Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1584 Gu Meng Requests to Switch to Cultivation (Two Chapters Combined, Seeking Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

On Mount Penglai, the vast fog began to swirl endlessly once again, but the entire mountain peak appeared considerably shorter.

With each incantation, a colorful rain began to fall, quietly washing over the earth.

Only the spatial rifts high in the sky, the raging gales, and the indelible sword intent tell the story of the tragic scene that had occurred at Penglai Mountain.

It should be noted that although the sixth-order protective formation of Penglai Mountain was broken, the Ye family had arranged for the Heavenly Origin Vajra Battle Formation composed of Earth Armor Puppets to resist the remaining power and prevent Penglai Mountain and even Penglai Island from being reduced to dust by a casual strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Yet, the fact that Penglai Spirit Island was still like a hellish abyss was enough to show how terrifying and brutal this battle was.

At this moment, most of the guests had retreated into the secret realm prepared by the Ye family, while a few forces had already left.

After this battle, the God Transformation Ceremony naturally had to be canceled.

The Ye family has also announced that the ceremony will be postponed for six months.

Meanwhile, deep within Mount Ling, in front of a hidden teleportation array, Ye Jingcheng dispelled all the array's effects.

Then he looked at Lord Baiqiao and Lord Gumeng.

As one of the most important spiritual mountains of the Ye family, Mount Penglai's teleportation array cannot directly connect to other realms or even large regions.

Even the teleportation array destroyed by Mu Mingqing led directly to Sanyuan City, and from there, people could be teleported to other realms.

As for traveling to other realms, one will need to transit through the Central Realm.

But if Ye Jingcheng's prediction was correct, the teleportation array in Sanyuan City must have been destroyed by now.

Otherwise, both the Ancient Dream God and the Hundred Skills God might have chosen to fly to Sanyuan City instead of begging him to find other teleportation arrays.

After all, although Sanyuan City is far from Penglai Island, it doesn't take long for a Nascent Soul cultivator to travel there at all costs.

However, if the teleportation array in Sanyuan City is destroyed, then the problem cannot be solved by going to Sanyuan City.

That's why he led the group to the teleportation array in the underground hall.

This is the Ye family's most concealed teleportation array, and also the teleportation array that the Divine Lord of Exorcism arrived at. Because this time it was for secrecy and to target the Mu family, this teleportation array does not connect to Sanyuan City, but to Yunming Prefecture in Nanyun State of the Central Region.

Although the Ye family is now a Nascent Soul power, its main prefecture in the Central Region is still Yunming Prefecture.

Moreover, the Righteous Path Sect had subdued the three states, including the Southern Barbarian State, which were previously controlled by the Xuantian Sect.

Nanyun Prefecture has practically been given to the Ye family.

The governor of Nanyun Prefecture is Xiao Wankun, which is why many of the Ye family's teleportation arrays can lead to Nanyun Prefecture in the Central Region.

Of course, these hidden teleportation arrays are the core secrets of the Ye family.

Even within the Ye family, not many people know about this teleportation array.

“Fellow Daoist Baiqiao, my Ye family has no other teleportation arrays available. This teleportation array leads to Yunming Prefecture in Nanyun State. Once there, a member of my Ye family will escort you two to Zhonghuang State, where there is a teleportation array that leads directly to the Western Regions!”

Ye Jingcheng knew perfectly well that something had happened to the mysterious spirit vine.

Clearly, the Mu family should recognize the spirit vine that the Ye family doesn't, and they don't know how they got the information.

Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense.

It's even possible that the Ancient Dream God and the Hundred Skills God in front of us know something.

At this point, neither side was concealing their relationship at all.

That alone is enough to show its importance.

He even felt that the reason why the Ancient Dream God and the Hundred Skills God reacted by observing the ceremony was probably because of this.

However, neither of them expected that the Mu family's attack on the Ye family was a feint, and their attack on their Jin Guang Temple was their full-scale attack!

"Fellow Daoist Ye, this humble monk dares to ask if the Ye family could accompany us to the Western Regions? If we can protect the foundation of Jin Guang Temple, Jin Guang Temple will surely reward us handsomely!" Gu Meng Shenjun's words were full of uncertainty.

Before this, the Ye family had suffered a great calamity, and Gu Meng Shenjun had remained silent and patient.

Now, the situation has reversed. When problems arise at Jinguang Temple, he invites them back.

Even if you put yourself in his shoes, he wouldn't agree.

Even though he was thousands of years old, his face was still flushed from speaking like that.

Normally, he would never be able to bring himself to say it.

But since it concerned the life and death of Jin Guang Temple and its hundreds of thousands of disciples, he couldn't remain silent just to save face.

"Fellow Daoist Gu Meng, you should return to our aid quickly. I am also seriously injured." Ye Jingcheng naturally could not go to the Western Regions at this time.

Even if the spirit vine treasure on the other side is more valuable than the Heavenly Treasure, he would not go.

To prevent the Ancient Dream God from playing the emotional card he had previously played, he even activated the teleportation array.

Despite killing and capturing ten Nascent Soul cultivators, the injuries they sustained and the spiritual energy they consumed were enormous.

Now, Yu Linlong is seriously injured, Tian Nie and Qing Qiu are severely depleted, and only he and Chi Yan Hu are in relatively good condition.

However, there is also a risk of being surrounded and attacked while reinforcements are being deployed.

Unless he is not afraid of being exposed and allows the three-headed ancient demon Gamora to use his powers at will.

But that's unlikely.

Moreover, he had no idea what the Mu family's trump cards were or what Tianjue Valley's trump cards were.

Naturally, they wouldn't take the risk.

Ancient Dream God and Hundred Skills God sighed slightly, wanting to continue speaking.

But it ended up stuck in my throat.

In the end, he simply cupped his hands in thanks and said "thank you."

It then transformed into a ray of light within the teleportation array and disappeared from the spot.

Ye Jingcheng didn't observe the teleportation array for long, but left from the underground hall and finally landed in the main hall on Penglai Mountain.

Inside the main hall, only Zheng Yuan Shenjun and Ye Jingyu were waiting.

"Master," Ye Jingcheng bowed repeatedly.

"Did you suspect something beforehand? Why didn't you tell your master? Although my strength may not be as good as yours, I still have some influence. If I had arranged for a few old friends who are in seclusion to come, then this time there would have been no need for such a risk," Zheng Yuan Divine Lord couldn't help but say.

As he spoke, he handed an ancient treasure to Ye Jingcheng.

It was the very ancient treasure that collected the demon saint's primordial spirit.

"I'm sorry to have worried you, Master. I wasn't sure the other party would make a move this time, which is why I didn't speak." Ye Jingcheng was still very touched.

Compared to other Nascent Soul cultivators, he only tried to curry favor with the Ye family after seeing them grow stronger.

But Zheng Yuan Shenjun was genuinely thinking of the Ye family and worried about them.

Moreover, before the ceremony, Zheng Yuan Shenjun hosted other Nascent Soul cultivators for the Ye family.

During the ceremony, he was the first to stand next to the Ye family, which speaks volumes about his importance.

"Master, these are recovery pills. Please also take some for Ziyang Divine Lord, Potian Divine Lord, and Haoran Divine Lord." Ye Jingcheng took out sixth-grade healing pills.

Although the Ye family doesn't have many sixth-grade spirit pills.

But this is definitely not the time to be stingy. If you run out of sixth-tier spiritual herbs, you can always get more from the Earthly Immortal Realm.

However, if the Ye family is isolated, even the Great Yu Realm will have no power willing to form an alliance with them.

At that time, it won't be long before I transform into Penglai and disappear from the world of cultivation.

This ceremony reveals that the strength of a single force is still somewhat weak; having more allies would naturally be better.

The Central Region Alliance, where Zheng Yuan Divine Lord resides, is a good ally for the Ye family.

There has already been a foundation of at least several collaborations.

Even if they wanted to pledge allegiance to the Mu family and Tianjue Valley, the Mu family probably wouldn't believe them.

"Master, thanks to you and Uncle Ziyang this time, please take the primordial spirits of Lei Chen and the Rift Sky Demon Saint." Ye Jingcheng then took out the primordial spirits of two more demon saints and the corpse of the Rift Sky Mantis.

Actually, it was Zheng Yuan Shenjun who took out this ancient treasure that contained the Demon Saint's primordial spirit; only the corpse of the Sky-Splitting Mantis was directly put into the storage bag.

This time, the Ye family only directly killed Hanming Demon Saint; the rest were left with their corpses and primordial spirits.

The obtained sixth-order primordial spirits include two Nascent Soul primordial spirits, Deer Cliff Divine Lord and Mu Mingqing, as well as four Demon Saint primordial spirits, namely the Sea-Suppressing Demon Ape, the Three-Headed Spirit Crane, Lei Chen, and the Sky-Splitting Mantis, and four sixth-order Demon Saint physical bodies that can be used as sixth-order spiritual materials.

The results were beyond our expectations.

In particular, Hanming's corpse essence and blood can be used as the main ingredient for the Jade Dragon's advancement pill, and Lei Chen's essence and blood can be used as the main ingredient for Ye Jinghu or Ye Tengming's Thunder Dragon advancement pill in the future.

At the same time, the primordial spirits of demon saints and deities can also serve as precious medicines for spirit beasts to break through.

Even if the attributes don't quite match, they can still be used as precious medicines to enhance one's spirit.

"The primordial spirit of demonic beasts is of little use to us righteous cultivators, and the Ziyang Sect is no exception. Therefore, you don't need to take out the primordial spirit and essence of demonic beasts. Sometimes, it is wise to show some weaknesses appropriately. But I will not be polite with you regarding the corpse of the Sky-Splitting Mantis!" Zheng Yuan Divine Lord then slowly spoke.

He had many considerations, and this time the Ye family certainly displayed great strength.

However, the Ye family also possesses a large number of treasures.

Moreover, the Ye family has produced a new Demon Saint, which means that the Ye family has the means to mass-produce Demon Saints.

This aligns to some extent with the news about the Spirit Treasure that Hanming first spread.

If the Ye family now has an exceptional desire for the primordial spirit of a demon saint, the essence and blood of demon beasts, and the core material of a demon beast's physical body.

This at least gives people reason to believe that the Ye family's spiritual treasures are not something that can easily allow a spirit beast to break through to the Demon Saint level.

However, if the Ye family were to give away all their treasures to other people, it wouldn't be seen as generosity. Instead, it would make those Nascent Soul cultivators think that the Ye family's spiritual treasures were far too terrifying.

Some even suspected that the Ye family might possess two extraordinary spiritual treasures.

In fact, when Ye Jingcheng returned to the Ye family, Zheng Yuan Shenjun breathed a sigh of relief.

He feared that Ye Jingcheng might also be interested in the mysterious spirit vine at Jinguang Temple.

Don't be fooled by the Ye family's current strength and the large number of Nascent Soul cultivators.

In reality, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators who came this time was not particularly large. If the Ye family truly possessed an outrageous number of treasures, then perhaps due to the Ye family's strength, there wouldn't be any problems in the short term.

However, long-term planning will likely be repeated time and again, and will become increasingly fierce.

Even the Wang and Zhao families might turn against them.

The thing in the world that is least able to be tested is human nature.

"As for the treasures, the main gifts should be spiritual materials and sixth-order magic weapons or some spiritual treasures, but there must be requirements. It is best to give essence blood and sixth-order spiritual herbs. If you don't give them or don't have them, it is not only your congratulatory gift, but also a favor you are doing. After all, apart from the old Taoist Ziyang, everyone else has some ulterior motives this time, so it is not so sincere."

"After all, you will also refine a sixth-order spirit pill for them for free."

When a normal alchemist refines pills for someone, they will take two to three portions of the spiritual materials.

After all, no one can be 100% sure of success with just one attempt.

Secondly, if the refining is successful and there is only one, an additional reward will be given.

This is enough to show that the price to refine a sixth-order spirit pill is not small.

"Thank you for your teachings, Master!" Ye Jingcheng had many thoughts in his mind as well.

But since Zheng Yuan Shenjun spoke to him today, he naturally had to listen.

Moreover, the Ye family has indeed been too high-profile lately.

This is why he insisted on keeping Mu Mingqing of the Mu family no matter what.

Now he can only hope that Mu Mingqing will bring him some surprises after the soul search.

Otherwise, although the Ye family may seem to be out of immediate danger today, they are always afraid of enemies coming from the sky!

"You should go and consolidate your healing first. This ceremony will be held in six months. I estimate that there will be new Nascent Soul cultivators to congratulate you then. That trade fair might even be the grandest ever!" Zheng Yuan Divine Lord carefully put away the corpse of the Sky-Splitting Mantis.

Then, with anticipation, he spoke again.

No matter how powerful Ye Jingcheng is, he is still his disciple, and the Ye family is like a faction of the righteous sect to him.

Even if he fails to reach the Spirit Realm and perishes during the smuggling process, he will not be ashamed of the martyrs of the righteous sects.

Moreover, before that, he could boast a few more times to his many friends.

After Zheng Yuan Shenjun finished speaking, he left directly.

Inside the main hall, only Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingcheng remained:
"Jingcheng, are you alright?" Although Ye Jingyu knew that Ye Jingcheng was exceptionally strong, Ye Jingcheng had only recently broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and was facing off against so many cultivators of the same level.

He also thought that Ye Jingcheng was just putting on a brave face.

But Ye Jingcheng was indeed only more exhausted.

This time, no mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators came, so the pressure wasn't particularly great.

As long as we digest what we've learned this time.

If Yu Linlong advances to the next level or breaks through to the mid-stage of the sixth rank, then the Ye family will face almost no pressure in the future.

Of course, there are also Tianni Phoenix Saint and Qingqiu Fox Saint. Although they are too old to advance, their cultivation levels were already at the peak of the early stage of the sixth rank.

If I were to absorb one or two demon saint primordial spirits this time, and supplement them with sixth-grade spiritual pills, there would still be some chance of breaking through.

This would bring the number of Ye family members with mid-stage sixth-order cultivators to three.

Therefore, after dealing with the matters of the Demon Saint and the Mu family, he planned to meet with the Divine Medicine Lord and the Cloud Sand Lord as soon as possible.

The former is to exchange for more sixth-tier spiritual herbs, while the latter is to determine who will be responsible for refining the Three Jade Divine Essence Pill.

"Fourth Brother, I'm naturally fine, but you should switch to cultivating new techniques!" Ye Jingcheng continued.

Ye Jingyu's cultivation of the Nine Stars Celestial Divination Spiritual Scripture comes from the Heavenly Desolation Inheritance of the Eight Desolations Sect, but he only has the first half, and can only cultivate it to the late Nascent Soul stage.

This is also the reason why Ye Jingyu's cultivation speed has slowed down.

Of course, Ye Jingcheng's eagerness for Ye Jingyu to switch cultivation was also because he was worried that Ye Jingyu's lifespan would not be long enough to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

"Once I find a suitable clansman to cultivate with, I will switch to cultivation." Ye Jingyu nodded.

Although he wanted to continue cultivating, there was no second half to it.

He didn't even know where this ancient heritage came from.

(End of this chapter)