As Ye Jingcheng drew closer, the Wood Demon revealed a small portion of its true body. On its modest trunk, a sparse scatter of twenty-some leaves hung from the branches.
It was not many, just like a tree wintering at the end of autumn.
Only, these elm-coin leaves were like polished coins, gleaming with a rich luster.
With a point from that cultivator, one of them fell from the tree, landed on Ye Jingcheng's shoulder, and silently melted away.
Ye Jingcheng only felt some of the hostility and Killing Intent in his heart inexplicably disperse, and his entire body lightened a little.
Of course, most crucially, he discovered that the pressure on his soul had actually lessened somewhat.
This left him somewhat delighted, and somewhat surprised.
This meant that this elm-coin spirit blessing could first eliminate Killing Intent, and second increase his soul's capacity to endure.
One had to know, right now, he simply had too many contracted spirit beasts, and his carrying capacity was insufficient. If a spirit beast broke through while his soul did not improve enough...
Some accidents might occur, even the collapse of his Soul Pact and the scattering of his soul.
And though the effect seemed ordinary, one had to remember that this was only a sixth-rank elm tree, and only a spirit-blessing leaf that could be casually plucked and sold.
If it could reach seventh rank, eighth rank, or even activate its innate elm leaves, then the effect would absolutely be different.
This was not merely useful to him; it would actually help the entire Ye Family to a certain extent.
The Ye Family now had many cultivators and many spirit beasts, and its methods of controlling spirit beasts were also far from as simple and ordinary as they had been at the very