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Spring passed and winter came. A fine, pattering rain fell within the Grotto-Heaven, carrying a chill.

Many shoot tips had sprouted in the grove of Golden Light Bamboo. Compared with ordinary bamboo shoots, these had emerged especially early thanks to the abundant spiritual energy.

The Jade Ring Rat was in the Spirit Herb Garden, loosening the spiritual soil alongside the Soil-Turning Earthworm.

Fourth-tier spiritual soil was far harder than ordinary spiritual soil. Even though the Jade Ring Rat and Soil-Turning Earthworm had both reached the third tier, loosening it remained exceedingly difficult.

Moreover, with Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng and the supreme metal spiritual material Golden Sun Ganoderma growing in it, the two had to be even more careful.

That slowed their progress further.

Just as they were about to continue, the Jade Ring Rat half-reared up. It looked around in confusion, then at the Soil-Turning Earthworm, before finally fixing its gaze on the spiritual mountain where Ye Jingcheng was in seclusion.

The Soil-Turning Earthworm, however, showed no reaction.

Like the Jade Ring Rat, the Crimson Flame Fox, the Golden-Scaled Beast that had already broken through, and even the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon, now at the peak of the fourth tier, also reacted.

With the help of three Three-Origin Azure Condensation Pills taken in succession, the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon had finally broken through to the peak of the fourth tier four days earlier.

Thanks to its robust foundation, its breakthrough had gone exceptionally smoothly. It had fallen asleep almost the very day it swallowed the Three-Origin Azure Condensation Pills and broken through in less than half a year.

The Crimson Flame Fox, on the other hand, remained some distance from the peak of the fourth tier even after taking and fully digesting a Three-Origin Azure Condensation Pill.

As the beasts puzzled over this,