Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Turtle Ancestor
The five spirit eggs emitted a white jade spiritual light, illuminating the cave entrance somewhat brightly.
Getting closer, Ye Jingcheng could feel the remarkable spiritual might of the four spirit eggs, along with a faint spiritual breath, something he hadn’t seen in other spirit eggs.
At this moment, the jade talisman in Ye Jingcheng’s hand also began to glow.
Ye Haiyi started urging.
Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng no longer delayed and picked up the largest and the smallest spirit egg.
The smallest spirit egg was surprisingly the one with a remarkably strong bloodline talent.
According to the evolution in the Treasure Book, it could potentially advance into a Jade Qilin Dragon.
This egg seemed somewhat underdeveloped here, as if the spiritual energy here couldn’t allow it to hatch smoothly.
In Ye Jingcheng’s mind at this moment was the idea of how to acquire this spirit egg, considering that in the Ye Family, newly born spirit eggs are generally nurtured by the younger generation, so he had a chance.
After all, some spirit beasts grow extremely slowly if they don’t have enough resources, possibly outlasting the cultivators. These spirit beasts would then be inherited by the next generation of Ye Family cultivators.
For example, Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong both inherited spirit beasts in the Ye Family.
The reason Ye Jingcheng didn’t inherit was because his Red Flame Fox was already outstanding. It was now at the Late Stage of First Tier, and adding another spirit beast might cause the Ye Family to worry about his own cultivation being left behind.
Ye Jingcheng walked out from the Jade Qilin Snake’s cave, and Ye Haiyi’s expression was a bit puzzled.
Because he didn’t understand why Ye Jingcheng took one of the largest and one of the smallest.
"Perhaps to reduce suspicion!" Ye Haiyi thought to himself, his expression became normal.
At this moment, Ye Jingyu also came over from the side, holding many jade boxes in his hands.
Among them were six Jade Dragon Grass plants over a hundred years old, and one five hundred years old. Even with the isolation of the Spirit Jade Box, Ye Jingcheng could feel the intense spiritual energy of the Jade Dragon Grass.
The brilliant spiritual aura filled the jade boxes, making the spirit patterns inside vivid and lifelike, like the Yun Furnace of a pill furnace, extraordinarily mystical.
After viewing this, Ye Jingcheng looked into the other common snake nests to see if there were any snake eggs or young snakes with exceptional talent.
Yet he saw Ye Haiyi nodding. He patted the Spirit Beast Bag, and the next moment, a huge blue-white giant tortoise appeared from the shell at the bottom of the pond.
This giant tortoise had long white whiskers, eyes as profound as water, unusually deep. Ye Jingcheng had never seen such all-seeing eyes.
The only thing he didn’t understand was the tortoise’s shell was brand new, and its spiritual energy was beyond Ye Jingcheng’s perception. But his heart couldn’t help but start pounding; this was clearly the Turtle Ancestor of the Ye Family.
Indeed, the Turtle Ancestor of the Ye Family wasn’t dead and now appeared before his eyes. Looking at the shell and the Turtle Shell Spiritual Artifact they used when coming, it was clearly a shed shell.
This meant that the previous major commotion, the Ye Family’s overnight competition, was to cover up the Turtle Ancestor’s shedding.
The giant tortoise opened its mouth a bit, releasing a rich blue spiritual aura.
In an instant, the two spirit eggs in Ye Jingcheng’s hands, and even those jade boxes filled with Jade Dragon Grass, flew straight toward the giant tortoise.
Finally, they entered the tortoise’s shell and disappeared. Ye Haiyi pressed the Spirit Beast Bag again, and the giant tortoise flew into the Spirit Beast Bag, disappearing from sight.
This scene amazed Ye Jingcheng even more. The Spirit Beast Bag and the Storage Bag were precisely opposites; the latter couldn’t hold living things, while the former could only hold living things.
Ordinary spiritual objects placed in the Spirit Beast Bag would be crushed by the special array inside the bag.
And once the Jade Dragon Valley ends, the cultivators of the Taiyi Sect would only check the Storage Bags, not the Spirit Beast Bags.
And this Turtle Ancestor’s shell could evidently also serve as a Spatial Spiritual Artifact, capable of storing spiritual objects.
While Ye Jingcheng was thinking, the Turtle Shell Spiritual Artifact began to operate again, swiftly heading down the river without any pause.
Even though the Jade Dragon Pool still held over a hundred spirit beast eggs, as well as two Spirit Festival or even three Spirit Festival Red Section Fish, along with various underwater spiritual medicines.
And even though the surroundings of the Jade Dragon Pool hadn’t been searched.
They just left directly. Ye Jingcheng, though a bit puzzled, didn’t speak out, not even using the jade talisman to ask any questions.
At this moment, Ye Haiyi’s expression was exceptionally focused, as if worried about something.
The speed of the Turtle Shell Spiritual Artifact reached its extreme at the river bottom, and Ye Jingcheng couldn’t tell if it was due to the downstream flow or because it was activated to its fullest extent this time.
But he felt the speed was at least double what it had been before.
Yet, when they reached the place where they had dropped the Snake Ape Grass Spirit Powder, Ye Haiyi’s brows finally began to smooth, and the Turtle Shell Spiritual Artifact started to slow down, with Ye Jingcheng clearly noticing that Ye Haiyi’s hands were continuously shaking.
The Beast Communication Pattern even had faint blood dripping from it...
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At the same time, in a dense forest, which was also the largest valley entrance, here lay the largest river of the Jade Dragon Valley.
Luoyuan Ascendant and Qianhe Ascendant, one wielding a Flying Sword Treasure, the other wielding the Four-sided Small Seal Treasure, were attacking two gigantic Jade Qilin Snakes, each over a yard wide and approximately ten yards long. The two Jade Qilin Snakes had fin-like wings on their sides and were incredibly fast both in and out of the water!
Even though Luoyuan Ascendant and Qianhe Ascendant used an array to deplete the spiritual energy of the two beasts.
But at this moment, the two beasts suddenly showed abnormal behavior.
They seemed to exhibit a frenzied confusion in their eyes.
This scene also alerted the two Ascendants and the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Taiyi Sect!
It was like the rage of a Great Demon losing its offspring.
However, in the next moment, the two Tier Three Jade Qilin Snakes suddenly roared furiously, revealing fangs dripping with venom, and the Jade Qilin Tail Saber condensed several yards of spiritual aura, turning into a massive Jade Qilin Tail Blade.
Boom!
The two blades fell, breaking a crack in the array at once, the two Jade Qilin Snake demons rushed toward the depths of the forest, fleeing suddenly!
This caught the two totally off guard, as the insanity of a Great Demon within its territory was well-known, and they almost never fled.
Yet the scene before them left them unprepared.
Not only the Tier Three Jade Qilin Snakes but also several Tier Two Jade Qilin Snakes and countless other spirit snakes, all headed toward the depths of the forest!
And that location was precisely the Left Valley Entrance!
"I’ll follow; you go to Jade Dragon Pool!" Qianhe Ascendant noticed the two Jade Qilin Snake demons suddenly breaking the array and desperately heading in a certain direction, realizing someone wanted to get there first!
And the Left Valley Entrance incidentally concerned his interests.
These spirit snakes naturally couldn’t be let go!
Luoyuan Ascendant also nodded, taking out a flying sword brimming with radiance, and flew rapidly toward the Jade Dragon Pool along the river!
That terrifying speed was like a streak of spiritual light.
In an instant, it vanished into the horizon.
"Go, chase!" Qianhe Ascendant, with a furious expression, ordered the remaining Taiyi Sect cultivators!
Leaving only some Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment cultivators to continue searching for spiritual medicines and capturing other spirit beasts, he also took out a Tier Three Treasure Flying Sword and pursued into the depths of the forest.
The remaining Taiyi Sect cultivators were also in pursuit, but soon they discovered many spirit snake spiritual auras crawling from the Right Valley Entrance of the Jade Dragon Valley, and following them were the Mo Family cultivators!