"Come to think of it."
An Jing thought to himself, "If the 'Heavenly Punishment Grotto-Heaven' I created is regarded as an independent world, then my very existence is equivalent to the 'Huaixu Divine Tree.'"
"My true body cannot descend in its entirety into the Heavenly Punishment Grotto-Heaven, but my 'True Spirit Blood' has already become the Tianxing Divine Wood of the Tianxing Bitter Realm. In the future, it too will give rise to countless forms of life—what is known as 'Nothingness Born.' It is also an agent of my will, and a form of 'transformation and creation.'"
"If a Heavenly Demon invades my grotto-heaven in the future and destroys the Tianxing Wood, the Array Realm it leaves behind surely will not be eradicated either."
"Because 'I'—that is, the 'Heavenly Dao'—still exist. And with my 'Heavenly Will,' I can send down a second or third Nothingness Born, just like the Candle-Illuminated Undying Tree, or even Little Qi!"
Merely learning of the world within the Ancestral Dragon Scale had already given An Jing some insight, further refining his grasp over his own grotto-heaven. At once, he made up his mind. "Though it is not a grotto-heaven, but the initial Martial Dao Array Realm, I cultivate both immortality and martial arts. In creating the Grotto-Heaven Method, I absolutely cannot give up any chance to perfect it!"
"Then when do we begin?"
The moment the thought arose, An Jing became somewhat impatient. Jin Yanhua smiled. "Originally, there might have been another twenty or thirty years, perhaps forty or fifty, even seventy or eighty. In any case, there was plenty of time. If neither you nor your master were around then, I could simply take Ruhui in."
"But for some reason—perhaps because of the disturbance in the Candle-Illuminated Undying Tree—the circulation of heaven and earth's