Hou Yanqing's Ambition
After witnessing the entire process of Qin Shaofeng refining the special spirit bead, Hou Yanqing believed Qin Shaofeng's words.
But what disgusted Qin Shaofeng the most was that Hou Yanqing had hypocritically said that there was no need to do this, that he had long believed Qin Shaofeng's words, and so on.
Long believed?
If you believed, why didn't you say anything before?
Qin Shaofeng felt nothing but disgust and serious disdain towards Hou Yanqing's words.
After this, Qin Shaofeng completely believed that Hou Yanqing was a living hypocrite.
For a time, Qin Shaofeng's vigilance towards Hou Yanqing rose to the highest level.
Since it had been confirmed, Hou Yanqing naturally took action.
During this short period of time, Hou Yanqing had asked the other Divine Dwelling disciples to deliberately collect a lot of crystal fragments from the dead Genesis Crystal Beasts.
Although many people did not believe it, it was just collecting some crystal fragments, so it did not take much effort. Everyone had also collected a lot of crystal fragments.
When this was handed over to Qin Shaofeng, the number of crystal fragments that Qin Shaofeng obtained greatly surprised him.
Under normal circumstances, a Genesis Crystal Beast could produce about a hundred crystal fragments. If one was stronger or the Genesis Crystal Beast's body was larger, they could produce a lot more.
Currently, there were no less than a thousand Divine Dwelling disciples at the assembly point.
Almost seventy to eighty percent of the Divine Dwelling disciples had already gathered here.
Due to the gravity in the Genesis Crystal Space, it had become a big problem to hunt Genesis Crystal Beasts. Therefore, everyone understood that moving together with the group was the best choice.
Of course, there were a small number of Divine Dwelling disciples who did not appear here.
On one hand, it was very likely that some of the Divine Dwelling disciples had already used up their resources and died for some reason. Naturally, they could not come.
On the other hand, Zhou Yan was in a similar situation. Although he already knew about the existence of this assembly point, Zhou Yan had no intention of coming.
To Zhou Yan, whether it was Qin Shaofeng or Hou Yanqing, they were both existences that he loathed. Naturally, he would not appear at this assembly point.
Therefore, Zhou Yan led his subordinates to kill Genesis Crystal Beasts alone and had no intention of coming.
However, even so, the crystal fragments that Hou Yanqing sent over at this moment still gave Qin Shaofeng a great shock.
Although Hou Yanqing had vaguely indicated that he wanted Qin Shaofeng to use the crystal fragments to refine as many special Spirit Pearls as possible as possible.
But as if afraid that Qin Shaofeng would think that he had worked hard for him, Hou Yanqing still said that he wouldn't let Qin Shaofeng refine the beads for free. As long as Qin Shaofeng refined a special spirit bead, he would be able to obtain the corresponding ten Empyrean Realm points after returning to the Divine Dwelling.
Such a refining fee was extremely astonishing.
According to Qin Shaofeng, the crystal fragments of twenty Genesis Crystal Beasts could be refined into one Spirit Pearl. Although there were only two to three hundred Divine Dwelling disciples that could be dispatched to this assembly point, these two to three hundred people could kill four to five hundred Genesis Crystal Beasts a day.
In other words, Qin Shaofeng could refine more than twenty special Spirit Pearls a day, which was equivalent to more than two hundred Expanse Realm points.
This was a pretty good income!
Moreover, with such speed, with the large amount of special spirit pearls refined by Qin Shaofeng, once the other newly promoted disciples of the saints successfully possessed their own domain, the speed of killing would definitely be much faster.
It was conceivable that after returning, Qin Shaofeng's Expanse Realm points would definitely increase by a large amount.
Moreover, this matter had been approved by the genius leaders of all the factions. Therefore, after returning to the Divine Dwelling, the higher-ups of the Divine Dwelling would definitely approve of this matter and give Qin Shaofeng the reward he deserved.
Of course, because of this, Qin Shaofeng naturally couldn't go out to hunt Genesis Crystal Beasts anymore.
Although the Spirit Source could devour crystal fragments without any scruples, and it could devour as many as it came, and the speed at which special Spirit Pearls were produced was also very fast.
But such a matter couldn't be exposed. Qin Shaofeng naturally pretended that he was really refining with his own domain, and he had to act as if it wasn't easy.
Under normal circumstances, after refining thirty Spirit Pearls, Qin Shaofeng would act as if he had over-consumed his Spirit Source due to the use of his domain.
However, this wasn't an act by Qin Shaofeng, but the real situation.
Although he had already believed that these special Spirit Pearls were refined by Qin Shaofeng with the special power of his own domain, Hou Yanqing still didn't believe him.
In the end, Hou Yanqing was still monitoring Qin Shaofeng at all times.
Now the entire gathering point, especially the area around the cave, was always shrouded in Hou Yanqing's domain.
Hou Yanqing's purpose of doing this was initially to help other disciples with Fire Spiritual Roots cultivate their own domain, and naturally it was also a way for him to cultivate his own domain.
But since Qin Shaofeng entered the cave and began to refine the special Spirit Pearls, Qin Shaofeng could feel that Hou Yanqing's domain was monitoring him all the time.
Although he deliberately avoided his own domain, as if he didn't want to disturb Qin Shaofeng refining the Spirit Pearls, in fact, except for the small area where Qin Shaofeng was not covered by Hou Yanqing's domain, the rest of the area was completely covered by Hou Yanqing's domain.
This was completely equivalent to Qin Shaofeng setting up his own domain in Hou Yanqing's domain.
Although the two sides did not engage in any battle or contest, and because Hou Yanqing deliberately avoided it, it seemed that Hou Yanqing did not know what Qin Shaofeng was doing.
But in fact, Qin Shaofeng was very clear in his heart that Hou Yanqing's domain was only at the peak of the Second Heavenly Layer.
But Hou Yanqing's domain realm had already reached the Third Heavenly Layer.
Therefore, although it seemed that Hou Yanqing was deliberately avoiding him, in reality, his every move was definitely under Hou Yanqing's perception.
However, Hou Yanqing did not seem to be excessive. He only sensed Qin Shaofeng's every move through his own domain.
Therefore, with the help of the Pill Realm, Hou Yanqing only saw that Qin Shaofeng was really refining. He did not realize that every time Qin Shaofeng was refining, at the last moment, he actually replaced the special Mid-Grade Spirit Pearls with the purified crystal gravel.
As for the consumption of Qin Shaofeng's domain power, Qin Shaofeng really did use it to purify the crystal gravel.
After the crystal gravel was purified, it could speed up the devouring speed of the Spirit Origin. Once the purified crystal gravel was thrown into the Spirit Origin, it would take at most two or three minutes for the Spirit Origin to produce the same number of Mid-Grade Spirit Pearls.
Without the purified crystal gravel, it would take at least a quarter of an hour. If there were a lot of them, it would take even longer.
Moreover, according to Little Ball, the act of purifying the crystal gravel could completely help him cultivate the Pill Realm. Naturally, Qin Shaofeng did this.
However, it was also because of this that after secretly observing for a few days, Qin Shaofeng finally felt that Hou Yanqing had completely withdrawn his surveillance on him.
It was probably at this time that Hou Yanqing completely believed in Qin Shaofeng.
As Qin Shaofeng refined more and more special Spirit Pearls, the number of Divine Palace disciples who possessed domains also increased.
The Divine Palace disciples who had been selected to enter the Source Crystal Space were all geniuses compared to the average person.
With the help of elixirs, practically everyone had already entered the Great Sage Realm.
Of course, geniuses like Qin Shaofeng and Hou Yanqing had yet to ascend to the Great Sage Realm.
After entering the Great Sage Realm, with the help of the special Spirit Pearls refined by Qin Shaofeng, everyone's cultivation of domains became much smoother.
Even the weakest person would be able to comprehend their own domain after obtaining seven or eight Spirit Pearls refined by Qin Shaofeng.
By now, Hou Yanqing and the genius leaders of his faction had also shifted their focus to hunting Source Crystal Beasts.
Before entering the Source Crystal Space, the top brass of the various great factions had already agreed that in a month, the disciples of each faction would gather to see how many source cores they could obtain.
If the number met the requirement, they would immediately open a channel and use the source cores to strengthen and consolidate the space.
If it wasn't enough, they would continue to hunt for more source cores.
The conclusion of the discussion among the various great factions was that they would gather one million source cores!
One million source cores would be enough to consolidate the spatial channel that would allow Supreme-Grade powerhouses to enter the Source Crystal Space.
Of course, one million source cores wasn't a small number. This was only the first requirement. If they could achieve it, then they would complete it. If they couldn't, then there was no need to force it.
The conclusion of the discussion among the various great factions was that the disciples who entered the Source Crystal Space would be given two months. After two months, regardless of how many source cores they had collected, they would have to open the spatial channel.
It wasn't that the major forces didn't want to give them more time, but that two months was already the limit. Any more and the Demon Race would make a comeback.
Soon, the first month's time was up.
As expected, apart from the Divine Palace, the other powers had collected less than 10,000 source cores.
This wasn't surprising, as the number one problem in the Source Crystal Space was gravity. If one wanted to restrain gravity, one would need to possess a domain. Otherwise, during a battle, a person with a domain would only be able to lead two or three people and guarantee their own combat strength. Any more and they wouldn't be able to do it.
Even if they could guarantee their own combat strength, they simply wouldn't be able to last long under such circumstances.
Therefore, it was very difficult to hunt many source crystal beasts in one month.
Most of the great factions were actually busy helping their disciples break through to the Great Sage Stage and comprehend their own domains.
How could anyone still hunt source crystal beasts?
Even if there were, the number of source crystal beasts that could be hunted in one month wasn't very high.
Also, due to various reasons in the Source Crystal Space, such as the appearance of the sandstorm, the various great factions had lost quite a few people.
As a result, the speed at which source cores were collected naturally slowed down.
In fact, the power that had collected the least number of source cores had only collected a little over 1,000 source cores in the past month.
Therefore, when Hou Yanqing told them that the Divine Palace disciples had already collected more than 20,000 source cores, the geniuses of the various great factions were shocked.
This was exactly what Hou Yanqing had wanted.
Hou Yanqing had already discovered that the special spirit bead that Qin Shaofeng had refined had the effect of increasing his domain cultivation.
However, the effect of one spirit bead was completely negligible.
Therefore, Hou Yanqing had set his sights on the other great factions.
With the help of these great factions, the speed at which they collected source crystal beasts would undoubtedly increase by several times. Hou Yanqing believed that, with a large number of these special spirit beads, the speed at which he cultivated his domain would definitely be extremely fast.
Because of this, Hou Yanqing was even more determined not to enter the Great Sage Stage for the time being.
After all, he wanted to cultivate a fourth-level domain in the Sky Sage Stage after entering the top three!
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