Chapter 636: Exhausted Heart, Ye Xuanyun Returns

Inside the Profound Yi Tianzong.

After a period of flying, Ye Zhaoheng had already returned to the Profound Yi Tianzong.

As Ye Qingxuan's attendant, Ye Zhaoheng could not only enter and exit the Profound Yi Tianzong at will, but he also had the permission granted by Ye Qingxuan to freely enter and exit the Qingxuan Cave Dongxuan Fudi.

After returning to the Profound Yi Tianzong, Ye Zhaoheng flew directly toward the location of the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, and finally entered the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi.

After seeing Ye Qingxuan again, Ye Zhaoheng bowed slightly:

"Young master, Zhaoheng has come to report, the Ye Family's matters have been settled according to the young master's instructions."

At this time, Ye Qingxuan was sitting cross-legged in the air with his eyes closed, all his consciousness immersed in the growth and evolution of his dantian small world, helping the dantian small world refine the Five Elements Essence.

Various Dao rhymes derived around his body, weaving various visions.

After hearing Ye Zhaoheng's words, Ye Qingxuan separated a wisp of consciousness to control his own body, slowly opened his eyes, and said lightly:

"Hmm, the reappearance of the Ye Family can be considered as fulfilling a regret I had back then."

"We have done what should be done. From now on, the Ye Family's safety is basically worry-free, but as for how far the Ye Family can develop, it depends on the Ye Family's own fortune."

"Since things have been handled well, you should return to your own cave dwelling to cultivate first!"

"Yes, young master!"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's instructions, Ye Zhaoheng was preparing to leave.

But after hesitating in place for a moment, Ye Zhaoheng looked at Ye Qingxuan and continued:

"Young master, under the earth of Ye Family Village, there is a person from the Ye Family who has been self-sealed for hundreds of years."

"After I explored, I found that although her lifespan is still abundant, she is already on the verge of death, seemingly due to exhaustion of heart and strength."

"I don't know if the young master has a way to save her? Please enlighten me, young master!"

When Ye Zhaoheng was arranging the Seventh-Order Star Array for the Ye Family, Ye Qingfeng had requested him to rescue that self-sealed Ye Family ancestor.

It was just that after Ye Zhaoheng's exploration, he was powerless regarding the other party's state.

So now that he was back in the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, Ye Zhaoheng thought of asking Ye Qingxuan if there was a way to save this Ye Family cultivator who had survived from hundreds of years ago.

Hearing Ye Zhaoheng's words, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment, and finally slowly shook his head:

"Lifespan not exhausted, yet heart and strength exhausted? This is because she herself has lost the thought of living."

"Perhaps it was her experience that was too big a blow to her, plus her Dao heart was unstable; that made the vitality in her heart fall into exhaustion, and she fell into the verge of death before her lifespan was exhausted."

"Even if I take action to pull her back from the verge of death, it would be a torture for her, and she would not be able to survive in the world for too long."

"Let her be!"

Cultivators are no longer ordinary. With the improvement of cultivation realm, the connection between a cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit will become tighter and tighter, until they merge into one.

In this case, once a thought arises in a cultivator's heart, their own power, and even other aspects can be mobilized, or undergo corresponding changes.

If it is an ordinary person who has a heart of death.

Before making specific actions, although this thought has an impact on all aspects of a person, it is very small.

But if a cultivator has a heart of death and loses the thought of living, the vitality deep in the heart is silent, which will instantly affect the changes in the cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit.

Even if the cultivator's vitality is heaven-defying, they will gradually enter the verge of death before their lifespan is exhausted, until they turn into the Dao.

This is why those cultivators with unstable states of mind are afraid of giving birth to inner demons.

Because for a cultivator, as long as a thought arises, it is enough to have a huge impact on themselves.

Although the theory of state of mind is somewhat ethereal, for a cultivator, it is the top priority in the long years of cultivation.

Whether it is the soul resisting the subtle baptism and erosion of the passage of time, or stabilizing one's own state to move forward steadily, these are inseparable from the gradual improvement and transformation of a cultivator's Dao heart, or state of mind.

Ye Qingxuan guessed that if it weren't for the Ye Family cultivator self-sealed under the earth of Ye Family Village leaving a trace of connection to the Ye Family's safety, she would have already turned into the Dao.

Even if he took action to pull the other party back from the verge of death.

After the other party learned that the Ye Family's safety was worry-free, she would inevitably turn into the Dao and pass away quickly.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, Ye Zhaoheng suddenly understood and nodded:

"So that's how it is, thank you for the enlightenment, young master!"

"Then Zhaoheng will take his leave!"

After speaking, Ye Zhaoheng slowly retreated, then escaped into the Qingxuan Cave and returned to his own cave dwelling, beginning to fall into deep cultivation.

After Ye Zhaoheng left, the wisp of consciousness separated by Ye Qingxuan was also taken back by him, and his eyes closed again.

The next second, all of Ye Qingxuan's consciousness was once again immersed in the growth and evolution of the dantian small world, urging all his power to help the dantian small world refine many Five Elements Essence.

When Ye Qingxuan's mind was immersed in the evolution of the dantian small world, Ye Qingxuan's own power was also emitting a certain special rhythm.

Affected by this, the Dao rhymes derived around Ye Qingxuan were becoming more and more, and the changes were becoming larger and larger.

Various derived Dao rhymes intertwined, producing many visions like a fairyland in the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi.

At the same time, far away at the border of Mount Yunwu Province.

Not long after Ye Zhaoheng left, the Ye Family, under the host of Ye Ximing and Ye Qingfeng, promulgated a series of policies to encourage development.

Especially in terms of reproduction.

Previously, because the strength of Ye Family Village was insufficient, it could only occupy the valley and some areas around the valley.

The resources produced by these areas each year could only supply a very limited number of people.

So previously, the new generation of Ye Family Village was raised by their respective parents, and Ye Family Village's support in this area was minimal.

So after a long time, hindered by the lack of resources and small territory of Ye Family Village, those ordinary clansmen of Ye Family Village who lacked ability intentionally controlled the reproduction of their descendants.

So much so that the Ye Family had settled here for hundreds of years, and Ye Family Village had only reproduced less than a thousand clansmen.

And now the Ye Family has occupied the entire mountain range in this area, and Ye Family Village is not lacking in territory or resources.

To develop the Ye Family again, a large base of ordinary population is naturally indispensable.

Under the discussion of Ye Ximing and Ye Qingfeng.

In the future, all descendants born to the Ye Family, regardless of whether they will have spiritual roots in the future, will be funded by the Ye Family until they reach adulthood.

Besides this, in the future, all Ye Family clansmen born with spiritual roots will be brought to the Ye Family clan grounds established in the core area of the mountain range for focused cultivation.

The resources needed for cultivation will be supplied by the Ye Family all the way to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

After the Foundation Establishment Realm, Ye Family cultivators can also obtain some basic cultivation resources, but these resources can only maintain daily cultivation. If they want to obtain more resources to speed up cultivation, or prepare some trump cards to arm themselves, they can only find ways to earn more resources themselves.

For this reason, after the discussion between Ye Ximing and Ye Qingfeng, they decided to restart the Ye Family's previous contribution point system.

With the contribution point system as the core, the two of them finally decided to provide two completely different choices for the Ye Family cultivators who would break through the Foundation Establishment Realm in the future.

One is to leave the Ye Family to go outside for training and fight for themselves, but they need to make a Dao oath not to reveal any information about the Ye Family when leaving the Ye Family.

Resources brought back from the outside can be exchanged for corresponding contribution points after being handed over; then, through contribution points, they can exchange for various resources they need from the Ye Family treasury.

The second is to find suitable spiritual land in the mountain range to reclaim wasteland for the Ye Family and open up new resource points.

Only after making corresponding contributions to the Ye Family and obtaining contribution points can they exchange for more and higher-level resources.

Besides this.

In the future, Ye Family people can also choose to study auxiliary paths such as alchemy, artifact refining, talismans, arrays, and spiritual plants.

In the early stage, the Ye Family will supply limited resources for Ye Family cultivators to try.

If they have corresponding talent, the Ye Family will increase support and continue to supply more raw materials for them to practice.

Conversely, if they do not have corresponding talent, the Ye Family will stop the supply of raw materials.

However, the Ye Family will not interfere with the choices of Ye Family cultivators.

Even if they do not have corresponding talent, Ye Family cultivators can still continue to study auxiliary paths such as alchemy, artifact refining, talismans, arrays, and spiritual plants.

It's just that all the resources needed will have to be borne by the cultivators themselves.

It can be said that in order to speed up the Ye Family's development, the wealthy Ye Ximing has tried his best to improve the welfare of Ye Family cultivators to the extreme.

If it weren't for the worry of raising Ye Family cultivators to be useless, so that Ye Family cultivators would not be able to stand on their own feet in the future and would not be able to adapt to the cruel environment of the cultivation world.

Ye Ximing would have wanted to directly take out a large amount of resources and supply Ye Family cultivators all the way to the Purple Mansion Realm, or even the Golden Core Realm.

With the resources worth 100 million Lower Grade spirit stones he brought back from the Profound Yi Tianzong, it is not difficult to do this in the early stage of the Ye Family's development.

It's just that once this system is formulated.

When the Ye Family is completely developed in the future and the number of cultivators is too large, it will not be so easy to change the welfare system downward.

So for the future development of the Ye Family, Ye Ximing and Ye Qingfeng.

When they formulated the Ye Family's new welfare system, they would rather slow down the Ye Family's development speed in the early stage than bury too many huge pits for the Ye Family in the future.

As for the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Path created by Ye Qingxuan and the bestowed Source Seeds.

Due to the limited number of Source Seeds, Ye Ximing did not choose to supply them for free to the Ye Family's future cultivators after thinking about it repeatedly.

Besides the few existing cultivators of the Ye Family who can obtain the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation inheritance and two Source Seeds for free.

Future Ye Family cultivators with extraordinary talent can directly obtain the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation inheritance and the Source Seeds needed for entry.

As for other cultivators with insufficient talent, if they want to obtain the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation inheritance and the Source Seeds needed for entry, they can only accumulate enough contribution points through the Ye Family's internal contribution point system to exchange for them.

Although distributing the Source Seeds bestowed by Ye Qingxuan for free to the first cultivators born in the Ye Family and utilizing them as soon as possible can speed up the Ye Family's growth.

But this is not conducive to the Ye Family's sustainable development route.

What Ye Ximing wants is a Ye Family with sound systems in all aspects, not a crippled Ye Family for the sake of development.

Some things are easier to do at the beginning, before the systems in all aspects have been formulated.

Once the Ye Family's system becomes bloated, it will be difficult to change.

So Ye Ximing would rather the Ye Family's development speed be slower than have the Ye Family overdraw its growth potential and fall into various internal shackles in the future, unable to extricate itself.

If it weren't for the fact that the existing cultivators of the Ye Family were not many, plus he and Ye Qingfeng were only less than ten people, distributing Source Seeds for free to them would not affect the Ye Family's future development.

Plus, these less than ten cultivators had made significant contributions to the development and safety of Ye Family Village before.

That is why Ye Ximing decided to distribute Source Seeds for free to the existing cultivators of the Ye Family, letting them cultivate the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Path.

However, unlike Ye Ximing, their talents were not high, and they did not have the resource supply promised by Ye Qingxuan.

So after everyone's discussion, the existing cultivators of the Ye Family, after obtaining the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation inheritance and the Source Seeds needed for entry, uniformly switched to cultivating the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation - Heaven and Earth Path among the three paths of Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation.

This decision was both for themselves and for the future of the Ye Family.

Time passed slowly. After Ye Ximing took charge of the Ye Family and launched a series of reforms, the Ye Family began to enter a stage of rapid development.

And Ye Qingfeng began to live in seclusion behind the scenes, leading the previous cultivators of the Ye Family to comprehend the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation inheritance brought back by Ye Ximing every day, hoping to switch to cultivating the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation - Heaven and Earth Path as soon as possible and open up the first cave and blessed land for the Ye Family.

As days and months passed, the ordinary clansmen of the Ye Family had no worries and began to reproduce descendants on a large scale.

But a few years were not enough to make the current Ye Family reborn.

If the Ye Family wants to get a huge change, all this still needs the precipitation of long years.

Seven years later.

A pale cyan glow came from afar and flew toward the mountain range where Ye Family Village was located.

Wrapped in this pale cyan glow was an old man with white hair and a dusty face, whose eyes were somewhat absent-minded.

This person was none other than Ye Xuanyun, who had been separated from Ye Ximing back then.

After leaving the Mount Yunwu provincial capital, in just seven years, Ye Xuanyun had become increasingly old.

Perhaps it was because he had been worrying about Ye Ximing's safety for seven whole years, which consumed too much of Ye Xuanyun's heart and strength.

So much so that at this time, Ye Xuanyun's figure was somewhat decrepit, and he looked as if he was not far from his limit.

"Whoosh!"

In his absent-mindedness, Ye Xuanyun flew into the mountain range where Ye Family Village was located.

However, after flying for a period of time, Ye Xuanyun suddenly frowned: "Hmm? What is going on?"

If it were an outside cultivator, they might not detect the abnormality.

But as someone who had lived in this mountain range for most of his life, after flying for a distance in the mountain range and still not arriving at the valley where Ye Family Village was located.

How could he not detect the something wrong?

Just as Ye Xuanyun paused and looked around very vigilantly, a very excited voice suddenly sounded behind him:

"Grandpa Xuanyun, you are finally back!"

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