Chapter 92: Choosing Spirit Beasts

As for the Spirit Beast Sect, its main focus is raising various spirit beasts.

Therefore, the Spirit Beast Sect directly provided the Tianfu Shop with a list of spirit beasts, preparing to trade spirit beasts to offset a portion of the spirit stones.

At this moment, inside the stone pavilion outside the Qingxuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan was holding a list of spirit beasts provided by the Spirit Beast Sect, selecting the spirit beasts he wanted.

Among these spirit beasts, most were primarily for combat and protection; auxiliary-type spirit beasts were extremely rare.

Moreover, the Spirit Beast Sect was merely a third-rate sect with only a Soul Transformation realm expert presiding over it, so the bloodlines of the provided spirit beasts were not high, and their growth potential was very limited.

Finally, after Ye Qingxuan finished reading the introductions to all the spirit beasts on the list, he chose five types: Earth Dragon, Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterfly, Spirit-Containing Bee, Green Spirit Serpent, and Earth Spirit Turtle.

Earth Dragon: Can channel the energy of spiritual lands, accelerating the flow of energy within them. Although low-rank Earth Dragons have little effect on Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.

However, Earth Dragons of the fifth rank and above can connect low-rank spiritual veins to each other, accelerating the growth speed of the spiritual veins.

Thus, high-rank Earth Dragons can provide significant assistance to the growth of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.

Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterfly: Can accelerate the growth speed of flower-type spiritual plants; its auxiliary effects are also quite good.

Spirit-Containing Bee: Can produce Spirit-Containing Honey, which contains extremely pure and condensed spiritual energy.

The first-rank Spirit-Containing Honey produced by a first-rank Spirit-Containing Bee, when consumed by a Qi Refining realm cultivator, allows the refinement of a wisp of spiritual energy from the honey that is equivalent to two wisps of ordinary spiritual energy.

This is equivalent to directly doubling the cultivation speed of a Qi Refining realm cultivator.

Spirit-Containing Bees can be bred up to the sixth rank at most. The sixth-rank Spirit-Containing Honey produced by a sixth-rank Spirit-Containing Bee can double the cultivation speed of a Soul Transformation realm cultivator.

Therefore, the value of the Spirit-Containing Bee is immense; the only drawback is that its yield is too low.

The Spirit-Containing Honey produced by a thousand Spirit-Containing Bees might only be enough for one cultivator to consume for about a month.

Green Spirit Serpent: The lowest-grade spirit beast among serpent-types; its combat power is average, its bloodline growth ceiling is the sixth rank, and its growth requires consuming vast resources.

However, there is a very small chance for a Green Spirit Serpent to undergo a bloodline metamorphosis, breaking through its growth ceiling.

Earth Spirit Turtle: A mid-tier turtle-type spirit beast; its defense and vitality are astonishing. A cultivator not one realm higher cannot break its defense. Its bloodline growth ceiling is also the sixth rank, but its growth speed is extremely slow.

After Ye Qingxuan selected these five spirit beasts, the specific quantities for handover still needed to be determined by the Spirit Beast Sect itself.

After all, spirit beasts are the foundation of the Spirit Beast Sect; the detailed quantities could not possibly be revealed to Ye Qingxuan by the sect.

However, the Spirit Beast Sect did not make Ye Qingxuan wait too long. After he confirmed the needed spirit beasts and transmitted the information, the other side quickly gave a reply: 1,000 first-rank Earth Dragons, 300 second-rank Earth Dragons, 30 third-rank Earth Dragons, totaling an offset of 30,000 high-grade spirit stones.

10,000 first-rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, 5,000 second-rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, 1,000 third-rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, 200 fourth-rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, totaling an offset of 800,000 high-grade spirit stones.

8,000 first-rank Spirit-Containing Bees, 3,000 second-rank Spirit-Containing Bees, 1,000 third-rank Spirit-Containing Bees, totaling an offset of 300,000 high-grade spirit stones.

1 first-rank Green Spirit Serpent cub, offsetting 100,000 high-grade spirit stones.

10 first-rank Earth Spirit Turtle cubs, offsetting 500,000 high-grade spirit stones.

After receiving Ye Qingxuan's agreement, the Spirit Beast Sect ultimately delivered 14.27 million high-grade spirit stones and the corresponding spirit beasts.

After all the items were transferred to Ye Qingxuan under Zhu Dafu's arrangement.

Looking at the mountain of high-grade spirit stones piled up within the Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan could no longer restrain his excitement.

However, the one excited was not only Ye Qingxuan, but also Zhu Dafu, who was currently smiling foolishly at the Tianfu Shop.

He merely acted as a messenger this time and earned 2.56 million high-grade spirit stones, which is basically enough resources to cultivate up to the Nascent Soul realm.

But the one who gained the most was still Ye Qingxuan.

This time, Ye Qingxuan became extremely wealthy in one go; for the short term, he completely did not need to worry about the resources required for the Grotto-Heaven and Blessed Land.

Eight factions, each providing 16 million spirit stones or resources, the total value was 128 million spirit stones.

However, only 70.27 million of these were high-grade spirit stones.

The rest were spiritual mines worth 54 million high-grade spirit stones, spiritual plant seeds worth 2 million high-grade spirit stones, and spirit beasts worth 1.73 million high-grade spirit stones.

After deducting the 1% fee for signing the contract with the External Affairs Hall of the Xuantian Sect, and the 3% rebate promised to Zhu Chuixiang, Ye Qingxuan actually received only 65.15 million high-grade spirit stones.

Among the spiritual mines worth 54 million high-grade spirit stones, second-to-fifth-rank spiritual mines made up the majority, accounting for approximately 60% of the value.

Basically, the varieties of second-to-fifth-rank spiritual mines near the Xuantian Sect were all gathered.

Fifth-rank spiritual mines are the main materials for refining mid-grade and low-grade spiritual artifacts; according to quality, they are worth approximately 3,000 to 10,000 high-grade spirit stones per square.

Although their value is considerable, for a merchant house with a Soul Transformation realm expert presiding over it, they are not considered too precious, so they accounted for about 35% of the transaction volume.

Only the sixth-rank spiritual mines used for refining supreme-grade and high-grade spiritual artifacts, worth approximately 60,000 to 200,000 high-grade spirit stones per square.

Even merchant houses with Soul Transformation realm experts presiding over them did not have much inventory, so they accounted for only 5% of the transaction volume.

As for the seventh-rank spiritual mines used for refining low-grade spiritual treasures, there was not a single bit of them!

However, seventh-rank and above spiritual mines and spiritual materials already contain elemental mysteries, and their value will see a leap-like increase.

The factions trading with Ye Qingxuan, even if they possessed seventh-rank spiritual mines, certainly would not bring them out for trade.

Ye Qingxuan was not particularly concerned, after all, seventh-rank spiritual mines for refining low-grade spiritual treasures were still too far away from him.

After counting the spiritual mines, Ye Qingxuan transferred all the spiritual mines and spirit stones into the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

Then he began to examine the spiritual plant seeds.

Spiritual plant seeds are not valuable, because even with seeds, they might not sprout; even if the seeds sprout, they might not grow.

Among the factions in the Di Xuan Realm, basically any faction that has existed for a long time and is not too weak will have a stock of high-rank spiritual plant seeds.

Because as long as one obtains high-rank spiritual plants, obtaining high-rank spiritual plant seeds is not difficult.

Cultivating high-rank seeds is difficult, and the growth cycle is extremely slow, so many people, after obtaining seeds, will choose to sell them directly.

Basically, high-rank spiritual plant seeds frequently appear at major merchant houses and auctions.

Those truly great factions, with traditions spanning many years, do not lack these medicinal herb seeds and naturally look down on the ordinary seeds circulating at auctions.

Therefore, although the Ancient Pill Sect and the Ten-Thousand Medicine Valley only have Soul Transformation realm cultivators presiding over them, the high-rank spiritual plant seeds they collect regularly are not difficult to obtain.

Among the spiritual plant seeds given by these two great factions, most were sixth-rank medicinal herb seeds, and a small portion were sixth-rank spiritual plant seeds with auxiliary effects or usable as materials for refining artifacts.

In addition, there were twenty-three seventh-rank medicinal herb seeds and three special seventh-rank spiritual plant seeds.

From these latter twenty-six seventh-rank seeds, Ye Qingxuan could even sense the aura of the soil.

Ye Qingxuan strongly suspected that the two great factions, having cultivated them for a long time without them developing, had temporarily dug them out of the ground during this opportunity to offset the debt to him.

However, Ye Qingxuan was not surprised; medicinal herbs of the seventh tier and above basically already contain various primordial energies and are the main materials for refining primordial elixirs.

And the primordial elixir is the kind of medicine that can directly boost a cultivator's cultivation base without any side effects.

Therefore, to cultivate medicinal herb seeds of the seventh tier and above, one needs a considerable amount of primordial energy to continuously nurture them for quite some time before they can be activated.

Ordinary factions simply cannot cultivate them.

Even Ye Qingxuan himself, though he could draw upon the primordial energy of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, would not cultivate these twenty-three seventh-tier medicinal herb seeds and the three seventh-tier seeds of those special spiritual plants in a short period.

The current level of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land is still too low; if too much primordial energy were drawn upon to nurture the medicinal herb seeds, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land would face the danger of collapse.

After all, seeds are not like seedlings; the Thunder Source Tree seedling that Ye Qingxiao had given him previously had already successfully sprouted and passed the nurturing period.

Once seedlings are planted, they only need a continuous supply of various energies, which they can slowly convert into primordial energy on their own, without consuming too much of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land's primordial energy.

Ye Qingxuan wanted these medicinal plant seeds of the fifth tier and above as preparation for the future, merely taking precautions before trouble arises.

After putting these seeds away and storing them safely, Ye Qingxuan took out the five spirit beast bags given by the Spirit Beast Sect, preparing to count these spirit beasts.

(End of this chapter)