Family Cultivation: I can see the prompts

228: Rebirth after disasterThe dark clouds in the sky, as if angered, gathered more and became larger.

The entire Grotto-heaven World visibly darkened.

The frequency of the muffled thunder in the sky became faster and faster, and the air grew increasingly oppressive.

The Wood Demon, at some unknown point, had returned to its main body, only revealing a tree face floating on the trunk.

The next moment, with a muffled rumble, the entire sky suddenly brightened.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning fiercely struck the Mingxin Tea Tree, a puff of black smoke rose, and lightning bolts shot in all directions, crackling in the air, electric light crisscrossing and raging everywhere.

The entire Mingxin Tea Tree was instantly split in half, charred black.

Countless blue electric arcs began to rage on the ground, eventually absorbed by the Golden Thunder Bamboo Spiritual Root.

Lin Shiming, watching from a distance, now had an extremely gloomy expression; he hadn’t expected the Mingxin Tea Tree to last even a moment, yet the Wood Demon had just sent him a confident thought.

He sensed the Spiritual Contract but unexpectedly found that the Wood Demon’s Divine Thought had not disappeared.

On the contrary, from the other end of the Spiritual Contract, he only felt an extremely nascent fluctuation of Divine Sense.

At this moment, he suddenly had a misconception: the Mingxin Tea Tree he had contracted was a vibrant, infinitely hopeful sapling!

Lin Shiming’s expression immediately stiffened, and he focused his gaze on the Mingxin Tea Tree’s main body.

He saw that from the charred branches, split in two, a tender shoot suddenly grew out of the dead wood, clearly reborn through the lightning.

This shoot was still very tender and small; if one didn’t look carefully, it would be unnoticeable.

At this moment, Lin Shiming had some realization: this Mingxin Tea Tree was initially suppressed at the second-tier level in the Yellow Grade Secret Realm, and by the time it was brought out of the Yellow Grade Secret Realm, the Tea Tree was already extremely old, like a Cultivator who had exhausted his Qi and blood.

Even without the suppression, it could not grow into a third-tier Tea Tree on its own.

If nothing unexpected happened, the Mingxin Tea Tree would eventually die of old age; it was just that the Wood Demon found a sliver of vitality, a new life after tribulation, within the Golden Thunder Bamboo.

And today, it used the heavenly lightning to wash away all Death Qi and be reborn.

This action was extremely audacious; if there was even a slight mishap, its bones would surely be annihilated, much like a Cultivator over sixty years old attempting to Breakthrough Foundation Establishment by force without consuming a Foundation Establishment Pill, a situation with only one chance in ten of survival.

Seeing that the Divine Soul on the other end of the Spiritual Contract was unharmed, even though the Wood Demon did not appear, Lin Shiming felt relieved, but what puzzled him was...

The dark clouds in the sky were still gathering, and the lightning was still rolling, showing no signs of dissipating.

It was as if the wrath had not subsided, intending to continue pulverizing the Mingxin Tea Tree.

This made him nervous again; the young Tea Tree now could not withstand a lightning strike, and he himself was not very confident in resisting it.

Boom!

The next moment, lightning struck again, but this time it wasn’t the Mingxin Tea Tree, but the Golden Thunder Bamboo.

The entire Golden Thunder Bamboo, along with its Golden Thunder Bamboo Spiritual Root, was bathed in blue lightning, the electric light illuminating the entire space.

Each electric arc crackled, and the hundred-meter radius around the Golden Thunder Bamboo became scorched earth from the lightning.

The Red-haired Demon Monkey and the Golden Winged Mantis had, at some unknown time, already run behind Lin Shiming.

Even the Golden Winged Mantis was somewhat wary of the heavenly lightning, not to mention the Red-haired Demon Monkey, who kept poking its head out, tugging at Lin Shiming’s clothes, and howling.

It kept urging Lin Shiming to retreat further back.

Even the Snake Egg showed an extremely frightened emotion, wanting Lin Shiming to carry it away.

Lin Shiming also picked up the Snake Egg and retreated to the edge with the two beasts; since the heavenly lightning was cleansing the Golden Thunder Bamboo, his inner worry disappeared.

The Golden Thunder Bamboo was originally a lightning-attributed Spiritual Bamboo, and heavenly lightning was merely nourishment for it.

Legend has it that a ten-thousand-year-old Golden Thunder Bamboo requires several bolts of heavenly lightning every day.

After three consecutive bolts of heavenly lightning struck, the dark clouds finally dispersed with satisfaction.

And now, in the Golden Thunder Bamboo area, electric arcs were still constantly circulating, and terrifying electric sparks, even if a tiny bit splattered, would blast some of the nearby Spiritual Plants into oblivion.

But they caused no harm at all to the Golden Thunder Bamboo itself.

Instead, as if it had absorbed nourishment, it suddenly grew another two or three feet taller.

Moreover, what he hadn’t expected was that a new shoot emerged again from the Golden Thunder Bamboo Spiritual Root nearby.

Clearly, the original Golden Thunder Bamboo, with its thirty-plus years of age, couldn’t fully absorb the lightning, and the overflowing lightning power stimulated the growth of a new Golden Thunder Bamboo.

The lightning continued to rage for half an hour before slowly dissipating.

Lin Shiming first walked up to the Mingxin Tea Tree.

The reborn Mingxin Tea Tree was only about a meter tall, with not many leaves, but they were extremely crystal clear and brimming with Spiritual Qi.

It had clearly broken through the second-tier realm and become a third-tier spirit tea Tree.

The Wood Demon still hadn’t appeared, but a sense of peace emanated from the Spiritual Contract.

Lin Shiming was not in a hurry; he used his own Purple Wood True Essence to Cultivate the Tea Tree for a while, and then scooped some spirit soil from nearby.

After observing the Mingxin Tea Tree, he walked towards the Golden Thunder Bamboo.

The Golden Thunder Bamboo was growing exceptionally well at this moment; this bout of Lightning Tribulation had essentially added several years of growth, but the greatest gain was still that new Golden Thunder Bamboo shoot.

Lin Shiming also, as per usual, catalyzed and cultivated the Golden Thunder Bamboo before contentedly exiting the Grotto-heaven World.

Inside the main hall.

Lin Shiming deactivated the Formation and found Lin Shizhong still engrossed in research, holding a Jade Slip, constantly recording, and simultaneously taking out Materials to compare.

And Lin Shijin, at some unknown time, had also carved out a stone chamber nearby and begun secluded cultivation to craft talismans.

Seeing this, Lin Shiming also chose a spot and began to Cultivate the Purple Wood Heart Sutra with his eyes closed.

A month passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Shiming opened his eyes.

He walked out of the stone chamber.

Outside the stone chamber, Lin Shijin and Lin Shizhong were both already waiting; Lin Shijin was excited, while Lin Shizhong appeared somewhat dejected.

”Patriarch, the Teleportation Talismans have been refined!” Lin Shijin took out three talismans and respectfully handed them to Lin Shiming.

”Not bad, Shijin, you’ve rendered meritorious service to the Family!” Lin Shiming took the talismans, examined them for a while, and then praised with extreme satisfaction.

Lin Shizhong, however, spoke with some disappointment:

”Patriarch, the Teleportation Array is too complex. Shizhong is slow-witted and couldn’t engrave it completely; I can only damage and restore a corner of the exterior of the Spirit Gathering Platform. As for the central Formation, I cannot comprehend it!”

Lin Shizhong finished speaking and lowered his head.

”If it’s damaged, will it affect teleportation?” Lin Shiming asked.

Damaging the Formation was to prevent the other side from teleporting over, and repairing it was to ensure the Family could restore it at any time.

”It will affect the use of Teleportation Talismans and Teleportation Orders; ordinary Cultivators will be torn apart by spatial power, but a Golden Core Immortal Master might be unharmed!” Lin Shizhong hesitated for a moment, then replied seriously.

”That’s fine then, Shizhong, you’ve also rendered meritorious service!” Lin Shiming nodded; as long as it could prevent ordinary Purple Mansion Cultivators, it was enough. As for Golden Core Immortal Master, such beings, the System should provide an early warning.

”Let’s go, let’s head back first and prepare the Materials!”