Myriad Spirits Immortal Clan

Inside the underground palace of Lingyun Lake, wisps of smoke curled upwards.

A rich tea fragrance filled the entire palace.

Accompanying it was an abundance of spiritual energy.

Even Ye Jingli, who didn't particularly enjoy tea, couldn't help but swallow twice, his eyes beginning to glow with fervor as he sensed the rich tea fragrance and the enduring spiritual energy.

After taking a sip, Ye Xingqun couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"Patriarch, this is a second-grade, top-quality spiritual tea! It's a rare sight even in the sea region!"

"Indeed, it's a rare sight."

Ye Jingcheng nodded.

He only had a little over three catties of this spiritual tea.

Initially, he had planned to give everyone a portion.

However, considering that he had only given Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuecang a few taels each, it wouldn't be appropriate to give everyone several taels, as it would disrespect his grand-grandfather.

It would be better to simply invite everyone to join him when he brewed tea.

As soon as Ye Xingcheng said this, Ye Jingli eagerly took several more sips.

After drinking, his entire body seemed to be filled with spiritual light, a clear indication of the tea's exceptionally dense spiritual energy.

It should be noted that Ye Jingli was only a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, highlighting the abundance of spiritual energy in the Cloud Concealment Tea and its significant effect on a cultivator's training.

Seeing Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingyun, and others looking over, Ye Jingli grinned.

"Patriarch, we toast to you with this tea!"

Ye Jingcheng smiled slightly.

He didn't mind Ye Jingli's actions.

Ye Jingli's personality was just like that, and this behavior made Ye Jingcheng feel more genuine and warm.

He didn't want the other party to be reserved towards him simply because he was the patriarch and a Violet Palace cultivator.

After Ye Jingli offered his toast, Ye Jingcheng returned the gesture with a smile to the three of them.

He was grateful for their assistance over the past decade.

However, after finishing the spiritual tea, Ye Jingcheng solemnly took out a spiritual map, which depicted the appearance of Lingyun Peak.

Ye Jingcheng pointed to a marked area and asked:

"Uncle Xingqun, Ninth Brother, Sixth Brother, I want to ask, during my seclusion, who has been around my courtyard?"

Ye Jingcheng asked.

"Eldest Brother Jingteng has been there, but no one else, because we didn't allow anyone else to approach!"

Ye Jingyun said.

This surprised Ye Jingcheng.

He didn't expect it to be his eldest brother, Ye Jingteng.

"He came about eight years ago and three years ago, saying he had collected many treasures for you and came to deliver them!"

"In addition, Eldest Brother also took away some clansmen you mentioned before."

"Of course, Sixth Brother and I were present each time!"

Ye Jingyun said, taking out a storage bag.

Clearly, this storage bag contained the treasures that Ye Jingteng had helped collect.

Ye Jingcheng took the storage bag and found that it contained some third-grade Jade Scale Pills and third-grade Golden Scale Pills materials.

There were also some materials for Xuan Wood Disks.

However, all he lacked now was the third-grade, thousand-year-old Xuan Wood Heart.

These materials were useless to him.

But there were still many main materials inside.

Including the Hidden Cold Grass that Ye Jingcheng had been searching for.

Ye Jingcheng didn't take out the items from the storage bag.

Ye Jingteng's appearance and this storage bag were both suspicious.

So, Ye Jingcheng gave the storage bag back to Ye Jingyun.

"Ninth Brother, please help me keep this storage bag for now!"

Hearing this, Ye Jingyun was filled with doubts, but he still nodded.

"Ninth Brother, is this the place he stopped at?"

Ye Jingcheng asked, pointing to the marked spot on the spiritual map.

"Yes, it's here, but he walked around the formation a few times!"

Ye Jingyun nodded affirmatively.

"At the time, he said he wanted to see you and was somewhat unstoppable, even suggesting to protect you!"

Ye Jingyun said.

"However, later, the matter in Taiqing Prefecture became quite a disturbance, and he was sent to Taiqing Prefecture by the sect!"

"Understood!"

Ye Jingcheng nodded.

He didn't say much more.

After pondering for a while, he said:

"Ninth Brother, Sixth Brother, just pretend that my breakthrough hasn't been successful yet.

As for the Wei family's matter, continue to let Eldest Brother exert pressure according to the plan, and continue to target the Yuan family.

You should also communicate about the Qingyun Nunnery, and it would be best if the Qingyun Nunnery actively applies to come to Taihang Prefecture after the Yuan family is destroyed.

In addition, purchase some high-grade spirit stones from the outside!"

"Just say that the spiritual energy in the formation is not enough, and besides, don't let any cultivators without the Tong Beast Mark come above my courtyard!"

"Is Eldest Brother an imposter?"

Ye Jingyun was immediately filled with doubts, and cold sweat couldn't help but break out on his back.

"I don't know, just treat it as if nothing happened for now.

I still have a secret technique that hasn't been refined, and I can't leave seclusion yet!"

"However, this spirit beast bag can be given to you!"

Ye Jingcheng took out another spirit beast bag.

This spirit beast bag was none other than Ye Jingcheng's sixteen Thunder Rhinoceros Insects, four of which were in the late stage of the second grade, and the rest were all in the second grade.

It was just that because Ye Jingcheng had a larger insect formation, and these insects had been forced to mature, their potential had been exhausted.

It was just right for the family to use them first.

"Okay, no problem!"

Ye Jingli and Ye Jingyun both nodded.

Ye Jingli was clearly more suitable for communicating about Ye Jingteng's matter.

And Ye Jingyun handled family matters more smoothly.

As for Qingyun Nunnery, it already had some involvement with the Ye family, and Ye Jingyun also knew something about it.

"By the way, Patriarch, Xu Xiuqing left six years ago!"

Ye Jingyun suddenly remembered something and said.

As he said this, he was secretly observing Ye Jingcheng's expression.

Seeing Ye Jingcheng's expression falter, he quickly added:

"However, Chu Yanqing is still here, and under her guidance, many clansmen have greatly increased their refining skills."

"Ninth Brother, what are you saying?

There's no need to tell me about their departure or stay!"

Ye Jingcheng said immediately.

Ye Jingyun and Ye Jingli immediately stopped talking.

Only Ye Xingqun looked at Ye Jingcheng, taking a few extra glances with considerable surprise, wanting to say something, but ultimately didn't.

Ye Jingcheng then gave Ye Jingli and Ye Xingqun each a storage bag.

Ye Jingli's contained some refining materials.

Ye Xingqun's contained some insect control methods and insect control materials.

The group expressed their thanks and then departed.

Once they were gone, the underground hall became completely silent. Tea mist still swirled, making the underwater hall seem even more eerie and tranquil.

Ye Jingcheng sipped his spiritual tea, feeling the tea's essence linger in his heart. Involuntarily, he found himself thinking of two figures.

However, he quickly shook his head.

His own family's eldest brother was an uncontrollable factor.

How could he possibly meet Chu Yanqing now?

As for Xu Xiuqing, he could only feel regret.

He took out the Cold Jade Bed, then retrieved the Tongbao Art and began to study it.

Ye Xuecang said that to ensure his divine soul could be revealed outside, he had to meet two conditions.

One was to break through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion in terms of divine soul strength, and the second was to comprehend the first level of the Tongbao Art.

Breaking through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion in terms of divine sense was not difficult, especially with the third-order Soul Cleaving Fruit that Ye Xuecang had given him. Even without refining it into a spiritual pill, it could greatly enhance his divine soul.

Moreover, his divine soul was already superior to others of the same rank, possessing the divine soul of the middle stage of the Purple Mansion even in the early stage.

After breaking through to the middle stage of the Purple Mansion, his divine soul had also strengthened considerably, but the gap grew larger the further he progressed, causing him to be stuck at the limit.

Therefore, to openly appear, he only needed to master the Tongbao Art.

This was why Ye Jingcheng didn't directly devour the Yuan and Wei families. Even if Ye Jingcheng had secretly accomplished this, it would undoubtedly tell others that the Ye family had the confidence to do so.

Ye Jingcheng took out the jade talisman containing the Tongbao Art.

He placed it on his forehead, and as his divine sense penetrated it, Ye Jingcheng once again saw the silver tadpole-like characters moving within the jade talisman.

They looked like heavenly script, and just looking at them for a little while made his head feel dizzy, making it extremely difficult to comprehend.

Ye Jingcheng did not recognize these characters, and he had asked Ye Xuecang, but there was no special explanation for the Tongbao Art characters, so he could only ponder them one by one.

At first, Ye Jingcheng gained nothing, just like when he first started cultivating and searching for the feeling of Qi.

But he was not discouraged and continued to search for the simplest character to study.

After studying for a long time, he discovered that within these mysterious silver tadpoles, there seemed to be a cultivation path, or perhaps a spiritual纹, ever-changing and profoundly mysterious.

Although it was like a mirage, vague and indistinct, Ye Jingcheng did have a feeling that he could comprehend it.

Moreover, he felt as if he was refining the Tongbao Art.

However, before he could understand even one character, he felt a splitting headache and had to stop.

He looked at the sandalwood incense burning beside him and realized that two hours had already passed.

Moreover, most of his divine sense and soul power had been consumed.

He had to take out a Jade Soul Pill, and only after consuming it did he feel somewhat better.

At the same time, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his divine soul seemed to have improved a little.

He knew that he had only experienced this feeling of improvement every two hours when cultivating the Heavenly Soul Art.

But the Heavenly Soul Art was, after all, incomplete. Although the Soul Division technique was still useful and could be used to create clones,

it was extremely difficult to increase soul power by relying on the Heavenly Soul Art.

Now, seeing that comprehending the Tongbao Art also had this benefit, Ye Jingcheng was naturally overjoyed.

After recovering his divine sense, Ye Jingcheng wanted to continue comprehending, but he found that it was impossible and had to stop.

He placed the Stone Spirit Grotto aside to absorb spiritual energy, and then took out many Five Poison Bees, letting them spread throughout the Lingyun Lake area of the entire Ye family.

He even took out many Red-Joint Fish that he controlled with animal taming, letting them mix into Lingyun Lake as well.

This way, he could be aware of any disturbance.

… …

Taihang Prefecture, Mount Taicang.

The Yuan family had occupied this place for nearly twenty years, and it seemed that because of the previous locust plague.

The Yuan family had made the entire Mount Taicang even more heavily guarded.

There was a formation almost every ten miles.

Moreover, the Yuan family had indeed developed the spirit beast industry, and many Beast Valleys had been set up around it.

Although they didn't have as many high-level spirit beasts as the Ye family, their low-level spirit beasts were quite impressive.

On the mountain peak, inside a hall, Yuan Haoyun, the head of the Yuan family, tightly closed the hall's doors.

Then, he isolated the formation.

Only then did several people walk out from the depths of the hall.

They were all wearing spirit-isolating robes!

Their eyes were more fierce than the last.

“Senior, I have already arranged for our family members to scout out an excellent route!”

The usually spirited Yuan Haoyun looked somewhat haggard at this moment.

He unfolded a spiritual map in his hand and then began to point at it.

“Lion King Ridge is too dense, there are too many Flame Lions, even seniors would have a hard time, plus the Azure Wind Wolf Plains are extremely flat, making it extremely difficult to escape pursuit!”

“But Lion King Ridge and Scarlet Cloud Ridge are different. The two great demon kings will unconsciously leave this place open on days without a beast tide!”

Yuan Haoyun said.

“Have you thoroughly investigated the great demons here?” The figure in the spirit-isolating robe finally spoke.

His tone was full of dissatisfaction.

After all, the Yuan family had messed up last time.

Not only did they fail to trigger a beast tide, but they also failed to restrain True Person Sanyuan, almost causing them to die.

“I've investigated thoroughly, it's foolproof!” Yuan Haoyun directly patted his chest to guarantee.

“Alright, I'll trust you one more time. If it doesn't work this time, you can forget about the Purple Mansion Jade Liquid!”

“Also, in the Taihang Bazaar, make the conflict with the Wei family bigger. The Taiyi Sect seems to be a little suspicious!”

“Thank you for the senior's reminder, I've already made arrangements. As long as the time comes, no one will think that the Yuan and Wei families are together!”