Clan Cultivation: The Ye Clan

Back at the inn, they found Ye Anbo already waiting for them. Upon seeing Ye Shiqing and his group return, he immediately led the three of them to the rented cave dwelling.

Although it's called a cave dwelling, it's actually a courtyard similar to a traditional Chinese courtyard house. Upon entering the courtyard, there's a large willow tree in the center, as thick as a person can hug. Under the tree is a stone table, and next to the stone table are four stone benches.

There are three main rooms directly opposite, one living room and the other two rooms for accommodation; there are two vacant side rooms on the left and two side rooms on the right, one of which has a fire source and can be used for alchemy and weapon crafting, and the other is a spirit beast room.

The courtyard was small and exquisite, and everyone was very satisfied after going in and looking around. Each person chose a room and went in to rest.

There weren't enough rooms originally, but since there were no spirit beasts available, Ye Zhenrong decided to rest in the spirit beast room first.

After resting for a while, Ye Anbo called everyone to a meeting in the living room.

After everyone arrived, Ye Anbo looked at Ye Shiqing and, seeing that he didn't intend to speak, spoke first, saying, "Everyone went out today, how did it go? Tell us about it."

Ye Anyuan: "Let me first tell you about our rental of the cave dwelling. This courtyard is a Class C cave dwelling, located south of the central road, not far from the commercial street and the street stall area, so the price is a bit more expensive, 350 spirit stones per month. We have rented it for a year."

Ye Zhenrong then informed them of the price inquiry results and told them about the shop.

Upon hearing this, Ye Anbo said, "We've almost used up all the spirit stones we brought. Now we need to dispose of the talismans we brought before we can consider renting a shop."

"Tomorrow, An Yuan and Second Uncle will go sell talismans. I'll take the two kids and go check out that shop again, and see if there are any other suitable shops. I think it's best to avoid shops with disputes, just in case we offend the wrong people."

Ye Shiqing and Ye Anyuan nodded in agreement.

Ye Zhenzhen was thinking to herself, "Think about it some more, think about it some more." She already had a rough plan in mind.

After the meeting, Ye Zhenzhen returned to her house, took out several items she had found at a street stall that day, placed them on the table one by one, made a hand seal, forced a few drops of blood from between her fingers, and placed one drop on each item. Then she sat on the stool and waited to see the reaction.

To Ye Zhenzhen's surprise, the first thing to react was not the Qingyin Bell, but the dark, inconspicuous bead.

The bead lit up briefly upon contact with the blood, then disappeared, leaving Ye Zhenzhen feeling embarrassed. She thought to herself, "Wait, it only lit up for a second and that was it? Is that so perfunctory? Uh, maybe there's not enough blood. Should I try a few more drops?"

Thinking this to himself, Ye Zhenzhen hardened his heart, transformed his right hand's spiritual energy into a blade, and slashed his left palm. Instantly, bright red blood gushed out. Oh no, he didn't control his strength well, it hurts so much.

Thinking this to himself, he quickly grasped the bead in his hand and looked at it expectantly.

The bead quickly absorbed the blood from her hand, then the black bead turned into a green bead, and then flew up and crashed directly into Ye Zhenzhen's dantian, stopping in the very center of the dantian and remaining motionless.

Ye Zhenzhen was completely bewildered. What was going on? Then, a description of the bead appeared in her consciousness: the Life Bead could absorb surrounding spiritual energy and store it within the bead for the holder's use; it was also a space where plants could grow, and it could ignore spatial laws, allowing the placement of storage bags and other storage artifacts. Living beings could not be placed inside. It was a growing spiritual artifact; if a powerful being could later integrate the laws of life into the Life Bead, it could grow into a small world.

Upon seeing the introduction, Ye Zhenzhen jumped up happily. She was born with dual spiritual roots of water and wood, making her most suitable to be a spiritual plant master. Although she didn't like alchemy, she had her older brother Ye Zhenwen. He could refine pills, so she wouldn't lack pills, and her brother wouldn't lack spiritual herbs and medicines. Perfect!

Ye Zhenzhen couldn't wait to probe the Life Bead with her divine sense, wondering if there were any spiritual herbs left by the previous owner inside. But what she saw was just a patch of black soil, nothing at all. There were only four acres of land inside. Ha, a vacuum.

Ye Zhenzhen silently looked at other things. Since there was no reaction from the blood, she would try using her divine sense. First, she would use Qingyinling. Ye Zhenzhen probed into Qingyinling with her divine sense and imprinted her divine sense mark on her. Then, Qingyinling's profile entered Ye Zhenzhen's sea of ​​consciousness.

Qingyinling reverted to its original colors, with two small bells, one golden and one red. The golden bell would automatically protect the contractor's sea of ​​consciousness from harm when the contractor was attacked by divine sense; the red bell could be controlled by the contractor to attack the divine sense of others, silently shattering their sea of ​​consciousness.

Ye Zhenzhen played with the bell in her hand. It was perfect; it could be used for both offense and defense.

After unlocking these two magical artifacts, Ye Zhenzhen began to have even greater expectations for other things.

Ye Zhenzhen picked up the wooden bracelet with great interest. As soon as she probed it with her divine sense, a primordial spirit rushed directly into her sea of ​​consciousness.

A voice appeared in Ye Zhenzhen's consciousness, "Hahaha, after waiting for so many years, I've finally found someone with decent spiritual roots, a dual spiritual root of water and wood. Although it's not as good as a single spiritual root, it's still passable. Little girl, your body is mine now. You should feel honored. I'm a Golden Core cultivator. You're very lucky to be possessed by me!" After saying that, he opened his mouth to swallow Ye Zhenzhen.

Ye Zhenzhen then realized that this old monster with the Golden Core cultivation level was dreaming of possessing her!

Ye Zhenzhen picked up the Qingyin Bell she had just been playing with and used her spiritual power to shake both bells at the same time. The two sound waves entered Ye Zhenzhen's own sea of ​​consciousness directly. One sound wave protected her sea of ​​consciousness, while the other sound wave directly controlled the primordial spirit.

"What kind of magical artifact is this? How can it control my primordial spirit?"

Ye Zhenzhen: "Haha, do you have any last words? You can say them, although I don't want to hear them, but I will still give you a chance to speak."

"I'm so angry! I've planned this for so long, how could it end up like this?" After saying that, the primordial spirit struggled violently, trying to break free of its restraints.

Ye Zhenzhen saw that what he was saying was all nonsense, so she directly used her divine sense to wrap up the primordial spirit, devoured it, and after digesting it, she felt refreshed.

After her primordial spirit vanished, Ye Zhenzhen effortlessly imprinted her divine sense onto the wooden bracelet. Opening it, she found a storage bracelet overflowing with bottles and jars filled with various pills, ranging from Qi Refining to Golden Core stages. It seemed this old man had long ago prepared for his body-snatching scheme, intending to use these pills to rapidly increase the cultivation level of his new body. There were also several pill furnaces and jade slips, which Ye Zhenzhen left unexamined, guessing the old man was probably an alchemist. She'd study these with her brother when they got back. The remaining items were spirit stones, and Ye Zhenzhen's eyes lit up as she began counting them.