Within the Grotto-Heaven, bright sunlight bathed the entire space in warmth.
The golden stalks of golden light bamboo were also growing splendidly.
The Jade Ring Rat continued tending the spirit fields. Both the fourth-tier primordial unity star-forging fruit tree and the fortune-longevity tea tree were planted in fourth-tier spirit soil.
This spirit soil was extremely hard, and the Jade Ring Rat often needed nearly an hour just to loosen a little of it.
Most of the time, the Soil-Turning Earthworm handled the work.
The Soil-Turning Earthworm occasionally raised its head to look at the Jade Ring Rat.
Though its impassive face, whose features were difficult to make out, never spoke a word,
it still made the Jade Ring Rat pause, flap its ring-shaped ears, and bare its large front teeth.
"Squeak!" Though the Jade Ring Rat could already speak, it always communicated with the Soil-Turning Earthworm through soul thoughts. After all, even at the Purple Palace stage, the Soil-Turning Earthworm still struggled to speak fluently.
Its meaning was quite clear: loosening this fourth-tier spirit soil was a real challenge for it.
With every little improvement, it could eat the spirit pills Ye Jingcheng gave it with a clear conscience, then look forward to its next breakthrough.
Its gaze could not help drifting toward the Golden-Scaled Beast. It reckoned the beast was close to completing another advancement, and inside the Heavenly Gang Body-Tempering Array, the beast was challenging its limits again and again.
It still had a long way to go compared with the Golden-Scaled Beast.
With that, it began loosening the spirit soil again. The expansion of the Spirit Herb Garden benefited it too.
Previously, there had been few spirit herbs and little spirit soil, and the Soil-Turning Earthworm alone had been enough.
Now things were just right. To it,