Chapter 94: Origin Energy

Time does not stay; seasons flow like a river!

In the days that followed, time passed swiftly.

As Ye Qingxuan cultivated in seclusion, spring turned to autumn, and time began to slip away unnoticed.

During this period, since the Tianfu Shop no longer required Ye Qingxuan's attention, he reduced his elixir refining and freed up considerable time alongside his cultivation.

Thus, in the time that followed, Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoyu to the Xuantian Sect's library to copy numerous books for him.

Although spiritual sense could be projected into the disciple token to view the library's books, Ye Qingxuan still preferred reading physical volumes.

Most of these books had nothing to do with cultivation, but they greatly expanded Ye Qingxuan's knowledge and broadened his mind.

In the third year of his seclusion, Zhu Dafu delivered the first batch of items acquired from the Outer Battlefield.

However, after inspecting this batch, Ye Qingxuan found most were of little value and contained nothing he desired.

Yet Ye Qingxuan did not lose heart; he instructed Zhu Dafu to continue acquiring items, sending them once every ten years henceforth.

In the fifth year of Ye Qingxuan's seclusion, Ye Qingxiao returned from the Outer Battlefield, bringing him numerous first- and second-grade demonic qi origins.

The reason Ye Qingxiao returned so early this time was that he had exhausted his nuclear explosion pills and came specifically to seek Ye Qingxuan's wealth.

With the nuclear explosion pills provided by Ye Qingxuan, Ye Qingxiao's survival capability in the Outer Battlefield's periphery increased significantly, and his speed in hunting demonic beasts improved considerably.

However, this was also related to the fact that the Qing Demon Clan had withdrawn from the Outer Battlefield, leaving it in a temporary state of peace.

The first- and second-grade demonic qi origins obtained from hunting offered little benefit to Ye Qingxiao after being sacrificed, so he brought them all to Ye Qingxuan.

As for whether Ye Qingxuan could utilize these demonic qi origins, Ye Qingxiao never gave it much thought.

Before leaving, Ye Qingxiao once again took a large bag of tranquilizing tea leaves from Ye Qingxuan, along with over a thousand third-grade nuclear explosion pills and over a hundred third-grade spirit-washing nuclear explosion pills.

This time, Ye Qingxiao prepared to make a big move.

After Ye Qingxiao departed, Ye Qingxuan gazed at the bottles and jars of demonic qi origins he had brought and fell into deep thought.

The method for purifying such demonic qi origins already existed within Ye Qingxuan's Earth Immortal inheritance.

First- and second-grade demonic qi origins were ultimately not the world origin of the Qing Demon Realm.

Therefore, within the Earth Immortal inheritance, the fourth-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land Purification Array, arranged with Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands, was sufficient to purify low-grade demonic qi origins into pure primary origin energy.

What Ye Qingxuan pondered was how to utilize the purified origin energy.

These demonic qi origins from the Qing Demon Realm did not even qualify as the world origin of a small thousand-world realm; they were merely energies containing trace amounts of world origin.

If Ye Qingxuan purified these demonic qi origins himself, the resulting energy would not be pure world origin either, but origin energy mixed with world origin.

Although abundant, this origin energy could not directly merge with spiritual power to enhance cultivation base like the world origin feedback received after directly sacrificing to the Di Xuan Realm.

First- to third-grade demonic qi origins could be purified into primary origin energy.

Fourth- to sixth-grade demonic qi origins could be purified into intermediate origin energy.

Seventh- to ninth-grade demonic qi origins could be purified into advanced origin energy.

Tenth-grade demonic qi origins could be purified into supreme origin energy; after refining and concentrating this supreme origin energy, it could rival true world origin.

Different grades contained different concentrations of world origin within the origin energy.

In the origin energy purified from first- and second-grade demonic qi origins, the world origin content was extremely low, offering only a slight improvement over Ye Qingxuan directly inhaling spiritual energy to cultivate.

When demonic qi origins were sacrificed to the Di Xuan Realm, the feedback origin, though small in quantity, was pure world origin that could directly merge with spiritual power to enhance cultivation base.

In contrast, the origin energy purified by Ye Qingxuan himself was merely ordinary energy mixed with world origin, requiring personal absorption and refinement to enhance cultivation base.

Ye Qingxuan's true cultivation base was currently late-stage Purple Mansion; refining the primary origin energy purified from these first- and second-grade origins yielded negligible results.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan did not intend to use this primary origin energy, with its thin world origin content, to enhance his cultivation base.

As for pouring it all into the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land to upgrade it, if the quantity was too small, the effect would not be very noticeable.

Ultimately, Ye Qingxuan decided to use these first- and second-grade demonic qi origins to purify pure primary origin energy for nurturing seventh-grade spiritual plant seeds.

The growth cycle of seventh-grade spiritual plants was extremely long; the sooner they sprouted, the better. However, relying solely on the primary origin energy purified from these demonic qi origins could not cause all twenty-six seventh-grade spiritual plants to sprout.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan's target this time was the three special seventh-grade spiritual plant seeds, not the seeds of the twenty-three seventh-grade spiritual herbs.

Having made his decision, Ye Qingxuan instructed Ye Zhaoheng to purchase materials and prepare to arrange the fourth-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land Purification Array.

This purification array utilized the dual heavenly and earthly forces of Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands to wash the demonic qi origins, thereby purifying pure origin energy.

After the materials were purchased, Ye Qingxuan spent three days arranging the fourth-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land Purification Array.

He then placed the low-grade demonic qi origins given by Ye Qingxiao into the purification array, bottle by bottle.

Although the fourth-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land Purification Array was extraordinary, it could not compare to the ninth-grade Sacrifice Array arranged by dominant powers like the Xuantian Sect.

After all, the Sacrifice Array directly sacrificed demonic qi origins to the Di Xuan Realm; the Di Xuan Realm naturally required little time to purify and absorb such trivial demonic qi origins.

However, Ye Qingxuan's current capabilities, limited by his cultivation base, still fell far short.

It took a full three hours before all these low-grade demonic qi origins were purified into primary origin energy, milky white with a faint golden glow.

The golden-glowing component was the world origin remaining within the energy, while the milky white part was ordinary energy similar to spiritual energy.

If Ye Qingxiao were here, he would surely cry out that he had suffered a loss.

This was because the Di Xuan Realm origin Ye Qingxiao received after sacrificing demonic qi origins previously contained only about one-tenth of the world origin content found in the origin energy purified by Ye Qingxuan, a reduction of ninety percent.

However, although the world origin within the primary origin energy purified by Ye Qingxuan was greater in total quantity, it still could not compare to pure world origin.

Given Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, reaching this stage was already the limit; he had no means to extract the world origin from the primary origin energy.

Unless Ye Qingxuan could advance to seventh-grade Alchemist, he could not refine the origin within the origin energy to create Origin Pills.

Only then could he use the Origin Pills to rapidly enhance his cultivation base, but this was not something achievable in the short term.

After obtaining the pure origin energy, Ye Qingxuan retrieved the three special seventh-grade spiritual plant seeds.

Two were planted at the two nodes of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven that absorbed chaotic energy, while the third was planted at the spring eye of the spiritual spring.

Though called a spring eye, after the Cave Heaven advanced to second grade, the spring eye had long since become a small pool ten meters in diameter.

After planting them, Ye Qingxuan wrapped these three special seventh-grade spiritual plant seeds in the freshly purified primary origin energy, nurturing them slowly and waiting for the day they would sprout.

These three seventh-grade spiritual plant seeds were special because, once they sprouted, matured, and grew to seventh grade, they could be used directly as magic treasures.

Three seventh-rank special spiritual plant seeds: the White Lotus, the Purple Bamboo, and the Armor Vine.

The seventh-rank White Lotus, once matured, drops a lotus throne that can aid cultivation and possesses a certain defensive effect.

The seventh-rank Purple Bamboo, once matured and slightly refined, can be used as a bamboo staff.

The seventh-rank Armor Vine, once matured and refined by a cultivator, can transform into a vine armor with outstanding defensive power.

Once these three spiritual plants grow to the seventh rank, they will all be comparable to low-grade magic treasures.

Therefore, in terms of value, these three spiritual plant seeds far exceed the other twenty-three seventh-rank medicinal herb seeds.

However, similarly, raising the seventh-rank White Lotus, the seventh-rank Purple Bamboo, and the seventh-rank Armor Vine to the seventh rank, not to mention the vast time required for growth,

the resources they consume far exceed those of the twenty-three seventh-rank medicinal herb seeds, beyond what ordinary factions can afford.

At the very least, the Zhu Merchant House, a third-rate faction with only a Soul Transformation realm expert as its guardian, cannot cultivate them.

After planting the three seventh-rank spiritual plant seeds—the White Lotus, the Purple Bamboo, and the Armor Vine—Ye Qingxuan returned to his previous cultivation rhythm.

Busy between nurturing his grotto-heaven blessed land and cultivating, he was thoroughly occupied, paying no heed to external disturbances.

Yet, amidst the busyness, taking a moment to relax, drinking tea and admiring the scenery in the Stone Pavilion remained an essential daily routine for Ye Qingxuan.

The third-rank Calming Tea Tree he had previously transformed now showed faint signs of transforming again; it was not far from reaching the fourth rank.

(End of this chapter)