Chapter 170

To this day.

No one can know exactly how vast the Endless Sea is, nor how many continents lie within it.

Even the Profound Heaven Sect, which has inherited its legacy for millions of years, possesses only sea charts leading to the four outer realms beyond the Earthly Profound Realm.

It is not that the Profound Heaven Sect lacks the strength to explore the entire Endless Sea, but rather that there is no need.

A Mahayana realm expert can swiftly traverse realms by deploying spatial teleportation.

Any major disturbances or intense energy fluctuations within the Endless Sea are monitored by the various hegemonic factions.

Otherwise, the human race of the Earthly Profound Realm could not restrain the demon beasts within the Endless Sea.

However, being able to monitor major disturbances and energy fluctuations within the Endless Sea

does not mean these hegemonic factions are willing to expend time and effort to map the entire Endless Sea step by step.

To put it bluntly, except for existences beyond the Tribulation Crossing realm, nothing else catches the eye of these long-established hegemonic factions.

Minor matters that do not affect the overall situation are not worth their making a huge fuss over.

Three months later.

The skyship of the Tianyuan Trading House finally arrived at a dock in the Eastern Extreme Domain.

This dock is also property of the Tianyuan Trading House and one of the outposts they established in the Eastern Extreme Domain.

Upon arrival at the dock, Manager Lin, who had previously sold Ye Qingxuan his boarding pass, appeared again. Looking at the crowd gathered on the deck, he shouted loudly, "Everyone, we have arrived at the Eastern Extreme Domain. Please feel free to do as you wish!"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan paid no attention to the others and left the skyship on his own, fleeing deep into the Eastern Extreme Domain.

Watching Ye Qingxuan's departing figure, Manager Lin's eyes flickered as he stared at him for a moment.

But in the end, he withdrew his gaze and abandoned the plan forming in his mind.

Turning his head, he subconsciously glanced at the few people chatting cheerfully and slowly walking out of the skyship, his eyes revealing an inexplicable expression.

After leaving the skyship, Ye Qingxuan did not rush to travel.

The Eastern Extreme Domain is not like the Eastern Domain, where every major city has a teleportation array.

In the Eastern Extreme Domain, teleportation arrays connecting cities exist only within territories ruled by the same faction.

In other regions, there are simply no teleportation arrays for long-distance travel.

Therefore, cultivators in the Eastern Extreme Domain often rely on their own flight to travel, and those moving between regions are extremely rare.

Under such circumstances, Ye Qingxuan could do nothing but accept it.

Before finding a suitable location to build a city, he could only travel by flight.

However, traveling by flight in the Eastern Extreme Domain, where demon beasts and humans coexist without any major faction suppressing everything, might lead to encountering dangers.

So Ye Qingxuan prepared to first activate a realm gate, teleport some items from his main body to this location, and then continue his journey.

Arriving at a secluded forest.

Ye Qingxuan arranged formations and opened a crude cave dwelling.

Once everything was ready, he activated the realm gate carried by his external avatar, connecting it to the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Within moments, a storage bag floated out of the realm gate and landed in Ye Qingxuan's hand.

Opening the storage bag, Ye Qingxuan took out a Realm-Suppressing Pagoda and began to sit cross-legged, refining it on the spot.

Earlier on the Tianyuan Trading House's skyship, out of caution, Ye Qingxuan had not activated the realm gate to teleport the Realm-Suppressing Pagoda to his external avatar.

Since Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base broke through to the late Nascent Soul realm and his mastery of the Artifact Dao reached the mid-stage of the sixth tier,

He had accordingly upgraded the four Realm-Suppressing Pagodas to the mid-grade spiritual treasure level.

As for why he did not upgrade them to the high-grade spiritual treasure level, it is because a Nascent Soul realm cultivator using high-grade spiritual treasures would find it somewhat strenuous, unable to sustain combat for too long.

Inside the storage bag, besides one Realm-Suppressing Pagoda,

there was also a sixth-tier mid-grade flying boat, three sixth-tier mid-grade combat puppets, a stack of sixth-tier talismans of various grades, and over a thousand fifth and sixth-tier formation discs.

The precious materials needed for combat puppets are far more numerous than those for auxiliary puppets. Given the current influence of the Tianfu Shop, Ye Qingxuan had only managed to collect the sixth-tier spiritual materials required to forge three sixth-tier mid-grade combat puppets.

To gather all the heavenly treasures and earthly herbs needed to forge sixth-tier puppets, Ye Qingxuan spent nearly 150,000 supreme spirit stones.

The three forged sixth-tier mid-grade combat puppets were all sent to his external avatar.

On the bodies of these three sixth-tier mid-grade combat puppets, Ye Qingxuan had inscribed several top-tier spells.

Although they might still fall short against a mid-stage Soul Transformation realm cultivator, they should have no trouble dealing with ordinary early-stage Soul Transformation realm cultivators.

The energy source for these three sixth-tier puppets was the low-grade spirit crystals Ye Qingxuan obtained in exchange for his nuclear explosion elixir formula.

Ye Qingxuan went to such great lengths to ensure that the sixth-tier mid-grade puppets he crafted had no obvious weaknesses.

Even the sixth-tier mid-grade flying boat was meticulously crafted by Ye Qingxuan, utilizing six low-grade spirit crystals as its energy source and deploying a massive energy-gathering array.

Spending his entire stock of 30,000 low-grade spirit crystals made Ye Qingxuan ache for quite some time.

Those were spirit crystals reserved exclusively for high-grade cultivators! Except for exchanging points with the Earthly Profound Realm Alliance, Ye Qingxuan had not yet secured a stable channel to obtain spirit crystals.

It can be said that, up to now, Ye Qingxuan's 30,000 low-grade spirit crystals are being used one by one, with none to replace them.

No wonder Ye Qingxuan felt heartache.

However, the safety of his external avatar was of paramount importance.

For the sake of his external avatar's safety, Ye Qingxuan had to consider every detail as thoroughly as possible.

He prepared all his trump cards for his external avatar so that it could better establish itself in the Eastern Extreme Domain.

Ye Qingxuan believed that what he invested today would eventually be earned back in the Eastern Extreme Domain.

Just as Ye Qingxuan was refining the Realm-Suppressing Pagoda,

hundreds of li away from Ye Qingxuan, a fierce battle was erupting.

This battle was a siege launched by a group of bandit cultivators from the Eastern Extreme Domain against Han Ming and his companions.

It was quite a coincidence.

Among the cultivators who traveled to the Eastern Extreme Domain for training aboard the Tianyuan Trading House's skyship.

The cultivators Han Ming invited, the few who agreed to his invitation, had no guardians accompanying them.

The group they formed consisted either of fallen scions from ruined families fleeing to the Dongji Domain to escape powerful enemies,

or, like Han Ming, scions from great families who had secretly slipped out to gain experience.

Perhaps due to shared interests, these people readily agreed after Han Ming extended his invitation.

They hit it off immediately, preparing to venture together in the Dongji Domain and experience a different kind of life.

Yet they never expected that, after moving far from the skyship of the Tianyuan Trading House, they were suddenly ambushed.

Now that Ye Qingxuan was a Nascent Soul cultivator, a mere few hundred li was naturally within his perception.

Sensing the battle fluctuations, Ye Qingxuan, who had been meditating with eyes closed to refine the World-Subduing Pagoda, opened his eyes.

Setting down the World-Subduing Pagoda in his hand, Ye Qingxuan stood up.

He retrieved dozens of array plates that had just been teleported over and reconfigured a small-scale sixth-rank protective formation.

After finishing all this, Ye Qingxuan clapped his hands, smiled with satisfaction, sat cross-legged again, closed his eyes, and resumed refining the World-Subduing Pagoda.

To live long, one must meddle less and avoid entangling karmic causes.

This was a projection of immense importance; if it perished, the plan for the Dongji Domain would inevitably be indefinitely delayed.

This would greatly slow the growth of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven and Ye Qingxuan's own original body.

This was not what Ye Qingxuan wanted to see.

Having expended so much effort, he naturally did not wish for a hasty conclusion.

Therefore, he could only be cautious, cautious, and yet more cautious! (End of this chapter)