye family for many years, in the eyes of outsiders, he is the ruthless, selfless and extremely shrewd head of the Ye family.

But in front of Ye Jingcheng, he was a child who was always worried about not performing well.

"Well done. Who came up with those three lists? It's quite an innovation." Ye Jingcheng didn't pay much attention to the spiritual herbs and spirit stones.

On the contrary, he was very interested in the Ye Family Restaurant's list.

Ye Qingnian did not answer, but simply made room for him.

"These are just childish tricks; I hope you won't laugh at me, Great-Grandfather," Ye Tengming said, cupping his hands in greeting. It was clear that he was the one who proposed the list.

"Tengming believes that running Dongyu is the same as running the Ye family. The Ye family has a ranking list, and the outside world should also have a ranking list."

"This list may not be comprehensive, but the Ye family will update it regularly based on the performance of every cultivator in the Eastern Region. With the list, many cultivators will have role models to strive for, and they will become more competitive. With the guidance of some Ye family treasures, we can showcase the high-level cultivators of the Eastern Region to the Ye family, and at the same time attract cultivators from the Central Region." Ye Tengming's list is naturally aimed at those who have purchased spiritual mountains in the Eastern Region or established sects there.

Furthermore, since the list was created by the Ye family, the Ye family can give priority to recruiting these cultivators into the Ye family.

After all, the Ye family used to be at the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, and they would have been afraid of these cultivators becoming a future threat.

However, now that the Ye family has become a Nascent Soul family, they no longer have so many concerns.

Moreover, in the past, the Ye family had few cultivators. The Ye family occupied a region and allowed cultivators to unite, which resulted in the emergence of many talented cultivators.

There are too many cultivators in the Ye family now, and too many people with Ye family blood.

Naturally, it needs to incorporate the bloodline of a cultivator with superior spiritual roots.

The choices on this list became the targets for the Ye family to choose as sons-in-law or to marry.

“Great-grandfather, Tengming also thinks that we can open some secret realms to the entire Eastern Region, allowing cultivators from the Eastern Region to come and explore, similar to a smaller Earth Immortal Realm,” Ye Tengming continued.

"Oh, you can tell me more!" Ye Jingcheng hadn't expected Teng Ming to have this side to him, and he became very interested and looking forward to it.

“Reporting to my great-grandfather, Teng Ming believes that many cultivators are afraid to go to sea and dare not venture deep into the Taihang Mountains, which is very disadvantageous for cultivators in the Eastern Region.”

"Many spirit beasts are also lax in combat, and their combat strength is not outstanding. Therefore, this will benefit both the Eastern Region and the Ye family!"

"As for the protection of the secret realm, it consists of some formations and some spirit beasts of the Ye family."

"Setting up more of these formations can also train the formation skills of the Ye family's formation masters and help improve the formations. As for the Ye family's spirit beasts, it can train their abilities. In addition, some spirit puppets can be added from time to time."

“We’ll also charge a fee for entering the secret realm. This way, we can earn spirit stones and improve our clansmen.” After saying this, Ye Tengming looked at Ye Jingcheng with anticipation.

“It’s indeed good, but let’s try the first and second-tier secret realms first. There’s no need to rush to the third tier.” Ye Jingcheng nodded, naturally agreeing with Teng Ming’s idea.

The Ye family is no longer the Ye family of the past. Now they are the rulers of the Eastern Region. Improving the strength of the Eastern Region is also improving the strength of the Ye family.

After all, with more and stronger cultivators in the Eastern Region, the fees the Ye family can charge for teleportation arrays will be exceptionally substantial in the future.

(End of this chapter)