Processing the Grotto-Heaven

When Gu Jinlai first sent the message to Yu Xu, Yu Xu didn't believe that such a good thing could happen.

However, he repeated himself to himself, his words resolute. In addition, Yu Xu remembered Jiang Yujian's instructions and worried that Gu Jinlai had fallen into the hands of the Red Cloud Sect. Therefore, with the idea that he had to rescue him no matter what, he returned to Baihe City.

He had prepared himself to die along the way.

Therefore, as he charged into Baihe City on his sword, he let out a long roar, "If the Red Cloud Sect dares to do anything to harm the Daoist of my Creation Sect, my Creation Sect will fight the Red Cloud Sect to the death..."

Result...

What appeared before him was the image of cultivators at the Void Returning and Primordial Spirit Realms Gu Jinlai directing them to organize the Red Cloud Sect's resources, repair and control this grotto-heaven.

As for the Red Cloud Sect, not to mention that supreme True Immortal, not even a single elder or protector remained.

Baihe City, which had repelled the encirclement and suppression by a coalition of sixteen forces including the Heavenly Fire Sect, the Dragon Sword Sect, and the Wind and Rain Pavilion, and had tens of millions of citizens, was actually led entirely by this Mahayana Gu Jinlai, with everyone performing their duties under his command!

This scene stunned Yu Xu.

"Elder Yu, you've arrived! That's wonderful! Quickly, come and help me. I'm not very familiar with the cave heaven. Can you tell me how to stabilize it and prevent it from collapsing further?"

Upon Gu Jinlai immediately greeted him.

"How... how could this be..."

Yu Xu stared at Gu Jinlai, who was busy at work, and was stunned for a long time.

"Surprised? I was surprised too, but I've already told you the reason. We benefited from that Immortal Lord's influence. I can only say that our Creation Sect's luck has arrived."

Gu Jinlai, urging, "Let's stabilize the cave first. The people of the Red Cloud Sect have almost finished repairing this cave. If it weren't for their lack of spiritual energy, the cave would already be operational."

"That really happened..."

Yu Xu felt as if the whole world had become unreal.

It took him a while to barely accept the fact that his Daoist had "picked up" a grotto-heaven for free.

Only...

"How did you convince the people of Baihe City to cooperate with you?"

Yu Xu said.

Mahayana saints...

Its influence is clearly insufficient.

"Baihe City has been persecuted by the Hongyun Sect during this period, and everyone is eager to restore peace to Baihe City. As a Daoist of the Creation Sect, I promised them that I would be willing to incorporate them into the Creation Sect system. Everyone was overjoyed and eager to do so. Look, everyone is now rebuilding their homes under my guidance."

This Gu Jinlai.

Yu Xu glanced at the many cultivators who were indeed cooperating with Gu Jinlai rebuild Baihe City...

Well, that's the only explanation.

After all, their Creation Sect is one of the three medium-sized forces in the Flame River Dao, and they still have some influence.

"Quickly summon the other elders and protectors. Also, immediately send a message to Elder Ye that our Creation Sect has gained a new grotto-heaven... Although Zi Ruyan and the others said in their previous meeting that whoever controls the resources in this siege battle will own them, strictly speaking, our Creation Sect has gotten a bargain. I expect there will be some disputes over this matter."

Gu Jinlai, he said cautiously, "I'm afraid only the personal intervention of Elder Ye can quell the upcoming turmoil."

Yu Xu nodded solemnly. "I'll send the message right away."

After a moment, he thought of something else, "I'm afraid our Creation Sect alone can't defend White River City. We also need to contact Cloud Soaring Sect and Nine Refinement Pavilion."

"Elder Yu, please make the arrangements."

This Gu Jinlai.

The Cloud Soaring Sect and the Nine Refinement Pavilion are both forces that are on good terms with the Creation Sect.

The Cloud Soaring Sect, in particular, is practically an ally of the Creation Sect.

Because the founder of the Yunxiao Sect was originally from the Creation Sect.

Back then, the Creation Sect was full of talented people, but there were no Celestial Immortals at that time, and not enough territory to allocate to each True Immortal. Therefore, they could only give those True Immortals certain resources and let them go out to explore, to see if they could seize Spirit Vein and establish their own grotto heavens.

The Cloud Soaring Sect is a force that rose to prominence by splitting off from the Creation Sect three thousand years ago.

To this day, the Cloud Soaring Sect has nine True Immortals, far surpassing the Creation Sect in terms of the number of True Immortals.

Of course, the Creation Sect has the Heavenly Dao. Even if the Cloud Soaring Sect only has nine True Immortals, let alone double that number, the Creation Heavenly Dao can suppress them all.

This can be seen from the fact that after Crimson True Immortal activated the Flame Heavenly Dao, he swiftly and decisively defeated the combined forces of the Heavenly Fire Sect and other major forces.

In less than half a day, the other elders of the Creation Sect arrived with the Mahayana Saints.

While they were all astonished by the incredible luck of the Gu Jinlai, they quickly joined in the repair and maintenance of the Red Cloud Sect's grotto-heaven.

As night fell, Yun Zhenzhen, the True Immortal of the Yunxiao Sect, and his men arrived in Baihe City.

Since True Immortal Yun Zhen had long sensed that True Immortal Fei Hong was acting strangely, and had been hiding in the back during the siege of Hongyun Sect, seemingly just going through the motions, coupled with his own strength as a high-level True Immortal, he was fortunate enough to survive.

Looking at the Creation Gate, which had been renovated to a barely usable state, and having learned some of the process from the communication, True Immortal Yun Zhen's eyes were filled with disbelief. "This luck... is just too good, it's practically like getting a cave heaven for free."

"Besides cave heaven stones and materials of the five elements, the most important thing for building a cave heaven is to have Spirit Vein. Only Spirit Vein can support the normal operation of a cave heaven, and only then can the cave heaven have the ability to attract spiritual energy and ultimately nurture the Heavenly Dao."

The other Cloud Soaring Sect elders who came with him also sighed, "But in today's world, all the Spirit Vein have owners. Some Spirit Vein that seem to be ownerless are actually disputed areas left over from the power struggles of various forces. For example, White River City is actually a window set up by the Heavenly Fire Sect in the center of the Flame River Road for foreign trade... This is why the Heavenly Fire Sect immediately sent people to attack when the Red Cloud Sect occupied White River City. Now that White River City has fallen into the hands of the Creation Sect... Tsk tsk, this is a great achievement in expanding territory."

"You flatter me, you flatter me."

Gu Jinlai, Yu Xu, and others responded with smiles and clasped hands.

At the same time, he gained a new understanding of the barrenness of the Xuanxian Realm.

In the realm of immortals, every true immortal can build a grotto-heaven, and as long as they have the resources, they can build their grotto-heaven wherever they want.

In the Xuanxian Realm...

It turns out that we have to rely entirely on the Spirit Vein.

Different environments indeed have different effects on the cultivation world.

After Yun Zhenzhen and the others arrived, they quickly joined in the maintenance of Baihe City.

The most important of these is to set up a Dao Beacon Formation that can draw upon the power of the Heavenly Dao.

Although the Creation Heavenly Dao is a supplementary Heavenly Dao, since it is Heavenly Dao, it inherently has a suppressive effect on the Dao Fruits of other True Immortals.

It's just that the suppression effect is somewhat less effective compared to the amplification or weakening effects of the Heavenly Dao.

The formation was set up very quickly, especially when the second batch of ten elders from the Creation Sect arrived with many protectors and disciples, the progress increased exponentially.

However, the problems they face are equally serious.

Soon, Gu Jinlai arrived at a conference room led by Yu Xu.

When he arrived, several elders, including Yunzhen Zhenxian from the Yunxiao Sect, were already there exchanging information.

Gu Jinlai stepped into the conference room, the one speaking was none other than True Immortal Yun Zhen: "If you are all willing to give this cave heaven to our Yunxiao Sect, our Yunxiao Sect is willing to provide one hundred Dao artifacts or one hundred thousand sets of top-grade materials similar to Immortal Refined Gold to support the Creation Sect."

"Dongtian is the foundation of any sect. The strength of a sect can often be seen from the number of Dongtian. Only by possessing Dongtian can one hope to nurture celestial immortals. Therefore, our Creation Sect will not sell such precious Dongtian."

The one who responded was Ye Yunguang, one of the newly arrived elders from the Creation Sect.

Hearing his words, True Immortal Yunzhen became somewhat anxious. "Since the great upheaval of the Creation Sect decades ago, no True Immortal has been born yet. For ordinary immortals, or even True Immortals who have just broken through, the use of the cave heaven is far less than that of the top True Immortals and peak True Immortals who are prepared to become Celestial Immortals. So, what's wrong with you selling your cave heavens to our Cloud Soaring Sect?"

After saying that, he added, "Our Cloud Soaring Sect and the Creation Sect are originally one family, so why make such a clear distinction?"

"Since the two families are originally one, Immortal Yunzhen, let's not bring up this topic."

Another elder from the Creation Sect said.

"The interests of a cave heaven will not be easily relinquished by the Heavenly Fire Sect, the Dragon Sword Sect, or the Wind and Rain Pavilion. Moreover, Baihe City is not very close to the Creation Gate. Even if True Immortal Ye personally intervenes to project the power of the Creation Heavenly Dao, he can only suppress the other True Immortals by one or two minor ranks. Under such circumstances, True Immortal Ye of your Creation Gate alone may not be able to defend this cave heaven."

"Immortal Yunzhen said loudly."

"There's no need for True Immortal Yun Zhen to worry about that. Zi Ruyan of the Heavenly Fire Sect made it clear before the war that whoever occupies a certain territory will be in charge of it. The Heavenly Fire Sect wouldn't ruin its reputation for the sake of a mere cave."

Ye Yunguang said.

"If Baihe City was truly conquered by the Creation Sect through its own strength, the Heavenly Fire Sect naturally wouldn't say anything. But we all know the truth. Do you think the Heavenly Fire Sect will easily admit to this? They might even have to take action in the end!"

Yun Zhenzhen, the True Immortal, expressed his dissatisfaction.

Seeing that the two sides were arguing endlessly, Yu Xu, who had just entered, suddenly said, "Since you all can't reach an agreement, why don't you listen to the opinion of Daoist Jiang Yufeng?"

Upon seeing this, Ye Yunguang frowned. "This matter concerns the sect's development for the next hundred years. Jiang Yufeng is only a Mahayana. What are you doing bringing him here? This is ridiculous."

"Elder Ye, you are mistaken. The first person to enter Baihe City and take control of the Baihe City Grotto-heaven was Daozi. According to the agreement we sixteen major forces made before besieging the Red Cloud Sect, Daozi is the true master of Baihe City and this Grotto-heaven. If he is not qualified to deal with this Grotto-heaven, then who is?"

Yu Xu said.

"That's not what I meant. But he's only at the Mahayana Realm, and he hasn't been with our Creation Sect for very long. He doesn't know much about our Creation Sect. I'm just worried that he might make some wrong decisions."

Ye Yunguang said.

"Alright, I think Daozi is naturally capable of making his own accurate judgment."

As Yu Xu spoke, he turned to Gu Jinlai and said, "Tell me your opinion."

My view is very simple.

Gu Jinlai said, "It is more appropriate for the Yunxiao Sect to take over the cave heaven than for our Creation Sect."