Cave Refuge

No one expected that the monster, even in a near-death state, could still use an ability that made people ignore its presence.

But this was a good opportunity; while others were no longer paying attention to the monster, Dong Tianyu quickly approached it after deploying his Invisibility Technique.

It was only when Dong Tianyu stood beside the monster that he noticed, although the monster's body had almost depleted its blood reserves.

Yet at this moment, the monster could still forcefully squeeze its body, rapidly repairing wounds all over itself.

Originally towering over a hundred meters tall, its body shrank to under a hundred meters by the time Dong Tianyu approached. If not for the traces left on the ground after the flames were extinguished, Dong Tianyu would not have noticed this immediately.

Seeing that the monster's body surface had almost fully repaired, Dong Tianyu knew he could not wait any longer. While the monster was still relying on blood to repair itself and unable to resist, Dong Tianyu immediately executed the Universe in the Palm technique, shrinking and sending it into the Cave.

Facing such a peculiar monster, Dong Tianyu didn't want to keep it for research; as soon as it entered the Cave, Dong Tianyu directly disintegrated it.

With the arrival of the Great Decomposition Technique, the monster's body instantly turned to ash and disappeared.

After the monster's body had completely vanished, Dong Tianyu felt that his Cave was only a step away from the next upgrade.

However, unlike the arbitrary disintegration and absorption of any material for an upgrade, the Cave had now begun evolving from a Half-plane towards a complete Plane. To truly complete this evolution, what was needed were no ordinary materials but rather items with special properties. Only by endowing the Cave with some special attributes could it evolve from a Half-plane into a complete Plane.

Of course, it's not that the Cave no longer possessed the ability to decompose and devour. At this time, even if it couldn't evolve from a Half-plane to a complete Plane, devouring those ordinary materials could still expand the area of the Cave. However, the Cave was already so vast that expanding it by even one square meter required the devouring of a vast amount of resources.

Taking advantage of the monster's remaining ability to be ignored, Dong Tianyu, who had come invisibly to collect the monster's body, did so without attracting anyone else's attention as he sent the monster into the Cave.

Even after Dong Tianyu had left the scene and returned to his Companion Spiritual Treasure, those dispatched by the Officials only busied themselves with receiving the several tanks sent by the Imperial Court, as well as arranging accommodation and meals for the soldiers who had escorted the tanks.

Having achieved his goal, Dong Tianyu was no longer concerned about the situation there, returning to the Companion Spiritual Treasure to rest with his parents.

Just as Dong Tianyu had fallen into a deep sleep inside the Companion Spiritual Treasure, a drizzle suddenly began, turning heavier with time.

This rain didn't affect those survivors living in Companion Spiritual Treasures like Dong Tianyu at all.

After all, the most basic attribute of all Companion Spiritual Treasures is Floating, meaning no matter how heavy the rain, the Companion Spiritual Treasures would not sink into the water. In rainy weather, it would be evident that all rainwater, even if it fell on the deck, would not flow into the cabin but would directly run off the deck to the outside.

The Thompson Family had even less to worry about, with their Companion Spiritual Treasure shaped like a submersible having the ability to navigate underwater, not taking in any water even in the deep sea, let alone any large impact from the rain on those living inside.

However, for those who had set up camps in the wilderness, this sudden rainfall caused them considerable misery.

After all, as the rainfall intensified, although their tents were waterproof, as the rain grew heavier, some water would splash into the tents through the openings on the tent sides.

And thus, as the rain continued to pour, many of those originally living in tents reluctantly moved into their Companion Spiritual Treasures.

Once they had moved into their Companion Spiritual Treasures, they immediately abandoned their original tents. After all, compared to the tents where they could hardly stretch out fully, the spacious rooms inside the cabins of the Companion Spiritual Treasures were much more to their liking.

A good night's sleep~~

When Dong Tianyu woke up, he saw both his parents were already up, standing at the window of the Companion Spiritual Treasure, observing the outside environment.

Dong Tianyu quickly got out of bed and dressed up, then swiftly packed the bedding into the Storage space before finally walking to the window to ask his parents, "Dad, Mom, what are you two looking at by the window? What time is it now? Why isn't it bright outside?"

After speaking, Dong Tianyu glanced at the wall clock in the villa's living room within the Cave. By now, Dong Tianyu had completely refined the Cave; the connection between Dong Tianyu and the Cave was even closer than the connection between a Cultivator and his Lifebound Magical Treasure.

For this reason, Dong Tianyu was not only able to open a spatial passage at any covered location within the Divine Sense's range.

But he could also enter the Cave in an instant without opening a spatial passage, and even now he could see every location in the Cave directly with his eyes, without having to open a spatial passage.

Because of this, Dong Tianyu would not normally need to wear a watch. If he wanted to know the time, just like now, without physically entering the Cave or opening a spatial passage, he could see the time displayed on the wall clock in the villa's living room with his bare eyes.