Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 1010: Chapter 703: 10 Beast Shadows, Sand Ginseng Scorpions

These Wood Demons and Stone Spirits growing stronger was also extremely important to Ye Jingcheng.

Yet under Ye Jingcheng’s observation, what made him hesitate was that all of the Spirit Beast Wood Demons he had performed Communication Beast on were, to a greater or lesser degree, taking some Soul Power, especially the Double-headed Turtle Demon King, whose absorption rate was no small matter; only the Jade Ring Rat hadn’t taken the slightest bit.

The Jade Ring Rat was still at Early Stage of Second Tier; it barely counted as having reached the Peak of Early Stage Tier Two, but in truth its speed was already considered quite slow.

After all, among the beasts Ye Jingcheng had performed Communication Beast on, only the Five Poison Bee was of the same Rank as the Jade Ring Rat; as for the Earthworm, it had now reached Tier Two Peak, not far from Third Tier.

Feeling this, Ye Jingcheng also took out a good amount of Soul Power and directly poured it toward the Jade Ring Rat.

He did have some feelings for this rat; it was just that the other party had no possibility of Advancement, which left him extremely helpless.

Even cultivating the Breathing Technique was rather difficult for it as an ordinary Spirit Rat.

What made Ye Jingcheng hesitate was that, through the sense of the Beast Communication Pattern, the Jade Ring Rat seemed to show a bit of rejection.

Only after Ye Jingcheng injected Soul Power into it again did the Jade Ring Rat begin to accept it.

“Keep working hard.” Ye Jingcheng murmured softly.

For the Jade Ring Rat, there wasn’t much more he could do; most of it still depended on the Jade Ring Rat’s own effort.

After he finished checking on the Jade Ring Rat, Ye Jingcheng’s brows furrowed again, and he once more cut off the Soul Injection to the Double-headed Turtle Demon King.

This Double-headed Turtle Demon King clearly needed to be knocked down a peg again; at the moment it was far too enthusiastic about the Soul Injection!

It very much had the tendency to absorb more than all of Ye Jingcheng’s other primary Spirit Beasts.

Before long, the Soul Power completely dissipated, and Ye Jingcheng opened his eyes, but the ten Beast Shadows he’d seen before were nowhere to be found.

Ye Jingcheng was somewhat puzzled, but he didn’t linger.

Instead, he left the Beast Communication Tower, and before the Turtle Ancestor could speak, he exited the Turtle Ancestor’s Grotto Heaven as well.

As soon as he reached the top of Celestial Shadow Peak, he felt a terrifying Divine Soul roaming over the mountain; this was clearly the Earth Dragon Demon King losing a bit of control over its Soul Power, allowing it to leak out.

Other than that, both peaks were shrouded in heavy mist; he knew this was under Ye Xuefan’s control.

Different from Lingyun Peak, where the Array summoning torrential rain was extremely simple, in the Desert Sea, some Spirit Lakes and Oases all needed to use Solid Water Arrays, and naturally they couldn’t casually call down heavy rain.

Moreover, that sort of downpour was far too conspicuous.

Not only would it fail to provide cover, it might instead draw attention.

Only a shroud of mist was truly the best method.

“The Earth Dragon is finally about to break through.” Ye Xuefan stood to the side and couldn’t help feeling a bit emotional.

Once Nascent Soul Combat Power emerged, the Ye Family could barely be said to possess some power of self-preservation; although in the Eastern Domain it still didn’t count for much, at least they wouldn’t be a force any random faction could bully at will.

Nor would there be a repeat of a single True Master charging in and the whole Ye Family being on tenterhooks.

“Fourth Granduncle, I’ll have the Sea Life Pills refined within the next two days.” Ye Jingcheng also spoke.

For Ye Xuefan, who had experienced the Spiritual Energy Tide, he now lacked only a single step to break through Purple Mansion Peak.

A single Sea Life Pill would be enough.

“No need to rush. Haiyu and Haiyan are already in Seclusion. During this period, my main task is still watching over the Celestial Phoenix Oasis.”

“If the Zhang Jia two clans kick up a fuss, I’m not that worried; it’s precisely because they’re making no moves at all right now that I feel somewhat ill at ease.” Ye Xuefan said.

Ye Jingcheng also nodded. He knew that for the older generation, they thought things through thoroughly at all times; after all, better to be safe than sorry.

After Ye Jingcheng checked on the Earth Dragon Demon King, he took his leave of Ye Xuefan and returned to his own cave abode.

…

In the Desert Sea, at Huangyu Oasis, a type of Yellow Jade was produced in abundance here. Although it was only Tier One Spirit Jade, it could similarly be used to refine some Jade Talismans.

The Oasis as a whole was neither too big nor too small; tens of thousands of Mortals lived here, along with several dozen Cultivators.

At this moment the Cultivators had naturally already vanished without a trace.

There were even quite a few Mortals who rushed into the Inner City, searching through the courtyards abandoned by the Zhang Jia two clans’ Cultivators.

They were hoping to find some Immortal Family Secret Technique and thereby embark upon the Immortal Path.

On the upper floor of a Mortal Restaurant, Ye Haisheng saw this clearly and couldn’t help letting out a sigh.

He sighed for those Mortals and also felt a bit of rueful emotion.

After all, the reason those Mortals could not cultivate wasn’t that they lacked Secret Techniques, but that they had no Spirit Roots.

So even if they found Secret Techniques, they still couldn’t cultivate Spiritual Energy; they might even, because of those Secret Techniques, stir up a bloody storm and be unable to live in peace.

But he didn’t step in to stop it; after all, how different were Low-Tier Cultivators from those Mortals? The only thing was that they lived a bit longer, but even so, how could they truly set foot on the Immortal Path of eternal life?

In the end, for people, that which is unattainable in a single lifetime becomes the thing that entangles them all their lives!

Very soon, his gaze hardened again as the Blood Disc in his hand flashed once more.

He knew this meant that the Zhang Family Cultivators hiding in the shadows had stepped out of the designated Isolation Array.

Moreover, they weren’t in the city but outside it.

A small group quietly left the city as well.

Two hours later, they felt their way to an underground Sand City.

This Sand City was buried beneath the sand, but fixed in place with Arrays, and there were also quite a few Yellow Jade Ore Veins.

“Just some Foundation Establishment and Qi Cultivation…” Ye Haisheng couldn’t help being a bit disappointed, but he still laid down an Array. Behind him, Ye Qingfeng could hardly contain his eagerness.

He hadn’t been in Foundation Establishment for long, and compared to Ye Jing Hu, Ye Qingyan, and Ye Qingwen, he lagged quite a bit behind.

Now that he had a chance to earn merit, he naturally wouldn’t hold back.

Before long, two Foundation Establishment and a dozen Qi Cultivation Cultivators were all slain by Ye Haisheng and Ye Qingfeng.

“Uncle Haisheng, there’s a Jade Talisman here, telling them to stay where they were.” Ye Qingfeng soon took out a Jade Talisman and handed it to Ye Haisheng.

“It seems they truly have a secret clan land—only it’s a pity we can’t perform Soul Search.” Ye Haisheng held a Small Sword in his hand and couldn’t help sighing again.

He had just tried it; even the Zhang Family’s Qi Cultivation Race People all had the Clan Jade Book, and those who weren’t Zhang Family Race People, or who had never left Huangyu Oasis, simply didn’t possess any useful information.

…

In yet another stretch of Desert Sea, yellow sand filled the sky and cacti were scattered everywhere.

Right now, the front of the desert was stained with quite a bit of fresh blood; clearly another great battle had taken place here earlier.

Ye Xue Liang tossed down the last corpse and also let out a sigh.

He likewise hadn’t been able to perform a successful Soul Search.

However, he didn’t leave; instead he took out Arrays and arranged them for a while, then directly Concealed his form.

Before long, several sand pits started surging within the desert.

Like springs in a mountain ravine, sand continuously overflowed, and in the next instant, palm-sized, fat, yellow scorpions crawled out one after another and headed toward the corpses.

Each one excitedly indulged in a great feast.

However, in short order, countless strands of Spiritual Light flared as the Array instantly took shape; over a thousand yellow scorpions raised their large pincers, becoming agitated and restless, their tails held high.

But as Ye Xue Liang and the others revealed themselves, they took out one Ice Freeze Talisman after another to freeze the scorpions, then produced a yellow pouch Magical Artifact and collected them all.

“Didn’t think we’d run into Sand Ginseng Scorpions here.” Ye Xue Liang was clearly somewhat surprised, his face beaming with delight.

“Fifteenth Great-granduncle, is there something special about these Sand Ginseng Scorpions?” Ye Qingwen, who already knew little about Spirit Beasts, knew even less about Spirit Insects.

“Qingwen, the nourishment from Sand Ginseng Scorpions is in no way inferior to Yellow Ginseng, which is why they’re named Sand Ginseng Scorpions. And it’s actually somewhat strenuous for our Ye Family to raise Cloud Deer and Mountain-devouring Rats in the Desert Sea, but raising these Sand Ginseng Scorpions poses no problem at all. They may be fond of blood, but their main food source is Sand Gold.” Beside him, Ye Jingchong clearly knew quite a bit and patiently explained.

Hearing this, Ye Qingwen finally wore a look of sudden realization.

“Moreover, eating more Sand Ginseng Scorpions can also grant immunity to some potent toxins. For us Cultivators, we can eat more as well.” Ye Xue Liang added.

As for scorpion-type Spirit Insects, he considered that in the Ye Family no one could compare to him.

At the same time, the fact that Ye Jingchong could recite part of the Sand Ginseng Scorpions’ origins made him glance at the latter again.

The Ye Family’s knowledge and heritage regarding Spirit Beasts ran deep, but few among their Race People were truly proficient in Spirit Insects.

This was also related to the characteristics of the Ye Family’s Beast Communication Pattern; after all, commonplace Spirit Insects that relied on numbers would consume no less than Spirit Beasts, yet the boost to Cultivation was far inferior.