The bright candlelight supports the night sky.
Under the isolation of the array, the cries of beasts and insects in the mountains fall silent.
Only the low trumpeting of elephants fills the room.
The Golden Scale Beast stands upright nearby, not daring to make any movement, its bright and deep eyes fixed on the pill furnace before it.
At this moment, it seems to be influenced by the flickering spirit patterns on the pill furnace, just like the Red Flame Fox.
Its huge forepaws shift slightly, hesitant yet still.
Occasionally, it glances towards the corner.
The Jade Ring Rat in the corner immediately shakes its head repeatedly, indicating it hasn’t moved.
Ye Jingcheng’s expression remains calm.
He continuously inputs spirit techniques into the pill furnace, already three months since his return from the Treasure Pavilion.
During these three months, Ye Jingcheng once again indulged in the tranquil days of alchemy and cultivation.
Although he had left the market, not taking up any position, these three months were no easier than his time there. Every day he opened at least one furnace of spirit pills, while ensuring sufficient time for cultivation, considering his cultivation speed had significantly increased with the beast communication patterns. Follow current novels on novｅlfire.net
Furthermore, the daily alchemy was also aimed at accumulating enough contribution points as soon as possible; he didn’t want to give up the Jade Qilin Snake even if he couldn’t afford the Blood Leech Spirit Beast.
Nevertheless, Ye Jingcheng had only saved up 400 contribution points. But this is not to be taken lightly, as Ye Jingcheng currently keeps three spirit beasts, and the daily consumption of spirit beast meat or spirit rice by the Red Flame Fox and the Golden Scale Beast is substantial.
Mainly, the Red Flame Fox’s appetite has increased significantly after its advancement, and having broken through to the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation, both it and the Golden Scale Beast now have a need for spirit pills.
Unless Ye Jingcheng could endure the substantially reduced growth speed of the two spirit beasts, which would in turn make his cultivation speed mediocre.
But Ye Jingcheng didn’t refine the Red Flame Pill to enhance its bloodline only to let that bloodline go to waste.
And today is the day to refine the Golden Scale Pill for the Golden Scale Beast, as the spirit medicine traded between the Ye Family and the Mo Family had also been delivered to Lingyun Peak half a month ago.
Ye Jingcheng acquired another pecan.
Having gathered materials enough for two furnaces, Ye Jingcheng then adjusted his state and began refining the Golden Scale Pill for the Golden Scale Beast.
Only, during the day, he still failed due to unstable control at the final stage of pill forming, but after three hours of adjustment, he seized the momentum and reopened the furnace at night.
This is what stirs the Golden Scale Beast; otherwise, at this moment, it would prefer to lie in the corner with its eyes drowsily drooping.
Nor would it be watching the flames as it is now; it has always disliked fire and dislikes the foxes that are like fire even more.
The black night outside gradually disperses, and inside Ye Jingcheng’s room, the flames quickly subside, and the crimson spirit flame begins to fade.
The spinning of the furnace lid accelerates once more, and with a crisp beast cry, the lid flies open.
Revealing the full glow of the furnace.
Two plump, smooth, golden-yellow spirit pills fly out from the furnace and fall into Ye Jingcheng’s hand, into a jade bottle.
The glow and spiritual marsh are also collected entirely.
And the jade bottle becomes even brighter.
"Roar!" The Golden Scale Beast becomes extremely eager.
Ye Jingcheng, however, remains unhurriedly, he still takes out a jade talisman and begins recording at the best time.
Then carefully wipes the Cyan Elephant Furnace and nurtures it with a special furnace cleansing spirit liquid.
Not until then does he properly stow it away.
Meanwhile, the Golden Scale Beast has already circled Ye Jingcheng ten times in anxiety.
It clearly doesn’t understand why its master still has these unnecessary actions.
"You need to wait too!" Ye Jingcheng pats the Golden Scale Beast’s gold-scaled head, infusing a bit of treasure light, but doesn’t immediately give the elixir to the Golden Scale Beast.
The Golden Scale Beast now resembles the restless Red Flame Fox of that day, as if the spirit pill is irresistibly alluring to them, yet he reiterates that consuming it at peak state is better.
The Golden Scale Beast also kept vigil for a day and a night, its spiritual energy level and essence qi were not at their fullest.
Sleeping a day is better for a spirit beast to maintain the best condition.
After forcibly assigning the Golden Scale Beast a rest task, it quietly lies down in the corner, although its two forepaws cannot stay suppressed.
Ye Jingcheng exits the room to find a gray sky with a light drizzle beginning again, while the day has yet to fully break.
A faint mist rises in the morning mountains.
The leaves of the plants at this moment exude a tender green feeling, with droplets falling, unclear whether they are rain or dew.
Ye Jingcheng can’t help but think of the scene eighteen years ago when he ascended the mountain, similarly amid rain and mist, he entered the mountains:
"Once again, it’s the Grain Rain season, I must be twenty-nine years old now!"
Rain always easily brings about reflection, and Ye Jingcheng is no exception.
The rainy peaks and unseen fog beyond are like the immortal path, full of the unknown and hardships.
However, unlike the twelve years before when he only reached the Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer, the following seven years allowed him to progress from the Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer to the current Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.
And this was all thanks to the Treasure Book inside him and the beast communication patterns.
When the Golden Scale Beast advances, with its bloodline grown to a certain degree, his cultivation speed will once again increase.
Currently, he is equivalent to a slightly more gifted Three Spirit Roots, and should the Golden Scale Beast further enhance his cultivation speed, maybe he could rival the Dual Spirit Roots.
Even, in his conjecture, if all four of his spirit beasts are exceptionally talented exotic beasts, and advance their bloodlines through the offspring of the Treasure Book’s pill formula once.
Who knows if his cultivation speed might rival the legendary Celestial Spirit Root.
Ye Jingcheng’s eyes are steady and determined; at this moment, he seems to see through that endless vast white fog.
And just then, Ye Jingcheng senses a stir, he takes out a token and sees the newly replaced clan token brimming with spiritual light.
Ye Jingcheng manipulates the beast communication pattern, and the token emits an anomaly, finally pointing towards the Treasure Pavilion.
The Inner Hall cultivator meeting of the clan has begun!
This is also the first time Ye Jingcheng participates!
His heart is filled with excitement, but also curiosity.
He returns to his room, activates the array, and then uses the Divine Movement Skill, heading towards the clan’s Treasure Pavilion.
The Treasure Pavilion in the early morning has few people, only the late-stage Qi Cultivation cultivators attending the meeting.
Ye Jingcheng, holding the token, walks up to the third floor.
The familiar discussion hall is already filled with quite a few clan members.
Ye Haitian and Ye Xingliu sit in the main seats, followed by Ye Jingcheng’s familiar Third Elder Ye Haiyi, Fourth Elder Ye Haiyun, and other clan elders.
Below the elders, Ye Xingyu and Ye Xinghe are also prominently present.
"Alright, nearly everyone is here, let’s start the clan meeting!" Ye Haicheng says, his voice exceptionally solemn.
Ye Xingliu nods, then looks around. Seeing that only those in seclusion are absent, he slowly speaks:
"Before the meeting commences, as per the old rules, here are the three people recently nominated for the Communication Beast Ceremony by the clan, everyone, please vote. This concerns the clan’s legacy, so I hope each one of you votes seriously!"
"Yes requires an opinion, no also requires an opinion, and if you find a clan member particularly outstanding, you can vote with a guarantee vote, each count as three votes! If the number of votes reaches two-thirds, it can pass."