Chapter 158: Offspring

Within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan's main consciousness had already returned to his original body.

Not long after, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Clone also returned to the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

The Mysterious Shop has a teleportation array leading to Xuamu City; upon reaching Xuamu City, one can return directly to the Di Xuan Realm, so the Explorer Clone did not spend much time.

Concealing the spatial channel incurred a considerable cost.

Within the Xuamu Realm, since Xuamu City had successfully established itself, the spatial channel leading to the Xuamu Realm was not fully concealed.

The entrance and exit of the spatial channel connecting the Di Xuan Realm were located within the teleportation plaza of Xuamu City.

Cultivators traveling between the Di Xuan Realm and the Xuamu Realm basically used the spatial channel of Xuamu City for passage.

As for the array discs used to open temporary spatial channels to the Xuamu Realm, they could be purchased with spirit stones, but unlike those for the Demon Domain, they were not obtained for free.

This time, when the Explorer Clone returned to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, the Mysterious Merchant Clone was not within the Di Xuan Realm.

The Explorer Clone could not return via the World Gate carried by the Mysterious Merchant.

Therefore, when the Explorer Clone returned to the Qingxuan Blessed Land this time, he specifically chose a remote cave to re-enter the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

The World Gate opened within the cave had not been cancelled and was still manifesting inside the cave.

Although this would increase a slight risk, with the Mysterious Merchant Clone not in the Di Xuan Realm, this was the only way to facilitate the Explorer Clone's travel back and forth.

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan could remotely will the World Gate to collapse automatically, so the actual risk remained controllable.

After his Explorer Clone brought back the storage bag, Ye Qingxuan did not rush to make a sacrificial offering to increase his cultivation base.

The higher the realm, the more immense the energy required to increase one's cultivation base.

Even with the infusion of the Origin, Ye Qingxuan needed considerable time to absorb it before he could fully transform the Origin into his own cultivation base.

He planned to first exchange for the corpse of a full Nascent Soul realm Qing Demon Clan member held by Dao Changchun, and then make a sacrificial offering of both to increase his cultivation base.

Taking out the disciple token, he sent a message to Zhu Dafu: "Zhu Dafu, acquire a block of Gold Spirit Stone for me."

Inside the Tianfu Shop.

Zhu Dafu, who was lying on a lounge chair on the third floor, looked at the message on his token and felt somewhat curious:

"Ye Qingxuan is merely a Purple Mansion realm Fortune Cultivator; I wonder what he needs these sixth-grade materials for?"

Shaking his head slightly, Zhu Dafu stood up, stretched, and walked outside.

In recent years, Zhu Dafu had started a family and had given birth to a chubby baby boy not long ago.

Within the Xuantian Sect.

Regarding the offspring of the sect's disciples.

The offspring of Core disciples and those of higher ranks could choose to be raised within the cave heavens they opened, until they participated in the sect assessment at the age of twelve.

Those who passed the assessment could then be accepted into the Xuantian Sect.

Those who failed the assessment could only be sent outside the Xuantian Sect.

However, Core disciples who had offspring generally did not raise them within their own cave heavens.

The cave heavens were too small, and there were no peers to accompany them.

Growing up confined within a cave heaven would only cause their offspring to develop unhealthy psychological traits, affecting their subsequent growth.

Therefore, Core disciples and those of higher ranks in the Xuantian Sect, if they bore offspring, generally chose to raise them outside the sect.

As for sect disciples below the Core level, their offspring could only be raised outside the sect, with no right to choose otherwise.

After all, the Xuantian Sect was a place for cultivation; it was already good enough that they did not forbid low-level disciples from bearing offspring.

How could they possibly raise children for these disciples?

In reality, few of the Xuantian Sect's high-level members had offspring.

Cultivators devoted solely to the Immortal Dao would focus entirely on cultivation when their cultivation base was too low, racing against time.

By the time their cultivation base improved, bearing offspring became too difficult. Thus, most high-level cultivators in the Xuantian Sect had no offspring and no intention of bearing any.

Zhu Dafu's recently born offspring is currently being raised in the Zhu family.

Zhu Dafu's Dao Companion is also a disciple of the Xuantian Sect; she has currently taken on an external sect mission not far from the Zhu family and has already left the sect to care for their child.

Disciples of the Xuantian Sect are not raised by the sect for free; even slacking cultivators must complete a sect mission every certain period.

Moreover, the contribution points obtained from this first mandatory mission within a cycle are generally not many.

Cultivators of different realms have different mission levels and cycle periods required for completion. Zhu Dafu, who is now at the Golden Core realm, must complete a fourth-grade sect mission every thirty years.

However, Zhu Dafu mostly accepts missions involving resource collection.

Backed by the Tianfu Shop, he does not need to complete missions personally; as long as the mission items are submitted, the Xuantian Sect does not care whether they were completed by the disciple themselves.

This is one of the methods used by many cultivators working in shops within the Xuantian Sect's market to complete missions.

After Zhu Dafu purchased the Gold Spirit Stone, he sent a message to Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan then instructed Ye Zhaoheng to go to the Tianfu Shop to retrieve the Gold Spirit Stone.

In recent years, having only recently broken through to the Golden Core realm, the cultivation bases of the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, remained at the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

However, with the assistance of fifth-grade Calming Tea, the four arts of cultivation they each specialized in had all been elevated to the fourth-grade level.

Since breaking through to the Golden Core realm, the speed at which the two of them traveled between the Tianfu Shop and the Qingxuan Blessed Land had greatly increased.

Without waiting long, after Ye Zhaoheng retrieved the Gold Spirit Stone,

Ye Qingxuan instructed his Explorer Clone to take the Gold Spirit Stone to the Mysterious Shop in the Xuamu Realm and wait to trade with Dao Changchun.

Three days later.

Inside the Shangxuan Pavilion of the Mysterious Shop.

Ye Qingxuan handed a storage bag to Dao Changchun:

"Here is the Gold Spirit Stone and 1,500 pieces of supreme-grade spirit stones you requested."

Upon hearing this, Dao Changchun suppressed the excitement in his heart and took the storage bag with a blank expression.

After a brief inspection, confirming it was a Golden Spirit Stone, a hint of delight surfaced in Dao Changchun's eyes.

"It is indeed a Golden Spirit Stone."

Then, he took out Xie Wu's corpse and handed it to Ye Qingxuan, saying, "Here, we are even."

Having spoken, Dao Changchun could not wait to leave the place.

Watching Dao Changchun's departing figure, Ye Qingxuan fell into thought.

Once the transaction was complete, his main consciousness returned to his original body.

Meanwhile, Ye Qingxuan's Explorer Clone, holding Xie Wu's corpse, immediately set off without delay to return to the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

After the Explorer Clone brought back Xie Wu's corpse, Ye Qingxuan wasted no time.

With a smile on his face, he approached the small Sacrifice Array within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

Ye Qingxuan took out all the corpses of the Green Demon Clan: a total of two Nascent Soul Realm Perfection corpses, four Nascent Soul Realm Mid-stage corpses, and eighteen Nascent Soul Realm Early-stage corpses.

His original body was currently at the Nascent Soul Realm Early-stage cultivation base; sacrificing ten complete Nascent Soul Realm Early-stage Green Demon Clan corpses would be sufficient to elevate him to the Nascent Soul Realm Mid-stage.

The remaining Green Demon Clan corpses should be enough for him to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm Late-stage after sacrifice.

Thinking of this, a hint of excitement could not help but surface in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

After placing all the Green Demon Clan corpses into the small Sacrifice Array for sacrifice, a thick stream of primordial energy poured down from the sky into Ye Qingxuan's body.

Ye Qingxuan sat cross-legged, continuously circulating the Earth Immortal Technique he had comprehended, beginning to elevate his cultivation base.

(End of this chapter)