After dreaming deeply for three days, Ji An woke and pushed open the door. The bright moon had just risen, and the light filtering through the leaves lay like a layer of white frost.
He strolled outside, slightly raised his head, and gazed at that radiant jade plate.
Moonlight shone into the Gourd World, yet the full moon lay beyond the world itself. Though the small world's sky was far broader than it had been years ago, it was only a little over five thousand zhang high—far from a heaven so high and earth so vast.
Although the small world now had day and night and the changes of the four seasons, it was still far from evolving into the miniature cosmos of an Inner Scenery World.
He let out a soft breath and murmured to himself:
"Cave heaven, cave heaven... what exactly is the power of a cave heaven?"
Having witnessed the vastness of the Vast Sea Realm, he realized that in the eyes of those Cave Heaven Star Lords, he was likely no different from an ant.
That boundless water world was probably even somewhat larger than the planet he had left behind. Back then, a sense of his own smallness had arisen in his heart.
After sighing, a few more traces of resolve appeared in Ji An's eyes. The road ahead was still long. A cave heaven was his current grand goal, while his medium-term goal was to raise his cultivation to the Three Flowers Realm Late Stage.
As for his smaller goals, there were many: raising the grades of his spirit trees, cultivating better spiritual rice, nurturing Fifth-Tier Mid-Grade Yin Yang Spirit Fire, and so on.
He wandered out of the house and arrived beneath the Gathering Origin Tree. A faint fragrance drifted on the wind,