Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1646 Suspicious Spirit Forging Stone and Spirit Pill (Two Chapters Combined, Seeking Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

"It was only by exhausting the family's resources that we managed to obtain the materials for the Primordial Spirit Pill, and we were also fortunate enough to have Lord Qianchen refine the Primordial Spirit Pill!" Ye Jingyu greeted Lord Lingduan with a cupped hand at this moment.

Now that he is a Nascent Soul cultivator, he naturally needs to make arrangements with the other cultivators.

As for mentioning the Primordial Spirit Pill, it was also to spread the word. After all, with the end of the Earthly Immortal Realm, not all forces could gather the spiritual materials, but there would definitely be one or two forces that could do so. If they could refine it one more time, they might be able to store more Primordial Spirit Pills for the Ye family.

This kind of thing is inherently mutually beneficial.

Normalizing a divine medicine might only increase the chances by a maximum of 10%, and it might also contain some toxicity. It's not like taking the Rejuvenating Heavenly Ginseng Fruit, the Heavenly Illusion Silver Jade Flower, and the Five-Colored Nourishing Lotus together would increase the chances by 30%, since spiritual medicines can affect each other and contain toxicity.

If you really calculate it, taking all these elixirs together might increase the chances by less than 20%.

Only by refining it into a spiritual elixir can the success rate be truly increased by at least 30%, while minimizing the effects of elixir poison.

This is also why there are so few Nascent Soul cultivators in the entire cultivation world. On the one hand, spiritual herbs are hard to find, and on the other hand, sixth-level alchemists are hard to find.

At this moment, although the entire pavilion is a meeting of the Smuggling Alliance to discuss smuggling, everyone is congratulating Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingyu, and the Ye family.

Most Immortals who have reached the Divine Transformation stage either have a lineage that allows them to continuously enter the Earthly Immortal Realm, or they exhaust thousands of years of accumulated resources to produce a Divine Transformation cultivator.

Examples include Medicine King Valley (formerly known as Medicine King Valley) and Qingxia Palace (currently still building up its strength).

Not only did the Ye family become a Nascent Soul power in less than a thousand years, but they also produced another Nascent Soul during the second Earth Immortal Realm.

They felt both envy and admiration for this.

"Gentlemen, this meeting before the Nascent Soul Ceremony serves two purposes. First, as an alliance, we should share information about smuggling. Second, as an alliance, exchanging some treasures beforehand is a mutually beneficial arrangement," Ye Jingcheng then said directly.

Although the Ye family joined this alliance only three hundred years ago, the only one who joined the alliance later than the Ye family was the Spirit Forging Divine Lord.

However, Ye Jingcheng has already become the de facto leader here.

After all, the Ye family's strength is undoubtedly the strongest here, and Ye Jingcheng is a sixth-level alchemist.

Only the Spirit Forging God Lord had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

He is now at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm and a sixth-order weapon refiner. If we're talking about who has the upper hand, then of course he should be in charge.

However, he did not speak, because he felt that although Ye Jingcheng had the aura of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he was still very uneasy.

Furthermore, he even felt that his natal spirit fire was somewhat afraid of Ye Jingcheng, and he couldn't even control the spiritual energy around him smoothly.

He had never experienced this feeling even hundreds of years ago, let alone now that he has broken through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

This puzzled him greatly, and he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

After all, Ye Jingcheng broke through to the Nascent Soul stage in just three hundred years. If he has already broken through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage, it is simply too monstrous.

“Of course!” Unlike Spirit Forging God, the other Nascent Soul cultivators now follow the Ye family’s lead.

In their view, the Three Yuan Holy City alone is enough to support the Ye family for at least ten thousand years.

If possible, they would also like to learn from the Ye family's experience. Not to mention replicating a Three-Element Holy City, they could at least establish a core market within their respective domains.

Ye Jingcheng watched as the cultivators took their seats, and he waved his hand. Immediately, the Xuan Yun Zisha teapot flew out, and some tea landed in front of everyone. This spiritual tea was naturally not the top-grade saint tea.

It is also a fifth-grade spiritual tea, Heavenly Tempered Cloud Tea, which is one of the Ye family's gains from the Penglai Demonic Sect.

It can temper the true essence of Nascent Soul cultivators, but its effect on Deity Transformation cultivators is indeed very poor. However, under the Xuan Yun Purple Clay Teapot, it adds a touch of artistic conception and is worth savoring.

In addition to the spirit tea, the Ye family also prepared fifth-tier spirit fruits.

Although the Ye family does not accept spirit stones at the trade fair, they have already gained a great deal from these cultivators' visit to the Three Yuan Holy City, so they don't care about these fifth-grade spirit tea and spirit fruits now.

The cultivators were indeed more interested in the spiritual tea, and of course, they were also interested in the Xuan Yun purple clay teapot.

As veteran Nascent Soul cultivators, they naturally recognized that this was a magical treasure of Lord Yunsha.

The fact that it's now in Ye Jingcheng's hands clearly signifies something.

This led many cultivators to consider having Ye Jingcheng refine or purchase pills.

"As far as I know, my master has successfully crossed over." Ye Jingcheng didn't care about what others thought, and simply told them the news about Zheng Yuan Divine Lord.

Then he looked at the others.

He was quite confident in the Ye family's smuggling efforts, but knowing about the smuggling activities of others would be more helpful in making a summary.

"I know of two fellow cultivators who attempted to sneak across the border. One succeeded, and that cultivator possessed considerable skill. The one who failed, however, had exhausted too much of his lifespan at the Nascent Soul stage and had to hastily attempt to cross..."

"Only one person attempted to cross into our realm, but failed. That spatial node was too unstable; it didn't even last half a day before the soul tablet dimmed!"

……

This alliance consisted of more than ten Nascent Soul cultivators, each expressing their own opinions. They also summarized the experiences of the past century, noting that seven people had attempted to cross the border illegally, and including Zheng Yuan Shenjun, three of them succeeded.

Not much, but not too little either.

Moreover, most of the Nascent Soul cultivators who perished did so on the spot at spatial nodes.

None of those who left the spatial node encountered any problems.

"This shows that the method of concealing one's aura that Lord Yunsha mentioned back then was indeed effective," someone concluded.

Upon hearing this, everyone else nodded in agreement, but Ye Jingcheng remained somewhat noncommittal, even sensing that something was amiss.

After all, this smuggling was to the Tianxuan Spirit Realm, which was almost entirely in the hands of the Jade Soul Clan.

The other party has been operating for so many years that even human forces have to be extremely careful when they want to descend to the lower realm. How could they possibly all escape?

"It is indeed a clever scheme to lure us from the upper realm!" Ye Jingcheng concluded.

Of course, he wouldn't reveal his own thoughts, as it concerned the Ye family's secrets.

Moreover, the fact that other cultivators were smuggling themselves across the border together would make it easier for the Ye family to do so.

"Fellow Daoist Qianchen, when are you planning to sneak across the border? Do you want to come along?" At this moment, it was Spirit Forging Divine Lord who spoke.

Breaking through from the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the middle stage does not increase lifespan, so even though Spirit Forging God Lord had broken through, he still planned to sneak through as soon as possible.

The reason they were waiting there was to attend the Nascent Soul Ceremony and exchange information about smuggling.

After the exchange was completed and preparations were made, it was time to illegally cross the border.

The lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator is the same in the Spirit Realm. However, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Spirit Realm is much richer, and cultivators can draw upon this spiritual energy without consuming their own blood and lifespan.

Therefore, he definitely needs more time to find longevity-promoting medicines, and secondly, he needs to make time to break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm or even the Void Refinement realm.

"It's not certain yet. Although the Ye family has two Nascent Soul cultivators, my lifespan is still quite long. I plan to go into seclusion for a while." Ye Jingcheng gave a vague answer, seeing that everyone seemed to care about his time spent secretly traveling.

The cultivators, however, did not suspect anything.

Ye Jingcheng's lifespan is no secret; they all know he has plenty of time left. This is also why Sanyuan City has flourished so much without any problems or evil cultivators causing trouble.

Even though the previous battle had cost them some of their lifespan, they knew that the Ye family possessed longevity peaches.

Upon hearing this, the Spirit Forging God showed some regret, but said nothing more.

His words just now were certainly not without a hint of probing.

He certainly couldn't smuggle himself across the border with Ye Jingcheng; after all, they weren't brothers who had gone through thick and thin together, and they couldn't truly trust each other.

The other cultivators had also considered sneaking across the border with Ye Jingcheng, but at this moment, they could only swallow their thoughts.

After they informed each other about the smuggling, Ye Jingcheng waved again.

"Everyone, the trade fair is about to begin. I am an alchemist, so I won't take any other treasures. I will only take three spirit pills." Ye Jingcheng said, and then directly took out three spirit pills.

These were three low-grade sixth-rank spiritual pills: the Thousand Moon Spirit Condensation Pill, the Heavenly Palace Pill, and the Profound Clarity Essence Pill.

"These three kinds of spiritual pills can all refine the cultivation of early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, and have some effect on mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators. They can be exchanged for these spiritual materials." Ye Jingcheng is currently only missing the spiritual materials for Seven-Colored Pill, Sky-Splitting Pill, Peach Wood Advancement Pill, and Stone Spirit Advancement Pill.

"I can testify to the effectiveness of this elixir." Spirit Forging Divine Lord also stepped forward to testify for Ye Jingcheng, after all, he relied on these elixirs to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Of course, one of them was a spirit pill with a spirit pattern.

But at this moment, he wouldn't undermine Ye Jingcheng.

After thinking it over, he has come to terms with it. Regardless of whether Ye Jingcheng is in the mid-stage or early-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it's always good to be on good terms with him. In the future, his own Divine Forging Valley might even need the Ye family's help.

As for himself, he'll probably try to smuggle himself out in thirty years at most, so he can't care about anything else.

Even if the Ye family becomes the Fengtian Sect in the future, it will have nothing to do with him.

"I actually managed to gather all the materials needed for a sixth-tier Stone Spirit Advancement Pill." After the exchange, Ye Jingcheng gave away four spirit pills.

Of course, four pills don't mean four spiritual materials. You usually need two or even three to exchange for one spiritual pill, so he got quite a lot of spiritual herbs and materials this time.

Of course, there are also plenty of ordinary add-ons.

It's impossible for all the treasures the other party possesses to satisfy Ye Jingcheng.

But if there's even one dish he needs, he'll switch to another.

He was very satisfied with the Stone Spirit Heart and spiritual materials he received in exchange.

"I have a Heaven-Sealing Diagram. I wonder if I can exchange it for a spiritual pill?" Just as Ye Jingcheng was putting away his treasures and the others were showing off theirs, a cultivator transmitted his voice to Ye Jingcheng.

This cultivator was none other than one of the three Nascent Soul cultivators who attacked the Mu family alongside the Ye family back then.

His Daoist name is Hun Sha, a name similar to that of a demonic ancestor, originating from the Yuanqing Realm. However, he is a genuine righteous cultivator.

"The Heaven-Sealing Diagram isn't very useful; I can't exchange it for it." Ye Jingcheng remained silent for a moment before replying telepathically.
The Heaven-Sealing Diagram only has some effect when all five are collected. Currently, the Ye family has three, so having one more wouldn't be of much use. Therefore, he naturally wouldn't exchange it for a spirit pill.

"Unless you add a sixth-grade spiritual herb that can improve your cultivation," Ye Jingcheng said directly.

“Then let’s add a sixth-tier Thousand Moon Grass.” The cultivator nodded.

Ye Jingcheng then took out the pills and exchanged them with him. The latter was very conscientious and did not directly show Ye Jingcheng the original appearance of the Heaven-Sealing Diagram. Instead, he sealed it in a jade box before exchanging it.

In this way, others will only know that he made a deal with Ye Jingcheng, but they will not know what the deal was about.

Ye Jingcheng glanced at it with his divine sense and then put it into his storage bag.

This map of the heavens is ultimately incomplete and not very useful.

Given that the previous rumors were deliberately spread by the Chaotic God Lord, he wasn't particularly overjoyed.

However, his elixirs are currently insufficient.

He needs to start refining the pills again.

Fortunately, the Ye family has produced many mature spiritual herbs over the years, and they just exchanged quite a few, so at least they won't miss the real Nascent Soul Exchange Conference.

No more special treasures appeared at the subsequent meetings.

Those who possessed treasures had basically exchanged them for elixirs with Ye Jingcheng.

The rest were almost all spiritual treasures and ancient artifacts to be exchanged for smuggling.

The Ye family also lacks such treasures, so naturally they would not take them out.

"Then I look forward to the Nascent Soul Ceremony and seeing you all again." Ye Jingcheng waved his hand and poured tea into everyone's cups again. Everyone raised their cups and drank together, using tea instead of wine, thus bidding farewell and going their separate ways.

"Jingcheng, you must be extremely careful about smuggling!" Ye Jingyu said to Ye Jingcheng alone after everyone else had left.

He had clearly also considered the suspicious nature of the smuggling information.

If the danger was only in spatial nodes, there wouldn't have been so many failures before.

In the past hundred years, just by adding one more secret technique to conceal one's aura, so much safety has been achieved. The Ye family certainly doesn't believe it.

The Jade Soul Clan is no small clan. According to their knowledge, even the human race in the Spirit Realm is not as strong as the Jade Soul Clan.

Otherwise, the Tianxuan Spirit Realm wouldn't have been occupied.

"Finally, the request for the Yuan Shen Pill has arrived!" Ye Jingcheng took out another jade slip the next moment.

The jade slip contained a message from the Spirit Forging God.

The latter is clearly also preparing for the Divine Forging Valley.

At the same time, as a sixth-order weapon refiner, he has been in high demand in recent years, so it is not surprising that he took out all the spiritual materials for the Yuan Shen Dan.

"And there are two portions!" Ye Jingcheng was delighted again.

Since the Spirit Forging God Lord did not take action against the Mu family back then, the latter naturally did not do any favors for the Ye family, and could not refine pills for free.

If someone wants to commission you to refine pills, you should naturally prepare two sets of spiritual materials or sufficient remuneration.

The reward for a sixth-grade spirit pill is equally substantial.

"This Divine Forging Valley is indeed wealthy!" Ye Jingcheng couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

If all goes well, the two sets of spiritual materials are enough for him to refine three to four Nascent Soul Pills.

The Ye family only needs to give one to the Spirit Forging God.

With a sigh, Ye Jingcheng didn't linger. In another room of the restaurant, he met with the Spirit Forging God, accepted the commission, and promised the Spirit Forging God that if anyone from the Divine Forging Valley broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Ye family would help protect them.

After all, even if he smuggled himself out, the Nascent Soul stage combat power left behind by the Ye family would definitely be enough.

(End of this chapter)