"ended."
Ye Linyuan spoke slowly and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The victory in this battle made Ye Linyuan more deeply aware of the power of Nascent Soul cultivators.
The cost of this battle was huge, and almost all of the nine top golden elixir masters of the Ye family suffered heavy losses.
Especially for Ye Xuqiu and Fighting Golden Ape who were seriously injured, it would take at least 30 years to fully recover from their injuries, and they would have to take one or two rare healing pills.
In addition, they lost dozens of third-level top-grade thunder and golden flame talismans, a large number of rare elixirs and supplies, and three fourth-level low-grade talismans.
Even so, it’s not the end of the battle. If the black-robed ghost king had not died in the thunder tribulation in the end, they would have had to pay a heavy price to win this battle.
Moreover, these are just the ghost cultivators' Nascent Souls and fake infants. They have gradually become weaker due to their long-term slumber, and each of them has only 30% to 40% of their mana. They are running out of mana by the end of the battle.
If the opponent is a group of Jindan Dayuan cultivators, two false infant cultivators and a top-notch Yuanying early stage cultivator, and they are in their prime.
Even if they managed to win this battle, at least half of the Ye family's elite would probably die, and in the end, they would only get a tragic victory.
"This battle was a great victory, thanks to your help."
Ye Linyuan opened his mouth slowly, and then began to collect the treasures left behind by the Ghost King after his death.
They gathered these treasures together and found that there were not many treasures left by these ghost kings, but those that were left were all top-notch treasures.
Among them, the treasures left by the Black Robe Ghost King are the most precious, namely the Blood Evil Ancient Pearl and the Black Evil Sky Blade, both of which are fourth-level Netherworld ghost treasures.
These two treasures are special fourth-tier spiritual treasures that can also be practiced by cultivators on earth, but there is a risk of being attacked by evil spirits.
For Ye Linyuan, these two treasures are extremely useful, because the former contains the blood evil essence, which can destroy a person's body and blood, and the latter contains the ghost evil essence, which can destroy the soul of a cultivator.
The two treasures are secretly compatible with the Blood Soul Curse. If they are absorbed and integrated into the Blood Soul Curse, they will be enough to make the Blood Soul Curse reach the level of quasi-great supernatural power.
Even if one day, Ye Linyuan completely destroyed these two treasures, he might be able to upgrade the Blood Soul Curse to the fourth-level intermediate level.
You know, the power of a great supernatural power is so great that the gap between its small realms will be even greater.
Therefore, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, even if one transforms the quasi-great supernatural power into a great supernatural power, it is already difficult to ascend to the Mahayana realm in one step, and one can only stop at the fourth-order middle-grade Hinayana great supernatural power realm.
If Ye Linyuan could refine these two treasures and allow the Blood Soul Curse to reach the fourth-level intermediate grade in the future, it would also reduce the time it takes him to comprehend the Blood Soul Curse.
Therefore, Ye Linyuan attached great importance to these two treasures and put them directly into his pocket.
In addition to these two treasures, equally valuable are the two strange fires, namely the Qianlan Ice Flame and the Luotian Blood Flame.
Both of these fourth-level spiritual fires have extraordinary potential. The former is a treasure to Han Chi, and the Luotian Blood Flame is one of the ten ancient strange fires, and its value is immeasurable.
As far as Ye Linyuan knew, Luo Tian Blood Flame had a great restraint on living creatures, especially on physical cultivators. Even a fourth-level physical cultivator might suffer a great loss if he was infected with this blood flame.
At this time, Ye Linyuan sealed the Qianlan Ice Flame and gave it to Han Chi to refine it in the future.
As for the Luo Tian Blood Flame, he collected it. This Luo Tian Blood Flame had infinite potential, so he planned to seal it up. If there was a chance in the future, he wanted to bring it to the Chi Li Fire Dragon from his previous life.
The Red Li Fire Dragon is the leader of all fire dragons in the world, and is best at controlling all kinds of strange fires. If one can refine this Luotian Blood Flame, even if one cannot transform into a Li Fire Dragon, one will have the potential to transform into a King Blood.
"It's been over four hundred years since we last met. I wonder how Chi Li is doing now."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
Then he calmly put his thoughts aside, looked at the huge ruins and said, "Let's go and see how many rare treasures are left in these ancient ruins."
When everyone heard this, they all showed surprise.
Now that they have captured the ancient ruins, it is time for them to enjoy their harvest.
In the following time, everyone began to explore this ancient ruins, and in the process of exploration, they found that the formation in the entire ruins had basically become an empty shell.
Obviously, after experiencing countless tens of thousands of years of disasters, the Ghost King in the ruins tore the ancient formations into pieces in order to survive.
Although they used most of the useful formation tools to maintain the existence of the ruins, those lower-quality ancient magic weapons were basically completely destroyed.
At that time, the spiritual medicine fields in the ruins underwent strange changes. Countless bloody evil forces combined with the turbid air of the Netherworld to produce a batch of special spiritual medicines.
Such as ghost flower, purifying lotus, cursed soul mushroom and other special elixirs.
The ghost flower is a soul-nourishing thing, which is considered very rare. The purifying lotus grows out of the mud without being stained, and can purify the filth and turbid air in the body of the cultivator, and can also remove the damage caused by the curse.
The Cursed Soul Mushroom is very special. Using it as a medium to cast spells and magical powers can ignore the cost of casting spells and magical powers.
For example, to cast a third-grade superior spell would originally require the loss of ten years of one's lifespan, but a Soul Curse Mushroom could be used to waive this cost.
"Not bad."
Ye Linyuan picked all the medicinal herbs and left some seeds for planting.
These spiritual medicines are very special and can only survive in this strange place. He planted the medicinal seeds here and would come here occasionally to take care of them in the future, so that he could harvest these special spiritual medicines continuously.
In addition to these elixirs, there are also some special materials in the ruins, most of which are related to curses and ghost cultivation.
Although they are of some use to Ye Linyuan and Ye Xuqiu, they are useless for forming a baby, and their quality is basically not very high.
Ye Linyuan collected some, and then he had no interest in looking for more. Instead, he looked at the palaces in front of him and said, "If you want to form a spiritual object for an infant, you have to look for it in those spiritual buildings."
Everyone nodded when they heard this. The materials of these spiritual buildings are more powerful, they can be engraved with more array patterns, and they often have a certain degree of effect in delaying the erosion of time.
If you want to find ancient treasures, you have to look for them among these spiritual buildings.
The group moved forward and first searched a large number of temples, but unfortunately they still did not find many treasures.
Obviously, these ordinary third-level spiritual buildings have gradually become ineffective after experiencing long years of disasters, and high-level treasures are rarely stored in third-level spiritual buildings.
Compared with high-level treasures, low-level treasures are often unable to withstand the erosion of time, and now have basically become scrap metal.
So everyone continued to move forward, and finally found a rare ancient artifact in a fourth-level spiritual alchemy hall.
It was an alchemy furnace that was ten feet high, and its entire body was made of the fourth-tier rare treasure 'Purple Abyss Ancient Bronze'. The entire furnace was intertwined with purple-gold Taoist patterns, and possessed some kind of mysterious Taoist aura.
"This should be a fourth-grade, top-grade spiritual treasure alchemy furnace."
Ye Linyuan spoke slowly, and said with some regret: "But it's a pity that the spirit of the weapon should have died, and the array pattern has also disappeared a lot over the years. Only an empty shell is left."
Having said that, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but reveal a look of regret.
Although this alchemy hall is a fourth-level spiritual building, it is more inclined to assist in improving the success rate of alchemy, and is not very strong in preserving fourth-level high-quality spiritual treasures.
If this alchemy furnace was kept in a spiritual building specially used to nurture spiritual treasures, perhaps it would still have its full power today.
A fourth-grade high-quality alchemy furnace, under the self-control of its spirit, can refine elixirs below the third-grade high-quality without even the need for a cultivator to help, and the success rate is often not low.
"What a pity, but with this top-grade spiritual treasure pill furnace, I can warm it up and repair it in the future, which should also improve my success rate in refining pills."
Ye Linyuan pondered for a moment, and named this spiritual treasure furnace "Ziyuan Danlu", and then put it into his Dantian to nurture it.
After collecting the alchemy furnace, Ye Linyuan checked several palaces including the Equipment Refining Hall, the Talisman Hall, the Spirit Beast Hall, etc., and gained some results.
In the weapon refining hall, they found a medium-grade spiritual treasure cauldron, but the array pattern on this cauldron had almost completely disappeared.
However, the material is still extraordinary. After Ye Linyuan’s cultivation level breaks through in the future, perhaps he can repair and refine it again.
However, it is difficult to refine a fourth-level spiritual treasure. The key lies in whether the spirit of the weapon can be reborn. This is a great test of the cultivator's skills and opportunities. It can no longer be mass-produced like spiritual weapons and magic weapons. Generally, there are two ways to refine a fourth-level spiritual treasure. The simpler method is to kill a cultivator or a demon who has reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core and above, and then integrate his soul into the spiritual treasure to become a spirit of the weapon.
However, given the spiritual strength of a Jindan cultivator, there is a great possibility of failure in integrating the spiritual treasure into it.
Only cultivators and demon souls above the false infant level can definitely breed the spirit of a spiritual treasure. This method is rather overbearing, and the spiritual treasures cultivated may not be perfectly matched.
However, this method has great advantages. For example, if a fourth-level alchemist is integrated into the alchemy furnace, the alchemy ability of this furnace will be extremely amazing.
If a real dragon's soul is integrated into the magic sword, the power of the magic sword will surely be astonishing.
However, this method requires killing, which will inevitably bring about great consequences, so there is a second method of refining spiritual treasures.
The second method is to cultivate the weak spirituality that exists in the magic weapon and transform it into a complete weapon spirit.
This method of refining spiritual treasures has a higher degree of compatibility and can be roughly divided into two types.
The first is the warmth and nourishment from heaven and earth, and the second is the warmth and nourishment from humans.
The so-called nurturing by heaven and earth means using the essence of the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers to nourish spiritual treasures, and eventually transform their spirituality into an instrument spirit.
The most common method is to use wood-based refining techniques to transform a spiritual treasure embryo into a spiritual plant seed, plant it in a high-level spiritual field, and then continuously nurture it with high-level spiritual nourishing techniques, spiritual rain techniques, and even watering it with various spiritual liquids.
There is also the traditional method of refining weapons, which is to cultivate the embryo of the spiritual treasure in the earth veins, set up a large formation to absorb the power of mountains, rivers, sun and moon, and contain infinite Tao essence in it. After thousands of years of precipitation, it can also form a peerless spiritual treasure.
There are also weapons that are refined using thunder methods. After going through thousands of trials and tribulations, the spirituality remains immortal and indestructible, and eventually a supreme spiritual treasure can be created.
Regardless of which refining method is used, this method of nurturing by heaven and earth is time-consuming, and it basically takes a thousand years to successfully refine it.
The last method of artificial warming and nourishing is a very special and common method.
This method requires the cultivator to nurture the weapon with his own magic power and Tao essence. It requires extremely strong magic power and a long time to cultivate the spirit of the weapon.
Generally speaking, most cultivators can only offer sacrifices to one spiritual treasure in their lifetime.
As Ye Linyuan is practicing the Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong, his magical power is extraordinary and the quality of his magical power is also different from that of ordinary people. In theory, he can cultivate a complete set of spiritual treasure arrays.
However, he has too many Xuanyuan Zhenhai flags. If he wants to cultivate them into a spiritual treasure, it will probably take hundreds or even thousands of years.
Integrate into the spirit of the instrument, and be nurtured by heaven and earth, and by humans.
Any of these three methods of refining spiritual treasures is extremely difficult, so it can be seen how difficult it is to refine spiritual treasures.
It is precisely because of this that spiritual treasures are extremely precious. In this era, apart from one's own spiritual treasures, most spiritual treasures are refined by killing a false infant cultivator.
"I have too many Xuanyuan Zhenhai flags. It will be too difficult to upgrade all of them to the Lingbao realm in the future."
"Fortunately, this set of formation flags was made using the Water Method, and still contains vigorous vitality. We can directly convert it to the Wood Method for nurturing in the future."
"I will transform it into 24 treasure seeds again, plant them in the spiritual field for a hundred years, and with my fourth-level spiritual plant memory, I should be able to transform them into a set of spiritual treasures."
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart and had some ideas about how to be promoted to the Xuanyuan Zhenhai Banner.
The most difficult part of upgrading a spiritual treasure is giving birth to a spirit. It would take thousands of years to give birth to a spirit through the method of nurturing spirits, which is really too long for Ye Linyuan.
But as long as the spirit of the weapon can be born, then with his powerful magic power after breaking through the Nascent Soul stage, it would not be a big problem to nurture it later.
Getting back to the point, after collecting these fourth-level spiritual treasure shells that had lost their spirits, Ye Linyuan had already searched 90% of the entire ancient ruins.
What is left is the treasure house of the ancient Yuanying sect.
"A treasure house of a sect in the late Nascent Soul stage."
Ye Linyuan whispered slowly, looking at the huge treasure trove in front of him, and couldn't help revealing a hint of surprise.
Compared to fourth-tier spiritual buildings like the Alchemy Hall, this treasure house is the highlight of the ancient ruins.
Because they are both fourth-level spiritual buildings, in addition to the large formation on the outside, the interior of this treasure house is filled with various formations for sealing and nurturing treasures.
These formations include those that isolate the flow of internal and external auras, those that slow down the loss of spiritual energy, and those that nourish spiritual objects.
There are even treasures that absorb spiritual energy and the power of Taoism to enhance the spirituality of spiritual objects.
Although most of these formations have gradually become ineffective by now, they are still enough to increase the preservation time of the treasures within by thousands or even tens of thousands of times.
"There is a fourth-grade superior killing formation outside the treasure house. Fortunately, its power has been mostly lost now."
Ye Xuqiu continued to activate his golden pupil and soon discovered the weakness of this killing formation.
Ye Linyuan immediately activated the Wanhua Sword Technique to completely break the formation, and then walked into the treasure house.
As soon as he first stepped into the treasury, Ye Linyuan discovered twelve puppets standing in all directions, seemingly staring at them intently, but unfortunately there was no sign of attacking at all.
These puppets are all fourth-order puppets at the Nascent Soul level. Unfortunately, after experiencing countless tens of thousands of years of disasters, the spirits in the puppets have died due to lack of nourishment.
Now these puppets are just empty shells, and only the fourth-level materials of their core components can be used.
"If we dared to break into the treasure house in ancient times, we would probably die."
Looking at these puppets, Ye Yingxu couldn't help but sigh.
Ye Yingxu also nodded, and then said: "This kind of Nascent Soul sect's treasure house, if it was in that era, even a Nascent Soul late stage cultivator would not be able to break in."
Having said that, Ye Linyuan looked around the treasure house and nodded slightly.
Judging from the situation in the treasury, those ghost cultivators should not have come in, which means that the treasures in the treasury may not have been touched by anyone.
Although these ghost cultivators are Nascent Soul cultivators from the ancient great sects, their aura is very different after they transformed into ghost cultivators. Moreover, they carry the power of external curses, and it is obvious that they have not been recognized by the treasure house.
But it’s also good this way. No one coming in also means that the treasures in the treasury are better preserved.
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan continued to move forward and began to look at the layout of the entire treasure house.
Compared with the former backup treasury of the Haohai Sect, the specifications of this ancient relic treasury are much higher, and it is divided into dozens of different blocks.
Each block stores different treasures, and depending on the type of treasure, the formations and spiritual buildings therein are also different.
Ye Linyuan walked into the nearest block and found that it contained a large amount of medicinal fragrance, and the medicine box contained a large number of low- and medium-level spiritual medicines.
Unfortunately, this kind of low- to medium-level spiritual object, even with the nurturing of spiritual buildings and formations, has already lost its spirituality and turned into a pile of dead medicinal residue that will turn into ashes at the slightest touch.
"It's a pity that the time is too long, otherwise the spiritual medicine in this storage room can make a Jindan immortal clan completely join the ranks of the top Jindan immortal clans."
Ye Linyuan shook his head regretfully and continued to check various elixirs.
After some investigation, he regretfully discovered that the treasures in most blocks had lost their spirituality.
Of course, they did not gain nothing. In this treasure trove of metals and minerals, they found a large amount of black iron, refined gold, mithril, bronze and other metal materials and minerals.
This kind of metal mineral has a very long preservation time. Even the second-level spiritual ore can be preserved for tens or even millions of years. The most it will suffer is the loss of its spiritual power, but it will not affect the material itself.
According to Ye Linyuan's estimation, with this batch of metal materials, if they were refined into weapons and armor, they would be enough to arm tens of thousands of soldiers.
Today, the number of Ye Linyuan's golden ape tribe is just over 8,000, and most of them are only at the Qi training stage. However, with the blood of the King Kong Giant Ape and the Golden Back Giant Ape, the possibility of breaking through to the foundation building stage should not be too low.
It was simply because Ye Linyuan couldn't produce so many metal spiritual ores that they were unable to break through to the foundation-building stage.
If we give them this batch of resources, we can definitely train 8,000 Golden Ape Dao soldiers, and even tens of thousands of Golden Ape Dao soldiers in the future. (End of this chapter)
