Chapter 163: Source of Demon Cores

After Ye Yu Hong left, Ye Qingxuan did not linger in the stone pavilion.

After finishing his tea, Ye Qingxuan turned and entered the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Ten years passed, and Ye Qingxuan's attainments in the four paths of elixir, artifact, formation, and talisman had all risen to the mid-stage of the sixth rank.

A sixth-rank artifact refiner can craft high-grade and supreme-grade magic treasures.

With his current status as a mid-stage sixth-rank artifact refiner, Ye Qingxuan could already craft high-grade magic treasures of exceptional quality.

In the paths of elixir, formation, and talisman, Ye Qingxuan could also craft corresponding sixth-rank mid-grade elixirs, formation discs, and talismans suitable for the mid-stage of the Soul Transformation realm.

Moreover.

Over these ten years, Ye Qingxuan had also cultivated numerous high-grade and supreme-grade spells, mastering them all to the perfection realm.

Ye Qingxuan cultivated high-grade and supreme-grade spells not only to increase his combat options and enhance his own fighting power.

The primary reason was to craft fifth and sixth-rank combat puppets.

Only fifth-rank puppets inscribed with high-grade spells and sixth-rank puppets inscribed with supreme-grade spells could unleash the full power corresponding to their ranks.

Although Ye Qingxuan's main body currently possessed only a late-stage Primordial Spirit cultivation base, preventing him from fully unleashing the power of supreme-grade spells even after cultivating them.

This did not hinder Ye Qingxuan from comprehending supreme-grade spells thanks to his heaven-defying comprehension.

Once he comprehended a supreme-grade spell to the perfection level, Ye Qingxuan could leverage the power of the Blessed Land to inscribe that supreme-grade spell onto a sixth-rank combat puppet.

After returning to the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment and said softly:

"It is time to prepare for the construction of a city by my external avatar in the Dongji Domain."

It had been about fifty years since his external avatar boarded a tower ship of the Tianyuan Merchant Guild to head for the Dongji Domain.

In roughly twenty years, his external avatar would arrive at the Dongji Domain.

Before that, he needed to make preparations for his external avatar.

Low-grade resources were not lacking.

However, finished fourth and fifth-rank elixirs, formation discs, talismans, and mid-grade and low-grade magic treasures were not very abundant in Ye Qingxuan's current stock.

Most of the previously accumulated stock had been dispatched by Ye Qingxuan to the mysterious marketplace within the Xuanmu Realm.

However.

Ordinary elixirs, formation discs, talismans, and magic treasures below the sixth rank.

As long as Ye Qingxuan provided sufficient raw materials, the Tianfu shop's channels could continuously craft them.

Although the efficiency was not high, the advantage lay in its sustainability.

With another twenty years remaining, Ye Qingxuan could fully take his time to accumulate stock.

As for the sixth-rank level?

Although the Tianfu shop was currently developing well, it was not yet at a point where a direct disciple of the Xuantian Sect at the Soul Transformation realm would deign to become a mere tool for the shop's channels.

Therefore, sixth-rank elixirs, formation discs, talismans, and magic treasures still needed to be crafted by Ye Qingxuan himself.

The fifth-rank nuclear explosion elixir series also needed to be mass-produced by Ye Qingxuan through the fifth-rank production line.

After the formula for the nuclear explosion elixir was published by the Di Xuan Realm Alliance.

Outside the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan no longer needed to worry too much and could freely allow his clone to use or sell the nuclear explosion elixir.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan now needed to supply nuclear explosion elixir not only to the Tianfu shop but also to the mysterious marketplace.

When his external avatar constructed a city in the Dongji Domain, Ye Qingxuan would then need to supply nuclear explosion elixir to three sales points.

With the existence of the production line, Ye Qingxuan was not worried about being unable to supply the nuclear explosion elixir to three sales points.

However, the source of demon cores remained a major problem.

Since the formula for the nuclear explosion elixir was published by the Di Xuan Realm Alliance, the price of demon cores had risen repeatedly.

Depending on the cultivation base of the demon beast, the current price of demon cores was: second-rank demon cores at 1,000 to 3,000 low-grade spirit stones per core.

Third-rank demon cores at 7,000 to 15,000 low-grade spirit stones per core.

Fourth-rank demon cores at 600 to 6,000 mid-grade spirit stones per core.

Fifth-rank demon cores at 300 to 3,000 high-grade spirit stones per core.

Sixth-rank demon cores at 150 to 1,500 supreme-grade spirit stones per core. Moreover, at this price, demon cores were still in short supply.

After all, the five domains within the Di Xuan Realm offered no living space for demon beasts.

The demon cores currently circulating in the outside world were all stockpiles left over from countless past years.

Do not be misled by the large price gap between demon cores of the same rank.

In reality, in the current market of the Di Xuan Realm, demon cores at the early stage of each rank were the most sought-after.

When using demon cores to craft nuclear explosion elixirs, any lack of energy could be compensated by manually infusing energy of the same rank.

For example, a second-rank early-stage demon core infused with second-rank energy could be crafted into a second-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion elixir.

A second-rank peak demon core required no extra energy infusion, yet the resulting nuclear explosion elixir was also second-rank supreme-grade.

However, a second-rank peak demon core was far more expensive than a second-rank early-stage demon core.

Therefore, in the Di Xuan Realm market, the demon cores with the highest transaction volume were those at the early stage of each rank.

Due to the skyrocketing price of demon cores, several major states in the Di Xuan Realm bordering the Endless Sea had already seen many cultivators form groups to enter the Endless Sea and hunt sea demon beasts.

Currently, most transactions in the demon core market involved demon cores below the sixth rank.

Demon cores at the sixth rank and above were far more useful than those below the sixth rank, so very few circulated.

Even Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu shop, backed by the Xuantian Sect, had only acquired thirty-seven sixth-rank demon cores to date.

Ye Qingxuan did not intend to use these thirty-seven demon cores for the time being.

He planned to wait until his attainments in the four arts of cultivation reached the peak of the sixth rank before crafting these thirty-six demon cores into sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion elixirs.

A sixth-rank supreme-grade nuclear explosion elixir released an energy level sufficient to rival a single strike from the early stage of the Void Penetration realm.

Although it posed little danger to high-rank cultivators or high-rank beings with exceptional intelligence, it could produce unexpected effects in certain special scenarios.

After all, the current Nuclear Explosion Pill series, though merely a pure energy attack.

Yet the energy tier of a Grade Six Supreme Nuclear Explosion Pill has at least reached the threshold of the Void Penetration realm.

In terms of destructive power alone, it is no longer comparable to an ordinary Soul Transformation realm cultivator.

A Grade Six Supreme Nuclear Explosion Pill can barely touch the edge of Grade Seven items; its value is naturally extraordinary.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan would not easily use these thirty-seven Grade Six demon cores.

As for demon cores below Grade Six.

The Tianfu Shop's daily acquisitions, combined with previous stock, can still barely supply the Nuclear Explosion Pill sources for both the Tianfu Shop and the Mysterious Mall.

But relying solely on the demon core sources within the Xuantian Sect is not a long-term solution.

Especially after his external avatar completes building a city in the Dongji Domain, the demand for Nuclear Explosion Pills will inevitably surge again.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment.

Recalling the descriptions of the four outer domains beyond the Di Xuan Realm found in the books, Ye Qingxuan instinctively narrowed his eyes slightly and said:

"Perhaps the Dongji Domain would be an excellent source of demon cores."

According to what Ye Qingxuan learned from the books in the Xuantian Sect's library.

The four outer domains of the Di Xuan Realm are currently a situation where demon beasts and the human race coexist, even in a balance of power.

That is to say, within the four outer domains of the Di Xuan Realm, the number of demon beasts must be extremely large.

Once his external avatar successfully builds a city in the Dongji Domain.

Utilizing the World Gate carried by his external avatar, he could transport demon cores from the Dongji Domain into the five inner domains of the Di Xuan Realm at extremely low cost.

In this way, his Nuclear Explosion Pill industry would inevitably flourish once again, no longer constrained by raw materials.

Moreover, demon beast essence blood, scales, armor, fur, and so on are all excellent raw materials.

Once a stable channel for acquiring demon beasts is established, it will inevitably bring him immense profit.

Thinking of this, a faint smile involuntarily appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

(End of this chapter)