Chapter 96: Division of the Blessed Land

According to the previous contract.

Ye Qingxuan needs to hand over thirty percent of the value of the spiritual plants cultivated in the blessed land to the Ye family.

A normal blessed cultivator within the Xuantian Sect can only plant about 3,000 first-rank spiritual plants per year on a first-rank blessed land.

Even calculating with a 100% survival rate, a normal blessed cultivator can only produce 3,000 first-rank spiritual plants in a year.

Depending on quality and efficacy, the market price of first-rank spiritual plants ranges from 1 to 10 low-grade spirit stones.

Even if all are calculated at the maximum of 10 low-grade spirit stones, the annual output of a normal blessed cultivator's first-rank blessed land is only 30,000 low-grade spirit stones.

The family's share of thirty percent of the output amounts to 9,000 low-grade spirit stones per year, or 900,000 low-grade spirit stones over a century, which converts to 90 high-grade spirit stones.

But Ye Qingxuan is different.

His Qingxuan Blessed Land is now second-rank; without affecting the growth of spiritual plants, a second-rank blessed land can plant at least 30,000 spiritual plants.

Moreover, due to the existence of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, the cave heaven and blessed land complement each other, greatly improving the survival rate of spiritual plants to an astonishing 99%.

Additionally, the formations arranged by Ye Qingxuan can continuously transform earth energy to provide sufficient nutrients for the spiritual plants, reducing constraints on their growth.

A second-rank cave heaven blessed land can fully cultivate fourth-rank spiritual plants, greatly increasing their value.

Currently, aside from the small portion of first-rank spiritual plants that must be planted to complete sect tasks, the second- and third-rank spiritual plants in Ye Qingxuan's blessed land account for about one-third of the total.

The remainder consists almost entirely of fourth-rank spiritual plants.

Although the growth time for fourth-rank spiritual plants is significantly longer, the current cycle for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land to cultivate ordinary fourth-rank spiritual plants is about 12 years.

However, the market price of fourth-rank spiritual plants, depending on quality and efficacy, ranges from 90 to 900 mid-grade spirit stones.

Their value is far beyond comparison with first-rank spiritual plants.

Although Ye Qingxuan planted a wide variety of spiritual plants to support the growth of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, resulting in varying values.

Even so, after a century of accumulation, the value of the spiritual plants produced by the Qingxuan Blessed Land is approximately nearly one million high-grade spirit stones.

Therefore, according to the signed contract, Ye Qingxuan must give the Ye family 300,000 high-grade spirit stones this time.

Fortunately, Ye Qingxuan's ninth-rank Thunder Source Fruit Tree, seventh-rank White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vines are all planted within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven; otherwise, this total value would rise another tier.

Although these special high-rank spiritual plants are still far from maturity, once they survive, their value cannot be compared to ordinary fourth-rank spiritual plants.

"Never mind, I won't think about it. I'll just say I earned it myself."

Having made up his mind, Ye Qingxuan took out a transmission talisman and sent a message to Ye Yu Hong: "Family Head, the century-long term has ended. You may come and collect the blessed land share belonging to the family."

After sending the message, Ye Qingxuan returned to his own Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

Looking at the White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vines growing vigorously, Ye Qingxuan felt great joy.

The seeds of the seventh-rank White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vines have long since successfully sprouted and become seedlings.

After becoming seedlings, they can absorb other energies to grow on their own and no longer require nurturing with primordial energy.

However, seventh-rank and above spiritual plants also condense primordial energy during their growth process, so their growth speed is extremely slow.

After several decades, the earliest planted ninth-rank Thunder Source Fruit Tree, along with the seventh-rank White Lotus, Purple Bamboo, and Armor Vines, have only grown to the second-rank level.

Besides these four high-rank spiritual plants, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land has also advanced to the mid-stage of the second rank.

Although the area has not increased, the primordial foundation of the cave heaven blessed land has become much more substantial.

In fact, with Ye Qingxuan's massive investment of first- and second-rank spiritual mines and the assistance of planting a wide variety of spiritual plants.

The elemental rules analyzed by the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land are already sufficient for it to grow to the peak of the second rank.

The reason the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land is currently only at the mid-stage of the second rank is that its speed of converting various energies into primordial energy is too slow.

Although many great formations arranged by Ye Qingxuan provide assistance, these can only increase the cave heaven blessed land's absorption of energy and cannot change the efficiency of primordial energy conversion.

Most of the excess energy is converted into earth energy and then absorbed by the various spiritual plants planted in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

This is one of the reasons why spiritual plants within the cave heaven blessed land can grow to the fourth rank, surpassing the rank limitations of the cave heaven blessed land itself.

Ordinary blessed lands do not have so much extra energy in the earth for spiritual plants to absorb.

After nearly decades of exploration, Ye Qingxuan discovered that to shorten the accumulation speed of the cave heaven blessed land's primordial energy and allow its primordial foundation to grow significantly.

Currently, there is only one method: provide vast amounts of primordial energy containing primordial essence, or directly provide primordial essence for the cave heaven blessed land to absorb. Only in this way can the cave heaven blessed land grow quickly and shorten the time required for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land to accumulate primordial essence.

Relying solely on the primary primordial energy purified from the demonic qi primordial essence brought by Ye Qingxiao is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

In the short term, Ye Qingxuan has no way to solve this problem.

Just as Ye Qingxuan was pondering, an excited roar sounded from not far in front of him:

"Roar!"

Hearing this sound, a hint of a smile flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes as he looked forward.

There, a young green dragon, having sensed Ye Qingxuan's aura, was flying toward him with great excitement.

Upon reaching Ye Qingxuan's side, this little dragon circled him several times before starting to act spoiled and spin around in front of him.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan couldn't help but smile and reached out to stroke the little dragon's head.

Feeling Ye Qingxuan's touch, the little dragon's lively eyes immediately squinted, and a look of enjoyment appeared on its beastly face.

This green dragon is the Green Dragon that Ye Qingxuan keeps by his side.

The current Green Dragon has grown to the peak of the second rank, with a body length reaching about three meters.

Although the lifespan of spiritual beasts is extremely long, the energy required during their growth process is also enormous.

Even with Ye Qingxuan's infinite supply, the speed at which the Green Dragon absorbs energy is limited.

Therefore, after several decades, the Green Dragon has only grown to the peak of the second rank.

Over these years, Ye Qingxuan has never stopped administering bloodline pills to the Green Dragon, so the Green Dragon often falls into deep sleep.

After the Green Dragon advanced to the second rank, Ye Qingxuan has been administering second-rank bloodline pills to it.

The second-rank bloodline fruits required for second-rank bloodline pills cost 1,000 contribution points each; this value far exceeds the price of ordinary second-rank spiritual plants.

It can only be said that rarity breeds value. Although bloodline fruits are only useful for spiritual beasts and demon beasts, due to the special nature of their growing environment, their current quantity is far too scarce.

Even Ye Qingxuan's Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, without the blood essence of demon beasts, cannot cultivate blood trees to mass-produce bloodline fruits.

The contribution points required for a Second-Rank Bloodline Fruit were naturally beyond Ye Qingxuan's means.

Fortunately, he lacked no spirit stones. After contacting Zhu Dafu, he instructed Zhu Dafu to purchase Second-Rank Bloodline Fruits at the Tianfu Shop, offering a price thirty percent above market value.

This ensured a steady supply of Bloodline Fruits, providing the Green Dragon with sufficient Bloodline Elixirs.

Regarding the Green Dragon, Ye Qingxuan held high expectations and eagerly awaited the day it would transform into a dragon.

Besides the Green Dragon, the ten Earth Spirit Turtles Ye Qingxuan had released into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven remained at the peak of the First Rank, their growth rate extremely slow.

As for the other Earth Dragons, Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, and Spirit-Nourishing Bees, their numbers had roughly doubled over several decades.

The reproduction speed of spiritual beasts was simply too slow.

After several decades, the Qingxuan Blessed Land now contained only:

2,081 First-Rank Earth Dragons, 590 Second-Rank Earth Dragons, and 56 Third-Rank Earth Dragons.

21,036 First-Rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, 9,986 Second-Rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, 963 Third-Rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies, and 391 Fourth-Rank Ten-Thousand-Flower Spirit Butterflies.

1,623 First-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees, 5,982 Second-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees, 1,966 Third-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees, and 3 Fourth-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees.

The Third-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Honey produced by the Third-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees aided Ye Qingxuan's cultivation, but unfortunately, the yield was far too low.

Currently, the annual output of the 1,966 Third-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees was only enough to sustain Ye Qingxuan's doubled cultivation speed for about two months.

As for the other three Fourth-Rank Spirit-Nourishing Bees, they had advanced later, so their numbers remained extremely scarce and they could not yet serve any purpose.

After comforting the Green Dragon for a moment, Ye Qingxuan fed it some spirit stones.

He then led it out of the Cave Heaven and waited quietly in the Stone Pavilion for Ye Yu Hong's arrival.

Ye Qingxuan did not confine the Green Dragon within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land; occasionally, he would bring it out for fresh air, as long as the Green Dragon did not wander too far.

(End of Chapter)