Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1681: Chapter 903: Stone Spirit Recognizes Its Master, Tianyunzi Achieves Breakthrough (Part 3)

They carried numerous supplies and headed towards the earth below, beginning to search for a foothold while seeking opportunities.

The hundreds or thousands of years after the opening of the Grotto Heaven marked a special stage where treasures were abundant and opportunities plentiful.

As the first group of "lucky ones" to enter the Grotto Heaven, they undoubtedly stepped into a Barbaric land filled with countless treasures and opportunities.

Whoever is fortunate enough to encounter a major opportunity can often soar to great heights, with a limitless path ahead.

Many similar legendary stories are recorded in the clan’s history, with more than twenty Returning to Void elder as the best proof.

As the sky gradually darkened, Zhao Yu Yan suddenly woke from his worries, realizing that only a dozen people were left inside the Treasure Ship.

Zhao Yu Yan calmed himself and slowly stood up, then walked towards the Transmission Array.

A few breaths later, the Transmission Array erupted with a surge of magnificent waves.

As the white light shot skywards, Zhao Yu Yan felt a whirlwind sensation.

Once he regained his footing, he found ancient trees towering around him, with thick vines like dragon-like beasts hanging down and the ground covered with rare and exquisite flowers and mushrooms.

Looking around, there was a thin mist between the woods, the mist was somewhat moist with a hint of a rotten smell, and instantly a wild and barbaric breath of life rushed forth.

Apart from that, the spiritual energy here was exceptionally rich, almost comparable to a Fifth-order Spiritual Vein.

Zhao Yu Yan pursed his lips, feeling both surprised and delighted.

The next moment, a layer of bright yellow light suddenly rose around him, transforming into a transparent Light Shield that protected him.

Then, with a thought, a golden Flowing Light suddenly flew out from within his body.

Flowing Light circled around a hundred feet three times before hovering above, transforming into a three-inch-long golden flying sword.

Only then did Zhao Yu Yan finally breathe a sigh of relief, his Divine Thought quietly expanding in all directions.

In an instant, everything within a hundred miles came into view.

To his surprise, there was a peak over four hundred feet high standing deep within the endless jungle, which was quite conspicuous.

Zhao Yu Yan naturally noticed that peak. He immediately decided to make it his first foothold.

Destiny is unpredictable, and the world is uncertain!

At this moment, no one knew that Zhao Yu Yan’s fate began to change the moment he saw that mountain.

...

Time is like a river, continuously flowing towards the unknown future.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed.

Throughout these years, human footprints gradually appeared across the five continents, with some small settlements being established one after another.

Humans are social animals, and when faced with unknown and dangerous natural environments, some tend to cling together for safety.

Of course, many cultivators chose to cultivate alone, like Zhao Yu Yan who accidentally entered the Treasure Mountain.

At the time, when he serendipitously reached the "Treasure Mountain," he immediately discovered the environment here was very special, with the surrounding Earth Element Spiritual Qi incredibly abundant.

Zhao Yu Yan did not need to cultivate at all; the Spiritual Qi around would actively swarm into his body.

Soon after, he joyfully discovered that the God Transformation Barrier had loosened a bit more.

After seven days and nights of tireless cultivation, Zhao Yu Yan astonishingly found that the God Transformation Barrier that hindered him for years had mysteriously disappeared.

That day, he released the constraints on his spirit, and the mana within him began to boil and surge, swiftly propelling to a higher energy level.

Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul in the Purple Mansion Soul Sea began rapidly transforming into a Primordial Spirit.

What surprised him greatly was that the Divinity Transformation Thunder Tribulation was abnormally weak, allowing Zhao Yu Yan to effortlessly withstand three waves of tribulation thunder and smoothly break through to the Divinity Transformation Realm.

Compared to the outside, the thunder tribulation of the Five Elements Cave Heaven was weakened deliberately by at least tenfold.

Zhao Yu Yan quickly realized this was a "benefit" given to them by the Four Ancestors; when breaking through to Returning to Void, there would be no such advantage.

The truth indeed was, the Five Elements Cave Heaven could almost be considered a Constant Sand World, with its allowed upper limit being a Divinity Transformation True Monarch.

For those like Zhao Yu Yan, if they wish to advance to Returning to Void, they have to head to the Taiyi Spirit Realm to experience the terrifying Spirit Realm Thunder Tribulation.

In just a few decades, the Five Elements Cave Heaven produced seven Divinity Transformation True Monarchs, one hundred and four Nascent Soul cultivators, and three hundred and nineteen Golden Core Masters.

Even those cultivators who did not break through major realms greatly advanced in their cultivation.

Nearly seventy percent of the cultivators were lucky to encounter certain opportunities or inadvertently picked up Ancient Magical Treasures, or dug out high-level Rare Items from the ground, and some even obtained rare Cultivation Methods.

Of course, there were also thirty or so unlucky souls who perished due to various accidents.

All of this was witnessed by Zhao Sheng, who had no intention of interfering with their destinies, nor of favoring any particular person.

He seemed to become the Heavenly Dao of this realm, observing the joys and sorrows of all beings while watching the rules and changes of the world’s operation.

Among everyone, Zhao Yu Yan was not the most special, nor the most fortunate. He was merely the first to climb the "Inverted Mountain."

There was not just one "Inverted Mountain" on the Yu Zhou Continent, but rather dozens of them.

...

After the ninth successful transaction, Zhao Sheng watched the black-cloaked stranger leave.

At that moment, he was about to return to the Lower Realm when Stone Spirit suddenly called out to him.

"Wait a moment!"

Zhao Sheng turned to Stone Spirit and asked, "Stone Spirit, what’s the matter?"

Stone Spirit floated in front of him, its red eyes flickering intensely, as if hiding some indecisive concerns.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng was quite surprised because Stone Spirit was always straightforward, and anything that made it hesitate must be something significant.