76: Chapter 76 Seeking the Secluded Valley to Consolidate Cultivation, Spatial Transformation Leads to the Formation of a Grotto-Heaven

The blood and Chaos of Cuiping Mountain were left far behind by Ye Qing.

He flew towards the southeast, specifically choosing deep mountain valleys rarely visited by people.

The Golden Core had been formed, but the newly formed Hunxu Golden Core still needed time to be solidified, nurtured, and thoroughly integrated with his Physical Body, Divine Soul, and Dao techniques.

More importantly, the complete Legacy of the Great Dao Scripture of Zhou Tian Stars he had just obtained, as well as the Hunxu Yandao Scripture that had been perfected and elevated as a result, required quiet contemplation, digestion, and refinement.

After absorbing the star core, star source liquid, and a large number of Yao Beast corpses and Materials, his internal space also faintly emitted a sense of saturation and restlessness, as if new changes were gestating.

He needed an absolutely safe, reasonably Spiritual Qi-rich, and sufficiently hidden Immortal Cave to enter seclusion for a period.

After flying for several days, he went deep into the vast mountains.

On this day, he arrived at a border area between a vast marshland called "Cloud Mist Marsh" and the mountain ranges.

This place was shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, miasma appeared and disappeared, Spiritual Qi was thin and mixed, and the Yao Beasts were mostly low-level poisonous insects; rarely did any Cultivator set foot here.

Ye Qing's Divine Sense swept across, and deep in the marsh, he found a hidden valley shrouded in natural toxic miasma and illusory mist.

The valley entrance was narrow, allowing only one person to pass, and the entrance was densely covered with vines, concealing it completely. Inside the valley, however, there was a different world, several miles in circumference, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a small pool in the center; the pool water was clear and contained weak Spiritual Qi. Above the valley, due to the special terrain and the gathering of miasma, a natural concealment barrier was formed, making it difficult for external Divine Sense to enter.

"This place is excellent. Although the Spiritual Qi is not dense, it is sufficiently hidden, which is perfect for seclusion to solidify cultivation."

Ye Qing lowered his flight light, waved his hand to disperse the toxic miasma at the entrance, and walked into the valley.

With his thick Dantian energy of the Golden Core Stage, he easily opened up a simple Immortal Cave on the mountain wall.

The Immortal Cave was not large, consisting of a hall, a room, and a pill room. He also set up a "Lesser Hunyuan Five Elements Earth Vein Array" on the periphery, using the "earth vein array core mushroom" as the core to connect with the thin earth veins in the valley, forming a stable defense and concealment.

Once the Formation was set, a faint five-colored light shield rose, merging with the natural miasma and illusory mist in the valley. From the outside, the valley entrance completely disappeared, looking no different from the surrounding mountain walls.

Ye Qing activated the Formation and completely sealed the Immortal Cave.

Sitting cross-legged on the futon in the center of the quiet room, he first took out a drop of "star source liquid" and swallowed it.

The source liquid entered his abdomen and transformed into a gentle yet vast force of star source essence, slowly diffusing and nourishing the newly formed Hunxu Golden Core, solidifying his Foundation.

He also took out those dozens of "star source crystal"s and set up a simple star-gathering array around him, and strands of pure star power were drawn in, integrating into his cultivation.

Then, his mind became completely calm.

The Hunxu Yandao Scripture slowly circulated, and the Golden Core rotated slightly, exhaling and inhaling Dantian energy.

His consciousness was divided into three strands.

One strand sank into his Dantian, carefully experiencing, refining, and nurturing the Hunxu Golden Core that contained the true meaning of Chaos, stars, moonlight, Void Realm, and Five Elements, familiarizing himself with the control and application of the powerful strength of the Golden Core Stage.

One strand sank into his Sea of Consciousness, beginning to systematically sort out, comprehend, and absorb the vast Legacy of the Great Dao Scripture of Zhou Tian Stars, performing a deeper Fusion, optimization, and elevation of its essence concepts, operational methods, and Divine Ability secret techniques with the existing framework of the Hunxu Yandao Scripture.

The last strand communicated with the five-hundred-zhang space within his body.

After continuously absorbing a massive amount of high-level energy and Materials, the space had reached a certain critical point.

At this moment, under the immersion of Ye Qing's mind, the nourishment of the Hunxu Golden Core's Dao rhyme, and the stimulation of the star Dao Origin from the Legacy of the Great Dao Scripture of Zhou Tian Stars, the space finally began the qualitative change it had been brewing for a long time!

Hum—

The entire space trembled violently.

The Chaos gray mist at the edge rolled, expanded, and condensed at an unprecedented speed!

Five hundred and fifty zhang... six hundred zhang... seven hundred zhang... eight hundred zhang...

It only slowed down slightly after expanding to nearly a thousand zhang in circumference, but the expansion did not stop; it continued to push outward slowly and firmly.

In the center of the space, that vast black land spread crazily, already exceeding two hundred zhang square! The land became more fertile, containing the luster of Chaos jade, and the Spiritual Qi was so dense that it turned into misty Spiritual rain, drizzling down, gathering into several small Spiritual liquid lakes in the low-lying areas of the ground, shimmering with ripples.

The Floating Landmass also expanded to more than ten zhang square, and its floating height increased. On it, the moonlight star seed had grown into a small tree three feet tall, with silver radiance and starlight intertwined, full of vitality. Spiritual plants such as water jade bodhi, jade marrow ganoderma, soul soothing flower, and earth vein array core mushroom grew amazingly under the dual nourishment of the Spiritual rain and star-moonlight, with dense medicinal power.

The biggest changes were the "sky" and "earth" of the space.

In the sky, the star phantom evolved from the star core and perfected by the Dao rhyme of the Great Dao Scripture of Zhou Tian Stars now shone brightly, and its operational trajectory became clearer, more reasonable, and more profound, truly forming a miniature "Zhou Tian Star Map" with its own operational laws.

The star map rotated slowly, and the falling starlight was no longer uniform brilliance, but had changes in light and dark, strength and weakness, and color, simulating the day and night alternation and the rise and fall of stars in the real starry sky. Although still simple, it had already taken shape.

The silver radiance of the moonlight jade tree also had a closer connection with the star map, and the silver radiance had periodic waxing and waning changes following the "moon phases" simulated by the "star map".

More wonderfully, under the combined action of the star map and moonlight, the light, dark, and temperature inside the space began to show extremely faint, periodic changes, as if it had vague concepts of "day and night" and "temperature difference".

On the earth, the changes were equally astonishing.

The black land was no longer flat; guided by some invisible force, it began to slowly bulge and concave, forming undulating "hills" and "valleys".

The locations of those Spiritual liquid lakes also shifted subtly, and fine water flows began to appear and gather between them, like the "Bloodlines" of the earth; although weak, they heralded the prototype of future "rivers".

The mycelium of the earth vein array core mushroom spread crazily underground, resonating with the expanding land and the newly born "hills" and "valleys", faintly conditioning the "earth Qi" of the entire space, making it more stable and the flow of vitality smoother.

At the edge of the space, the ten-zhang "Void Turbulence Zone" also expanded several times, and the turbulence became more obvious and orderly, as if it had become a "buffer zone" and "barrier" between the space and the external nothingness. The Chaos gray mist at the edge became more solid and thick, slowly expanding outward, devouring and transforming the external nothingness into nutrients for the space's growth.

The entire space was no longer just a place for storage and a Spiritual plant medicine garden, but was evolving towards a — "Cave Heaven World" with an initial ecological cycle, a simple prototype of rules, its own weak day-night temperature difference, and a prototype of mountains and rivers!

Although still immature, with a range of only a thousand zhang and crude rules, it had indeed taken the crucial step from "space" to "world"!

Just as the space completed this qualitative change and stabilized.

Ye Qing clearly felt that the speed of time passing inside the space had an extremely subtle difference compared to the outside world.

It was not acceleration or deceleration, but a strange, unstable "fluctuation" that seemed related to the evolution of the space's own rules.

Currently, this difference was negligible, almost negligible, and difficult to control stably. But this was an important signal, meaning that in the future, as the space continued to grow and the rules were perfected, it might truly be possible to realize the legend of "one day in the cave, a thousand years in the world".

"Cave Heaven World... initially formed!"

Ye Qing was shocked in his heart and exited the internal vision.

He did not expect that this seclusion to solidify his cultivation would actually trigger such a qualitative change in the space. It seems that condensing the Hunxu Golden Core and obtaining the complete star Legacy had a fundamental promotion effect on the space.

Having a constantly growing Cave Heaven World within his body was more precious than any Magic Treasure or any Legacy; it was the most solid Foundation for his future Great Dao of longevity and path of transcendence.

The energy fed back by the space also jumped in quality due to this qualitative change.

What was fed back was no longer pure spiritual power or Dantian energy, but a trace of weak but real "Chaos Star Origin" derived from the Origin of the Cave Heaven World.

This energy was purer and higher-level, containing a trace of the mystery of world evolution, and had incomparable benefits for nourishing the Golden Core, tempering the Physical Body and Divine Soul, and comprehending the Dao.

Ye Qing guided this newborn "Chaos Star Origin", slowly circulating it through his meridians, consolidating his cultivation at the Early Stage of the Golden Core Stage, and began to accumulate steadily towards the Middle Stage of the Golden Core Stage.

The operation of the Hunxu Yandao Scripture also became smoother and deeper due to the feedback and insights brought by the space's qualitative change, and his understanding of Dao such as Chaos, stars, and the Void Realm deepened by another layer.

The Legacy of the Great Dao Scripture of Zhou Tian Stars, under the comparison and verification with the evolution of the star rules of the Cave Heaven World itself, suddenly became clear in many obscure places, and the speed of absorption and Fusion greatly accelerated.

Time passed quietly in quiet cultivation.

Outside the Immortal Cave, the seasons changed in the Cloud Mist Marsh, and the miasma gathered and dispersed.

Inside the Immortal Cave, Ye Qing was immersed in the mystery of cultivation solidification, Legacy digestion, and space evolution, unaware of the passing of time.

Inside his body, the thousand-zhang Cave Heaven, with sun rising and moon setting, stars moving and fighting, hills undulating, water vapor misty, and vitality vibrant, was firmly evolving towards a more complete and real Small World.

Ye Qing's first long-term seclusion was proceeding calmly and fully in this unknown Cloud Mist valley.