CHAPTER 191: CHAPTER 191: THE NEW CAVE RESIDENCE

The matter of arranged marriage stirred quite the commotion within the Ye Family. Besides Ye Jingyong, two others were also interested in the female cultivators of the Chu Family.

This made the entire Lingyun Peak lively, as if spring had arrived overnight.

The melting of the winter snow seemed to quicken.

However, whether it could truly come to fruition would still depend on the Chu Family’s decision.

Though it was an arranged marriage, mutual consent was also important.

Nevertheless, at least one pairing would definitely happen.

This was the helplessness faced by female cultivators in cultivation clans.

Ye Jingcheng was not concerned about this; at the moment, he was walking towards the family’s Treasure Pavilion.

Ye Haiping was still sitting at the desk, organizing the seemingly endless dossiers. Don’t underestimate the recording and organizing of jade talismans—it was also extremely taxing on one’s heart and spirit.

After all, it involved engraving some spiritual characters onto the jade with one’s divine sense.

Ye Jingcheng offered a cup of Spring Tea, to which the latter smiled and took it without excessive politeness.

The tea vapor beneath the starry sky appeared even more ethereal and warmed the heart.

"Eighth Granduncle, do you need any help?" asked Ye Jingcheng.

"No help needed. You’re here to exchange for Jade Soul Grass, aren’t you!" Ye Haitian said.

"Eighth Granduncle, you are indeed prophetic!" Ye Jingcheng nodded, candidly admitting.

Jade Soul Grass was a divine soul-type spirit grass that could be used to refine Celestial Essence Pill to recover divine sense, or to refine Jade Soul Pill.

However, Celestial Essence Pill was a tier one high-grade elixir, while Jade Soul Pill was a tier two lower-grade elixir.

The former’s pill formula was given by Ye Xinghe, while the latter was appended to the Celestial Soul Technique.

After all, Celestial Soul Technique focused on soul splitting, soul nourishing, and soul fusion.

This cyclical process strengthened the divine soul to an incredible degree.

However, the cycle for soul nourishing and soul fusion was not short, ranging from a few years to over a decade.

To achieve soul splitting, one’s divine soul must be raised to a sufficient level; otherwise, improper handling of soul splitting could lead to madness, turning one into an idiot.

The Jade Soul Pill was an elixir to enhance the divine soul and was a necessity during soul splitting.

But the Jade Soul Grass required for Jade Soul Pill had to be over three hundred years old.

Otherwise, it could only be used to refine Celestial Essence Pill.

Ye Haitian, upon receiving Ye Jingcheng’s confirmation, directly took out a storage bag.

"All the spiritual medicines inside are prepared: three of the three-hundred-year Jade Soul Grass, fifteen of the under-hundred-year Jade Soul Grass, and plenty of auxiliary medicines!"

"Thank you, Eighth Granduncle!" Ye Jingcheng was a bit excited.

Having three three-hundred-year-old Jade Soul Grass was beyond his expectations.

"Don’t be too happy so soon. Also, hand in your clan token. Regardless of how many Jade Soul Pills you refine, you must leave thirty percent for the clan. As for the contribution points needed for the spiritual medicine materials, you won’t need to provide them!" Ye Haitian continued.

Ye Jingcheng was momentarily stunned, then realized. He remembered that he was now the most capable alchemy master of the clan, no longer needing to pay contribution points.

However, for each spiritual medicine provided by the clan, he had to leave thirty percent of the spirit pills for the clan, keeping the remaining seventy percent for himself, unless the clan had other tasks for him.

Don’t underestimate this policy; it could save Ye Jingcheng quite a few spirit stones.

After all, no matter how talented he was, refining a new tier two spirit pill required several furnace attempts.

These spiritual medicines were all borne by the clan.

Moreover, he could freely consult the clan’s pill formulas without needing to pay any contribution points.

"The clan’s market also prepared a share of spiritual medicine for the Li Family; as for the rest, it will be brought to you later," Ye Haitian added.

Ye Jingcheng took the storage bag and glanced inside, finding a range of spiritual medicines for various elixirs, primarily for Cyan Grain Pill and Celestial Essence Pill, as well as Soul Nourishing Pill and Tianjing Pill formulas.

There was only one share of spiritual medicine for the tier two Purple Wood Pill.

Ye Jingcheng was slightly disappointed but then thought it was normal. After all, since returning from Sha Yun Mountain, it had been almost half a year, and he had only refined two furnaces of tier two Fire Heart Pill.

This was enough to show that procuring tier two elixirs was not simple. Of course, this also related to the fact that the Ye family was currently just a Foundation Establishment clan, with limited spiritual medicine channels.

"Oh, by the way, your pavilion has also been changed. It’s now on the mountainside of the clan territory, where the spiritual energy reaches tier two middle-grade levels. There’s also a two-acre spiritual field in front of your house!" Ye Haitian then took out a small jade talisman, which had a small pavilion engraved on it.

Ye Jingcheng accepted the jade talisman and found that it contained a guide map.

He appeared intrigued by it.

Because his new pavilion wasn’t far from Ye Haiyun’s, closer to the mountaintop.

The spiritual energy there was better.

More suitable for cultivation. Most importantly, Ye Jingcheng discovered that if one walked a bit further from the pavilion, up the mountain were the Spirit Beast Valley and ancestral hall of the Ye family.

One could even hear a small river flowing down from the mountaintop lake, passing through the Spirit Beast Valley towards the endless mountains.

After bidding farewell to Ye Haitian, Ye Jingcheng went to his new pavilion, noticing the numerous mortal mechanisms around it.

If one wasn’t from the Ye family, stepping on one of these mortal mechanisms would alert the family.

Besides this, the jade talisman also marked some hidden sensing arrays and trapping and slaughter arrays.

The sensing arrays were to prevent skilled cultivators with high concealment expertise from infiltrating, while the trapping and slaughter arrays were more straightforward.

This time, his courtyard and cave dwelling were larger, including a two-story building and a large yard.

There was a large spiritual peach tree in the yard, evidently newly transplanted, with the soil beneath still fresh and loose.

Some pink buds were blossoming on the tree, ready to bloom at any moment. There were also five dedicated beast houses.

On the left side of the yard was a larger spiritual field.

However, this spiritual field was also newly cultivated, clearly indicating that this courtyard and cave dwelling had just been constructed.

Ye Jingcheng walked into the yard and looked at the peach tree. Upon closer inspection, he found that this spiritual peach tree was a tier one middle peach tree, slightly inferior to Ye Haiyun’s spiritual apricot tree.

But he understood that the family had put considerable thought into this courtyard and spiritual field for him.

After inspecting the yard, he turned his attention to the five beast houses and the small building.

The small building and beast houses were built of bamboo, with various spirit gathering arrays placed inside, including individual ones for the four phases within the beast houses.

Though also just tier one spirit gathering arrays,

his current location was above the mountainside of Lingyun Peak, far surpassing the spiritual energy levels he had at his previous spot near the mountain’s base.

The effects were substantial.

In the future, Ye Jingcheng’s cultivation speed would be faster.

Unfortunately, his purple illusion flower, poison thorn flower, and black cloud flower had already all been planted.

They couldn’t be easily transplanted.

Of course, the spiritual field in this courtyard still needed to store spiritual energy.

Ye Jingcheng could conveniently do so after returning from the Taihang Market.

Next, Ye Jingcheng released the four beasts, allowing them to soak up the spiritual energy here, but eventually returned to his previous small courtyard.

On the third day, the Ye family was bustling because the family’s marriage proposal team set off.

On the fifth day, Ye Jingcheng and Ye Xinghe also headed to the Taihang Market.

This journey made him a bit emotional, remembering his first visit to Taihang Market when he was just over twenty, and now he was nearing forty!