Ye Haicheng and Ye Xuecang still had not put away the five-colored mystic crystal tree. If they removed a seventh-stage spirit material like this, the Ye Family had no way to nurture it as effectively as the Heaven-Sealing Sect did.
Besides, according to Feng Chan, this Grotto-Heaven could be taken with them.
That left the members of the Ye Family in even less of a hurry.
Once they reached the Spirit Realm and met Ye Jingcheng, the five-colored mystic crystal tree would naturally end up in his hands.
Given the Ye Family's current circumstances, they reckoned the day when they would secretly ascend was not far off.
Once they broke through the realm barrier and left for another realm, their main priority would be to develop quietly. They would no longer need to maintain their current operations in Sanyuan City, nor would they need to leave so many Spirit Transformation demon saints in the Mortal Realm.
As they considered this, they reached the fourth palace, which likewise contained a treasure.
Above a spirit pool wreathed in radiant spiritual light, a lightning spear floated in plain sight.
The lightning spear was only about a foot long, resembling the shrunken forms of most magical treasures. Yet row after row of silver tadpole-script characters floated across it, and occasional streaks of lightning spread outward. Rather than striking the pool, they flowed into the void, where an array dispersed them and funneled them into a distant flowerpot containing a stalk of bamboo.
"This is a Heaven-Reaching spirit treasure!" Ye Haicheng had seen the Ten Directions Ink Spirit Inkstone and even wielded the Eight-Soul Spirit-Locking Pearl, so he recognized it at a glance. Of course, its grade could not compare to the Spirit-Sealing Palace; it was merely a low-grade Heaven-Reaching spirit treasure.
Still, a low-grade