Chapter 95: The Hundred-Year Deadline Arrives

In the time that followed, Ye Qingxuan basically completely faded his own existence.

He lived deep within his blessed land, no longer paying attention to worldly affairs.

Except for a few friends and managers he had befriended before becoming a blessed cultivator, very few people knew of Ye Qingxuan's existence.

However, a few blessed cultivators who had left contact marks at the Blessed Cultivator Academy sometimes sent messages to harass Ye Qingxuan, complaining about their own blessed lands while trying to inquire about his current situation.

But Ye Qingxuan did not reply to them; his relationship with these few was not deep, and once he replied, the harassment in the future would surely not be lacking.

So from the very beginning, Ye Qingxuan chose not to reply to these people's messages.

He was living an incredibly comfortable life now and did not want to hear about the hardships of other blessed cultivators.

Among his few friends, Bai Wenyang still served at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and occasionally came to visit him, drinking tea and chatting idly.

The Hundred Treasures Pavilion was a star-rated shop, with a scale far exceeding that of large shops, so the storm previously stirred up by Ye Qingxuan's Tianfu Shop had little impact on the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

However, in his conversations with Ye Qingxuan, Bai Wenyang occasionally mentioned the Tianfu Shop, sighing at its terrifying growth speed.

Although the Hundred Treasures Pavilion did not care about the Tianfu Shop, Bai Wenyang and others in the middle and lower ranks paid considerable attention to the Tianfu Shop.

However, Bai Wenyang did not know that the Tianfu Shop was Ye Qingxuan's property.

Every time Ye Qingxuan heard Bai Wenyang bragging about his own Tianfu Shop, he would just smile and let it pass, without letting it stir even a ripple in his calm state of mind.

Besides Bai Wenyang, Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, a couple who had not been seen for a long time, also came to visit Ye Qingxuan once.

Nowadays, both Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun had Purple Mansion realm cultivation bases, and they had officially become Dao partners, frequently undertaking sect missions that required them to travel outside and tour various places in the world.

Therefore, this couple did not spend much time at the Xuantian Sect.

When they came to see Ye Qingxuan, Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, fearing that Ye Qingxuan might feel bored after becoming a blessed cultivator, specially prepared a gift for him.

The two did not know that Ye Qingxuan was raising a batch of spiritual beasts, so they wanted him to raise some living creatures to relieve his boredom.

But in Ye Qingxuan's view, the gift Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun gave him seemed more like something to satisfy his appetite.

Because the gifts the two brought were Eight-Treasure Chickens, Fragrant Pigs, and Spiritual Rabbits.

Eight-Treasure Chickens, Fragrant Pigs, and Spiritual Rabbits all belonged to semi-spiritual beasts; they lacked spiritual intelligence but could automatically absorb spiritual energy into their flesh, making them rare delicacies in the cultivation world.

The Eight-Treasure Chickens, Fragrant Pigs, and Spiritual Rabbits brought by Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, six of each, were now all raised by Ye Qingxuan within the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Apart from this, Ye Qingxiao was the one who visited him most frequently.

Every time he came, he would bring Ye Qingxuan a large amount of first and second-grade demonic energy sources, while also taking away quite a few of Ye Qingxuan's Nuclear Explosion Pills and Calming Teas.

Now, the originally third-grade Calming Tea Tree, during Ye Qingxuan's years of secluded cultivation, had successfully transformed into a fourth-grade Calming Tea Tree.

Not only did its calming effect increase significantly, but it could also allow people to briefly enter a state of Dao comprehension.

This effect was not very useful to Ye Qingxuan, because his comprehension, under the influence of the Immortal Soul, had already far exceeded the limits of his own realm.

But for other Purple Mansion cultivators, or even Nascent Soul cultivators, entering a state of Dao comprehension by drinking fourth-grade Calming Tea had a very significant effect.

The only drawback currently was that the duration was too short, lasting only about ten minutes.

However, Ye Qingxuan had great expectations for the Calming Tea Tree; if it continued to transform, with its Dao comprehension effect and duration constantly improving,

perhaps it could one day play a significant role for himself as well.

So Ye Qingxuan took extra care in cultivating that Calming Tea Tree; even the primary source energy purified from the demonic energy sources brought by Ye Qingxiao each time was partially infused into the Calming Tea Tree.

Now the growth of the Calming Tea Tree was very gratifying, and even its yield had increased significantly.

As for the remaining primary source energy, Ye Qingxuan did not use it to cultivate the twenty-three spiritual medicine seeds, but directly infused it into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land to accelerate the growth of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Although the amount was not large and it was only primary source energy, it was better than nothing; over time, it provided considerable help to the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

For seventh-grade spiritual plants, the White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vines were currently sufficient.

The current Cave Heaven Blessed Land was too low in rank; wasting resources on cultivating seventh-grade spiritual medicines was not cost-effective. Once the rank of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land was raised, cultivating seventh-grade spiritual medicines would then yield twice the result with half the effort.

Besides these, basically nothing else would disturb Ye Qingxuan's secluded cultivation.

During the time Ye Qingxuan was in seclusion, the Earth Mystery Realm had remained calm and peaceful.

The cleansing operations on the Border Battlefield were also proceeding very smoothly; the birth speed of various demons derived from the Qing Demon Realm's source energy had been slowing down more and more.

It seemed that everything was developing in an increasingly positive direction.

Time flew like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed since Ye Qingxuan became a blessed cultivator.

Since the storm surrounding the Tianfu Shop and the Nuclear Explosion Pills subsided, Ye Qingxuan had been in seclusion for over eighty years.

After more than eighty years of secluded cultivation, although Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base had not yet broken through to the peak of the Purple Mansion realm, only a small distance remained.

The cultivation speed of a three-element spiritual root was still too slow.

If it were in the Ye Family, the upper limit for ordinary cultivators with a three-element spiritual root talent was basically the Purple Mansion realm, with no hope of reaching the Nascent Soul realm.

This was also the reason why, after more than eighty years of secluded cultivation, Ye Qingxuan still had not reached the peak of the Purple Mansion realm.

As for that fellow Ye Qingxiao, since he had received the Nuclear Explosion Pills provided by Ye Qingxuan, he had obtained a large amount of third-grade demonic energy sources on the Border Battlefield.

Coupled with the fact that Ye Qingxiao's talent had been upgraded to a six-element spiritual root, his cultivation speed increased greatly.

Therefore, Ye Qingxiao's cultivation base had long surpassed Ye Qingxuan's hidden cultivation base; he was now a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

During these eighty-plus years, the ancestor of the Ye Family, Ye Zhaoyang, had long since completed his sect mission and returned to the Xuantian Sect.

Unfortunately, although Ye Zhaoyang's cultivation base had made some breakthroughs, he had not successfully broken through to the Soul Transformation realm as hoped, and had even suffered severe injuries.

Ye Zhaoyang's situation was not told to Ye Qingxuan by Ye Zhaoyang himself, but was learned by Ye Qingxuan through Ye Qingxiao.

Perhaps Ye Zhaoyang had long forgotten the existence of Ye Qingxuan, this blessed cultivator junior.

So after Ye Zhaoyang returned, he did not contact Ye Qingxuan.

According to Ye Qingxiao, the sect mission Ye Zhaoyang received was originally to cleanse the outer areas of the Border Battlefield and gain experience in the outer regions of the Border Battlefield.

But after the Qing Demon Clan retreated, the danger of the Border Battlefield decreased significantly, and Ye Zhaoyang's mission changed to cleansing the demons in the inner ring of the Border Battlefield.

Ye Zhaoyang's injuries were also left behind in the inner ring of the Border Battlefield.

Although the Qing Demon Clan had retreated, the various battle aftereffects, energies, and even principles and rules remaining in the inner ring were far more numerous than those in the outer areas of the Border Battlefield.

Ye Zhaoyang, while exploring, accidentally triggered the remaining energy and suffered severe injuries.

After returning to Xuantian Sect, Ye Zhaoyang summoned Ye Qingxiao to explain the situation.

He then entered seclusion to recover from his injuries and would be unable to emerge for some time.

Apart from this, during the period Ye Qingxuan was in deep cultivation, no other major events occurred.

At this moment, Ye Qingxuan was not cultivating in the blessed land.

Instead, he was drinking tea in a stone pavilion, his eyes showing a hint of melancholy.

Over eighty years had passed, yet Ye Qingxuan's appearance had not changed at all; he merely carried an air of refined scholarly elegance that was very pleasant to behold.

The reason for Ye Qingxuan's melancholy was that the hundred-year deadline had arrived.

According to the original contract, it was time to hand over the first batch of blessed land resources to the Ye family.

Ye Qingxuan did not mind giving the resources to the Ye family; he simply did not know how to explain the source of these resources to Ye Yuhong.

(End of this chapter)