How Much For Your Soul?

Chapter 30

Shen Yue had a productive week. He had raised the Violet Jade realm to the fourth level but had hit a wall in advancing to the fifth. He vaguely remembered that his cultivation and mental strength also had to be raised to level up the realm. Even after bedding Su Mei, Xiao Ning'er, Yang Xin and three maids, it remained at the fourth level.

Shen Yue could feel the foreign energy increasing his mental strength each time he engaged in sex, but after the first time with each partner, the results were negligible. He really wished Nie Li had read more techniques in the Temporal Demon Spirit Book. A dual cultivation skill would suit his tastes and reward him for engaging in the already pleasurable activity of coitus.

The stone monument listed the new rewards he had received since Huyan Lanruo joined his harem.

Third Level:

- Defense Enhancing Fruit Tree -

Will bear 10 fruits every 100 years.

Each fruit will increase one's defence by 250 kg of force.

Each person can only consume 2 fruits.

Can be used as an alchemy ingredient.

- A 5,000-Year-Old Golden Medicinal Turtle -

Can extract blood for the purpose of alchemy or medicine.

- Drunken Fragrance Tree -

Ripens every ten years, producing 100 Drunken Fragrance Fruits.

Can be used for cooking, creating of condiments.

Fourth Layer:

- Realm expanded to 850m diameter, with the pond now being 50 metres long.

- Can spend four hours inside the spatial realm a day.

- Tree of Physicality -

Will bear 10 fruits every 100 years.

Each fruit will increase one's lifespan by 50 years.

Each person can only consume 2 fruits.

Can be used as an alchemy ingredient

- A 1,000-Year-Old Clam -

Can be tapped for its blood to make medicine.

- A 10,000-Year-Old Chinese Parasol Tree with a Phoenix on top -

A fiery bird with a diluted Phoenix bloodline. Obedient to the Sovereign of the realm.

- One Perilla Bush -

100 leaves can be harvested every 10 years.

-One Thyme Bush -

100 leaves can be harvested every 10 years.

Shen Yue was amazed at the list of rewards for his new levels. It seemed the creator of the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal was a fan of cooking. Why else was he suddenly receiving herbs and spices used to flavour food? The cooking ingredients aside, he really had to apologise to the Earth skank for his earlier comments.

The Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal was a first-rate system that would be the cornerstone in creating his army of Heavenly Fate experts. With the time dilation, Shen Yue and his men could spend four hundred hours a day cultivating in an environment overflowing with Heavenly Energy compared to the Divine Continent. That was sixteen days of training condensed into each day!

The Tiny World had very sparse Heavenly Energy, forcing the natives to practise with the power of law to become Spiritual Gods. This was a much harder and slower process than ordinarily comprehending the anatta mental state and absorbing the Power of Heaven to form a Fate Soul. The difference in strength was also vastly inferior at higher levels.

With his new upgraded personal realm, he crammed thousands of people in to meditate. It got a bit tight, but when everyone could bring food out of a storage ring, there was no need for cooking areas. Although going to the toilet was an issue, keeping thousands of people in one area got a bit messy. Shen Yue had partitioned off a section for the restrooms, ordering his men to collect their waste in their rings to be disposed of when they left the realm.

It was a pity he could not just leave the men in there to train while he keeps binding more soldiers, but unfortunately, they were kicked out of the realm when he was. The only exception was Ziyun, who had spent over two years inside the Violet Jade Immortal Realm. She was at the peak of legend rank but was finding it hard to harmonise with Heavenly Energy by sensing the Heavenly Dao. It was possible that her puppet body was affecting her mindset. Her soul strength was immense, and she had practised her control to a high level.

Shen Yue had banned her from the realm to give her time to adjust. When they entered the Abyss Realm, he would alter her mental state through the soul realm seal and help her breakthrough. He dearly wanted to hold her, comforting her physically to remove the trauma of being disembodied. She was the one that suffered most since Nie Li got his future memories. Once they were in the Abyss Realm, there would be no problem when she regained her body.

The main thing that had excited Shen Yue about his Realm levelling was the addition of his new pet! He had compiled a beast taming skill from all of his taming manuals, including the Soul Brand technique that Nie Li used on Jindan, the egg he had gained from the Snow Wind Family treasury. The result was similar to his Emperor Seal that he used to bind his men.

When Shen Yue formed the new inscription seal inside his soul realm, it took on the shape of a dog collar when he manifested it with soul force. Shen Yue had then bound the Phoenix with the newly created inscription seal using his blood. The seal would allow him to mentally communicate and control the beast, making the already loyal bird the perfect companion.

The Phoenix was at the legend rank but had yet to activate its spiritual wisdom. This had been easily fixed with his Library's powers instructing him how to awaken it. When Shen Yue injected soul force into its soul realm, he was able to stimulate the fiery bird of myth into gaining spiritual wisdom.

The bird's mental voice was that of a child that only had a basic vocabulary. It had taken him many hours to teach it to a level suitable to understand simple conversations. During the Phoenix's training, he had come to learn that it was female and had decided to give it the simple name of Blaze. Now that he could communicate easily with her, he had taken the next inevitable step, teaching Blaze to cultivate!

There were millions of demon beasts that had gained spiritual wisdom and stepped onto the path of cultivation. They had banded together to create three cultivation sects to oppose humans. Equipped with this knowledge, Shen Yue had spent over forty hours to devise a cultivation technique suitable for Blaze, sure that he would succeed. Even though demon beasts could only become fighters, they had their own unique bloodline abilities. While she circulated her new cultivation technique, Shen Yue used his acupuncture skills to stimulate Blaze's bloodline by opening all of her meridians.

This led to a massive build-up of energy and flames, causing Shen Yue and his men retreat back to Glory City. While Blaze screeched in agony atop the Ten Thousand Year Old Chinese Parasol Tree, her body was undergoing a fiery transformation. The later generations of the Ancient Phoenix possessed only a hint of the Phoenix bloodline, not enough to unlock all of its innate abilities. Blaze's blood was currently undergoing an alteration, purifying the bloodline until it reached twenty-five percent!

The gigantic flaming red bird visibly increased in size, reaching a wingspan of fifteen metres. It released a powerful blazing aura that managed to set the ancient tree on fire, even though it was the Phoenix's natural resting place. After hours of emitting a furious firestorm, the flames died down to reveal a tired but majestic bird with gleaming red feathers. Above its head, the beginnings of a phoenix crown became faintly visible.

Shen Yue did not return until the next day, afraid of getting engulfed by fire. When he entered the realm, everything had mostly recovered from being singed by the heat. He had already plucked all the fruit from his trees, so he was not too afraid of the damage to the area. Safe in the belief that the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal would be able to handle Blaze's level up.

The Chinese Parasol Tree had changed, its once green leaves now outlined in a deep red. It appeared that being scorched by intense fire had improved its fire immunity and changed its attributes. Blaze had screeched out in greeting, her tone joyous as she had accomplished something that her kin had not for eons. She had unlocked some of her heritage and leapt into the Heavenly Fate Realm, even forming her second Fate Soul!

"Good girl! look how pretty you have become!" Said Shen Yue as he patted her when she flew down to greet him.

"Master, I have become strong!" She happily chirped in his mind.

"Yes, I'm so proud of you Blaze! Make sure to keep training hard, so you become even stronger! Remember not to annoy the people training or eat the Golden Turtle and Giant Clam! The fish that I have added are yours to eat as you wish." Shen Yue said to his bird, once again reminding it to be good. She really was an adorable beast.

"Yes, Master! I will not let you down!" Blaze said with conviction. She had already been programmed to be loyal, but after gaining wisdom and reaching a new realm of strength, she had become fanatical.

Now that the realm was safe, he brought in his army of men to cultivate to the next level. With Blaze solidifying her second Fate Soul, much of the tension he was feeling had vanished. He passed the next four days in Glory City planning his departure to his Abyss Realm, now that he had Blaze, he did not fear the crazy old man as much. Especially when another six of his men also became Heavenly Fate experts!

Shen Yue had spent most of his time in the Realm updating his peoples' cultivation techniques. Now that they were fully his, he spared no effort in gifting them tailor-made techniques to ensure their maximum potential. He also added in concealing abilities, as he did not want them attracting the Sage-Emperor's attention.

Shen Yue's soul realm had started to become cluttered with all the elements and seals manifesting in there. Hopefully, the vine that was now growing would organise it somewhat. It had already started to join with some of his attributes to form sacs, ready for when he contracted demon spirits. By the time he entered the legend level, they would all be united with the large sapling it was growing into.

His three slave seals were hovering in the sky to the side, separate from the Ying Yang Symbol and the elemental attributes that were drawn to the tree. The Ying Yang Symbol was steadily rotating above the tree, while the elements that had once been revolving around it had sunk down towards the tree.

The seven primary elements had formed the base of the tree. The sub-elements would presumably form into a pyramid as the tree grew. With the six elemental attributes making the second level and decreasing by one each layer. The neutral element looked like it would end up on top.

Shen Yue had distributed the fruits to his wives with Ziyun and Huyan Lanruo missing out until they regrew in a year. The Tree of Physicality's fruits stored away until he needed them. He had organised everything, only leaving a skeleton crew behind to manage his properties. All of his legend experts had been assembled to train to the Heavenly Fate Realm. Su Qiang and Zhang Jing had been left behind to stop any problems from occurring.

They had strict instructions to keep an eye on Ye Ziyun and Nie Li, as Shen Yue knew what kind of problems they could create. Hopefully, the next three weeks in the Nemesis Abyss Realm would pass without them causing trouble. Any move from Nie Li would give him a reason to banish him from Glory City and either forcing his family to go with him or disown him.

Before Shen Yue would leave Glory City, there was one thing he had to do. There was no way he was willing to overlook the Thunder God's Meteorite Sword, giving the enemy a chance to obtain it!

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