Chapter 101: Blood-Red Long Sword

After Liu Tai'an left.

Ye Qingxuan looked at the two empty Spirit Cranes left by Liu Tai'an, summoned them before him, and smiled: "From now on, you shall be called Xiao Kong, and you Xiao Ling!"

Currently, Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling are only at the First Realm of cultivation.

However, raising Spirit Cranes does not require Ye Qingxuan to expend many resources.

Spirit Cranes feed on spiritual energy and do not consume other things with chaotic energy, thereby maintaining their own ethereal state.

Moreover, the cultivation speed of Spirit Cranes is not slow; their absorption of spiritual energy rivals that of a genius with nine spiritual roots.

After playing with the two Spirit Cranes and preparing to take the two little ones back to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Ye Qingxuan's disciple token suddenly vibrated.

Ye Qingxuan took it out and saw a message from Zhu Dafu: "Boss, the material similar to the black skin bag you ordered to be collected from the Outer Battlefield has been found, though I am unsure if it is what you want."

Seeing the message from Zhu Dafu, a glint flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes, but he did not get excited.

It is not yet certain whether that black skin bag material is the World Embryo Membrane; if it is not, would it not be a false excitement?

After replying to Zhu Dafu, Ye Qingxuan looked at Ye Zhaoyu behind him and said: "Zhaoyu, go to the Tianfu Shop and bring back everything Zhu Dafu collected from the Outer Battlefield."

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's order, Ye Zhaoyu bowed and replied: "Yes, Young Master!"

Immediately after, Ye Zhaoyu left the Stone Pavilion and rushed toward the Tianfu Shop.

After Ye Zhaoyu left, Ye Qingxuan did not return to the Qingxuan Blessed Land but stood at the edge of the Stone Pavilion, looking in the direction Ye Zhaoyu had departed, his eyes filled with expectation.

The two little Spirit Cranes flew onto Ye Qingxuan's shoulders, rubbing their fluffy heads against his cheeks on the left and right.

By the time Ye Zhaoyu returned, the sky had grown dim.

Taking the storage bag from Ye Zhaoyu's hand, Ye Qingxuan immediately took Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling back into the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

After returning to the Qingxuan Blessed Land and settling Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling.

Ye Qingxuan opened the storage bag and dumped everything inside out.

Ignoring the other miscellaneous items, Ye Qingxuan's gaze locked directly onto a palm-sized black material resembling a skin bag among them.

Summoning it into his hand, Ye Qingxuan infused it with spiritual power, but there was no reaction whatsoever.

He took out a top-grade True Artifact, infused it with spiritual power, and struck the black skin-bag-like material with full force.

"Boom!"

The roar of exploding energy echoed through the Qingxuan Blessed Land; when it settled, the black skin-bag-like material remained completely unscathed.

Seeing this, a trace of joy flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

However, this alone is not enough to confirm that this material is the World Embryo Membrane.

If the World Embryo Membrane's divine properties were so easily triggered, it would not have been so easily found by Ye Qingxuan as a bargain.

Carrying the black skin bag material, Ye Qingxuan entered the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and found the node where the Qingxuan Cave Heaven breathes in chaotic energy.

Then, Ye Qingxuan used the power of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land to seize the black skin bag.

Carefully, he brought the black skin bag closer to the flowing chaotic energy at the Cave Heaven node.

Once the black skin bag touched the chaotic energy, it seemed instantly activated and began to actively absorb the chaotic energy.

In an instant, the originally black skin bag was assimilated by the chaotic energy; the black turned into chaotic colors, and the whole emitted various chaotic divine radiance.

Furthermore, after turning into chaotic colors, this palm-sized material began to unfold, slowly expanding as it absorbed chaotic energy.

Seeing this scene, Ye Qingxuan finally exclaimed excitedly:

"Correct, this is the World Embryo Membrane!"

Having found the World Embryo Membrane, his innate magic treasure now had a place.

Ye Qingxuan is now not far from the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm; once he breaks through the Purple Mansion peak and stabilizes his realm, he will have the opportunity to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

Before this, if he can forge the prototype of his innate magic treasure to align with his own Golden Core, that would be even better.

If this timing is missed, and he breaks through to the Golden Core Realm, once the Golden Core stabilizes, the time required to forge and nurture an innate magic treasure that cultivates in tandem with one's life and fate will increase greatly.

Only an innate magic treasure that cultivates in tandem with one's life and fate and grows together with oneself can better carry one's Dao in the future.

An innate magic treasure is also the artifact by which a cultivator proves their Dao in the future. After the World Embryo Membrane fully manifests, Ye Qingxuan controlled the power of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to retrieve the World Embryo Membrane.

After the World Embryo Membrane was retrieved again.

Ye Qingxuan stored the World Embryo Membrane in his dantian and, following the secret technique from the Earth Immortal inheritance, began to seclude himself to refine the World Embryo Membrane using the power of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

During the refinement process, Ye Qingxuan's essence, qi, and spirit continuously merged with the World Embryo Membrane, slowly increasing their compatibility.

The forging of an innate magic treasure cannot be accomplished in one go; it requires considerable time to polish.

The innate magic treasure Ye Qingxuan chose to forge, the World Map, is one of the innate magic treasures in the Earth Immortal inheritance that best aligns with the Earth Immortal Dao.

During the forging process, the World Map does not need to incorporate other heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

The World Map is closely related to the Cave Heaven Blessed Land opened by the Earth Immortal and can continuously absorb the source and chaotic energy of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to grow.

The World Map not only cultivates in tandem with the cultivator's life and fate but also complements the Cave Heaven Blessed Land; the transformation process of the World Map is the process of carving a complete Cave Heaven Blessed Land upon it.

After Ye Qingxuan finishes refining, the prototype of the World Map is essentially equivalent to a combination of a small Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Then, as Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base improves and the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land advances, it will gradually transform, eventually becoming the true World Map.

After possessing the prototype of the World Map, the efficiency of energy absorption and conversion in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land will increase greatly, further shortening the energy accumulation speed of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Moreover, the elemental mysteries, rules, and law fragments evolved from the heavenly materials and earthly treasures integrated into the Cave Heaven Blessed Land can be copied and evolved one by one by the World Map.

This is also the main reason why the World Map does not need to incorporate other heavenly materials and earthly treasures to strengthen itself.

This refinement by Ye Qingxuan lasted a full ten years.

During these ten years, although Ye Qingxuan did not sit idle in one place.

Refining the innate magic treasure World Map is quite tedious but does not require constant full concentration; Ye Qingxuan could multitask and do other things.

However, because he needed to borrow the power of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan could not leave the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land during the refinement of the innate magic treasure World Map.

For these ten years, Ye Qingxuan did not go out; every day he was either cultivating or playing with the spiritual beasts raised freely within the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

In these ten years, the two Spirit Cranes had grown to the late stage of the Second Realm, while the Azure Dragon had just broken through to the early stage of the Third Realm.

As for the other spirit beasts raised freely by Ye Qingxuan, there had been no significant breakthroughs.

Ten years later, the world membrane that had been refined within Ye Qingxuan's dantian had now merged seamlessly with him, taking shape as a nascent world map depicting the entire scenery of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan summoned the world map into his hand and spread it out; it appeared like a landscape painting with a double-layered shadow.

This was the first time in ten years he had taken the world map out of his dantian.

The world map now seemed to possess little power, yet it had actually reached the initial level of a high-grade true treasure.

Gazing at his innate magic treasure, a look of deep satisfaction appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

With a gentle toss, the world map instantly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, it overlapped with the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, merging into the convergence point of its primordial source to begin a slow rotation.

With the support of the world map, the speed at which the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land absorbed energy and transformed it into primordial source instantly received a slight boost.

Meanwhile, the world map was also using the power of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land to temper and nourish itself.

Having finished all this, Ye Qingxuan left the Blessed Land.

Arriving once again at the familiar stone pavilion, Ye Qingxuan waved his sleeve, and spiritual power swept away all the dust.

Then, he leisurely began to brew tea once more, admiring the scenery beyond the mountain peak.

For several consecutive days, aside from cultivation, Ye Qingxuan simply drank tea and enjoyed the view in the stone pavilion, relaxing his body and mind.

On this day, just as Ye Qingxuan had finished brewing the tea and before he could take a sip, he was suddenly drawn by a sound that tore through space.

Out of curiosity, Ye Qingxuan set down the freshly brewed teacup, walked to the edge of the stone pavilion, stood with his hands clasped behind his back, and gazed intently.

After a short while, the space in the distance suddenly cracked open.

A blood-red long sword shattered the space, cleaving through the sky, and sped rapidly toward the direction of Xuantian Peak.

Wherever it passed, the blood-red glow lingered for a long time, as if it had dyed the sky of the Earthly Xuan Realm red.

(End of this chapter)