Chapter 58: Fourth-Grade Array Master

Taken together.

Now, Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu Shop generates an average daily income of around 5,300 mid-grade spirit stones.

This rate of profit far exceeds that of the Jin Dan family, the Ye family, from which Ye Qingxuan originated.

According to the contract, the Ye family claims thirty percent of the spiritual plants produced in Ye Qingxuan's blessed land, but this share covers only the plants, not the profits from his Tianfu Shop.

Calculating based on a first-grade blessed land cultivating three thousand first-grade spiritual plants annually, even assuming a hundred percent survival rate, Ye Qingxuan would only need to deliver three hundred and thirty-three first-grade plants to the Ye family each year.

If valued entirely at the price of Earth Spirit Flowers, this amounts to roughly fifteen hundred low-grade spirit stones, which is a mere drop in the bucket compared to Ye Qingxuan's current earnings.

However, his blessed land now cultivates many second and third-grade spiritual plants, generating actual profits far exceeding normal expectations.

Consequently, the value of the thirty percent share to be delivered will inevitably far surpass normal levels; to conceal his true strength, Ye Qingxuan will need to devise a plausible excuse.

Nevertheless, according to the agreement made with the family head, Ye Yu Hong, the profit sharing from Ye Qingxuan's blessed land is settled once every hundred years, so there is still plenty of time.

The third year after contracting the blessed land.

Ye Qingxuan successfully forged a mid-grade true artifact, standing just one step away from becoming a fourth-grade artifact refiner capable of crafting high-grade true artifacts.

The same applies to his alchemist realm.

With his true Purple Mansion realm cultivation base, aided by the power of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he could fully strive for the realms of fourth-grade alchemist and fourth-grade artifact refiner.

But! "Let's wait; there is no rush."

He did not rush to strive for the realms of fourth-grade alchemist and fourth-grade artifact refiner.

The prices of fourth-grade spiritual herbs and spiritual ores were nothing significant to him at present.

Yet even if he crafted fourth-grade elixirs and high-grade true artifacts, he would not choose to sell them within the Xuantian Sect.

Some things require knowing when to stop; one cannot risk exposing one's unique nature for the sake of some profit.

If the Xuantian Sect truly wished to investigate, even with a Dao Vow in place, they could trace clues back to him through various subtle signs.

Currently, his surface cultivation is at the Foundation Establishment realm; leveraging the power of his blessed land to craft third-grade elixirs and mid- or low-grade true artifacts, which are one realm above his own, is still explainable, revealing at most his godly comprehension.

However, crafting fourth-grade elixirs that are two realms above his own cultivation would leave no reasonable explanation.

The resources obtained by occupying part of the third-grade market within the Xuantian Sect are barely sufficient for Ye Qingxuan.

As for the rest, he would wait until his cultivation breaks through to Jin Dan and he condenses a projection!

Having chosen not to strive for the realms of fourth-grade alchemist and fourth-grade artifact refiner, Ye Qingxuan began acquiring vast quantities of spiritual materials needed for talisman crafting and array formation, preparing to delve into the Dao of Talismans and the Dao of Arrays.

Under the influence of Ye Qingxuan's godly comprehension, his skills in the Dao of Talismans and the Dao of Arrays began to advance rapidly.

The Tianfu Shop gradually began selling various talismans and array discs.

Starting from first and second grade, and eventually reaching third grade.

Once Ye Qingxuan raised his own cultivation in the Dao of Talismans and the Dao of Arrays to the third grade, he outsourced the production of talismans and arrays.

Talismans require mass production, and Ye Qingxuan had no time for it.

He earned spirit stones to aid his cultivation; he could not put the cart before the horse, delaying his own cultivation for the sake of earning spirit stones.

As for the Dao of Arrays, relying solely on array discs yielded little profit.

Only by being invited to set up large-scale arrays for others could one gain massive returns, which clearly did not fit Ye Qingxuan's development path.

However, Ye Qingxuan did not cease his contemplation of the Dao of Arrays.

The fourth year after contracting the blessed land! After Ye Qingxuan reached the limit of the third grade in the Dao of Arrays, he still chose not to stop contemplating; instead, he purchased vast quantities of fourth-grade array materials, preparing to strive for the realm of fourth-grade array master.

Unlike the Dao of Alchemy, the Dao of Talismans, and the Dao of Artifacts, the Dao of Arrays could provide immense assistance to the growth of a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Therefore, in the fourth year, Ye Qingxuan shifted his focus to breaking through in the Dao of Arrays.

Among the four Daos of Alchemy, Talismans, Artifacts, and Arrays, the Dao of Arrays and the Dao of Talismans were actually the most difficult to comprehend in the early stages.

This was because the Dao of Arrays and the Dao of Talismans required comprehending various Dao patterns, veins, and elemental mysteries from the very beginning.

Only then could array masters and talisman masters leverage the power of arrays and talismans to harness the forces of heaven and earth for their own use.

However, in the later stages, the four Daos of Alchemy, Talismans, Artifacts, and Arrays converged, and the difficulty of comprehension became comparable.

Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base was currently only at the Purple Mansion realm.

Even with the aid of his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, allowing him to enter a state of unity between heaven and earth within the blessed land without worrying about spiritual power depletion, it still took a full three months to break through to the realm of fourth-grade array master.

During the process of contemplation, Ye Qingxuan entered a state of sudden enlightenment where he and his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land became one with heaven and earth.

His initial spell, the Spring Breeze and Nourishing Rain Technique, unexpectedly advanced during this enlightenment, reaching the level of an intermediate spell.

This unexpected gain filled Ye Qingxuan with great joy.

Although the Earth Immortal inheritance contained countless intermediate spells, the Spring Breeze and Nourishing Rain Technique at the intermediate level was, after all, the first spell he had comprehended and advanced, making the feeling naturally different.

Moreover, after achieving unity with heaven and earth with his Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, the growth rate of Ye Qingxuan's spiritual roots surged instantly; in just three days, the progress of his second spiritual root's birth reached fifty percent.

What originally required two hundred years for the second spiritual root to be born was now half complete; now, it would only take another hundred years for Ye Qingxuan to successfully condense his second spiritual root.

The fifth year after contracting the blessed land.

Inside the Qingxuan Grotto.

Ye Qingxuan stood suspended in mid-air, casting vast quantities of various first-grade spiritual ores into a huge furnace below.

This furnace was formed by the condensation of a fourth-grade array, the Great Smelting Array, set up by Ye Qingxuan.

Through the fourth-grade Great Smelting Array, spiritual ores below the fourth grade could be smelted into essence, which the Grotto-Heaven would absorb and analyze, thereby promoting the growth of the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

After the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land absorbed and analyzed the spiritual ores, it would not only promote its own growth but also generate corresponding ore veins.

However, this process would take a very long time.

Of course, if Ye Qingxuan actively intervened, consuming a large amount of energy from the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he could significantly shorten this time.

But for Ye Qingxuan, there was currently no need for this; the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had just begun, and doing so would be akin to killing the goose to get the golden egg.

Besides this fourth-grade Great Smelting Array, Ye Qingxuan also set up a fourth-grade Energy Conversion Array and a fourth-grade Earth Vein Array in the Qingxuan Grotto and the Blessed Land respectively.

The fourth-grade Energy Conversion Array could help the Grotto and the Blessed Land accelerate the conversion efficiency of chaotic energy and void energy.

The fourth-grade Earth Vein Array could accelerate the condensation speed of the earth's primordial essence in the Grotto and the Blessed Land, and also speed up the growth of spiritual plants.

Both greatly aided the growth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and its blessings.

Merely arranging these five fourth-tier formations cost Ye Qingxuan materials worth 1,500 high-grade spirit stones.

But for Ye Qingxuan now, this was nothing; relying on the Tianfu Shop, his accumulated assets had already reached over 100,000 high-grade spirit stones.

This was after he had acquired a large number of first-tier spirit mines; otherwise, the number of spirit stones would have been even higher.

In just a few short years, Ye Qingxuan's wealth had already surpassed that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

(End of this chapter)