Chapter 47: Opening the Grotto-Heaven

After gaining a preliminary understanding of the Earth Immortal inheritance!

Ye Qingxuan suppressed the excitement in his heart, closed his eyes tightly, and began to sift through the information received in his mind for anything related to Grotto-heavens and Blessed Lands.

He quickly found the secret method for refining the World Bead and the method for opening a Grotto-heaven Blessed Land.

According to the information in the Earth Immortal inheritance, the opening of a Blessed Land was largely similar to a Blessed Cultivator contracting a spiritual land, with no significant difference.

As for opening a Grotto-heaven, it was the same as a Blessed Cultivator contracting a Blessed Land; it required separating a portion of one's Essence, Qi, and Spirit origin to merge into the World Bead. This was the key to controlling a Grotto-heaven Blessed Land.

As the carrier of the Earth Immortal inheritance, the World Bead had long since been modified by the powerful being who left the inheritance behind.

Ye Qingxuan only needed to follow the secret method to refine the World Bead, merge his own Essence, Qi, and Spirit origin into it, and then strike the World Bead into a spatial node.

After understanding this information, Ye Qingxuan's brow furrowed!

His first step in opening a Blessed Land—using his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, to contract the Blessed Land in his stead—had already deviated from the orthodox path of Earth Immortal cultivation.

He wondered if this would have any negative impact on his future cultivation of the Earth Immortal Dao.

Furthermore, he did not particularly want to follow the traditional Earth Immortal Dao.

While the traditional path provided immense help to cultivators, the karmic shackles in the later stages were equally massive.

In the later stages, the connection between the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land and the cultivator would grow deeper and deeper, potentially becoming a weakness for the cultivator themselves. This was not what Ye Qingxuan wanted.

Lost in thought, Ye Qingxuan recalled his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, and the World Bead within his mind. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he said hesitantly

"Should I... give it a try?"

The sudden thought lingered in his mind, echoing incessantly.

After only a moment, Ye Qingxuan steeled his resolve. With a look of determination in his eyes, he muttered to himself

"Since it's already gone off the rails from the start, I might as well go even further!"

Having made his decision!

After using the secret method from the Earth Immortal inheritance to refine the World Bead within his mental space, Ye Qingxuan turned his gaze toward his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle. With a thought, the Eternal Turtle instantly vanished from his mind.

"Hahaha, it actually works!"

The first step went very smoothly. Even with Ye Qingxuan's steady personality, he could not help but lose his composure for a moment.

As his divine sense flooded into the World Bead, he saw that in the center of the World Bead's grey, misty space sat his missing natal clone, the Eternal Turtle.

He intended to use the Eternal Turtle to carry the Grotto-heaven, allowing his natal clone to merge completely with the Grotto-heaven, thereby gaining control over the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land.

If successful, based on the characteristics of the Eternal Turtle after contracting a Blessed Land, he could completely evade the karma of the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land—remaining on the outside while enjoying all the benefits it provided.

When the time came for the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land to merge and evolve into a Small Thousand World, he would essentially possess an additional Small Thousand World as his natal clone.

Moreover, it would be a world-clone possessing the unique properties of the Eternal Turtle, capable of completely shielding him from the myriad karmic consequences generated by the world.

Thinking of the future prospects, Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath. With a sense of trepidation, he cautiously manipulated the World Bead, attempting to pull it out of his mental space.

Amidst his nervous tension, the World Bead instantly appeared in his palm in the next moment.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan beamed with joy and breathed a sigh of relief

"As expected, with the World Bead acting as a buffer, the Eternal Turtle did not suffer external pressure this time!"

After taking out the World Bead, Ye Qingxuan began to control the Eternal Turtle to release its own origin. Using the Earth Immortal secret method, he allowed the Eternal Turtle's origin to continuously merge with the World Bead, preparing for the turtle's integration into the Grotto-heaven!

Having smoothly completed the preliminary steps, the next task was to strike the World Bead into a spatial node.

Normally, with his current cultivation level, Ye Qingxuan would not be able to achieve this. However, since he had now become a Blessed Cultivator, the Qingxuan Blessed Land he controlled was currently situated within the inner space of the Earth-Mystic Realm.

Within the inner space of the Earth-Mystic Realm, many spatial nodes existed near the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

These spatial nodes were actually channels through which the inner space of the Earth-Mystic Realm absorbed external chaotic energy, and chaotic energy was the key to the continuous growth of a Grotto-heaven.

After controlling the Qingxuan Blessed Land and sensing a large spatial node, Ye Qingxuan swiftly threw out the World Bead, using the power of the Blessed Land to propel the bead through the land into that spatial node.

Once the World Bead was successfully cast into the spatial node, Ye Qingxuan immediately activated the secret method to awaken it.

Within the World Bead, there were mechanisms left by the powerful being of the Earth Immortal inheritance that allowed it to open a Grotto-heaven on its own.

Otherwise, with Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation, even with the help of the World Bead, he would not have been enough to open a complete Grotto-heaven.

The activated World Bead began to rampagingly devour the chaotic energy outside the spatial node, accumulating energy to open the Grotto-heaven.

Meanwhile, under Ye Qingxuan's deliberate manipulation, his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, began to shift its form and merge with the World Bead.

Seeing that everything was proceeding according to plan, Ye Qingxuan finally breathed a sigh of relief

"Everything is going smoothly. Now I just have to wait for enough energy to accumulate to open the Grotto-heaven!"

According to his perception, he would likely need to wait for three months.

During this time, he did not intend to do anything else. With the opening of the Grotto-heaven imminent, he had no heart for other matters.

After taking out a transmission talisman to send messages to Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu outside the Blessed Land, instructing them to build their own dwellings outside the land, Ye Qingxuan began to carefully investigate the Earth Immortal inheritance in his mind.

Although the inheritance from below the Immortal Realm had already merged into his mind, there was simply too much information; he needed time to absorb and digest it.

The first thing Ye Qingxuan searched for was the Earth Immortal cultivation technique.

The result: nothing!

It wasn't that there were none, but rather that Earth Immortal cultivation techniques were extremely unique and essentially varied from person to person.

The cultivation techniques of the Earth Immortal Dao required the Earth Immortal practitioner to realize them personally!

That's right—realization through one's own effort, derived from the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land they had opened!

In the Earth Immortal inheritance, the "cultivation technique" was merely a set of instructions, teaching the practitioner how to merge with the heaven and earth of their own Grotto-heaven Blessed Land to comprehend a technique that perfectly suited themselves.

A technique realized by an Earth Immortal practitioner could be named by them, or simply referred to as an "Earth Immortal Law"!

Furthermore, there was a special technique within the inheritance called the "Earth Immortal Body"!

The Earth Immortal Body also varied from person to person, or rather, from Grotto-heaven to Grotto-heaven, because the Earth Immortal Body was evolved through the tempering of the physical body using the dual origins of the Grotto-heaven Blessed Land.

Because the characteristics of Grotto-heaven Blessed Lands differed, the Earth Immortal Bodies cultivated would also differ. A first-tier Grotto-heaven Blessed Land could only temper a first-tier Earth Immortal Body, corresponding to the Qi Refining Realm.

Ye Qingxuan did not resist this method of cultivation; instead, he felt somewhat eager to try.

His greatest talent was his comprehension.

However, Ye Qingxuan did not rush into cultivation. Since the Grotto-heaven had not yet been opened, he could only patiently continue reading further.