Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1638 The Jade Soul's Trace: The Earth Immortal's Closure (Two Chapters Combined, Seeking Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

On the cliff face, Ye Haicheng took the fragment handed to him by the Sky-Splitting Earthworm and carefully examined it.

Among them, the storage bag fragments were the easiest to identify. Ye Haicheng took a look and concluded that they were most likely left behind by those Nascent Soul cultivators from the Earthly Immortal Realm, as they had the unique texture of mortal realms like the Great Yu Realm and the Taiyuan Realm.

But upon seeing the shattered purple jade, Ye Haicheng's expression suddenly changed.

“This purple jade has a faint spiritual fluctuation…” He thought of a possibility.

This is not good news.

He had learned from Ye Jingcheng that the Jade Soul Clan of the Spirit Realm was different from the Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit of cultivators; their core was the Jade Spirit.

Below the Nascent Soul stage is white jade; from Nascent Soul to Deity Transformation stage is purple jade; from Deity Transformation to Void Refinement stage is red jade; from Void Refinement to Body Integration stage is blue jade; and above Body Integration stage is gold jade.

Of course, he hoped that he had misjudged the situation.

If it really is the Jade Soul Clan that has come, it would be an extremely bad thing for the Ye family.

Normal alien races cannot descend to the mortal realm, but the Earthly Immortal Realm is not a normal boundary node.

"Fellow Daoist Rift Void, may you go in and search again?" Ye Haicheng looked at Rift Void Divine Earthworm and then spoke directly.

The Sky-Splitting Earthworm nodded, then continued to soar into the air and disappeared before the abyss.

Ye Haicheng then looked at the others.

"You guys protect me!" A Dream-Swallowing Insect appeared in Ye Haicheng's hand.

These dream-devouring insects are all descendants of Ye Jingcheng's dream-devouring insects, and their talents are actually much weaker.

But it's still possible to simply devour dreams and search for souls.

Ye Haicheng's is currently the second most powerful Dream Devouring Insect in the Ye family, reaching the late stage of the fourth rank. Normally, it can easily reach the fifth rank in Dream Devouring and Soul Searching.

Some divine souls still remain on this purple jade.

Therefore, he decided to give it a try.

Of course, he didn't let the dream-devouring worms absorb all of it.

I only inhaled a little.

But soon, the Dream-Eating Insect became unusually anxious, and even its entire expression began to change.

Ye Haicheng also began to activate his spiritual techniques and blood pact, and it took a long time to calm him down.

Now, he had no choice but to put the purple jade fragments in a jade box and seal them with a special talisman.

After everything was ready, Ye Qingnian, Ye Qingfeng, and the others came over.

“I suspect the Jade Soul Clan wants to cross over from here,” Ye Haicheng said.

"Then he's only at the Nascent Soul stage..." Ye Qingfeng didn't seem particularly afraid.

"Besides their powerful souls, the Jade Soul Clan's most terrifying ability is possession. After possession, a jade mark will appear on their face, which is known to people in the Spirit Realm but not to those in the Mortal Realm. At the same time, as a major clan in the Spirit Realm, they can easily send a few exceptionally talented individuals to the lower realms, and their cultivation speed will probably be extremely terrifying. Unless we can find them when they are in the Nascent Soul stage, but that's easier said than done, and we can't reveal everything to the public." Ye Qingnian was already somewhat empathetic.

He understood what Ye Haicheng meant by pressure.

Moreover, these first batch of Jade Soul Clan members who arrived might not have been members of the Mie family.

What I fear most is that, just like the ancient demons that invaded the realm, they will use the ancient demon trees to change the environment of the realm they invaded, making it suitable for the Jade Soul Clan. In the future, they may even use the ascension rules to assimilate the surrounding realms.

"I hope they didn't succeed, and even if they did, they might not be around when the Immortal Realm opens and closes," Ye Haicheng could only say.

The Immortal Realm only opens once every three hundred years.

These cultivators and Nascent Soul demon beasts that enter can only enter and exit once a year. At other times, their intelligence will be obliterated or they will be killed.

Of course, all of this was just his speculation, so he didn't say much more.

The most powerful Dream-Swallowing Worm in the Ye family right now is Ye Jingcheng's Dream-Swallowing Worm, and it shouldn't be long before the latter breaks through to the sixth rank.

Once the Dream Devouring Insect breaks through, the Soul Searching problem shouldn't be too big. Once we know the information at this juncture, we'll understand what the Ye family's real crisis is.

"Qingnian and Qingfeng, there's nothing much to guard here anymore. You can search the surrounding area to see if there are any boundary barriers. We'll stay for half a month!" Ye Haicheng continued to instruct.

You can keep searching this node, but after about half a month, you'll have probably finished searching. Searching further might not only fail to find any information, but could also endanger the Rift God Earthworm.

The Ye family currently has quite a few Sky-Splitting Mantises, but their abilities are far inferior to those of the Sky-Splitting Divine Earthworm. Moreover, only a few core Sky-Splitting Mantises have begun to cultivate the Heavenly Spirit Scripture.

In terms of spatial ability, as long as the Void Ancient Dragon doesn't hatch, the Sky-Splitting Earthworm will likely remain number one.

……

Half a month passed quietly, and Ye Qingnian, Ye Qingfeng and others had all gathered together!

The smiles on their faces vanished, replaced by solemnity.

During the past two weeks, their search was far from peaceful. They finally understood why Ye Jingcheng had set a timeframe of two hundred years for the smuggling operation.

Because those powerful families didn't give the Ye family much time.

Therefore, even if the spirit world is a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire, it seems that there is no time to lose.

"It's normal that we didn't get much from the surrounding area; we've already gotten more than enough this time," Ye Haicheng comforted the younger members of his family.

At this moment, the Sky-Splitting Earthworm finally emerged.

Ye Haicheng offered the pills one after another, and the latter swallowed them without hesitation. He then opened his palm, revealing two shattered pieces of purple jade.

One is slightly larger, and the other is smaller.

But Ye Haicheng could tell that none of the three came from the same purple jade core.

"Let's go, we still need to search the Immortal Realm!" Ye Haicheng chose a secluded spot in the jungle beside the cliff and set up a recording frame.

Of course, he didn't expect to see anything from the photo-recording wood.

After all, most powerful Nascent Soul cultivators won't manifest unless they cast a spell.

With the end of the Immortal Realm and the severance of contact, this recording wood is no longer of any use.

By doing this, at least they could feel a little more at ease during their journey within the Immortal Realm.

Ye Qingnian didn't say anything, he just watched and learned from the side.

After completing all this, the group retraced their steps and began searching for secret realms and precious medicines.

On Ye Qingnian's shoulder, there was a Tianbao Rat and an Kongling Insect, both of which would occasionally let out a loud cry.

……

Eight months passed quietly once again, and there was only a little over a month left before the end of the Earthly Immortal Realm.

In a certain place in the Lower Immortal Realm, a group of cultivators gathered.

The Ye family cultivators occupied one secret realm, while the Righteous Path Sect and the Purple Sun Sect also occupied a secret realm in the distance.

It's not far away.

This doesn't mean it was communicated in advance.

The righteous sects and the Ziyang sect were genuinely afraid; this time, the chaos was extraordinary, with far too many cultivators entering.

Those immortal sects are alright; they already have their own secret realms and their own opportunities.

This is the experience gained from countless entries into the Immortal Realm, and also an unwritten rule and tacit understanding among the immortal sects.

But they had no idea that the newly arrived Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators were sweeping through one secret realm after another.

At first, there were many treasures, but they dwindled later on. Most of them were taken for nefarious purposes.

This has led to numerous cases of robbery and murder.

Therefore, the Ye family's affiliated forces began to gather after three or four months of gathering.

The organizers here are none other than Ye Haiyan and Ye Qingfeng, both in the late stage of the Golden Core realm from the Ye family.

Although the two are of different generations, they are both considered to be from the older generation of the Ye family, and they both received their initial training in the Central Region.

His cultivation level was slightly lower, but his experience was extremely rich.

Together with the fifth-tier demon emperor and the Nascent Soul spirit puppet, they had been living in peace.

The Ye family's reputation is indeed great, which is why the Zhengdao Sect and Ziyang Sect followed.

Their nascent souls have already returned.

After all, the Righteous Path Sect obtained all the spiritual materials for the sixth-order Yuan Shen Pill, which is related to the breakthrough of the Nascent Soul to the Divine Transformation stage. The Purple Sun Sect also obtained a considerable inheritance and a sixth-order pill furnace and sixth-order spiritual fire. He was equally worried.

So they all got here early.

At that very moment, the spirit boat in the distance began to appear.

Ye Haicheng was at the head of the spirit boat.

On the spirit boat were the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators of the Ye family and several demon clans from the sacred mountains of the Ye family.

They landed together in front of the secret realm.

"Uncle Haiyan, have all the Golden Core cultivators arrived?" Ye Qingnian asked directly.

"Everyone who could come has come. This time, the family should have lost two Golden Core cultivators, but we can't find the killers," Ye Haifei said with some helplessness.

The family had made excellent arrangements this time, and he had repeatedly warned against greed, but things still went wrong.

"I suspect it was a Nascent Soul cultivator who killed him," Ye Haiyan said telepathically this time.

Ye Qingnian didn't know what to say. The Earthly Immortal Realm was inherently dangerous, and after failing to get any details, he stopped paying attention and instead inquired about the family's gains this time.

Of course, the most crucial factor is the quantity of rare treasures for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, such as Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng and Ma Yingzhi.

The Ye family is different now than before; the difficulty for them to break through to the Nascent Soul stage has decreased significantly.

After all, the Ye family is not lacking in Chenjing Jade, and they already have quite a few breakthrough spiritual items, and even the Xuanlian Spiritual Pusa to help them overcome their inner demon tribulations.

However, the Ye family now has quite a few Golden Core cultivators and many who have broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, so even with a large number of Nascent Soul treasures, the supply still falls short of demand.

In other words, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Qingyan are quite skilled in alchemy, and they can produce a lot of pills each time.

Otherwise, we don't know how many Ye family's infant-transforming pills we would have to buy.

Not to mention using the Heavenly Beast Nascent Soul Pill to help the family's demon beasts break through.

"Not bad, I've collected about six or seven portions, and there are still three or four portions that aren't ripe yet!" Ye Haiyan nodded when talking about his harvest.

Because they obtained information from Penglai and the Mu family, the Ye family also collected all the breakthrough medicines they left behind.

Among the immortals, they also collected some.

Such a number is still commendable.

Once they collect the spiritual herbs and treasures from the affiliated forces, the Ye family's gains in the Immortal Realm this time will definitely reach a terrifying level.

"By the way, Patriarch, the affiliated forces have suffered considerable losses. Wan Muchun of the Wan family is dead, Blood King True Monarch of Blood King Valley is dead, and even Medicine King Valley has lost two Nascent Soul cultivators..." Ye Haiyan then glanced at the spiritual mountain and secluded cultivation grounds where the affiliated forces were staying in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Those who die at the Nascent Soul stage will be protected for three hundred years, and those who die at the Golden Core stage will be protected for a hundred years. As for the others, we don't need to worry about them. Let them know the cruelty of the Earthly Immortal Realm." Ye Qingnian didn't care much, but only inquired about the situation of Ouyang Jiayi, Fairy Liu Huan, and Zhu Wenjing.

The former was his father's apprentice, so she was his junior sister, while the latter two were old acquaintances of Ye Jingcheng, whom he, as the son, kept in touch with as a matter of course.

In particular, Liu Huan once provided the Ye family with crucial information, and now she is also in charge of the medicinal herbs in Medicine King Valley.

The Ye family receives a considerable amount of medicinal herbs every twenty years.

Ye Qingnian deserves even more attention.

After learning that there was nothing seriously wrong, he stopped worrying about it.

"I'll have Uncle Jinghu inform them in advance of the tribute they need to prepare. Now, Uncle Haiyan, you can take a break," Ye Qingnian said with a smile.

"This isn't tiring at all. It's only been less than half a year of being on high alert. I've been resting ever since I came back from the Central Region!" Ye Haiyan said with a smile, a hint of emotion in his eyes, before continuing:

"It's true, we're getting old. The Ye family can only rely on you young people to support it now!"

He was almost nine hundred years old. The normal lifespan of a Golden Core cultivator is around a thousand years. He still had some expectations for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, but he no longer had such a strong obsession with it.

After all, he spent most of his life thinking about how to break through to the Purple Mansion realm.

He only considered the Golden Core in his later years. He had achieved his previous wishes step by step, and even if he were to die, he could still give an account to the ancestors of the Ye family.

“Where are you old, Uncle Haiyan? You still need to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. This time when we leave the Immortal Realm, the family will release at least twenty slots for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. Your path is long, and the Ye family's path is long. An elder in the family is like a treasure. Our Ye family will not let any treasure go.” Ye Qingnian said repeatedly.

Before this, the Ye family did not have a large number of Nascent Soul cultivators, and many of them were actually pre-selected. The remaining available spots were at most one every fifty years.

Although it's more than the number of immortal sects in the Central Region that produce one every hundred years, it's still too few for the Ye family.

After all, the Ye family possesses the Beast-Connecting Pattern and has acquired so many spirit beasts over the years, which has significantly accelerated their breakthrough speed.

Now that they've gone out to the Immortal Realm this time, the Ye family conservatively estimates that they can refine fifteen batches of Nascent Soul Pills, with two pills per batch, for a total of thirty pills.

This doesn't even include the taxes that affiliated forces would hand over.

After all, the resources that the Ye family hands over are the same as those of other forces, and there are certain requirements for the proportion of sixth-order spiritual medicines and breakthrough-type Nascent Soul medicines.

"That's great news!" Ye Haiyan's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Although he is old, the Ye family can now communicate with wood spirits to stimulate their blood and energy, which can significantly increase their chances of breaking through.

Ye Qingnian didn't say anything more. After making some simple arrangements, he went to a sacred mountain.

At this moment, Fairy Zi Ning, True Lord Yuan Tan, and True Lord Xing Yuan have all arrived here.

"Senior Sister Zi Ning, Senior Brother Xing Yuan, Fellow Daoist Yuan Tan," Ye Qingnian greeted them with a cupped-hand salute.

Although Zi Ning had not been a disciple of Ye Jingcheng for long, the latter had a higher cultivation level and was older than Ye Qingnian, so she became his senior sister. As for Xingyuan Zhenjun, he was her father's senior brother before.

However, since his father was already a Nascent Soul cultivator, the other party dared not claim to be his senior uncle and instead addressed him as senior brother.

"Patriarch Ye, if Junior Brother Xingyuan is the senior brother, then I am a fellow Daoist?" True Monarch Yuantan couldn't help but tease.

“Fellow Daoist Yuan Tan, you’re different. You’re about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Who knows, next time we meet, you might have to call me ‘Master Aunt’,” Ye Qingnian said with a smile. He knew that Yuan Tan’s words indicated that they had a good relationship.

The reason he didn't call her "senior sister" was because he had heard that True Monarch Yuan Tan and even the Ziyang Sect were spreading rumors that he was about to break through to become a sixth-level alchemist.

The Immortal Realm is over, and nothing is even confirmed yet, but rumors are already circulating that this is just an attempt to steal the Ye family's resources for alchemy.

Of course, he didn't know if this was Yuan Tan Zhenjun's intention, but as the head of the family, he still had to think about the Ye family.

This point still needs to be made, even if the other party was once of the same generation as your father.

"Since the three of you are here, you might as well try some spiritual tea. I have recently discovered a Purple Soul-Soothing Tea Tree. Although this tea is only a fifth-grade low-level tea, it can nourish the soul to a certain extent!" Ye Qingnian then began to brew the tea.

They discovered this spirit tea tree in the Five Spirits Sect's secret realm, and its yield is quite good.

Now that they're all at the Nascent Soul stage, and they're all on our side, it's perfect to use them to entertain them.

(End of this chapter)