Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 872: Chapter 612: Kuihuang Appears? Purple Mansion Peak (Double Chapter)

In a hilly region, Three Mountains rose from the ground, forming a narrow valley.

The valley was extremely quiet at the moment. In the void, a spiritual ship appeared, and a person walked down from it.

He looked toward the inside of the valley.

But even before he could fly into the valley to investigate, his expression suddenly changed dramatically, and he retreated frantically.

However, despite this, it was still a bit late, as countless spiritual lights formed a terrifying spirit explosion.

Like a volcanic eruption, it surged toward the man.

He quickly took out several defense treasures, finally producing a golden puppet.

The firelight pierced through the defense treasures, even sending an earth shield flying, and only the golden puppet shone brilliantly at this moment, like a Buddhist golden body.

Yet, even so, the golden body began to crack.

“Damn it!” The cultivator cursed angrily, somewhat distressed as he retrieved the golden puppet.

The spiritual light quickly dissipated, and the valley was completely leveled, leaving no trace of its former state.

The cultivator’s divine sense frantically probed the surroundings, but at this moment, there was no sign of the cultivator.

His face immediately turned from gloomy to somewhat twisted. He angrily slapped the void and then vanished from the valley.

Half a day later, the cultivator reappeared, his expression beginning to calm down, and this time, he departed once more.

…

On a steep mountain peak, a Vermilion Fruit Tree emerged from the cliff.

With just a few vermilion fruits growing on it.

A few birds excitedly swooped down from the peak, finally landing on the Vermilion Fruit Tree.

They chirped noisily.

And in the next moment, a stone suddenly appeared in the air and, with a booming sound, crashed onto the Vermilion Fruit Tree, sending all the birds fluttering away.

The stone was etched with python patterns, and the next moment, Ye Jingcheng also stepped out.

He indeed, as the cultivator guessed, hadn’t gone far, so the other’s repeated probing was actually effective.

However, Ye Jingcheng had entered the grotto heaven and had the Stone Spirit perform the Void Concealment Skill, hiding in the void.

It was simply impossible for the other to find.

At this moment, Ye Jingcheng’s face was extremely gloomy, without the slightest joy of having successfully evaded.

The day he finished off the Celestial Essence Dual Cultivation, he set up a Self-Destruction Array and placed a Shadow Wood Puppet nearby.

The methods and treasures that cultivator used were all in his view.

He originally wanted to see if it was a cultivator from the Zhang Family.

But to his surprise, the person behind it possessed skills very similar to what Ye Xuecang and Ye Haicheng spoke of regarding Kuihuang.

That golden puppet was clearly the legendary Vajra Puppet.

Considering the Wood Puppet, it’s highly likely this person is a descendant of Kuihuang, or it’s possible they accidentally acquired Kuihuang’s legacy.

But Ye Jingcheng feels it’s unlikely to be just a coincidence.

So the cooperation between Kuihuang and Artifact Desolate is highly likely.

This implies that the Zhang Family’s influence in the Far West Desert Sea might be more complex than imagined.

The Eight Desolates Sect, once known as Sword Desolate, Kuihuang, Pill Desolate, Artifact Desolate, Talisman Desolate, Town Desolate, Celestial Desolate, and Beast Desolate.

Currently, it’s only known that the Ye Family is Beast Desolate, the Wan Family is Sword Desolate, and the Zhang Family is Artifact Desolate. There are many others. If they all converge in the Far West Desert Sea, the magnitude of this force might be beyond what the Ye Family expected.

Ye Jingcheng could only hope that the other side doesn’t have a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

After all, back when the Eight Desolates Sect was destroyed, all Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators were completely slaughtered.

Even though many years have passed, achieving a Nascent Soul is still extremely difficult.

As far as Ye Jingcheng knows, only the Taiyi Sect’s True Monarch Zi Ming has broken through in recent years.

Of course, regardless, the information obtained by the Shadow Wood Puppet must be passed on to Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuecang.

They know more secrets, and their judgment is naturally more astute.

After thinking for a while, Ye Jingcheng placed the Vermilion Fruit Tree into the grotto heaven.

Though the Vermilion Fruit Tree was just an ordinary tree, lacking spiritual energy, it could at least serve as food for some Cloud Deer or Mountain-devouring Rats.

Since he saw it, he wouldn’t waste it.

Ye Jingcheng quickly took out the spiritual ship and flew toward the distance.

…

A month later, Ye Jingcheng landed on Lingyun Peak.

This time, he headed straight to the sky without stopping at the peak.

In Lingyun Lake, this time, it wasn’t Ye Haicheng who appeared, but Ye Haisheng.

“Uncle Haisheng!” Ye Jingcheng felt a bit odd, but Ye Haisheng was two generations above him.

“This is the Upper-Grade Spirit Stones prepared by the family for you. Work hard!” Ye Haisheng took out a storage bag.

This storage bag contained nothing but the Upper-Grade Spirit Stones from the Upper-Grade Spirit Stone Vein in the Pill Desolate Secret Realm.

For five years, the Ye Family had been mining about forty blocks of Upper-Grade Spirit Stones each year, and now seven years had passed.

“Thank you, Uncle Haisheng, for personally delivering them!” Ye Jingcheng also took out a storage bag, which contained some Tier Three Spirit Pills he refined.

“Thank you!” Ye Haisheng also cupped his hands.

After speaking, Ye Haisheng quietly flew toward the array and was about to return to the Celestial Poison Swamp.

Ye Jingcheng watched his departing figure, and couldn’t help but feel awkward.

After all, their conversation was exceptionally awkward.

“Thank you, thank you,” you could say it lacked any substance.

But in fact, the ability to converse like this meant both were considering each other.

Before Ye Jingcheng fully displayed his talent, Ye Haisheng felt a bit unconvinced by him.

Ye Jingcheng shook his head, looked into the storage bag, and with a full two hundred Upper-Grade Spirit Stones inside, his face immediately brightened up with joy.

With these two hundred Upper-Grade Spirit Stones, there would be no problem upgrading the Spirit Vein in his grotto to Tier Three Top-Grade!

Ye Jingcheng carefully stored the storage bag and entered the grotto heaven.

First, he retrieved the residual souls of the Celestial Essence Dual Cultivation and used the Soul Capturing Banner to capture them.

But unfortunately, even as loose cultivators, they had Soul Ban.

When he used the Soul Capturing Skill, the residual souls dissipated even more thoroughly.

Ye Jingcheng had no choice but to take out the Dream-Devouring Worm to absorb the remaining souls.

Afterwards, he took out the storage bags of the Celestial Essence Dual Cultivation.

The first thing he saw was the Wood Puppet.

This wood puppet is made from Green Spring Celestial Wood, crafted into a Celestial Wood Puppet.

It has reached the strength of a Tier Three Top-Grade, comparable to a Purple Mansion Peak Cultivator. Of course, if it truly compared to a Purple Mansion Peak Cultivator, it would naturally fall short.

After all, a puppet is lifeless.

However, this puppet can wield Cyan Wood Forbidden Light, which is also quite extraordinary.

Nonetheless, Ye Jingcheng dared not use this Spirit Puppet recklessly, at least not within the Yan Kingdom.

Being associated with Kuihuang, their willingness to lend out this wood puppet likely means they have the means to retrieve or track it, so Ye Jingcheng wouldn’t make such a basic mistake.

Ye Jingcheng put away the wood puppet and took out the Dark Soul Scythe and the Five-Colored Profound Sword.

Both treasures are extremely excellent, the former can attack the Divine Soul and is a Top-Grade Magical Treasure, though the release speed is somewhat slow. The latter, the Five-Colored Profound Sword, is a Tier Three High-Grade Treasure, densely packed, making it extremely suitable for large-scale offensive and killing.

As for the other treasures, they weren’t much to look at.

Their value wasn’t very significant either.

However, in the next moment, Ye Jingcheng’s face filled with joy.

Within the storage bag, there were nearly six hundred thousand Spirit Stones and also a Tier Three High-Grade Spirit Gathering Array and a Spirit-Attracting Stone.

Even though Tier Three High-Grade falls slightly short, its value is still fifty thousand Spirit Stones, especially now that Spirit Gathering Arrays and Spirit-Attracting Stones are scarce, their value is even greater.

In this light, this time could be considered an unexpected windfall for him.

Ye Jingcheng put all these away and went directly beside the Spiritual Eye Spring.

He began setting up the Spirit Gathering Array and Spirit-Attracting Stone.

Ye Jingcheng had a fair understanding of enhancing Spirit Veins and setting up Spirit Gathering Arrays. Once the array foundation was set up, he began forming Spirit Techniques to activate the Spirit Gathering Array.

Soon, with the final Spirit Technique cast, strands of spiritual light began to overflow, intertwining and gathering spiritual radiance in the air.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng hurriedly buried several Upper-Grade Spirit Stones.

This time, he buried two hundred Upper-Grade Spirit Stones and numerous Middle and Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

This could ensure that the quality of the Spirit Vein would be as high as possible.

Once this was done, a ripple of spiritual energy instantly spread outwards through the air.

Feeling the increased intensity of spiritual energy reaching the level of Tier Three Top-Grade, Ye Jingcheng was delighted and let out a sigh of relief.

Now, he could finally devote himself fully to breakthrough training in seclusion.

With the enhancement of the Spirit Vein, the intensity of spiritual energy within the grotto was visibly increasing.

The Grotto Heaven Stone Spirit and the Peach Wood Demon appeared behind Ye Jingcheng, both delighted at the enhancement of the Spirit Vein.

…

From that point on, Ye Jingcheng continued his seclusion and arduous cultivation.

Every morning, at the hour of the dragon, he would begin body forging, refining his physical body within the Celestial Spirit Body Refining Array.

Once the physical body refinement was mostly complete, he would start training his Divine Soul.

Finally, he would cultivate the Five Spirits True Manual to enhance his True Essence.

A year passed again, and one day, Ye Jingcheng stepped down from the body-refining formation, intending to take out the Dream-Devouring Worm to enhance his Divine Soul.

But as he stepped down, his Divine Soul surged outward like a spring, spreading ten feet, a hundred feet, a thousand feet, until the entire grotto was encompassed within his Divine Sense.

Unexpectedly, this was a natural breakthrough in his Divine Sense brought on by his recent cultivation.

At this moment, both his Divine Soul and Divine Sense had completely reached the Tier Three Peak.

An exhilarating sensation arose spontaneously, and if observed closely, one would see the Profound Body Spirit Patterns on his body surface beginning to partially embed into his body.

Having continuously consumed blood food over the past year, combined with his current realm.

Ye Jingcheng’s physical body had now reached the Peak of Mid-stage Second Tier.

It wouldn’t be long before he broke through to the Late Stage of the Second Tier.

Seeing the breakthrough in his Divine Soul, Ye Jingcheng unusually decided not to take out the Dream-Devouring Worm but went to the base of the Peach Wood.

On the tree, there were three Peach Fruits at this moment.

Each one was the size of an adult’s palm and exuded a bright spiritual aura.

Seeing the Spirit Fruits nearly mature, Ye Jingcheng plucked all three.

Then he placed them in a Jade Box.

“Keep up the good work!” Ye Jingcheng said to the Peach Wood Demon, rewarding it with two Wood Hearts and infusing some treasure light.

“Thank you, Master. Next time, this little demon will yield over eight fruits, I won’t be lazy!” the Peach Wood gratefully replied.

And Ye Jingcheng once again immersed himself in cultivation.

…

Three more years quietly flitted by.

On this day, within the grotto, Ye Jingcheng stepped down from the body-refining formation.

The Profound Body Spirit Patterns on his surface completely vanished into his body.

This also signified that Ye Jingcheng’s physical cultivation finally broke through the Purple Mansion.

Plus, he successfully cultivated the second layer of the Profound Desolate Dominating Body Secret Manual.

He cultivated the Desolate Body!

His physical body could compare to a Tier-Three Lower-Grade Treasure, extremely formidable indeed.

Of course, Ye Jingcheng achieved such feats also because the Malachite Stone Spirit produced a new drop of Body Refining Golden Liquid, which Ye Jingcheng consumed.

Feeling the strength of his physical body, Ye Jingcheng almost wanted the Five-Colored Cloud Deer to summon a few Wood Giants for a mock battle.

However, he quickly dismissed this thought.

Within his body, True Essence began to coalesce.

A breakthrough opportunity for his cultivation realm had arrived.

Ye Jingcheng knew not to slack. He took out a few Spirit Pills and swallowed them, then removed a single Water Spirit Bead from the Moon Spirit Pearl in the distance.

He started closed-door training right then and there.

Rich spiritual energy gathered towards Ye Jingcheng’s physical body, and the Grotto Heaven Stone Spirit began to shower down Spiritual Rain.

Finding the spiritual energy insufficient, it also drew spiritual spring water from the Spiritual Eye Spring, pouring it over Ye Jingcheng.

For a moment, Ye Jingcheng seemed like a five-color radiant man.

The intense radiance lasted for two days, and when it finally dissipated.

A ripple of spiritual energy spread outward.

“Finally reached Purple Mansion Peak!” Ye Jingcheng opened his eyes, a look of joy across his face.

Ninety-one years old, reaching Purple Mansion Peak!

He might even have a chance to break through to the Golden Core before turning a hundred!