Chapter 112: Prepared Trump Cards

In the following years, Ye Qingxuan paid no more attention to the war between the two worlds outside and began to cultivate in seclusion with peace of mind.

Every year, Ye Qingxuan would condense a seed of a divine ability and elevate the realm of one of the four arts of cultivation.

Combined with the minor divine abilities of Form Shifting and Clone, after all six minor divine ability seeds were fully condensed, Ye Qingxuan's concealment, escape, and combat capabilities directly rose a tier.

With the seeds of the divine abilities Deceiving Heaven and Form Shifting.

Ye Qingxuan's external clone could, even before experts of the Void Penetration realm, completely hide his true self, freely alter his appearance, realm, and aura, leaving no flaw whatsoever.

Besides divine abilities.

Ye Qingxuan's four auxiliary arts of alchemy, artifact crafting, array formation, and talisman drawing had all been elevated to the fifth tier.

After achieving his seclusion goals, Ye Qingxuan did not rush to leave his retreat but instead began upgrading the great array of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

The vast resources obtained by tricking the eight Soul Transformation sects previously were now piled like mountains inside the Qingxuan Grotto.

Now, these resources could be put to good use, sparing Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, the two brothers, or Zhu Dafu the trouble of purchasing extra supplies.

With the help of the power of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan spent three months.

Upgrading the fourth-tier Smelting Array, the fourth-tier Energy Conversion Array, and the fourth-tier Earth Vein Array within the grotto to the fifth tier.

After the Smelting Array, Energy Conversion Array, and Earth Vein Array were upgraded to the fifth tier, the speed at which the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land accumulated various foundations increased greatly once more.

Adding the newly added second and third-tier spirit veins, the speed at which the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land absorbed chaotic and void energy, and converted primordial essence, had completely surpassed the second tier, reaching the standard of a third-tier grotto-heaven blessed land.

In Ye Qingxuan's perception, the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land would likely need about ten more years to reach the peak of the second tier, then smoothly advance to a third-tier grotto-heaven blessed land.

After upgrading all arrays within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan spent another two months crafting one pagoda, one sword, and one shield—three low-grade spiritual artifacts in total—as well as a fifth-tier low-grade flying boat.

Since the flying boat utilized both artifact crafting and array formation techniques, it was not classified by the standard of magic treasures but directly ranked from first to tenth tier, corresponding one-to-one with cultivation realms.

A fifth-tier low-grade flying boat could match the conventional speed of a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator.

Because it was inscribed with various arrays, the flying boat could continuously absorb spiritual energy on its own to replenish its energy, maintaining a conventional flight speed for long periods.

Moreover, when facing danger, the flying boat could burn large amounts of spirit stones to achieve a speed that broke conventional limits.

The extreme speed of a fifth-tier low-grade flying boat after breaking conventional limits could fully reach the normal flight speed of a Nascent Soul realm peak cultivator.

These three low-grade spiritual artifacts and the fifth-tier low-grade flying boat were all prepared by Ye Qingxuan for his external clone.

Then, there were the fifth-tier nuclear explosion elixirs.

Given the current situation of the beast race in the Earth Mysterious World, high-grade beast cores exposed to the outside had become extremely rare.

If not for the breeding and protection by the major hegemonic powers, those high-grade beasts might not have been able to grow beyond the fifth tier.

The existing high-grade beasts were specifically preserved by the major hegemonic powers.

When needed, they would take parts of these high-grade beasts, such as blood, bones, or organs; as long as they weren't killed outright, these were all renewable resources.

But a beast core, once removed, would kill the beast directly.

Therefore, high-grade beast cores above the fifth tier were becoming increasingly rare.

Currently, through the Tianfu Shop, Ye Qingxuan had only collected thirty-seven sixth-tier beast cores. Fortunately, the fifth-tier nuclear explosion elixir required fifth-tier beast cores.

Outside, fifth-tier beast cores were very rare, but within a hegemonic power like the Xuantian Sect, fifth-tier beast cores were temporarily not lacking.

Because of the vast territory and superior environment within the Xuantian Mountain Range, the number of bred beasts was terrifying, and their growth to the fifth tier was not slow.

Currently, the Nascent Soul disciples within the Xuantian Sect basically used these fifth-tier beasts as their main training targets, and the number of fifth-tier beasts slain annually was not small.

Some gluttonous disciples even frequently used these fifth-tier beasts to satisfy their cravings.

Thus, within the Xuantian Mountain Range, the Tianfu Shop's speed of collecting fifth-tier beast cores was not slow; now, the shop's inventory already contained over ten thousand fifth-tier beast cores.

Taking out a sound-transmission talisman, Ye Qingxuan contacted Ye Zhaoheng:

"Zhaoheng, go to the Tianfu Shop and retrieve all the collected beast cores from its inventory."

In these past years, the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, had successfully broken through to the Golden Core realm.

Ye Qingxuan had also crafted elixirs to enhance their cultivation base at the Golden Core realm, allowing them to maintain their previous rate of cultivation improvement.

"Yes, Young Master."

Shortly after the sound transmission, Ye Zhaoheng responded.

Regarding Ye Qingxuan's orders, the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, never delayed and never asked questions they shouldn't.

As attendants, in Ye Qingxuan's view, they were very dutiful and diligent, which was the reason Ye Qingxuan was willing to invest energy and resources to nurture the two brothers.

While Ye Zhaoheng went to retrieve the beast cores, Ye Qingxuan did not idle; using his spare time, he crafted a fifth-tier nuclear explosion production line.

Once Ye Zhaoheng brought the beast cores back, Ye Qingxuan began manufacturing fifth-tier nuclear explosion elixirs within the blessed land.

As for talismans?

Although fifth-tier talismans paled in comparison to fifth-tier nuclear explosion elixirs, Ye Qingxuan still took time to craft numerous fifth-tier talismans.

Fifth-tier talismans could unleash attacks of the Nascent Soul realm, which would be of great help to Ye Qingxuan's external clone, who was still at the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

Besides these, Ye Qingxuan also instructed Ye Zhaoheng to purchase as many sixth-tier talismans as possible.

After all, this was the first time his external clone would venture out, and Ye Qingxuan was not very at ease, so he would be cautious, cautious, and even more cautious.

His Ye Qingxuan's alias going out into the world, though not preparing to burn, kill, rob, or plunder, was it wrong to bring a little bit of resources for self-defense for his own safety?

He, Ye Qingxuan, had always been kind to others since childhood and never provoked trouble; the alias formed by his external clone was only traveling to open new commercial markets and collect various spirit minerals needed for the grotto-heaven blessed land's advancement.

Therefore, as long as no one actively made an enemy of him, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to provoke others.

Time passed; by the time Ye Qingxuan had prepared all the trump cards arranged for his external clone, it was already the end of the fifth year.

Carrying all the prepared talismans, nuclear explosion elixirs, spiritual artifacts, and the flying boat into the Qingxuan Grotto, Ye Qingxuan used the world gate jointly condensed by the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to transmit everything to his external clone hidden in the mountain range outside.

As for the initial resources for the external clone to operate outside, Ye Qingxuan planned to transmit them only after his external clone had settled down and set everything up.

After finishing all this, watching the plan gradually return to the right track, Ye Qingxuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Finally, it is time to choose the starting development location for the external clone's alias."

(End of Chapter)