Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven

This canyon was exceptionally vast and deep. Luo Qing traveled more than five hundred miles through the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind before finally leaving the Bone-Scraping Wind region.

When Luo Qing stepped into the canyon's central area, he was instantly dumbfounded.

Surrounded by the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind, the central region—roughly a hundred miles across—was like a fairyland.

Looking around, spiritual herbs and immortal flowers covered the ground, while all kinds of strange metals and exotic stones were scattered among the flowers and plants like ordinary rubble.

Although none of them were particularly high-grade Spiritual Roots or spiritual materials, a thorough search would be enough to refine more than a dozen Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

The immortal herbs and precious materials were certainly good, but Luo Qing's eyes were firmly drawn to a ball of wind a hundred meters in diameter at the center of the region.

Whether it was the baleful aura drifting above the canyon or that wisp of Gengjin aura, everything came from this ball of wind.

"Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven!"

This legendary name appeared in Luo Qing's mind.

Blessed Lands were easy to find, but Grotto-Heavens were hard to seek!

But that was only relative.

The Primordial World was currently in a period of growth, yet even Small Blessed Lands were exceedingly rare.

At least, there had been nothing like this near Hundred Gods Mountain or the Five Elements Tribe.

Compared with Blessed Lands, Grotto-Heavens were even more precious.

That was because a Grotto-Heaven could develop further and transform into a Small World.

If one could possess a Small World, then even if the resources within it were poor, the benefits it could bring its owner would still be unimaginable.

According to later legends, the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls evolved into the twenty-four Buddhist heavens and Buddha realms in the hands of Burning Lamp Buddha, becoming Buddhism's supreme foundation.

The heavens certainly could not have been the Heavenly Realm. In truth, these twenty-four heavens referred to twenty-four Small Thousand Worlds.

The fact that Buddhism flourished greatly in a short period and rivaled or even surpassed the Daoist Sect was not unrelated to these twenty-four Small Worlds.

Luo Qing truly had not expected to discover a Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven in this wind eye.

Whether it was a Blessed Land or a Grotto-Heaven, he would have to enter and investigate to find out.

However, Luo Qing swept the area with his Dao Eye and frowned.

The entrance to this Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven—the entire ten-mile area around that ball of wind—was enveloped by a great array.

Moreover, this array was no simple one. Innumerable Innate Runes formed a myriad of phenomena.

It was more than ten times more intricate than the great array Ancestor Hun Xing had once established at Hundred Gods Mountain.

The person who had set up the array was easy to guess. He had to be at least a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Though no one was controlling it and less than a tenth of the array's power remained, cracking it with the Eye of the Great Dao in a short time would still be difficult.

And besides...

Luo Qing swept his eyes behind him.

Three hundred miles away, a Golden Immortal was rapidly approaching.

Four hundred miles away, two dense auras of the Immortal and Divine Paths were also heading this way unhurriedly.

Clearly, Luo Qing was not the only one with a way to resist the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind.

Luo Qing frowned. Time was pressing.

Once the people behind him caught up, a fierce battle would be unavoidable.

Luo Qing was not afraid of fighting, but he did not want to battle before even seeing the treasures.

Anyone capable of resisting the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind and making it here was no easy opponent. Luo Qing did not want to take the risk.

"Forget it. With the Sourceless Spirit Disk and Five Elements Spiritual Ring protecting me, this array still can't do anything to me as long as I'm careful."

Luo Qing steadied his mind.

He did not plunder the spiritual herbs, immortal flowers, or exotic treasures and strange stones here. Instead, he turned and plunged into the great array at the entrance to the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

The Five Source Spirit Disk hovered above his head. Luo Qing held the Fire Spirit Ring, while the other four spiritual rings stood in the four directions, protecting him within.

The instant he entered the great array, a force weighing ten thousand jun descended upon him.

It was as heavy as mountains and incredibly difficult to resist.

Even with Luo Qing's Golden Immortal cultivation, he immediately fell from the air and landed on the ground in a sorry state.

"Flight restriction!"

Luo Qing muttered. This great array possessed the power to prohibit flight.

The moment he landed, wind blades like sharp swords shot toward him from all directions within the array.

What made Luo Qing's face pale was that every wind blade possessed the might of a full-force strike from a Golden Immortal.

And this was with no one controlling the array. If someone were directing it, each wind blade might possess the power of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Wind blades came at him one after another, like countless Golden Immortals bombarding Luo Qing in a frenzy.

The protective barriers of the five Divine Treasures flickered incessantly, making Luo Qing's heart pound with fear that they might shatter.

Without the Divine Treasures protecting him, he would probably turn into a pile of minced meat in two breaths.

"I have to speed up!"

Luo Qing muttered inwardly.

Divine Dao power surged through his entire body, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a Crimson King Divine Body standing as tall as a man.

Under the suppression of the force weighing ten thousand jun, displaying his Divine Body made it easier to move through the great array.

Bearing the ten-thousand-jun weight and the Golden Immortal wind blades filling the sky, Luo Qing strode forward three meters at a time, rapidly heading toward the entrance to the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

An hour later.

With five Divine Treasures protecting him, the dense Golden Immortal wind blades ultimately failed to break through the treasure barrier.

Luo Qing finally stepped into the ball of wind at the center of the great array.

The scene before Luo Qing's eyes changed, and his figure instantly vanished from within the great array.

Just as Luo Qing disappeared, the Divine Golden Immortal behind him, holding the strange treasure Wind-Calming Pearl, stumbled out of the Bone-Scraping Wind in a thoroughly battered state.

"Damn it! This Bone-Scraping Wind truly has some tricks. Even the Wind-Calming Pearl can't suppress it completely!"

Shu Dao Ren cursed repeatedly.

The region ahead had been fine, and the Wind-Calming Pearl could stabilize a three-zhang area around him.

But the closer he got to the central region, the stronger the Bone-Scraping Wind became, and the smaller the area the Wind-Calming Pearl could suppress.

In the end, only a mere half-meter radius remained, and Shu Dao Ren had nearly lost his life inside.

"A Grotto-Heaven?"

Before Shu Dao Ren could continue cursing, his eyes suddenly widened in fury. He cried out in shock at the astonishing sight before him.

Before he had time to think, strange movement suddenly came from the Bone-Scraping Wind behind him. Shu Dao Ren's expression changed.

He instantly fled underground, heading toward the entrance to the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

Just after he entered the great array, people from Cangyun Mountain and Wangyue Immortal City hurriedly charged into the wind eye.

Yet with one look, it was obvious that the people from the two great forces had been reduced by roughly half compared with when they came. Each side had only a little over thirty people remaining.

At that moment, Shu Dao Ren burst into the great array from underground, immediately triggering its attacks and causing a disturbance.

"Not good! That thief got ahead of us!"

The many immortals and gods from the two great forces all wore ugly expressions. They had never expected that despite the Bone-Scraping Wind blocking the way, this man had still beaten them here.

Luo Qing's vision went black and then brightened, and his body had already appeared upon a vast, boundless Earth Continent.

Behind him was a ball of wind—the entrance to and exit from the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

Looking around and sweeping his divine sense across a thousand miles, he saw that the earth was a dark reddish-black.

An ominous aura was thick in the air, while wisps of fierce baleful and resentful energy drifted through the sky.

There was no trace of a Grotto-Heaven fairyland. The place was as desolate and ghastly as a realm of ghosts.

Luo Qing cautiously guarded against all directions, leaving the five Divine Treasures around him unsheathed.

From the dense masses of resentful and baleful aura above Strange Wind Canyon, Luo Qing had known that something serious must have gone wrong inside this Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

But he truly had not expected that even the land within the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven would have been tainted by various dark and baleful energies.

With his Golden Immortal cultivation, Luo Qing's divine sense could reach a thousand miles, yet he still could not see the edge of the land.

Luo Qing opened the Eye of the Great Dao, intending to investigate the size of this space and locate its core.

The instant his eye opened, vast streams of information about the Great Dao surged toward him.

It was a hundred thousand miles across.

Luo Qing's expression brightened with delight. This was a standard small Grotto-Heaven.

A Blessed Land was generally no more than ten thousand miles in diameter, while a Grotto-Heaven ranged from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand miles.

Once it reached the million-mile level, it would become a Small Thousand World.

However, Luo Qing's delight did not last long before the situation he discovered next nearly shattered his composure.

This small Grotto-Heaven was already on the verge of collapse.

Moreover, it was beyond saving. At most a thousand years from now, this Grotto-Heaven would vanish into the Space Turbulence.

Luo Qing's mind exploded.

Damn it!

I had finally discovered a Grotto-Heaven, and you're telling me it's about to collapse?