Chapter 37: Leaving the Grotto-Heaven

It is said that grotto-heavens blur one's perception of time.

Even if they practice inside for several months or years, the cultivators inside will not have a very obvious concept of time, only feeling that time passes in a flash.

In this state, everyone was immersed in their own cultivation and comprehension, unable to extricate themselves.

Everyone had gained quite a lot. The sword-shaped True Qi around the young swordsman's body was all restrained. The sound of his heartbeat was like a sword hum, and every inch of his skin shimmered with sword light, incredibly crystalline. It was certain that the sword canon he practiced had made a breakthrough, taking a step closer to the sword body he spoke of.

During the pill-refining process, the female alchemist's control over the flames had also taken a step forward. The purple flames inside the pill cauldron formed nine layers of whirlpools, constantly tempering the medicinal materials and refining out all the impurities in the pills.

Even the Beast Taming Sect disciples who hadn't occupied a Bodhi tree felt that practicing in this place was more tranquil and highly efficient during their on-the-spot Qi practice. Time passed very quickly, without the boredom of the past.

At this very moment, Lin Jing had already returned to his original appearance. Relying on the Golden Bodhi leaves, he had already memorized the structure of the purple True Qi and began to reorganize it himself. Thousands of attempts and tens of thousands of repetitions made the speed at which he constructed the purple True Qi faster and faster.

Even, unknowingly, his cultivation base had also broken through from the early Qi Condensation stage to the mid Qi Condensation stage, reaching the fourth layer of Qi Condensation!

In the end, he wasn't satisfied with just practicing inside his body. He began to release True Qi, controlling the purple True Qi to flow out, shaping a similar dragon-shaped bone skeleton, wrapping his whole body, and watching the outside world from within the illusion.

Regarding Lin Jing "transforming" into a giant dragon again, the others were no longer surprised and continued their immersive cultivation. Only the Pine-Needle Rat suddenly looked at Lin Jing.

"It seems feasible," Lin Jing muttered to himself. He felt that he had perfectly replicated the effect of the purple Dragon Bone Flower, which could be considered "Illusion Dao entry."

Unlike ordinary illusionary techniques, his current Illusion Dao spell had stronger deceptiveness, enough to deceive across levels.

However, using such a top-level illusion, Lin Jing felt the consumption was not small. Even if he had broken through, his own True Qi was still not enough.

Most importantly, it was currently being cast under the bonus of the Golden Bodhi Tree, which was relatively easy. But after leaving, he estimated that he would need to practice hard to use it smoothly.

"This Illusion Dao spell can indeed be shaped into other demonic beasts. Since that's the case, let's name it 'Thousand Changes and Ten Thousand Illusions'." Lin Jing tried to drive the giant dragon claw, grabbing toward the Pine-Needle Rat, and also covering it within the illusionary body.

Inside, the Pine-Needle Rat saw Lin Jing, who had turned into a Black Bear Monster.

It's just that this Black Bear Monster wasn't wearing a Daoist robe like it, but was wearing a cassock.

Fierce and vicious, it also had the power of a demon king.

If the Pine-Needle Rat hadn't known what was going on, it would have definitely protected its storage bag and turned to leave.

Lin Jing dissipated the Illusion Dao True Qi covering the surface of his body and looked at the Pine-Needle Rat.

"How is it?" he asked.

"Squeak!" The Pine-Needle Rat sighed. Nothing, there was absolutely no gain at all. Whether it's "a flower, a world" or "a leaf, a universe," it's all a lie!

"I told you, you have to take it step by step. Is there really no gain at all?" Lin Jing was helpless.

The Pine-Needle Rat's talent was definitely not bad. With the bonus of the Silver Bodhi Tree, he believed that there should still be some gains.

Sure enough, the Pine-Needle Rat took out a red leaf. If it had to say there was a gain, there indeed was.

"What is it?" Lin Jing asked.

"Squeak!" It threw its new storage bag to Lin Jing.

Lin Jing caught the Snow Plains cultivator's storage bag.

The next moment, the Pine-Needle Rat threw a Flying Leaf Technique at the storage bag Lin Jing was holding!

When the red flying leaf touched the storage bag, it actually disappeared.

When the flying leaf appeared again and flew away, even though Lin Jing hadn't done anything, a pile of spirit stones fell out of the storage bag with a clatter.

It was as if a pocket had been cut by a flying leaf.

The Pine-Needle Rat's Flying Leaf Technique had unexpectedly mutated into a spell that could smash items out of a storage bag.

Lin Jing opened his mouth slightly, wanting to say something, but finally gave up.

"I just said it casually, how did you really do it?"

Spatial spell!

This was definitely harder to learn than an Illusion Dao spell.

It had actually comprehended it just by constantly taking red leaves out of the storage bag and putting them back in.

If he had known the Pine-Needle Rat was so monstrous, Lin Jing would have given up the Golden Bodhi Tree for the Pine-Needle Rat to use.

"Squeak!" However, the Pine-Needle Rat felt that this spell was useless.

What it wanted was the opponent's storage bag itself. If it used this spell in battle and accidentally broke its own storage bag, what then?

Lin Jing ignored it. Whether it was the Flying Leaf Technique or the Pine-Needle Rat's obsession with storage equipment, it had now become a storage bag killer.

"A spell that can pick resources out of a storage bag—let's call this upgraded spell of the Flying Leaf Technique 'Flying Leaf Picking Flowers'," Lin Jing said.

The Pine-Needle Rat had no objections.

The name of this spell was still quite nice.

Lin Jing had given it quite a few names before, but the Pine-Needle Rat felt they were all unpleasant and perfunctory. In the end, it let Lin Jing call it Pine-Needle Rat. Compared to those ghost-crying and wolf-howling names, the Pine-Needle Rat felt this spell name at least sounded like something a human would name.

The Pine-Needle Rat planned that when they had money, they would go to the Wen Domain to practice together, and at that time, they would find a knowledgeable Feng Shui master to ask for a good name that could lead to becoming an immortal.

"Having said that, although our gains are good, it seems that the 'Thousand Changes and Ten Thousand Illusions' I created and the 'Flying Leaf Picking Flowers' you improved didn't make it onto the stone tablet ranking," Lin Jing touched his chin.

He dissipated all the illusions and looked at the stone tablet in the center of the three trees.

One hundredth place.

Feng Jiutian, Foundation Establishment stage, created the second cultivation constitution, the Wind Emperor Body, in the Bodhi Heaven.

He didn't know who Feng Jiutian was, and he didn't know what the Wind Emperor Body was, but possessing two special constitutions in the Foundation Establishment stage was very impressive.

I wonder if I can cultivate a second constitution besides the Longevity Body in the Foundation Establishment stage...

Lin Jing shook his head. It was a pity that he couldn't see the ranking after the one hundredth place. He was still quite curious about what rank the potential of the spells he and the Pine-Needle Rat created would be among all the cultivators who had entered the Bodhi Heaven.

Can't get the extra reward.

I hope there will be another chance to enter the Bodhi Heaven in the future.

Just as his thought fell, the grotto-heaven rumbled, as if it were about to close.

Sword Domain.

The number one sword cultivator sect of the Tianyuan Ancient Kingdom, Heavenly Sword Gate, outer sect.

As a massive beam of light dissipated, the Heavenly Sword Gate outer sect elder, who had been guarding here all along, looked at the young swordsman holding the Demon-Slaying Sword.

"Yuan Jing!" Seeing the young swordsman come out, the Heavenly Sword Gate elder breathed a sigh of relief, and then a look of joy appeared.

"Not bad. In these ten years, you are the fourth disciple of the Sword Gate to be chosen by the grotto-heaven! Entering the grotto-heaven with a mortal body—you have the demeanor of your Eldest Senior Sister back then!"

"Greetings, Elder." Seeing the outer sect elder, the young swordsman Yuan Jing was slightly nervous.

Elder Sword-Beard asked, "Yuan Jing, which grotto-heaven did you enter?"

"Reporting to Elder, it was the Bodhi Grotto-Heaven."

"Bodhi Grotto-Heaven? The one for enlightenment? To actually pull a Qi Condensation cultivator into the Bodhi Grotto-Heaven..." Elder Sword-Beard was speechless. The higher the cultivation of those who enter the Bodhi Grotto-Heaven, the better. Only in this way can they use their lifelong accumulation to create what is most suitable for themselves.

In the Qi Condensation stage, they haven't even understood the basics taught by the sect. What a waste!

However, being able to enter the grotto-heaven is a good thing. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

He looked at the young swordsman. Although this disciple didn't have any heaven-shaking constitution, his comprehension of sword cultivation methods was excellent, and he soon crushed the special constitutions of the same generation to become the number one in the outer sect.

It doesn't matter if there is no special cultivation constitution. Cooperating with the sword canon that can be cultivated into a postnatal sword body, he still has a bright future. This grotto-heaven descent just proved his potential!

"Apart from you, who else entered the Bodhi Grotto-Heaven? Did you grab the Golden Bodhi Tree?" Elder Sword-Beard asked again.

The question that made the young swordsman most nervous finally came.

"This disciple is incompetent. I only shared a Green Bodhi Tree with one person, losing face for the sect. This disciple will definitely practice hard afterward. Please punish me, Elder."

Elder Sword-Beard was stunned. Although Yuan Jing didn't possess a special constitution like the previous outer sect number ones, his sword cultivation attainments were quite outstanding. He actually only grabbed a Green Bodhi?

"What punishment? There is always someone better than you. I see you have already cultivated a sword heart; it seems you are not far from building a sword body. As long as there are gains, victory or defeat is just a matter of time," Elder Sword-Beard comforted. "Which sect's Qi Condensation cultivator occupied the Gold and Silver Bodhi?"

"This time in the Bodhi Grotto-Heaven, a total of 12 people entered: a scholar from the Wen Domain's Heavenly Luck City, a female alchemist from the Fire Domain's Danding Sect, eight from the Beast Taming Sect of the Desolate Domain—seven of whom were accidentally involved—and there was also one... Snow Plains cultivator."

The young swordsman said, "The Golden Bodhi was occupied by a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect. As for the Silver Bodhi Tree..."

"It was occupied by his pet beast."

"What?" Elder Sword-Beard was stunned. Beast Taming Sect? Is it the Beast Taming Sect he knows?

"You lost to a Beast Taming Sect disciple?"

"Elder... what I can do... his pet beast can also do. What they can do... I can't do any of it," the young swordsman didn't know how to explain.

Fire Domain, Danding Sect, also repeated the same plot.

The narcissistic female alchemist was a somewhat famous pill-refining genius of that sect. After this grotto-heaven trip, she received even more attention.

The name of the Beast Taming Sect's Tang Seng was also known in a small range by the cultivators of these major sects.

Wen Domain, there was also a scholar in green dragging a Snow Plains barbarian, looking at his colleagues surrounding the beam of light in the city. He wiped the bloodstains off his face and cupped his fists forcefully.

He almost wrote "I want to be promoted" on his face.

Desolate Domain, Beast Taming Sect.

Numerous elders were guarding outside the grotto-heaven. As Lin Jing and the others all returned unscathed, the group of elders was overjoyed.

However, looking at the other seven people and seven beasts who vaguely seemed to take Lin Jing and the Pine-Needle Rat as their leaders, following behind Lin Jing like guards, looking at them with awe, the elders really wanted to know... what exactly happened inside the grotto-heaven.

But what made the mechanist Elder Yu even more bewildered was, why were the few disciples also looking at him so hotly? ===== CHAPTER 38 =====