The body of the Peach Wood Demon can now be seen, with branches and leaves having grown significantly denser.

After producing spiritual peaches, the Peach Wood Demon will continue to produce many spirit leaves for a long time.

Moreover, there is quite a bit of peach gum on the peach wood as well.

These peach gums have also grown considerably in size, and they are crystal clear, resembling amber, very beautiful indeed.

And they are not lacking in spirituality.

However, Ye Jingcheng has not yet thought of a good method to incorporate them into medicine, mainly because high-tier peach trees seldom appear, leading to a lack of peach wood gum in the Ye Family's pill formulas.

The Peach Wood Demon entered into its peach wood body and began cultivating the Taiqing Spirit Nurturing Skill.

It is also interested in many cultivation techniques of cultivators, but the meridians of cultivators and spirit beast wood demons are different, making it impossible to connect, although this spirit nurturing method works.

It can likewise cleanse the malevolent aura of the wood demon, calming the mind and concentrating the spirit.

After instructing the wood demon not to spread it around, Ye Jingcheng once again looked at the earthworm nearby.

The earthworm also made a breakthrough.

Its entire body began to have more patterns, and the distinction between its head and tail grew larger.

The area producing tier two spiritual soil became especially replete with spirit patterns, forming a peculiar diagram.

When this diagram lights up, it can produce spiritual soil.

However, the production speed of tier two spiritual soil is particularly slow.

And at its head, fangs grew out, seemingly able to consume some spirit beast meat. Previously, the earthworm mainly devoured spirit-infused decayed leaves and soil to sustain its vitality.

Ye Jingcheng summoned the earthworm to the front and tentatively took out some spirit beast meat, while also asking the earthworm if it could digest it completely to accelerate the birth of spiritual soil.

Unexpectedly, the earthworm shook its head, looking at the barren soil behind Ye Jingcheng.

There, Ye Jingcheng had placed quite a bit of red-patterned sinking iron obtained in the secret realm.

"Do you need to devour this now?"

Ye Jingcheng was momentarily stunned. Upon seeing the earthworm nod, he realized that tier two spiritual soil indeed required more gold-attribute minerals.

Of course, Ye Jingcheng allocated some sinking iron to the earthworm, as tier two spiritual soil currently has more utility for him.

Besides, this kind of spiritual soil is just as popular as peach fruits that extend life by three years, even if taken out for sale.

After all, spiritual soil can preserve the spiritual energy of transplanted spirit plants, and even promote the growth of high-tier spirit plants.

For instance, the tier one spiritual soil previously produced by the earthworm is now entirely used in Ye Jingcheng's spirit medicine garden.

Ye Jingcheng also fed the earthworm some spirit pills and infused it with some treasure light, both to solidify its breakthrough to tier two and to encourage it to produce as much tier two spiritual soil as possible.

Ye Jingcheng now has many uses for spiritual soil: Dragon Beard Fruit Trees, Purple Jade Vine, Vajra Vine, etc...

Aside from producing spiritual soil, the earthworm's earth escape skill has also made great progress, and Ye Jingcheng gained the earth escape ability through it.

However, in terms of escape speed, the Fog Escape of the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon is still faster.

As for attack methods, the earthworm still has few.

Fortunately, Ye Jingcheng's expectations for the earthworm did not lie in its attack potential.

After ensuring the breakthrough of three spirit beasts, Ye Jingcheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, within him, the gap among the Four Phases has once again narrowed.

Of course, the worst is still the Earth Phase.

The Jade Qilin Flood Dragon and Red Flame Fox need no elaboration; the former is at tier two peak, and the latter is not far off.

With the enhancement from the Four-Colored Cloud Deer and the wood demon, only the Earth Phase has just the newly advanced Golden Scale Beast and the newly advanced earthworm.

Yet despite that, breaking through the peak of tier two Foundation Establishment, and even breaking through to the Purple Mansion, won't pose much resistance now.

As long as either the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon or the Red Flame Fox breaks through to tier three.

Plus, with the Five Elements Celestial Secret Technique and Purple Mansion Jade Liquid, the probability of breaking through to the Purple Mansion will greatly increase.

Afterwards, Ye Jingcheng also casually fed the other spirit beasts, the most eager being the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon.

Every few days it needs to consume a large piece of meat ganoderma meat, but at the same time, it also requires Ye Jingcheng to give it extra servings, along with spirit pill treasure light.

Today, the Red Flame Fox showed no appetite for any spiritual food; it only showed interest in the Cyan Yang Flame inside Ye Jingcheng's storage bag.

Ye Jingcheng communicated several times, and the Red Flame Fox's forehead kept lighting up, seemingly indicating to Ye Jingcheng that it has additional means.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng also reassured it, promising that as long as the Red Flame Fox can first refine the Purple Mansion Jade Liquid and Purple Spirit Concentration Liquid, it can devour the Cyan Yang Flame.

With Ye Jingcheng's promise, the Red Flame Fox's three tails kept swaying, seemingly very excited.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng's worries about the Red Flame Fox potentially being consumed by the life force also dissipated a bit; perhaps the Red Flame Fox can indeed control it.

"Roar, roar, master!" The Golden Scale Beast quietly growled nearby at this moment.

Its mouth continuously inhaled and exhaled.

And this inhaling and exhaling was already extremely rhythmic, even moving most of its body, and Ye Jingcheng suddenly remembered this when he looked at the Golden Scale Beast.

"How many times can you perform the Golden Light Earth Spike Array and Golden Star Rock Group that you just showcased?"

"Roar, roar?" The Golden Scale Beast roared again, not fully comprehending the syllables, but conveyed to Ye Jingcheng through divine soul fluctuations.

Many, it is very powerful!

Red Flame Fox is only fast!

Ye Jingcheng couldn't help but chuckle, allowing the Golden Scale Beast to demonstrate.

It is well-known that the demon beasts' spiritual energy is in their bloodline; if a breathing technique is available, there's a possibility it could actually cultivate.

Cultivating along with its bloodline, the Golden Scale Beast's future breakthrough might not be slower than the Four-Colored Cloud Deer and others.

The crucial point is, with a breathing technique, its ability to absorb spiritual energy becomes immensely stronger, and the Golden Scale Beast's stamina might be extremely strong in the future, even if Ye Jingcheng were to leave it alone.

And sure enough, the Golden Scale Beast consecutively performed the Golden Light Earth Spike Array ten times.

Almost covering the two to three acres of land in front of it, it performed the Earth Spike Array ten times, and it's worth noting that it was all infused with golden light.

From here, it can be seen that the Golden Scale Beast's combat, if not restrained by the Red Flame Fox's phantoms and speed, might not be weaker than a typical Tier Two Peak Demon Beast.

"Good, keep it up, and comprehending the complete breathing technique will make your advancement the first one!" Ye Jingcheng took out the Essence Blood of the Earth Qilin Lion to show the Golden Scale Beast.

Upon seeing this, the Golden Scale Beast wagged its tail excitedly and headed towards the barren ground to continue its research.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng finally understood why before, inside the Grotto Heaven, even without imparting any Treasure Light to the Golden Scale Beast, it could practice at such a high frequency.

Of course, for Ye Jingcheng, this breathing technique, if successful, might offer salvation to the Jade Ring Rat as well.

He glanced at the Jade Ring Rat beside the Spiritual Soil. Unlike the other Spirit Beasts, it did not beg Ye Jingcheng for Treasure Light and Spiritual Food.

It sometimes looked at the Spirit Medicine Garden and sometimes got troubled by the harder Spiritual Soil.

Its Spiritual Wisdom was much higher than before. It knew that hiding near the Wood Demon kept it safe from the Golden Scale Beast. It knew how to pave the way for the roots of the Peach Wood Demon to expand faster and wisely avoided provoking the Earthworm, leaving the more spiritually rich areas of the Spirit Medicine Garden alone.

In its leisure time, it would gaze at the Spirit Lake, enchanted by the schools of Star-Feeding Fish.

Its eyes were captivatingly bright and moist.

When other Spirit Beasts begged, it would watch, but it understood its own limits better now, knowing that consuming too many elixirs was indeed wasteful.

Ye Jingcheng walked over to the Jade Ring Rat and ruffled its large, round ears.

He infused it with considerable Treasure Light and gave it some Spirit Cultivation Pills and Yellow Lotus Pills.

The Jade Ring Rat clutched several pills, but did not move.

Its eyes were filled with gratitude.

"Don't underestimate yourself. Learn from the Golden Scale Beast. Sometimes, confronting it, observing its breathing technique, even if your bloodline cannot advance further, your Divine Soul is strong, your intelligence keen, learn the breathing technique, cultivate step by step like a cultivator, and this path too can be yours!" Ye Jingcheng said.

"My Seventh Sister Ye Jingyu hasn't given up either!" Ye Jingcheng added, uncertain how much the Jade Ring Rat understood.

But he wanted to make things clear with the Jade Ring Rat today.

"Moreover, in terms of perception, my Spirit Beasts still have shortcomings!" Ye Jingcheng concluded, moving to the side.

He no longer needed the Jade Ring Rat's little Spiritual Food, and he sincerely wanted the Jade Ring Rat to progress further.

After all, during every outing, the Jade Ring Rat was even more cautious than he was.

Only, Ye Jingcheng rarely took it out on missions anymore.

After attending to the Spirit Beasts, Ye Jingcheng left the Grotto Heaven again. He was about to start refining Purple Spirit Concentration Liquid and Purple Mansion Jade Liquid.

Over the past few months, he studied the pill formulas dozens of times and deduced them several more times.

He had fully mastered the refining method of the Celestial Bell Furnace.

Even the Red Flame Fox was now full of motivation.

Ye Jingcheng did not stay in his room. Even though his room was midway up the Ye Family's mountain, its Spirit Gathering Array was only a Tier One Spirit Gathering Array.

To increase the success rate, he needed to go to the family's Alchemy Pavilion.

There was Earth Fire and the family's Tier Two Spirit Gathering Array.

There was a greater enhancement for alchemy there.

Moreover, as the Patriarch, he could freely use the Earth Fire Room now.

Exiting the courtyard, he noticed many Sound Transmission Talismans at the door, containing various updates about the family. Ye Jinghe remained low-key, but more proactive and responsible than before.

Meanwhile, Taiqing Commandery was becoming more chaotic, with many affiliated clans beginning to swallow each other, even eroding the Qinghe Sect's affiliated clans.

On Chu Yanqing's side, she was earnestly forging Magical Artifacts.

After this ordeal, although she sometimes argued with Ye Jingcheng, she had matured greatly.

Moreover, the rigor of her cultivation did not fall short compared to Ye Jingcheng, even with her being placed at Buqing Mountain, not Lingyun Peak.

Ye Jingcheng was quite pleased with this, heading directly to the Alchemy Peak.

The family's Pill Pavilion was still managed by Ye Xingming. His demeanor was more rigorous, deeply regretting the family's decline, like the other elders.

Besides maintaining order in the Pill Pavilion, he was wholly immersed in researching pill formulas when he was free.

He only realized when Ye Jingcheng came near.

"Patriarch."

"Uncle Xingming, I need to refine pills for a few months, and I'll be using the Earth Fire Room!" After Ye Jingcheng spoke, he headed toward the Pill Pavilion.

Ye Xingming also activated the Spirit Gathering Array.

Making the Earth Fire Room suffused with Spiritual Energy instantly.

The boons of Lingyun Peak's Tier Three Spiritual Vein also became evident as the Tier Two Spirit Gathering Array gathered Spiritual Energy densely flowing down from the mountain, concentrating in the Earth Fire Room.

Ye Jingcheng didn't hesitate. He released the Red Flame Fox and began alchemy.

However, he didn't immediately refine the Purple Spirit Concentration Liquid. He started with refining Tier One Spirit Pills, aiming to recapture the pill sense he had lost recently.

The Celestial Bell Furnace, after all, was his latest acquisition.

Unexpectedly, after refining the Spirit Nourishing Pill, he also spotted Ye Qingyan; the latter, now fourteen years old, had reached the Qi Cultivation Third Layer. Considering he had Dual Spirit Roots, this speed was outstanding.

Crucially, he was the first one to observe there.

Ye Jingcheng smiled slightly and, as usual, demonstrated to Ye Qingyan how the Red Flame Fox refined the Spirit Nourishing Pill.

He even deliberately crafted three extra furnaces.

Once the Spirit Nourishing Pill was refined, he then proceeded with refining the Qi Nourishing Pill and Cyan Spirit Pill, both Tier One.

Just like Ye Haiyun in the past, he refined slowly.

Even though the progress in his alchemy was minimal, it was sufficient for Ye Qingyan to learn more clearly.

And Ye Jingcheng himself was feeling out the pill sense.

A day passed, and Ye Qingyan's eyes were bloodshot. Ye Jingcheng coughed softly, closed the door slit, and then began refining other Spirit Pills.

Starting with the Tier Two Ren Shui Pill, then refining various similar Spirit Pills.

Once refined, he finally took out the different Spirit Medicines needed for the Purple Spirit Concentration Liquid.

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