At twilight, Sha Huang Mountain appears even more golden.

At the foot of Sha Huang Mountain, there is a vast expanse of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice, each kernel now full and ripe, ready for the harvest season.

Several cultivators from the Celestial Sand Sect are carefully driving away some spirit insects that have mysteriously appeared, already imagining the harvest of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice.

"This time, I reckon we can harvest nearly a thousand pounds of Spirit Rice," one cultivator said with a sigh.

Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice is Tier One Middle Grade Spirit Rice, extremely beneficial for Earth Attribute cultivators in their cultivation. In Xiaoshan Market, one pound of Golden Chestnut Spirit Rice can sell for fifteen Spirit Stones.

If it’s a thousand pounds, that’s at least fifteen thousand Spirit Stones.

And this doesn’t even count the surrounding Celestial Sand Sect Spirit Mountain.

"Thanks to the Supreme Elder, without him, our Celestial Sand Sect might not even exist. Plus, the Supreme Elder enhanced the Spirit Vein and set up shops for us. Nowadays, which cultivator in Xiaoshan Prefecture isn’t intimidated when they see our Daoist Robes?" another cultivator nodded with pride.

Although they are now only at the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation, considered the lowest tier cultivators in the Celestial Sand Sect, at this moment if they were to go out, Late Stage Qi Cultivators would likely call them Brother Dao.

Naturally, their mood was exceptionally good.

"It’s said that the sect has adjusted the admission criteria. In the future, those who wish to join the sect must have Dual Spirit Roots or higher, or be recruited from a young age with Spirit Roots no less than Four Spirit Roots."

The two casually chatted together warmly.

Suddenly, someone beside them pointed with his finger, full of surprise.

"That Spiritual Ship is so fast, isn’t that the Dragon Envoy Flying Ship?" The two cultivators were extremely surprised.

Only cultivators from the Righteous Sect or those executing tasks for the Righteous Sect could ride the Dragon Envoy Flying Ship, so naturally, they were amazed.

Before long, several people descended from the Dragon Ship, and they turned out to be Ye Jingcheng and others.

Above Sha Huang Mountain, Ye Haiyan opened the array and walked out.

"How did it go?"

"A little troublesome, but fortunately, it was successful in the end," Ye Jingcheng replied. Ye Haiyan glanced at him and finally nodded.

The group headed to the Spirit Mountain.

Among them, Huang Tiyun and the others felt somewhat surreal at that moment, but seeing everything on Sha Huang Mountain, they breathed a sigh of relief.

They exchanged glances, all waiting for Ye Jingcheng to erase their memory.

Cultivators with higher cultivation can attempt to erase some memories from low-tier cultivators.

Of course, the technique used to erase memories matters, and if done incorrectly, there can be side effects; thus, they were still somewhat worried.

Currently, Ye Jingcheng didn’t immediately erase their memories but transmitted a message to Ye Xingliu:

"Third Uncle, delete the matters regarding the Spirit Treasure and Tier Five Nascent Soul Secret Technique!"

Hearing Ye Jingcheng’s transmitted message, Ye Xingliu nodded.

The Ye Family’s Forget Dust Pill, after years of testing, was quite reliable for erasing such memories.

Ye Jingcheng then entered his grotto heaven and took out the Dream-Devouring Worm, beginning to devour dreams and perform a Soul Search.

He first performed the Soul Search on the Golden Core Cultivator he killed last.

As the black Nightmare light fell upon Ye Jingcheng, he quickly immersed himself in the dream.

After a while, Ye Jingcheng awoke.

This person’s memory was extremely chaotic and filled with bloodshed, leaving Ye Jingcheng feeling slightly overwhelmed, even his eyes were a bit red. Only after cultivating the Celestial Soul Technique did he gradually calm down.

"It seems better not to review the memories of evil cultivators in the future," Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but say with emotion.

Of course, he finally understood the reason.

The one whose soul he searched was none other than the Fourth Elder of the Gui Xuan Sect, Ghost Rage Zhenren.

But Ghost Rage Zhenren’s position as the Fourth Elder wasn’t due to his abilities but his extremely old qualifications in the Gui Xuan Sect; he was already over nine hundred years old.

At this time, he also finally understood why Mansion Master Xiao and Prince Wang organized such a large-scale southward movement, aiming for the inheritance of Divine Light True Monarch.

The inheritance of a top-tier True Monarch Great Cultivator was indeed worth such endeavor.

Even if Ye Jingcheng knew about it, he might seize the opportunity to act, much less the more confident Righteous Sect.

What surprised Ye Jingcheng was that the final destination wasn’t at Demon Pass Mansion, but in Deserted Prefecture.

Obviously, those more than forty Golden Core cultivators that day were likely there for distraction, just like him.

The treasure seekers were probably core disciples or confidants of the Righteous Sect.

Ye Jingcheng shook his head, dismissing those thoughts, knowing deep down the truth is often unpleasant.

The inheritance of Divine Light True Monarch was extremely distant from him; his immediate priority was the Secret Technique for breaking through to the Nascent Soul.

Through devouring dreams and soul searching, he also learned that Ghost Rage Zhenren didn’t reveal the matter regarding the Nascent Soul Secret Technique, nor was he aware of the Cyan Spring Sect having such a Secret Technique.

Ye Jingcheng exhaled a long breath, continued hastily to conduct another soul search on Xu Qiukui’s Divine Soul.

Once dream devouring ended, Ye Jingcheng quickly took out a storage bag. This storage bag embroidered with a cyan spring belonged to Master Qing Liu of the Cyan Spring Sect.

When he opened the storage bag, Ye Jingcheng searched for a fist-sized Bone Jade.

The Bone Jade resembled a toe bone and could be refined into the body, definitely considered top-tier hidden inheritance.

Ye Jingcheng attached the Bone Jade to his brow, meticulously inspecting it.

Before long, his face lit up with joy.

The Bone Jade contained only two Secret Techniques, one being the Celestial Demon Transformation Secret Technique.

This Secret Technique is an Earth Tier Secret Technique, requiring Purple Mansion Cultivators to execute it, allowing a Wood Demon to be absorbed into the body, transforming it into a Demon Seed.

At crucial moments, it could explode forth.

It shares similarity to the Ye Family’s Spirit Cultivation, but the Ye Family’s Spirit Cultivation can be used continuously, while the Celestial Demon Transformation Secret Technique’s transformed Demon Seed can only be used a few times.

Similar to a Talisman Treasure, once the power is used up, it’s gone.

By comparison, the Ye Family’s Spirit Cultivation can briefly show slightly more power, but not by much.

In the long run, though, it cannot be compared with the Ye Family’s Spirit Cultivation at all.

After all, the Ye Family’s Spirit Cultivation utilizes the Beast Communication Pattern, allowing it to persist indefinitely.

Of course, Ye Jingcheng is currently contemplating whether he can combine the strengths and weaknesses of the two secret techniques to optimize a more suitable Wood Demon Secret Technique for Ye Family cultivators.

After finishing the Wood Demon Technique, Ye Jingcheng began reading the final technique: the Five Demons Nascent Soul Technique.

This is the core secret technique of the Bone Jade and something Xu Qiukui dreams of obtaining.

The Five Demons Nascent Soul Technique involves collecting five Wood Demon Demon Kings and using a special Spirit Technique to nourish a cultivator’s Golden Core with the essence of the five demons.

This can enhance the chances of a cultivator forming a Nascent Soul from a fragmented pill and continuously repair the physical body, preventing its destruction, even improving odds against Thunder Tribulation.

"It’s indeed a fine technique, possibly increasing the Nascent Soul breakthrough probability by fifteen percent!" Ye Jingcheng’s face lit up with joy.

Don’t think that a fifteen percent increase in breakthrough chance is small. Remember, the Nascent Soul Pill only has a thirty percent success rate.

Moreover, these chances are cumulative.

In other words, if Ye Jingcheng acquires the Nascent Soul Pill, Chenjing Jade, and the Five Demons Nascent Soul Technique, the overall breakthrough chance to Nascent Soul would exceed fifty percent.

"Unfortunately, Wood Demon Demon Kings are hard to find!" After considering this, Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but sigh.

Although the Ye Family has several Wood Demons, only the Celestial Crow Ancient Tree Demon Kings in the Black Crow Forbidden Land qualify as Wood Demon Demon Kings.

The Ye Family still needs to use these demon kings to cultivate Black Crow Flame Ears.

Moreover, a single person requires five; for the Ye Family, these Wood Demon Demon Kings are far from sufficient.

After further inspection, Ye Jingcheng carefully stored the Bone Jade.

At the same time, Ye Jingcheng found two Tier Four Jade Boxes in the Storage Bag.

Both Tier Four Jade Boxes were inscribed with Sumeru Arrays, containing the Primordial Star Forging Fruit Tree and Longevity Tea Tree.

Their value is equally high, also promised to Master Zi Fu as treasures by Xu Qiukui.

Thinking of this, Ye Jingcheng couldn’t help but worry about Master Zi Fu, but since the war isn’t over, he couldn’t leave for Xiaoshan Prefecture yet.

He opened the Jade Boxes and entered the Grotto Heaven, planting both trees within the Spirit Field of the Grotto Heaven.

Next to the Spirit Field in the Grotto Heaven, the Peach Wood Demon was currently clutching numerous Storage Bags.

These Storage Bags belonged to cultivators from Demon Jade Mountain.

"Not bad!" Ye Jingcheng praised the Wood Demon.

Making the Wood Demon extremely pleased, although it did not exhibit pride, instead acting even more obsequious.

"Master, it’s all your doing..."

"Recover first. Once the Spirit Medicine is gathered, I will start refining pills for you!" Ye Jingcheng directly interrupted, glancing at the two Spirit Trees he planted.

The Primordial Star Forging Fruit Tree wasn’t tall, about five feet high, with few leaves that shone like starlight.

Its Spirit Fruit can enhance the physical body, each fruit offering a chance for Ye Haicheng to break through a Small Tier.

Of course, like the Longevity Spirit Fruit, the first Star Forging Fruit is the most effective.

Additionally, it bears fruit only once every fifty years.

Having assessed the Star Forging Fruit Tree, Ye Jingcheng then turned to the Longevity Tea Tree. The tea tree was comparatively smaller, just over three feet high, with only a small cluster of leaves.

But its value is immense, with an ounce extending life by years. Most importantly, Longevity Tea can enhance cultivation, and its aroma is exceedingly rich!

Ye Jingcheng was extremely satisfied with this.

With this tea tree, whether for personal consumption or hosting distinguished guests in the future, it would be quite presentable.

If he kept serving Duan Family’s Cyan Jade Lotus Spirit Tea, it would make the Ye Family seem a bit low-class.

This wouldn’t be an issue for the average Golden Core Purple Mansion cultivators, but it would seem cheap to entertain cultivators like Mansion Master Xiao or Prince Wang.

Having checked the three most vital treasures, Ye Jingcheng also found many Cultivation Technique Jade Talismans and spiritual stone treasures in Master Qing Liu’s Storage Bag.

Among them, there were two complete Tier Four Magical Treasures: three Cyan Corpse Poison Needles, and a Tiger Bone Whip.

The former was of Tier Four Middle, and the latter Tier Four Lower, both considered quite valuable.

There was also one incomplete Tier Four Defense Treasure, but it was too damaged, with very little hope for repair.

Besides the Tier Four Magical Treasures, there were numerous Tier Three Magical Treasures and Tier One and Two Artifacts, mostly evil cultivation artifacts, which were unappealing to Ye Jingcheng and likely belonged to the Cyan Spring Sect’s Treasure Vault. He wondered if they could be sold to the Righteous Sect in exchange for merit.

Additionally, Ye Jingcheng found some Tier Three Spiritual Medicines, but unfortunately, there was no Earth Dragon Pill or other Spirit Pills he needed.

Instead, there were many Qi Blood and poison-type Spiritual Medicines.

Suitable for refining Qi Blood Spirit Pills and Poison Pills.

Clearly, these evil cultivators were considerably weaker in cultivating Spiritual Medicines.

To his pleasant surprise, Ye Jingcheng discovered over ten million Spirit Stones within the Storage Bag, including four hundred upper-grade Spirit Stones.

Initially, Ye Jingcheng felt a bit impoverished at the Golden Core exchange and auction now he suddenly became wealthy, and he had many more Storage Bags left to search.

These spoils were from his personal kills, so naturally, he wouldn’t need to share these treasures.

Moreover, according to the prior division, the other five people still needed to give him an additional layer of treasures.

Not pursuing this extra layer of treasure was already quite generous.

After all, he indeed drew the attention of Demon Jade Mountain and exceeded his task by felling two Golden Cores of Demon Jade Mountain and storming their mountain gate.

Even under pressure from the Righteous Sect, Ye Jingcheng would, at most, return the original treasures of Xu Qiukui to the Xu Family.

Of course, that’s if the Xu Family dares to claim them!

Having finished examining Master Qing Liu’s Storage Bag, Ye Jingcheng then began inspecting the remaining Golden Core Storage Bags.

This time, he slew a total of three Golden Cores, two from Demon Jade Mountain and one from Gui Xuan Sect.