Myriad Spirits Immortal Clan

Within the secret realm, the densely packed branches resembled a nest of vipers, surging forward relentlessly from all directions, blanketing the sky.

Moreover, each of these branches bore a grotesque face, emitting terrifying gusts of yin wind, eerie and sinister.

Accompanying the waves of yin wind, the three even felt a bizarre sensation as if their souls were about to leave their bodies.

This filled Li Shangwu with immense horror, as he naturally didn't possess a fourth-order soul defense treasure.

Therefore, he worried that his magical artifacts might not be able to break through these pagoda tree branches and that he would be entangled by these bizarre branches.

However, he soon realized that his worries were unnecessary.

He saw Ye Xuecang's aura erupting, and a full four sword-nurturing gourds appeared in the air.

Because core sword cultivators of the Taiyi Sword Peak all possessed natal sword embryos, Li Shangwu had some understanding of what these sword gourds were for.

But what he didn't expect was that Ye Xuecang's first sword flew out.

It transformed into a mountain-sized sword芒, tearing through the sky.

At the same time, beneath the sword芒, terrifying sword intent raged relentlessly in the void.

As the sword芒 swept through the void, it instantly shattered all the branches.

One had to know that the old yin pagoda tree demon before them was at least at the late fourth order.

Branches like these were no ordinary willows; their strength was no less than that of a third-order, top-grade profound iron.

To achieve such an effect could only mean that Ye Xuecang's sword cultivation, even within the Taiyi Sect, could definitely rank in the top three or even higher.

Aside from Ye Xuecang's sword, what surprised him even more was that the other two clearly possessed soul defense treasures, and their souls were also far from ordinary.

Under that yin wind, they were hardly affected.

With this in mind, Li Shangwu's worries vanished for the most part.

He also felt that coming to the East Wuwu Islands to find the Ye family was an incredibly wise decision.

Other Nascent Soul forces would absolutely be unable to mobilize such a strong force.

And without such a strong force, he had no doubt that he would perish under this old pagoda tree, becoming one of the yin pagoda tree demon's nutrients.

That yin wind was a nightmare for all cultivators without soul treasures.

While Li Shangwu pondered, Ye Xuecang unleashed another sword, this time the second sword.

It was the second sword after the mountain-splitting first sword, River Breath.

For Ye Xuecang, this was his first battle after breaking through to the late Golden Core stage, and it was very important to him.

If it weren't for the sake of stability and persuading this tree demon to surrender, he would have wanted Ye Xuefan to watch from the sidelines.

With the blessing of the sword-nurturing gourds, this sword, once released, resembled a celestial river hanging high, cascading down.

The old face on the old pagoda tree's main body showed a look of panic.

Its main body also began to sway strangely.

Those initially red ribbons, swaying, transformed into yin puppets one by one.

Obviously, these hanging objects were not ribbons for blessings but individual hanging human puppets.

Although this tree demon wasn't a ghost banner, it had already cultivated itself into one.

These yin puppets varied in strength, the weaker ones being less than first-order, and the stronger ones even reaching the fourth order, brandishing their claws and teeth as they surged towards the sword river.

However, the old yin pagoda tree clearly underestimated the current Ye Xuecang.

The sword river remained brilliant, but the yin puppets all screamed repeatedly, dissipating into the void.

However, before dissipating, they emitted terrifying soul-shaking sounds.

This time, Li Shangwu, who was preparing to attack, was once again stung by the soul-shaking sound as if his entire sea of consciousness was about to explode.

Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan, on the other hand, only had spiritual light flashing across their bodies, and they even each condensed a Thousand Moon Soul Needle, stabbing towards the yin pagoda tree demon king.

In addition, Ye Xuefan also took out a large number of array disks and countless spirit beasts.

These spirit beasts included Ye Jingcheng's golden falcon, Ye Xuefan's two-headed turtle, and the Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon King.

There were also two fourth-order spirit puppets.

This extravagant offensive method was unheard of to Li Shangwu next to him.

After all, normally, two or three Golden Core cultivators fighting a Golden Core demon king was already a great advantage.

Now, he calculated that it was already eight against one.

There was even a formation.

Of course, what he didn't know was that Ye Xuecang's spirit beast pouch also contained three demon kings at this moment: the Zhu Yan, the White-Browed Azure Wolf, and the Peng Fish.

However, in the eyes of Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan, this was no longer necessary.

As the formation spread, with Ye Xuefan as the center, it transformed into a square chessboard, perfectly enveloping the old yin pagoda tree in the middle.

Countless chess puppets surged towards the old yin pagoda tree demon's main body.

The other party was also greatly shocked, obviously not expecting that the people who came, apart from a dazed one, were all so terrifying.

All of its roots in front of it suddenly burst out of the soil.

Unlike the branches, its roots were all extremely thick, like golden chains.

They intertwined in the air to form a chain wall, resisting the charging chess puppets.

But with the chess puppets blocked, it was somewhat powerless to deal with the golden falcon, the two-headed turtle, the Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon King, and Ye Xuecang's moves.

Ye Xuecang's third sword was the first to be unleashed.

This sword was like a silver moon falling, the sky and earth all dimmed, it was the third sword, Moon Slash.

Wherever the sword light passed, countless branches didn't even touch the sword芒 but, under the radiance of the sword light, rapidly disappeared like ice and snow melting.

Even the chain wall formed by those roots.

Only at the last moment did the old yin pagoda tree demon forcibly move its main body a lot, dodging the fatal blow.

But it was still cut off from most of its body, causing its face to instantly twist.

Anger, fear, and resentment were all intertwined for a time.

"Submit or die!" Ye Xuecang spoke.

His voice was like thunder in the sky, solemnly resounding.

The old yin pagoda tree also had a face full of resentment, as if it had thought of something, and all its roots and branches began to boil.

It had no intention of surrendering or yielding.

On the contrary, it seemed to be enraged.

"斩!" Ye Xuecang joined two fingers together and pointed towards the void.

The fourth sword, Thunder Collapse, was unleashed in an instant.

Along with the golden sword light, the Golden Falcon also unleashed its attack. Its cultivation was already stronger than Ye Xuecang's, and its diving sword strike was no less powerful.

Golden and blue sword lights intertwined, and as the sword light dissipated, the area was left in ruins.

An old Sophora tree collapsed with a thunderous crash, and a section of its heartwood was sent flying by the sword, landing in Ye Xuecang's hand.

This old Sophora tree demon was clearly sensitive about being contracted by cultivators, so Ye Xuecang decided not to keep it.

After all, the Ye family still had the Five Demons Nascent Soul Secret Technique, and they were in need of a fourth-order wood demon's beast soul and heartwood material.

The only problem was that this old Yin Sophora had killed countless beings and harbored immense resentment. If it were to be used to perform the Five Demons Nascent Soul Secret Technique, it would be best to deal with the demon soul first.

Once the remaining beast soul and main body of the Sophora tree demon were collected,

Ye Xuecang began to sheathe his sword, but Ye Xuefan did not retract the formation. On the contrary, the formation he set up became even more extensive.

"The strength of you two fellow Daoists is so great that it makes us newly entered Golden Core cultivators feel as insignificant as Purple Mansion cultivators," Li Shangwu said, having been shocked countless times. However, as the person who had been in charge of the Li family for a century, he quickly recovered and began to offer flattery.

"Fellow Daoist Li overpraises us. We are merely relying on our age," Ye Xuecang replied casually, then began to carefully examine the entire secret realm with his divine sense.

Although this secret realm was a fourth-order one, it was not very large, about the same size as Wu Xin Island.

The entire secret realm was full of spiritual energy, with numerous spiritual trees and plants, full of vitality, making it particularly suitable for development.

There were also three or four spiritual medicine gardens.

However, they had clearly been abandoned for a long time, and there were not many spiritual herbs left on them.

"I'm afraid the people of the East Wu Sect have been dead at the hands of that wood demon for a long time," Ye Xuecang said, looking at Ye Xuefan.

The Ye family naturally hoped that someone would be left behind, whether through enticement or soul-searching. The Ye family still needed information about the East Wu Sect and the Star Ocean.

After all, whether it was for hunting妖兽 in the future or finding the old Cold Flood Dragon, accurate information was needed.

"Let's find the transformation spirit medicine first. I feel like that transformation spirit medicine is somewhat familiar," Ye Xuefan sighed as well, but he quickly regained his focus.

Ye Xuecang nodded upon hearing this.

"Fellow Daoist Li, the Ye family will search for the treasures first, and we will share two-tenths with you," Ye Xuecang said, then released the Treasure-Seeking Rat.

Unlike its previous owner, the Treasure-Seeking Rat had not been doing well, only the size of an ordinary wolfhound. After arriving at the Ye family, it was now like a fat pig, nothing like its previous thin self.

Its cultivation had even reached the late stage of the third order.

After receiving Ye Xuecang's order, the Treasure-Seeking Rat twitched its nose and began to search.

Soon, it stopped in a dense forest.

The strange thing about this dense forest was that the spiritual energy was extremely rich, but these spiritual trees were only ordinary second-order spiritual trees.

Clearly, there were some secrets inside.

"It should be hiding below, and it seems to be able to escape," Ye Xuecang said, looking at Ye Xuefan.

Ye Xuefan immediately understood and began to set up a formation. Soon, the formation covered the entire forest. Even Li Shangwu could not see anything inside the forest.

He could only wait outside.

But Li Shangwu's face did not show disappointment. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As the head of the Li family, he naturally knew the principle that the more you know, the more dangerous it is sometimes.

Therefore, he would rather not see what kind of spiritual medicine it was.

Knowing that it was a transformation spirit medicine was already a big secret.

After all, transformation spirit medicines were extremely rare in the Eastern Region. It was said that only the Medicine King Valley had a few plants.

Transformation spirit medicines were not only spiritual medicines with intelligence, but they were also more likely to produce pill patterns when refining spirit pills.

Li Shangwu did not dare to look at the spiritual medicine, but he did not go to mine the other spiritual medicines either. Instead, he recalled Ye Xuecang's four swords.

Other gains would be distributed by the Ye family, but if he could remember half a move of this swordsmanship and pass it on to his family, that might be a great gain.

Within the formation, Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan were equally moved.

When the Treasure-Seeking Rat landed in this forest, they had already discovered the main body of the transformation spirit medicine.

They finally understood why the East Wu Sect wanted to seal off this fourth-order secret realm.

Inside this secret realm, they had actually cultivated a Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng.

And it was a transformation spirit medicine.

Thinking back to the East Wu Sect cultivators' resentment that the beast tide was triggered by a certain cultivator from the Star Ocean,

Everything made sense.

It was estimated that someone had received the news and wanted to obtain this transformation spirit medicine.

However, they had killed all the cultivators of the East Wu Sect, but they did not expect that the transformation spirit medicine was in a secret realm that they could not find.

"It's a pity that this Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng is not transformed from the original curved root, so there is no possibility of proliferation." Although it was a transformation spirit medicine, the Ye family had a special spirit talisman for capturing this spirit medicine. With the addition of the formation set up by Ye Xuefan, they quickly captured the rabbit spirit shadow, and the main body of the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng was also carefully taken out of the soil by the two.

"This is already a great opportunity for our Ye family. It would be too greedy to ask for the original curve," Ye Xuecang said with a smile.

Then Ye Xuefan looked outside the formation.

A hint of coldness flashed in his eyes, and the meaning of his inquiry was very clear.

"Our Ye family is also a Nascent Soul family. There is no need to be like before. Even if it leaks out, someone has to dare to snatch it. Moreover, since he has become an appendage of our Ye family and his core clansmen are all on the East Wu Islands, there is no need to worry about anything."

"The most important thing is that he probably didn't see anything," Ye Xuecang had naturally considered it, but this opportunity was the Li family's opportunity. Since the Li family was so aware of when to advance and when to retreat, what difference would there be between the Ye family and Penglai if they still had ulterior motives.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xuefan nodded.

In addition to the two-tenths that the Ye family promised to give, what the Ye family needed to consider now was what reward to give to the Li family.