Chapter 1734: Chapter 929: Remodeling the Grotto Heaven, The Original Takes a Disciple (Part 2)

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Seven hundred years ago, a branch of the Zhao Family chose to settle on Ming Guang Island in the Outer Sea.

Ming Guang Island spans over a million miles, with multiple third-rank spirit veins flowing across the island, branching into over a hundred subsidiary spirit veins. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Seven hundred years ago, the ancestor used great divine skills to directly elevate the main spirit vein of the island to mid-grade fourth-rank, and he arranged a fourth-rank Primordial Infinite Array at the core of the main spirit vein to defend against any external invasions.

The ancestor’s divine skills were formidable, and the fourth-rank array set by his own hands was as impregnable as iron, unbreakable even by multiple Divinity Transformation True Monarchs attacking together.

Over seven hundred years, the Zhao Family’s Earth Moisture clan expanded its population from seventy or eighty thousand to over three million six hundred thousand.

Among them, over twenty-seven thousand clan members have spirit root qualifications, with thirteen reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, two hundred and ninety-six achieving the Golden Core stage, over a thousand in Foundation Establishment, and countless in the Qi Refinement stage.

As the ancestor’s birthday approached, the thirteen Nascent Soul Ancestors of the Zhao Family returned to Ming Guang Island from elsewhere to discuss how to celebrate this centenary birthday.

On this day, the thirteen Nascent Soul Ancestors rare gathered in Unison Hall.

Just as they were heatedly debating, a tall and slender figure appeared out of thin air before everyone’s eyes.

The newcomer was nine feet tall, with a jade-like face and a gentle, refined demeanor, resembling a well-read, scholarly middle-aged Confucian scholar.

Upon seeing someone suddenly intruding into Unison Hall, all the Zhao’s Nascent Souls were stunned.

In a split second, a long-bearded elder, quick of eye and mouth, suddenly exclaimed, "Ancestor!"

This exclamation instantly awakened the thirteen Zhao’s Nascent Souls present.

Bang!

The hall immediately erupted like a boiling pot, with everyone hurriedly rising, then kneeling in homage while uniformly shouting, "Unworthy descendants of Zhao... pay respects to the Ancestor!"

Seven hundred years may seem neither long nor short.

Of these thirteen Zhao’s Nascent Souls, aside from the youngest, the others had all seen the face of the fourth ancestor in their lifetimes and could naturally recognize the identity of Zhao Sheng at a glance.

"Rise, without ceremony!" Zhao Sheng said calmly, simultaneously flicking his sleeve to lift everyone up with an invisible force.

Zhao Sheng’s gaze swept over everyone, and suddenly, his figure flickered before appearing in the main seat of the hall, then sat down.

Seeing this, the crowd quickly stepped down from the platform, standing respectfully below to listen to the ancestor’s teachings.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng, with a serene expression, continued, "Returning to this realm after seven hundred years, and seeing that you have managed the Zhao Family’s foundation so well, prospering peacefully, I feel very gratified."

Upon hearing this, all the Zhao family cultivators were overjoyed, some were even moved to tears, demonstrating their mastery of the art of performance.

Zhao Sheng ignored their expressions and soon explained his purpose for coming here.

"Listen well. I need you to search through the genealogy and quickly find a Foundation Establishment cultivator named Wang Sanbu. His ancestors had a marital alliance with the Zhao Family. He is twenty-nine years old and possesses a Metal Spirit Root or Gold Element Spirit Body... Whoever finds this person first, I will grant them a wish."

Upon hearing the ancestor’s promise, the thirteen Zhao’s Nascent Souls were filled with unparalleled excitement.

After a moment’s pause, one bold individual dared to speak, "We unworthy descendants long for the day we can return to the Divine Land Ancestral Land. Ancestor, is this wish possible?"

"Yes!" Zhao Sheng replied with a calm expression, saying just one word.

Upon hearing this, everyone was overwhelmingly joyful, realizing the importance of Wang Sanbu.

Without needing any urging from Zhao Sheng, the thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators put in all their effort.

Within a few days, all the Zhao Clan members on Bright Island were mobilized.

In a matter of days, the ancient books and records stored in the Clan History Pavilion were thoroughly examined.

Many leads were quickly discovered; only three Wang Cultivation Families had marital ties with the Zhao Family.

The thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators immediately split into three groups to visit the three Wang families at the fastest possible speed.

Logically, with so much information, finding Wang Sanbu shouldn’t be difficult.

However, two months passed, and every member of the three Wang families was questioned, even tracing back to all branch families who migrated out hundreds of years ago.

Bewilderingly, Wang Sanbu seemed completely non-existent; countless people searched for his traces but could never find a shred of information about him.

When the news of failure kept coming back, Zhao Sheng on Ming Guang Island began to grow impatient.

This time, he personally utilized the divination method, merely to pinpoint the location of Wang Sanbu.

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While there was no progress on the Wind Realm side, Dongzhenzi and Stone Spirit, who went to Heavenly Pillar Cave Heaven, finally returned to the Five Elements Cave Heaven.

Upon Dongzhenzi’s return, he shared his thousand-year insights and experiences with the original Zhao Sheng.

The original Zhao Sheng spent two months and roughly mastered the method of setting up the Qiankun Ten Thousand Spirits Array.

Consequently, Dongzhenzi, accompanied by Stone Spirit, flew to Yu State, intending to start reorganizing the earth veins and rebuilding the spirit vein network.

Soon, the original and another avatar also joined in, heading to Yunzhou and Hongzhou respectively.

Rumble!

Deep in the mountains of southeastern Yu State, the peaks suddenly collapsed, and numerous deep, bottomless cracks quickly opened in the ground.

Vast amounts of colorful pure spiritual energy gushed out from the cracks, startling countless nearby animals into a hasty escape.

As time progressed, Yu State was becoming unrecognizable, with this unprecedented upheaval transcending mere words like "great change."

Few realized that beneath the surface, Yu State’s transformation was ten times more intense, with most earth veins and spirit veins being reshaped, eventually forming a massive "network" across the continent.

With the reconstructions of Yu State, Yunzhou, and Hongzhou completed, next came the turn of the other four continents.

Simultaneously, Dongzhenzi made several trips to the Chaos Divine Prison, acquiring dozens of space-time bubbles.

The original Zhao Sheng personally installed each space-time bubble onto the array pivot nodes across the three continents, and leveraged the power of the Grotto Heaven to "fix" all the bubbles permanently, forming a series of space spirit realms.

Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, several centuries had passed.

All seven major continents were fully reconstructed, leaving only the Four Seas and the polar regions to be addressed.

It’s noteworthy that three hundred years ago, a middle-aged Confucian scholar’s avatar successfully brought Wang Sanbu back.

Wang Sanbu possessed an Innate Sharp Gold Dao Body, receiving the blessing of the Heavenly Dao from birth, thereby rendering his movements and lineage shielded by the Heavenly Dao.

To find him, the avatar nearly exhausted all his spirit, and narrowly avoided provoking a Heavenly Tribulation from the realm’s Heavenly Dao.

Thankfully, he fled swiftly, capturing Wang Sanbu into the Southern Golden Light Mirror right before the Heavenly Dao’s wrath, and luckily escaped to the Burial Immortal Ruins.

After this experience, Zhao Sheng was shaken and had to abandon the idea of gathering other True Immortal Dao Seeds.

In reality, apart from Wang Sanbu, only Qian Jiuling could have potentially been brought back to the Divine Continent; the cultivation realms of other True Immortal Dao Seeds were far too advanced, unsuitable to return to Divine Continent for nurturing.

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As the Cave Heaven renovation project was in full swing, Zhao Sheng took the time to personally escort Wang Sanbu to meet the ancestor Zhao Xuanjing.

In Zhao Xuanjing’s presence, Zhao Sheng personally accepted him as a disciple, making him his second disciple after Yuan Hong.

Wang Sanbu, incredibly quick-witted, seized the opportunity to request acknowledgment of his lineage return, claiming his ancestral placement.

Zhao Xuanjing, overjoyed, personally bestowed upon him the name: Zhao Xuanxian.

After Wang Sanbu renamed Zhao Xuanxian, he was granted a True Form Spiritual Treasure, the Demon Extinguishing Divine Shuttle, by the Ancestor to protect himself.

Before long, several of the Zhao’s Unification Realm Ancestors and numerous Returning Void Elders became aware of the fourth ancestor accepting a disciple.

Thus, in the following years, the second ancestor, Eternal Night, Wu Lei, and other Unification Realm Ancestors sent congratulations.

Numerous Returning Void Elders were extraordinarily generous, presenting rare and valuable treasures.

As time passed, the Five Elements Cave Heaven underwent monumental changes, its strength increasing by nearly thirty percent from the initial state.

It’s conceivable that with the passage of time, the Five Elements Cave Heaven would become increasingly robust and stable.

Two thousand years flew by in the blink of an eye.

As Zhao Xuanxian successfully advanced to the late-stage Returning to Void, Yuan Hong returned having completed his studies.