Chapter 249

The so-called cave heaven is a small world that is attached to this world but operates independently.

In the cave heaven, not only can mortals survive, but the environment in high-rank cave heavens also has various peculiarities, which can allow mortals to cultivate a certain type of technique faster, or develop a certain type of talent.

The initial cave heavens were all naturally existing small worlds. According to the speculation of the human immortal lords, many innate cave heavens were transformed after the death of ancient gods and demons.

In this world, the history of the alien races is far longer than that of the human race. Northern Liao alone has a recorded history of three million years, and the Shaman tribe is even more ancient. It is said that the oldest tribe can be traced back to ten million years ago.

In ancient times, the strong of the alien races advocated returning to heaven and earth. When they died, their bodies would slowly disintegrate and become part of heaven and earth again.

Some ancient strongmen were too powerful, and after their death, their bodies distorted heaven and earth, becoming one after another miraculous cave heaven worlds.

There are also some innate cave heavens produced by the tearing of heaven and earth during the fighting of ancient strongmen. This type of cave heaven is often full of danger, and those with weaker strength will be doomed after entering.

But after the human race achieved cultivation, they opened up the path of acquired cave heavens. When Fenhai Zhenjun Master Yu Jing cultivated to the late stage, the mind-reflection world began to manifest in the world, combining the virtual and the real, from formless to form, born from emptiness to color.

This type of Fenhai Zhenjun Master Yu Jing often chooses to solidify their mind-reflection world before they die, thus becoming a small world similar to a cave heaven, which is called an acquired cave heaven.

Acquired cave heavens are far inferior to innate cave heavens in terms of stability and perfection of rules, but they can also allow mortals to survive. And as the cultivators within the cave heaven constantly repair it, the acquired cave heaven can also tend to be perfect.

Many times, when another Fenhai Zhenjun Master Yu Jing of the same human race exhausts their lifespan, they will connect their mind-reflection world with the existing cave heaven, or expand new space, or complete the original loopholes. In this way, with the accumulation of time, the human cave heaven mystical realms have gradually increased.

The immortal lord realm is naturally different. They either achieve a relatively perfect and relatively large cave heaven world, which already belongs to the category of innate cave heavens, or they simply transform the mind-reflection world into reality, thereby completely changing a piece of heaven and earth.

The founding ancestor of the Taichu Palace transformed into precious soil, establishing the first mountain gate precious land for the Taichu Palace.

One of his three disciples passed away within the ancestor's mountain gate, transforming into a ten-thousand-zhang isolated peak, directly raising the mountain gate precious soil by a rank. The other two chose to transform into precious soil outside, opening up two other mountain gates.

Regarding precious soil cave heavens, the immortal ancestors of the human race all believe that the alien races are barbaric and uneducated, and after a million years, they have made no progress, which is related to generations of strongmen returning their bodies to heaven and earth. But the predecessors of the human race protected their descendants with their bodies, and the great power of heaven and earth they cultivated all became the shelter and resources for future generations, so they could stand out among the myriad small tribes and fight for a piece of survival land that is not small, bit by bit.

This cave heaven in the Shattered Realm was originally an acquired cave heaven built by the three ancestors of the Xu family in the Master Yu Jing realm, used as a pillar to guard Ningxi. However, the Shaman tribe was powerful, forcing back Xu Wangu, defeating the Xu family and the Western Jin army, and breaking the cave heaven.

Acquired cave heavens were not stable to begin with, and this cave heaven of the Xu family was still in the initial stage of construction, unable to withstand the great battle between the strong of the two races, eventually shattering and turning into multiple fragments, falling into various places in the Shattered Realm.

There is a cave heaven fragment near the Azure Void, but Little Wei Yuan hasn't had time to put it on the agenda yet.

Originally, Little Wei Yuan thought that the great battle had been fought for many years, and before the Xu family cave heaven fell, they must have transferred personnel and important treasures, so there shouldn't be anything good left in the cave heaven, and only danger remained. So Little Wei Yuan didn't want to explore it much, preparing to wait until the realm naturally expanded and covered it before talking about it.

But now that True Person Chuhe has come to the door so solemnly, Little Wei Yuan has to pay attention.

However, for the sake of safety, Little Wei Yuan still had to confirm again: "True Person, why are you so sure that there are treasures inside?"

True Person Chuhe reached out, and a huge glossy ganoderma appeared in his palm, with a small mouse with golden fur sleeping under the ganoderma. As soon as it appeared, it suddenly stood up, sniffed fiercely in one direction, and then squeaked wildly.

True Person Chuhe grasped his hand, took back the Dharma Form, and said: "This old Daoist's Dharma Form is naturally good at finding treasures, especially good at finding innate spiritual bodies and spiritual plants. The Xu family's cave heaven shattered, and a trace of aura leaked out, and the old Daoist was close, so I noticed it."

"What rank of spiritual plant do you think it will be?"

True Person Chuhe said: "To be able to make the old Daoist's Dharma Form so excited, it must be supreme-rank!" Little Wei Yuan was also shocked. Supreme-rank spiritual plants are Master Yu Jing-level spiritual plants, which even ordinary True Lords have to fight for. The Shattered Realm was fought until heaven and earth collapsed, and originally this level of spiritual plant couldn't survive at all. Perhaps it was protected by the cave heaven, so it could survive until now.

"Besides you, is there anyone else who might know?"

"This old Daoist's method is no worse than a Fenhai Zhenjun's, and I had to be close to sense it. Under normal circumstances, no one should know. However, the Xu family must know, but I don't know why they didn't transfer it. The old Daoist speculates that perhaps this spiritual object was not high in rank originally, but some change occurred during the process of the cave heaven shattering, allowing it to transform."

Little Wei Yuan nodded; this was the only reasonable explanation.

After sending True Person Chuhe away, Little Wei Yuan spread out the map and began to think carefully. Although the treasure tree is good, the risk is not small. A cave heaven fragment can give birth to such a treasure, and there must be accompanying fierce objects. Didn't he see that old Daoist Chuhe was having heart palpitations at every turn, and didn't dare to leave Little Wei Yuan to eat alone?

Besides the friendship between fellow disciples, Little Wei Yuan asked himself that he had no special feelings for the old Daoist, and the old Daoist couldn't give all the benefits to himself. The reason he came to find himself was definitely because he felt he couldn't swallow it alone.

If you want to explore the cave heaven, you must be steady, and once you successfully extract the treasure, you must guard against someone being the oriole behind.

Treasures that have reached a rank are favored by heaven and earth, and basically have a background. Little Wei Yuan suspected that the treasure in the cave heaven should also have a name before it transformed, but the Xu family didn't expect it to transform. But once it leaves the cave heaven, someone might have a sense of it, so pre- and post-work are very important.

Little Wei Yuan looked at the location on the map. The cave heaven fragment fell within a range of one hundred to three hundred miles to the northeast, and any place could be the entrance. To find the entrance of the fragment, he needed to send people to search carefully. The problem was that such a big movement was difficult to hide from the eyes and ears of Western Jin and the Shaman tribe.

However, Little Wei Yuan didn't intend to let Western Jin and the Shaman tribe be idle. As long as he found something for them to do, they wouldn't notice that there were more scouts in the north. Now it was just right to do two things at once.

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Little Wei Yuan flew out of his residence, came to the edge of the realm in the northwest direction, hid himself with the power of the Azure Void, and looked toward the distant Wucheng.

The Wucheng was originally a hundred miles away from the realm. In these days, with the natural expansion of the realm, the distance was only ninety-five miles left. At this time, Little Wei Yuan controlled the expansion of the realm, changing it to one mile per month, so as not to scare the Shaman tribe away.

Now the strategy was effective. Even though the Shaman tribe was defeated, they didn't abandon the Wucheng, but instead greatly strengthened the city defense, with civilians, warriors, and supplies being continuously sent into the city.

Little Wei Yuan had been operating the realm for a period of time and knew deeply that the cost of such temporary emergency city building might be several times that of normal times. Although he didn't know the strength and size of the Shaman tribe on the opposite side, being able to build a large city with scale in such a short time, they had definitely spent their blood capital.

Confirming the state of the Wucheng, Little Wei Yuan felt that the timing was almost right.

He returned to the realm, and with an order, thousands of Body Forging cultivators pushed steel cylinders, each one zhang long and as thick as a water vat, toward the designated area. Several steel cylinders had just been pushed out of the weapon forging workshop.

A large group of Dao Foundation cultivators also flew out of the station, and according to the pre-training, went to the designated position to sit in the array eye. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Dao Foundation cultivators lined up in a long row, extending a thousand zhang. Dozens of Body Forging cultivators worked together to lift a steel cylinder and put it into the array. Ji Liuli checked the array one last time and then started it.

As the array operated, the steel cylinder slowly floated.

Little Wei Yuan came to Zhang Sheng's room door, knocked on the door, and said: "Teacher, it is time for us to go and challenge them."

The door opened, and Zhang Sheng walked out of the room. At this time, his entire temperament had changed, high and ethereal, and he asked lightly: "What does the teacher need to do in this battle?"

"Just show the demeanor of a high person."

(End of chapter)