Chapter 1323: Grotto-Heaven! (First update, requesting everything)

"Remember, there won't be a next time!"

Seeing the actions of the Secondary Ancestral Red Dragon, Li Zhangsheng was speechless and simply told the Secondary Ancestral Red Dragon to get lost.

The Secondary Ancestral Red Dragon acted as if it had received a pardon, hurriedly flying back to Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm without daring to let out even a fart.

As for whether it would remember this lesson, Li Zhangsheng would not concern himself with that; in any case, he was a man of his word.

When the time truly came, Ning Bizhen would surely not object; compared to Ning Bizhen's other Demon Pets, this Secondary Ancestral Red Dragon had a rather nasty personality, possessing the arrogance, conceit, and Greed peculiar to red dragons.

Of course, Li Zhangsheng would still inform Ning Bizhen to avoid any rift between them; after all, the Secondary Ancestral Red Dragon was her Demon Pet.

After his Demon Pets finished their breakthroughs, Li Zhangsheng went to several other important locations.

Aside from a few mineral veins, the harvest from the Dragon Lair was the greatest.

The Disaster King, who loved to bully the weak, did not know how many Kings and Double-Character Kings he had robbed; the number of dragons in the Dragon Lair was actually greater than Li Zhangsheng's own.

The only pity was that there were no ancestral dragons among this batch of dragons, though there were nearly ten Secondary Ancestral Dragons.

Although this batch of dragons was large in number, the difficulty of subduing them was truly not great; Li Zhangsheng only had to release the Five-Colored Dragon and the Dragon-Slaying Platform, and this batch of dragons bowed their heads in submission without a word.

After taking in this batch of dragons, the total number of dragons Li Zhangsheng possessed reached as high as eight hundred; although it certainly could not compare to Emperors and Emperor Ranks with deep foundations, it should not be inferior to the Phoenix Emperor or Spirit Emperor, who had the shallowest foundations.

With so many dragons, the Dragon Eggs, dragon saliva, Dragon Scales, Dragon Whisker Grass, and other items produced each year alone were an astronomical figure, and they could also Guard the Secret Realm.

Most importantly, they could also provide him with a large amount of Spirit Essence, which could allow several Secondary Ancestral Dragons to advance further; Spirit Essence that did not meet the requirements could also be used to make Bloodline Potion to assist Demon Pets in breaking through to the Demon King level, which could be called a business with ten thousand times the profit.

As for the cost, it was negligible; dragons might seem to have big appetites, but they often slept for months at a time, and as long as their energy supply was maintained, they were much easier to raise compared to Behemoths or Titans.

After confirming there were no oversights, Li Zhangsheng used the Secret Realm Token to forcibly open the barrier shrouding the Secret Realm.

Compared to merging the Feather King's Secret Realm, this time Li Zhangsheng opened almost an entire side of the barrier, while the other sides remained in a sealed state.

Before the Space Storm could surge in from the gap, the Chi Dragon struck with all its might, suppressing the external space.

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm emerged from the gap; this time, it was not just a corner that emerged, but the entire Secret Realm.

As Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm plugged the gap, the Chi Dragon finally breathed a sigh of relief; although it had only suppressed it for two or three seconds, it had felt like a year to it.

When it came down to it, it was still a matter of strength.

Like the vast majority of Secret Realms, Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm was also round-sky and square-earth, which allowed it to resist the pressure from external space as much as possible and shorten the distance, offering many benefits.

If he were to merge the Disaster King's Secret Realm in the same way he merged the Feather King's Secret Realm, then Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm would become rectangular; this might seem like a faster merger, but it had major drawbacks and did not fit his plan.

It was fine that the Feather King's Secret Realm was small, but the Disaster King's Secret Realm was completely different.

This time, when integrating the Disaster King's Secret Realm, Li Zhangsheng adopted a plan of segmenting the Disaster King's Secret Realm before merging it, but this required a great deal of energy.

The next moment, Li Zhangsheng returned to his own Secret Realm and summoned the eight hundred dragons.

"Gather!"

Following Li Zhangsheng's order, the dragons condensed their energy in unison, causing the nearby energy to rapidly become Sparse.

Using his Authority as the Secret Realm Master, Li Zhangsheng divided this energy into ten parts according to their different attributes, hanging them in the sky.

The next moment, ten balls of light appeared in the sky, and they grew larger and larger.

After a few breaths, seeing that the ten light balls had reached the standard, Li Zhangsheng extended his right hand.

"Change!"

A ball of energy light with a diameter of one hundred meters twisted violently, and as Li Zhangsheng waved his hand, it rapidly transformed into a long, strip-like line of energy that could not be seen from end to end, rushing toward the Disaster King's Secret Realm.

Sizzle— Crack! — Whoosh—

The strip-like energy line was extremely Sharp; the moment it touched the Disaster King's Secret Realm, the hard ground was forcefully cut open as if it were tofu, turning into a bottomless trench.

Crack, crack, crack, crack—

Without waiting long, the Disaster King's Secret Realm began to shake, and a piece of land measuring seven or eight thousand li in radius was forcefully cut off.

Li Zhangsheng immediately controlled his own Secret Realm to make contact with this piece of the Disaster King's Secret Realm, and the two combined tightly together.

However, this was only a superficial combination; Li Zhangsheng moved his mind, and a mass of World Power turned into wisps of light rain, falling into the gap between the two.

Under the powerful effect of the World Power, the Disaster King's Secret Realm fragment quickly became a part of Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm.

Li Zhangsheng controlled the Secret Realm to turn in a different direction and continued the previous operation, segmenting the Disaster King's Secret Realm and using World Power to complete the merger.

After several hours, as the last piece of the Disaster King's Secret Realm merged into Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm, the area of the entire Secret Realm almost doubled, reaching a radius of over fifty thousand li.

For a Blessed Land to advance to a Grotto-Heaven, besides meeting the stability requirements, it must reach a radius of fifty thousand li.

During this process, with the Fusang Tree, the Tree of Life, and many other Top-tier Spiritual Plants suppressing the Secret Realm, the Secret Realm was extremely stable, and there were not even any major tremors.

It was also at this time that the energy surging in from the void suddenly increased, causing the energy density in the Secret Realm to grow rapidly.

Besides this, the sky of the Secret Realm became higher, and the projection of the Sun Banner hanging in the sky became as if it were substantial.

The void began to echo with the sound of bells, and wisps of light rain continuously fell upon the earth; for a time, it was unknown how many Spirit Beasts and spiritual plants benefited.

At the same time, Li Zhangsheng could feel that the restrictions on the Secret Realm had significantly decreased, and the total amount of Heaven and Earth Great Power had increased tenfold.

Although it could still only attach to the Fairy World after evolving into a Grotto-Heaven, it now possessed the ability to detach from the Fairy World for a short time.

This meant that even if the Fairy World were destroyed, Li Zhangsheng could let the Secret Realm detach and find another world suitable for attachment.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Heaven and Earth Great Power surged, Li Zhangsheng consumed a large amount of Heaven and Earth Great Power to begin changing and strengthening the Secret Realm's rule system, especially the amplification and weakening effects on both enemy and self.

Only after completing the transformation could Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm truly be considered a Grotto-Heaven.

At this time, the Blessed Land Seed appeared once again; after the Secret Realm advanced to a Grotto-Heaven, the number of runes on it increased rapidly, becoming very dense; if an ordinary person were to take a look, their head would feel dizzy.

After the Blessed Land Seed transformed into the Grotto-Heaven True Seed, its volume increased by more than ten times; it drilled back into Li Zhangsheng's Yintang acupoint, hovering above his soul crystal and emitting a profound and unfathomable aura.

Under the washing of the Grotto-Heaven True Seed's aura, Li Zhangsheng's soul crystal benefited greatly, and his comprehension even increased by a few points.

This was not the end; after the Secret Realm advanced to a Grotto-Heaven, Li Zhangsheng's Dao-Achieving Item, the Gate of Light and Darkness, had another opportunity for sublimation.

(End of chapter)