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Chapter 145 The Opening of the Grotto-Heaven, the Immortal in the Mortal World

Chapter 145 The Opening of the Grotto-Heaven, the Immortal in the Mortal World

The moonlight was perfect.

A full moon hung high in the sky, its clear light pouring down on the back garden of Qingzhu Island.

Autumn insects chirped softly in the grass, and the full moon was reflected on the lake. When the wind blew, it shattered into a pool of silvery scales.

In the garden, several figures formed a circle.

They are growing cocoa beans.

Although with their current cultivation levels, the cocoa fruit Russell drew was no longer of much use.

However, for disciples in the Qi Refining stage, this is a rare treasure. As the saying goes, "Sow a seed in spring, reap ten thousand in autumn." Once they have planted an entire cocoa grove, it will be of great use to the forces they will establish in the future.

Leaving aside Russell's Free and Easy Heavenly Palace, this thing is also indispensable if Han Li wants to expand and develop his scientific research laboratory in the future.

This world is dominated by the cultivation civilization; technology can only serve as an embellishment, not a replacement.

Therefore, if you want your disciples to devote themselves fully to scientific research, their own cultivation must not be neglected.

There's no such thing as making a horse run without feeding it.

Han Li is not like those damned doctoral supervisors who treat their students like free cattle and horses.

As the liquid in the palm-shaped bottle dripped down, a tender green sprout emerged from the soil, growing taller and taller at a visible speed, branching out, unfurling leaves, and climbing steadily.

In just a few breaths, a sapling as tall as a person stood gracefully in front of everyone, its branches and leaves swaying gently in the night breeze, and its branches laden with fruit.

Xiao Yan casually picked a cocoa fruit, took a bite, and said with anticipation in his eyes, "Now we just have to wait for Ye Zi's immortality elixir fruit."

According to the message Ye Fan sent a few days ago, he will arrive in Beidou in the next day or two.

The nine dragons pulling the coffin are about to reach their destination, and the future Emperor Ye will officially embark on his path to enlightenment.

This time, they had planned ahead, so naturally they couldn't just take the fruit; they had to cut off a small portion of the branches to try and plant them.

If they can succeed, just like planting this cocoa tree, and successfully plant the Nine Wonders Elixir of Immortality that Ye Fan obtained, then they will be able to achieve freedom in obtaining the Elixir of Immortality fruit.

Eat as much as you want.

Thinking of this, Xu Qi'an couldn't help but smile. "It's not even a sure thing yet, you're all thinking too much."

Han Li was not as optimistic as Xiao Yan and Xu Qi'an.

According to the setting of "Covering the Sky", the immortal medicine was transformed from a fallen immortal king in the chaotic ancient era. Such an existence contains unimaginable fragments of the Great Dao and the laws of heaven and earth. It is hard to say whether the barren land of the human realm can support the growth conditions of the immortal medicine.

Xiao Yan shrugged. He knew this principle, of course, but he had to give it a try. What if it worked?

Russell was about to reply when his expression suddenly changed.

Han Li was the first to notice something was wrong and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

Russell raised an eyebrow: "The fusion of authority is complete."

Xiao Yan clicked his tongue, his expression incredibly complex, a mixture of envy,感慨, and an indescribable sense of urgency.

After devouring that world, Russell's combat power will probably swell again. If this continues, he might not even become a Dou Wang before Russell becomes a true god.

Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable.

The outer hall of the Void Heaven Palace is a grotto filled with spiritual energy.

This secluded little world remains unchanged. The sky is azure, the white clouds drift lazily, and the boundless green grassland undulates like waves in the wind. In the distance, towering mountains rise one after another, and waterfalls cascade down from the mountain peaks, with the mist refracting into rainbows under the sunlight.

Everything is vibrant and full of life; everything is peaceful and serene.

In the void, a crack silently opened.

Russell stepped out and sensed the location of the four powers of earth, wind, water, and fire. A deep portal suddenly opened behind him.

Beyond the portal lay a hazy, gray world. There was no sky, no earth, only endless gray fog churning in the void. Within the fog, one could vaguely see shattered mountains, dried-up rivers, and collapsed buildings—everything was decaying, everything was withering away.

Nibelung is essentially a land of the dead; death is its only melody.

The moment the Nibelungen opened, the law of death uncontrollably tried to erode this vibrant world. Grayish-white mist poured out from the portal like a flood bursting its banks, withering vegetation, freezing streams, and devouring all the spiritual energy in the air, even dimming the light.

Standing in the void, Russell spoke calmly: "Later I will incorporate this world into Nibelungen. You help me stabilize Nibelungen and prevent it from collapsing."

To ensure the success of this fusion, he had already left the Blackwater Serpent, the Yellow Bird, and Linglong's remnant soul on Green Bamboo Island beforehand, so as not to be caught in the crossfire if it failed.

"Don't worry, with me here, it won't collapse." A response rang out from the depths of Nibelungen. A figure dressed in bright silk robes emerged from the gray wasteland, stepping through the mist condensed by the laws of death, walking with unrestrained arrogance, until he arrived before the gate.

The Beast God grinned and gave Russell a smug smile.

Russell kept his promise, and Linglong's remnant soul has now stabilized.

Having received this favor, he said he would never let Russell's plans fall through.

Russell nodded, opened his arms, stretching them out as if embracing the entire world.

On his wrist, the Five Elements Lock began to spin rapidly, the sharp meshing of gears echoing in the void, and five-colored light surged upwards.

Amidst the light, Russell's body expanded wildly, undergoing a transformation. His muscles bulged like mountains, his bones grew like giant trees, and a layer of fine scales appeared on his skin, shimmering with five-colored light. A pair of enormous wings tore through his clothes and burst out of his body.

The Five Spirit Kings, from the world of fairy tales, reveal their physical forms in another world for the first time.

"roar-!!!"

Russell roared to the sky, his voice booming and shattering the surrounding clouds, sending pebbles flying from the ground!

With each flap of its wings, the divine power of the colorless realm was unleashed to its maximum.

The colorless domain filled this entire cave world, spanning tens of thousands of miles, at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The mountains and rivers turned from verdant to grayish-white, the streams from azure to grayish-white, the vegetation from lush to grayish-white, and even the particles of spiritual energy floating in the air changed from colorful to grayish-white.

The entire world seemed to have turned into an old-fashioned silent film that had been paused.

There was no sound, no color, only stillness and frozen everything.

Only four beams of light—cyan, red, yellow, and blue—rose from the four corners of this world, piercing the gray-white sky and converging from four directions, merging into the towering, massive body of the Five Spirit King!

boom-!!!

The earth and sky shook!

The entire little world resonated with this.

As life merged with the dead, Nibelungen experienced a violent rejection reaction. The gray fog began to run rampant out of control, and the entire Nibelungen trembled in response.

Within the Nibelungen, the Beast God watched this scene, his eyes gleaming with a blood-red light.

"Come!"

He gave a low shout and pressed down hard with both hands!

An unimaginable surge of blood energy suddenly erupted from his body, turning the surrounding gray mist dark red. His figure became blurred and illusory within the blood energy.

He is the embodiment of the malevolent energy of heaven and earth, and is the embodiment of the laws themselves. He is perfectly in sync with the death laws of Nibelungen, making him the most suitable person to preside over Nibelungen.

Blood and gray mist intertwined, the laws of death merged with the malevolent energy of heaven and earth, and the Nibelungen, which was on the verge of collapse, gradually stabilized.

With his worries gone, Russell began his final step.

"open!"

A single thought can shake the heavens and earth.

The grotto-heaven world was completely absorbed into his body amidst silent tremors.

It was a mysterious and profound feeling. He could clearly perceive the temperature of every inch of soil in this world, the direction of every wisp of wind, the flow of every drop of water, the undulating bones of the mountains in his consciousness, the surging blood of the rivers in his perception, and the breath of the grass and trees echoing in his soul.

Russell closed his eyes, feeling the new space within his body.

As the saying goes, the pure qi rises and the turbid qi sinks, and at this moment, the newly formed inner world completes the initial construction of order.

The grotto-heaven world hangs above.

That small world, spanning thousands of miles, now resembled a giant bright moon hanging in the dome of his inner world. The sunlight remained the same, the mountains remained the same, the streams remained the same, and the vegetation remained the same.

The Nibelungen hangs upside down below, the gray mist remains, the deathly silence remains; it hangs in the abyss like a reflection of the earth, or like the reverse side of a mirror.

Up and down, clear and turbid, bright and dark.

Let's not interfere with each other and live in peace.

But that won't do.

The world is a cycle of life and death, a flow of yin and yang. Life and death are not separate, but two sides of the same coin. Without life, death is meaningless, and without death, life loses its weight.

The living walk on the earth, the dead return to the yellow earth; the yellow earth nurtures new life, and life will eventually return to the yellow earth.

This is the law of the world.

This is the true order of heaven and earth.

Instead of the current situation where those born are above and those who die are below, clearly separated and never interacting with each other until death.

It's hard to hold on—I've just been thinking too simply—

Russell sighed and arrived at the boundary between the two worlds. The enormous body of the Five Spirit King blotted out the sky, and five-colored light flowed on his body, making this newly born world colorful and dazzling.

This place is a void, devoid of any matter or light, only pure emptiness.

Whether they live or die depends on this one tremor.

Russell grinned, crossed his left and right hands in front of his chest, palms facing each other, fingers interlocked, and a dazzling light emerged from his chest.

[Item Card: Spirit Jade]

The magical jade.

Yes, this is a genuine magical jade, which is the scrap material from the legendary stone used to mend the sky.

At first, his cultivation level was too low to see anything clearly. It wasn't until just now, when the power fusion was complete, that the Spirit Jade finally reacted, and he realized that this thing was genuine.

Russell raised the Spirit Jade above his head, and the five elemental sources within his body surged and poured into it.

The five-colored light of the source of the five elements intertwined with the clear light of the spiritual jade, merging into one in mid-air, transforming into a gentle yet vast pillar of light that reached the heavens and the earth.

The next moment, countless chains extended from all directions in the void, wrapping around the massive body of the Five Spirit King.

They are the medium, the bridge, the umbilical cord between heaven and earth and the world.

In this process, the two worlds also began to slowly shift.

The grotto world is descending, while Nibelungen is rising, gradually approaching each other until they meet.

The boundaries between the two worlds began to blur. The green mountains and clear waters in the cave were dyed in five colors, and the gray wasteland of Nibelungen was also gilded with a layer of moon white. Every corner of the two worlds seemed to be the beginning of heaven and earth, the birth of the sun and moon.

Russell's five-elemental body hung in the sky of the new world, bound and restricted by countless chains. His body began to become illusory, as if it were transforming from a physical entity into a concept, from flesh and blood into the laws of heaven and earth. Five-colored radiance continuously overflowed from his body, like fine sand in an hourglass, merging into the sky, into the earth, into the mountains and rivers.

This is the sacrificial technique and the method of transforming into a spirit recorded in the Earth Immortal Method and the Divine Transformation Method.

He sacrificed everything he had to the newly born grotto-heaven, thereby replacing its rules and becoming its true master.

This was something we had no other choice but to do.

He underestimated the difficulty of merging the two worlds.

Even with his current level of cultivation, if he were to transform into the Five Spirit Kings, he would still be unable to perfectly merge the two worlds. Although these two worlds are currently one above and one below, seemingly keeping to themselves, this is merely a temporary balance. With an unstable foundation, the edifice will crumble. In the long run, the boundary between the two worlds will eventually collapse, and at that time, everything will be out of control.

Rather than waiting until it's too late to regret it, it's better to become an Earth Immortal now through the methods of Earth Immortals and completely grasp the inner world before making any further decisions.

Buzz—

An invisible rhythm resounded from the newly born world.

It's still the same green mountains and clear waters, blue sky and white clouds.

The Beast God stood atop the mountain, gazing up at the sky, his eyes reflecting the increasingly ethereal figure of the Five Spirit Kings.

This is about to reach the Dao!

The Beast God's expression changed drastically. As a being formed from the laws of nature, he naturally knew what the Dao Integration represented.

"Damn it!" the Beast God cursed under his breath, his face contorting into a ferocious expression. A violent crimson light surged from his scarlet eyes, and an ominous crimson aura poured out from his body. His figure swelled up in the blood energy, and he formed claws with his hands, ready to pull Russell back.

Don't panic.

Russell's voice rang out from the sky. The Beast God looked in surprise into the body of the Five Spirit King, where Russell's figure shimmered. A stream of light passed through his body and landed on the ground, revealing yet another Russell.

"You are... an avatar?" the Beast God exclaimed in surprise.

"Pretty much the same." Russell stretched his limbs, looking relaxed.

To be precise, the body mentioned above is the external manifestation.

By merging with the Daoist grotto-heaven using the Earth Immortal Technique, he became the will of this world, the mountains and rivers, the sun, moon and stars, and the very laws of life and death.

But heaven and earth have boundaries, and once you leave the cave, you can never step out again. This is not the way Master Luo cultivates.

Therefore, what he sacrificed were the other two yin and yang energies within his body.

It can only be said that the Tiger Amulet and the Spirit Jade made a great contribution in this wave.

Before long, the body of the Five Spirit Kings completely dissipated into the world.

A gentle breeze swept across the hillside, rustling the treetops, rippling the surface of the lake, and dispersing the last wisp of cloud on the horizon.

The world fell silent.

Russell took a deep breath and clenched his fist.

At this moment, in the eyes of the Beast God, Russell's body appeared infinitely larger, as if the entire world was held in his hands.

It became.

Russell breathed a sigh of relief, his tense nerves finally relaxing.

This time, he sacrificed such a powerful weapon as the Five Spirit Locks, so his sacrifice was not in vain.