Chapter 62: Chapter 62: Employment
The appearance of the Red Flame Fox completely shocked everyone, even Ye Xinghe couldn’t help but show some unease in his eyes.
Such a Two-tailed Red Flame Fox was recorded in the Ye Family’s jade talisman, known to reach the Tier Three Purple Mansion Realm of spirit beasts.
To Ye Xinghe, this breakthrough was particularly astonishing.
His eyes were fixed on the Red Flame Fox, observing every detail from the spirit pattern on its forehead to the pair of fiery red tails.
Ye Jingcheng was also taken aback at this moment, as the Red Flame Fox sent divine soul fluctuations towards him, revealing a demon beast inner core at the bone of its forehead.
A Qi Cultivation demon beast forming an inner core is as rare as a dual spirit root cultivator among practitioners!
This inner core could store all of the demon beast’s spiritual power, making the Red Flame Fox’s spiritual power at least twice that without a spirit pill.
"Jingcheng, what did this spirit beast consume before?" Ye Xinghe began to ask.
"It consumed a Red Dragon Fruit!" Ye Jingcheng replied excitedly.
He did not disclose the pill formula, as he couldn’t explain its origins and would only reveal it when his cultivation improved and he could use fortuitous encounters as a cover.
After all, he wasn’t sure if the Red Flame Pill would be effective on other fire attribute spirit beasts.
"It seems that surviving such injuries allowed the Red Flame Fox’s bloodline to ascend!" Ye Xinghe commented, unable to fathom the reason.
But soon he shook his head, as this Red Flame Fox was an anomaly, and what he intended to announce wasn’t about this.
"Everyone, prepare yourselves. The family’s cultivators will arrive in two days, and the Taihang Mountain Range’s Jade Dragon Valley cleanup will officially start in seven days!"
"During these days, do not wander the market freely, as the Taiyi Sect will have an Ascendant coming to supervise!" Ye Xinghe said.
Ye Jingcheng and Ye Jingli both nodded repeatedly.
In this Cultivation Realm, those who break through to the Purple Mansion are given the honorific title.
For instance, Purple Mansion cultivators are called Ascendants, Golden Core cultivators are addressed as True Masters, and Nascent Soul cultivators are revered as True Monarchs.
However, Divinity Transformation cultivators have been absent in the Great Yu Cultivation Realm for over a thousand years, and their honorifics have gradually been forgotten.
The breakthrough of the Red Flame Fox led to a significant acceleration in Ye Jingcheng’s cultivation of the Four Phase Celestial Essence Scripture. At this moment, he felt that within two years, he could reach the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation.
Of course, don’t think this speed is slow. For some Four Spirit Root cultivators, spending ten years to break through a single layer from the middle to the late stage of Qi Cultivation is quite normal.
Ye Jingcheng’s fast progress was mainly due to his role as an Alchemy Master, not lacking Spirit Stones, and also the contribution of the Beast Communication Pattern.
With a Seven-Inch Beast Pattern and a strong Red Flame Fox, the spiritual energy he absorbed was a level higher and purer fire attribute spiritual power.
On the third day, the Ye Family shop began to bustle with activity.
This time, many members of the Ye Family came, totaling over thirty people, occupying a vast area even in the inner courtyard. Even the spirit beasts to be sold were packed into Spirit Beast Bags to make space for the family cultivators.
These people accounted for about a third of the Ye Family’s strength.
Among them, the Foundation Establishment cultivator was still the patriarch of the Ye Family, Ye Xingliu. The Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer cultivators included Third Elder Ye Haiyi, Treasure Pavilion’s Eighth Elder Ye Haiping, along with the summoned Alchemy Fourth Elder Ye Haiyun, Artifact Refining Fifth Elder Ye Haiyang, and Talisman Refining Sixth Elder Ye Haiyu, amounting to a total of five Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer cultivators, showcasing their entire foundation.
Unlike other families who resist such large-scale cleanups, the Ye Family is always extremely proactive!
After all, some spirit beast cubs could certainly be found within the mountain range, and with the Ye Family backing spirit beasts, the clan members’ losses wouldn’t be too severe.
After all, the Ye Family’s spirit beasts are not just combat type, but also detection types like the Jade Ring Rat and Red Thousand Rat, with cannon fodder types like the White Stone Ant and Cyan Cloud Wolf, and air superiority types like the Red Crowned Snow Eagle.
Only when the situation becomes extremely dire might the Ye Family suffer heavy losses.
But in such cases, the Taiyi Sect wouldn’t allow it either.
After all, the families below not only bring part of their talented bloodlines to the sect but also offer substantial tribute in resources.
Truly if all families were lost, it would be an outcome they wouldn’t want to witness.
However, it was not necessarily the same way the other three families viewed the Ye Family.
This is what the Ye Family worries most about, as there were previous instances where several families conspired to frame the Ye Family’s ancestral beast.
As the members of the Ye Family arrived, space became insufficient in the Ye Family’s backyard rooms because in a few days, they would head to Jade Dragon Valley, so the Ye Family members didn’t rent rooms outside but crammed several people into one room.
For example, Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jingli, Ye Jingyu, Ye Jingyong, and Ye Jingyun all shared one room.
And after many days of absence, Ye Jingyong had also broken through to the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation!
Ye Jingyu had also reached the eighth layer of Qi Cultivation!
Their ages weren’t much older than Ye Jingcheng, leaving him somewhat envious.
It’s worth noting that now, he was already 26 years old, not far from sixty, but not too close either.
Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but recall the Golden Scale Beast’s pill formula, still missing two spirit medicines from the latter’s ingredients.
On the second day at the Ye Family shop, Ye Xinghe led many Ye Family cultivators to the Independent Cultivator Square to hire loose cultivators!
This scene piqued Ye Jingcheng’s interest!
The previously bustling marketplace for independent cultivator stalls was now replaced by recruitment scenes of families like the Xu Family and Mo Family.
Of course, while it was said to be a hiring, the cost in Spirit Stones and resources wasn’t much.
For example, the Xu Family and Mo Family of the Purple Mansion Clan offered a corresponding-tier standard spiritual artifact, while the Ye Family and others offered a mid-grade spiritual artifact at most, with lackluster quality, just better than nothing.
Most independent cultivators weren’t solely after the artifact, but the chance to earn a share in Jade Dragon Valley!
If not hired and going to Jade Dragon Valley privately, it would be considered stealing resources from the Taiyi Sect, warranting a full pursuit by the sect.
By then, not only would there be no gained resources, but they would also risk losing everything they owned.
Participating in a hire meant only having to surrender sixty percent of the gains, thirty percent to the family, and thirty percent to the sect!
Even the Ye Family and other families still needed to give the Taiyi Sect thirty percent of their gains, although the Purple Mansion Clan might have a lower percentage.
But it wouldn’t go below fifteen percent!
And the core resources of Jade Dragon Valley, such as ore veins, spirit veins, even treasures like the Spiritual Eye Spring, Tier Three and above demon beasts, and spirit medicines, were solely allocated by the Taiyi Sect.
The various families couldn’t participate in the distribution of these.
Though everyone was helpless, being vassals of the Taiyi Sect meant leaving seventy percent to the families was already considered favorable.
As such, most independent cultivators followed the Mo Family and Xu Family, considering the Ye Family and others only after the two families’ quotas were full.