Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone Chapter 950 714: Qinglian: Together in Life and Death, Never to Be Separated

Lu Family Grotto Heaven.

Overhead, the sky loomed gray, stripped of any shine, coming across as uniform and lackluster.

Beneath that gray expanse rose a towering city, grand and imposing, built swiftly from White Jade Divine Stones etched with arcane runes. These countless runes merged into a robust formation, fortifying the city's defenses.

Surrounding the city lay neat expanses of spiritual fields, meticulously arranged, filled with rare treasures like Jade Marrow Lingzhi, Celestial Spirit Flower, Void Grass, Nirvana Grass, and more. Scattered among them were sections of Spirit Rice such as Crystal Rice, Jade Emperor Rice, White Sun Rice, gently waving in the wind.

In the air above, birds dove in a flock, tracing an elegant curve while emitting sharp cries; far off, massive cattle charged like armored behemoths, their vibrant hides flashing as they thundered across the ground.

Wolves prowled in packs nearby, coordinating cunning maneuvers to chase down their quarry;

A White Tiger crept stealthily toward its target, then from under a hundred meters, erupted like thunder, lunging to clamp its jaws on the prey's neck.

Bees hummed in a buzzing horde, gathering nectar to craft their sweet bounty.

Within the lake, fish leaped in schools, splashing with delight as they plunged and glided through the waters.

Upon relocating the Lu Family cultivators here, numerous Spirit Beasts were also imported to bolster resources and liven up the grotto heaven's landscape, transforming it from plain and tedious into a lively spectacle.

Some five thousand varieties of Spirit Beasts filled the space, many boasting potent bloodlines that could advance to Golden Core, or even Nascent Soul.

Certain ones, seizing rare chances, might ascend all the way to Divinity Transformation.

Yet every one of these Spirit Beasts received unique conditioning—no matter their cultivation prowess or surging Qi and Blood, they remained mere livestock, forever denied sentience, existing in a haze until slaughtered for the table.

In the city's northwest rose a peak brimming with Spiritual Qi, its slopes sheer and studded with bizarre boulders, waterfalls tumbling in silvery streams; a river wound serpentine from the heights, looping grandly before vanishing afar.

At the mountain's foot sprawled a Spirit Medicine Garden, stocked with scarce, invaluable herbs over ten thousand years mature—the core of the Lu Family's legacy. Protective arrays encircled it, runes shimmering in layers to shield against harm.

Access demanded a proper token.

Harvesting Spirit Medicines required pairs of cultivators watching one another, thwarting any sneaky pilfering.

Throughout the Medicine Garden, Spirit Plant Masters patrolled diligently, nurturing the plants by adding nutrients, removing weeds, banishing insects, and stimulating vitality to hasten their maturation.

From the mountain base, a winding trail snaked uphill, flanked by cave mansions on both sides. These abodes held minimal, basic setups, but linked directly to Spirit Vein hubs, flooding them with dense Spiritual Qi for the cultivators' practice.

Lu Family members paid a fee to occupy these cave mansions.

Crowning the summit grew an Eighth Grade Spirit Tree called the Tree of Time. Fruitless now, it anchored as a grotto heaven treasure, ceaselessly drawing immense heaven-and-earth forces to balance the inner realm and steady the Primordial Qi.

Perched at the peak was a woman with elegantly arched brows, luminous captivating eyes, a dainty refined nose, lush cherry lips, flowing raven tresses, a pale slender neck, shoulders chiseled to perfection, ample rounded bosom, a narrow alluring waist, clad in an azure silkworm silk phoenix robe. The gossamer silk resembled cicada wings, its hem pleated and striped delicately, paired below with sleek black satin trousers adorned in subtle velvet blooms.

The woman lingered atop the mountain, eyes fixed afar, as if anticipating someone's arrival.

"Husband, why haven't you come back yet! Do you know how much I miss you!"

Murmuring to herself, lost in memories, she continued: "Husband, it's been over a thousand years since you departed the grotto heaven. At first, the Lu Family enjoyed peace. But soon enough, troubles and clashes began to erupt!"

"In the end, the Lu Family Grotto Heaven remains far too confined, burdened by scarce resources and tight quarters. For the short term, it poses no major problem, yet as years drag on, it sparks growing unease. Countless cultivators have resorted to hibernation just to cope with the relentless march of time."

"Spiritual Veins within the grotto heaven yield only meager Spiritual Qi, leaving high-level Lu Family cultivators unable to draw it freely—they manage just a fraction, sufficient merely to sustain their cultivation without any backslide. In the short run, it's hardly alarming, but in the long haul, frustration builds among many!"

"Certain cultivators endured no longer and abandoned the grotto heaven, never coming back!"

"Others sought to breach the grotto heaven, drawing in outside Spiritual Qi to offset the heavy drain inside, only for it to lure a fearsome Void Divine Beast!"

"Not long back, we clashed with a Harmonization stage powerhouse, and without sheer luck on our side, this grotto heaven could already have been snatched by outsiders!"