Chapter 481: Beating Zhu Dafu Senseless, Offering the Source of the Demon Vein

On the other side.

After settling the two sisters, Liu Yun'er and Liu Cai'er, Ye Qingxuan immediately felt a weight lift from his heart.

He returned to the stone pavilion in the outside world.

Looking at the tea on the stone table that had not yet cooled.

Ye Qingxuan waved his hand to reignite the Dao fire, preparing to relax properly.

Drinking tea, Ye Qingxuan felt he had forgotten something, but could not recall what it was at the moment.

"Forget it!"

Taking a sip of tea, Ye Qingxuan casually shook his head and decided not to think about other matters.

Time passed slowly; in the blink of an eye, several hours later, Ye Qingxuan put away the tea set and prepared to return to the Qingxuan Blessed Land to continue his seclusion.

He did not expect that at this moment, a streak of light cut through the sky, flying from the distant horizon toward the mountain peak where the Qingxuan Blessed Land was located.

Sensing the disturbance from afar, Ye Qingxuan looked up, a glimmer of spiritual light flashing in his eyes.

After clearly seeing the figure within the streak of light, Ye Qingxuan immediately slapped his forehead and said with a bitter smile:

"So I forgot to contact Zhu Dafu to cancel the recruitment mission."

Now that he had arranged for the two little girls, Liu Yun'er and Liu Cai'er, to stay in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

With the protection of Xiao Kong and Xiao Ling, plus the care of many blessed cultivators within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, there was naturally no need to find a female disciple skilled at childcare anymore.

It was just that Ye Qingxuan's mind had been distracted by the two little girls' crying and fussing, causing him to overlook such a small matter as canceling the previous mission.

"Whoosh!"

Not long after, Zhu Dafu arrived outside the stone pavilion with a Foundation Establishment female disciple.

Seeing Ye Qingxuan inside the stone pavilion, Zhu Dafu immediately smiled and said:

"Hehe, Boss, I found the female disciple skilled at childcare you wanted."

Hearing Zhu Dafu's words, Ye Qingxuan fell silent for a moment, then cleared his throat and said:

"Ahem, well, Zhu Dafu, I don't need a female disciple skilled at childcare right now."

Speaking, Ye Qingxuan looked at the female disciple behind Zhu Dafu and said awkwardly:

"You can submit the mission completion directly; I will have Zhu Dafu give you the promised reward."

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, the female disciple, who had been somewhat dissatisfied, instantly beamed with joy and hurriedly said:

"Thank you, Senior Brother!"

But after Zhu Dafu was stunned, he began to misunderstand.

First, he cautiously scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense, then waved his hand to signal the female disciple to move away from the area.

Finally, under Ye Qingxuan's puzzled gaze, Zhu Dafu sneakily approached Ye Qingxuan and whispered:

"Boss, you don't need to worry about anything."

"When I found the female disciple skilled at childcare, I specifically made her sign a confidentiality agreement, so no one else will know."

Clearly, Zhu Dafu assumed that Ye Qingxuan had canceled the mission at the last moment because he was worried about the matter of an illegitimate child.

After hearing Zhu Dafu's words, Ye Qingxuan's confusion deepened; he frowned and said incomprehensibly:

"Zhu Dafu, what nonsense are you talking? I simply don't need a female disciple skilled at childcare for now, so I canceled the mission."

He did not expect that after hearing his words, Zhu Dafu.

First fell into deep thought, then suddenly widened his eyes and asked cautiously:

"Boss, you didn't abandon your wife and child, did you?"

"What? Abandon your wife and child? What nonsense are you spouting?"

Ye Qingxuan stared blankly at Zhu Dafu, unable to react for a moment, feeling as if they were not communicating on the same frequency.

At this moment, seeing Ye Qingxuan's reaction, Zhu Dafu was also somewhat puzzled and hesitated:

"Isn't it? Boss, you asked me to find a female disciple skilled at childcare, wasn't it to take care of your illegitimate child?"

"Illegitimate child?"

Ye Qingxuan instantly lost his composure; his face darkened, and he gritted his teeth, saying:

"Zhu! Da! Fu!"

He then grabbed Zhu Dafu and started beating him up all over the face.

"Ouch, Boss, Boss, stop hitting, I know I was wrong; I won't imagine things like that again."

But Ye Qingxuan did not let Zhu Dafu off just because he begged for mercy.

Who would have thought that a little Zhu Dafu would dare to ruin the good reputation of someone like him, Ye; he deserved to be beaten.

After dragging Zhu Dafu and beating him for a full half hour.

Only after feeling physically and mentally refreshed did Ye Qingxuan snort coldly, stop his actions, turn around, take a step, and vanish.

Left behind in the spot was Zhu Dafu, covered in bumps, with a bruised and swollen face, looking utterly aggrieved.

If he had known, he would have just completed the mission honestly; why did he have to imagine things?

Rubbing his already swollen cheeks, Zhu Dafu walked to the edge of the stone pavilion, preparing to return to the Tianfu Shop.

Before leaving, Zhu Dafu turned his head and looked deeply in the direction Ye Qingxuan had departed.

He had previously called Ye Qingxuan "Boss" only because of the Tianfu Shop.

Since he broke through to the early stage of Soul Transformation, although he had no intention of leaving the Tianfu Shop.

He no longer felt the same fear toward Ye Qingxuan as before, feeling that he could now regard Ye Qingxuan as a friend.

But he did not expect that his boss was hiding so deeply.

When Ye Qingxuan was beating him just now, he had subconsciously activated the spiritual power in his body to resist.

But he did not expect that the spiritual power in his body was easily sealed by Ye Qingxuan, leaving him only able to passively endure Ye Qingxuan's punches.

Moreover, the bruise Ye Qingxuan had left on his face, he was actually unable to use spiritual power to dispel.

He could only let these bruises fade naturally over time.

At this moment.

Zhu Dafu felt he had always underestimated his own master.

On Ye Qingxuan, Zhu Dafu sensed an unfathomable mystery.

It was from this moment on that Zhu Dafu truly submitted to Ye Qingxuan with genuine respect, rather than submitting under Ye Qingxuan's command solely due to the constraints of a Dao vow.

In the cultivation world, strength is ultimately supreme; all other external things are but fleeting clouds.

On the other side.

Back in the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan's heart had long been calm and undisturbed.

The matter of Zhu Dafu was merely a small interlude in his life, insufficient to disturb his composure.

Standing with hands clasped behind his back atop a high peak, a boundary gate slowly coalesced before Ye Qingxuan.

Once the boundary gate formed, two figures emerged from it, their bodies radiating murderous qi that pierced the heavens, surrounded by demonic evil energy.

These two figures were precisely two ordinary avatars Ye Qingxuan had dispatched into the Green Demon Realm over a hundred years ago.

Although Ye Qingxuan possessed many avatars, most were needed to guard the cities and strongholds under his command, leaving very few available for deployment.

Over a hundred years ago, to counter-invade the Green Demon Realm.

Ye Qingxuan withdrew three small outposts under his command and sent three ordinary avatars into the Green Demon Realm.

However, since his ordinary avatars could not open spiritual energy void realms.

Although he could raise an avatar's cultivation base to the Void Penetration realm, its combat power was not sustainable.

Once tracked by a Void Penetration expert of the same level from the Green Demon Clan, his avatar would likely meet a grim fate.

Thus, over the course of more than a hundred years, Ye Qingxuan's three major avatars operated only in remote areas of the Green Demon Realm, targeting only Green Demon Clan members below the Void Penetration realm.

Yet even so, during these hundred-plus years.

One of Ye Qingxuan's avatars at the Void Penetration level was still annihilated within the Green Demon Realm.

Ultimately, only these two avatars successfully hunted down a vast number of Green Demon Clan members below the Void Penetration realm and returned safely, carrying resources looted over more than a century.

Ye Qingxuan accepted the storage rings handed to him by the two avatars and took out a first-grade Demon Vein Source from one of the rings.

Over these years, his two avatars in the Green Demon Realm.

Besides the corpses of the Green Demon Clan, their greatest harvest was over a thousand Demon Vein Sources ranging from first to sixth grade, along with a massive quantity of demon stones.

Gazing at the Demon Vein Source in his hand, a look of contemplation appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

In the current Di Xuan Realm, one can sacrifice a Demon Vein Source at any time to obtain a temporary state of Dao comprehension similar to an amplification of insight.

Depending on the quantity and grade of the Demon Vein Source sacrificed, the amplification effect obtained varies greatly.

This state might be of no use to Ye Qingxuan.

However, Ye Qingxuan wished to try it out to understand the detailed process and information regarding the sacrifice of a Demon Vein Source.

In any case, he was not short of Demon Vein Sources.

With this thought, Ye Qingxuan shifted his spiritual sense and directly sacrificed the Demon Vein Source in his hand to the heavenly and earthly rules of the Di Xuan Realm.

But in the next instant, Ye Qingxuan let out a surprised, soft "Eh":

"Eh?"

Because under Ye Qingxuan's perception, sacrificing a Demon Vein Source presented two choices.

The first was that the cultivator received a temporary boost of Dao comprehension, while the Demon Vein Source was transformed by the Di Xuan Realm into a spiritual vein source of the same level, randomly merging into the earth of the Di Xuan Realm.

The second was that the Di Xuan Realm purified the Demon Vein Source, transforming it into a spiritual vein source of the same level, allowing the cultivator to specify the region where the spiritual vein source would merge.

However, doing so meant the cultivator would lose the opportunity to receive the temporary Dao comprehension boost.

Under normal circumstances, most cultivators would choose the first option.

After all, they risked their lives to explore the Green Demon Realm for the sake of breaking through their own cultivation.

But Ye Qingxuan was different; he did not need this temporary Dao comprehension boost.

Instead, the transformation of the Demon Vein Source into a spiritual vein source of the same level, with the ability to specify the merging region, better served Ye Qingxuan's interests.

With a slight shift in his heart, Ye Qingxuan directly chose the second option; the fusion region for the spiritual vein source was the Qingxuan Blessed Land where he stood.

In the next instant, the Demon Vein Source sacrificed by Ye Qingxuan flickered slightly in the high sky, transformed into a spiritual vein source, and then directly merged into the earth not far from Ye Qingxuan.

"Indeed feasible!"

Seeing this scene, a faint smile appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

This result was not beyond his expectations.

Although the Qingxuan Blessed Land formed its own space, it ultimately still depended on the Di Xuan Realm and currently remained a part of the Di Xuan Realm.

Therefore, choosing to merge the spiritual vein source into the Qingxuan Blessed Land, the heavenly and earthly rules of the Di Xuan Realm would not refuse.

Tossing the two storage rings in his hand, Ye Qingxuan felt a slight joy in his heart.

Inside the storage rings, there were still over a thousand Demon Vein Sources ranging from first to sixth grade, among which there were fully twenty-eight sixth-grade Demon Vein Sources.

If all these Demon Vein Sources were sacrificed and transformed into spiritual vein sources of the same level.

The number of spiritual veins within his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land would witness a small but sharp surge.

Thinking of it, he acted.

Ye Qingxuan did not hesitate; he took out all the Demon Vein Sources and sacrificed them all.

Over a thousand Demon Vein Sources floated in the high sky, suddenly erupting with a dark, gloomy light.

But as time passed, the gloomy light emitted by the Demon Vein Sources gradually transformed into brilliant white starlight.

Making them appear like stars hanging in the high sky.

Once all the Demon Vein Sources had transformed into spiritual vein sources, Ye Qingxuan shifted his spiritual sense and instantly made his choice.

The transformed source of spiritual veins, half merged into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, and half merged into the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

In the next moment, after Ye Qingxuan made his choice.

The sources of spiritual veins filling the sky turned into streams of light; half of them scattered and fled into the earth of the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

The other half broke through space, fled into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, and merged into the earth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

Under Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense, these sources of spiritual veins merging into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land were slowly evolving into corresponding spiritual veins.

Once these thousand-plus sources of spiritual veins were all transformed into spiritual veins.

The sixth-rank spiritual veins within Ye Qingxuan's Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land would grow to thirty-seven, and the sources of fifth-rank spiritual veins would exceed one hundred.

By then, the speed at which the entire Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land absorbed chaotic and void energy from the outside world and transformed it into the origin of heaven and earth would see a significant increase.

After all the sources of demonic veins were sacrificed.

Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense surged into the storage ring in his hand, sweeping over the items within.

Over the past hundred-plus years, his two major clones in the Green Demon Realm had obtained not only over a thousand sources of demonic veins and countless corpses of the Green Demon Clan, but also.

vast quantities of demon stones, heavenly treasures nurtured by demonic qi, magic treasures of the Green Demon Clan, and so on.

These things were the best nourishment for the growth of a Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

With a casual toss, the two storage rings in Ye Qingxuan's hand instantly broke through the air, fled into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, and fell into the Purification Great Array.

Since his cultivation base broke through the Void Emptiness Realm.

Ye Qingxuan's control over the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land had reached a new level.

Now, he no longer needed to enter the Qingxuan Cave Heaven; he could use the authority of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven to let his spiritual sense penetrate into it.

"Boom!"

Under the control of Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense, the Purification Great Array instantly operated at its limit.

The corpses of the Green Demon Clan, demon stones, and various heavenly treasures nurtured by demonic qi flowing continuously from the storage rings.

were successively transformed by the Purification Great Array into vast amounts of origin energy, absorbed by the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, and converted into pure world origin.

Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan, from his innate magic treasure, the World Map.

took out the Void Emptiness Realm Green Demon Clan corpse he had hunted in the Green Wood Manor, as well as those Green Demon Clan corpses below the Void Emptiness Realm.

and threw them all at once into the Purification Great Array within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

With Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, the world origin obtained by sacrificing a Void Emptiness Realm Green Demon Clan member no longer provided him with much improvement.

It was better to let the Purification Great Array transform it into origin energy to accelerate the growth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

Unfortunately, the level of the Purification Great Array within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven could no longer keep up with Ye Qingxuan's growth speed; its purification efficiency was too low.

To fully digest this batch of resources would take at least over a hundred years.

Moreover, even after digesting this batch of resources.

for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land to advance to the mid-stage of the seventh rank, it would still lack a bit of accumulation.

After all, for a realm of heaven and earth to advance further.

the time, energy, and laws required were far beyond imagination.

(End of this chapter)