"Spiritual root, physique, bones, comprehension, and application these 5 things are the very basics of cultivation. Each have their own difficulty to improve and broaden but the power and change that each provides individually cannot compare when all are practiced and used in a proper manner together. Many times throughout history whether for a single world a vast cultivation continent or even individual realms this basic concept is lost and cultivation once more must be rebuilt from the ground up, will this happen to our everlasting Vast tree realm?"
- Great scholar of the library of records
God haven was silent, his previous joy gone, for just a moment he felt his existence become meaningless.
He had never felt this way since the day he came into being for he was a God, his very existence was meaning, life, and creation... but the feeling he just had was not something he could explain away.
He felt fear.
Lord lerim sat in his chair within the mist covered planet, the planet was a naturally created spiritual heaven and the only planet of its kind in the current Vast tree realm its 'spirituality' was undoubted.
Lord lerim had a cold sweat running down his back and forehead, he felt as if he had insulted someone he could not.
At his realm of cultivation no one but his equals could be considered opponents and no one should be able to make him feel this way even if he traveled to thousands of universe realms, but he truly felt his life was in danger, this was something he couldn't feel when facing the Calamity's corrupted kings beings of equivalent power never had he felt the helplessness he did now.
The planet on the other hand was in utter silence as if its natural predator was befor it and it dared not move in order to avoid being sighted all the while its inner self wanted to flee.
Outside the Vast tree realm several Heaven defying cultivators and evil Gods waiting to ambush those fleeing the vast tree realm felt that they should not be here, as if their very presence was an insult.
They did not get this feeling from the direction of the Vast tree realm alone but from all directions as if their very existence was insulting to an unknown power.
Many chose to abandon the ambush and simply watch the results, they had lived to long and even if few things could threaten them, when it happened at their stage it could not be ignored.
All across existence in places far beyond the reach of what is known beyond time and space the most powerful beings in creation felt trepidation, sorrow, and emptiness.
"Hahahahhaha! How fun! A new calamity has been born, this one wonders what its moniker will be"
"How dreadful, why couldn't an almighty be born instead"
"Sigh~ if only we could have predicted this, I would have travelled there to see a glimpse into the almighty realm"
"You would probably have ended up dead if you had, I'm just amazed the current Almighty's and calamities allowed this happen, just who is it that can hide from their omniscience"
"hmph- most Almighty's rarely make appearances, the last time I can remember one descending was over 100 billion years ago fighting the Calamity of Null with his sons, most of creation had to be remade again. As for other calamities? Most just stay dormant letting their essence wander the endless void saying that they care is simply wishful thinking"
Voices sounded throughout existence but few could hear them, even God haven and Lord Lerim were ignorant of these voices.
Although the fear only lasted for a moment it was the most clear feeling they had ever felt.
~ Five family union main ark, Bell family mansion ~
Blinding light was currently raining down from the sky, the entire Bell family mansion was submerged under heavy amounts of spiritual energy.
The Bell family was one of the main family's in the five family union situated on the main flag ship Ark of the union and did not own another Ark, they had put all of their wealth into the creation of the main Ark and also stood to lose everything if the Ark should ever be destroyed.
The main Ark of the Five family Union was made of 5 mid ranked Spirit veins, and over 70 supporting low rank spirit veins with several hundred dry ~ bottom grade spirit veins to connect across the entire 90 kms of land that made up the Ark.
There were other spirit veins owned by certain family's separately from the main connection across the Ark but not many.
At the very center of the Ark rested the only high grade Spirit vein owned by the five family union, it's not connected to any other spirit veins in order to preserve as much of the energy contained within as possible and to allow it to grow over time if possible.
It was also placed at the center due to all the family's agreeing that it would become a holy ground for all the families and all other passengers in the Ark.
While it would mainly be closed off, it would be opened for special occasions and as a reward to the talented youngsters across the Five family union fleet.
Of course the Bell family regarded themselves as the owner of this high grade spiritual vein as such they build several mansions and manors for the entirely of their family to inhabit, as for the high grade spiritual vein it was sealed off at the very center of a towering mountain with only minimal amount of energy escaping.
The Bell family had build hundreds of cavern rooms that transfered a safe amount of spiritual energy to each room for them to use, in order to avoid an overflow that could cause backlash the energy that they could use was limited to the level of a mid grade spiritual vein.
Currently all spirit veins were improving at a rapid pace, hundreds of bottom grade Spirit veins had improved into low grade spirit veins, and several low grade veins were on the cusp of becoming middle grade spirit veins while the middle grade spirit veins still had to be submerged in the light for a while longer befor a few could have a possibility of transforming into high grade spirit veins.
The high grade spirit vein on the other hand was already on the verge of becoming a top grade spirit vein as it was submerged in dazzlingly bright light spreading its roots outside of the central area connecting to the greater whole of the Ark.
This was only one of the benefits of the light, many spiritual herbs were also starting to sprout while others were flowering.
Many unknown plants started sprouting across the ark creating new environments or filling the gaps of man made ones making them whole.
Many of the the environments transferred into the Arks were not complete or had lacked substance, but due to this light this the missing pieces filled in and expanded while many of the various areas created to house special plants and special materials improved and even given new life.
These were only the most noticable of changes, but not the most important.
The fake skies built by the five family union was currently undergoing a massive change, the skies built by rare materials of heaven to imitate the blue sky and white clouds, each section of the Ark had been set for their own version of the weather through genius methods.
Currently the false skies were in the process of turning into the 'real sky' and a loud rumbling could be heard, many special sky born materials were beginning to take shape and even the sky was expanding as if not bound by the limits of space.
The ark itself was built into 2 layers and a 3rd underground one, with the sides holding the 1st layer towering above the rest of the land below on the second layer with massive pillars holding it up, it looked like the land had caved in isolating the bottom layer from the top. From the bottom layer to the top their was a 'gap' of 9.5 kms and another 13 kms after that that made up the sky and it was this topmost layer that was expanding rapidly.
The top layer of land only covered the edges of the ship and expanded 19.5 kms in from all sides of the ship and was 4.5 kms thick it was considered the common area were most facilities of the ship were built for the 7 million passengers, this included the various sects, various family's and wandering cultivators which decided to hitch a ride.
The buildings on this level (1st level) rose a minimum of one kilometer high and hugged the walls on all sides of the ship creating a very dense living environment.
At this moment the walls seemed to create distance between the walls of the ship and the walls of the various buildings, a great space path array had been naturally built creating a vast land.
The land expanded 70 kilometers in all directions in the first layer giving rise to a vast plain surrounding the city while further out various mountains lay at the edges next to the ships walls.
Towns and cities all under the control of the Five family union originally intertwined with few gaps to be seen separating buildings from one another now gained 20 to 40 feet between each cluster of buildings.
The area in the center of the hole leading down to the second layer was the location the 5 major families resided and only they were allowed to build structures inside, this was because the bottom layer (2nd layer) was considered 'wilderness' and only the central most area where the Ball family resided had any buildings to be seen.
This central area held sky islands laying at the same level as the 1st layers giant city but at the very center of the hole leading down towards the 2nd layer.
Each of these islands held a single low grade spiritual vein with tens of dry and bottom grade accompaniment spiritual veins, now due to the treasure light the low grade spiritual vein in each of the 5 sky islands transformed into a mid grade spiritual vein and while the lower rank spiritual veins didn't have the same luck they became far more durable plus they started producing spiritual stones of various grades.
Each of the islands seem to grow in size by well over 10 times yet instead of looking larger from the outside they seemed to shrink into the distance the air warping around them.
This wilderness on the 2nd layer was what provides for all the cultivators on the ark for ages to come so none were allowed in without permission with the exclusion of the Bell family of course.
Filled with tens of thousands of space and time formations, the actual space was far larger then the 90kms shown on the outside of the Ark and was expanding even further.
Time in the second layer increased to 1.5x the norm.
As the changes in the ship happened the divide between the bottom and top layer started to get foggy as the spiritual energy on the Ark started to increase
the islands in the center became more isolated from one another.
The air in the Ark was now fresher, more pure and the spiritual energy in the ark had increased to be comparable to Mid grade spirit veins, simply breathing will allow a cultivator to recover lost energy quickly. Befor this the energy in the air simply disintegrated about 100 feet in the air befor, now it spread all across the Ark from the ground to the top of the sky.
The Ark had now become a small heaven, a completed heaven and earth realm.
The vast majority of spirit veins had completed their transformation into low grade and mid grade spirit veins, and even two high grade spirit veins had managed to form.
Many new bottom grade spirit veins had taken shape and spread out across the entire Ark spreading spiritual energy evenly across even the most obscure areas.
Now only the Top grade spirit vein was left in the process of finishing its formation while the skies had completely changed and even the earth was now releasing small amounts of heat.
The spiritual energy on the Ark could even be said to be higher then most worlds, and was comparable to major spiritual continents in the vast tree realm.
The Bell family patriarch was waiting outside a room, he was feeling the changes in the Ark with his spiritual sense and a look of happiness and astonishment came across his face from time to time. His own cultivation was currently at peak early deity transformation and he was on the verge of making a breaking through.
Several people were besides him, a few at deity transformation, Nascent soul even a few core formation people could be seen, all were having improvements in their respective cultivations and all surveying the changes happening.
Inside of the room a woman surrounded by many maids with confused looks due to the many changes around them, but all doing their duty nonetheless, the woman surrounded was laying down and was in the process of giving birth to her first born child and possibly only child since she was already at the nascent soul stage, it would become extremely difficult for any cultivator past nascent soul to first of get pregnant and second give birth.
Giving birth at higher cultivation stages ran the risk of the child being ripped, crushed or disintegrated in the womb unintentionally by the mother even befor it has a chance to take its first breath due to the mothers own spirit energy turning chaotic, or just through simply everyday cultivation.
A cultivators body also became much tougher as their cultivation rose to the point that the baby could simply not come out befor being turned to paste.
Saying that any child born to a high grade cultivator is a miracle is an understatement, any child born to high grade cultivators would almost guarantee being born a cultivator themselves and would have talent above others, the higher the cultivation of the parents the more they would do anything to ensure the child is born after all it might be several hundred, thousand or even million years befor the next chance of a child being conceived occurs.
Although it was rare to successfully carry a to child be born with a birth rate of 1/10 million babies being born.
In the case of the Bell family matriarch it could take several tens of years befor another pregnancy and thats only if her cultivation stayed the same.
Soon a bright light blinded the eyes of those around the matriarch and a babys head could be seen, followed by its shoulders and the rest of its body followed.
'Ugh why is it so loud... Huh? Didn't I die only recently how can I already be reborn' although the baby had just been born this was its first thought.
'oh the looks on these peoples faces, I must have triggered a heavenly phenomenon upon my rebirth, lets see who comes to try and take me away' the baby was already considering this possibility as the most probable, even tho its eyes had yet to open the baby's spiritual sense was far more advanced then it should otherwise be.
"It's a girl! madam a has given birth to a baby girl!" a maid said in excitement causing those who were standing in their stupor to wake up.
A few old man frowned but the vast majority of the household had happy expression's.
As the final spirit vein finished its formation and the thousands of large and small changes took place in the ark, the ark was dragged into the rift along with millions of other Arks.