Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven

The canyon was exceptionally deep and wide. Luo Qing traveled over five hundred li through the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind before exiting the area affected by it.

When Luo Qing stepped into the core of the canyon, he was immediately taken aback.

Surrounded by the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind, the central area, about a hundred li in diameter, was like a fairyland.

Looking around, the ground was covered in spiritual herbs and immortal flowers, with various rare metals and exotic stones scattered like pebbles among them.

Although none of them were high-quality spiritual roots or materials, a thorough sweep could yield enough to refine over a dozen Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

However, despite the allure of the immortal herbs and precious materials, Luo Qing's eyes were firmly fixed on a swirling vortex of wind, about a hundred meters in diameter, at the center of the area.

Both the malevolent energy drifting in the canyon sky and that wisp of Geng Metal aura emanated from this vortex.

"Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven!"

This legendary name appeared in Luo Qing's mind.

Blessed Lands are easy to find, but Grotto-Heavens are hard to come by!

But that was only relatively speaking.

Even in the Primordial World's current period of growth and ascent, small Blessed Lands were extremely rare.

At least, there were none near Hundred Gods Mountain and Five Elements Tribe before.

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

This was because a Grotto-Heaven, with further development, could evolve into a small world.

If one could possess a small world, even if its resources were barren, the benefits it could bring to its owner would be unimaginable.

In later legends, the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, when wielded by Burning Lamp Buddha, evolved into the twenty-four Heavens of Buddhism, becoming Buddhism's supreme foundation.

The Heavens here certainly didn't refer to the celestial realm; in fact, these twenty-four Heavens represented twenty-four small worlds.

Buddhism's rapid rise to prominence, rivaling or even surpassing Daoism, was not unrelated to these twenty-four small worlds.

Luo Qing truly hadn't expected to find a Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven within this wind's eye.

Whether it was a Blessed Land or a Grotto-Heaven would require Luo Qing to enter and investigate.

However, as Luo Qing's Dao Eye swept over it, he frowned.

The entrance to this Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven, that swirling vortex, was covered by a grand formation spanning ten li.

And this formation was no simple one; densely packed Innate Runes covered everything, like a vast cosmic tapestry.

It was more than ten times more rigorous than the grand formation Ancestor Hun Xing had set up at Hundred Gods Mountain.

The person who set up the formation was not hard to imagine; they must have been at least a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Although it was not being actively controlled, the grand formation's power was reduced to less than a tenth of its original strength. Still, it would be difficult to break it in a short time using the Eye of the Great Dao.

Furthermore...

Luo Qing's eyes swept behind him.

About three hundred li away, a Golden Immortal was rapidly approaching.

Four hundred li away, two powerful auras, one from an Immortal and one from a God, were also steadily heading this way.

Clearly, Luo Qing wasn't the only one with a means to withstand the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind.

Luo Qing frowned, time was pressing.

Once the people behind him caught up, a great battle would be inevitable.

Luo Qing didn't fear a fight, but he didn't want to engage in one before even seeing the treasure.

Those who could withstand the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind were not ordinary individuals, and Luo Qing didn't want to take the risk.

"Forget it, with the Five Source Spirit Disk and the Five Elements Spiritual Ring protecting me, as long as I'm careful, this grand formation can't do anything to me."

Luo Qing steadied his resolve.

He didn't bother to collect the spiritual herbs, immortal flowers, or rare metals and exotic stones here. Instead, he turned and plunged into the grand formation at the entrance of the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

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

As soon as he entered the grand formation, immense power pressed down on him.

It was as heavy as a mountain, difficult to resist.

Even with Luo Qing's Golden Immortal cultivation, he immediately fell from the sky, landing somewhat awkwardly on the ground.

"Anti-air!"

Luo Qing muttered, this grand formation had the ability to suppress flight.

As soon as he landed, wind blades like sharp swords shot out from all directions within the formation, slashing towards Luo Qing.

To Luo Qing's pale face, each wind blade possessed the full power of a Golden Immortal's strike.

This was even without the formation master present; if someone were controlling it, each wind blade's power might reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level.

As the wind blades attacked, like Golden Immortals bombarding Luo Qing, the protective shields of the five spirit treasures flickered incessantly, making Luo Qing's heart pound with fear, lest the shields shatter.

Without the protection of Spiritual Treasures, he would likely turn into a pile of minced meat within two breaths.

"I need to pick up the pace!"

Luo Qing thought to himself.

He channeled the power of the Divine Path throughout his body, transforming into a life-sized Chi Wang Divine Body in the blink of an eye.

With the immense pressure bearing down, it was easier to navigate the great formation while manifesting the Divine Body.

Enduring the crushing weight and the Golden Immortal wind blades filling the sky, Luo Qing strode forward, each step covering three meters, rapidly approaching the entrance to the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

An hour later.

Ultimately, with five Spiritual Treasures guarding him, the dense Golden Immortal wind blades couldn't break through the Spiritual Treasure's protective shield.

Luo Qing finally took a step into the vortex of wind at the center of the great formation.

The scene before Luo Qing's eyes shifted, and his figure vanished from within the great formation.

As soon as Luo Qing disappeared, the Golden Immortal behind him, wielding the exotic Wind-Calming Pearl, tumbled out of the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind in a sorry state.

"Damn it, this Bone-Slicing Divine Wind truly has some tricks up its sleeve; even the Wind-Calming Pearl can't completely suppress it!"

Shu Dao Ren cursed repeatedly.

The areas ahead were fine; the Wind-Calming Pearl could maintain stability within a three-zhang radius.

But the closer he got to the core area, the stronger the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind became, and the smaller the range the Wind-Calming Pearl could suppress.

In the end, it was reduced to a mere half-meter diameter, and Shu Dao Ren almost lost his life in there.

"Grotto-Heaven?"

Before Shu Dao Ren could continue cursing, his eyes suddenly widened, a look of shock on his face as he cried out.

With no time to think, a disturbance suddenly came from the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind behind him, and Shu Dao Ren's expression changed.

He instantly burrowed underground, fleeing towards the entrance of the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

The moment he entered the great formation, people from Cangyun Mountain and Wangyue Immortal City rushed into the eye of the wind.

Upon looking around, one would notice that of the two major forces, only about half the people remained, with just over thirty individuals left from each.

Just then, Shu Dao Ren broke through the ground and entered the great formation, immediately triggering the formation's attack and causing a disturbance.

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

The Immortals and gods of the two major forces all wore grim expressions, never expecting that despite the obstruction of the Bone-Slicing Divine Wind, this person had still beaten them to it.

Luo Qing's vision went black then bright, and his body appeared on a vast, boundless landmass.

Behind him was a swirling mass of wind, the entrance and exit of the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

Looking out, his divine sense swept across a thousand miles.

The land was dark and reddish, suffused with an ominous aura, with wisps of malevolent and resentful energy drifting through the air.

It looked nothing like a grotto-heaven or immortal realm; it was as desolate as a ghost realm.

Luo Qing cautiously guarded his surroundings, not retracting the five Spiritual Treasures around him.

From the dense cluster of resentful and malevolent energy he had seen above the Strange Wind Canyon earlier, Luo Qing knew that something had gone seriously wrong within this Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven.

However, he truly hadn't expected that even the land within the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven would be contaminated by such dark and malevolent energies.

Luo Qing, with his Golden Immortal cultivation, could extend his divine sense for a thousand miles, yet he still couldn't see the boundaries of the land.

He opened the Eye of the Great Dao, intending to probe the size of this space and its core location.

As his eyes opened, vast amounts of information from the Great Dao flooded in.

Spanning an area of one hundred thousand li.

This made Luo Qing's expression light up; it was a standard small grotto-heaven.

Blessed Lands were typically no more than ten thousand li in diameter, while grotto-heavens ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of li.

Once it reached the million-li scale, it would be considered a minor world.

However, Luo Qing's joy didn't last long before the subsequent findings made him feel like collapsing.

This small grotto-heaven was on the verge of collapse.

And it was irreversible; within a thousand years at most, this grotto-heaven would vanish into the spatial turbulence.

Luo Qing's mind exploded!

Damn it!

After all the effort it took to find a grotto-heaven, they were telling him it was about to collapse?