Ch. 382Returning to Divine Wood Sect

Chen Mobai completed his Puppet Factory and planned to use it to mass-produce First Grade talisman paper and ink for the Sky River Realm and Immortal Sect markets. After suspecting the Immortal Sect’s planetary array absorbed the Solar Vitality he needed to cultivate Pure Yang Purple Qi, he prepared to test the theory in the Eastern Wasteland and returned to Little South Mountain to begin his duties as Jian Country’s guardian.

  • Chen Mobai planned to reserve boutique Jade Talisman Paper and Crimson Cloud Talisman Ink for the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory while his Puppet Factory mass-produced First Grade goods.
  • Chen Mobai’s Formless Puppet guided Solar Vitality toward Vermilion Cloud City, but the energy vanished upon reaching Earth Origin Star’s atmosphere.
  • Chen Mobai suspected the Immortal Sect’s grand array absorbed Solar Vitality and decided to test the theory in the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Chen Mobai collected twelve thousand sheets of talisman paper from the Puppet Factory and teleported to Little South Mountain.
  • Luo Yixuan told Chen Mobai that the Sect Leader had visited Golden Light Cliff, while Liu Wenbai reminded him to inspect Jian Country’s five great markets.
  • Chen Mobai gave Zhuo Ming a large pile of talisman paper and asked her to divide it into sets of twelve.

Ch. 383Immortal Peaches, Spirit Tea

Yuan Hongyuan prepared the Yuan Clan’s escape and ambush plans while Chen Mobai refined Pure Yang Purple Qi with the Formless Puppet and met Yue Zutao to learn about Snow Needle Immortal Bud tea. Chen Mobai left interested in obtaining a tea seed to graft onto his Great Camellia Root.

  • Yuan Hongyuan ordered Yuan Shaoyuan to arrange an ambush at White Moon Market and gave him Immortal Peaches to trade for Snow Needle Immortal Bud.
  • Chen Mobai used the Formless Puppet to draw in Solar Vitality and refine a strand of Pure Yang Purple Qi, then stored it safely in his Yellow Gourd.
  • Chen Mobai took the Primordial Yang Sword Sha into his dantian and separated it from his Azure Flame Sword Sha with the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror.
  • Luo Yixuan informed Chen Mobai that Yue Zutao had returned to the sect after Zhou Wangshen resumed his post as guardian of Lei Kingdom.
  • Yue Zutao served Chen Mobai Snow Needle Immortal Bud tea, which stirred Chen Mobai’s stalled Spiritual Sense realm.
  • Chen Mobai said he would try to obtain a Snow Needle Immortal Bud tea seed and graft it onto his Great Camellia Root.

Ch. 384Jade Pot Market

Chen Mobai began his inspection of Jian Guo’s markets, while news of his journey reached the cultivators preparing to ambush him. At Jade Pot Market, he reviewed the Divine Wood Sect’s holdings and began arranging a shop for his Talisman Paper business.

  • Yue Zutao gave Chen Mobai the Yellow Gourd and asked him to look after the Wang Family, while Luo Xueer asked him to watch over the Luo Family.
  • Du Feng secretly relayed Chen Mobai’s travel plans to the Yellow Springs, and Yuan Hongyuan prepared to join the ambush.
  • Chen Mobai gave his disciples Talisman Paper to use and sell, then set out with Liu Wenbai and Luo Yixuan while Zhuo Ming stayed to watch Little South Mountain.
  • At Jade Pot Market, Chen Mobai met Deacon Pang Guangmin and reviewed the sect’s assets and reported income.
  • Chen Mobai questioned Pang Guangmin about renting out the sect’s shops and asked him to arrange one for his business.

Ch. 385Six Realms of the Eastern Domain

Chen Mobai visited Jade Pot Market, where Fu Xiuzuo welcomed him and helped him secure a shop for the Divine Wood Sect. After establishing the Little South Mountain Shop, Chen Mobai prepared to continue his patrol at Green Swan Market and investigate the Guo Family, whose connection to the vanished Madam Guo’s corpse remained unresolved.

  • Fu Xiuzuo personally welcomed Chen Mobai to Jade Pot Market and hosted him at the Heavenly Meal Tower, where they discussed the Eastern Domain and sampled its spirit wine.
  • Chen Mobai offered Fu Xiuzuo two jars of Second Grade Jade Bamboo Spirit Wine, and Fu Xiuzuo arranged a well-situated shop for him.
  • Chen Mobai renamed the shop the Little South Mountain Shop and stayed in Jade Pot Market for three days with Fu Xiuzuo as his host.
  • Before Chen Mobai left, Fu Xiuzuo invited him to attend a Foundation Establishment Cultivator Exchange Meeting at Tiankui Market after his patrol.
  • Chen Mobai planned to visit Green Swan Market and meet the Guo Family while investigating the disappearance of Madam Guo’s corpse.

Ch. 386Sales Meeting

Chen Mobai visited the Guo Family with Liang Jinggui, promised to address the threats against them, and refused their payment. He then traveled to Tiankui Market for the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association Sales Meeting, where he began inspecting the goods on offer.

  • Liang Jinggui gave Chen Mobai a strong-bloodline Azure Goose Bird and invited him to attend the Sales Meeting at Tiankui Market.
  • Liang Jinggui explained that the Guo Family was selling its remaining businesses and planned to move to Five Elements Sect territory.
  • Chen Mobai visited the Guo Family, learned that Hong Xu and Dou Yewang had threatened them, and promised to speak with both men.
  • Chen Mobai refused the Guo Family's Spirit Stones, explaining that accepting payment would obligate him to resolve their troubles.
  • Chen Mobai and Liang Jinggui traveled to Tiankui Market on an Azure Goose Bird and entered the Sales Meeting's Starfall Street.

Ch. 387Lamp Base

Chen Mobai browsed Starfall Street’s shops, placing offers on spiritual items and spotting a possible match for his incomplete Five-Colored Lotus Lamp. Afterward, he met Wang Gongdao, who invited him to a Foundation Establishment Exchange Meeting where Yuan Hongyuan had brought a Third Grade Immortal Peach Fruit.

  • Chen Mobai visited the Gold, Wood, Water, Earth, Fire, Elemental Mutant, Pill, Beast, and Array shops, making offers on several items and declining others he could not afford or use.
  • Chen Mobai spotted a Lamp Base in the Curio Shop that might complete his Five-Colored Lotus Lamp and secretly offered 100 Spirit Stones for it among four treasures.
  • Liu Wenbai and Luo Yixuan told Chen Mobai they had bought gifts for Zhuo Ming, and Chen Mobai praised their thoughtfulness before giving Luo Yixuan the Azure Goose Bird.
  • Chen Mobai met Wang Gongdao at the Divine Wood Sect’s station and tactfully declined his offer of a nearly free shop rental.
  • Wang Gongdao invited Chen Mobai to a Foundation Establishment Exchange Meeting and mentioned that Yuan Hongyuan had brought a Third Grade Immortal Peach Fruit, exciting Chen Mobai.

Ch. 388Soul Nurturing Wood

Chen Mobai attended Wang Gongdao’s exchange meeting, where cultivators traded rare spiritual items, including Foundation Establishment pill formulas and Third Grade Immortal Peaches. The Tang Siblings then offered a piece of Soul Nurturing Wood, prompting Chen Mobai to consider whether it could ease the strain of controlling a puppet across two realms.

  • Wang Gongdao opened the exchange meeting by selling a Third Grade Diamond Fruit, and Lou Xuelong of the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association offered a Stone Fire Fire Seed in exchange for Azure Sun Fire.
  • Hong Xu offered two Foundation Establishment cultivation pill formulas, which the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association purchased after Fu Xiuzuo and Liang Jinggui declined their high price.
  • Liang Jinggui traded Azure Goose Bird eggs and pills to Yuan Hongyuan for a Third Grade Immortal Peach, and Yuan Hongyuan sold his remaining peaches to several attendees.
  • Chen Mobai and Liang Jinggui each lent Fu Xiuzuo one thousand spirit stones so he could buy an Immortal Peach, while the Tang Siblings bought the final one.
  • The Tang Siblings offered Soul Nurturing Wood for fifty thousand spirit stones, but refused Lou Xuelong’s ten-thousand-spirit-stone offer after Qu Xiuxian appraised it.
  • Chen Mobai wondered whether the Soul Nurturing Wood could protect his Spiritual Sense while he controlled a Formless Puppet across the two realms.

Ch. 389Three Lights Divine Water

Chen Mobai obtained and refined a Stone Fire, learned about Three Lights Divine Water, and prepared to leave Tiankui Market for White Moon Market. Meanwhile, Yellow Springs agents finalized their plan to ambush him there, and both groups set out toward the market.

  • Chen Mobai exchanged an Azure Sun Fire Fire Seed with Lou Xuelong for a Stone Fire Fire Seed and learned that Three Lights Divine Water could be obtained at the Starry Skies Dao Sect’s Big Dipper Assembly.
  • Chen Mobai refined the Stone Fire, considered pursuing Three Flavors True Fire, and began preparing to cultivate his Five Elements Sword Finger.
  • Chen Mobai collected his purchases from the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association, accepted that he had missed the Lamp Base, and told his disciples they would leave for White Moon Market the next day.
  • Yuan Hongyuan, Hong Xu, and the Tang Siblings met with a Nether Envoy, who laid out their plan to kill Chen Mobai and loot White Moon Market.
  • Yuan Hongyuan and Hong Xu discussed Tang Da’s Soul Nurturing Wood, Yuan Hongyuan’s Yellow Springs Sacred Fruit, and the Immortal Peach Fruit loans before taking separate routes toward White Moon Market.
  • Chen Mobai left Tiankui Market with his two disciples as the Yellow Springs agents also headed toward White Moon Market.

Ch. 390Sword Sha Shows Its Might

Chen Mobai arrived at White Moon Market for a patrol and requested branches from the Bai Family’s Snow Needle Immortal Bud, but the market was ambushed by Foundation Establishment Cultivators and fell into chaos. He defeated the attackers, exposed their identities, and killed Yuan Hongyuan, Hong Xu, and the Tang Siblings with the Primordial Yang Sword Sha.

  • Chen Mobai completed his patrol at White Moon Market, sampled the Bai Family’s spirit tea, and asked Bai Dingxian for branches from a Third Grade Snow Needle Immortal Bud.
  • Bai Dingxian sensed an attack, and Chen Mobai ordered his disciples to protect the Spirit Stone Shop before flying out to confront the attackers.
  • Five Foundation Establishment Cultivators broke the market’s defensive formation while Rogue Cultivators looted the streets and besieged the Spirit Stone Shop.
  • Chen Mobai killed one attacker with Yi Wood Divine Thunder and scattered the Rogue Cultivators threatening Liu Wenbai, Luo Yixuan, and the sect disciples.
  • Chen Mobai used his Void Glimpse Spiritual Eye to identify Yuan Hongyuan, Hong Xu, and the Tang Siblings, while Bai Dingxian escaped to seek reinforcements.
  • Chen Mobai burned away the Ten Thousand Ghost Formation with the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, then killed Yuan Hongyuan, Hong Xu, and the Tang Siblings with the Primordial Yang Sword Sha.

Ch. 391Nether Envoy

Chen Mobai fought the Nether Envoy, a former Core Formation True Person who had become a ghost cultivator and possessed the corpses of his victims. After the Great Camellia Flower repelled the Envoy’s attack on his Purple Mansion, Chen Mobai destroyed him with Yi Wood Divine Thunder and Pure Yang Fire, then burned the remaining corpses to prevent another resurrection.

  • After Chen Mobai killed Yuan Hongyuan and the others, the Nether Envoy emerged from the corpse of the first attacker and revealed the Hundred Ghost Soul Refining Banner.
  • The Nether Envoy drew the dead cultivators’ souls into the banner and revived Tang Da as Ox Head, but Chen Mobai burned Ox Head to bone ash with Azure Flame Sword Sha.
  • The Nether Envoy possessed Yuan Hongyuan’s corpse and used the Hundred Ghost Formation and Five Smoke Cloud Net Formation to withstand Chen Mobai’s attacks.
  • Chen Mobai used Flame Light Escape to evade the Nether Envoy, then burned Yuan Hongyuan’s corpse with Azure Flame Sword Sha, forcing the Envoy to attack his Purple Mansion directly.
  • The Great Camellia Flower repelled the Nether Envoy from Chen Mobai’s Purple Mansion, allowing Chen Mobai to severely wound him with Yi Wood Divine Thunder and destroy the Hundred Ghost Soul Refining Banner with Pure Yang Fire.
  • Chen Mobai finished off the Nether Envoy and burned the remaining corpses to prevent him from possessing them again.

Ch. 392Yellow Springs Road

Chen Mobai killed five Foundation Establishment attackers at White Moon Market, then learned that the ghost cultivator might have come from the sealed Yellow Springs Road. After receiving a fifty-thousand-Spirit-Stone reward, he returned to Little South Mountain to examine his spoils and found the ghost cultivator’s storage bag beyond his current ability to open.

  • Chen Mobai told the arriving Foundation Establishment cultivators that he had slain all five attackers, and Xie Yuntian ordered forces to seize Black Cloud Mountain while Fu Huakun moved against the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
  • Chen Mobai described the ghost cultivator and his Hundred Ghost Soul Refining Banner to Fu Huakun and the sect elders, who connected the incident to Yellow Springs Road and took the damaged banner for investigation.
  • Zhou Shengqing rewarded Chen Mobai with fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and Luo Xueer explained the high demand and exchange premium for High-grade Spirit Stones.
  • Chen Mobai returned to Little South Mountain, found Soul Nurturing Wood and an Immortal Peach Fruit among the Tang Siblings’ belongings, and discovered that the ghost cultivator’s storage bag resisted his Spiritual Sense.
  • Chen Mobai decided to learn how to make a Blank Talisman to open the ghost cultivator’s storage bag, then began emptying Yuan Hongyuan’s bag.

Ch. 393Huge Gains

Chen Mobai used the spoils from the ambush to advance his Pure Yang Scroll from Foundation Establishment Third Layer to Fifth Layer, then learned how the Divine Wood Sect was dealing with the Yuan Family and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. After meeting Bai Dingxian, he asked the Bai Family to exchange his Spirit Stones for High-grade Spirit Stones at a premium.

  • Chen Mobai inventoried Yuan Hongyuan's storage bag, finding Immortal Peach Fruits, Snow Needle Immortal Bud, Spirit Stones, and other spoils.
  • Chen Mobai ate four Immortal Peach Fruits and used the Raw Spirit Stone to cultivate, raising his Pure Yang Scroll from Foundation Establishment Third Layer to Fifth Layer.
  • Luo Yixuan told Chen Mobai that the Yuan Family's core disciples had fled and the Divine Wood Sect planned to make Black Cloud Mountain a Branch Courtyard to guard the Immortal Peach Spirit Tree.
  • Chen Mobai gave Zhuo Ming four fruit pits to plant and three green-skinned Immortal Peaches to brew into Green Peach Wine, then learned Xie Yuntian had slain the Rogue Cultivator Alliance's other Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
  • Bai Dingxian brought Chen Mobai gifts and offered to provide whatever compensation he requested; Chen Mobai asked him to exchange his Spirit Stones for High-grade Spirit Stones at a twenty percent premium.

Ch. 394Yellow Springs Rebirth Technique

Chen Mobai uncovered the Yellow Springs Rebirth Technique and reported its threat to the Divine Wood Sect, which prepared for possible ghost cultivator attacks and summoned promising disciples to witness Meng Hong’s signs of Core Formation. As Chen Mobai anticipated Hong He’s return, he received Yin Qingmei’s invitation to celebrate her Foundation Establishment and began choosing a suitable gift.

  • Chen Mobai reunited the Five-Colored Lotus Lamp with its base, identified it as a Third Grade ghost-path Magic Artifact, and discovered the Yellow Springs Rebirth Technique in a ghost cultivator’s storage bag.
  • Chen Mobai delivered the technique to Chu Zuoshu, who passed it to Zhou Shengqing; they discussed the danger of reborn ghost cultivators and ordered the sect to stay vigilant.
  • Chu Zuoshu arranged for Hong He, Zhou Wangshen, E Yun, and other promising disciples to return and observe Meng Hong’s signs of Core Formation.
  • Yuan Chiye, Yue Zutao, and Chen Mobai discussed Yin Qingmei’s recent Foundation Establishment and her upcoming celebration.
  • Chen Mobai received Yin Qingmei’s invitation and, following Luo Yixuan’s suggestion, considered giving her the Second Grade Pure Clean Bamboo.

Ch. 395New Second Tier Spirit Rice

Chen Mobai expanded his talisman-paper business and used Soul Nurturing Wood to sustain his divided consciousness between two realms. At Little South Mountain, he inspected Zhuo Ming’s hybrid Spirit Rice and accelerated Qingke Spirit Rice growth, producing a few Second Tier grains for further cultivation.

  • Chen Mobai gave Luo Yixuan a beast hide for an inner armor and told Liu Wenbai to keep the talisman-paper price unchanged while collecting more stock.
  • Chen Mobai used Third Grade Soul Nurturing Wood to ease the strain of splitting his Spiritual Sense between the Formless Puppet and his true body, and sensed his Spiritual Sense bottleneck loosening.
  • Chen Mobai gave Liu Wenbai three hundred thousand sheets of talisman paper, ordered him to keep their secret, and advised him to supply Jian Country’s talisman shops in bulk; he limited sales from the Divine Wood City shop.
  • Chen Mobai inspected Zhuo Ming’s three hybrid Spirit Rice varieties and praised her, especially noting that Qingke Spirit Rice could become a new Second Tier variety.
  • Chen Mobai used Yi Wood Divine Thunder to ripen a mu of Qingke Spirit Rice, found three rice spikes that had reached Second Tier, and told Zhuo Ming to plant them and report back.

Ch. 396Hong He

Chen Mobai tested the Yi Wood Divine Thunder’s ability to ripen spirit rice, then brought Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice to Divine Wood City and discussed his plans to expand rice cultivation across the sect. At Yin Qingmei’s Foundation Establishment celebration, he met Hong He and learned about the pressures surrounding Yin Qingmei and Fu Xingzhou, who remained missing.

  • Chen Mobai discovered that ripening spirit rice consumed the Spirit Field’s Earth Qi and worked only on sufficiently mature plants, then gave Zhuo Ming a second-tier Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice stalk to nourish her Nine Ren Dharma Body.
  • Chen Mobai, Luo Yixuan, and Zhuo Ming tasted the Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice, and a Message Talisman summoned Chen Mobai and his disciples to Divine Wood City.
  • Chen Mobai shared the rice with E Yun, Yuan Chiye, and Yue Zutao and proposed planting abandoned Spirit Fields so disciples could eat free spirit rice.
  • At Yin Qingmei’s celebration banquet, Chen Mobai met Hong He, who explained that he had only brother-sister affection for Yin Qingmei and that Yuan Chiye had once been targeted by those courting Hong He’s favor.
  • Hong He told Chen Mobai that Fu Yuyu had tried to match Yin Qingmei with Fu Xingzhou, who was still missing, and that his disappearance had eased that pressure on her.

Ch. 397I'm Not Targeting Anyone

At Yin Qingmei’s celebration gathering, Chen Mobai challenged the sect’s focus on cultivation rank in choosing its future leader and demonstrated his strength against Zhou Wangshen and Hong He. He defeated Zhou Wangshen in one move, then pierced Hong He’s palm with his Azure Flame Sword Sha, leaving Hong He stunned.

  • The gathering’s guests discussed Hong He, Zhou Wangshen, and E Yun as possible future sect leaders, while Chen Mobai argued that the sect master’s own cultivation was not the only measure of leadership.
  • Chen Mobai declared that none of those present could defeat him and released his concealed Foundation Establishment Middle Stage aura.
  • Zhou Wangshen challenged Chen Mobai to a spar, but Chen Mobai struck him with a Thunder Ball and forced him nearly out of the arena in one move.
  • Hong He took Zhou Wangshen’s place and attacked Chen Mobai with the Azure Wave Technique.
  • Chen Mobai unleashed his Azure Flame Sword Sha, pierced Hong He’s palm, and surprised him with the technique.

Ch. 398Changes in Spirit Root

After discovering that the Immortal Peach Fruits had increased his Spirit Root values, Chen Mobai used the Talent Tree to obtain the Seed Wood Art and began preparing to search the Divine Tree Secret Realm for Azure Sun Spirit Trees. A visit from Yu Lian then brought a mysterious message from someone claiming to be Madam Guo, whom Chen Mobai had seen die.

  • Chen Mobai defeated Hong He in a spell duel, then advised Yin Qingmei about the Divine Tree Secret Realm and taught her the Spirit Light Absorbing Soldier Art.
  • Chen Mobai tested his Spirit Root and found that his wood, water, and earth values had each risen by four points after he ate four Immortal Peach Fruits.
  • Chen Mobai obtained the Seed Wood Art from the Talent Tree and grafted a tea branch onto the Great Dao Tree, hoping to cultivate a new Tea Seed.
  • Chen Mobai built ten Spider Puppets to search the Divine Tree Secret Realm for Azure Sun Spirit Trees and told Luo Yixuan that Yu Lian was coming to visit.
  • Yu Lian told Chen Mobai that Mei Jingjun had returned from Lone Soul Ridge, then gave him a note bearing a Five-Colored Lotus Lamp from someone calling herself Madam Guo, who wanted to make a deal.

Ch. 399Does Core Formation Have Heavenly Tribulation Too?

Chen Mobai reported the Soul Guiding Lamp and Madam Guo’s message to the Divine Wood Sect, then helped Zhou Shengqing expose Madam Guo as an avatar linked to ghost cultivation. As Meng Hong’s Core Formation drew near beneath the Three Divine Trees, Chen Mobai learned that Core Formation involved Heavenly Tribulation in the Sky River Realm and wondered whether forming a core in the Immortal Sect would trigger one after he returned.

  • Chen Mobai advised Yu Lian to report the Talisman Paper and Madam Guo to the Spiritual Vein Department, and Yu Lian brought the matter to Deng Dajin and Chu Zuoshu.
  • Chen Mobai showed Chu Zuoshu the complete Five-Colored Lotus Lamp and explained how he had obtained its Lamp Base, prompting Chu Zuoshu to summon Zhou Shengqing and Fu Zongjue.
  • Zhou Shengqing identified the lamp as a Soul Guiding Lamp used by ghost and corpse cultivators, then told Chen Mobai to meet Madam Guo while warning him to expect an avatar.
  • Chen Mobai met Madam Guo at Jade Stone Mountain, fought off her attempt to seize the lamp, and summoned Zhou Shengqing, who captured and destroyed her Bone Jade avatar.
  • Chen Mobai returned to the Divine Wood Sect and watched dark clouds, rain, thunder, and flame gather over Meng Hong’s retreat beneath the Three Divine Trees.
  • Hong He explained that Core Formation faced Heavenly Tribulation, and Chen Mobai wondered whether forming a core in the Immortal Sect would bring a tribulation when he returned to the Sky River Realm.

Ch. 400Spirit Rice Planning (6k)

After Meng Hong’s Core Formation failed amid threats from rival sects and Ghost Cultivators, Chen Mobai discussed Divine Wood Sect’s future expansion with Hong He and later visited Meng Hong with a plan to increase spirit rice production. The chapter ended with Meng Hong eager to hear Chen’s proposal to use puppets to overcome the sect’s shortage of Spirit Planters.

  • Chen Mobai realized he could avoid the heavenly tribulation of Core Formation by forming his core in the Immortal Sect as Meng Hong began facing tribulation fire at Giant Wood Ridge.
  • Ji Zhenshi and Nan Shidao appeared near Giant Wood Ridge while a Core Formation ghost cultivator and Madam Guo watched from outside its Grand Array, disrupting the sect’s defenses as Meng Hong tried to form his core.
  • Meng Hong condensed a Golden Core but succumbed to the Heart Demon on the fourth day, and Zhou Wangshen, E Yun, and Mu Yuan stayed behind to care for him.
  • Chen Mobai and Hong He discussed destroying Mountain Shaking Peak and Six Armor Mountain, then considered how Divine Wood Sect might eventually unify the Eastern Wasteland.
  • E Yun later told Chen Mobai that Meng Hong would recover but had no chance to attempt Core Formation again, and Chen visited the recovering elder with Second Tier Jade Bamboo Spirit Rice.
  • Chen Mobai described his improved rice varieties and proposed using puppets to reclaim and manage Spirit Fields, prompting Meng Hong to ask for details.

Ch. 401Ten Thousand Mu Spirit Field

Chen Mobai planned to turn the southern hills of Giant Wood Ridge into a vast spirit-rice farming area using mortal labor and agricultural puppets. Meng Hong helped him recruit support, and Chen began building prototype puppets while hoping to find a true Azure Sun Spirit Tree to supply materials.

  • Chen Mobai proposed flattening the southern hills into a Great Plain, but Meng Hong explained that moving the mountains would disrupt Giant Wood Ridge’s spiritual veins and formation.
  • Chen Mobai proposed reclaiming the hills as terraced fields, employing about a thousand mortals, and using three kinds of agricultural puppets to cultivate thousands of mu.
  • Chen Mobai showed Meng Hong sketches of seeding, stone-moving, and harvesting puppets, and Meng Hong agreed to help him approach the relevant departments.
  • Chen Mobai and Meng Hong asked An Jinghui for puppet masters, and An Jinghui arranged for Li Yixian and two others to join Chen’s project.
  • Chen Mobai began making agricultural puppet prototypes with the three puppet masters, while learning that Azure Sun Spirit Wood offcuts would attract more helpers.
  • Chen Mobai decided not to use his limited Azure Sun Spirit Wood as payment yet and hoped his Spider Puppets would discover a true Azure Sun Spirit Tree.
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