Chapter 267: Starlight Ancestor

Time flows endlessly.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Qingxuan's explorer avatar had been sitting in silent meditation atop the giant mountain of the secret realm for fifteen years.

With the cultivation base of this avatar, refining a mid-grade magic treasure was still somewhat of a stretch.

Fifteen years passed.

Ye Qingxuan's refinement of the mid-grade magic treasure, the giant mountain, had only reached nearly ten percent.

Fortunately, the avatar's refinement of the mid-grade magic treasure did not hinder his original body's cultivation.

Therefore, he had ample time to slowly refine this mid-grade magic treasure beneath him.

Another three months passed.

Three months later, the miniature small mountain above Ye Qingxuan's head suddenly trembled slightly, resonating with his spiritual power fluctuations.

At this moment, Ye Qingxuan's refinement progress of the giant mountain's magic treasure spirit, the miniature small mountain, finally reached ten percent.

After the miniature small mountain vanished into Ye Qingxuan's sea of consciousness.

Before the projection of his original body's Primordial Spirit, the magic treasure spirits of the giant mountain and the Starlight Hall floated on the left and right respectively before Ye Qingxuan's Primordial Spirit projection.

The true reason why the Star Mountain could advance to a mid-grade magic treasure was recorded precisely within that image projection.

It was the cave heaven treasure forged by the Starlight Ancestor when he opened up this cave heaven training ground.

A piece of information and a segment of image projection instantly appeared in Ye Qingxuan's mind.

Star Mountain, a one-star mid-grade magic treasure, containing four-tenths realm star essence rules.

It had reached the threshold for initial recognition by the magic treasure.

With this, this secret realm truly belonged to Ye Qingxuan, becoming his private backyard completely.

After the initial recognition, the giant mountain beneath Ye Qingxuan completely ceased its resistance against him.

The projection of Ye Qingxuan's Primordial Spirit emitted a soft light, shining upon the two magic treasure spirits.

Under the illumination of the Primordial Spirit light, the connection Ye Qingxuan established with the magic treasure spirits was gradually deepening.

Its magic treasure spirit, that miniature small mountain, transformed into a streak of flowing light and vanished into Ye Qingxuan's sea of consciousness.

In time, for Ye Qingxuan to completely refine these two magic treasure spirits and fully master the original bodies of the two magic treasures would not be difficult.

It was the Starlight Ancestor's cultivation training ground, and the Starlight Sect's only cave heaven secret realm.

Within the sea of consciousness of this avatar of Ye Qingxuan.

The original Star Mountain was merely a three-star low-grade magic treasure; it only advanced to a one-star mid-grade magic treasure level later by chance.

With the help of the Star Mountain which had achieved initial recognition, Ye Qingxuan could now freely control the entrance and exit of this secret realm.

This secret realm where Ye Qingxuan was located was previously named the Starlight Cave Heaven Training Ground.

That piece of information recorded the detailed data of the giant mountain magic treasure beneath Ye Qingxuan.

That image segment recorded the entire process of the Starlight Sect's demise.

The giant mountain magic treasure beneath him was named Star Mountain.

Watching the image appearing in his mind, Ye Qingxuan gained a clear understanding of the reason for the Starlight Sect's disappearance.

The inherited cultivation technique of the Starlight Sect, the Starlight Art, allowed cultivators to condense Star Spirit Light.

The starlight drifting from the core mountainous region of this secret realm was, in fact, Star Spirit Light.

The starlight within the Starlight Mountain Range outside the secret realm was Star Spirit Light overflowing from within the secret realm.

Star Spirit Light could temporarily enhance a cultivator's comprehension, assist them in contemplating realm mysteries, and increase the success rate of breaking through realms.

As long as the purity of the Star Spirit Light was increased, relying on the vast amount of Star Spirit Light, it could even assist cultivators in contemplating rules and principles.

Over a hundred thousand years ago.

After the Starlight Ancestor's cultivation base reached the peak of the Void Realm, his progress stalled and he could not advance an inch.

The star essence rules he comprehended had been stuck at the three-tenths realm stage for a long time, unable to break through to the minor success stage.

As his lifespan neared its end.

Facing the approach of death and his longing for the path of immortality, the Starlight Ancestor frequently generated evil thoughts.

In the end, the Starlight Ancestor could not suppress the evil thoughts in his heart.

Within this Star Mountain, relying on the cave heaven treasure, he sacrificed all the cultivators of the Starlight Sect.

He intended to use the Star Spirit Light condensed by all the cultivators of the Starlight Sect to suddenly comprehend the four-tenths realm star essence rules and break through to the Empty Void Realm.

Unfortunately.

The Starlight Ancestor's actions violated his own Dao heart.

At the critical moment of his sudden comprehension, his heart demon suddenly erupted.

The moment he attempted to break through to the Empty Void Realm, he could not control his rampaging spiritual power and perished on the spot.

Everything the Starlight Ancestor did ultimately benefited the Star Mountain.

After absorbing a vast amount of Star Spirit Light and the star essence rules scattered after the Starlight Ancestor's perishing.

Through the long evolution of time, the Star Mountain finally nurtured four-tenths realm star essence rules within its body and advanced to the level of a mid-grade magic treasure.

Until today, over a hundred thousand years later.

Ye Qingxuan entered the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm and obtained everything left behind by the Starlight Sect.

After watching the image, Ye Qingxuan's doubts in his heart vanished instantly.

He had said that, judging by the various traces within the secret realm, it did not look like an invasion by a powerful enemy.

He just did not expect that the lineage of the Starlight Sect would be cut off by the Starlight Sect's own Ancestor.

One can only say, the world is unpredictable!

The Starlight Ancestor gambled everything by violating his own Dao heart, only to fall beneath the heart demon born after he violated his Dao heart.

After the image in his mind dissipated.

Ye Qingxuan cast his gaze toward the Star Mountain beneath his feet, a smile he could hardly conceal spreading across his face.

After initially binding the Star Mountain as his master, he could not only control the entrance and exit of the Starlight Cave Realm.

He could also use the Star Mountain to perceive everything within the Starlight Cave Realm.

Under Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense, he learned.

Beneath the Star Mountain lay not only a Grade Seven spiritual vein, but also a Grade Seven Starlight Spirit Stone mine, and a Grade Seven spiritual herb garden carved out within the Grade Seven spiritual vein.

At this moment, within the Grade Seven spiritual herb garden, one hundred and eight Grade Seven spiritual herbs, each surrounded by various sources of primal power, emitted faint spiritual light.

These Grade Seven spiritual herbs could be used to refine various primal power elixirs with no side effects that directly increased cultivation base.

However, given Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base in his true form.

He was unable to utilize these one hundred and eight Grade Seven spiritual herbs to refine primal power elixirs in the short term.

Even so, the harvest from the Starlight Cave Realm was enough to make Ye Qingxuan ecstatic.

After seizing the Starlight Cave Realm.

He finally possessed a stable source of spirit crystals and Grade Seven items.

Under Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense.

Without damaging the spiritual vein or the spirit stone mine.

This Grade Seven Starlight Spirit Stone mine beneath the Star Mountain could produce one hundred cubic units of Grade Seven Starlight Spirit Stones annually.

As for that Grade Seven spiritual vein, without supplying cultivators for practice or extracting spirit stones.

It could produce one thousand low-grade spirit crystals and three mid-grade spirit crystals each year.

Regarding that Grade Seven spiritual herb garden, Ye Qingxuan intended to maintain the status quo.

The growth of Grade Seven spiritual herbs required at least three thousand years, and the growth process would consume vast amounts of spiritual energy from the spiritual vein.

This would affect the formation of spirit crystals.

The one hundred and eight Grade Seven spiritual herbs were already sufficient for Ye Qingxuan's needs after advancing to the Void Penetration Realm's early stage.

By then, if he needed herbs, he could simply plant them within the Qingxuan Cave Realm's blessed land.

Planting new spiritual herbs within the Starlight Cave Realm would also require him to divert his attention to tend them.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan simply chose to maintain the status quo of that Grade Seven spiritual herb garden.

The one hundred and eight Grade Seven spiritual herbs within the garden had long since matured and would not consume much spiritual power while left there.

Spiritual herbs were not comparable to ordinary herbs.

Even if not harvested, as long as they received nourishment from spiritual power, they would not wither or fade easily, nor would they regrow.

The higher the grade of the spiritual herb, the longer it would remain preserved.

For spiritual herbs beyond Grade Seven, with sufficient spiritual energy nourishment, remaining in the herb garden for tens of thousands of years was a trivial matter.

(End of this chapter)