Earth-Scale Hall, Spirit Fruit Ripens (Combined Chapter; Thanks to Reckless Pure Painter for the 500-Coin Tip)

Inside the Grotto-Heaven, early spring had arrived, and all manner of spirit flowers and trees were in bloom.

Snow-white Star Pear blossoms, pink peach blossoms, and pale cloud-tea flowers all vied to unfurl their petals.

Thanks to the spiritual light, every flower bloomed with graceful beauty, turning the entire Grotto-Heaven into a riot of color.

Beyond the flowers, crimson clouds hung in the sky without dispersing, occasionally shedding five-colored spirit rain.

In the spirit lake, Jade Lotus leaves gleamed a lush green, while Black Ganoderma Fish, Red-Node Fish, and Star-Eating Fish darted among them.

Clusters of Moon Spirit Clams shone like stars across the lakebed.

Farther away, a grove of Golden Light Bamboo glittered as Thunder Rhinoceros Beetles and Five Poison Bees flew through it. Ye Jingcheng could not help staring.

Before he knew it, his Grotto-Heaven had become a paradise beyond the world.

Joy welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Three years in seclusion had been dull, even torturous for Ye Jingcheng. He had never liked that kind of silent retreat.

Some pill toxins had also accumulated in his body. After all, besides drawing strength through Beast Communion with his spirit beasts, he had taken plenty of spirit pills himself to speed up his cultivation.

But now, faced with this dazzling sight and the joy of his breakthrough, the gloom in his heart was swept clean.

If cultivation could be like this, what more could he ask for?

"Roar!" As Ye Jingcheng continued admiring the Grotto-Heaven, the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon grew impatient.

It opened its jaws wide, exposing its enormous throat. Thick saliva pooled inside its maw, welling up like water from a spring.

While Ye Jingcheng had been in seclusion, it could still eat Flesh Ganoderma and spirit fish.

But there had never been enough.

Nor