Ye Jingcheng accepted all the Painting Spirit Race spirit hides, leaving only one Sixth Stage fire-attribute Painting Spirit Race spirit hide for his own research.
He placed all the remaining spirit hides into a storage bag, intending to hand them over to the Ye Family. Whether used to refine spirit puppets or spirit talismans, they would be excellent choices.
However, when handing the spirit hides to the family cultivators, he would need to warn the other clansmen.
Otherwise, once they were used, someone might connect them to everything that had happened on the Wildlands Continent.
After all, the Painting Spirit Race was exceedingly rare in ordinary times.
Their spirit hides could not be bought in the marketplace at all.
Even the affairs of the Painting Spirit Race were known to very few factions.
The Ye Family even had to guard against some faction putting Painting Spirit Race spirit hides up for sale as bait!
Ye Jingcheng then asked Jade Spirit some more questions.
At last, he learned how Zhu Qingzhou had obtained that Eight Stage natal spirit hide.
It turned out that he had discovered a secret ruin of the Painting Spirit Race.
Even the Painting Spirit Race itself had not known of that ruin.
However, when he found it, he leaked his aura and was sensed by the Painting Spirit Race.
At first, Sixth Stage Painting Spirit Race cultivators had pursued him.
But Zhu Qingzhou had slain them all.
It was only that Zhu Qingzhou had fled in panic before he could collect the bodies.
Along the way, he changed identities several times and even passed himself off as a disciple of a major faction.
When he reached Essence-Devouring Valley, he resumed his original identity. Fearing for his safety, he gathered a force to protect himself, which led to