Myriad Spirits Immortal Clan

The root of the Nine-Bend Ginseng was small, only the size of a thumb, with many tiny ginseng whiskers attached to it.

At this moment, the entire root was submerged in the spiritual soil, but the whiskers were not deeply rooted.

This was a symbol of slow or even stagnant growth, but it also made Ye Jingcheng feel somewhat excited.

After all, this was an existence with a chance to grow into a Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng.

The Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng is the most crucial main ingredient for the Nine-Bend Nascent Soul Pill, and it was precisely its value that led the Qing and Bai families to risk sending Nascent Souls to the outer sea.

As long as he could revive the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng, Ye Jingcheng would have the treasure he needed to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

"Although the family has used various spiritual liquids, there are still no signs of it surviving and growing. Second Brother also said that this treasure is a gift from the family to you, to see if you have a chance to save it!" Ye Xuefu sighed beside him.

The higher the grade of the spiritual herb, the more demanding it is. The fact that this spiritual herb hasn't withered in these ten years is already a testament to the Ye family's excellent cultivation methods.

Previously, because the Treasure Viewing Mirror was at Tianma Pass, even when Ye Jingyu returned, he didn't bring the treasure back, fearing that it would be thoroughly investigated and intercepted by the Bai and Qing families.

And before that, Tianma Pass was guarded by the Jiaolong clan, leaving no chance to escape.

"Thank you, Ninth Grand Uncle, this treasure is too precious to me!" Ye Jingcheng repeatedly cupped his hands. He still had considerable confidence in saving the Nine-Bend Ginseng root.

After all, his treasure light could restore injuries and enhance the spiritual herb's ability to absorb nutrients. Now, he also had the Spring Spirit.

If his previous plan was to use the Spring Spirit's spring water to fully enhance the Condensed Gold Fruit tree, now his plan was to fully enhance the Nascent Soul Fruit tree.

The minimum medicinal age for the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng is five hundred years.

He was now one hundred and thirteen years old, and he was confident that he could break through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core before he was one hundred and thirty years old.

Even if the time spent in the mid and late stages of the Golden Core was longer, he was still confident that he could cultivate to the late stage of the Golden Core before he was two hundred years old, at which point he could begin preparing for the formation of the Nascent Soul.

Naturally, the earlier the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng was cultivated, the better.

After Ye Jingcheng put away the ginseng root, Ye Xuefu also breathed a long sigh of relief.

Keeping this treasure on him had indeed made him feel uneasy.

"Grand Ancestor, Ninth Grand Uncle, the reason I've come this time is to explore the Central Region. Although my Ye family is developing extremely well in Yan Country now, the Purple Clarity True Lord knows a lot, and this is bound to be a potential risk!" Ye Jingcheng said.

Don't be fooled by the Ye family's flourishing development everywhere, which could even be described as being at its zenith.

After all, in the cultivation world, strength speaks. Once the Ye family's full strength is seen through, it will easily tempt those people to have malicious thoughts.

At that time, if the Ye family isn't prepared, it may suffer a devastating blow.

Besides, there are many Transformation God sects in the cultivation world of the Central Region. Presumably, the development there far surpasses the Eastern Region, and it's naturally more suitable for the Ye family's development.

"Yes, yes, this time, take Haisheng and Haiyan with you. With them, you'll have someone you can trust, so you won't be without help."

This trip to the Central Region wasn't about quantity, but quality.

Ye Jingcheng nodded upon hearing this.

Before long, Ye Haisheng and Ye Haiyan walked over.

"Uncle Haisheng, Sixth Grand Uncle," Ye Jingcheng cupped his hands.

"Jingcheng, thank you for thinking of me and giving me this opportunity!" Ye Haisheng was extremely delighted at this moment. He wasn't very good at alchemy or weapon refinement.

The only thing he was decent at was talisman making, but his talent wasn't very good either.

And because of the Stellar Whale, he owed the family quite a few contribution points.

If he didn't find a better job, it would be difficult to repay those contribution points, especially since he was now fully focused on nurturing the Stellar Whale.

"Haisheng, this time you must learn more from Jingcheng and your Sixth Brother. This opportunity in the Central Region is very important!" Ye Haicheng also said from the side.

"Please rest assured, Big Brother. The people I admire most now are Jingcheng and Brother Haihe!" Ye Haisheng also smiled, his face exceptionally cheerful.

After discussing for a while longer, Ye Jingcheng entrusted Qingnian and Qingfeng to Ye Haicheng.

After all, Chu Yanqing was also in seclusion, and the two little ones were only twelve years old, so they still needed proper guidance.

After the discussion, Ye Jingcheng didn't act immediately, but gave Ye Haisheng and Ye Haiyan some time to prepare.

He himself returned to his own cave.

He landed beside the spiritual herb field and carefully planted the root of the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng, pouring in a large amount of treasure light and some of the Ye family's special spiritual liquid.

He even directly watered it with five drops of blood spring water.

The peach wood sprite next to him stared with wide eyes.

It was currently calculating that if those five drops of blood spring water fell on it, it could speed up the formation of its longevity peaches by several years.

"It's really effective!" At this moment, the five drops of spring water landed on the ginseng root, and with Ye Jingcheng's treasure light, Ye Jingcheng even felt that the ginseng root's whiskers had become denser and seemed to have penetrated deeper into the spiritual soil.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng finally felt relieved. The treasure light and blood spring were both useful for the ginseng root of the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng.

This also made him more eager to refine the blood spring advancement spring formula.

After all, one drop was now equivalent to only half a year. If he wanted five hundred years, he would need at least a thousand drops.

And he only got a dozen drops a year.

That would take a hundred years.

This time was still too long.

Moreover, that was just the minimum medicinal standard. If Ye Jingcheng wanted a higher potency, the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng might need seven or eight hundred years of age, which would take even longer.

"Unfortunately, even though the family has been collecting for a year, it's still missing a second-order Blood-Infused Stone. I can only hope to collect it in the Central Region!" Ye Jingcheng murmured, then shook his head and began to meditate on his own.

… …

Before the Fallen Soul Forbidden Land, the scorching sun hung high, and black sand covered the forbidden land.

At the same time, the high-rolling astral winds were particularly fierce.

Forming black storms.

At this moment, four figures stood before the sandy sea.

These four were Ye Haiyan, Ye Haisheng, Ye Jingcheng, and the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor.

Although the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor had to guard the sandy sea, Ye Jingcheng really couldn't deal with these Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon Kings and Soul-Extinguishing Insect swarms.

So he could only let the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor accompany him.

Moreover, if something unexpected happened, the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor could provide support on the formation side.

"This should be a modified natural formation!" Ye Haiyan glanced at the formation, his eyebrows twitching involuntarily, and then spoke.

"It traps these astral winds, forming a forbidden land. This should have been set up by the Heavenly Sand Gate. I just don't know how the Heavenly Sand Gate declined!" Ye Haiyan said with some emotion.

The Heavenly Sand Gate's history in the sandy sea could be traced back thousands of years.

At that time, Danhuang hadn't come over yet. Naturally, it was difficult to explore now.

But judging from these Soul-Extinguishing Insects, the Heavenly Sand Gate used to be extremely glorious.

"Jingcheng, Dragon Uncle, if it's not urgent, let me study the formation first. This is an unmanned formation. If we can thoroughly study it, maybe we can use formation to explore formation, unaffected by the soul-banishing astral winds, and also avoid attracting these Soul-Extinguishing Insects!" In fact, for the Ye family, these Soul-Extinguishing Insects were natural guardian insects. They should have received instructions not to destroy the teleportation formation.

Moreover, such Soul-Extinguishing Insects were very easy to contract and control, making them excellent for guarding the Ye family's teleportation formation.

Of course, it was a pity that Ye Jingcheng no longer had the possibility of soul contracts.

Don't underestimate these spiritual insects. Their souls may be stronger than the souls of demon kings!

As he spoke, Ye Haiyan took out some formation plates and began to study the formation.

Ye Haisheng's interest greatly increased when he heard Ye Haiyan say this, but after watching for a while, he gave up as before.

Instead, he released his natal sword embryo and began to nurture it.

Ye Jingcheng couldn't help much, so he watched quietly from the side.

Protecting Ye Haiyan.

Thus, three full days passed.

Only to see Ye Haiyan shout softly:

"Sure enough, it's so ingenious!"

After speaking, he excitedly cast a series of spiritual seals, accurately landing in several places.

Suddenly, the astral winds began to change direction, revealing a black and red sandy path.

And the effect of isolating divine sense also disappeared.

"Jingcheng, if you didn't swallow dreams and search the memories of the Soul-Extinguishing Insects, you might get lost in the forbidden land. This formation can be said to be patching the gaps between a fourth-order formation and a fifth-order natural formation, but it seems that because of the long time, the difference between the fourth-order and fifth-order formations has become larger and larger, which gave me a chance to break it!" Ye Haiyan also said, revealing a hint of luck in his words.

Natural formations were indeed powerful, but also because they were natural, many were half-formations with obvious gaps.

These gaps were supplemented and improved by the people of the Heavenly Sand Gate, which gave birth to a forbidden land.

Of course, with the changes in the astral winds, countless Soul-Extinguishing Insects also came.

Seeing this, the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor stepped forward, and the aura of the Demon Emperor was undoubtedly revealed, causing the Soul-Extinguishing Insects to buzz, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.

Even several Demon Kings retreated inside.

"There are actually four Demon Kings!" Without the formation's obstruction, Ye Jingcheng's divine sense also probed in, discovering that there were four Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon Kings inside the Fallen Soul Forbidden Land, the strongest of which was a late-stage fourth-order Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon King.

Its divine sense was also particularly terrifying, probably equivalent to the divine sense of a peak fourth-order, and feeling the crisis at this moment, it gathered all the Soul-Extinguishing Insects, a total of hundreds of thousands of Soul-Extinguishing Insects, forming a cloud of insects in the distance, which was also very spectacular.

Ye Jingcheng only probed with his divine sense, and his mind was buzzing a bit. The divine sense he sent out was swallowed.

"Don't use divine sense, use the Eye of Law!" Ye Jingcheng repeatedly said.

Ye Haisheng and Ye Haiyan also nodded repeatedly, but their faces weren't very good, obviously having had a lot of divine sense swallowed.

"Jingcheng, how should we deal with these Soul-Extinguishing Insects?" The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor was still calm at this moment. Demon beasts didn't rely much on divine sense, and it was a fifth-order Demon Emperor whose soul had been blessed by the Beast Soul Treasure Light, so it wasn't afraid of these Soul-Extinguishing Insects.

Plus, without the formation and astral winds in the way, it was confident in completely destroying these Soul-Extinguishing Insects, but that obviously didn't align with the Ye family's interests.

"Dragon Ancestor, kill two Demon Kings first, and see if we can control the remaining two!" Ye Jingcheng was also a bit unsure at this moment. Many demon beasts would rather die than submit, especially these spiritual insects that once had owners.

However, Ye Jingcheng was truly reluctant to part with these Soul-Extinguishing Insects, as re-laying eggs and re-cultivating them would take too much time.

Even if he couldn't keep all one hundred thousand, keeping even half would be good.

As Ye Jingcheng spoke, the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor responded with a gesture of agreement and directly transformed into its true form.

The enormous golden giant lizard, upon appearing in the sky, exuded immense power.

Intense golden light began to wantonly manipulate the sand sea.

Dense golden earth thorns instantly killed thousands of Soul-Extinguishing Insects, and at the same time, a golden spiritual claw grabbed towards the highest-ranking Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon King.

"Submit, or die!" The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor's voice was extremely domineering.

"Buzz buzz!" However, those Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon Kings showed no fear and instead drove their army towards the golden spiritual claw.

If it were a normal magical treasure, being attacked like this would lead to the destruction of its spiritual consciousness, leaving it helpless.

But the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor possessed a spiritual law.

Even when surrounded, with the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor's roar, the spiritual palm exploded, transforming into countless golden thorns, simultaneously blasting and piercing, causing countless casualties among the Soul-Extinguishing Insects!

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor's body also accelerated sharply; despite its immense size, its speed was astonishing, reaching the Fourth-Order Late-Stage Insect King in an instant.

Boom!

The enormous golden palm closed, like two mountains fused together.

Crack crack crack!

The sound of countless Soul-Extinguishing Insect shells bursting echoed.

Another ten thousand Soul-Extinguishing Insects turned into insect shells, shattering open.

The Fourth-Order Late-Stage Insect King also perished within the spiritual palm.

The remaining three Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon Kings still didn't surrender or flee.

As if extremely stubborn, they surrounded the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor.

The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor extended three more spiritual palms.

Each grabbed towards one of the three Demon Kings.

The Soul-Extinguishing Insects were now truly helpless; many were already clinging to the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor's true form.

However, the body of a Fifth-Order demon beast was too strong; even ordinary Fourth-Order magical treasures couldn't necessarily cut through it.

These Soul-Extinguishing Insects naturally couldn't bite through it.

Occasionally cracking a few scales was already an extraordinary feat.

And of the three Soul-Extinguishing Insect Demon Kings, only the last two were left barely alive; the remaining one was killed by the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng could only take out a Fourth-Order sealing talisman to seal the two up.

Waiting for an opportunity to subdue them in the future.

Or waiting for Ye Xuefan to break through and give them to Ye Xuefan for a blood contract.

The latter was already in seclusion; if nothing unexpected happened, in a little over ten years, the Ye family could have another Golden Core True Person.

And a large number of Greater Demons were killed by the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor; of course, Ye Jingcheng also took the opportunity to seal some.

In addition, there were a few left that were obviously less fierce in temperament, so Ye Haiyan and Ye Haisheng contracted them.

Seeing this, the two happily began to contract.

They never expected to have gains before even reaching the Central Region.

However, in the end, only two Greater Demons were successfully blood-contracted; the rest self-destructed under the blood contract.

The number of Soul-Extinguishing Insects also sharply decreased to below thirty thousand.

Within the forbidden area, large patches of Soul-Extinguishing Insect carcasses were left behind.

Seeing that Ye Jingcheng didn't collect them, Ye Haiyan and Ye Haisheng each collected half.

These materials were also good materials.

It was just a pity that many of the Soul-Extinguishing Demon Cores of the Third-Order Greater Demons were also crushed.

"There are indeed quite a few Jade Soul Grasses here!" Ye Jingcheng's spiritual sense swept over the sand sea and discovered many spiritual herbs.

These spiritual herbs were the main ingredients for the Jade Soul Pill; moreover, because these Jade Soul Grasses were over seven or eight hundred years old, the refined Jade Soul Pills could be considered Third-Order Jade Soul Pills.

After all, the medicinal effects of Jade Soul Grasses that were seven or eight hundred years old were vastly different from those that were two or three hundred years old.

Ye Jingcheng collected some Jade Soul Grasses with sufficient medicinal properties and then stopped collecting, instead instructing Ye Haiyan to close the formation and release the Soul-Extinguishing Insects again.

In this way, the Fallen Soul Forbidden Area would return to its previous state, where no one dared to enter and explore.

After another half an hour, the three people and one demon landed at the entrance of a valley.

This valley entrance was paved with ancient bluestone, and a teleportation array was located here.

The teleportation array was clearly extremely ancient, but Ye Jingcheng didn't see any obvious gaps.

This meant that the possibility of the teleportation array being intact was extremely high.

"There are also some bones and some Daoist robes here; they may be cultivators from the Central Region, but their strength doesn't seem to be very good?" At that moment, Ye Haisheng also made a discovery nearby.

The bones left behind had dense, small gaps, likely because these cultivators were devoured to death by the Soul-Extinguishing Insects.

"No problem; this teleportation array can still teleport!" Ye Haiyan also spoke at this moment.

As a formation master, he could naturally easily determine whether a teleportation array was intact.

"Jingcheng, should we try it?" Ye Haiyan asked.

At this moment, a new problem appeared before the four of them.

Someone teleporting over meant that the teleportation array on the other side was known to someone.

It was just that the other party's strength didn't seem to be very good, as they were all killed by these Soul-Extinguishing Insects.

The possibility of Nascent Soul cultivators was very small.

But this was just speculation; if they guessed wrong and teleported over directly, and were ambushed or killed by a Golden Core cultivator using a Fourth-Order formation, it would truly be a capsizing in the gutter.

"Test it with a Golden Core puppet first!" Ye Jingcheng said.

He also took out a flying puppet.

After the flying puppet was taken out, Ye Jingcheng looked at Dragon Ancestor again.

"Dragon Ancestor, later, we may still need you to enter my Blessed Abode!" Since there was a possibility of being discovered, Ye Jingcheng naturally wanted to minimize the risk.

"Mm!" The Earth Dragon Demon Emperor nodded.

So Ye Haiyan took out six high-grade spirit stones and placed them on the teleportation platform.

As the spirit stones were placed, countless spiritual patterns appeared on the platform; the next moment, a dazzling precious light was revealed, and Ye Jingcheng's flying puppet instantly disappeared.

… …

Central Region, Southern Desolate Province, Xiaoshan Prefecture.

Here, countless mountain ranges stretch endlessly, among which Shay Huang Mountain is the most precipitous and towering.

Looking from afar, it is the most conspicuous in the mountain ranges.

It is also the peak where the Heavenly Sand Sect is located.

At this moment, formations flashed on the mountain, and there were many figures outside.

Mixed with countless curses.

"Huang Tieyun, why don't you come out quickly? With your Heavenly Sand Sect not even having a Violet Palace cultivator, you still want to occupy the Third-Order spiritual mountain on the border? You really don't know how the word 'death' is written?"

"As long as you give up Shay Huang Mountain, our Heavenly Sword Sect will definitely not make things difficult for you, and we can even let your Heavenly Sand Sect join our Heavenly Sword Sect and establish a peak!"

"You must know that you belong to the righteous path, and we belong to the Profound Heaven Sect. Not killing you is already considered a great kindness!"

… …

Hearing the challenges outside, the several old men on Shay Huang Mountain were now incomparably bitter.

Southern Desolate Province bordered Southern Barbarian Province, and Southern Barbarian Province, and even the entire Southern Region, belonged to the scope of the Profound Heaven Demonic Sect. Although they had the righteous path to support them.

But after all, they were affiliated forces attacking each other, and the two great immortal and demonic sects naturally couldn't say anything.

"Senior Brother Huang, let's retreat; this Shay Huang Mountain is no longer worth defending. The sacred ground has already been occupied by demon insects; we can't escape; there's no need to stay!" The cultivator next to him couldn't help but anxiously say.

"Junior Brother Xiao, you're confused! Do you really think they'll let us go? The demonic path is the most treacherous. If they didn't not even have a Violet Palace cultivator right now and couldn't break our Sand Soldier Great Formation, why would they just be cursing?"

"Once we go out, we will inevitably be killed."

"This place belongs to Southern Desolate Province; they naturally don't dare to occupy it; what they're aiming for is precisely the spirit stones and wealth on our bodies!" Huang Tieyun said.

These words immediately made the cultivator who spoke earlier turn pale.

He was only sixty years old and already in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment; he naturally didn't want to die.

But hearing this, he also panicked.

Now that Southern Barbarian Province was launching a full-scale attack, even the reinforcements arranged by the righteous path couldn't support them now.

And the only Violet Palace cultivator of their Heavenly Sand Sect had died in a secret realm half a year ago.

"If only we had withdrawn half a year ago. We don't have a Violet Palace cultivator; there's no need to occupy Shay Huang Mountain. Even the envoy of the righteous path would definitely understand!" Another Foundation Establishment cultivator said.

After speaking, he let out a long sigh.

"To think that our Heavenly Sand Sect has a history of five thousand years; is it going to be buried in our hands now?" Even Huang Tieyun at this moment was helplessly.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the earth shook and the mountains swayed. It turned out that several large swords outside had already slashed over.

The formation shook with a booming sound.

The faces of several people also turned ashen.

"We control the formation; Junior Brother Cheng, you go arrange for the core disciples and sect inheritance to leave!" Huang Tieyun repeatedly ordered.

And one of the fat cultivators nodded with a face full of unwillingness.

However, at this moment, a cultivator suddenly stumbled in.

"Shishu, Shibo, the ancestor has manifested!" After several people helped the latter up, they were stunned to hear these words?

"Speak clearly; what exactly happened?"

"A Golden Core cultivator has been teleported from the sect's sacred ground; it should be our Heavenly Sand Sect's ancestor!" The cultivator quickly added after hearing this.

"Junior Brother Xiao, go take a look; Junior Brother Cheng, you continue to arrange for the clansmen to prepare to flee!" Huang Tieyun gave the order decisively upon hearing this.

To him, the sect's sacred ground hadn't been visited for almost two thousand years.

Naturally, he couldn't trust it too much!