Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book - Chapter 735 - 542: Hostile Visitors? The Hidden Spirit Medicine

Chapter 735: Chapter 542: Hostile Visitors? The Hidden Spirit Medicine

“Oh, so the Purple Moon Season is watered with the Xun Family’s blood?” A sudden voice rang out.

Instantly, the plump and thin cultivators flinched, both instinctively throwing spirit talismans towards Ye Jingcheng.

However, when they looked towards Ye Jingcheng, they only saw a Soul Capturing Banner falling before them.

The light of the Soul Capturing Banner instantly engulfed them both.

Their excited expressions faded at the same time.

As for the two spirit talismans they threw, although they were Tier Two High-Grade Spirit Talismans with immense power, they vanished into a transparent spirit bowl without causing even a ripple.

The two were merely Foundation Establishment cultivators, now captured by soul capture, utterly unable to resist, like wooden puppets.

Ye Jingcheng initially thought they were two Purple Mansion cultivators, being extremely cautious.

But upon reflection, there weren’t many Purple Mansion cultivators in the entire Yan Kingdom.

Two Purple Mansion cultivators wouldn’t be lying in wait here.

If they could casually send out two Purple Mansion cultivators, Ye Jingcheng would have no choice but to flee.

“Who are you two, and why are you here?” Ye Jingcheng surmised that the pair were probably loose cultivators hired for a task.

“Xuan Wu and Xiao Liu!” The two answered in a daze.

“Here to find descendants of the Chu Family, under orders from the Xun Family!”

“You’re lying!” Ye Jingcheng suddenly shouted, causing both to start bleeding from the six orifices, bleeding in perfect synchronicity.

Besides the amount of blood differing slightly, their reactions were otherwise identical.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng actually breathed a sigh of relief.

The world is filled with countless secret techniques, and many can defend against Tier Three soul captures.

So his outburst was just a test.

If either of them was pretending, he would be able to tell.

Ye Jingcheng continued the soul capture.

“What if you find a Chu Family descendant?”

“Then hand over the jade talisman to him!” The thin cultivator Xuan Wu retrieved a jade talisman.

His body remained wooden, clearly still under the soul capture effect.

Ye Jingcheng took the jade talisman and handed it directly to Chu Yanqing beside him.

Before becoming Dao companions, Ye Jingcheng could be cautious to the extreme, but now that she is his Dao companion, she is no ignorant child.

Ye Jingcheng still needs to show sufficient respect.

“Brother Cheng, there shouldn’t be any problem, it’s my Ninth Aunt’s handwriting, and there’s no mention of that matter inside.” Chu Yanqing eagerly glanced through the jade talisman contents.

She promptly added.

“Inside, she wants me to return to Yanhui Commandery, saying Yanhui Commandery can protect Chu Family cultivators!” Chu Yanqing continued.

As for not avoiding Xuan Wu and Xiao Liu, it’s naturally because they don’t plan to spare them.

Whether or not they were sent by the Xun Family from Purple Mansion, the Ye Family cannot associate with them.

Otherwise, it would be consorting with the Qinghe Sect.

The Yuan Family met the same downfall, and Ye Jingcheng would not repeat their mistake.

Currently, the Taiyi Sect likely harbors deep resentment against those who sided with the Qinghe Sect.

Anyone surfacing now would face the harshest retaliation.

Ye Jingcheng couldn’t leave hidden threats, especially since their earlier discussions were worthy of death.

With two flying swords sweeping over, they both perished instantly.

A Purple Mansion cultivator killing Foundation Establishment cultivators is exceedingly easy.

And it’s precisely this ease that makes Ye Jingcheng more vigilant.

If a Purple Mansion can easily kill Foundation Establishment, then a Golden Core can more easily kill a Purple Mansion.

Thus, he needs better concealment.

Announcing the strengthening of cultivation while he switches cultivation techniques would be his best tactic moving forward.

After all, he has indeed been in the limelight these past years.

“These two storage bags, you take them; they are no longer of use to me!” Ye Jingcheng handed the two storage bags directly to Chu Yanqing.

Chu Yanqing did not refuse, taking the storage bags and began extracting treasures right before Ye Jingcheng’s eyes.

The two of them were currently at Xianyun Peak, formerly the Chu Family’s territory, and now turned into the Wei Family’s clan mountain, which is long-leased to the Ye Family, naturally leaving no room for concern.

Simultaneously, this was also Chu Yanqing showing Ye Jingcheng that she held nothing back.

The two storage bags contained nothing but some Tier Two spiritual artifacts, and nothing more.

Ye Jingcheng gained nothing, not even a single spirit medicine.

These two Foundation Establishment loose cultivators were astoundingly poor.

“Brother Cheng, I think perhaps the Tier Three Secret Realm has changed, and my Ninth Aunt is urging us!” With the two loose cultivators dead, Chu Yanqing no longer needed to hold back.

Ye Jingcheng nodded in agreement.

That seems very likely.

The jade talisman in Chu Yanqing’s hand had already been silently scanned by Ye Jingcheng’s divine sense.

There were no hidden messages.

Her Ninth Aunt apparently had some authority within the Xun Family, able to protect some Chu Family members.

She urged the remaining Chu family members to go to the Xun Family in Yanhui Commandery.

But Ye Jingcheng clearly understood that it surely involved the Tier Three Secret Realm, as Chu Yanqing indeed had information on a Tier Three Secret Realm and had previously informed him.

Given the urgency with which they sought it, they likely knew about the Tier Three Secret Realm as well.

“No rush with that, their continuing search indicates they lack concrete details on the Tier Three Secret Realm, merely waiting for you to come to them. As you said, with your Ninth Aunt’s urgency and sending two loose cultivators with such malevolence to deliver a jade talisman, isn’t she afraid they’ll resort to forceful robbery against you?” Ye Jingcheng spoke up.

Many tribulation and loose cultivators, even when tasked by others, resort to underhanded means.

To speak of trustworthiness to them is as difficult as abandoning cultivation altogether.

This is why sect cultivators prefer to associate with clan cultivators.

It’s also because loose cultivators have no scruples, acting as they please, hard to control.

“Brother Cheng, I’ll follow your lead, but…” Chu Yanqing hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Ye Jingcheng made a very good point, yet at this moment, she found herself worrying about her Ninth Aunt.

After all, her family members are dwindling.

Besides Ye Jingyong’s wife, Chu Yanliu, her Ninth Aunt might be all that’s left.

“I know you worry about your Ninth Aunt, but judging by the message, if she were truly in trouble, isn’t conveying this message a way of telling you she’s safe and not to worry?” Ye Jingcheng added.

“Perhaps going to Yanhui Commandery now would only cause her more trouble.”

With those words, Chu Yanqing nodded finally.

Though she still harbored many thoughts, she understood that her most important task now was breaking through to the Purple Mansion stage.

The two of them then concealed their forms again and headed towards Xianyun Peak.

Now, the grand array of Xianyun Peak has also become the array of the Ye Family.

And with the Patriarch Token, he can enter all the arrays of the Ye Family.

Upon entering the mountain, it can also be seen that there is currently no problem with Xianyun Peak.

Moreover, many cultivators are currently shuttling through the various spirit fields and spirit medicine gardens of the Spirit Mountain.

The two quietly came to a spirit field full of purple moon seasons.

The moon seasons bloomed exceedingly brightly, like clusters of purple flowers.

Chu Yanqing looked at these purple moon seasons, knowing well that they weren’t watered with the blood of Chu Family cultivators.

It was just some ordinary beast blood.

Still arranged by the Wei Family.

Considering the Wei Family’s previous ties with the Qinghe Sect, Chu Yanqing felt strongly that something might have happened to her Ninth Aunt.

After all, the matters of the Tier Three Secret Realm are of great importance, relating to whether a Purple Mansion Clan can become a Golden Core Clan.

The Xun Family of the Qinghe Sect colluding with the Wei Family is very likely.

There might even be spirit medicine in this secret realm that can lead to a Golden Core breakthrough.

Otherwise, Chu Tianfen wouldn’t have staked so much.

At this moment, the last of dusk faded away, and the purple moon seasons gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Chu Yanqing finally moved.

She started to wander around Xianyun Peak, putting on a white robe.

Though still covered by a five-colored Daoist robe, concealed upon Xianyun Peak.

She couldn’t burn sandalwood to send fragrance for the deceased.

Instead, she silently kept vigil in a corner where no one knew.

Unlike Ye Jingcheng, who would stay in the ancestral hall.

She liked to linger in each place for a while.

Sometimes she would tell Ye Jingcheng the story’s origin, or talk about her past interesting experiences to the air.

Meanwhile, sometimes she would murmur to herself, even drift into a daze.

Occasionally, she would sit cross-legged on the spot.

Ye Jingcheng remained a quiet onlooker, step by step following her.

To Chu Yanqing, this was not only about finding news of the secret realm but also cultivating her state of mind, preparing to break through to the Purple Mansion.

With Ye Jingcheng’s Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, though it may not guarantee a breakthrough for a cultivator.

But it could still increase the probability by thirty percent. If her state of mind was good enough, unafraid of the Heart Demon Tribulation, the success rate of her breakthrough could reach fifty to sixty percent, plus the enhancement from Chu Yanqing’s Spirit Body.

The breakthrough to the Purple Mansion could almost reach seventy to eighty percent.

A normal cultivator breaking through to the Purple Mansion has only a ten to twenty percent success rate, and with Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, it becomes forty to fifty percent.

That Chu Yanqing could have a seventy to eighty percent success rate was already incredibly remarkable.

…

After thirty days in the white robe, with the rising morning sun, a wisp of purple qi rose from the east.

In front of the back mountain, Chu Yanqing found a few patches of yellow soil, creating several spirit tablets.

Among them were spirit tablets for Chu Tianfen, Chu Xiyu, and Chu Xiyu, among others.

Once the spirit tablets were made, she arranged all of them properly, then offered fruits one by one, accompanied by sandalwood, spirit tea, and spirit wine.

After doing this, Chu Yanqing placed these spirit tablets into a storage bag.

Ye Jingcheng understood that Chu Yanqing still sought revenge.

Although this might involve the Ye Family in turmoil, he understood that this was human nature, so he wasn’t surprised.

After all, Chu Yanqing had given up the title of the Yan generation, merely calling herself Chu Qing, which was already quite a sacrifice. Ye Jingcheng naturally did not expect Chu Yanqing to truly become a different person.

“Brother Cheng, I’m ready. In the coming time, I will be enough to break through!” she exhaled a mist of white, as if the sandalwood smoke was rising.

Ascending into the sky with the purple light, tracing back to the unseen after she regained her senses.

At this point, the last crystalline drop at the corner of her eye also disappeared, and she looked at Ye Jingcheng with determination.

This was the ultimate faith in her breakthrough to the Purple Mansion.

She led Ye Jingcheng towards the largest spirit medicine garden.

At the center of the spirit medicine garden stood a gigantic black ironwood.

The wood was full of weathered lines.

“This tree is the mightiest spirit wood of our Xianyun Mountain, the millennium-old Xianyun Sinking Iron Wood.”

“This wood is incredibly heavy, yet within it lies a profound secret, indeed there is a Pill Desolate Order!”

“According to Tian Fen Ancestor, this order should be the entrance key to the Tier Three Pill Desolate Secret Realm!” Chu Yanqing continued.

Upon hearing this, even Ye Jingcheng was filled with astonishment.

He stepped forward to inspect the Sinking Iron Wood, eventually finding a distinct section near the root, appearing to be a removable corner.

This corner was like a key, inserted into the trunk and integrated with it, making the difference exceedingly difficult to spot.

Holding it in hand, one could see that it was covered in numerous array patterns and extremely concealed, no wonder the Wei Family hadn’t discovered it.

After all, while it was known that spirit boxes and spirit beasts could hide treasures, it wasn’t heard of spirit medicine hiding treasures.

A thousand-year-old Sinking Iron Wood wouldn’t be casually taken for refining into a magical treasure either.

After all, wood attribute spirit materials are deemed precious and rare in the cultivation realm.

And upon close inspection, one could indeed see the words “Pill Desolate.”

However, these two words were exceedingly ancient.

Ye Jingcheng’s heart was in turmoil.

He never expected that this Chu Family secret realm truly belonged to the Eight Desolates Sect and was a rather remarkable Pill Desolate Secret Realm.

Such a secret realm would not only have many treasures but also a great number of spirit pills and pill formulas.

Although the Ye Family now possessed numerous spirit pills and formulas, comparing them to the Pill Desolate of the Eight Desolates Sect, they were still quite a gap apart.

Furthermore, Chu Yanqing seemed willing to give it up and did not intend to search for it.

This meant Ye Jingcheng could still call upon the other members of the Ye Family.

A Tier Three Secret Realm is not a Tier Two Secret Realm, and Ye Jingcheng felt somewhat apprehensive, having more clan members meant more stability.

After all, it was very possible a Tier Three Top-Grade Great Demon might reside within the Tier Three Secret Realm.

Back then, even in a Tier Two Desolate Secret Realm, there were almost peak Golden Falcons wandering inside.

He did not think that being at the Middle Stage of the Purple Mansion meant he was invincible.

Were it not that a Tier Three Secret Realm couldn’t have a Tier Four True Master or Tier Four Demon King.

He would have considered bringing the Earth Dragon Demon King inside the secret realm.

After all, that would be the prudent course.

Moreover, the Earth Dragon Demon King also required enough beast souls to fill the Beast Communication Tower.