Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1637 The Primordial Five Elements Immortal Scripture (Seeking monthly votes and subscriptions)
This piece of spirit jade was about the size of a palm, radiating a dazzling spiritual light. Among all the spirit jades, it stood out like a king among jades.

As soon as everyone's divine senses probed in, their entire bodies were pulled into the spirit jade. Inside the spirit jade, a primordial chaos had just begun, with boundless, dazzling stars. A figure walked through the chaos, and behind him, countless flowers, birds, trees, and water and fire emerged...

"This is the Primordial Five Elements Immortal Scripture!" Ye Haihe, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Tengchuan were all extremely surprised.

"The ultimate inheritance of the Five Spirits Sect is actually another immortal scripture!" Ye Jingyu was both surprised and felt something was strange at this moment.

The Earthly Immortal Realm is merely a secret realm within the mortal world, accessible only to cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. Yet, it has seen the emergence of the Northern Underworld Immortal Palace and the Five Spirits Sect, both possessing lineages of immortal scriptures.

The origins of this Immortal Realm made them somewhat suspicious.

"Perfect timing! This technique is perfect for Jingcheng. It has the attributes of the five elements and allows for both physical and magical cultivation. It's the most suitable for Jingcheng!" Ye Haicheng didn't think too much about it at this moment.

The Ye family already has so many enemies, and because of the Beast Pit, they are being besieged by many forces in the Spirit Realm and the Jade Soul Clan. It is completely meaningless to get entangled in the secrets behind the Earthly Immortal Realm.

"Ah!" Ye Jingyu and Ye Haicheng quickly withdrew their gazes. Ye Tengchuan, as a cultivator with five spiritual roots, also wanted to see the immortal scripture, but after only a short while, he felt an intense stinging pain.

In the end, they could only leave disappointed.

"This immortal scripture requires at least the late Nascent Soul stage to cultivate, and also requires a strong divine sense and a powerful physical body," Ye Tengchuan summarized simply.

His eyes held a mixture of passion and hesitation.

He could naturally cultivate this technique, but just like when Ye Jingcheng let him choose a technique back then, the Ye family would definitely be willing to let him cultivate this immortal scripture.

However, his Big Dipper Sword Scripture is equally powerful and even more suitable for him as a sword cultivator.

After a moment's hesitation, he made his decision.

Unlike Ye Jingcheng, who is an alchemist, all his resources come from participating in Ye family missions or exterminating demonic beasts.

As a sword cultivator, he needs to gain insights, and he also needs to cultivate his sword intent, so it would be better to maintain his original technique.

"Then let's put away all the cultivation techniques. There are still many spiritual herbs outside that we haven't collected!" Ye Haicheng saw Ye Tengchuan's hesitation, but he also saw the latter's determination.

He was actually quite satisfied that Ye Tengchuan made the decision so quickly.

A cultivator is not necessarily powerful just because they practice top-tier techniques; rather, they must find the right techniques for them.

Just like the Ye family previously had two immortal scriptures, why didn't Ye Jingcheng think of cultivating them?

Even if he could cultivate other Ye family techniques to the point of Body Integration, Ye Jingcheng never considered switching to them.

It's simply a matter of whether it's suitable or not.

If a cultivator who has reached the Nascent Soul stage lacks even this basic judgment, how can they expect to support their family in the future?

The Ye family has put a lot of effort into Ye Tengchuan.

Even the spirit beasts are top-tier companions.

Because this was, after all, the inheritance of the Five Spirits Sect, the Ye family members did not take all the jade slips containing the cultivation techniques, but instead made copies of each one.

Only the Immortal Scripture and the Five Spirits True Scripture were not copied. The former is an Immortal Scripture, which the Ye family cannot and will not be able to copy, as ordinary spiritual jade simply cannot bear it.

Even if there were a spiritual jade capable of bearing it, there would be no divine consciousness to replicate it.

The Five Elements True Scripture is currently the Ye family's most core five-attribute cultivation technique, so it naturally cannot remain here any longer.

As for the treasures, they were all put away.

Ye Haicheng and the other two are not exactly benevolent people; it's already quite generous of them to leave another lineage for the Five Spirits Sect.

Ye Jingyu's idea was to leave none of them behind.

Ye Haicheng and Ye Tengchuan felt that the Five Spirits Sect's legacy was about to be destroyed, so they decided to keep it.

The three of them quickly followed Peach Wood and the Sky-Splitting Earthworm out of the Divine Palace and arrived at the Spirit Herb Garden, where they began to collect spiritual herbs.

The three of them took all the sixth-tier spiritual herbs, whether they were mature or immature. As for the fifth-tier spiritual herbs, they picked all the rarer ones and only took the mature or nearly mature ones.

Finally, Ye Haicheng, Ye Jingyu, and Ye Tengchuan exchanged a smile.

This time, we obtained two Rejuvenating Heavenly Ginseng Fruit Trees and two Heavenly Illusion Silver Jade Flowers. Of the three main ingredients for the Primordial Spirit Pill, only the Five-Colored Nourishing Lotus was missing.

At the same time, they also managed to collect two sets of the spiritual materials for the Three Jade Divine Essence Pill.

This time, the Ye family's gains truly exceeded their expectations.

"Let's go out!" After the three of them had finished looking around the entire secret realm with great interest, the Sky-Splitting Earthworm was the first to break through the void.

Three people and two demons appeared on the lake outside.

The mysterious whirlpool on the lake surface had indeed disappeared, turning into an ordinary landscape, and even the terrain had changed somewhat.

"How is it, Fourth Uncle?" Ye Qingnian asked.

If he wasn't mistaken, the entire inheritance secret realm of the Five Spirits Sect seemed to have been teleported just now.

"We have obtained the inheritance of the Five Spirits Sect and reaped great rewards..." Ye Jingyu did not hide anything and directly stated that the Ye family had obtained the inheritance.

As for the immortal scriptures, he didn't mention them directly. After all, there were still two Golden Core cultivators from the Ye family here. Although they were considered core members, they hadn't reached the Nascent Soul stage yet, so contact with them wasn't ideal.

"Next, let's split into two teams. Jing Yuqing, Wen Zhijian, Teng Chuan, and Jing Hu will be one team, and the rest of us will be the other. A month has passed now, so be careful of other forces making moves. Also, in the second month, we can call upon our fellow Daoists from the Tian Nie Clan, Qing Qiu Clan, and the Jin Peng Chen Jing Clan," Ye Haicheng instructed again.

Because Ye Haicheng possesses many wondrous magical puppets, in terms of strength, he can be said to be even stronger than Ye Jingyu, who is at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. In addition, he is an elder, and the immortal scriptures are in his possession.

Naturally, he needed to protect and pass on the tradition, and thus joined forces with Ye Qingfeng.

To ensure the safety of Ye Jingyu and the others, he also had Ye Jinghu, who was in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, accompany Ye Jingyu.

With these five Nascent Soul cultivators, plus many Demon Emperors, they were not particularly afraid even if they encountered all the Nascent Soul cultivators from other top forces.

As for spreading out further, they didn't have that idea.

The fact that we've achieved so much so quickly this time isn't a fluke; it was all planned in advance.

The secret realms they had previously searched for were those left behind by Penglai and the Mu family, plus some secret realms left by Xuantianmen and the Five Spirits Sect secret realms that the Ye family knew about in advance.

In the time that follows, apart from one secret realm containing sixth-grade spiritual herbs, the Ye family will have to search for the rest of the secret realms one by one.

Not only is there no guarantee of success, but there's also the possibility of being ambushed.

The Ye family would certainly not be that greedy.

After all, many secret realms in the Earthly Immortal Realm have been designated as medicinal gardens by those Nascent Soul forces, and they have probably already plundered them long ago.

If that's the case, it would be better to just rob it by force, but that would make too many enemies.

"Alright, I'll go to the remaining secret realm then." Ye Jingyu nodded.

He knew that the Ye family had another mission: to go and explore the spatial nodes within the Earthly Immortal Realm.

This time, the Ye family learned about the key point in the soul search involving Mu Huayuan and Mu Mingqing.

Although the Heavenly Beast Sect and the Mu family had already visited, the Ye family ultimately believed that the Beast-Connecting Pattern was the key to the Tianxuan Ye family. After the arrangements were made, the group transformed into two spirit boats and disappeared into the horizon.

……

In another part of the Earthly Immortal Realm, Fairy Zi Ning, True Lord Xing Yuan, and True Lord Xu Huai were opening a secret medicinal garden and saw a five-colored spiritual pool inside.

A five-colored lotus, now fully mature, was also adorned with a smile.

"This time, Uncle-Master can fly away with peace of mind. With this Nourishing Lotus, plus the Rejuvenating Heavenly Ginseng Fruit and Heavenly Illusion Silver Jade Flower that we collected before, we can refine at least one batch of Primordial Spirit Pills." True Monarch Xingyuan was extremely confident in Ye Jingcheng's alchemy skills.

At the same time, he did not believe that Ye Jingcheng would refuse the elixir since the righteous sect only had one.

After all, the one who will take the Yuan Shen Pill in the righteous sects is Zi Ning, who is also Ye Jingcheng's disciple.

“Senior Brother Xingyuan, there is only one set of spiritual materials…” Fairy Zi Ning hesitated a bit, knowing the rules.

Moreover, she was worried about failing.

"Don't worry, you don't need to worry about that. You don't know that Zhao Changyuan of the Zhao family didn't enter the Earth Immortal Realm this time because that guy had already taken the Yuan Shen Pill and gone into seclusion. And that Yuan Shen Pill was made by Divine Lord Qianchen. It was produced in one batch, and the quality was exceptionally good." True Lord Xingyuan knew Zi Ning's worries, but he knew that Zi Ning had been in seclusion for too long and didn't know many secrets.

As he said this, his face was full of confidence and joy.

Zi Ning finally nodded, though she hesitated, because in terms of cultivation, there were actually many beings in the righteous sects who were higher than her.

She only felt at ease when she remembered that Ye Jingcheng was her master.

She finally understood why Zheng Yuan Shenjun insisted on making her Ye Jingcheng's disciple back then.

In fact, she should have been a disciple of the Divine Lord Zhengyuan.

However, because Zheng Yuan Shenjun needed to go into seclusion and needed to sneak across the border, he entrusted her to Ye Jingcheng.

It was precisely because of Ye Jingcheng that, unsurprisingly, she became the only person in the Ye family who had the potential to break through by consuming the Yuan Shen Pill.

"Alright, now that we've collected all these spiritual herbs, let's search again. I bought the Void Spirit Insect and the Heavenly Treasure Rat Spirit Beast from the Ye family!" True Monarch Xingyuan continued waving his hand.

The Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators immediately began collecting spiritual herbs.

……

On a desert landscape, Yuan Tan Zhenjun put away a wisp of purplish-red spiritual fire, his eyes filled with joy.

And the surrounding cultivators gathered around.

These were the other Nascent Soul cultivators from the Ziyang Sect.

"Senior Sister Yuan Tan, with this sixth-order fire seed, you can become a sixth-order alchemist and break through, right?"

"It's still a bit early to say this, but the odds of winning are definitely much higher. I didn't expect that the Earthly Immortal Realm would still have a top-tier alchemy sect like the Fire Cry Sect." True Monarch Yuan Tan still spoke with a hint of modesty.

But his tone was still full of confidence.

Of course, at this moment, the image of Lord Qianchen also came to mind, and her eyes were filled with gratitude.

If it weren't for Lord Qianchen revealing the secret to becoming a sixth-tier alchemist to her back then, she wouldn't have sought out the information about the Fire-attribute Earth Immortal Realm's inheritance, and it took her a long time to finally find this place.

Along with the sixth-order fire seed, they also obtained a sixth-order alchemy furnace, as well as sect inheritances and many alchemy formulas.

On the contrary, she didn't value the spiritual treasures inherited from the sect very much.

"This time, with a sixth-level alchemist, our Ziyang Sect will definitely not lag far behind the Ye family..." Although Yuan Tan Zhenjun was grateful to Qian Chen Shenjun, he also hid a defiant spirit.

In her view, if Ye Jingcheng could refine pills in the future, she could also refine sixth-order spirit pills.

In this way, the number of future Nascent Soul cultivators in the Ziyang Sect will not be small.

"Alright, let's get out of here quickly. We can still explore the Earthly Immortal Realm for three more months. This time, we need to leave the Upper Immortal Realm as soon as possible. There are too many Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators here. There might be forces that will cooperate to carry out ambush and kill us. The Ziyang Sect has brought quite a few Nascent Soul cultivators this time, but they have also obtained quite a lot of treasures. So we need to be careful!"

……

Deep within the realm of immortals, before a massive abyss, towering cliffs rise.

Several figures landed on the cliff face, looking into the abyss.

These figures were none other than Ye Haicheng and his family members from the Ye clan.

“This is indeed a spatial node, and spiritual energy is constantly emanating from it. It’s just a pity that the surrounding spiritual herbs must have been harvested long ago!” It was Ye Qingnian who spoke.

His eyes shimmered with a faint starlight; they were the Star Illusion Eyes.

After Ye Jingcheng mastered the Star Illusion Eye, the spiritual fruits within it began to favor the elders and young geniuses of the Ye family.

As the head of the family, Ye Qingnian was naturally listed first, as he was the first to improve his eyesight.

Ye Haicheng stretched out his hand, and the beast pattern in his palm slowly activated.

Of course, he activated it with extreme caution.

Even so, no unusual phenomena were reported.

Clearly, the imagined secrets and clues about the Ye family do not actually exist.

Of course, it's also possible that someone else has already taken it or erased it.

Because of the spiritual energy, this place attracted a lot of attention. Along the way, they encountered four or five groups of Nascent Soul cultivators, most of whom avoided them when they saw that the Ye family had arrived.

After all, they knew that although the Ye family only had eleven members, if all the demonic beasts were taken out, they could potentially number twenty or thirty demon emperors.

"I'll go take a look!" At that moment, the Sky-Splitting Earthworm flew out.

Ye Haicheng and Ye Qingnian couldn't help but reveal expectant eyes, and took the initiative to step back, letting the Sky-Splitting Divine Earthworm leap into the void.

Not far inside the abyss, spatial rifts had already begun to appear.

These cracks are extremely terrifying to Nascent Soul cultivators, but they seem ordinary in front of the Void-Rending Divine Earthworm.

In particular, it cultivated the Heaven Refining Spirit Scripture.

Once the Sky-Splitting Earthworm entered, the Ye family members dispersed and took out the Sky-Splitting Worm to see if they could make any other discoveries.

Unfortunately, nothing was found. The only gains were a third-tier spirit herb and some seedlings of fourth-tier spirit herbs.

This made the group of Nascent Soul cultivators from the Ye family sigh with dismay. Even Nascent Soul cultivators who could get to this place would still engage in such petty and opportunistic behavior.

After everyone had looked around, the figure of the Sky-Splitting Earthworm finally appeared in the void.

"The spiritual energy inside is so dense, and the spiritual pressure is so strong!" The Rift-Sky Earthworm frowned.

At the same time, it stretched out its palm.

"I also found some of this special purple jade, as well as some fragments of storage bracelets. It seems that quite a few people died in this spatial node!"

(End of this chapter)