Chapter 244: Chapter 205: Grotto Heaven True Understanding

In the past few days, Lu Qian sought opportunities to have in-depth conversations with the returning disciples individually, coupled with some impressions from previous memories, and he had a preliminary understanding of these brothers.

Now, listening to the introductions by Yang Jiye and Wang Yu, with supplementary information from Tan Hong and Zheng Duan, a framework slowly took shape in his mind.

These brothers, as Lu Qian’s peers, are the fourth-generation disciples. They can no longer be incorporated into the existing Yunshan Sect disciple training system, which continues starting from the fifth generation.

Because the current training system ends with apprenticing to a Sect Leader or an Elder to become a True Disciple. And how could these brothers who are peers with Lu Qian become apprentices?

Even acting as a proxy for a master to accept disciples is impossible since each of these brothers had already apprenticed to a master before the sect’s destruction.

Therefore, they can only be given special treatment now.

Those who meet the conditions and can be appointed to a position will be appointed as stewards. In Yunshan Sect’s system, Elders and Stewards, as managerial personnel, directly receive a generous annual salary, unlike ordinary disciples who receive allocated resources according to levels by month.

Originally, according to the new system of Yunshan Sect, normal stewards are produced from Inner Sect Yi Class and above disciple levels, and once becoming a steward, they only receive annual salaries but still retain their identity as Inner Sect Yi Class disciples. However, the stewards taken up by Lu Qian’s brothers now only hold steward identities and are no longer part of the disciple training system.

Their cultivation is managed by the Transmission Elder and the Sect Leader.

And for those who are really unsuitable for managerial roles and unable to become stewards, they are allowed to enjoy the treatment of True Disciples and receive monthly stipends according to True Disciple standards.

After all, they are Lu Qian’s senior and junior brothers, the senior uncles of the fifth-generation disciples. Besides their extraordinary seniority, they possess considerable cultivation, impressive combat strength, and are loyal to Yunshan Sect. This loyalty has been tested by their three-year wandering life.

Ultimately, after listening to suggestions from the four, Lu Qian drafted a mental outline: appoint Yang Jiye and Wang Yu as elders, five others as stewards, and Junior Brother Hao and three others enjoy True Disciple treatment.

The specific appointments to the steward roles under the nine Grand Elders will still take the five’s personalities and specialties into account, which will be decided after returning to the mountain gate and holding an Elder assembly.

After the final agenda item ended, Yang, Tan, Wang, and Zheng also left, leaving Lu Qian alone in this isolated array.

Lu Qian reached out and wiped, retrieving a book from the Sect Leader’s Ring; it was precisely the "Grotto Heaven True Understanding" obtained from Zhuo Wuying’s study.

The matter of the Grotto Heaven is of great significance. Without a definite conclusion, Lu Qian did not want others to know about this matter to avoid trouble from leaking it. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The urgent task is to determine whether Zhuo Wuying was merely idly browsing the introductions and analyses related to Grotto Heaven on a whim, or if he indeed discovered traces of a Grotto Heaven?

A Grotto Heaven can only be created by Void Refining True Monarch and above because it involves the mysteries of space.

Essentially, a Grotto Heaven is a spatial fragment either detached from the main world or obtained from void turbulence.

The path of cultivation for a cultivator starts from Qi Cultivation: Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Primordial Spirit, Void Refining, Harmonization, and finally, crossing the Celestial Tribulation to ascend to immortality.

A Void Refining True Monarch already stands at the pinnacle of true cultivation, a prominent figure among prominent figures, dominating several states, traversing the continent, and wielding great influence.

Such a figure is someone for whom an ordinary person would have to accumulate fortune over eighteen lifetimes just to catch a glimpse.

From Void Refining onwards, cultivators gain incredible divine techniques, not only breaking through spatial barriers, but also physically navigating void turbulence, achieving near-instantaneous teleportation, and creating miracles like crossing a million miles with one step. Most importantly, they can smelt spatial fragments, directly opening up their own small space in the void as their residence.

The small space opened up by Void Refining cultivators is called a Void Spirit Grotto Heaven.

Void Refining cultivators have begun to uncover the mysteries of spirit veins, albeit keeping such research concealed and never displayed publicly. Within super sects with Void Refining cultivators, the spiritual qi and spirit veins are top-tier, a completely different concept from sects without Void Refining cultivators.

Therefore, within a Grotto Heaven, they typically implant spirit veins using secret techniques, filling the entire Grotto Heaven with spiritual vitality and lush vitality.

And for cultivators seeking Grotto Heaven’s wealth, this means that the spiritual treasures, spirit pills, and spirit talismans of Void Refining cultivators enclosed within the Grotto Heaven will not become obsolete due to the passage of time lacking spiritual power. The various spiritual medicines and spirit plants grown there will become incredibly rare due to thousands of years of nourishment, unmatched in the world.

It might even be possible that the Grotto Heaven holds the inheritance of a Void Refining cultivator.

However, each Grotto Heaven is a sect’s inherited treasure, not to be explored by outsiders.

But over more than twenty thousand years in the cultivation realm, numerous accidents have occurred.

One type is when, after this Void Refining True Monarch falls, the sect fails to produce another Void Refining. This particular Void Spirit Grotto Heaven, as no one can reinforce the spatial coordinates or say spatial anchors, will gradually start oscillating, eventually disappearing into the void turbulence.

No one knows where this Grotto Heaven will ultimately end up; perhaps a thousand or ten thousand years later, under a fortuitous coincidence, this Grotto Heaven will quietly reappear somewhere in the world, and at that moment, it is a colossal opportunity descending.

Another is when this Void Refining True Monarch is originally a loose cultivator with no sect, then after his fall, the Grotto Heaven quietly floats in the void, awaiting the day of emergence, with all its wealth awaiting a destined person.

As for above Void Refining, the Grotto Heaven opened by Unity Immortal Monarch is called an Immortal Spirit Grotto Heaven.

Unity Immortal Monarchs almost never fall, so such circumstances are rarely seen with Immortal Spirit Grotto Heavens. In over twenty thousand years of cultivation realm history, the appearance of ownerless Immortal Spirit Grotto Heavens can be counted on one hand.

So when discussing opportunities related to Grotto Heaven, it is generally assumed to refer to a Void Spirit Grotto Heaven.

Once a Grotto Heaven emerges, it is a major event capable of shaking the entire continent, with countless sects and loose cultivators moving upon hearing the news. Even large sects possessing Nascent Soul cultivators become insufficient, let alone small Foundation Establishment sects like Ziluo Mountain.

Even if it’s just a faint trace of a Grotto Heaven’s presence, if used well, it’s a fortune of immense wealth.

From this perspective, Lu Qian really cannot believe that this immense fortune would fall into the hands of Zhuo Wuying of Ziluo Mountain.

In recent days, Lu Qian hastily browsed through hundreds of books in Zhuo Wuying’s study, which were essentially travel notes introducing local customs, geographical environments, spirit vein resources, and such, secrets and legends of giant and super sects, along with some peculiar and strange tales.

Books directly introducing Grotto Heaven were mostly spread on the desk by Zhuo Wuying, seemingly at the ready for casual reference.

Is it that he genuinely discovered some trace and thus began researching the mysteries of Grotto Heaven in search of treasures, or is it purely an interest, enjoying researching these rare things?

No matter what, if there truly is something found, Zhuo Wuying’s research summarized must be kept on him. These books only bear Zhuo Wuying’s casual notes.

Or one could say that what Lu Qian has obtained thus far are merely initial materials from Zhuo Wuying, the actual research results must yet be with Zhuo Wuying.

Even so, Lu Qian missed no trail, carefully recording Zhuo Wuying’s notes left on the books, linking context, deducing and inferring comprehensively.

Now, the book "Grotto Heaven True Understanding" in hand is the last one.

Just as Lu Qian turned over two pages, he suddenly shivered all over, his eyes widened, and his heart surged with tumultuous waves. On the blank space of the book, two characters were written with a brush: "Yunshan"!