Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1610 A White Lie and a Large Amount of Spiritual Treasures (Seeking Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)
Fengming City, atop Fengming Mountain.

The howling north wind swirled through the mountains. Compared to the Spiritwood Ridge, Wind Howling City was clearly located in the northern part of the Taiyuan Realm.

In the distance, snowflakes began to fall.

However, the drifting snowflakes would disappear into a spiritual barrier once they reached the Spirit Mountain.

At this moment, atop the mountain, a divine palace stands, radiating five-colored spiritual light, like five-colored spiritual clouds drifting in the sky.

Inside the shrine, several figures appeared as the spiritual light flickered.

Leading them were the Peach Wood Cave Stone Spirit, the Sky-Splitting Divine Earthworm, the Primordial Magnetic Mountain Spirit, a Jade Ring Rat, and a Heavenly Treasure Rat.

"This Nine-Headed Demon Saint's cave is too small. It's a disgrace to the name of a demon saint. Master is much more powerful. He will definitely be able to achieve Void Refinement and Integration in the future." Tao Mu said with some disdain.

This time, in a campaign against the Mu family, a total of seven Nascent Soul cultivators, four Demon Saints, and one sixth-tier spirit puppet were killed.

However, not many of the treasures and storage bags actually ended up in the hands of the Ye family.

Only Mu Huayuan, the Nine-Headed Demon Saint, Qiushan Divine Lord, Huofeng Divine Lord, and Taoyao Ancestor.

The remaining treasures, such as those belonging to the Purple Dragon Demon Saint and the Azure Absolute Divine Lord, were given by Ye Jingcheng to the Mysterious Origin Divine Lord and the Righteous Origin Divine Lord, respectively.

Don't think that the harvest this time is not great or that the distribution is not much. In fact, the Ye family has twenty-three Nascent Soul cultivators, including the four great demon saints of Taiyuan Realm and the three smuggling alliances. This does not include the sixth-order spirit beast carried by Miaoyuan Divine Lord and the Yuanming Divine Lord's primordial spirit carried by Gumeng Divine Lord.

Of the twenty-five Nascent Soul cultivators, the Ye family only had six, accounting for a quarter of them, yet they received the treasures of five of the Nascent Soul cultivators, which is close to half.

At the same time, Zheng Yuan Shenjun and Zi Yang Shenjun, who were on good terms with the Ye family, each received a treasure with the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

In addition, the Ye family also obtained Qing Jue's primordial spirit and the corpse and primordial spirit of the Purple Flood Dragon Demon Saint.

Among them, the cave heavens of the Nine-Headed Demon Saint Fire Sealing God Lord Autumn Mountain God Lord and the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor also fell into Ye Jingcheng's hands.

After searching through Mu Huayuan's cave with Ye Jingcheng, Tao Mu naturally looked down on the cave of the Nine-Headed Demon Saint.

It felt that if it had searched Tianmu City before the spatial node erupted, it could have found more than it could in the Nine-Headed Demon Saint Cave.

"This Nine-Headed Demon Saint dares to call itself a nine-headed demon with only six heads, so it's obviously a worthless piece of trash. However, finding a sixth-tier Seven-Colored Profound Heaven Wood is still a decent haul." The Cave Heaven Stone Spirit beside it was equally knowledgeable. It opened its own cave heaven, allowing all the spirit beasts and demon beasts to enter.

After each cave they plundered, they would show the treasures to Ye Jingcheng.

Of course, they only loot spiritual herbs and treasures of the fifth rank and above, leaving those below the fifth rank in the cave.

After all, Ye Jingcheng certainly wouldn't need that many of these grotto-heavens; they would all eventually have to be handed over to his family to manage.

Including what they obtained last time, the Ye family now has more than a dozen cave heavens.

At that time, the core Nascent Soul cultivators and Demon Saints of the Ye family will each receive one.

Upon entering the cave, Tao Mu and the cave stone spirit carried storage bags and headed towards Ye Jingcheng, who was naturally organizing his treasures.

"Master, this is the nameplate, this is the treasure, and in addition, there are four four-headed snakes in that cave who have surrendered to the Ye family..." The peach wood spirit handed everything over to Ye Jingcheng in an orderly manner.

Ye Jingcheng took the jade slip storage bag and then the spirit beast bag, and soon he understood.

In this Nine-Headed Demon Saint's Cave Heaven, there are four four-headed snakes, all of which are descendants of the Nine-Headed Demon Saint. It is clear that the Nine-Headed Demon Saint believed that the Ye family would not dare to attack the Mu family and would run rampant in their territory, so he brought his descendants out in advance.

These four four-headed snakes consist of one mid-stage fifth-tier, one early-stage fifth-tier, and two mid-stage fourth-tier.

Despite their relatively low cultivation levels, their talents are exceptional. All four of them possess the aura of advancement, with two being fifth-tier and capable of advancing three times. Their pill formulas all start from the fourth tier, meaning they can all be transformed into at least seven heads. One of the fourth-tier pills can even advance five times, starting from the fourth tier, which means it can reach eight heads.

Ye Jingcheng had not yet decided what to do with these Hydra descendants.

After all, he doesn't lack suitable spirit beasts now, but if he contracts with the rest of the Ye family, he has to be careful of these snake demons devouring their masters.

After all, these snake demons were quite old and knew that the Nine-Headed Demon Saint had died at the hands of the Ye family.

However, he doesn't have time to deal with it in the short term.

"This Seven-Colored Mystic Wood can indeed be used to refine top-tier sixth-order magic treasures!" Ye Jingcheng put away the spiritual materials and herbs.

Furthermore, they selected quite a few usable advanced pills from among them.

After finishing these tasks, he waved his hand, instructing the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven Peach Wood and other demons to continue searching for the remaining Fire Seal Cave Heaven and Autumn Mountain Cave Heaven.

As for the ancestral cave of the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor, he had already searched for it.

"Shu Teng, what do you think?" Ye Jingcheng asked again as he saw the beasts about to go treasure hunting.

This rat, Teng, is a descendant of the Jade Ring Rat. After being trained, it has now entered the Cave Heaven, but it only has the cultivation of the second level. On the other hand, the Heavenly Treasure Rat next to it was sent by Ye Jingcheng from his family and is a fourth-level demon king.

"Master, I think it's great, but you're taking too good care of me. And I can't help much with finding treasures..." Rat Teng lowered its head. It had heard Jade Ring Rat say a lot to it, but when it arrived at its master's cave, it realized that it couldn't help at all.

After all, what we're looking for now are treasures of at least the fifth rank or higher.

Of course, it didn't feel anything was wrong. The other stone spirits in the Peach Wood Cave, the Void-Splitting Earthworm, also took good care of it. It just felt a little ashamed, and at the same time, it knew that it was enjoying the blessings of its ancestors...

"Take your time!" Ye Jingcheng waved for Shu Teng to leave.

However, a hint of reluctance also flashed in his eyes.

On that day in Rat Valley, Ye Jingcheng said that this Rat Teng could advance six or seven times, but in reality it only advanced three or four times, and it was still the one with the best aptitude in Rat Valley.

He said that only because he wanted to give the Jade Ring Rat a glimmer of hope.

Of course, since Shuteng is young, it can continue to make breakthroughs and improvements in breathing techniques.

Perhaps in the spirit world, they will also have even greater opportunities in the future.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the premise that Shuteng sees a higher and farther future, and it cannot lose its ambition.

Ye Jingcheng stopped paying attention to the beasts and continued to look at the spiritual treasures and other valuables.

His gaze first fell on the seven-colored floating spirit satin.

This was also his second Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure. He had seen the effects of this Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure, and its power was truly terrifying. You must know that all the high-grade, mid-grade, and sixth-order magic treasures were as if they had lost their connection and turned back to their original forms under the influence of this Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure.

This is highly effective whether it's a one-on-one battle or a one-to-many battle.

If other cultivators were to attack him now, they would not be able to harm him unless they used secret techniques.

The only pity is that this Seven-Colored Floating Spirit Forge is much weaker than other Heavenly Treasures.

Ye Jingcheng estimated that it would be difficult to entangle even one Heavenly Treasure at most.

Of course, this still requires the Tongbao Technique to work. The Tongtian Lingbao, like other Lingbao, is activated by the Tongbao Technique.

Just like Ye Jingcheng now, because he is only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he cannot fully unleash the full power of the Ten Directions Ink Spirit Inkstone.

Therefore, if Ye Jingcheng were to use the Seven-Colored Floating Spirit Forging technique, and encounter a mid-to-late Nascent Soul stage cultivator using a Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure, he might not be able to control even one of them.

Even so, Ye Jingcheng was already very satisfied with the results.

Ye Jingcheng tested the Tongbao Technique for a moment, then decided that he would refine the Tongtian Spiritual Treasure after searching for all the treasures. After all, elixirs could be refined later, and natal magic weapons could be upgraded later, but the Tongtian Spiritual Treasure was an immediate source of combat power.

After putting away the Floating Spirit Forge, Ye Jingcheng took out the Eight Soul Locking Spirit Beads.

Ye Jingcheng also liked the Eight Soul Locking Pearls, even though they were also a type of Heavenly Treasure that could trap people, just like the Ten Directions Ink Spirit Inkstone.

But this spirit-locking chain is much simpler than the inkstone's method of binding people. Once bound, even the Divine Lord Miaoyuan was somewhat helpless.

On that very day, the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor was taken into the inkstone by Ye Jingcheng.

Otherwise, if the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor had ignored Ye Jingcheng's words that day, the Divine Lord Miaoyuan would probably have died without a doubt.

From this perspective, we can also see some of Mu Huayuan's ulterior motives.

After all, if Mu Huayuan put the Flying Corpse God and the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor together...

It seems that the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor really doesn't care about anything else and is determined to destroy the Flying Corpse God, rather than binding him and then trying to stop Ye Jingcheng from breaking the formation.

It's a pity that Ye Jingcheng's sixth-order formation-breaking talisman was just a trigger; the real method to break the formation was still peach wood.

The entire Eight Soul Locking Pearl is not large, and the Xuan Tadpole Pattern on it has condensed into eight chains.

After checking it over, Ye Jingcheng also memorized the Tongbao Technique for the first level.

He currently plans to give some spiritual treasures to other Nascent Soul cultivators in the family.

However, he kept the Heavenly Treasure for himself, and at most gave it to demon saints such as Yu Linlong and Chi Yanhu for use.

But judging from the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor, it is clear that even demon saints cannot use treasures as effectively as cultivators; they rely more on their physical bodies.

After inspecting the two Heavenly Treasures, Ye Jingcheng took out two more high-grade treasures.

Despite Ye Jingcheng destroying five Nascent Soul cultivators and obtaining over a dozen spiritual treasures, he only acquired two high-grade spiritual treasures.

Each of them was one for the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor and one for Mu Huayuan.

Mu Huayuan's superior spiritual treasure is a sword called the Breaking Illusion Sword.

This sword is definitely inferior to the Heavenly Treasure, the Northern Darkness Profound Light Sword.

This is why Mu Huayuan has never used this magical treasure.

However, its power is naturally better than Ye Jingcheng's Hidden Deer Divine Sword.

Ye Jingcheng hesitated about the sword.

He himself was not a sword cultivator, so having a precious sword in his hands was already a waste.

Holding this top-grade spiritual treasure in your hand again won't actually increase its power much.

But he soon realized that although Ye Zhijian, Ye Tengchuan, and Ye Xuecang were sword cultivators, they were still at the Nascent Soul stage. At present, they could only activate ordinary low-grade and mid-grade spiritual treasures to their limit. If they were given high-grade spiritual treasures, they could only use one or two layers of the Tongbao Technique at most, and they would not be able to exert their full power.

Even if we were to give it to them, we would have to wait until they broke through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, Ye Xuecang and Ye Tengchuan might break through to the Nascent Soul stage a little later, and they might even fail several times. But for Ye Zhijian, with his great talent and excellent cultivation techniques, he should be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage on his first try.

Ye Jingcheng sheathed his sword and then looked at a piece of spiritual jade.

That's right, the superior spiritual treasure of this Gluttonous Demon Ancestor is not any other treasure, but a Soul Jade.

This kind of spiritual treasure has only one function: to enhance the soul and defend against it.

This is why, on that day, even though Divine Lord Miaoyuan used a method similar to spirit summoning to elevate his divine soul to the mid-stage of the sixth rank, he was able to achieve this.

Even using the most core secret technique of the Soul Exorcism faction again wouldn't have much effect on this Gluttonous Demon Ancestor.

The reason lies in this piece of jade.

At the same time, Ye Jingcheng was also glad that he hadn't used the Heaven-Seizing Demon Dragon Pillar to fight the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor head-on.

Otherwise, they wouldn't even know how they died.

"This Soul-Nourishing Jade is indeed a fine piece of jade!" Ye Jingcheng exclaimed after examining the spirit jade.

He discovered that once his soul reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, even with the Nine Yin Qi used to cultivate the Nine Yin Profound Soul Manual and the feedback from the Dream Devouring Worm, the speed at which his soul improved became increasingly slower.

This Soul Nourishing Jade might be able to elevate my soul to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

It should be noted that other cultivators do not have a great need for their divine soul, but he is different. He has formed a soul contract with six demon saints and many demon emperors. In the future, when the Golden Scale Beast Zhu Yan Seven-Colored Cloud Deer breaks through, the pressure on his divine soul will be even greater.

Even a sudden, intense shock to the soul is possible.

But now that I have this magical treasure, I will not only no longer need to fear certain spiritual techniques, but I can also enhance my spiritual power.

At that time, we can also form a soul contract with the remaining demon saint of the Golden Roc clan.

This way, even hidden dangers can be eliminated, and there's no need to worry about new demon saints emerging from the Tiannie and Qingqiu clans.

It can be said that it solved Ye Jingcheng's urgent problem.

The biggest flaw of the Ye family now is that Ye Jingcheng is the only Nascent Soul cultivator in the family, while the rest are Demon Saints. The fastest to break through to the Nascent Soul stage should be Ye Jingyu or Ye Qingfeng.

But even for both of them, it will take at least several hundred years to achieve a breakthrough.

Of course, the Ye family obtained too many fifth-grade spiritual herbs this time. If they could refine them all into elixirs, it would definitely shorten the time considerably.

After looking at the top-grade spiritual treasures, Ye Jingcheng then looked at the mid-grade and low-grade spiritual treasures.

There are four mid-grade spiritual treasures and six low-grade spiritual treasures.

Of these ten spiritual treasures, only one came from Mu Huayuan. The other two, which were found in Mu Huayuan's storage bag, were Buddhist spiritual treasures, possibly obtained by Mu Huayuan from Jinguang Temple.

Five of the items came from Fire Seal God and Autumn Mountain God, while the other two low-grade spiritual treasures came from Nine-Headed Demon Saint.

The mid-grade spiritual treasures are the Vajra Pestle, the Fire Banana Fan, the Floating Pagoda, and the Azure Moon Blade.

This vajra is a sacred treasure of Buddhism, and Ye Jingcheng certainly won't return it to Jin Guang Temple. Once this treasure is circulated, it means that the Mu family's treasure has ended up in the hands of the Ye family.

However, the spiritual treasures of Fire Seal God and Autumn Mountain God are not subject to that restriction.

Whether it's for use by the Ye family members or for exchanging for treasures at the trade fair, there's no problem.

Of course, Ye Jingcheng planned to give the fire-attribute Fire Banana Fan to the Crimson Flame Fox, while the Floating Pagoda would be temporarily placed in the Ye family's treasury.

This magical treasure has decent defensive capabilities; it managed to withstand the combined attack of the Heavenly Nirvana Demon Saint and the Jade Scale Dragon that day.

Later, it was only with the blessing of the Heavenly Sacred Mountain and the combined efforts of the Jade Dragon and the Crimson Flame Fox that the Heavenly Phoenix Saint was able to break through the defenses of this spiritual treasure.

(End of this chapter)