However, this pallor improved after Ye Jingcheng ingested the Jade Soul Pill.

Moreover, perhaps due to the increased number of soul splits, he found that the pain and weakness from soul splitting were greatly alleviated.

Even though this time was only a single soul split.

After spending another hour to recover.

Ye Jingcheng also arrived at the Assembly Hall square, accompanied by Ye Jingyun and several members of the Beast Hunting Hall.

"Let's board the Spiritual Ship first!" Ye Jingcheng took out the Profound Shadow Cyan Cloud Ship.

In an instant, the Spiritual Ship transformed into a massive vessel, and all the Ye family members boarded it.

As Ye Jingcheng sensed an additional presence on the Spiritual Ship, he activated the Spirit Shield.

With the Spirit Shield activated, the Spiritual Ship sped towards the vicinity of Buqing Mountain.

...

Half a day later, short tea trees began to appear around the distant mountains.

Compared to the plains surrounding Lingyun Peak, Buqing Mountain was more hilly.

It also produced more tea trees.

However, such an environment was better suited for concealing people.

Evil cultivators and demon cultivators hiding here were almost impossible to find.

This area was also sparsely populated, which is why, years ago, the Three-eyed Demon King could pass through the Buqing Mountain area unnoticed and reach the vicinity of the Mo Family's Cyan Willow Lake.

"Should we search?" Ye Jingyun asked beside him.

"No need to search, let them come to us!" Ye Jingcheng expanded the size of the Spiritual Ship.

Searching for a demon cultivator was almost impossible, as those demon cultivators, if lacking concealment techniques, would have been discovered long ago.

He gambled on the chance that the opponent wasn't simply out for blood, but to attract the Ye Family.

For example, capturing key family members to extract some of the Ye Family's secrets.

This was more realistic.

After all, what use could the mortals from the Ye Family have? Mortals abound everywhere.

Why not target the mortals of some junior Foundation Establishment family instead?

In these unusual times, anyone could be an evil cultivator, the key is what can be gained?

Ye Jingcheng grandly flew back and forth in the air.

Until he patrolled a large circuit, seemingly as if on a patrol, pulling back from the mortal town, and ascended Buqing Mountain.

This not only informed the shadowy evil cultivators that they had arrived, but also demonstrated their prowess to the opponent.

Moreover, Ye Jingcheng surmised that the opponent wouldn't act immediately.

They would likely be worried about Ye Haicheng's presence and might even cause a commotion within the Ye Family area to draw Ye Haicheng's attention.

But Ye Jingcheng wagered that they didn't know his true strength, nor were they aware of his Purple Sun Demon Corpse.

Most crucially, on Buqing Mountain, the Ye Family had the home-ground advantage; transmitting anything using a Sound Transmission Talisman had to be approved by the Ye Family's arrays.

But if it were within those mortal realms where hidden evil cultivators could be lurking, the Ye Family would be at a disadvantage if something were transmitted using a Sound Transmission Talisman.

At critical moments, it was crucial to guard against any abandoned undercover agents seeking mutual destruction with the Ye Family.

"Patriarch!" As soon as Ye Jingcheng and his group ascended Buqing Mountain, members of the Ye Family approached.

What made Ye Jingcheng somewhat sentimental was that it was Ye Haiyi guarding here, the Third Elder of the Ye Family, and the former head of the Beast Hunting Hall.

However, this figure was now old and frail.

Even though a body cultivator's vitality was different from ordinary people,

it was still challenging to surpass the age of one hundred and twenty.

Ye Haiyi managed thus with the help of some life-extending elixir he consumed in his youth.

It's said that Ye Haiyi also took a Foundation Establishment Pill, yet failed in his attempt to build a foundation.

But he never lost heart.

He worked diligently for the Ye Family.

Even in his twilight years, he remained at his post here.

"Third Grandfather, thank you for your hard work!" Ye Haiyi evidently worried about an evil cultivator targeting Buqing Mountain.

There were numerous Yunfu Tea Trees here, along with several nearly millennia-old spiritual medicines planted on the mountain.

For the Ye Family, these were significant resources.

This was, after all, the former clan land of the Li Family.

It had been exceptionally well developed.

"Nothing to worry about, I just heard that the family has been attacked by evil cultivators multiple times. Our Ye Family is now a Purple Mansion Clan, how can we endure such humiliation!" Ye Haiyi vigilantly watched over Buqing Mountain.

At this moment, he was also hinting to Ye Jingcheng.

Ye Jingcheng didn't immediately argue; firstly, he couldn't, since it's possible someone was still observing.

Besides, Ye Haiyi meant well.

He was likely concerned about the constant troubles befalling the Ye Family, although it only affected mortals, it might yet undermine the authority of his position as the patriarch.

After all, back when Ye Xingliu was the patriarch, there were no issues in the counties and towns under the Ye Family's jurisdiction.

Though times have changed and they can't be compared directly, it nonetheless marked a blemish.

"Third Grandfather, I'm here this time expressly to deal with the evil cultivators; I'm determined to annihilate them in the coming days!" Ye Jingcheng responded immediately.

These words, spoken with resolve, instantly reassured the family members guarding Buqing Mountain.

Previously, they worried that Buqing Mountain might be overrun by evil cultivators, as the whole of Taihang Commandery was quite chaotic, and Buqing Mountain was far from the Ye Family's Lingyun Peak.

The crucial issue was that Buqing Mountain wasn't far from the Cyan Willow Mountain and Cyan Willow Lake currently controlled by the Jin Family.

But with Ye Jingcheng's assurance, they were considerably reassured.

In the Cultivation Realm, Ye Jingcheng wasn't just known as a Four Spirit Root, it was rumored he possessed a Blood Wood Spirit Body.

Coupled with his recent breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, Ye Jingcheng was regarded by ordinary Ye Family members as more formidable than the previous patriarch.

Ye Jingcheng hadn't anticipated this aspect of the family's influence, but even if he had, he wouldn't have changed his approach.

For the Ye Family, there was no other path.

Crisis had long surrounded the Ye Family.

The fact that nothing had happened yet was only because Ye Haicheng was still around.

At this juncture, when the Mo Family in Taihang Commandery was in unrest, and with the Jin Family in close proximity to Buqing Mountain and close to Cyan Willow Mountain and Cyan Willow Lake.

However, with Ye Jingcheng's statement, they felt much more secure.

Ye Jingcheng, in his role as the patriarch for just over three years,

had spent most of his time in seclusion and had not visited for inspection before.

"Uncle Xingshui, check the arrays on Buqing Mountain first!" Ye Jingcheng looked at a frail clan uncle accompanying him.

This uncle was quite similar to Ye Xingyi, both not very talkative.

But his research on arrays was on par with Ye Xingliu's.

Ye Jingcheng couldn't guarantee that all the Ye Family members on Buqing Mountain were entirely reliable.

Those without Beast Communication Patterns were potentially compromised, especially those in the Early Stage and Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation.

Even the cultivators from the Xu Family could communicate with the ancestors of the Ye Family, there might well be insiders within the Ye Family too.

So he needed to meticulously and stealthily arrange the defenses.

"Uncle Xingshui, go check the arrays on Buqing Mountain, we'll take the initiative in a few days!" Ye Jingcheng looked at Ye Jingyun and the others, signaling them to head down first.

"Third Grandfather, since you're here, I just so happened to come to inspect the medicine garden." Ye Haiyi, opening up again.

Ye Jingcheng, being the patriarch for just over three years now,

had spent most of that time in seclusion; he had naturally not visited previously.

But he followed Ye Haiyi to the Spirit Medicine Garden without protest, won over by his enthusiasm.

The Medicine Garden on Buqing Mountain, unlike the three-layer structure inside and outside Buqing Valley, consists of a cold mountain peak garden, a hot mountain base garden, and a mixed mountainside garden.

This layout offers the advantage of reducing the consumption of arrays, negating the need for excessive use of them,

which was particularly favorable for the newly rising Foundation Establishment clans like the former Li Family.

Even though the Ye Family had taken over Buqing Mountain, and had become a Purple Mansion Clan, they didn't change this setup.

Since the Spirit Medicine Garden on Buqing Mountain housed no Tier Three Spiritual Medicine, there was little risk of a Tribulation Cultivator risking everything for Tier Two Spiritual Medicine against a Purple Mansion Clan.

Yet for the former Li Family, their primary hope was on scaling up their income, as they were an emerging Foundation Establishment Clan.

As Ye Haiyi opened his Daoist robe, revealing the Beast Communication Pattern,

Ye Jingcheng felt a shiver of realization.

"I cannot hide the truth from Third Grandfather's discerning eyes; just as expected, you have seen through it all." Ye Haiyi remained at Buqing Mountain,

and wasn't privy to certain decisions about the Ye Family.

At this moment, Ye Jingcheng wouldn't hide it from the elder of the clan, even though he had never reached Foundation Establishment, he still knew a lot, so there was no point in deceit.

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