After Ye Guangyuan left, Return-to-Zen returned to the secret realm to continue standing guard, and the entire Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven fell quiet once more.
Compared to before, the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven had expanded considerably. Its boundless reaches now stretched beyond even Ye Jingcheng's divine sense.
At the same time, because the grotto-heaven had expanded too quickly, much of its outer reaches remained empty void.
Having advanced several times, and thanks to cultivation through contemplating the star chart, the grotto-heaven could actually generate soil, water, and other things on its own.
But that process could not keep pace with its expansion.
Of course, this was also because the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven was currently focused on upgrading its spiritual veins.
Its five core pure spiritual veins had all reached the high-grade sixth stage.
Even the more unusual lightning, wind, ice, and other special spiritual veins had reached the middle-grade sixth stage.
Precisely because of this, the Cold Jade Spirit was now producing ever more ten-thousand-year cold marrow.
For the Ye Family's members, the current Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven could easily be considered a small blessed land.
Ye Jingcheng also transplanted the bodhi origin soul tea tree beside the main body of the mysterious heaven spirit vine, making it easier for the vine to nurture it.
Compared to before, the mysterious heaven spirit vine's main body had grown a great deal.
Perhaps because it had developed spiritual intelligence, its main body was growing faster than before, and the verdant vitality and spiritual light it gave off had increased enormously.
The spiritual energy of the entire spiritual vein poured toward it, all of it merging into the vine.
The Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven now possessed a seventh-stage spiritual vein, but limitations imposed by the spirit-guiding stones and Spirit-Gathering Formation meant the Ye Family could only raise