Inside the Grotto-Heaven, golden dawn light spilled down, bathing the entire realm in splendor.
Ye Jingcheng looked around from the mountaintop, as though gazing down over an unbroken range of mountains like the Taihang Mountain Range.
Compared with before, the Grotto-Heaven had grown far larger and richer.
Spirit Herb Gardens, spirit lakes, grasslands, sandy terrain, bamboo groves, rivers—everything found in the outside world could now be found within the Grotto-Heaven.
Countless spirit herbs shone with treasure light, and there were even two fifth-stage spirit fruit trees: a crimson spirit heavenly apricot fruit tree and a vine-origin star-tempered fruit tree.
The former was merely a vivid crimson, without even a hint of flowering, but the latter star-tempering fruit tree, nourished continuously over the past two years with spirit spring water from the Blood Spring, had already begun showing signs of bearing fruit.
The faint outlines of young fruits could be seen hanging from its branches.
Once these star-tempering fruits ripened, Ye Jingcheng's body cultivation would be certain to reach the Golden Core peak, or even the Nascent Soul early stage.
Beside the spirit fruit trees, the manifested spirit form of the nine-bend spirit ginseng darted about.
The Ye Family had three portions of nine-bend origin ginseng in total. One had been cultivated from the roots of the nine-bend spirit ginseng the family had obtained, while another had been gifted by the Azure Spirit Commerce Association in the Zhao Kingdom. The latter was the poorest in quality, and he had used it to refine his first batch of Infant Transformation Pills.
The final shape-shifting spirit herb had been obtained in the Eastern Wasteland Archipelago. It was the finest of them all, with enough material for two batches of Infant Transformation Pills, and its medicinal potency was likely far greater as well. Since