Recaps

Chen Mobai helped develop Little South Mountain and supported Meng Huang'er through a failed Foundation Establishment attempt while advancing his own cultivation. He won the Purple Lightning Sword selection and returned to prepare a Third Tier graduation project as Meng Huang'er planned another attempt.

• Chen Mobai reclaimed Spirit Fields at Little South Mountain, assigned his disciples to manage its mountains, and negotiated with Divine Wood Sect departments over Fire Spirit Rice production and sales.
• Chen Mobai agreed to help Meng Huang'er with Foundation Establishment through the Heaven's Equal Technique, but her attempt failed, so he gave her the Jade Lock Golden Gate Art and continued helping her recover.
• Chen Mobai advanced his cultivation with Meng Huang'er's Heart's Sound Profound Melody and expanded his fields, while departments resisted his rice operations and the Immortal Sect announced the Purple Lightning Sword selection.
• Chen Mobai traveled to Mountain Sea Academy, learned the selection's candidates and resonance tests, and reached 33% resonance with the Purple Lightning Sword using Yi Wood Divine Thunder.
• Chen Mobai offered the Purple Lightning Sword a Raw Spirit Stone and High-grade Spirit Stones, agreed to a sixty-year contract, and watched it choose him over Ruan Zixiu, Huo Xiqing, and Yan Qiongzhi.
• Chen Mobai returned to Wuqi Dao Academy with Purple Lightning Sword, learned that a Third Tier graduation project could earn a custom Lifebound Treasure Embryo, and decided to make a Formless Puppet.
• Chen Mobai appraised Meng Huang'er's Foundation Establishment medicines and encouraged her to rely on herself for her next attempt, then surprised her by saying he would create a Formless Puppet.

Chen Mobai completed the Formless Puppet, led the Divine Wood Sect’s forces through a war against Mountain Shaking Peak, and helped conquer its stronghold. As the sect divided the conquered territories and negotiated with Xuanxiao Dao Palace, Chen Mobai revealed his rapid cultivation and prepared to pursue Core Formation.

• Chen Mobai completed the Formless Puppet with his collaborators, chose the Pure Yang Bell as his Treasure Embryo, and decided to seek Core Formation without a Core Formation Spiritual Object.
• Chen Mobai negotiated Blowing Snow Palace’s neutrality, supplied Fire Spirit Rice, and learned that Yan Bingxuan had established her foundation.
• Chu Zuoshu appointed Chen Mobai to lead reinforcements, and Chen Mobai organized a thousand cultivators into formations as they marched to the Lei Kingdom Border.
• Chen Mobai arrived during the battle, killed Xuanxiao and Xuan Jinzhi, and reorganized the Divine Wood Sect’s surviving forces.
• Chen Mobai and Ji Dingjin fought after their battle formations clashed, and Chen Mobai killed Ji Dingjin with the Purple Lightning Sword after Ji imparted the Void Body mantra.
• Chen Mobai’s army advanced into Yan Kingdom and helped defeat Mountain Shaking Peak’s remaining forces, while Zhou Shengqing led the assault that broke its formation and killed Ji Zhenshi.
• Chen Mobai organized the occupation of Mountain Shaking Peak and the surrounding territories, then joined negotiations in which Zhou Shengqing ceded mines to Xuanxiao Dao Palace in exchange for settling its claims.
• Chen Mobai told Zhou Shengqing and Fu Zongjue that he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and they arranged for him to cultivate at Giant Wood Ridge before attempting Core Formation at Sun Bathing Sea.

Chen Mobai built North Abyss City, graduated, and strengthened the Divine Wood Sect while pursuing cultivation and helping his disciples advance. The stretch ended with Zhuo Ming achieving Dao Awakening Foundation Establishment and choosing a new cave mansion.

• Chen Mobai chose North Abyss Mountain as the Divine Wood Sect’s new base, secured sect approval and funding for North Abyss City, and oversaw its construction as Nan Xuanjing founded Nan Xuan Sect.
• Chen Mobai graduated from the Immortal Sect, reunited with Meng Huang'er, received the Morning Bell, and returned to the Sky River Realm after farewells and an unsettling encounter with Shi Wanyu.
• Chen Mobai bought two Foundation Establishment Pills at Nan Xuan Sect’s auction, fought the Jiao Family and its pursuers, then returned to the Divine Wood Sect and appointed new leaders for the Yan, Xiao, and Lei Kingdoms.
• Chen Mobai advanced to Foundation Establishment Perfection, completed the Six Yang Body, and arranged for the sect to cultivate Green Jade Spirit Rice before the Great Dao Tree identified him as a Sacred Embryo and tried to capture him.
• Chen Mobai gave Zhou Shengqing the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra, received Longevity Wood as his cultivation ground, and later joined Fu Zongjue in sealing off the Great Dao Tree’s healed Longevity Trial.
• Zhuo Ming won the Sect Grand Competition and became Top True Disciple, while Chen Mobai helped Luo Yixuan explore the Divine Tree Secret Realm and supported Liu Wenbai’s Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Liu Wenbai failed Foundation Establishment, but Zhuo Ming drew vitality from Little South Mountain and emerged from an Earth Mother Cocoon after achieving Dao Awakening Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Mobai confirmed that Zhuo Ming’s Earth Spiritual Root had risen after absorbing a Life Stone, helped her choose a cave mansion on Tangerine Mountain, and Cao Lian told Ding Ying about Zhuo Ming’s achievement.

Chen Mobai traveled to Wangwu Cave Heaven, opened a Golden Core Domain, and later succeeded in forming his core with Meng Huang'er’s help. As he took up a new post at Green Mulberry Academy, Lan Haitan asked him to investigate a suspected connection between the Ascension Cult and a mysterious Golden Core True Person.

• Chen Mobai entered the World Gate trial, outlasted Taishi Shu and Wenren Xuewei, and opened a small Golden Core Domain with Venerable Qingping’s guidance.
• After returning to the Sky River Realm, Chen Mobai prepared for Core Formation while Zhao Xuankang secretly hired Tu Daohua to cast the Demonic Nightmare Prayer Art against him.
• Chen Mobai completed the first layer of the Longevity Dao Body, entrusted sect duties to his disciples, and returned to the Immortal Sect to prepare for Core Formation.
• Meng Huang'er failed to form her core while helping Chen Mobai break through a bottleneck, and Chen Mobai later used a Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill to begin Core Formation.
• Chen Mobai resisted Heart Demon illusions, formed a Purple Gold core, and became a Golden Core True Person whose Spiritual Power was more than eight times stronger.
• Chen Mobai celebrated his breakthrough, declined to commit to the Wuqi Lineage path, and accepted the principalship of Green Mulberry Academy.
• Chen Mobai reunited with Qing Nü, then heard Lan Haitan’s suspicions about Yu Tianguang or Pure Serenity and refused to investigate them.
• Wang Shuye returned Chen Mobai’s revised materials, and Chen Mobai appeared on Opening the Origin Hall’s formal Councilor list.