Chapter 224: The Choice of the Treasure Celestial Grotto

By using the art of transformation to live in seclusion in Tianqing City, and slowly earning the cultivation resources he needed through Alchemy, Lin Jing felt that maintaining his current state and living days without having to flee everywhere was quite comfortable.

However, things did not go as planned. Lin Jing seemed to have forgotten something he had not encountered for a long time—something capable of indiscriminately tearing him out of his stable environment and dragging him into disputes.

In the commercial street of Tianqing City, people were coming and going when there was a sudden disturbance in the sky. A massive sound accompanied a pillar of light descending from the heavens, crashing heavily into a pavilion in a corner of the commercial street.

Boom!

As the pillar of light fell, Venerable Lingquan, a Soul Transformation powerhouse in Tianqing City, suddenly walked out of his Immortal Cave. “That direction is…”

“The Nameless Pill Pavilion?”

“That young wandering alchemist has entered a grotto-heaven—the treasure light is leaking out; it is actually the Treasure Celestial Grotto. This is bad.”

“That brat hasn’t finished paying back the Gluttony Pill he owes me, and I was planning to cooperate with the Master behind him for a long time. He better not die!”

“After nearly twenty years, I never expected to enter a grotto-heaven again—”

Compared to the hustle and bustle of the outside world, Lin Jing himself felt quite dazed inside the grotto-heaven at this moment.

After sending off Senior Brother Ouyang, he had started Alchemy. While he was refining, he was suddenly dragged into the grotto-heaven.

The arrival of this grotto-heaven caught Lin Jing off guard, but what he cared about more now was the type and mechanism of this grotto-heaven.

“Treasure Celestial Grotto”!

Before long, inside the bright white main hall of the grotto-heaven, the six people who had entered appeared around a stone tablet in the center of the hall.

On the stone tablet, the four large characters “Treasure Celestial Grotto” were carved.

Besides that, the rules regarding the Treasure Celestial Grotto were also engraved on the stone tablet.

Treasure Celestial Grotto, Heaven-Sent Supreme Treasure.

Instruction 1: The Treasure Celestial Grotto will select a Magic Treasure from its treasury that perfectly suits each entrant as the final reward based on their specific situation. Entrants can learn the information about their final reward in advance, and each person’s Heaven-Sent Treasure is different.

Instruction 2: After seeing the information about the Magic Treasure, entrants can choose to “Acquire” or “Give Up.”

Instruction 3: Choosing to acquire will lead to a melee battle with other Cultivators who made the same choice. The only person to survive in the end will receive the final reward.

Instruction 4: Choosing to give up will result in being isolated outside the main hall, becoming an observer. After the grotto-heaven ends, one will be teleported back, with no threat to life.

“Are you kidding me? Why does it have to be this grotto-heaven—”

Among the six, a youth dressed as a boatman scratched his head frantically.

A grotto-heaven where one must fight to the death to obtain an Opportunity is too risky.

The six quickly observed each other.

Lin Jing looked over; there were three men and two women.

The one who spoke just now appeared to be the boatman youth, who likely specialized in Water techniques and cultivated in coastal areas.

There was also a tall Lightning Cultivator youth in luxurious clothes with long golden hair, who looked like he had an extraordinary background.

Of the two Female Cultivators, one was a young girl in a green dress who appeared delicate and seemed to specialize in Wood techniques.

The other woman looked like a Fire Cultivator, but there was no aura of Medicinal Pills on her, and her robust physique made her look more like an Artifact Refiner.

As for the last youth, by coincidence, it was someone Lin Jing knew, and at this moment, the other party was also looking at Lin Jing in disbelief.

The six people present all understood the cruelty of the Treasure Celestial Grotto. If they chose to compete, unless they had the strength to kill all opponents, death awaited them.

“Forget it—” the boatman youth muttered to himself, feeling that none of the other five people were easy to deal with.

However, when the information about the Heaven-Sent Treasure corresponding to each person appeared before their eyes, a powerful greed stirred their hearts once more.

The boatman youth’s breathing suddenly became rapid, and his previous thoughts vanished instantly. Even at the risk of death, he suddenly wanted to fight for that glimmer of Opportunity.

Including Lin Jing.

As the ten-second selection countdown appeared on the stone tablet, a phantom hourglass that only Lin Jing could see appeared before him.

At the same time, information about the hourglass flooded into Lin Jing’s mind, making him widen his eyes slightly.

The holder can enter the space within the hourglass to Cultivate. The time flow inside is 10:1 compared to the outside world; that is, ten years pass inside the hourglass, while only one year passes outside.

In addition, the Different Space inside the hourglass is difficult to destroy or break into unless one is a Cultivator who has mastered both the Dao of Time and the Dao of Space…

“This Magic Treasure—” Lin Jing was instantly captivated.

The Sands of Time also has a flaw: for every ten years spent inside, one must leave the hourglass space and stay in the outside world for a full year before being able to re-enter. The cooldown time for use is one year in the outside world.

Furthermore, while in the hourglass space, the entrant’s age will increase according to the internal time, and their Lifespan will also pass according to the internal time, not matching the outside world’s time flow.

But this does not matter to a Longevity Physique. People with normal Lifespans might feel distressed as their Lifespan passes as usual, but a Longevity Physique does not worry.

“It is indeed a Magic Treasure tailored for a Longevity Physique. The difficulty for a Longevity Physique is how to convert a long Lifespan into cultivation base. This Time-Space Hourglass directly solves this problem to a certain extent.”

“Most importantly, the space inside can also be used to evade powerful enemies. A great Cultivator who has mastered both the Dao of Time and the Dao of Space—” The only person Lin Jing could think of at the moment was the Tower Master of Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Such Cultivators are too rare.

However, the price to obtain this Magic Treasure is also huge…

Lin Jing scanned the others; their eyes were also bloodshot. Clearly, they had also seen Magic Treasures that perfectly suited them, and the value likely would not be inferior to the Sands of Time that Lin Jing saw.

“To obtain this Heaven-Sent Treasure, one must follow the grotto-heaven rules and kill other Geniuses. The forces behind these Geniuses will certainly not let it go. It would be fine if the other party is not a Cultivator from Qingzhou, but if they are a Cultivator from Qingzhou, it will be troublesome.”

“At that time, my fake identity will surely be dragged into the storm again—”

“But if I choose to give up, I will miss out on this Supreme Treasure with time and space attributes—”

“I give up—” While Lin Jing was still deliberating, among the six entrants, a youth at the Foundation Establishment Perfection stage looked in Lin Jing’s direction and gave up on this grotto-heaven Opportunity, not intending to compete to acquire the Heaven-Sent Treasure he saw.

He was wearing the Pill Servant uniform of Tongtian Pagoda and had a powerful aura. This person walked directly out of the main hall to watch the battle from below.

This youth was none other than Xia Yan, who had passed the Tongtian Pagoda assessment by purchasing the Meal Medicinal Pill at that time.

“This alchemist can change my destiny with a single Medicinal Pill and can even see through my father’s background at a glance; he is definitely not as simple as the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage he appears to be. Even without considering the favor, I would definitely not be his opponent. It is better not to compete for this grotto-heaven Opportunity.”

Xia Yan looked at the information about the Supreme Treasure before him, his heart bleeding, but his reason made him give up.

After all, this was a figure even his father feared.

The final ten-second countdown ended, and only two people gave up the Magic Treasure. Following Xia Yan, the Female Cultivator also walked out of the main hall, leaving only the last four people, who, accompanied by the countdown on the stone tablet, revealed different expressions in their eyes.

“Kid—did you also see that the yellow-haired one is not to be trifled with?” After the Female Cultivator walked down, she spoke to Xia Yan, looking solemnly at the golden-haired youth.

“Who is he? The one not to be trifled with shouldn’t it be that alchemist in the Fire Cloud Pill uniform?” Xia Yan looked at her, thinking that since she was also a Fire Cultivator, she had sensed the terrifying flame power inside Lin Jing.