As soon as Huang Kexiu entered the Altar Space, he felt his spiritual power dispersing uncontrollably, unable to control the process entirely; then, the dispersed spiritual power reflected back through various refractions, gradually reaching a sort of balance in the process.

The spiritual power involved in this process occupies about thirty percent of his total spiritual power.

It's hard to describe the Altar Space from the outside, but once he came in, everything became clear.

The space he is currently in is shaped like a vat, an enormously huge vat, with boundaries made of some material that can reflect spiritual power, but he still doesn't understand what this material actually is.

The spiritual exchange in this Altar Space only takes up thirty percent of a cultivator's total, which is the most basic space within the Altar Heaven. In the future, once he adapts to this kind of spiritual exchange and manages to strengthen his spirit in the exchange, at a certain limit, he will be moved to a higher level of the Altar Space, where the degree of spiritual exchange might reach forty percent, fifty percent?

From here, ascending all the way, the ultimate limit of the Altar Space will subject the cultivator's entire spiritual power to extreme exchange, continuously emptying and storing to expand the cultivator's Sea Of Consciousness, thereby achieving a growth in spiritual power.

From thirty percent to one hundred percent, this process has seven checkpoints, serving as a test of gain and loss for the cultivator.

He now resides in the most basic Altar Space, alone in the entire space, allowing him to focus on honing his spirit, attacking the capacity of his Sea Of Consciousness through emptiness and storage. If everything goes smoothly, when he exits the Grotto Heaven, he might enhance his spirit by no more than thirty percent.

But having struggled to come in once, no one would be satisfied with such an increase; raising it by thirty percent would make them want to increase it to forty percent until the final extreme space doubles their spiritual power. This would greatly aid the cultivator's cultivation, combat, alchemy, and various other aspects.

Hence, the choice presents itself: when moving to the next Altar Space, he might encounter other cultivators. In a space where only one person can exist, multiple people cultivating would result in a chaotic state of spiritual power; my spiritual reflection to you, your spiritual refraction to me, ultimately leading to two fragmented spirits...

To avoid this situation, only one of the two can stay! Who would be willing to retreat? It can only be resolved by life and death.

So, he could remain hidden in the basic space, ensuring absolute safety, but the spiritual power increase would be the minimum thirty percent; or he could courageously move upwards and attempt a forty percent increase, yet this involves the risk of competing for survival with others.

What to do? Each person has their own choices, which ultimately determine a cultivator's future upper limits.

Spiritual power is incredibly crucial to the Golden Core Realm, and it will only become more important in the future.

Huang Kexiu brought out the Stone Fetus, which he counts as his safeguard to be pushed back to the next layer of space rather than just fighting to the death if he's outmatched when moving spaces.

He believes that, like him, every cultivator participating in the trial would take out their most precious treasures to request a favor from the Cave Spirit Net, of course, if confident in their strength, then it might not matter.

The Stone Fetus was thrown out, transforming into a black light and disappearing into the space. Huang Kexiu composed himself, ceasing his distractions. At the very least, he now needs to first accomplish a thirty percent increase in spiritual power, reaching the criteria for a thirty percent spiritual power growth before proceeding with anything else.

Without hesitation, he emptied his mind, allowing spiritual power to refract repeatedly within the vat's walls and then retrieving it within himself.

The trial had begun; no one knew what awaited them.

... Just as Huang Kexiu expected, all twenty-seven Golden Core participants, except for Lao Du and the three Heartless Dao Nascent Souls, also threw in their offering.

These four people do not need to worry, as their power ensures they cannot be defeated.

The Altar Grotto Heaven, theoretically, is an enormous vat-shaped space without mountains, water, or natural landscapes. It's an incredibly pure spiritual Grotto Heaven, so even when Jinxiu's Heaven Creation is imminent, it still maintains normal operations.

It is also a spatial Grotto Heaven, where everyone is within the vat yet unseen by each other, as if countless identical vats are nested together, identical in shape but in different spatial dimensions.

You can understand it as these people being together or imagine them in different spaces, depending on how you think of it.

When Huang Kexiu threw out his Stone Fetus, another Heartless Dao Golden Core in the Altar Space also threw out his treasure, which turned out to be a Stone Sword; like Huang Kexiu's black market treasure hunt, this Stone Sword also gave this Golden Core a strong sense of confidence, believing this treasure could ensure his safety.

The rest was not their concern, left to the Cave Spirit, but is it really that simple?

... In Baolian City, within a luxurious mansion, a group of cultivators sat in silent meditation. This is a secret outpost of the Wu Sect in Baolian City. Over a century, Wu Sect's infiltration into the Heartless Dao has never stopped, but what disappoints them is that it's only halted at the periphery, unable to advance a single inch further.

Hence, the whereabouts of the two stolen Grotto Heavens remain unknown, and even knowing their location, they are unreachable through artifact manipulation due to the defensive level being totally different compared to the lax Dushan Sword Lineage.

Years of persistence, resulting in this stalemate, left the Wu Sect Daoists quite disheartened, unless they initiate a Daoist war, utterly destroying the Heartless Dao, perhaps then they could find the Grotto Heavens after digging three feet under Lotus Mountain.

Clearly, this is unrealistic.

But after Yuqing's Jue Mingzi took charge of the Wu Sect, things began to differ. This visitor from the Upper Realm proposed a new plan, no longer hiding the Otherworldly Space like dealing with the Sword Vein Sword Tomb Space, but directly bringing the Stone Sword into Altar Grotto Heaven, then, through the connection between the Stone Fetus and the Stone Sword, send people directly into the Altar Space, attempting to seize it from within relying on Wu Sect's nearly two-millennium understanding of the Altar Grotto Heaven.

This plan had been pondered for a long time, with preparations across many aspects, yet due to certain events in the Dushan Sword Lineage, the Stone Fetus was lost, an unexpected setback.

The Wu Sect had to spend an additional decade recreating a similar item to the Stone Fetus, albeit far from ideal but just about sufficient to use, finally deciding to act after everything was ready.

Like Fang Yazi and his companion, they chose to have unsuspecting Heartless Dao cultivators bring in the Space Treasure, essentially a spatial coordinate.

In the mansion, Jue Mingzi's hand caressed a cumbersome stone drum, somewhat rough, as materials and artifact making skills were lacking,

"Ladies and gentlemen, we can enter."

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