Ye Jingcheng's gaze was clear and resolute at that moment. He had no intention of taking any roundabout approach.
Since he could not form a contract with the Snow Silkworm Demon Lord yet, he had to contract a suitable Seventh-Stage Demon Venerable.
He would learn about the Zou Family and the Snow Silkworm Demon Lord from that demon venerable, then use that information to corroborate the Ye Family's discoveries.
This was something Ye Jingcheng had to do. Otherwise, he still could not fully trust the Snow Silkworm Demon Lord.
The Ye Family was no longer the family it had been on Soaring Cloud Peak. Back then, it had merely been a Foundation Establishment faction. If it failed, it could simply change its name and start over.
Now, if the Ye Family failed, tens of thousands of years of planning would be destroyed in a single stroke, taking countless lives with it.
Of course, if the Snow Silkworm Demon Lord's descendants had the potential to advance, Ye Jingcheng would not mind demonstrating his alchemy and improving their bloodlines.
Perhaps that would let him contract the Snow Silkworm Demon Lord ahead of time.
After all, every spirit beast in the Ye Family, whether adept at scheming or devoted to arduous cultivation, was now wholeheartedly convinced of the power of Ye Jingcheng's spirit pills and Treasure Radiance.
Even the Five-Colored Demon Venerable and the Red Spirit Blood Abyss Worm, both of whom he had only recently subdued, were no exception.
"I have no descendants. I am a frost jade snow pine silkworm. Few ordinary spirit silkworms even reach the sixth stage. Never mind producing offspring—they cannot even approach me. I have also kept away from them all these years, so I have never had even mixed-blood descendants. However, you can contract either the