Chapter 133: Ten Years

Spring passes and autumn returns; in the blink of an eye, another ten years have slipped by.

Over these ten years, the Sky Origin Merchant Guild's sky ship, far out in the boundless sea realm, performed another leap, drawing even closer to the Eastern Extreme Domain.

Onboard the Sky Origin Merchant Guild's sky ship.

Ye Qingxuan's external avatar, Gui Xuanzi, had remained in seclusion throughout these ten years, rarely interacting with others.

Yet, as a decade passed, overhearing casual conversations among others, Ye Qingxuan had come to know a little about the other passengers on the sky ship.

Apart from the Sky Origin Merchant Guild's own personnel, there were actually very few passengers truly heading to the Eastern Extreme Domain, only about a dozen.

These dozen or so people resided in quarters not far from Ye Qingxuan's private cabin.

Most of them were scions of cultivation families near Dongbinzhou, specifically the direct heirs of those families.

These individuals were essentially bored by the dullness of their family's sphere of influence.

After reading descriptions of the chaos in the Eastern Extreme Domain within their family libraries, they developed the idea of going there to gain experience.

Most of these people were young masters who had never encountered any setbacks.

Having stayed on the sky ship for over ten years, past the initial excitement, one or two had already lost heart and wished to return to the Eastern Domain.

However, the Sky Origin Merchant Guild would not indulge them; they ignored these unreasonable demands to turn back and simply treated them with cold indifference.

Although these young masters came from respectable backgrounds, they were still no match in front of the Sky Origin Merchant Guild, which relied on the hegemonic Sky Origin Sect.

Thus, the Sky Origin Merchant Guild did not fear these young masters, especially when they made such unreasonable demands that violated the guild's regulations.

Fortunately, the family scions were not fools; knowing the Sky Origin Merchant Guild was untouchable, they did not continue to cause trouble.

When family scions first go out to gain experience, they usually have a path-guardian.

As for whether these family scions on the sky ship had powerful figures secretly following them to guard their path, Ye Qingxuan had no way of knowing.

Besides them, there were also two disciples from a sect, seemingly heading to the Eastern Extreme Domain to carry out some mission; the specific details were not entirely clear to Ye Qingxuan.

In Ye Qingxuan's view, these people were synonymous with trouble, so he did not wish to have any dealings with them.

He was traveling to handle serious business and naturally did not want to create unnecessary karmic ties; this was why his external avatar had remained in seclusion and avoided interacting with these people.

Similarly, in the eyes of these people, Ye Qingxuan's external avatar was simply a reclusive oddball.

As for Ye Qingxuan's avatar, the Mysterious Merchant, his days were equally peaceful.

Over ten years, Star War City showed no signs of expansion, and Ye Qingxuan had not secured a stable channel for purchasing Green Demon Clan corpses.

However, after running a temporary shop for ten years, Ye Qingxuan had not gained absolutely nothing.

During these ten years, Ye Qingxuan had actually acquired several new regular customers.

From one of his old customers, Ye Qingxuan learned that the foot traffic within Star War City was gradually approaching the standard for expansion, and the city should announce another expansion soon.

However, this expansion might be the last one Star War City would ever undertake.

With the war between the Earth Mystery Realm and the Green Demon Realm ongoing for many years, the situation in the major war cities had basically stabilized.

Therefore, after Star War City expands again this time, it will basically cease expanding outward in the future.

In other words, if Ye Qingxuan wished to purchase a shop in Star War City, the next expansion would be his last opportunity.

Compared to the peaceful lives of the avatars Gui Xuanzi and the Mysterious Merchant,

Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar had lived an extremely thrilling decade.

In just ten short years, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar had annihilated forty-eight Green Demon Clan tribes, large and small.

Among them was one tribe guarded by a Golden Core realm cultivator, twelve guarded by Purple Mansion realm cultivators, while the majority of the rest were tribes guarded by Foundation Establishment realm cultivators.

As for Green Demon Clan tribes that did not even have a Foundation Establishment cultivator, aside from wiping out a few in the early stages, Ye Qingxuan simply ignored them later on.

It was not that Ye Qingxuan did not want to kill, but rather that his actions later on directly enraged the high-ranking members of the Green Demon Clan in the Third Demon Domain.

This led the Green Demon Clan to directly dispatch a large number of powerful cultivators to hunt down Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar.

If not for the powerful seed of his minor divine ability, Deceiving Heaven, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar might have perished long ago.

The Green Demon Clan's hunt forced Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar to exercise more restraint. Therefore, in the subsequent period, the avatar no longer took risks with low returns, which is why he spared those weak Green Demon Clan tribes.

Although the number of Green Demon Clan cultivators Ye Qingxuan killed was not as high as that of the Soul Transformation realm teams, the number of Green Demon Clan tribes he wiped out was no less than that of ordinary Soul Transformation teams in the Earth Mystery Realm.

This was precisely why the Green Demon Clan launched a hunt against Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar.

Or rather, the powerful cultivators of the Green Demon Clan were hunting all Soul Transformation teams from the Earth Mystery Realm that entered the Demon Domain.

Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar had simply entered this list due to killing too ruthlessly.

Once on the hunt list, the powerful cultivators of the Green Demon Clan would expend great effort to forcibly capture the spiritual sense of the cultivator.

Cultivators usually possess various secret techniques or magic treasures to conceal themselves, but once they act, they inevitably expose their spiritual sense.

Although cultivators can remove their spiritual sense afterward.

But once it has appeared, a trace is inevitably left; the only difference lies in the size of the trace and the difficulty of obtaining it.

The powerful cultivators of the Green Demon Clan, if willing to expend a sufficiently large cost,

could forcibly use secret techniques to collect the residual spiritual sense from the battlefield to track down powerful cultivators from the Earth Mystery Realm.

With the guidance of the spiritual sense, as soon as a team from the Earth Mystery Realm acted again, the powerful cultivators of the Green Demon Clan could capture the fluctuations of the spiritual sense and launch a hunt on the point of its eruption.

Therefore, when teams from the Earth Mystery Realm hunted Green Demon Clan tribes or cultivators, it was also the most dangerous moment for themselves, as they exposed their presence.

Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar wandered the Third Demon Domain for ten years, during which he experienced many heart-stopping moments.

He even witnessed from a distance a battle where a Soul Transformation team from the Earth Mystery Realm was hunted down by powerful cultivators of the Green Demon Clan.

In that battle, the five-person Soul Transformation team from the Earth Mystery Realm perished directly, with only two members successfully escaping the Green Demon Clan's hunt.

Later on, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Avatar also experienced several hunts.

Fortunately, the seed of his minor divine ability, Deceiving Heaven, was extremely effective, helping Ye Qingxuan evade several fatal hunts.

After the war between the two realms intensified, the Earth Mystery Realm and the Green Demon Clan began invading each other's lower realms.

Now, powerful cultivators patrol irregularly in the small thousand realms under the Earth Mystery Realm and the various Demon Domain worlds under the Green Demon Clan's command, wiping out invaders from the opposing side.

The Green Demon Clan also has powerful cultivators constantly patrolling the Third Demon Domain.

While Ye Qingxuan's Explorer avatar struck at the Green Demon Tribe's settlements, the proximity of these patrolling experts directly influenced the speed of the tribe's counterattack.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer avatar, including the Soul Transformation squad from the Earthly Profound Realm, faced this risk.

If the patrolling experts of the Green Demon Tribe were nearby when the attack on their settlements began, the danger level would increase dramatically.

Many members of Soul Transformation squads in the Earthly Profound Realm had simply been unlucky and fallen victim to this very issue.

Within the Third Demon Domain.

Ye Qingxuan's Explorer avatar hid in a mountain forest, lightly tossing a storage bag in his hand, his face showing a conflicted expression.

He hesitated between returning first to the Earthly Profound Realm to send the decade's harvest back to the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land,

or first eliminating a Green Demon Tribe settlement he had recently discovered, which was guarded by a Nascent Soul expert,

and then returning to the Earthly Profound Realm carrying the corpse of that Nascent Soul Green Demon.

Ye Qingxuan pondered back and forth.

Ultimately, he decided to hold back first, sending the decade's harvest back to the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land before doing anything else.

If his Explorer avatar failed and perished in the Third Demon Domain, then all his efforts over the past ten years would have been in vain.

Having made up his mind,

Ye Qingxuan's Explorer avatar produced a formation disc, activated it, and opened a temporary spatial gate connecting to a spatial channel.

Stepping through the spatial gate, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer avatar vanished, leaving the Third Demon Domain behind.

(End of this chapter)