Chapter 109

After Ye Qingxiao left.

Ye Ye Qingxuan tidied up the stone pavilion and returned to the Dongxuan Fudi to begin a new round of cultivation.

Now that the Green Demon Realm is eyeing them covetously, even Ye Ye Qingxuan himself did not notice.

He has lost his usual composure, and an urgency has unknowingly risen in his heart, wanting to quickly improve his cultivation base.

The invasion of the Green Demon Realm and the war between the two realms seem to be still very far away from Ye Ye Qingxuan, but the secret impact on Ye Ye Qingxuan is not small at all.

Or rather, for the cultivators living in the Di Li Xuan Realm, no one can truly ignore the occurrence of the Green Demon Realm's full-scale invasion of the Di Li Xuan Realm.

Especially when the Di Li Xuan Realm has lost the initiative and fallen into a disadvantageous position.

In the days that followed, the time Ye Ye Qingxuan spent cultivating every day began to increase gradually and unconsciously.

Besides this, Ye Ye Qingxuan also replanted quite a few Purification Trees in the previously vacant spots.

However, Ye Ye Qingxuan will only submit 100 First Order Purification Trees every year from now on to fulfill the task.

As for the remaining Purification Trees, Ye Ye Qingxuan plans to wait until they are cultivated to the Fourth Order before taking them out and handing them to Bai Bai Zichun in exchange for Sources of Spiritual Veins.

In the current Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi, wanting to cultivate Purification Trees to the Fourth Order only takes about thirteen years or so.

The Purification Tree, a spiritual plant that can be continuously advanced, is relatively special and has a slightly slower cultivation speed than other Fourth Order spiritual plants.

If it weren't for the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi advancing to the mid-Second Order, and the energy accumulated in the earth skyrocketing after integrating nine Sources of Spiritual Veins this time.

The time for the Purification Trees to grow to the Fourth Order would be far more than thirteen years.

Spring passed and autumn came; in the blink of an eye, three years had passed since Ye Ye Qingxiao went to the lower realms for training.

One day, three years later, Ye Ye Qingxuan was at the edge of the stone pavilion, looking at the scenery in the distance, when he suddenly saw an unexpected person appear.

Watching the person descend beside him, Ye Ye Qingxuan asked in confusion: "Family Head, why are you here?"

The person who came was none other than the head of the Ye family, Ye Ye Yu Hong.

Logically speaking, Ye Ye Yu Hong had not been to the Profound Yi Tianzong long ago, so he should not have come to the Profound Yi Tianzong in the short term.

Ye Ye Yu Hong looked at Ye Ye Qingxuan, somewhat hesitant to speak, took a letter from his bosom and handed it to Ye Ye Qingxuan, saying in a deep voice: "Ye Qingxuan, please accept my condolences!"

Hearing this, Ye Ye Qingxuan's body suddenly paused, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart.

After a long while, Ye Ye Qingxuan finally reached out silently and took the letter from Ye Ye Yu Hong's hand.

On the envelope were written the six large characters: "To be opened by my son Ye Qingxuan."

Looking at Ye Ye Qingxuan, who had suddenly fallen silent, Ye Ye Yu Hong comforted him:

"Ye Qingxuan, your parents left with smiles; don't be sad, take care of yourself!"

Ye Ye Qingxuan's parents reached the advanced age of over 170 years when their lives ended.

Almost on the same night, while Mother Ye's lifespan was exhausted, Father Ye followed closely behind.

The two of them finally slept in each other's arms, with smiles, and fell into a permanent slumber.

When other members of the Ye family discovered it the next day, only this letter was left in front of the bed.

On the day Ye Ye Yu Hong received the news, he rushed without stopping to deliver the letter to Ye Ye Qingxuan.

After comforting Ye Ye Qingxuan for a moment, Ye Ye Yu Hong left the Ye Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi alone.

Such things require Ye Ye Qingxuan to get through them himself and walk out of them; the verbal comfort of outsiders has limited effect.

This is also something that every person who cultivates immortality must experience.

After Ye Ye Yu Hong left, Ye Ye Qingxuan opened the letter his parents had left for him with slightly trembling hands:

"Li Xuan'er, Dad and Mom are gone; don't be sad or upset.

Although you haven't been by our side these years, because of you, the family has taken good care of us.

That we could live so freely and experience the happiness of being surrounded by children and grandchildren for the rest of our lives is all because of you.

So, in Dad and Mom's lives, there has always been your shadow accompanying us.

What Dad and Mom worry about most is still you! Although we cannot cultivate, we also know that this path is destined to be full of bumps.

You, alone, stepping onto this path of no return, have to bear much more than Dad and Mom, and your younger siblings.

Dad and Mom at least have your younger siblings by our side, while you have always been walking alone in silence.

Over these years, Dad and Mom have never blamed you, so after Dad and Mom are gone, don't blame or feel guilty yourself.

Dad and Mom's abilities are limited; on the path of cultivation, we cannot help you, but Dad and Mom are very fortunate that we have not become a burden to you in this life.

Although Dad and Mom are gone, we hope you can carry our thoughts and keep walking forward, and see for Dad and Mom what the scenery of the Immortal Dao, which we once fantasized about, is really like.

Dad and Mom will always bless you from below, pray for you, and watch you walk to the end.

You are the pride of Dad and Mom in this life; keep it up, son!"

After reading the letter his parents left for him, a glimmer flashed in Ye Ye Qingxuan's eyes, but he did not shed any tears.

Ye Ye Qingxuan stood blankly at the edge of the stone pavilion, looking into the distance, and could not help but think:

"If I could have broken through to the Golden Core Realm faster and condensed an incarnation, would I have been able to see my parents one last time?"

After this thought arose, Ye Ye Qingxuan began to gradually fall into a certain obsession.

In his mind, the bits and pieces of life with his parents after he came to the Di Li Xuan Realm kept emerging.

In the long years of this life, the most relaxed and happy time for Ye Ye Qingxuan was perhaps the twelve years he spent with his parents.

Ye Ye Qingxuan stood there, the luster in his eyes gradually dimming, not knowing what he was thinking about.

This standing lasted for seven days and seven nights. Immortals are heartless, not because they are born heartless, but because they lose all emotion on the long road to becoming immortals! Seven days later, Ye Ye Qingxuan's gaze radiated luster again, but the aura around him had an added touch of indifference that had never existed before.

A look of unprecedented determination appeared in Ye Ye Qingxuan's eyes, and his tone carried a trace of indifference: "What I lost on the road to becoming an immortal, when I step to the peak, I will take back everything I have lost."

Subsequently, Ye Ye Qingxuan carefully put away the letter in his hand and returned to the Dongxuan Fudi.

He began his own long, solitary years of cultivating immortality.

In the days that followed, Ye Ye Qingxuan's figure was rarely seen outside the stone pavilion.

Only when Bai Bai Zichun came to collect the Purification Trees every year would Ye Ye Qingxuan go out.

In the other time, Ye Ye Qingxuan almost sealed himself in the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi, beginning to cultivate with all his might day and night.

Even knowing that such a cultivation method would have little effect, Ye Ye Qingxuan still did not care about these things.

Ye Ye Qingxuan lost his former rationality, seemingly only thinking about quickly improving his cultivation base.

Bai Bai Zichun, who came to collect the Purification Trees every year, was almost the only outsider who could see Ye Ye Qingxuan.

Every time he saw the increasingly indifferent temperament around Ye Ye Qingxuan, Bai Bai Zichun wanted to speak and persuade him several times, but in the end, he remained silent.

Although Bai Bai Zichun did not know what blow Ye Ye Qingxuan had suffered, he knew that Ye Ye Qingxuan had fallen into some kind of obsession.

The current Ye Ye Qingxuan simply could not listen to the persuasion of others.

Blind persuasion might be counterproductive, making Ye Ye Qingxuan sink deeper and deeper.

All of this can only be overcome by Ye Ye Qingxuan himself.

A bystander sees clearly; Ye Ye Qingxuan, who was an orphan in his previous life, still underestimated the impact of his parents' passing on him.

He thought he could look past all this, but he did not know that he had already fallen into an obsession.

Compared to other cultivators, Ye Ye Qingxuan's reliance on his parents was actually deeper, only Ye Ye Qingxuan himself did not realize it.

Ye Ye Qingxuan descended to the Di Li Xuan Realm with the memories of his previous life; being isolated and aloof, he had held deep vigilance toward this world since his infancy.

It was the bit-by-bit care of his parents that made him slowly let down his vigilance and accept his parents in this life, and this world.

It can be said that the only thing Ye Ye Qingxuan could trust during his infancy was his parents.

Father Ye and Mother Ye were also the most critical ties between Ye Ye Qingxuan and this world in his early years.

And now, with Father Ye and Mother Ye passing away, Ye Ye Qingxuan is like a kite with a broken string, as if he does not know where he can belong.

He has cultivated for over a hundred years, yet he could not even be by his parents' side when they passed away to see them one last time.

Ye Ye Qingxuan looked calm on the surface, but how could he not blame and feel guilty deep in his heart? His seemingly crazy cultivation is not also Ye Ye Qingxuan subconsciously avoiding the self-blame and guilt deep in his heart.

Plus, Ye Ye Qingxuan had hardly encountered any setbacks along the way; compared to others' paths of cultivation, Ye Ye Qingxuan's path was really too smooth.

So under the dual stimulation of the Green Demon Realm invading the Di Li Xuan Realm and his parents' passing.

Subconsciously, Ye Ye Qingxuan urgently wanted to obtain more powerful strength, wanted to completely control his own destiny, and wanted to change all of this.

Under the influence of various factors, Ye Ye Qingxuan unknowingly fell into an obsession without knowing it.

Time passed, and Ye Ye Qingxuan's attention to outside affairs became increasingly thin.

Under the influence of the obsession, Ye Ye Qingxuan directly immersed himself in cultivation, and the luster in his eyes lost its former liveliness.

Even the Green Dragon, Xiao Kong, and Xiao Ling, who were usually very close to him in the Dongxuan Fudi, now only dare to linger not far from Ye Ye Qingxuan, for fear of disturbing him.

Although they are only spiritual beasts, their sensing of changes in external aura far exceeds that of ordinary people; after Ye Ye Qingxuan changed, they naturally sensed it.

In the tenth year after Father Ye and Mother Ye passed away.

Ye Ye Qingxuan sold another 500 Fourth Order Purification Trees, exchanging them for four Third Order Sources of Spiritual Veins and five Second Order Sources of Spiritual Veins.

This time, Bai Bai Zichun looked at Ye Ye Qingxuan's increasingly indifferent aura and finally could not help but persuade him:

"Ye Qingxuan, your path is still very long; on the path of cultivation, how can one not experience setbacks? Look at things more openly!"

Bai Bai Zichun also did not know what had happened to Ye Ye Qingxuan, so he did not know how to help him.

He also did not expect that Ye Ye Qingxuan, who had been developing so well, would suddenly have such a big change, directly falling into some kind of obsession from which he could not extricate himself.

Moreover, it now seems that Ye Ye Qingxuan has a trend of sinking deeper and deeper.

To Bai Bai Zichun's words, Ye Ye Qingxuan seemed not to have heard them; he just nodded mechanically and returned to the Dongxuan Fudi.

It is not that Ye Ye Qingxuan did not want to respond, but that Ye Ye Qingxuan was like someone who had fallen into a cognitive barrier; toward everything in the outside world, he still remained as he was before falling into the obsession.

Therefore, Ye Ye Qingxuan himself did not notice his own changes.

Seeing this, Bai Bai Zichun could only shake his head with regret, and then left the Ye Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi.

In the twenty-third year after Father Ye and Mother Ye passed away.

Ye Ye Qingxuan sold another 500 Fourth Order Purification Trees, exchanging them for four Third Order Sources of Spiritual Veins and five Second Order Sources of Spiritual Veins.

By the time all the Sources of Spiritual Veins were integrated into the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi, the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi now had:

12 Third Order spiritual veins, 17 Second Order spiritual veins, and 20 First Order spiritual veins.

With more than a dozen extra Second and Third Order spiritual veins, the origin conversion speed of the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi increased several times over.

With the assistance of many spiritual veins, the origin of the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi soon accumulated enough and successfully advanced to the late Second Order.

In the twenty-eighth year after Father Ye and Mother Ye passed away.

Under the state of day and night cultivation, Ye Ye Qingxuan successfully broke through to the Golden Core Realm.

(End of chapter)