I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

Lin Xuanqing's finishing touches on the stone platform lasted about fifteen minutes.

She reconnected the severed spiritual paths segment by segment, leaving new traces of spiritual ink at each break point. These traces were arranged at extremely fine intervals on the stone surface, almost invisible from a distance. Only when you got within two feet could you discover the adjusted nodes.

The moment the final connection was completed, the array patterns on the stone platform lit up again. The light, which had gone from intermittent to continuous, was like a river channel that had been reopened and was now flowing with water again. It spread out along the patterns to both sides and eventually lit up all the nodes at the same time.

"Alright." She stood up, tucked the spirit pen back into her waistband, and tapped it lightly twice on the edge of the stone platform to confirm that the array's operating logic was correct before retreating to the edge of the valley. "There's absolutely no sign of it being activated from the outside."

Lin Che nodded and put the source core into a specially made spirit jade box in his sleeve. When the box lid was closed, it completely isolated the pervasive spiritual energy fluctuations inside the box.

Raising my head, my gaze swept across the valley. The distant hills, in the midday light, revealed clearer outlines. The grass on the slopes was bathed in a warm hue from the sunlight. The herds of animals that had been active near the slopes had moved further away. As far as the eye could see, there were only open meadows and slowly drifting cloud shadows.

"It's time to go and gather those good things."

Lin Che and his group chose an arc-shaped route oriented southeast, bypassing the core area he had marked with the Myriad Beast Source Core, and moved towards the unexplored areas in the second layer.

As they ventured deeper, the terrain gradually transitioned from meadows to an area interspersed with low hills and shallow valleys. The hills had gentler slopes, covered with patches of tall grass and scattered low trees, whose canopies cast short shadows in the midday sun.

The humidity in the air is higher than in the meadow area, and the feeling of moisture can be clearly felt with every breath, as if an invisible stream is flowing nearby.

After traveling about fifty miles, Lin Xuanqing's spirit-testing jade slip deviated again.

This time, the pale blue halo on the surface of the jade slip deflected southward at a faster speed than before. As it approached a shallow valley surrounded by shrubs, the magnitude of the deflection began to increase at a steady and even pace, increasing by about two degrees every ten breaths, without any pause or retreat.

"There's an anomaly in the spiritual energy over there." She held the specially made jade array in her palm, tapping the edge lightly with her fingers twice, as if to confirm that the direction of the deflection wasn't affected by the terrain. "The deflection is too great; it's not an ordinary spiritual vein node, but more like some kind of active array or seal."

According to Venerable Bai Ze, because it is a man-made secret realm, the inheritance location of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is located on this node with abnormal spiritual energy.

Or perhaps it is precisely because something is sealed there that the spiritual energy of this man-made secret realm has become abnormal.

This is also the biggest difference between this place and a normal secret realm.

Lin Che's gaze followed the direction indicated by the array plate and landed deep in the shallow valley.

The valley's outline curves gently downwards, its bottom covered by a layer of predominantly dark green vegetation, the leaves of which gleam with a moist sheen in the midday sun.

Scattered on the slopes on both sides of the valley are several protrusions made of gray rocks, which are located between the entrance and the depth of the shallow valley, forming several natural shelters.

His divine sense traveled forward along the valley for about a hundred feet, and at the end of the valley, he touched an entrance covered with a very faint spiritual light.

The entrance was about three feet wide and five feet high, with a border made of dark silver patterns around its edge. The pattern was similar to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect formation they had seen on the first two floors, but much denser.

"There's a door." He withdrew his divine sense and looked at the Burning Heaven Sacred Sparrow. "The entrance is covered in spiritual light; inside might be some kind of storage room or nurturing room."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Burning Heaven Sacred Sparrow took two steps toward the shallow valley. Her gaze swept quickly across the slopes on both sides of the valley, and after confirming that there were no lurking spirit beasts behind the protruding rocks, she stopped at the entrance of the shallow valley.

"There are no living creatures inside, no breathing rhythm, and no signs of spirit beast activity, but the concentration of spiritual energy is nearly 30% higher than outside. This is the result of long-term accumulation in a closed space, so it should be a storage space."

This is indeed a secret realm of inheritance, unlike those secret realms of exploration. Not only is there no danger, but all inheritances can be explored with divine sense, including the core inheritance of the Myriad Beasts Sect that we just encountered.

Lin Che walked into the shallow valley and stopped in front of the entrance covered with spiritual light at the end of the valley.

The token in his hand emitted a pale blue light.

Then the layer of spiritual light on the surface of the entrance rippled at an extremely slow speed, like tiny ripples on the surface of water blown by the wind, and began to recede to both sides after coming into contact with the token's aura.

The passage inside the entrance is not long, about three zhang deep, and at the end is a square stone chamber built of bluish-gray stone, about twenty zhang wide and about one and a half zhang high.

On each of the three walls inside the stone chamber, there is a row of stone shelves embedded in the wall. The height of those shelves extends from the ground to almost the ceiling, and each shelf is neatly arranged with boxes made of transparent spirit jade.

The box contains various spiritual objects.

Some are mainly crystals, some are liquids slowly flowing at the bottom of the box, some are dried powder, and some are plants that have retained their complete shape.

In the center of the stone chamber stood a square pedestal cast in bronze. Above the pedestal, a jade tablet about the size of a palm was covered by an extremely thin layer of spiritual light. The edges of the jade tablet were engraved with fine inscriptions.

Lin Xuanqing walked to the jade tablet, lowered her head to identify the inscriptions, and gently ran her fingers along the grooves on the edge of the jade tablet, comparing the direction of the characters segment by segment before raising her head: "The Complete Catalogue of Spiritual Plant Cultivation of the Myriad Beasts Sect records the names, uses, and cultivation methods of all the sealed spiritual objects in this cultivation room. The jade tablet itself is an index, corresponding to the position number of each item on each shelf of the stone shelf."

Lin Che's eyes lit up, and his gaze quickly swept across the three walls of the stone chamber.

There are approximately hundreds of thousands of spirit jade boxes on those stone shelves. Each one is carefully sealed within an independent layer of spiritual light, and there are no obvious signs of decay over time.

His gaze fell on a row of boxes marked with dark red spiritual ink. Inside those boxes were several seeds preserved in the same color, clearly of high quality.

"Good stuff, this is really good stuff!" He identified the type of seeds.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this place is just piled with seeds; it's a great help to the Lin family.

It's important to understand that raising a spirit beast isn't simply a matter of having a spirit beast with a good bloodline.

The spiritual creatures that spirit beasts eat on a daily basis, the spiritual creatures that can enhance their bloodline, the environment they are suited to... all of these are crucial.

This place contains the spiritual items that the spirit beasts need.

From feed crops that can be used to cultivate spirit beasts to spirit seeds that can enhance the bloodline of a certain spirit beast, rare ones are everywhere!

The Lin family has a tradition of cultivating spirit beasts, but they lack the necessary resources.

From the day the Lin family was established, they began to collect various spiritual materials from their lineage. Xuan Dong's business association never stopped, and Xuan Jing's cultivation of spiritual fields never ceased.

Even so, the Lin family still faces a shortage of many spiritual items.

The seeds from this area have been a great help.

Once these seeds are brought back and bred, the Lin family will truly have no shortage of spiritual materials for cultivating various spirit beasts, which is the foundation for their true rise!

Lin Xuanqing understood this as well, and had already begun to record the location and markings of those boxes in the stone chamber. She took out several blank recording jade slips from her sleeve and entered the name and number of each spiritual item on each layer one by one, moving her movements between the stone shelves at a uniform rhythm.

The Heavenly Sacred Sparrow did not enter the stone chamber, but stopped at the entrance of the shallow valley, its gaze continuing to scan the outline of the surrounding hills. Its breathing remained as steady as before in the warm air near midday.

Ya Zi stopped on the slope outside the shallow valley. His figure was mostly obscured by the curve of the hills, making him almost unrecognizable from the outside. Only his pupils, which occasionally lit up with a dim light as he moved, revealed his location.

Both continued to act as henchmen.

Ensure that no local spirit beast populations approach.

The recording of the stone chamber lasted for about 15 minutes.

After recording the location of the last box into the jade slip, Lin Xuanqing walked up to Lin Che and handed him the jade slip with the recorded information: "178,000 sealed spiritual items, of which nearly 100,000 are spiritual plant seeds, and the rest are finished spiritual items and spiritual materials. These may be able to be cultivated in a special way."

Lin Che took the jade slip, quickly scanned its contents with his divine sense, lingered for a moment on the entries marked "core varieties," and then put the jade slip into his sleeve: "Take them all and record them in the Lin family's spiritual plant database."

Lin Xuanqing nodded, took out the empty box he had prepared in advance from his storage bag, and began to take out the spirit jade boxes on the stone shelf one by one and seal them.

Her movements were swift and precise. Each box was taken from the stone shelf in a horizontal position. Before putting a new box in, she would check the integrity of the spiritual light layer and then place it in the compartment of the storage bag.

The empty stone shelves that were replaced revealed their original dark stone texture after the boxes were removed. The surface had light-colored marks left by long-term pressing, and the shape of each mark perfectly matched the bottom of the box that was taken away.

After the last box was put into the storage bag, the concentration of spiritual energy in the stone chamber began to decrease slowly. The spiritual light that had been flowing on the walls and ceiling gradually weakened, as if the old structure, having lost its core support, was returning to silence in its own way.

After confirming that nothing had been missed, Lin Xuanqing left the stone chamber. Lin Che then reactivated the layer of spiritual light covering the entrance, restoring it to its previous state of continuous fluctuation.

"Next." His gaze shifted from the depths of the shallow valley to the unexplored hilly area to the southeast. "There are several spiritual energy deflection points nearby. Judging from the direction, the distance between those locations is gradually decreasing, and the deeper you go, the denser the spiritual energy nodes become."

The team set off again.

The Heavenly Sacred Sparrow led the way, her steps maintaining a steady rhythm between the meadows and hills, occasionally pausing to calculate the direction of the surrounding spiritual energy with her fingertips.

Lin Che walked in the middle, his divine sense constantly perceiving the surrounding area for several miles, while Lin Xuanqing was at the rear, his spirit-testing array plate updating the directional indicators at a fixed frequency.

Ya Zi remained at the rear of the group, his figure appearing alternately between the shadows of the hills and the bright colors of the meadow, like a long, almost unrecognizable dark trail.

They subsequently discovered similar storage spaces at three other points where spiritual energy was diverted.

The second place is a high-level materials room sealed with the remains of spirit beasts. The remains are ground into powder using secret methods and then sealed in jade bottles. Each bottle is labeled with the species and grade of the beast, most of which belong to ancient spirit beast species that have long been extinct.

Many secret techniques for stimulating the bloodline of spirit beasts utilize these methods.

The third place is a cultivation experimental area simulated by an array. The interior maintains a higher concentration of spiritual energy and a stable temperature and humidity than the outside. It contains a large number of spiritual herbs, some of which are needed by cultivators and others by spirit beasts.

There are at least hundreds of thousands of plants ranging from the first to the fourth order.

There were even more than a dozen fifth-order spiritual herbs among them.

Of course, the most important thing is the cultivation data. The cultivation parameters are still well preserved in this cultivation experimental area, which prevents the Lin family from having to slowly figure things out when facing the previous spirit seeds.

The fourth place is a workshop mainly engaged in metal forging. Inside, several unfinished spiritual weapon prototypes are sealed. Each one is based on high-grade spiritual materials and has maintained its original, unactivated state during its long period of sealing.

After Lin Che's inspection, he found that although the grade of these spirit weapon embryos was not high, the materials used were extremely rare, they had the ability to be shaped at will, and they were the kind that could grow, so they could serve as a cultivator's natal magic weapon.

In other words, cultivators can reshape these spiritual weapon embryos according to their own combat habits, and then slowly nurture them into their own natal spiritual weapons.

The Lin family lacks a lineage of weapon crafting masters. Apart from Master Tie, there isn't a single decent weapon crafting expert. This batch of spiritual weapons is very timely, allowing Xuan Qi and the others to each have their own natal magic weapon!

Each space was handled in the same way by the three members of the Lin family: confirm the contents, make a list, remove the valuable parts, preserve the integrity of the spatial structure, and reseal the entrance.

As they ventured deeper into the second layer, the surrounding hills became denser and steeper, and the meadows were gradually covered with gravel and bare rock, the surfaces of which bore the marks of long-term weathering, with drought-resistant short grasses and lichens growing in the crevices.

When they arrived at the fifth aura deflection point, it was nearly afternoon in the simulated sky.

The deflection point was located in a depression surrounded by dark gray rock walls. The layer of spiritual light covering the entrance was thicker, darker in color, and operated at a slower pace than the previous points.

Lin Che stopped in front of the entrance and slowly probed his divine sense along the edge of the spiritual light layer. About five zhang inside the entrance, he touched a place that was different from all the previous spaces.