Beast Families: I Have an Illustrated Book of All Souls

Chapter 1651 Qingfeng's Breakthrough, Smuggling! (Two chapters combined, please vote and subscribe)

Inside the Stone Spirit Cave, crimson flames fell upon the desert, like an inextinguishable volcano, unleashing waves of terrifying heat.

The spiritual fire above swirled with five different colors and conjured various shadows. Each of the spiritual fires seemed to come alive, making it exceptionally mysterious and extraordinary.

Amidst the flames, a large, earthen-yellow hall continuously resisted the fire, supporting a considerable space and constantly radiating golden light, erecting layers of firewalls.

However, those firewalls could not completely stop the terrifying flames.

Every now and then, a golden earthen wall would be breached, and fiery shadows would rush straight toward the golden palace.

At this moment, the Golden Scale Beast was sitting on the top of the main hall, with large beads of sweat dripping from its body, while it was constantly activating its breathing technique within its body.

That breathing technique was completely different from the original one, drawing countless earth-attribute spiritual energies into its body and then directing them into its earth-attribute divine domain.

Only in this way could they barely withstand the flames.

Although it has already broken through to the sixth rank, in its opinion, the best way to improve itself is to resist the heavenly fire in the Heavenly Fire Divine Domain of the Crimson Flame Fox, resist the frost in the Frost Frost Divine Domain of the Jade Scale Dragon, and then try to establish a divine domain with Zhu Yan in the Law-Breaking Divine Domain, and then engage in a physical battle.

The golden-scaled beast's eyes were filled with exhaustion, yet also revealed its unwillingness.

Although it was unwilling to admit it, among Ye Jingcheng's spirit beasts, the only one it surpassed was the Seven-Colored Cloud Deer. However, the latter could heal injuries and control qi and blood, and its role in Ye Jingcheng's future would not be insignificant.

Therefore, even though it endures immense pain, it is unwilling to stop.

Just then, it suddenly felt the flames had shrunk. It looked up at the sky, intending to see the Crimson Flame Fox, but instead saw that another world seemed to have appeared in the void, with streams of void flowing and projecting in the high sky.

Furthermore, one can see a slightly ethereal void dragon shadow looking this way from a distance.

The dragon shadow was different from the Jade Dragon's massive and powerful form; it possessed a more agile and ethereal quality, and appeared exceptionally mysterious, sometimes visible and sometimes hidden. Its enormous eyes seemed to contain the entire sky, giving it immense pressure.

At this moment, not only the Crimson Flame Fox Golden Scale Beast was watching, but also the Cave Heaven Stone Spirit Peach Wood and a group of demon spirits came to look.

In particular, the Stone Spirit of the Cave Heaven has a somewhat hunched body.

At this moment, it was clearly under tremendous pressure.

"You've almost finished searching for the materials needed for your advanced pill. Once you've consolidated your foundation, you can go into seclusion when you reach the Spirit Realm." Ye Jingcheng stepped out of the void and looked towards the Stone Spirit Cave.

As Ye Jingcheng entered, a hall flew in from the void and landed in front of everyone.

Although it would be better for the Ye family to settle in the secret realm of the Heavenly Palace for the time being, there is not much time left for them to sneak across.

Rather than letting Stone Spirit Cave Heaven relax for a while, it's better to let the latter adapt in advance.

Otherwise, if a problem occurs within the spatial node, it will not only affect Ye Jingcheng himself, but may also affect the spirit beasts within the cave and the Ye family members who will enter at that time.

"Master, it's alright!" The Cave Heaven Stone Spirit was not troubled by the enormous pressure. In its view, it had received its master's inheritance and training, and now it was just sharing some of the burden with its master. How could it show any sign of distress?

Moreover, in its view, this was precisely the time to showcase the results of its centuries-long cultivation of the Heavenly Refining Scripture.

As for the advancement pill, it felt that it still needed to be refined for a while, so it was even less eager.

After all, what its master needed was not its combat power, but its cave, a more stable and expansive cave.

After seeing that there were no problems with the Stone Spirit Cave Heaven, Ye Jingcheng also entered the secret realm to check on the Void Ancient Dragon.

Ye Jingcheng then began to imbue each of them with precious light.

He breathed a sigh of relief once everything was done.

He finally started reading the Heaven-Changing Battle Martial Arts Method.

To his surprise, the key to this secret technique was somewhat similar to the beast-connecting patterns of the Ye family and Ye Yunxuan's talismanic body.

They all cultivate unique secret patterns within their bodies, and then use these patterns to draw upon the power of the corpses.

According to the secret method, ordinary corpses are also acceptable, but the corpses of dragons are more suitable, and the resulting physical and combat power enhancements are even more terrifying.

Because Ye Jingcheng switched to cultivating the Hunyuan Five Elements Immortal Scripture, his physical body was also quite strong. Furthermore, the true essence of the five elements was constantly circulating within his body, continuously enhancing his physical body at every moment.

Now, practicing this secret technique has proven surprisingly effective.

In three months, he had completed all his cultivation and left Mount Ling, arriving at a valley.

This valley was newly opened up within the cave.

One of them was a seventh-tier dragon skeleton that had been transferred, and there were also several fifth-tier dragon skeletons.

One of them was a fifth-tier dragon skeleton, which was opened up by Ye Jingcheng's clansmen.

At this moment, he was preparing to use this fifth-tier corpse to activate the Heaven-Changing Battle Martial Secret Technique.

As the secret technique was activated, he felt his body suddenly burst forth with immense blood and energy, and dragon scales began to appear on his skin. He also began to become more violent.

However, this bit of violent aura had no effect on him.

Under his gaze, the dragon skeletons in the distance gradually dissipated, eventually turning into ashes and disappearing into the air.

Clearly, this Heaven-Changing Battle Martial Art combined with the Dragon Bone Secret Technique can only be activated once before it dissipates.

"As expected, I can stack Spirit Control!" Ye Jingcheng activated Spirit Control again, and with the appearance of a finer layer of cold scales on his body, his physical strength soared once more.

At this moment, Ye Jingcheng felt even more confident that he could easily overpower Zhu Yan in close combat, and was even no weaker than Yu Linlong.

Because he controlled the spirit, Yu Linlong's strength was greatly reduced, so there was no comparison at that time.

And this is not over yet.

Ye Jingcheng activated his internal cultivation technique once more, and the unique silver tadpole pattern of the immortal scripture appeared in his body. Finally, water light bloomed, and his entire physical body turned incomparably azure.

This is also the method of the Heavy Water Primordial Body that he brought with him from the Five Elements Immortal Scripture.

"I should also be able to demonstrate seventh-level physical strength," Ye Jingcheng murmured upon seeing this.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he knew that his physical strength at only the seventh level was still insufficient in front of a Void Refinement cultivator or a seventh-level demonic beast.

But at least there is some room for resistance.

Moreover, the seventh-tier dragon skeleton is a wind-attribute dragon. Ye Jingcheng might be able to achieve the escape speed of a seventh-tier wind dragon by using the Heaven-Changing Battle Martial Secret Technique.

While this may not allow for a direct confrontation, it also offers a glimmer of hope.

"Congratulations, Master! Congratulations on your mastery of supernatural powers..." Peachwood said repeatedly from the side.

Ye Jingcheng smiled as well. Although it was just a compliment, the presence of peach wood in the cave had indeed made it a bit more lively.

He also discovered that the latter had produced spirit peaches.

It's good to stay in the mortal realm to ease some of the immediate crisis.

It seems that due to the enhancement of the spiritual veins, this time a total of eight spiritual peaches were produced, and each one can extend one's lifespan by three hundred years.

"You still haven't found some spiritual materials for your advancement pill, but that shouldn't be a problem once you get to the Spirit Realm," Ye Jingcheng told it directly, without trying to deceive it.

Peachwood already knew about it, but it didn't take it to heart.

Its current status is entirely due to Ye Jingcheng.

Otherwise, at this point, it would be questionable whether it could even reach the third tier, let alone with its bloodline talent getting better and its cultivation level getting higher and higher.

In the distance, the Golden Scale Beast was fighting Zhu Yan, but the Golden Scale Beast was clearly no match for Zhu Yan. Every punch from the latter seemed to ignore the Golden Scale Beast's defense, while the Golden Scale Beast's supernatural powers were not very effective against Zhu Yan.

Ye Jingcheng ignored it, but went to check on the Xuan Tian Spirit Vine. Because he had been preparing to smuggle it out over the years and had been constantly accelerating the growth of other spiritual herbs, the Xuan Tian Spirit Vine hadn't grown much. However, due to the continuous input of the precious light, the entire vine was radiant with spiritual energy, and spiritual phenomena frequently appeared.

Whenever a spiritual phenomenon appears, the peach wood will land in front of the spiritual vine and observe it closely.

After transferring the precious light, and giving some instructions to the spring spirit and the peach wood spirit, Ye Jingcheng left the cave.

In his final days, he decided not to continue cultivating, but instead planned to provide guidance to the members of the Ye family's alchemy hall on alchemy.

Although Ye Qingyan is still in seclusion, there are many outstanding members in the Ye family's Dan Hall who are worth cultivating.

Only when the Ye family's overall alchemy skills improve will the Ye family prosper in the future.

Although the Ye family's rise to power was truly due to spirit beasts and the Beast-Connecting Tower with its beast-connecting patterns, it was actually more closely related to alchemy.

……

Another decade or so has passed, and it has actually been more than twenty years since the day agreed upon by the Ye family for smuggling them out.

At this moment, the entire Tianfeng Oasis was enveloped in a crimson fire.

All the spiritual energy swept towards the Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.

Before Ye Qingfeng could appear, a giant natal firebird flew into the sky.

It carried terrifying firepower, roared loudly in the sky, and flew freely.

It looks exactly like a real spirit bird.

But everyone knew that this was clearly a sixth-order spiritual fire transformed from Ye Qingfeng's natal fire seed.

The fire power it was displaying at this moment was no weaker than the fire power when the Crimson Flame Fox had just broken through.

At this moment, Ye Qingfeng's aura also reached its peak, reaching the Divine Transformation stage.

"Feng'er is finally about to break through!" Ye Qingnian, who was still at the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, looked at the figure in the distance and the tribulation clouds in the sky.

Because there were many elders in the sky, he did not fall in front, but rather some distance behind.

If it weren't for the distraction of his family, he felt he wouldn't have fallen too far behind Ye Qingfeng.

Of course, he has no regrets. This is the family his father loved, and it is also the family he loves.

"Feng'er, wait, I will catch up with you sooner or later!" Ye Qingnian secretly vowed in his heart.

After this, he will retire behind the scenes and become someone like Ye Jingcheng or Ye Xuecang.

At that time, he would not concern himself with anything except major events, and his cultivation speed would naturally increase.

Ye Qingfeng had already arranged several magical spirit puppets with lightning attributes for his tribulation.

In addition to the spirit puppet, there is also a tribulation-crossing formation.

Therefore, there is not much of a problem with transcending the tribulation.

Half a day later, Ye Qingfeng had already survived the tribulation of lightning.

"Congratulations, Crimson Phoenix Divine Lord!" Ye Qingfeng's Daoist name is Crimson Phoenix, which is in line with her spiritual body.

Of course, many more people also call Qingfeng "Auntie" or "Grandma".

The congratulations were overwhelming.

Only Ye Yunxi pouted.

"You've actually taken the lead!" Ye Yunxi had switched to cultivating immortality and had recently emerged from seclusion; she was now also at the late Nascent Soul stage.

However, she was much older than Ye Qingfeng and also had a Heavenly Spiritual Root, but she lacked a spiritual body and her beast-manipulation patterns were inferior, yet she was a whole realm behind, so she was naturally somewhat unconvinced.

She wanted the latter, to be in her presence, to have her call her aunt, and then to say some words of guidance.

"It seems I'll have to go into seclusion more often!" Ye Yunxi thought to herself.

"Father, Mother!" Ye Qingfeng looked at Ye Jingcheng and Chu Yanqing first.

Her face was full of excitement, after all, she had become a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Although she was the fourth Nascent Soul cultivator in the Ye family, her weapon-refining skills were also quite remarkable.

Now that her natal spirit fire has become a sixth-order spirit fire, if she were to refine another sixth-order weapon-refining furnace, becoming a sixth-order weapon refiner would only be a matter of time.

"Well done!" Ye Jingcheng nodded, he was quite satisfied with his daughter and son.

"Go to the Thunder Tribulation Pool to heal your injuries quickly!" Chu Yanqing was worried about Ye Qingfeng's injuries.

Upon hearing this, the latter nodded, said something to Ye Qingnian, and then entered the Tribulation Pool.

At that very moment, Ye Jingcheng transmitted his voice to Ye Qingnian, Ye Xuecang, and Ye Jingyu.

"Family smuggling, starting in six months!"

……

The Great Yu Realm, the Northern Region, the Extremely Cold Plain.

The biting wind howled and raged, causing the ice crystals on the bare branches to fall continuously, making a crisp, tinkling sound.

Beneath a cold valley lies a terrifying abyss, its bottom unseen, accessible only by a narrow mountain path.

At that moment, several Frost Wolves leaped across the mountain path and landed in a cold cave at the bottom of the abyss.

Inside the cold cave, there were three cultivators.

All three were wearing spirit-sealing robes, making it impossible to discern their power or background. Their appearances were also typical of people from the Northern Region.

"Brother Fox, why did the patriarch order us to guard this place? The spiritual vein here is only at the third level. Unless we go deep into the abyss, we can't escape. But it's said that even Nascent Soul cultivators who go down into the abyss may not be able to come out." The most burly man looked at the slightly handsome cultivator.

As he spoke, he took out a pill and placed it in the snow wolf's mouth.

"Family matters are not for you or me to discuss. Just stay here and behave yourself. You know the rules of Hidden Peak and Hidden Punishment Hall!" the leader, Brother Fox, replied coldly.

And then, in the next instant, he suddenly shouted.

"Who?"

But before he could take out the treasure, he discovered that the person who came was none other than Ye Jingcheng.

"Eleventh Grand Uncle!" Ye Tenghu exclaimed repeatedly.

After he finished speaking, he pulled up his sleeve, revealing the animal patterns on the inner hall of the Ye family.

Ye Jingcheng then pulled up his sleeves, revealing the beast pattern directly.

He naturally wouldn't be angry that such a cautious junior didn't respect him.

"Go into the cave, thank you for your hard work!" Ye Jingcheng waved his hand and took the three into the cave.

His gaze also fell upon the abyss below.

Within this abyss lies a spatial node, which the Ye family had arranged to guard five years ago.

(End of this chapter)