Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1628 Dream Devouring and Soul Searching (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Desert, Tianfeng Oasis.

Above Tianying Peak, the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor suddenly rushed into the mountain. Its huge body was horizontal in the sky, its golden scales were dazzling, and its aura was fluctuating.
This scene startled the entire Ye family.

The ones guarding the desert now are none other than Ye Yunxuan and Ye Yunxi.

Among the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ye family, Ye Xuecang is in Penglai, Ye Qingnian and Ye Qingyan are in Sanyuan City, Ye Haihe is in Tianjiao Sea, Ye Jinghu is in Yunming Prefecture in the Central Region, Ye Haicheng is in seclusion refining a spirit puppet, Ye Qingfeng and Ye Jingyu are also in seclusion, and the rest are Ye Yunxuan, Ye Yunxi, Ye Zhijian, Ye Tengchuan, Ye Yunmei and other clan members.

"Dragon Lord, this is..." Because the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor is Ye Jingcheng's spirit beast, he is naturally of the Jing generation in the Ye family.

Of course, many members of the Ye family now also refer to Dilong as Master Long.

After all, the Ye family's Beast Hall is the largest and most powerful branch of the Ye family.

Secondly, many people who know that the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor had a previous master, Ye Shengyu of the Ye family, also prefer to call the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor the Dragon Hall Master.

"My master borrowed my true essence for nearly a month, and it was only just released. He must have encountered danger!" the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor said repeatedly.

It has already learned from the Ye family that they will prepare a sixth-tier spiritual medicine for it to break through.

This rekindled its desire to protect the Ye family, just as it had done in the past.

Now that it sees Ye Jingcheng might be in trouble, it is naturally anxious.

"Dragon Lord, you're overthinking it. Eleventh Uncle contracted a spirit beast in the Heavenly Dragon Sea. It's said that you need to control the spirit to make the contract work!" Ye Yunxuan first used the family token to inquire, and then explained.

Hearing this, the Earth Dragon Demon King finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past, the Ye family did have people who could control spirits, but most of the time it took was only a few breaths or a few hours.

It wouldn't last for more than a month.

Having received accurate information, the Earth Dragon Demon King was no longer in a hurry. Instead, he returned to Dragon Valley and continued his preparations for breaking through to the next realm through seclusion.

Within the Ye family, the most popular activity was actually the arrangement of various spirit beasts.

After all, the Ye family has no shortage of spirit beasts these days. Many clansmen are not unable to contract more spirit beasts, but rather they lack the necessary beast-connecting patterns. Contracting more spirit beasts will not boost their cultivation and will therefore be of little use.

Fortunately, the Ye family now has a large number of members, but lacks enough beast souls, and the Heavenly Insect Realm is undoubtedly a place to replenish beast souls.

……

While the Ye family was thriving, Ye Jingcheng quietly returned to Tianfeng Oasis.

Because the Void Ancient Dragon's secret realm is a seventh-tier secret realm, even if the Ye family has the method of aiming at the heavens, they cannot refine a hall that is strong enough to support it.

This requires the Ye family to possess a Sky-Piercing Palace of at least the sixth rank.

Only in this way could the secret realm be brought back, which is why Ye Jingcheng did not bring back the Void Ancient Dragon this time.

He arrived at the family hall, accompanied by Ye Qingnian.

"Father, are there descendants of the true dragon inside?" Ye Qingnian vaguely guessed.

Ye Qingnian was overjoyed after receiving Ye Jingcheng's nod.

If the Ye family can support the growth of the true dragon's descendant and ensure that he does not betray the Ye family, the Ye family will be able to gain a foothold in the spirit world in the future.

Once you have the power of a Mahayana cultivator, no one will have the greed to possess the Xuan Tian Blood Treasure and the Xuan Tian Spirit Vine.

The Ye family can continue to develop, just like in the mortal realm, and rapidly rise to become a true immortal clan.

"I called you back this time so that you could arrange for some of the clansmen's spirit beasts to form contracts with them and boost their cultivation!" Ye Jingcheng said, taking out a jade slip containing a list of his spirit beasts.

Among them were not only spirit beasts with high talent from the Qingqiu and Tiannie clans, but also Ye Jingcheng's own spirit beasts, such as Bai Mei and Peng Yu, and even a few Hidden Wing Thunder Rhinoceros Insects.

Ye Jingcheng had no intention of removing the demon saints, since they were too much of a concern. However, he included the ordinary fifth-tier demon emperors on the list and asked Ye Qingnian to find suitable candidates.

The contracts he is now preparing to leave behind are for all the demon saints, plus the Golden Scale Beast, Golden Falcon, Zhu Yan, Seven-Colored Cloud Deer, Cave Heaven Stone Spirit, Blood Spring Spirit, Jade Spirit, Peach Wood, and Sky-Splitting Divine Earthworm. He has even arranged for the Vajra Flying Ant, which has the bloodline of the Primordial Heavenly Ant, to be sent out.

Of course, he planned to give the Vajra Flying Ant with the bloodline of the Primordial Heavenly Ant to Ye Qingnian, so that Ye Qingnian could better protect the Ye family in the future.

"You can think about these spirit beasts more, or you can choose them yourself. Since you have a fire spirit root, you can choose either the fire dragon or the phoenix of the Tianni clan. Try to choose one with a higher cultivation level!" Ye Jingcheng didn't have much to say. Ye Qingnian, as the head of the family, understood that if he said too much or went into too much detail, the other party might find him nagging.

But for the sake of his family, he had to say it.

"By the way, among the remaining spirit beasts, those that can boost cultivation should be given as many as possible to the elders who are willing to stay!" Ye Jingcheng added as he spoke.

This not only supports the elderly clan members who remain behind, but also protects Ye Qingnian.

After giving his instructions, Ye Jingcheng left the family council hall and went into seclusion on Tianying Peak.

As Ye Qingnian watched Ye Jingcheng's retreating figure, his gaze once again became resolute.

He did not believe that his cultivation level could surpass that of his father.

But what he can do is to increase the family's spirit stone resources and produce more high-level cultivators within the family!
……

Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Stone Spirit Cave, a spirit insect the size of a millstone suddenly emitted a terrifying spiritual light.

Then, a chilling aura of divine soul spread outwards.

The spirit insect appeared even more ferocious, and even the spirit patterns on its forehead resembled some ancient demon. This insect was none other than the peak fifth-tier Dream Devouring Insect that had broken through to the next level.

As the Dream-Swallowing Insect took flight, Ye Jingcheng, in the distance, made a series of hand gestures, and a piece of spiritual jade gradually returned to its ancient and simple form.

It fell into Ye Jingcheng's body.

And the wisp of Yin energy gradually returned to nothingness, being completely refined.

In the past ten years or so, Ye Jingcheng has not focused on cultivating his spiritual power, but has instead been using the Nine Yin Qi and the Soul Nourishing Jade to enhance his divine soul.

Because he had removed many of the contracted spirit beasts, Ye Jingcheng's soul was no longer as burdened as it had been before, but the situation was still far from optimistic.

But now that he saw the Dream-Swallowing Insect had finally broken through and its aura was exceptionally strong, Ye Jingcheng couldn't help but feel gratified.

"Master!" The Dream-Swallowing Insect was also feeling a sense of dependence at this moment. Its huge body couldn't stand on Ye Jingcheng's shoulder, so it seemed a little anxious.

Ye Jingcheng reached out his hand and gradually gave it to Baoguang.

While giving the treasure to Bao Guang, he also took out some low-level divine souls to give to the Dream Devouring Insect to consolidate its cultivation.

After all, in Ye Jingcheng's plan, after the Dream-Devouring Worm finished consuming the remaining primordial spirit, it would consume an advancement pill to break through.

The sixth-order Dream Devouring Pill had gathered the last spiritual materials in the Heavenly Insect Realm and had been refined by Ye Jingcheng ten years ago.

Along with these, a considerable number of Thousand Moon Spirit Condensing Pills, Heavenly Palace Pills, and Profound Clarity Armor Essence Pills were also refined.

Among them, the Thousand Moon Spirit Gathering Pill was made into six spirit pills because only two portions of the spiritual materials remained. One of them was a spirit pattern spirit pill. The Heavenly Palace Pill was much better. It had four portions of spiritual materials and was made into twelve spirit pills, including two spirit pattern spirit pills.

The success rate of the final Xuanqing Jia Yuan Dan was relatively low, with only ten pills produced, but two of them were still spirit pills with pill patterns.

Of course, four of them are to be given to the Spirit Forging God in exchange for his help in refining a natal magic weapon.

Now, there are only two years left until the day he promised to meet with the Spirit Forging God.

Ye Jingcheng was somewhat looking forward to seeing what the other party would think when they found out he had refined ten spirit pills.

But for Ye Jingcheng, it was naturally impossible for him to tell the other party that he had refined ten of them.

According to the other party's conditions, the plan is to take all the pills if fewer than four are refined.

Four portions of spiritual materials yield four pills, which is already quite demanding for an average alchemist.

He estimated that if it were the Taiqian Divine Lord who was refining them, he could only refine about four or five pills. If he failed, he might not even be able to refine four or five pills.

Ye Jingcheng was able to refine so many pills because he was inspired by the Medicine Master.

Ye Jingcheng also possesses a sixth-order spiritual fire. Even though the spiritual fire isn't his, the Crimson Flame Fox and he are of one mind, so the latter's spiritual fire can be completely considered his own.

In comparison, Ye Jingcheng's crafting of magic treasures, although it was a sixth-order magic treasure, provided a considerable amount of spiritual materials. For example, he gave five sets of sixth-order spirit bird fire feathers, and he also gave more of other spiritual materials.

Moreover, the other party is not refining a completely new magic weapon; they only need to replace the main spiritual materials and add a new magic array, which greatly reduces the difficulty.

After the Dream-Swallowing Insects had consumed most of the food, they were allowed to consolidate the effects for another three days.

On the fourth day, Ye Jingcheng retrieved the remnant soul of the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor.

Because the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor had been cleansed by the ancient demonic energy, his soul was relatively incomplete.

Fortunately, it was nourished by a top-grade spiritual treasure called the Soul-Nourishing and Returning-to-Origin Jade, so it was preserved relatively well.

The Dream-Eating Insect's eyes widened with excitement upon seeing the remnant soul and primordial spirit.

With a sudden inhale, it was swallowed into its stomach.

The spirit was still baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, but it was only a remnant soul and was naturally no match for the Dream-Eating Insect.

After the Dream-Devouring Insect consumed the latter's primordial spirit, countless wisps of mist soon appeared, enveloping Ye Jingcheng.

At the same time, a surge of soul power slowly flowed back into Ye Jingcheng, causing his soul to grow stronger.

The remnant soul of a demon saint, especially a mid-stage sixth-order demon saint, has provided considerable support.

It can even be seen that the Dream-Swallowing Insect's cultivation level is showing signs of rising again.

Ye Jingcheng, however, had no interest in paying attention to any of that. His goal was the memories of the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor.

At this moment, he seemed to have transformed into a sixth-order Taotie in the Spirit Realm's Devouring Yuan Spirit Domain.

……

After a long while, the fog finally dissipated, and Ye Jingcheng opened his eyes.

We received a lot of information this time, some good and some bad.

The bad news is that this Gluttonous Demon Ancestor is not from the human race, but from the demon race.

In the spirit realm, the human race has one Earth Immortal and two Loose Immortals, while the demon race has as many as five at this level.

This doesn't even include the demon race, which doesn't include true spirit races like the dragon, phoenix, golden-winged roc, and so on.

Of course, there may be more hidden information, after all, the Gluttonous Demon Ancestor is only at the sixth level, and the information he knows is all that has been circulating in the Spirit Realm for a long time.

(End of this chapter)