Chapter 260: Starlight Palace

Under Ye Qingxuan's perception.

The entire mountain peak covers an area of a hundred li in radius and stands roughly ten thousand li high.

Inside lies a sixth-grade spiritual vein.

Since no cultivators have practiced here to consume the vein's power,

the mountain peak has nurtured over a thousand sixth-grade spiritual herbs and several thousand fifth-grade spiritual herbs.

As for spiritual herbs below the fifth grade, they are too numerous to count.

Backed by the Profound Heaven Sect, as long as Ye Qingxuan has enough spirit stones, he lacks nothing below the seventh-grade spiritual herbs.

However, the sixth-grade spiritual vein within this mountain peak can be considered the first sixth-grade vein he has ever possessed.

Such a harvest is enough to make Ye Qingxuan delighted.

Sixth-grade formation barriers.

Not only would they violate the rules set by the major powers of the Earth-Mystic Realm, but they would also be sensed by the major sects.

The formation barriers within the valley are not much weaker than those on the previous mountain peak.

First, he broke through the formation barriers within the valley.

Moreover, this was merely the first sixth-grade formation barrier he had broken within the inner area of the secret realm.

Rashly extracting the source of the spiritual vein from the vein to transfer it.

Within the valley, Ye Qingxuan gained another sixth-grade spiritual vein and over a thousand sixth-grade spiritual herbs.

Ye Qingxuan did not linger.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan also spent half an incense stick's time to break the formation barriers within the valley.

Using the method from before, Ye Qingxuan activated his minor divine ability: the Minor Five Elements Grinding Mill.

After the secret realm was taken over by the Earth-Mystic Realm, it too became territory of the Earth-Mystic Realm.

After breaking the formation barriers within the valley.

"Pity, the spiritual veins within the secret realm cannot be transferred into a cave heaven blessed land."

Besides this one location Ye Qingxuan has just broken, three more remain.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Ye Qingxuan would not do something that cuts off his own retreat.

Ye Qingxuan arrived once again before the palace floating high in the sky.

Moreover, it would be despised by the world consciousness rules of the Earth-Mystic Realm, hindering future development.

These three locations are respectively a majestic floating palace, a vast valley, and a vast lake.

Gazing at the massive sixth-grade spiritual vein within the valley, Ye Qingxuan shook his head slightly in regret:

Within this inner area of the Void-Transcending secret realm.

After breaking the first sixth-grade formation barrier.

Looking at the three large characters on the palace plaque, Ye Qingxuan said with slight surprise:

"Starlight Palace? Could this Void-Transcending secret realm be the Void-Transcending dojo of a great power from the Starlight Sect?"

He had seen records of the Starlight Palace in the Profound Heaven Sect's library.

This Starlight Palace seemed to be an inheritance magic treasure of the Starlight Sect, a Void-Transcending power in Xingzhou over a hundred thousand years ago.

Over a hundred thousand years ago, for some unknown reason, the entire Starlight Sect vanished directly from Xingzhou.

Initially, speculation outside regarding the Starlight Sect

was that the sect chose to stay away from the mortal world, retreating into the Void-Transcending dojo of their great power to become a reclusive sect.

After all, within the Earth-Mystic Realm,

powers with Void-Transcending realm or higher great powers as their guardians

choosing to relocate to a Void-Transcending dojo to become reclusive sects were not few.

Until later, when no information about the Starlight Palace ever emerged from outside.

Cultivators in Xingzhou gradually realized that something must have happened to the Starlight Palace.

Even reclusive powers inevitably go out to recruit disciples; they cannot completely cut ties with the outside world.

Memories of the Profound Heaven Sect's records on the Starlight Sect surfaced in his mind.

Looking at the Starlight Palace before him, Ye Qingxuan's eyes lit up.

As the inheritance magic treasure of the Starlight Sect, the Starlight Palace itself seemed to be a palace-type magic treasure of the inferior-grade spiritual treasure level.

For a magic treasure to evolve to the spiritual treasure level, it must nurture elemental mystery rules.

Inferior-grade spiritual treasures are the primary magic treasures used by cultivators at the Void-Transcending realm.

Depending on the realm level of the elemental mystery rules nurtured within an inferior-grade spiritual treasure,

inferior-grade spiritual treasures can be further subdivided as follows:

An inferior-grade spiritual treasure nurturing one-tenth realm elemental mystery rules is a one-star inferior-grade spiritual treasure.

An inferior-grade spiritual treasure nurturing two-tenths realm elemental mystery rules is a two-star inferior-grade spiritual treasure.

An inferior-grade spiritual treasure nurturing three-tenths realm elemental mystery rules is a three-star inferior-grade spiritual treasure.

As for a spiritual treasure nurturing four-tenths realm elemental mystery rules, it is a one-star medium-grade spiritual treasure.

And so on.

The elemental mystery rule realms from one-tenth to three-tenths are merely the entry-level stage.

The elemental mystery rule realms from four-tenths to six-tenths are the small-completion stage.

The elemental mystery rule realms from seven-tenths to nine-tenths are the great-completion stage.

The ten-tenths realm elemental mystery rule realm is the perfect realm of mystery rules.

Once the threshold of these four stages is crossed, the change is earth-shattering.

Thus, the final four realms below the Immortal Realm, and the four grades of spiritual treasures,

are all intimately tied to the layers of elemental mysteries.

Gazing at the Starlight Hall before him, Ye Qingxuan's eyes revealed a look of longing.

According to records in the Profound Heaven Sect's library, the Starlight Hall is a three-star, low-grade spiritual treasure.

If he could seize this Starlight Hall, then his gains this time would be enormous.

Materials above the sixth tier are almost all traded using spirit crystals.

That is to say, even if Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base later advanced to the Void Penetration realm,

without sufficient spirit crystals to trade for adequate seventh-tier spiritual materials,

at that time, forget about forging a palace-type low-grade spiritual treasure.

Even if Ye Qingxuan wished to break through to become a seventh-tier artifact refiner, he would lack sufficient materials for practice.

Therefore, regarding the sixth tier and below,

whether it be a cultivator's cultivation base or any other aspect, the gap is as vast as heaven and earth.

From the outside, this Starlight Hall does not appear particularly large.

However, above the Starlight Hall, Ye Qingxuan sensed extremely strong spatial array fluctuations.

Clearly, the internal space of this Starlight Hall is far from as simple as it appears on the surface.

The apparent size of the entire Starlight Hall should be capable of arbitrary expansion and contraction.

Palace-type magic treasures inherently cost far more than ordinary magic treasures.

Setting aside other gains within the secret realm,

this Starlight Hall alone is worth at least one hundred thousand low-grade spirit crystals, far exceeding the one hundred million high-grade spirit stones Ye Qingxuan gave Luo Tian.

However, after the excitement subsided, Ye Qingxuan's expression gradually turned grave.

For he discovered that the power of the remaining array formations and prohibitions surrounding the Starlight Hall had reached the peak of the sixth tier.

If it were merely a single remaining array prohibition with power at the peak of the sixth tier, it would not warrant such gravity on Ye Qingxuan's face.

With over a hundred sixth-tier peak-grade talismans carried by his clone,

for Ye Qingxuan to dismantle a single, riddled, and leaking remaining array of only peak sixth-tier power would be no difficult task.

But the remaining array prohibitions around the Starlight Hall operate as a flawed array with the Starlight Hall as its array core.

A three-star, low-grade spiritual treasure combined with a remaining array of peak sixth-tier power.

Under a full-scale eruption,

one slight mistake, and this clone of his would perish on the spot.

After weighing the matter for a moment, Ye Qingxuan decided to wait until he had fully investigated the detailed situation of the entire secret realm,

then purchased array-breaking talismans and magic treasures specifically within the Profound Heaven Sect, ensuring absolute safety,

before dismantling the array prohibitions outside the Starlight Hall.

After making his decision, Ye Qingxuan fled toward the innermost area of the secret realm, where the final sixth-tier array prohibition was located.

(End of this chapter)