Chapter 506: Magic Treasure Embryo, Re-entering the Qing Demon Realm

Time flies like a white colt passing a crevice.

As time passed, the 'Nether Armor' placed within the purification array of the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land began to spin continuously, with more and more demonic qi dissipating.

Moreover, this dissipating demonic qi became increasingly pure.

Clearly, as time ticked by, the demonic qi source within the 'Nether Armor' could no longer withstand Ye Ye Qingxuan's purification and was constantly crumbling.

Furthermore, while the demonic qi dissipated,

the spinning 'Nether Armor' would occasionally vibrate out some fragments of rules.

As soon as these rule fragments appeared, they quickly turned into starlight and vanished, absorbed and devoured by the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

This refining process lasted a full seven years for Ye Ye Qingxuan.

After seven years, the 'Nether Armor' that had been spinning continuously within the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array stopped rotating, floating quietly in the array's space to be washed by the power of purification.

After seven years of continuous purification, no more demonic qi dissipated from the 'Nether Armor'; its internal demonic qi source had been completely purified by Ye Ye Qingxuan.

The originally dark-black armor had now become a state of spotless white.

Furthermore, even the rule fluctuations that the 'Nether Armor' had previously faintly emitted were now completely gone.

After the rules within the 'Nether Armor' were thoroughly obliterated, the magic treasure spirit of the 'Nether Armor' finally could not withstand Ye Ye Qingxuan's purification and completely vanished.

Sensing the current state of the 'Nether Armor', Ye Ye Qingxuan, above the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array, slightly opened his eyes, revealing a hint of satisfaction, and chuckled softly: "Hehehe, the material is not bad!"

Although the power of the purified 'Nether Armor' had greatly weakened, degrading into a mid-grade magic treasure embryo in a non-attribute initial state,

the 'Nether Armor', which could not be subdued, was not power Ye Ye Qingxuan could control regardless of how strong its power was.

However, the magic treasure embryo formed after the 'Nether Armor' degraded was exactly what Ye Ye Qingxuan wanted.

With this magic treasure embryo, Ye Ye Qingxuan could quickly forge a brand new mid-grade magic treasure according to his will.

However, before that, he still needed to spend some time comprehending the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao to prepare for forging the mid-grade magic treasure.

With a casual wave of his hand, the 'Nether Armor' that had been floating within the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array was instantly transferred by Ye Ye Qingxuan to be nurtured in the only Grade Eight spiritual vein currently within the Ye Qingxuan Grotto.

Now, the 'Nether Armor' had not only degraded into a non-attribute, initial-state magic treasure embryo, but its original energy source was also lost.

To forge the 'Nether Armor' magic treasure embryo into a true magic treasure,

one must take advantage of the moment just after its energy source was lost, while the spiritual nature of the material itself had not yet dissipated, and nurture it with energy of the same level to let a new energy source be born.

Only in this way could the magic treasure forged by Ye Ye Qingxuan from this magic treasure embryo later unleash its full power.

During the time the magic treasure embryo formed from the degraded 'Nether Armor' was nurtured by the Grade Eight spiritual vein, Ye Ye Qingxuan could just use that time to comprehend the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao.

However, after hesitating for a moment, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not immediately enter seclusion to comprehend the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao.

With a thought, twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures surrounded by demonic qi and vibrating with rules instantly floated before Ye Ye Qingxuan.

These twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures included some obtained by Ye Ye Qingxuan while hunting the Qing Demon Clan in the Void Penetration realm, and others harvested by Ye Ye Qingxuan from the high-grade treasury of the Qing Demon Clan's Li Tian Dynasty.

Ye Ye Qingxuan prepared to take this opportunity to purify these twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures all at once.

Purifying the mid-grade magic treasure level 'Nether Armor' required Ye Ye Qingxuan to expend immense mental energy and he could not easily be distracted.

However, purifying lower-grade magic treasures was something Ye Ye Qingxuan, with his cultivation base, could handle with multiple tasks at once; he could place these twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures inside the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array to be purified together.

For the current Ye Ye Qingxuan, lower-grade magic treasures were no longer of great value.

Even having twenty-three extra lower-grade magic treasures would only deepen his resource accumulation and could not bring him an increase in strength.

However, the magic treasure embryos formed from these purified lower-grade magic treasures could perfectly serve as nourishment for the 'Nether Armor', this mid-grade magic treasure embryo, shortening the formation process when Ye Ye Qingxuan forged the mid-grade magic treasure.

Thinking of this, Ye Ye Qingxuan's gaze flickered slightly.

With a thought in his heart, his spiritual sense surged out, wrapping the twenty-three slightly vibrating lower-grade magic treasures before him and throwing them into the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array.

Then, using the power of his spiritual sense to guide and control the intensity of the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land purification array, he once again began to purify these twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures in a relatively gentle and subtle manner.

This time, Ye Ye Qingxuan spent only three years to purify all twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures to their initial state.

After the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land finished absorbing the source energy converted from the demonic qi sources within one mid-grade magic treasure and twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures, the world source that had been consumed before finally showed some recovery.

Looking at the twenty-three lower-grade magic treasure embryos floating in the internal space of the purification array,

Ye Ye Qingxuan waved his hand, throwing these twenty-three lower-grade magic treasure embryos respectively into the various Grade Seven spiritual veins of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to be nurtured.

After finishing all this, Ye Ye Qingxuan stepped out to the place where he often entered seclusion and began to comprehend the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao.

As his cultivation base continuously improved, Ye Ye Qingxuan's innate comprehension also continuously evolved, or rather, was unsealed.

Especially after breaking through the Void Emptiness realm, with both his physical body and Primordial Spirit entering the Void Emptiness state.

Ye Ye Qingxuan's body and spiritual sense had both greatly improved, and his comprehension had risen accordingly, far surpassing his Void Penetration realm period.

With Ye Ye Qingxuan's current comprehension, comprehending the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao was not difficult.

The information regarding Artifact Dao in the Earth Immortal inheritance, the various mysteries of Grade Eight artifact patterns and their evolution and flow, were continuously mastered by Ye Ye Qingxuan in his heart.

The profoundness contained in this information held no difficulty whatsoever for Ye Ye Qingxuan.

If the content of Grade Eight Artifact Dao were not so vast, Ye Ye Qingxuan might have mastered it in an instant without needing to enter seclusion.

The sun rose and the moon set; time passed in the blink of an eye. The profoundness of Grade Eight Artifact Dao continuously flowed and evolved within Ye Ye Qingxuan's mind, mastered one by one by him.

In five years, the complete mysteries of one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred innate artifact patterns, from their birth to their evolved formation, were fully mastered in Ye Ye Qingxuan's heart.

After mastering all the profoundness related to Grade Eight Artifact Dao in the inheritance information, Ye Ye Qingxuan directly exited seclusion and arrived above the place where the 'Nether Armor' magic treasure embryo was being nurtured.

Scanning with his spiritual sense and perceiving the nurturing state of the energy source within the 'Nether Armor' magic treasure embryo, Ye Ye Qingxuan frowned and said:

"Five years, and nurturing with the spiritual energy of the entire Grade Eight spiritual vein has only allowed the energy source within the magic treasure embryo to form halfway?"

However, thinking that the 'Nether Armor' was a mid-grade magic treasure, its energy source was naturally extraordinary, Ye Ye Qingxuan felt somewhat relieved in his heart.

"Never mind, it is just waiting another five years."

"These five years are just right for this seat to control a clone to secretly enter the Qing Demon Realm again and seek an opportunity to hunt that Qing Demon King whom this seat severely injured." Since Ye Ye Qingxuan's previous clone perished in the Qing Demon Realm and his main consciousness returned,

over these years, he had successively upgraded the levels of many arrays within the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, purified the 'Nether Armor' and the twenty-three lower-grade magic treasures, and comprehended the mysteries of Grade Eight Artifact Dao, consuming a total of twenty-one years.

These twenty-one years, after adding one Grade Eight spiritual vein and twelve Grade Seven spiritual veins to the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, were enough for Ye Ye Qingxuan to accumulate sufficient spirit crystals, allowing one of his clones to raise his cultivation base to the Void Emptiness realm in the Qing Demon Realm again.

Besides the more than ten Void Penetration realm Qing Demon Clan corpses in Ye Ye Qingxuan's hands, the Void Emptiness realm Qing Demon · Li Tian King's corpse had not yet been sacrificed.

The corpse of a Qing Demon from the Kongming Realm was something Ye Ye Qingxuan intended to keep for his own sacrifice to boost his cultivation base.

He had simply been too busy before, so Ye Ye Qingxuan decided to wait until he hunted down the Qingmu King of the Qing Demon Clan, then perform the sacrifice together to elevate his cultivation.

With a thought, Ye Ye Qingxuan re-summoned the clone he had previously created.

He then retrieved 120,000 low-grade spirit crystals from storage, deposited them into the World-Sealing Pagoda, and handed the pagoda over to his clone.

The reason he prepared 120,000 low-grade spirit crystals for his clone was that his goal on this journey was not limited to just the Qingmu King.

Ye Ye Qingxuan was already confident in his ability to hunt down the severely injured Qingmu King.

However, since he was entering the Qing Demon Realm, Ye Ye Qingxuan wanted to seize this opportunity to see if he could also hunt down another Qing Demon King in that region: the Yuanwu King.

Sending his clone into the Qing Demon Realm with 120,000 low-grade spirit crystals was to provide energy for the clone's recovery.

Once the clone's cultivation reached the Kongming Realm, these 120,000 low-grade spirit crystals would be enough to sustain it in unleashing its full-strength combat power several times.

After arranging everything, Ye Ye Qingxuan's main consciousness descended once again onto this clone.

This mission was to hunt a Qing Demon King of the Kongming Realm; even though this king had already been severely injured by him beforehand, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not intend to underestimate the enemy in the slightest.

Only by having his main consciousness descend and personally control the clone could the clone unleash its full strength.

Therefore, upon entering the Qing Demon Realm this time, Ye Ye Qingxuan still relied on his main consciousness descending to lead the clone's actions.

With a slight movement of his consciousness, a realm gate appeared before Ye Ye Qingxuan's clone.

After slightly adapting to the clone's body, Ye Ye Qingxuan took a step and left the Ye Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

One month later.

In the Qing Demon Realm, within the Ancient Wood Minor Demon Domain adjacent to the Ancient Ruins Minor Demon Domain where the Xie Litian Imperial Dynasty was once located.

Ye Ye Qingxuan concealed his form and observed a magnificent, towering city in the distance, murmuring softly:

"Is this the royal capital of the Qingmu Kingdom of the Qing Demon Clan? The Qingmu King must be secluding himself within this dynasty to resist the power of the Life and Death Diagram and attempt to recover his injuries, correct?"

More than twenty days ago, Ye Ye Qingxuan had already entered the Qing Demon Realm through the wormhole passage in the Xingluo Zhou.

The first thing Ye Ye Qingxuan did upon entering the Qing Demon Realm was find a secluded spot to devour the pure energy within the spirit crystals, raising the clone's cultivation to the Kongming Realm.

After the clone's cultivation reached the Kongming Realm, Ye Ye Qingxuan casually captured several Qing Demons of the Soul Transformation Realm to gather information on the 'Qingmu King' and the 'Qingmu Kingdom'.

Then, concealing his form, he moved stealthily at a moderate pace until he finally arrived at the royal capital of the 'Qingmu Kingdom'.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not rush to launch an attack on the royal capital of the 'Qingmu Kingdom'.

Although Ye Ye Qingxuan could now confirm this was indeed the location of the 'Qingmu Kingdom's' royal capital, he was not certain the 'Qingmu King' was currently within this city.

If the 'Qingmu King' was not in the city, a rash attack might startle the snake, alerting the 'Qingmu King'.

At that point, if he failed to strike a fatal blow in one hit,

the commotion he caused in the Qing Demon Realm would very likely attract powerful patrols from the Qing Demon Clan.

This clone of his had already been elevated to the Kongming Realm and could no longer return to the Di Li Xuan Realm through the wormhole passage.

If he attracted a Tribulation Crossing Realm expert from the Qing Demon Clan, this clone would face a high risk of destruction.

Ye Ye Qingxuan did not care if the clone was destroyed.

However, if the clone perished without any gain, that would be a massive loss.

Thinking of this, Ye Ye Qingxuan's eyes flickered slightly.

Observing the city gate of the 'Qingmu King City' where Qing Demons frequently entered and exited, Ye Ye Qingxuan immediately conceived a plan.

His spiritual sense surged, spreading in all directions in a relatively subtle manner.

Through the power of his spiritual sense, Ye Ye Qingxuan located several Qing Demons preparing to enter the 'Qingmu King City' in the area nearby.

Ye Ye Qingxuan left a strand of his spiritual sense on these Qing Demons.

Among the Qing Demons upon whom Ye Ye Qingxuan left his spiritual sense, one was surprisingly of the Dongxu Realm cultivation.

After leaving his spiritual sense on these Qing Demons, Ye Ye Qingxuan focused his attention on the sensations from these strands of spiritual sense, preparing to use them as anchor points to spy on the information inside the 'Qingmu King City'.

At this moment, the city-protecting great formation within the 'Qingmu King City' had not fully revived.

Furthermore, even if the 'Qingmu King' was inside the 'Qingmu King City', he was severely injured and would have no energy left to control the city's great formation to monitor the entire capital.

Therefore, Ye Ye Qingxuan was confident that the strands of spiritual sense he left on those Qing Demons would be able to follow them and blend into the 'Qingmu King City'.

Not long after, the Qing Demons carrying Ye Ye Qingxuan's attached spiritual sense passed through a transparent barrier and entered the 'Qingmu King City'.

The subtle spiritual sense Ye Ye Qingxuan had attached to their bodies also blended into the 'Qingmu King City' quite smoothly.

After entering the 'Qingmu King City', the spiritual sense Ye Ye Qingxuan had attached to these Qing Demons immediately sensed the auras of many Qing Demon cultivators.

However, the cultivation of these Qing Demon cultivators was basically below the Dongxu Realm.

Since it was only a single strand of spiritual sense, and its existence could not be exposed, the range Ye Ye Qingxuan could sense was very limited.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Ye Qingxuan directed all his attention to the spiritual sense attached to that Dongxu Realm Qing Demon.

In Ye Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense perception, that Dongxu Realm Qing Demon, after entering the 'Qingmu King City', was flying toward a magnificent hall in the central area.

(End of this chapter)