One had to admit that Kalina had almost figured out the reason behind Aksai’s diverse set of abilities.

She made sure not to underestimate him, attributing his strength not only to his fortunate encounters but also to his ability to fully benefit from them.

However, she could never have imagined that she had still greatly underestimated Aksai’s achievements.

She would never have guessed that Aksai possessed inheritances from not just the Holy Land Torel but also the Heavenly Poison Sect.

In fact, Aksai was currently the sole inheritor of both of these ancient sects from the bygone era.

If his Spirit cultivation were strong enough, he would have been able to shrink the legacy grounds of these two organizations into tiny spatial spheres and claim them as his own.

Doing so would allow him to use them as private cultivation grounds, breed countless precious resources within them, and increase his strength at a pace unimaginable even to a clan like the Ignis Clan.

One could say that Aksai’s fortuitous encounters would have made even Vaelira Ignis jealous. Forget about Vaelira—even her father, Vanar Ignis, would have ended his seclusion, even at the cost of being drafted into the Eternal Sea’s expansion army, just to secretly visit the subcontinent and claim ownership of the Grotto Heavens as soon as possible.

Vanar would not hesitate to burn the entire subcontinent to the ground, leaving no survivors, if that was what it took to claim the two Grotto Heavens without anyone leaking the information.

And if the powers competing with Vanar learned about it, they would probably disregard the rules of the Eternal Sea, find a "just cause," and launch a joint assault on the Ignis Clan’s headquarters if they discovered that Vanar had recently gained access to not one but two high-grade Grotto Heavens.

Such was the allure of Grotto Heavens. One could say that Aksai was truly the greatest anomaly of fate currently living in the Dadangar World.

After all, Aksai had become the owner of not just one but two powerful Grotto Heavens while he was still only a Core Formation Lord. And this was excluding the Enchanted Everwood Farm that he had possessed since the beginning of his cultivation journey.

Even the so-called heavenly geniuses with heroic destinies from the core regions of the Eternal Sea were not this fortunate.

Aksai’s isolated farm could be considered a half-step Grotto Heaven. Even this half-step Grotto Heaven had yet to be fully utilized. The Enchanted Everwood Farm needed only a single push in the right direction to transform into a true Grotto Heaven.

However, Aksai would not have been able to make use of the Enchanted Everwood Farm if it had already evolved into a true Grotto Heaven. Perhaps Amel Everwood had deliberately suppressed its potential before turning it into a family heirloom to be passed down through the Everwood Clan. Otherwise, none of his descendants would have been able to claim ownership of it, considering how far the Everwood Clan had fallen by the time Aksai was born.

Yelia and Velia had never told Aksai these things for a reason. His cultivation base was still too weak to make proper use of such knowledge. More importantly, revealing those secrets would only have placed him in even greater danger.

For example, if Aksai had known about the existence of the Grotto Heavens beforehand, Vaelira might have sensed their existence through the connecting threads of destiny using her secret fortune-telling art. At the time, she had already used her powers on Aksai without knowing his identity to discover who had stolen the Void Water Pool.

Likewise, if Aksai had cultivated a Complete Tantra with True Meaning, his aura as a Lord would have been entirely different from what it was now. It would have granted him greater power, but at the risk of exposing himself to someone like Vaelira, who possessed terrifying deduction abilities through her mysterious connection to the ever-changing river of fate.

After all, in a sea of cultivators from the subcontinent who practiced incomplete Tantras devoid of True Meaning and Connate Spells, Aksai using a Complete Tantra would have stood out to practitioners of fate- and destiny-related arts like Vaelira. He would have been as conspicuous as a lighthouse shining in the darkest night.

This was why Amel had instructed Yelia, Velia, and even Seralyth not to grant Aksai access to the vast collection of Complete Tantras when he came to claim ownership of their respective legacy grounds.

Amel had already foreseen what would become of the subcontinent after the Mad Immortal’s massacre and departure from the Dadangar World. As such, he instructed the caretakers of the half-step and true Grotto Heavens to preserve only incomplete Tantras, devoid of True Meaning, for Aksai’s use.

Once Aksai learned about these matters naturally through external sources, he would no longer be at risk. After all, if many cultivators across the subcontinent were destined to learn about these concepts in the near future, then this gradual spread of knowledge would not trigger the fate-related threads constantly monitored by powerful existences searching for the inheritances hidden within Grotto Heavens.

The inheritances and treasures Aksai had obtained from those places were only the ones he could currently perceive and access because of his limited cultivation.

The true legacies hidden within those two Grotto Heavens still remained beyond his reach. Even the Enchanted Everwood Farm required Aksai to reach a certain cultivation level before it would truly reveal its deepest secrets to him.

The mysteries surrounding Grotto Heavens were far beyond the current understanding of both Aksai and Kalina.

What Kalina assumed to be a simple Fourth-Order spatial treasure was something far greater.

Forget the imperial factions of the Shinayin Empire. Even the major powers of the Eternal Sea would be tempted to invade this poor and isolated subcontinent if they discovered that the two Grotto Heavens had actually survived the catastrophe unleashed by the Mad Immortal.

What the natives of the subcontinent, including Aksai, regarded as nothing more than isolated dimensions were treasures coveted even by the supreme powerhouses of the Eternal Sea.