Chapter 267: The Passage of Time

Time flows leisurely.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Ye Qingxuan's explorer clone had been sitting motionlessly at the summit of the secret realm's giant mountain for fifteen long years.

With the cultivation base of this particular clone, attempting to refine a mid-grade spirit treasure was still somewhat strenuous.

Fifteen years of time passed.

Ye Ye Qingxuan's degree of refinement of the mid-grade spirit treasure, the giant mountain, had only reached the point of nearing ten percent.

Fortunately, Ye Ye Qingxuan's clone refining the mid-grade spirit treasure would not delay the cultivation of his main body.

Therefore, he had sufficient time to slowly refine the mid-grade spirit treasure beneath him.

Another three months of time slipped away.

Three months later, the miniature mountain atop Ye Ye Qingxuan's head suddenly vibrated slightly, resonating with the fluctuations of Ye Ye Qingxuan's spiritual power.

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

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

Before the projection of his main body's primordial spirit, the magic treasure spirit of the giant mountain and the magic treasure spirit of the Star Light Hall were floating, one on the left and one on the right, before Ye Ye Qingxuan's primordial spirit projection.

The true reason why Star Mountain was able to advance to a mid-grade spirit treasure happened to be recorded in that segment of the image projection.

It was a cave-heaven treasure refined by the ancestor of the Star Light Sect when he opened up this cave-heaven dojo.

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

Star Mountain, a one-star mid-grade spirit treasure, containing four-tenths of the Star Profound Meaning rules.

It had reached the threshold for the preliminary recognition of a magic treasure's master.

In this way, this secret realm could finally be considered as truly belonging to Ye Ye Qingxuan, thoroughly becoming his backyard.

After the preliminary recognition of the master, the giant mountain beneath Ye Ye Qingxuan thoroughly abandoned its resistance against Ye Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Ye Qingxuan's primordial spirit projection emitted a gentle radiance, shining upon the two great magic treasure spirits.

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

Its magic treasure spirit, that miniature mountain, transformed into a stream of light and escaped into Ye Ye Qingxuan's sea of consciousness.

Given time, it would not be a difficult matter for Ye Ye Qingxuan to thoroughly refine these two magic treasure spirits and completely control the main bodies of the two great spirit treasures.

It was the cultivation dojo of the Star Light ancestor and also the only cave-heaven secret realm of the Star Light Sect.

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

The original Star Mountain was only a three-star lower-grade spirit treasure; it was only later, through a fortuitous coincidence, that it automatically advanced to the one-star mid-grade spirit treasure level.

By utilizing the Star Mountain that had preliminarily recognized its master, Ye Ye Qingxuan could already freely control the entrance and exit of this secret realm.

This secret realm where Ye Ye Qingxuan was located was previously named the Star Light Cave-Heaven Dojo.

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

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

This giant mountain spirit treasure beneath him was named Star Mountain.

Watching the images surfacing in his mind, Ye Ye Qingxuan gained a clear understanding of the reason for the Star Light Sect's disappearance.

The Star Light Art, the inheritance cultivation technique practiced by the Star Light Sect, could allow cultivators to condense Star Spirit Light.

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

The starlight within the Star Light mountain range outside the secret realm was the Star Spirit Light overflowing from within the secret realm.

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

As long as the purity of the Star Spirit Light was increased, by utilizing the vast Star Spirit Light, it could even assist cultivators in comprehending Profound Meaning rules.

Over a hundred thousand years ago.

After the Star Light ancestor's cultivation base reached the peak of the Void Penetration Realm, his cultivation base could not make any progress for a long time.

The Star Profound Meaning rules he had comprehended had always been stuck at the three-tenths stage, unable to break through to the minor completion stage.

When his lifespan was nearing its end.

Facing the arrival of death and the longing for the immortal Dao, the Star Light ancestor's evil thoughts arose frequently.

In the end, the Star Light ancestor still failed to suppress the evil thoughts in his heart.

Within this Star Mountain, by utilizing the cave-heaven treasure, he sacrificed all the practitioners of the Star Light Sect.

He wanted to utilize the Star Spirit Light condensed from all the cultivators of the Star Light Sect to suddenly comprehend the four-tenths stage of Star Profound Meaning and break through to the Void Meditation Realm.

It was just a pity.

This act of the Star Light ancestor violated his own Dao heart.

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

The moment he broke through to the Void Meditation Realm, he could not control his own rampaging spiritual power and directly passed away on the spot.

Everything the Star Light ancestor did ultimately achieved Star Mountain.

After absorbing a vast amount of Star Spirit Light and the Star Profound Meaning rules that dissipated after the Star Light ancestor passed away.

After a long period of evolution, Star Mountain finally gestated the four-tenths stage of Star Profound Meaning rules within its body and advanced to the level of a mid-grade spirit treasure.

Until today, over a hundred thousand years later.

Ye Ye Qingxuan entered the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm and obtained everything left behind by the Star Light Sect.

After watching the images, the doubts in Ye Ye Qingxuan's heart were instantly dispelled.

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

It was just that he did not expect that the severance of the Star Light Sect's inheritance would actually come from the Star Light Sect's ancestor.

One can only say, worldly affairs are impermanent!

The Star Light ancestor violated his own Dao heart and gambled everything, only to ultimately fall under the inner demon born after he violated his Dao heart.

After the images in his mind dissipated.

Ye Ye Qingxuan cast his gaze toward the Star Mountain beneath his feet, an undisguisable smile appearing on his face.

After he preliminarily recognized Star Mountain as his master, he could not only control the entrance and exit of the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm.

He could also utilize Star Mountain to perceive everything within the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm.

Under Ye Ye Qingxuan's perception, he learned.

Beneath Star Mountain, there was not only a seventh-order spirit vein, but also a seventh-order Star Light spirit stone mine, and a seventh-order spirit herb garden opened up within the seventh-order spirit vein.

At this moment, within the seventh-order spirit herb garden, there were one hundred and eight seventh-order spirit herbs surrounded by various powers of origin, emitting faint spiritual light.

These seventh-order spirit herbs could be used to refine various origin elixirs that had no side effects and directly enhanced cultivation bases.

It was just that, with the cultivation base of Ye Ye Qingxuan's main body at this time.

In the short term, he had no way to utilize these one hundred and eight seventh-order spirit herbs to refine origin elixirs.

Even so, the harvest from the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm was still enough to make Ye Ye Qingxuan ecstatic.

After occupying the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm.

He finally possessed a stable source of spirit crystals and seventh-order items.

Under Ye Ye Qingxuan's perception.

On the basis of not destroying the spirit vein and spirit mine.

This seventh-order Star Light spirit stone mine beneath Star Mountain could produce one hundred units of seventh-order Star Light stones every year.

That seventh-order spirit vein, in the situation of not supplying cultivators for cultivation and not mining spirit stones.

Could produce one thousand lower-grade spirit crystals and three mid-grade spirit crystals every year.

As for that seventh-order spirit herb garden, Ye Ye Qingxuan intended to maintain the status quo.

The growth of seventh-order spirit herbs required at least three thousand years of time, and the growth process would consume a vast amount of spiritual energy from the spirit vein.

This would affect the birth of spirit crystals.

One hundred and eight seventh-order spirit herbs were already enough for Ye Ye Qingxuan's use in the early stage after advancing to the Void Penetration Realm.

When the time came that he needed spirit herbs, he could completely plant them within the Ye Qingxuan Cave-Heaven Blessed Land.

Planting new spirit herbs within the Star Light Cave-Heaven secret realm would still require distraction to manage.

Therefore, Ye Ye Qingxuan simply chose to maintain the status quo of that seventh-order spirit herb garden.

Those one hundred and eight seventh-order spirit herbs within the spirit herb garden had long since matured and would not waste much spiritual power within the spirit herb garden.

Spirit herbs are not comparable to ordinary herbs.

Even if not picked, as long as there is the nourishment of spiritual power, they will not easily wither and die, and will grow anew.

The higher the rank of the spirit herb, the longer it will remain.

For spirit herbs above the seventh order, as long as there is sufficient spiritual energy for nourishment, remaining in the herb garden for tens of thousands of years is an easy matter.

(End of chapter)