Chapter 297: Confining the Demonic Beasts

After breaking Gu Daoxu's cultivation path.

Ye Qingxuan looked at that mid-Soul Transformation realm "great genius" and said coldly:

"When your Treasure Pavilion directly attacked our Dongxuan City with the Heaven-Shaking Bell, did you ever consider the lives and deaths of the common residents of Dongxuan City?"

"What? Now you want to turn around and use the common residents of your Treasure City to morally blackmail this City Lord?"

"Hmph, you seek death!"

Having spoken, Ye Qingxuan shifted his mind.

The starlight rules and meanings contained within the Starlight Hall surged.

"Bang!"

In an instant, before Gu Daoxu could even beg for mercy, that mid-Soul Transformation realm Grand Elder of the Pavilion exploded instantly and perished directly.

Blood sprayed in all directions, drenching the stunned Grand Elders of the Pavilion.

Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan looked coldly at Gu Daoxu:

Establishing a Dao Vow must be done under conditions of genuine, voluntary intent.

Under the overwhelming force and thunderous momentum of superior power.

As his spiritual sense tallied the contents within the storage ring, a smile inevitably appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

These twenty Grade Seven spirit mines were not something Ye Qingxuan cared about.

Under these circumstances, Ye Qingxuan did not make the people of the Treasure Pavilion establish a Dao Vow.

After signing the contract with the people of the Treasure Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan left the Treasure Pavilion.

Behind Gu Daoxu, a crowd of Grand Elders bowed and said in unison:

The reason Ye Qingxuan established a Grade Six contract was merely to prevent the Treasure Pavilion from deceiving him regarding the seventy percent share of profits.

Feeling the blood sliding down his face.

The treasury contained all kinds of Grade Four and above spiritual herbs and materials, specialties unique to the Starfall Province.

Without wasting any time, he casually took out a Grade Six contract.

They would absolutely obediently deliver seventy percent of the Treasure Pavilion's annual profits to Dongxuan City.

As long as the people of the Treasure Pavilion were not prepared to endure his wrath again.

With a Grade Six contract, even if a Soul Transformation realm expert violated it, the backlash would not be enough to make them pay too high a price.

During the flight.

Obviously, the people of the Treasure Pavilion were certainly unwilling and resentful.

The reason Ye Qingxuan did not destroy the Treasure Pavilion.

The harvest of ten million top-grade spirit stones, plus a large quantity of Grade Four and above heavenly treasures and earthly wonders.

Fighting and killing is merely the lowest level.

"Our Treasure Pavilion is willing to offer up seventy percent of our annual profits!"

"Do you think I am easy to talk to? This City Lord has limited time. If your Treasure Pavilion is unwilling, then this City Lord does not mind destroying your Treasure Pavilion."

After destroying the Treasure Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan did not have enough personnel under his command to take over the Treasure Pavilion.

Without involving the common residents of Treasure City, Ye Qingxuan could easily suppress these Grand Elders of the Treasure Pavilion.

Once the contract is established, if the people of the Treasure Pavilion violate it, Ye Qingxuan will know immediately.

After letting out a bitter laugh, he slowly bowed and said:

If a real fight broke out, Ye Qingxuan would directly sacrifice a large amount of low-grade spirit crystals to fully revive the Starlight Hall.

Ye Qingxuan began to examine the gains from this journey.

He did not have the time or energy to supervise the operations of the Treasure Pavilion.

It was simply because Dongxuan City currently lacked sufficient personnel.

In addition, within the vaults of the Treasure Pavilion's main hall, Ye Qingxuan also obtained a large quantity of spirit stones.

The total value was approximately ten million top-grade spirit stones.

"Our Treasure Pavilion is willing to offer up seventy percent of our annual profits!"

There were even twenty Grade Seven spirit mines.

After a moment of shock, Gu Daoxu instantly came to his senses and abandoned his delusions.

Leaving the Treasure Pavilion intact was the only way to maximize Ye Qingxuan's interests.

However, Ye Qingxuan now occupied a Grade Seven Starlight Stone spirit mine.

The vaults of the main hall stored only Grade Four and above heavenly treasures and earthly wonders.

The Treasure Pavilion truly lived up to its reputation as a Soul Transformation realm power with a history of tens of thousands of years in the Starfall Province.

Otherwise, it would only allow other powers in the Starfall Province to reap the benefits.

These spirit stones were mostly high-grade and top-grade spirit stones.

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan nodded.

Even with his current status, Ye Qingxuan could not help but smile with joy.

With this harvest.

When he later set up the Grade Seven Star Array, he would not need to purchase additional auxiliary materials.

In a cheerful mood, Ye Qingxuan increased his speed slightly as he flew toward the Water Realm.

Upon returning to the Water Realm.

Ye Qingxuan immediately began setting up arrays without stopping, to confine the range of the demonic beasts within the Water Realm.

Considering the scale of the demonic beasts in the Water Realm and its vastness.

Ye Qingxuan needed to set up thousands of arrays, both large and small.

Plus, some beast habitats needed to be relocated and gathered.

Even with Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, it would still take quite some time.

Time passed.

While Ye Qingxuan was confining the beasts,

he unexpectedly discovered a group of spiritual beasts, pangolins, numbering over three thousand, with cultivation bases mostly at the first and second tiers.

Only the leading Pangolin King had a cultivation base at the third tier.

The main difference between spiritual beasts and demons lies in this:

spiritual beasts possess clear spiritual nature and stable spiritual sense, allowing them to form contracts with humans without rejecting the contract seal.

Demon beasts have turbid spiritual nature and violent spiritual sense, filled with evil qi; even if a human forcibly contracts them, the contract seal will be slowly destroyed.

Simply put,

one has a gentle temperament with nascent intelligence, while the other has a violent temperament with dim intelligence.

According to the records Ye Qingxuan read in the Xuantian Sect's library,

the earliest spiritual beasts evolved from demon beasts.

Once a demon beast undergoes this evolution, it undergoes a fundamental, all-around transformation, no longer acting on instinct, gradually forming a new spiritual species.

This evolution is not easy; the higher the tier of the demon beast, the harder it is for such an evolution to occur.

This is why high-tier spiritual beasts are extremely rare.

Once evolved into a spiritual beast,

when two spiritual beasts mate, they can directly give birth to spiritual beasts.

Depending on their biological traits and tier, the probability of spiritual beasts producing offspring varies.

Thus, low-tier spiritual beasts generally form groups.

But high-tier spiritual beasts rarely form groups of sufficient scale.

The group of spiritual beasts, pangolins, that Ye Qingxuan found in the Waterland Realm, were a group of low-tier spiritual beasts.

Their bloodline limit was basically at the second tier; only a few Pangolin Kings could advance to the third tier.

Spiritual beasts, the pangolins, named for their ability to burrow through mountains, are among the best miners in the cultivation world.

Ye Qingxuan prepared to contract the leading Pangolin King to control the entire pangolin group and mine for him.

However, now was not the time to arrange for this group of pangolins.

After temporarily confining this group of spiritual beasts, the pangolins,

Ye Qingxuan continued to relocate and confine other beasts.

By the time Ye Qingxuan set up formations and relocated and confined all the beasts within the Waterland Realm,

a full seven years had passed.

Over these seven years, Ye Qingxuan was not only confining beasts but also thoroughly exploring the entire Waterland Realm.

Within the entire Waterland Realm,

besides spiritual veins, there were numerous spiritual mines and spiritual plants ranging from the first to the sixth tier.

Among the spiritual plants, besides vast quantities of spiritual herbs, there were many special spiritual plants usable as spiritual materials.

These could be used to refine magic treasures, formation flags, or even as raw materials for talismans.

Although these things held little use for Ye Qingxuan,

they could serve as sustainable, renewable resources for the future development of Dongxuan City.

Over seven years, Ye Qingxuan marked the locations of all spiritual mines and spiritual plants.

This would facilitate management by the cultivators under Dongxuan City's command.

Besides this, there were many spiritual lands outside the Waterland Realm.

Among them were spiritual lands formed by fourth and fifth-tier spiritual veins.

Ye Qingxuan would not abandon these spiritual lands this time, leaving them for wandering cultivators to snatch up.

As a gathering place for sixth-tier beasts,

no cultivators had dared to settle or explore around the Waterland Realm before.

Therefore, the spiritual lands surrounding the Waterland Realm also contained abundant resources.

Ye Qingxuan planned to confine all these spiritual lands later, using them as resource points for Dongxuan City.

With everything arranged and preparations made,

now it was time to set up the Seventh-Tier Star Array and decide exactly how to expand Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan had only fully comprehended the Seventh-Tier Star Array one year ago.

The required formation foundations and formation discs had not yet been refined.

Successfully setting up the Seventh-Tier Star Array might still take several more years.

As for how to expand Dongxuan City?

After a look of contemplation appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes,

he thought for a moment, then flew directly toward Dongxuan City.

He had an idea, but was unsure if it could be realized.

He planned to return to Dongxuan City first to investigate further.

(End of this chapter)