Chapter 115: Arrangements for the Clone

March 3 of the second year.

Ye Qingxuan arrived at the dock of Dongbincheng, where a multi-decked ship flying the Tianyuan Trading House banner was currently moored.

From the outside, the ship did not appear large, its entire hull covered in dense array patterns.

After observing for a moment, Ye Qingxuan walked toward the Tianyuan Trading House ship.

As he approached, he was stopped by two burly men whose cultivation levels were unreadable; one of them said coldly:

"This is a Tianyuan Trading House vessel. Strangers keep their distance!"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan calmly took out the golden token Master Lin had given him earlier and handed it to the two men, saying:

"I am a client of the Tianyuan Trading House, and I am here to travel to the Dongji Domain."

One of the two men who had blocked Ye Qingxuan took the golden token, inspected it briefly, then nodded:

"The golden token is in order."

He then looked at a row of Nascent Soul-level attendants standing not far behind him, pointed casually at one, and ordered:

"You, take this client aboard the ship and arrange a private cabin for him."

The man he had pointed at, upon hearing the burly man's order, immediately stepped forward and respectfully replied:

"Yes, Chief Steward."

He then turned to Ye Qingxuan and said respectfully:

"Esteemed guest, please come inside!"

Ye Qingxuan nodded slightly, followed this attendant, and stepped into the Tianyuan Trading House ship.

Though the ship appeared small from the outside, once inside, the space was large enough to contain an entire city.

At this moment, over a dozen people stood scattered along the edge of the deck, some chatting, others gazing at the distant scenery.

After Ye Qingxuan boarded, several people immediately turned their gaze toward him, curiosity evident in their eyes.

Ye Qingxuan was unsure whether these people were employees of the Tianyuan Trading House or, like him, clients traveling to the Dongji Domain aboard the ship.

However, Ye Qingxuan had no intention of interacting or forming connections with them.

Under the guidance of the Tianyuan Trading House attendant, Ye Qingxuan crossed the deck and arrived at an independent private cabin.

Once inside the cabin, the attendant who had brought him in spoke again:

"Esteemed guest, for the duration of this journey, this cabin belongs to you. Outsiders will not disturb you. If you need anything, contact me."

Having said this, he left behind his transmission talisman and turned to leave the cabin.

After he departed, Ye Qingxuan surveyed the cabin's interior. Though not large, it was fully equipped and exquisitely decorated.

Moreover, the cabin was fitted with a Fifth-Rank Spirit-Gathering Array, whose gathered spiritual energy rivaled that of a cave dwelling opened by a Fifth-Rank spiritual vein.

Ye Qingxuan nodded in satisfaction:

"It seems the three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones were not spent in vain."

After entering the cabin, Ye Qingxuan had no immediate plans to go out. Instead, he sat cross-legged inside, closed his eyes to rest, and quietly waited for the ship to set sail.

He remained until evening, when a long horn sound rang out, prompting Ye Qingxuan to open his eyes:

"Are we setting sail?"

Rising to his feet, Ye Qingxuan pushed open the cabin door, stepped out, and made his way to the deck.

By now, many people had gathered on the deck, all there to witness the phenomenon of the ship's departure.

The Dongji Domain lies across the boundless sea from the Eastern Domain; reaching it could not be achieved through normal sailing.

After the horn sound ceased, the array patterns covering the Tianyuan Trading House ship began to activate, lighting up one by one.

In front of the ship, vast amounts of spatial elemental energy continuously converged, gradually forming a spatial vortex.

Once the spatial vortex fully formed, the array patterns around the ship's body completely connected, suddenly erupting in dazzling light.

In a flash, the ship had slipped into the spatial vortex and vanished.

Meanwhile, at the dock of Dongbincheng, the previously formed spatial vortex began to slowly dissipate and return to calm after the Tianyuan Trading House ship departed.

When the ship reappeared, it had arrived in the deep waters of the boundless sea.

Ye Qingxuan moved to the edge of the deck, gazing at the endless deep-blue sea. Feeling the sea breeze on his face, he instantly felt refreshed and at ease.

At that moment, an ethereal voice echoed throughout the ship:

"Rest for ten years. After ten years, the ship will jump again."

Ye Qingxuan was not surprised by this.

Such spatial jumps by the ship require enormous energy.

If powered solely by spirit stones, the Tianyuan Trading House would not necessarily lose money on this trip, but the profits would certainly be slim.

Therefore, after each spatial jump, the Tianyuan Trading House ship rests for ten years, allowing it to automatically absorb external energy for recharging.

The ship's ten-year recharge period is equivalent to the consumption of one million high-grade spirit stones.

For the Tianyuan Trading House, spending time to let the ship recharge automatically is undoubtedly a guaranteed profit with no loss.

To reach the Dongji Domain, such spatial jumps must be performed a total of seven times to arrive at the near-sea region of the Dongji Domain.

Although allowing the ship to recharge automatically wastes several decades of everyone's time, the Tianyuan Trading House saves seven million high-grade spirit stones.

A round trip amounts to a full fourteen million high-grade spirit stones.

Even for the powerful and wealthy Tianyuan Trading House, this is a significant expense in spirit stones, so every effort is made to save where possible.

After the ship announced its rest period, some of those who had come out earlier returned directly to their cabins to begin secluded cultivation.

Others took out fishing rods they had prepared long ago, ready to fish for leisure in the deep waters of the boundless sea.

The boundless sea's deep waters contain countless varieties of spiritual fish and even sea beasts, all of exquisite flavor.

Moreover, the flesh of these spiritual fish and sea beasts contains vast amounts of spiritual power; consuming them is comparable to taking certain auxiliary cultivation elixirs.

Ye Qingxuan had no intention of interacting with the people on the ship. After briefly admiring the scenery of the deep waters of the boundless sea, he returned to his own cabin.

Then, Ye Qingxuan's main consciousness left this external manifestation and returned to his original body within the Xuantian Sect.

Inside the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan's eyes showed a look of contemplation.

Now that his external manifestation had a destination, it began to move along the path he had previously planned.

However, he could still split off two ordinary clones; these two clones could be utilized for further schemes.

These two ordinary clones possessed only thirty percent of his original body's cultivation base, and after splitting, they would likely reach the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm.

Although this level of cultivation base would not play a significant role within the five regions of the Earthly Profound Realm.

Yet these two ordinary clones possessed an advantage that an external manifestation lacked: they feared no danger of death.

Once an ordinary external manifestation perished, he could recondense it at any time by spending some spirit stones.

Based on this characteristic, Ye Qingxuan prepared to send one of the ordinary clones to the Demon Realm of the Green Demon Realm and the battlefield between the two realms to explore the situation.

Although the Earthly Profound Realm and the Green Demon Realm are both two of the great mid-tier peak worlds, and their power levels are not vastly different, completely determining a victor would require at least tens of thousands of years.

This span of tens of thousands of years would be enough for Ye Qingxuan to rise completely and fear no danger from the Green Demon Realm.

However, if one lacks foresight, one will have immediate worries; if Ye Qingxuan could constantly receive the latest progress of the war between the two realms, he would be more composed while hiding in the background.

Therefore, having one of his clones walk through the various battlefields of the two realms to observe the war's progress seemed very necessary to Ye Qingxuan.

As for his other clone, Ye Qingxuan prepared to have this clone take the second spatial gate of the Qingxuan Blessed Land to open a shop in the outside world.

This shop would not be intended to purchase other supplies, but only to acquire the corpses and cultivation origins of the Green Demon Clan, to enhance his own cultivation base or accelerate the growth of the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Sacrificing the corpses and cultivation origins of the Green Demon Clan would only provide significant help to one's own cultivation base if the Green Demons were of the same realm or higher than oneself.

Therefore, when some teams hunted down corpses and cultivation origins of low-level Green Demons that their own team members could not use, they would choose to sell them in exchange for spirit stones.

The war between the Earthly Profound Realm and the Green Demon Realm has lasted for decades, and now the corpses and cultivation origins of some low-level Green Demons have begun to circulate in the markets of the Earthly Profound Realm.

Occasionally, one or two corpses and cultivation origins of high-level Green Demons even appear for auction in the high-end auction houses of the Earthly Profound Realm.

Thus, the main objective of Ye Qingxuan's other clone is to purchase corpses and cultivation origins of Green Demons from the outside world.

After all, as the master of the Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan can remotely retrieve the world gate of the Qingxuan Blessed Land at any time, so there is no fear of it being lost outside.

Ye Qingxuan's ambition is to wait until his cultivation base and the level of the Qingxuan Blessed Land have increased.

He intends to use the world gate of the Qingxuan Blessed Land to connect the nine regions of the Earthly Profound Realm, establish a city within the Blessed Land, and create a trading venue common to cultivators from all nine regions.

Through this, he would gather the resources of the nine regions to supply the growth of the Qingxuan Blessed Land and himself.

For now, this is merely the first step he has taken.

(End of this chapter)