At the birth of the third divine pattern, the light emitted from the three of them overlapped each other.
In no time, all the lights blended together, which triggered a transformation process. In the end, it became transparent.
Simultaneously, Chen Jingzhai’s divine mind was pulled into the divine stone space.
The moment Chen Jingzhai’s divine mind entered the divine stone space, it took the form of his physical appearance.
“This is…” Chen Jingzhai’s eyes widened as he looked at the divine stone space.
Mountains, lakes, seas, forests, and valleys could be seen. The terrain was complete, and it was a vast land.
This place was like a blessed land. However, its space was far larger than the average blessed land.
The presumption was based on seeing the ocean filled with seawater before him.
While he remained dazed, a huge amount of information suddenly filled his mind.
He was in his divine mind form at that time, so it did not feel like he would burst from the event.
Chen Jingzhai could not remain calm after digesting the new information he had received earlier.
To Chen Jingzhai’s surprise, the divine stone automatically recognized him as its master at the birth of the third divine pattern. Thus, that made him the owner of the divine stone.
He had assumed that there would be a process to refine the divine stone prior to this. But who would have thought it was more like an aptitude test?
The detailed information about the divine stone was available to him naturally after he became its owner.
For instance, the true name of the divine stone was the primordial essence stone.
The realm where he currently resided existed within the primordial essence stone.
It was far larger than any blessed land. So, it should be considered a grotto-heavens—one that had the potential to be upgraded to become a world.
“So, in short, I am a Grotto-heavens Master from this moment onward!
“With proper management and sufficient resources for this Grotto-heavens, it will become a miniature world one day!”
As Chen Jingzhai remarked, he felt emotional, astonished, excited, and more. But he was surprised above all.
He had to create his own spells for the sky scripture that he cultivated. So, increasing his cultivation level would not be an easy task.
Apart from managing and coming up with spells and techniques, he would need a massive amount of resources for his cultivation.
This part had always been his shortcoming.
Although it did not completely fix his shortcoming, he found a way of resolving his trouble at that moment.
So long as he managed the Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens well, he would no longer need to worry about essence power.
After some ponderation, Chen Jingzhai began to study the Grotto-heavens that he became the master of.
Being recognized by the divine stone meant that he was the owner of the entire Grotto-heavens.
At the will of his mind, he could perceive all that was within the Grotto-heavens. Everything would be revealed to him.
According to the feedback of the information he had received, the Grotto-heavens had three main functions.
The first would be to devour the flesh and blood of living beings.
This function served the purpose of developing the Grotto-heavens back then.
Now that it had become a bona fide Grotto-heavens, the effect would not be as great as before.
Nevertheless, the living beings devoured by the Grotto-heavens would be converted to the essence power of heavens and earth.
Rare flora would be grown if it were the flesh of unique creatures.
The Pure White Lotus inside the Grotto-heavens that gained some benefits was worthy of mention.
After fully digesting the carcass of the colossal sea beast, it absorbed the innate essence power.
The Grotto-heavens favored the Pure White Lotus to help it gain the opportunity of raising up to the fifth grade.
The second one was the Grotto-heavens divine light.
The birth of the divine pattern of the divine stone unlocked the ability to store all things in the Grotto-heavens.
It was made possible by the Grotto-heavens divine light, which was derived from the innate function of the Grotto-heavens.
Now that the Grotto-heavens had stabilized, people other than Chen Jingzhai could enter it as well.
Nonetheless, they would need to be given the mark of the Grotto-heavens from Chen Jingzhai to do that.
There were two ways to enter it. The first was through one’s divine mind, and the second was to enter using their physical form.
Apart from the freedom to enter and exit, the master could keep all kinds of things inside with the Grotto-heavens divine light.
Needless to say, it would include the magic treasures of other people. If one were to be careless, their magic treasures would be taken away the moment the Grotto-heavens divine light shone on them.
Still, the key to success in taking away the magic treasures had everything to do with Chen Jingzhai’s cultivation level.
At that time, he was only a Beginning Foundation Plane cultivator, so he could only keep a magic treasure of a Beginning Golden Core Plane cultivator.
Should the other person be an Intermediate Golden Core Sage, Chen Jingzhai would fail at taking their magic treasures.
Even so, Chen Jingzhai was really happy with the current situation.
The third function of the divine stone was soul guarding and mind strengthening.
The divine stone could defend its master’s soul and reinforce its divine mind as it remained within the upper core.
Since Grotto-heavens had been created within the divine stone, Chen Jingzhai did not need to fear any spells related to curses or soul-annihilation anymore.
Besides that, he could also confer the spirit deities of the Grotto-heavens as the Grotto-heavens Master.
All these spirit deities were originally the souls of demonic beasts.
With the removal of their memories, they would have to submit to Chen Jingzhai’s law and command. Naturally, their life and death were in the hands of Chen Jingzhai as well.
All three functions each had a divine pattern corresponding to them.
Even though Chen Jingzhai had not figured out the mystery behind the divine patterns yet, it was without a doubt that they were related to the Grotto-heavens.
He speculated that a new divine pattern would be born once a specific condition was met as he continued to develop the Grotto-heavens.
He believed yet another new function would be unlocked at that time.
“It’s enough for now!
“This is even better than a portable cave residence.
“One has to refine the immortal tablet for the portable cave residence. On top of that, there is a risk of being discovered and destroyed.
“In that case, a Grotto-heavens is way more mysterious and wondrous than a cave residence.
“Just the small amount of the innate essence power produced every month alone is enough to overshadow the latter!”
Chen Jingzhai had an unexplainable joy in his heart at that moment.
The Grotto-heavens had more to offer apart from the three major functions.
A blessed land would need the power of the leyline to nurture itself. Meanwhile, a cave residence could only be sustained by importing the spiritual leyline.
However, his Primordial Essence Grotto-heavens would naturally absorb the innate essence power from the void and refine it.
Although there was only a small amount every month, there were already 24 times within the Grotto-heavens at that time.
Every ounce of the innate essence power was extremely precious and hard to obtain.
There were only a small number of them, even in the entire cultivation world.
The reason Chen Jingzhai could create the celestial bone was that he had used the power of the Innate Five Elements in the divine stone.
There were endless possibilities for Chen Jingzhai now that the Grotto-heavens could produce the innate essence power.
Most importantly, the Innate Five Elements Land was formed with the Pure White Lotus in the center.
The reason this Innate Five Elements Land had the innate attribute could be the effects of the innate essence power from earlier.
It was hard to tell with the ingenious nurture, the covering of the mountains, and the flowing rivers.
The entire core of the Grotto-heavens consisted of valleys, rivers, mountain peaks, woods, swamps, and more.
“This is the best location of the Grotto-heavens.
“I will only grow spiritual herbs, and spirit plants grade three and above in the future.
“Anything below grade three isn’t worth the time and resources!”
Chen Jingzhai was elated as he looked down at the Innate Five Elements Land from the clouds.
This land was made up of the five elements with the innate attribute.
If Chen Jingzhai were to grow spiritual herbs here in the future, he would need to transfer some of the innate essence power here.
At that time, his resources of spiritual herbs and spirit plants would be renewable once they began to grow.
On top of that, innate spiritual leylines would be manifested with this place as the core.
He believed it would be the Five Elements Atavistic Leyline that would reach the entire Grotto-heavens.
He was waiting in anticipation to witness the awestruck wonders and majestic sights in the future.
“It’s time to manage this Grotto-heavens now. But I can’t let Hong Yu and the others in yet.”
Chen Jingzhai furrowed his brows and pondered.
The four girls were people close to him whom he could trust with his secrets.
However, they might not be able to get used to the Grotto-heavens since they have not yet reached the Foundation Establishment Plane.
Furthermore, they would need to deal with some people out there and take care of the spiritual silkworm, etc.
Besides, it would be hard for the four of them to manage the Grotto-heavens since it was really vast.
“Well, I guess I will confer the spirit deities!
“Wandering spirits of the Grotto-heavens, come forth as I summon thee! Gather!”
The command of Chen Jingzhai spread across the entire Grotto-heavens.
In no time, countless wandering spirits gathered before Chen Jingzhai from all directions.
All these wandering spirits were soul remnants of sea beasts and demonic beasts.
They all looked dazed as they had no memories or sentience.
Even so, there was still a huge gap between the strengths of these wandering spirits.
With the power of the Grotto-heavens, Chen Jingzhai conferred up to 12 third-grade spirit deities at once.
The first was the Black Divine General, which evolved from the Swamp Black Crocodile. Clad in black armor, he held a black crocodile-patterned ancient halberd in his hand, looking domineering and exuding the aura of a third-grade being.
The second one was the Ice Divine General, who evolved from the Black Ice Dolphin. She was a well-proportioned and graceful female divine general who held a blue sword in her hand. She wore a blue mask covering the upper part of her face and nose bridge.
The remaining divine generals were third-grade sea beasts contributed by Wang Tong. All of them took the human form, but their genders weren’t the same—some were male, and the others were female. Moreover, all of them had different weapons and armors.
Chen Jingzhai infused the innate essence power into all the 12 third-grade spirit deities to help stabilize their physical form. As a result, while their cultivation levels remained the same as when they were alive, their combat power had increased.
It pained Chen Jingzhai to use up 12 innate essence powers at once.
However, Chen Jingzhai thought it was worth it since all of them had their own divine arts and recovered some of their abilities when they were still alive. Moreover, Chen Jingzhai could even summon them outside.
Having 12 spirit deities would be equivalent to having 12 guardians by his side.
Nevertheless, they could not cultivate outside of the Grotto-heavens. Plus, they had to return to the Grotto-heavens once they exhausted all the essence power. If their physical form were severely damaged, they would be automatically summoned back to the Grotto-heavens.
But at the end of the day, all these 12 spirit deities had third-grade combat power.
It would definitely be of great help to Chen Jingzhai, no matter what.
For that reason, Chen Jingzhai used two more innate essence powers to confer 500 second-grade spirit deities.
All 500 of the spirit deities were originally second-grade sea beasts.
After dispatching 20 of them to guard the land of the Pure White Lotus, Chen Jingzhai transferred the remaining 480 of the second-grade spirit deities under the command of the 12 spirit deities.
With that, the Grotto-heavens finally had proper management personnel.
