Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Rewards?
Jade Dragon Pool is situated in the northernmost part of Jade Dragon Valley, where there lies a mildly elevated area of hills.
Backed by several enormous cyan mountains, the area rarely sees sunlight, which makes the pool water appear extraordinarily greenish-blue.
A group of cultivators emerged from the forest, each with different expressions on their faces.
For loose cultivators, the appearance of an ore vein here is certainly a joyous event, allowing them the opportunity to secure a miner’s job.
As for the major family clans, it might not be as favorable, as Jade Dragon Pool is near the depths of Taihang Mountain Range, where demon beasts often come to harass, and a siege of the valley by demon beasts is not impossible.
Sharing profits also means helping to defend this valley.
However, the families cannot refuse this matter, but can only hope that the spirit stone ore vein is large enough to yield a significant amount of spirit stones.
The Ye Family is among them, and the Jade Dragon Pool before them is not small, almost the size of a lake.
Unlike the inability to use divine sense at the bottom of the pool, now the surrounding scenery is entirely captured in Ye Jingcheng’s eyes.
The vast Jade Dragon Pool, on its surface, floats some coin-sized emerald-green duckweed, with red section fish occasionally surfacing, pushing the duckweed aside, revealing round fish mouths.
The spiritual energy around Jade Dragon Pool is also extremely abundant, and along the shores, patches of cyan flowers grow, whose blooms are the same color as their stems and leaves.
But do not underestimate these cyan flowers, they are one of the spirit medicines for refining Tier One High-grade Spirit Pill Qi Replenishing Pill, with a noteworthy price in the market.
Ye Jingcheng carefully used his divine sense through the spirit pool, reaching the bottom, only to find the jade bed and various spirit eggs had already vanished, as did the Jade Dragon Grass.
Evidently, earlier, when Luoyuan Ascendant disappeared alone, leaving Qianhe Ascendant to struggle hard, it was because he had come to this Jade Dragon Pool to retrieve these spiritual objects in advance.
At Jade Dragon Pool, the two Ascendants did not halt their steps but proceeded towards the mountains, landing at the eastern foot of the range where there was a rather shallow cave.
The entrance of the cave was hidden by dense foliage, making it almost impossible to notice without close inspection.
Inside the cave, moonlight stones had been placed earlier, so it was not dark.
At this point, Ye Jingcheng and the loose cultivators could no longer advance, with only the patriarchs and Foundation Establishment cultivators from each family moving onward.
Ye Jingcheng did not expect there to be a cave here.
Soon, Ye Xingliu also emerged from the cave and began collecting everyone’s storage bags.
The deceased cultivators also needed to provide evidence of broken soul talismans.
This also includes loose cultivators, as each family provides a one-time soul talisman for hired loose cultivators.
Ye Jingcheng felt relieved when he only saw storage bags being collected, checked his storage bag briefly, then handed it over as well.
Speaking of which, his storage bag contained over twenty corpses of Tier One Spirit Snakes, worth nearly three hundred spirit stones if priced at ten spirit stones each.
The most valuable aspect of a spirit snake is its snake hide and snake gall; snake hide is excellent material for talisman making or magic robes, warm in winter and cool in summer, beloved by many cultivators.
Snake gall is a treasure for body cultivators or cultivators hoping to nurture spirit beasts.
Of course, some spirit snakes also have poison sacs, which raise the price even further.
Besides spirit snakes and spiritual pythons, there were quite a few red section fish, renowned for their delicious taste, easily sold in the market, with even early-stage Tier One fetching three spirit stones each.
Ye Jingcheng’s storage bag contained nearly seventy fishes!
This harvest amounted to around five hundred spirit stones, which is quite fulfilling for a Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer cultivator, not counting the sect and family deductions.
Moreover, throughout this time, Ye Jingcheng had not explored the forest or undertaken any missions; otherwise, his gains would have been even greater.
For instance, Ye Jingli sidled up to him at that moment, inquiring about his harvest.
Upon learning of Ye Jingcheng’s yield, Ye Jingli began recommending his newly researched magical artifact, as though it alone performed marvelously this time.
During the quarter-hour that passed, the sect took approximately thirty percent as deduction before returning the storage bags to their respective owners.
When Ye Jingcheng received his storage bag, he glanced inside.
To his surprise, none of the spirit snake material corpses were missing, not even the red section fish.
Instead, his storage bag contained several additional spirit medicines.
Among them was an eighty-year-old Earth Cloud Ganoderma, meaning the advanced spirit pill for the Golden Scale Beast only lacked a hundred-year-old pecan!
Ye Jingcheng looked up at Ye Xingliu, only to find that the latter had already mingled into the Ye Family cultivators, continuing to distribute storage bags.
"Jingcheng, they only deducted sixty percent, we still have forty percent left!" Ye Jingli exclaimed joyfully, having harvested over a hundred spirit stones today.
Better than crafting magical artifacts quickly.
In such circumstances, he would be willing to pioneer daily.
Additionally, hunting demon beasts is more profitable for cultivators raising spirit beasts because they would normally need to purchase spirit beast meat!
Now, slaughtering on site does not require anyone else’s involvement.
"Brother Liu, the same for me, I thought it would only be thirty percent!" Ye Jingcheng responded.
And in his heart, he understood that the extra in his storage bag likely resulted from his secret endeavor!
The Earth Cloud Ganoderma alone was worth over a hundred spirit stones, and the untouched spirit beast materials were worth five hundred more.
It wasn’t a loss after all, but Ye Jingcheng still felt slightly disheartened.
After all, it could have been a spirit beast with the potential to advance into a true spirit.
Even though advancement involves some complexities, once it proceeds a few times, the benefits from Beast Communication Pattern could be immense!
At that point, his strongest attribute might no longer be the fire attribute, but the water attribute.
"Make sure to accumulate family contribution points, here lies the Jade Profound Iron Ore Vein, an excellent material for refining Tier One Top-Grade Spiritual Artifacts!" Ye Haiyi suddenly pat Ye Jingcheng’s shoulder, interrupting his thoughts.
Upon hearing this, Ye Jingcheng was elated.
He didn’t think Ye Haiyi meant the Jade Profound Iron.
But rather he was referring to exchanging for a spirit beast egg.
However, upon hearing about Jade Profound Iron, Ye Jingcheng was also somewhat surprised, as it’s extremely famous in the Cultivation Realm.
This iron’s affinity and plasticity are highly strong, often used to craft entire sets of artifacts!
Also, it carries some mist characteristics!
If Ye Jingcheng’s Silver Snow Needle could incorporate some Jade Profound Iron, its power could rise by several sections!
Misty and ethereal attacks are virtually unstoppable!
"Everyone, this time, the clearing in Jade Dragon Valley went rather smoothly. Next, if there are areas left unexplored, you may continue exploring your designated areas. Loose cultivators who wish to become miners can sign up now!"
"Furthermore, the red section fish from Jade Dragon Pool is awarded to the Mo Family, Xu Family, and Ye Family as decided by the two Ascendants; if anyone has objections, they may report it!"
"I shall ensure your concerns are delivered!" proclaimed the Taiyi Sect Steward, raising his voice.