[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu":3,"chapter-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-297":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortal Cultivation for Eternal Life: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1902583,2538,"Chapter 297: Confining the Demonic Beasts","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-297",297,"\u003Cp>After breaking Gu Daoxu's cultivation path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan looked at that mid-Soul Transformation realm \"great genius\" and said coldly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Now you want to turn around and use the common residents of your Treasure City to morally blackmail this City Lord?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph, you seek death!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having spoken, Ye Qingxuan shifted his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The starlight rules and meanings contained within the Starlight Hall surged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood sprayed in all directions, drenching the stunned Grand Elders of the Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan looked coldly at Gu Daoxu:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Establishing a Dao Vow must be done under conditions of genuine, voluntary intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the overwhelming force and thunderous momentum of superior power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his spiritual sense tallied the contents within the storage ring, a smile inevitably appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These twenty Grade Seven spirit mines were not something Ye Qingxuan cared about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, Ye Qingxuan did not make the people of the Treasure Pavilion establish a Dao Vow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After signing the contract with the people of the Treasure Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan left the Treasure Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Gu Daoxu, a crowd of Grand Elders bowed and said in unison:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the blood sliding down his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The treasury contained all kinds of Grade Four and above spiritual herbs and materials, specialties unique to the Starfall Province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without wasting any time, he casually took out a Grade Six contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would absolutely obediently deliver seventy percent of the Treasure Pavilion's annual profits to Dongxuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the people of the Treasure Pavilion were not prepared to endure his wrath again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the flight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, the people of the Treasure Pavilion were certainly unwilling and resentful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Ye Qingxuan did not destroy the Treasure Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The harvest of ten million top-grade spirit stones, plus a large quantity of Grade Four and above heavenly treasures and earthly wonders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting and killing is merely the lowest level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our Treasure Pavilion is willing to offer up seventy percent of our annual profits!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After destroying the Treasure Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan did not have enough personnel under his command to take over the Treasure Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without involving the common residents of Treasure City, Ye Qingxuan could easily suppress these Grand Elders of the Treasure Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the contract is established, if the people of the Treasure Pavilion violate it, Ye Qingxuan will know immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After letting out a bitter laugh, he slowly bowed and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan began to examine the gains from this journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not have the time or energy to supervise the operations of the Treasure Pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was simply because Dongxuan City currently lacked sufficient personnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, within the vaults of the Treasure Pavilion's main hall, Ye Qingxuan also obtained a large quantity of spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total value was approximately ten million top-grade spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our Treasure Pavilion is willing to offer up seventy percent of our annual profits!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were even twenty Grade Seven spirit mines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of shock, Gu Daoxu instantly came to his senses and abandoned his delusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving the Treasure Pavilion intact was the only way to maximize Ye Qingxuan's interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Ye Qingxuan now occupied a Grade Seven Starlight Stone spirit mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vaults of the main hall stored only Grade Four and above heavenly treasures and earthly wonders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it would only allow other powers in the Starfall Province to reap the benefits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These spirit stones were mostly high-grade and top-grade spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with his current status, Ye Qingxuan could not help but smile with joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he later set up the Grade Seven Star Array, he would not need to purchase additional auxiliary materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a cheerful mood, Ye Qingxuan increased his speed slightly as he flew toward the Water Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon returning to the Water Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan immediately began setting up arrays without stopping, to confine the range of the demonic beasts within the Water Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the scale of the demonic beasts in the Water Realm and its vastness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan needed to set up thousands of arrays, both large and small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, some beast habitats needed to be relocated and gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, it would still take quite some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Ye Qingxuan was confining the beasts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he unexpectedly discovered a group of spiritual beasts, pangolins, numbering over three thousand, with cultivation bases mostly at the first and second tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the leading Pangolin King had a cultivation base at the third tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main difference between spiritual beasts and demons lies in this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>spiritual beasts possess clear spiritual nature and stable spiritual sense, allowing them to form contracts with humans without rejecting the contract seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one has a gentle temperament with nascent intelligence, while the other has a violent temperament with dim intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the records Ye Qingxuan read in the Xuantian Sect's library,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the earliest spiritual beasts evolved from demon beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This evolution is not easy; the higher the tier of the demon beast, the harder it is for such an evolution to occur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is why high-tier spiritual beasts are extremely rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once evolved into a spiritual beast,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when two spiritual beasts mate, they can directly give birth to spiritual beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depending on their biological traits and tier, the probability of spiritual beasts producing offspring varies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, low-tier spiritual beasts generally form groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But high-tier spiritual beasts rarely form groups of sufficient scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group of spiritual beasts, pangolins, that Ye Qingxuan found in the Waterland Realm, were a group of low-tier spiritual beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bloodline limit was basically at the second tier; only a few Pangolin Kings could advance to the third tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spiritual beasts, the pangolins, named for their ability to burrow through mountains, are among the best miners in the cultivation world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan prepared to contract the leading Pangolin King to control the entire pangolin group and mine for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, now was not the time to arrange for this group of pangolins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After temporarily confining this group of spiritual beasts, the pangolins,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan continued to relocate and confine other beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Ye Qingxuan set up formations and relocated and confined all the beasts within the Waterland Realm,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a full seven years had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over these seven years, Ye Qingxuan was not only confining beasts but also thoroughly exploring the entire Waterland Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the entire Waterland Realm,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>besides spiritual veins, there were numerous spiritual mines and spiritual plants ranging from the first to the sixth tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the spiritual plants, besides vast quantities of spiritual herbs, there were many special spiritual plants usable as spiritual materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These could be used to refine magic treasures, formation flags, or even as raw materials for talismans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although these things held little use for Ye Qingxuan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they could serve as sustainable, renewable resources for the future development of Dongxuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over seven years, Ye Qingxuan marked the locations of all spiritual mines and spiritual plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would facilitate management by the cultivators under Dongxuan City's command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this, there were many spiritual lands outside the Waterland Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them were spiritual lands formed by fourth and fifth-tier spiritual veins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan would not abandon these spiritual lands this time, leaving them for wandering cultivators to snatch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a gathering place for sixth-tier beasts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no cultivators had dared to settle or explore around the Waterland Realm before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the spiritual lands surrounding the Waterland Realm also contained abundant resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan planned to confine all these spiritual lands later, using them as resource points for Dongxuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With everything arranged and preparations made,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now it was time to set up the Seventh-Tier Star Array and decide exactly how to expand Dongxuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qingxuan had only fully comprehended the Seventh-Tier Star Array one year ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The required formation foundations and formation discs had not yet been refined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Successfully setting up the Seventh-Tier Star Array might still take several more years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to expand Dongxuan City?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a look of contemplation appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he thought for a moment, then flew directly toward Dongxuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had an idea, but was unsure if it could be realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to return to Dongxuan City first to investigate further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1629,"2026-06-12T14:27:00.743Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","72726ef50918201f74636f099873f47517dce80d799cad8c53ecaa97f66e085f","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-298","eternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-chapter-296",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-cultivation-starting-from-the-blessed-cu-cover.jpg"]