Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai started his third year at Immortal Sect Fifth High School after advancing to Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, and learned how his cultivation compared with his classmates. After class, he rushed to secure a school Cultivation Room, where he measured the Spirit Energy Value at 10.

• Chen Mobai updated his school profile to show that he had reached Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer during the break, and his Deskmate teased him about his Spirit Root.
• Chai Deyun praised students who had improved, including Chen Mobai, then singled out Song Zheng and Yan Bingxuan for reaching Late Qi Cultivation.
• Chai Deyun ended class, and Chen Mobai raced to claim an empty Cultivation Room before his classmates.
• Chen Mobai checked the room's spirit energy and found its Spirit Energy Value had risen to 10.

Chen Mobai stabilized his new Qi Cultivation Level 5 at school, then went home to cultivate and help with his family’s talisman-paper business. As he prepared to practice in his bedroom, he noticed the Turtle Shell his mother had brought home.

• Chen Mobai used his school’s Grade 1 high-grade Cultivation Room for two hours to stabilize his cultivation with the Qi Nourishing Technique.
• Lu Hongsheng told Chen Mobai that Song Zheng had received access to a Second Tier Spiritual Vein through his master, Teacher Ding.
• Chen Mobai left the school without joining his classmates’ complaints and went home to make use of his family’s rented spiritual vein.
• Chen Mobai cooked Spirit Rice, cut and packaged Talisman Paper, and listed the finished boxes on the Immortal Sect marketplace.
• Chen Mobai prepared to cultivate in his bedroom, then spotted the Turtle Shell on his bedside table.

After touching the turtle shell that had injured him, Chen Mobai was transported to a small underwater Cave Mansion and cautiously explored its formation-protected halls. He found a safe-looking side hall he could not open and discovered the mansion sat on a Grade 2 Middle Rank Spirit Vein, then decided to call for help.

• Chen Mobai recalled how his mother had taken the turtle shell from a temple after his injury, and he went to throw it away.
• A flash of silver light enveloped Chen Mobai when he touched the shell, transporting him into an underwater Cave Mansion.
• Chen Mobai identified the Cave Mansion’s Water-Avoidance Array and tested the three Side Hall restrictions, finding that two vaporized coins while one repelled them with water ripples.
• Chen Mobai failed to break the water-wave restriction and discovered the mansion had a spirit energy value of 60.
• Unable to find the turtle shell or a way out, Chen Mobai decided to call 110 for rescue.

Chen Mobai discovered that the Turtle Shell had installed a mysterious app on his phone, and its Return to City function brought him home from the Water Mansion. The next day, he returned to school and listened to a lesson about defensive spell forms.

• Chen Mobai found that his phone had no signal in the Water Mansion and could not contact the Immortal Sect Enforcement Department.
• A new app called Turtle Treasure appeared on Chen Mobai's phone, and he used its Return to City function to escape the Water Mansion and return to his room.
• Chen Mobai heard his mother come home but stayed upstairs, then examined the Turtle Shell before going to sleep.
• The next morning, Chen Mobai ate breakfast, went to school, and attended Ding Jinglue's lesson on defensive spell forms.
• Chen Mobai's class studied the Arts Discipline, which he had chosen because it cost less and could lead to becoming a talisman master.

Chen Mobai asked Ding Jinglue for help breaking a Water Wave Restriction and received details on three spells. Ding also explained that Spiritual Roots could be enhanced or transformed, leaving Chen with new knowledge about a path Yan Bingxuan was pursuing.

• Chen Mobai went to the teachers' office after class and found Yan Bingxuan consulting Ding Jinglue before she left.
• Chen Mobai claimed a private tutor had assigned him to break a Water Wave Restriction and described his tests in the Water Mansion.
• Ding Jinglue identified Flowing Water Shield, Surging Wave Curse, and Scale Ripple Art as the likely spells behind the Restriction, then sent Chen their details and breaking methods.
• Chen Mobai asked why Yan Bingxuan had visited, and Ding said she wanted to transform her dual metal-water True Spirit Root into an Ice Spirit Root.
• Ding Jinglue told Chen about Spiritual Root enhancement methods and explained that he had once spent twenty years cultivating his own root into the Three Yang Body, leaving too little time to reach Qi Cultivation Perfection.

Chen Mobai learned more about Spirit Root improvement, cultivated at school, and prepared to return to the Water Mansion through the Turtle Treasure app. He arrived safely and tested how the Five Elements Technique shaped his spiritual power to match his Spirit Root.

• Chen Mobai heard that Yan Bingxuan hoped to transform her Spirit Root into an Ice Spirit Root and qualify for the Natural Academy or a Four Great Dao Academy.
• Chen Mobai cultivated in the Cultivation Room, then bought Glass Beads and declined a low offer for his talisman paper because he planned to revisit the Water Mansion.
• Chen Mobai reviewed the Turtle Treasure app’s functions and estimated that transmission had a six-hour cooldown while return to city had a ten-hour cooldown.
• Chen Mobai used the app to transmit to the Water Mansion, carrying Glass Beads to test his spiritual power.
• Chen Mobai infused the Glass Beads with spiritual power and observed its five attributes, which corresponded to the proportions of his Spirit Root.

Chen Mobai failed to break the compound water restriction guarding the side hall and chose to cultivate in the Water Mansion instead. As he settled into meditation, the chapter explained why Foundation Establishment Pills were no longer refined and why cultivators sought entry to the Great Dao Academy.

• Chen Mobai used the Five Elements Technique to control four Glass Beads, but the compound water restriction knocked each one away.
• Chen Mobai concluded that he could not break the restriction at his current level without a powerful Talisman, so he decided to cultivate in the Water Mansion.
• Chen Mobai sat in meditation and refined the pure water-type spiritual qi of the Second Grade mid-grade Spirit Land.
• The chapter explained that the Immortal Sect had forbidden Foundation Establishment Pill production because Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma was too scarce and more valuable for Golden Liquid Jade Return Pills.
• The chapter explained that cultivators sought the Great Dao Academy for Foundation Establishment aids, Secret Methods, and experience.

Chen Mobai stabilized his cultivation at the fifth layer of Qi Cultivation and prepared to break the Water Mansion’s Compound Restriction with Green Arrow Talismans. Before he could act, an old man carrying a Black Banner and a young man entered the Water Mansion, leaving the three of them facing one another in surprise.

• Chen Mobai used the Water Mansion’s abundant Water Spiritual Energy to stabilize his fifth-layer cultivation in two days.
• He confirmed that five Glass Beads now responded to his spiritual power and considered reaching the sixth layer before the College Entrance Exam.
• Old Man Ding advised Chen Mobai to break the Compound Restriction with a powerful Talisman or cut off its spiritual-energy supply with a Forbidden-Breaking Artifact.
• Unable to afford an artifact, Chen Mobai spent his savings on three Green Arrow Talismans and prepared to use them against the restriction.
• The Water Mansion’s barrier opened, and a gray-haired old man carrying a Black Banner and a young man in a brown robe entered, facing Chen Mobai across the hall.

Chen Mobai was attacked after entering the Water Mansion, then witnessed the old man and the brown-clothed youth turn on each other. He disrupted the Azure Water Array and left the old man facing a volley of Spiritual Arrows.

• Chen Mobai tried to leave the Water Mansion after the old man opened the Azure Water Array’s barrier.
• The brown-clothed youth attacked Chen Mobai with flying needles, but his Wood Armor Talisman blocked them.
• The old man struck the brown-clothed youth with a divine thunder talisman, then tried to kill Chen Mobai using the Azure Water Array.
• Chen Mobai fired Green Arrow Talismans, using one arrow to break a formation flag and disrupt the array.
• Chen Mobai aimed ten Spiritual Arrows at the old man, who begged him for mercy.

Chen Mobai outwitted the old man and caused him to be killed by the Water Mansion’s Lightning Restriction, then repaired the Azure Water Array by replacing a broken formation flag with the Black Banner. He remained in the Eastern Wasteland, with the Water Mansion hidden and protected once more.

• Chen Mobai tricked the old man into wasting his defenses on fake Glass Beads while his Green Arrow Talismans wore down the old man’s shields.
• Chen Mobai drove the old man back into the side hall’s stone door, triggering its Lightning Restriction and killing him.
• Chen Mobai recovered from the shock of witnessing the deaths and realized the Azure Water Array had a permanent opening because a formation flag was broken.
• Chen Mobai replaced the broken flag with the old man’s Black Banner and injected Spiritual Power into the array foundation.
• Chen Mobai watched the opening in the Azure Water Array close, restoring the Water Mansion’s protection.

After restoring the Water Mansion’s great array, Chen Mobai used the side hall’s Restrictions to dispose of the two corpses and discovered valuable spoils, including a manual for the array and two apparent Spirit Stones. He was left considering the stones’ extraordinary value in the Immortal Sect.

• Chen Mobai used the side hall’s electric Restrictions to vaporize the old man’s corpse, weakening the Restrictions in the process.
• Chen Mobai found gold bars, pills, robes, the Black Water Technique, and an Azure Water Array manual in the old man’s pouch.
• Chen Mobai searched the brown-clothed youth’s corpse and collected pills, two jade-white stones, a Hand Crossbow, a Flying Needle Sect Disciple Manual, and Earth Yellow Flying Needles.
• Chen Mobai vaporized the youth’s corpse with the Restrictions and cleaned the blood from the Water Mansion.
• Chen Mobai felt spiritual energy from the two jade-white stones and suspected they were Spirit Stones, which were exceptionally scarce on Earth Origin Star.

After returning from the Water Mansion with Spirit Stones, gold, array manuals, and a Needle Box, Chen Mobai hid his haul and went to school. He asked Teacher Chan Si for help with a Second-Order Array, but she realized its principles differed sharply from the Immortal Sect mainstream.

• Chen Mobai photographed the Azure Water Array booklet, returned to the city with his belongings, and confirmed that everything had come back with him.
• Chen Mobai concealed the Spirit Stones, Hand Crossbow, dagger, and other suspicious items, then packed the gold, booklets, and Needle Box for school.
• Chen Mobai attended Chan Si's array class and studied the Azure Water Array Detailed Explanation.
• Chen Mobai brought Chan Si a draft of his array questions and claimed a private tutor had assigned them.
• Chan Si read the draft and noticed that the array Chen Mobai had been taught ran counter to Immortal Sect principles.

Chen Mobai learned that the Azure Water Array belonged to an older array formation tradition and asked Chan Si to study the material he had sent her. After reading the Flying Needle Sect Disciple Manual, he tested the Needle Box and found that controlling its flying needles quickly drained his spiritual power.

• Chan Si explained that spirit-vein arrays had largely fallen out of use on Earth Origin Star and agreed to consult an array formation professor about the Azure Water Array.
• Chen Mobai sent Chan Si a scanned document and kept the original Azure Water Array Detailed Explanation to avoid exposing its origins.
• Chen Mobai chose to use the school's cultivation room rather than draw attention by skipping it, and read the Flying Needle Sect Disciple Manual.
• The manual revealed that the brown-robed youth was a Qi Cultivation Level 6 Flying Needle Sect disciple who likely sought profit from the Water Mansion.
• Chen Mobai opened the Needle Box and raised ten of its twelve flying needles, but his spiritual power ran low after three minutes.
• Chen Mobai tried controlling three flying needles after recovering, but they remained stiff and difficult to direct.

Chen Mobai sold gold to Wu Wan and asked the young appraiser to examine his Needle Box. Wu Wan identified its grade and explained how to control it, leaving Chen Mobai with a better understanding of the artifact’s use.

• Chen Mobai left school and traveled to the eastern trading market to sell gold at Wu's Gold Shop.
• Wu Wan bought Chen Mobai's gold for 850 Merit Points and introduced himself as a Grade 1 Appraiser.
• Chen Mobai asked Wu Wan to appraise the Needle Box he had found among his family's old belongings.
• Wu Wan identified the Needle Box as a first-grade, mid-rank magic artifact and described its materials and construction.
• Wu Wan explained that Chen Mobai could control the flying needles by skillfully using the box's magnetic force, and Chen Mobai realized he had previously used the artifact incorrectly.

Chen Mobai had the Needle Box appraised by Wu Wan, who then proposed a fictitious transaction to earn Points and promised a high sale price. Chen Mobai recognized the scheme as illegal and declined, saying he needed his family’s permission to sell the ancestral item.

• Wu Wan sealed the Needle Box’s certificate and uploaded it to the Immortal Sect Network so Chen Mobai could verify it.
• Chen Mobai paid Wu Wan 200 Merit Points and took the Needle Box.
• Wu Wan offered to list the Needle Box for sale and complete its sacrificial refinement and usage incantation for free.
• Wu Wan explained that the plan would involve a fictitious transaction to generate Points and claimed the Needle Box could sell for over eighty thousand Merit Points.
• Chen Mobai called the scheme illegal and refused, saying he would need to consult his family elders before selling the ancestral item.
• Wu Wan stopped pressing him and regretted that his attempt to persuade the young cultivator had failed.

After selling gold, Chen Mobai studied the Black Water Technique and cultivated in the Water Mansion, where his Auxiliary Cultivation software detected an unexplained change in his Water Attribute Spiritual Power. He suspected the fish he had eaten might have caused it.

• Chen Mobai rejected Wu Wan’s risky proposal to fabricate a transaction and went home to study the Black Water Technique.
• Chen Mobai learned that the technique’s Water Control Technique, Water Element Shield, and Ice Spell could support both defense and cultivation.
• Chen Mobai cooked and ate the fish from the Water Mansion, then returned there to cultivate.
• Chen Mobai’s Auxiliary Cultivation software detected that his Water Attribute Spiritual Power had first risen by two Points and then fallen by two Points.
• Chen Mobai reviewed what he had done and began suspecting the fish had caused the change.

Chen Mobai studied Chan Si’s detailed courseware on the Azure Water Array, then hurried home to investigate whether a fish had affected his cultivation. On the way, he bought Spiritual Power Test Paper at a pharmacy and met a masked young woman who was refining Return Origin Spirit Water.

• Chen Mobai used his time in the Cultivation Room to study Chan Si’s courseware and deepen his understanding of the Azure Water Array.
• Chen Mobai encountered Yan Bingxuan and Song Zheng arguing about their cultivation paths, then left before their planned spell exchange.
• Chen Mobai stopped at a pharmacy and asked the white-clothed young woman for Spiritual Power Test Paper.
• Chen Mobai bought five test papers, and the young woman apologized for the medicinal smell because she had been refining Return Origin Spirit Water.

Chen Mobai opened the Water Mansion’s Azure Water Formation and discovered a lake full of blue-green carp that resembled protected Azure Dragon Carp. After eating one and confirming his Water Spiritual Root had increased by two points, he reopened the formation to catch more.

• Chen Mobai left the medicine shop without asking Qing Nü for advice about Spiritual Water refining.
• Chen Mobai used Black Banner to open the Azure Water Formation and explored the lake outside the Water Mansion.
• Chen Mobai caught a blue-green carp with his Needle Box and Glass Beads, then resealed the formation.
• Chen Mobai recognized the fish’s resemblance to Azure Dragon Carp, prepared it as chilled fish, and ate it.
• Chen Mobai measured his spiritual roots and found that his Water Spiritual Root had risen by two points.
• Chen Mobai reopened the formation and began catching more carp.

Chen Mobai discovered that eating blue carp temporarily boosted his Water Spiritual Root, though repeated meals permanently raised it by seven points, and he hid the change. He then found that the Turtle Treasure proxy had given him Fifth Order permissions, alarming both him and the Auxiliary Cultivation software's developers, who set out to identify the user.

• Chen Mobai found that the blue carp's boost to his Water Spiritual Root lasted only one day, but eating nearly forty permanently raised it from 23 to 30.
• Chen Mobai changed his personal panel's Water Spiritual Root back to 23 to conceal the Water Mansion's secret.
• Chen Mobai noticed that the Turtle Treasure proxy had added five permission halos to his Auxiliary Cultivation software, apparently granting Fifth Order access.
• Chen Mobai realized that Fifth Order permissions corresponded to a Spirit Transmutation Ancestor and panicked.
• At Sky Mending Dao Academy, Mr. Shi and the other developers saw the new Fifth Order user, and the investor ordered them to check the user's location and confirm their identity.

Chen Mobai worried that the Immortal Sect might locate him, then continued cultivating in the Water Mansion and found a collection of Qingping’s Five Elements Technique lessons on Auxiliary Cultivation. After learning from the video, he believed he could reach Qi Cultivation Level 6 within a month.

• A certain Shi reported that the account’s location was outside the Immortal Sect’s territory, and the big boss ordered everyone to monitor it without disturbing the Nascent Soul Venerable.
• After two days passed without anyone investigating him, Chen Mobai relaxed and entered the Water Mansion to cultivate.
• Chen Mobai ate his last blue carp, confirmed that it temporarily increased his Water Spiritual Root, and decided to cultivate the Five Elements Technique rather than the Black Water Technique.
• Chen Mobai searched Auxiliary Cultivation for the Five Elements Technique and found a video collection by Qingping covering its cultivation through the Nascent Soul realm.
• After watching Qingping explain the Five Elements Technique’s fifth layer, Chen Mobai began cultivating and estimated he could reach Qi Cultivation Level 6 within a month.