Chapter Summaries

The Flower Blooming Courtyard Master used the Treasure Tree and four colored clones to attack Chen Mobai, Gongsun Jielü, and Lan Haitan, while trying to connect with the Jade Wutong Tree. Lan Haitan’s Starlight Aurora Talisman shattered the Treasure Tree’s defenses, but the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master survived and prepared to escape by destroying Danxia Mountain’s Fire Vein and advancing the Jade Wutong Tree.

• The Flower Blooming Courtyard Master grew the Treasure Tree and sent yellow, orange, and blue clones to attack the three cultivators.
• Gongsun Jielü destroyed two clones and wounded the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master's real body with her Six Guardians Sword Sha, but the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master sealed her inside a yellow Flower Cocoon.
• Chen Mobai defended against the blue clone while Lan Haitan advanced through the orange clone's attacks using his magnetic field.
• Lan Haitan activated a Fourth Tier Starlight Aurora Talisman, and Chen Mobai cut the branch linking Gongsun Jielü's cocoon to the Treasure Tree.
• The Jade Wutong Tree sent a branch through a spatial fissure to collide with the Aurora Starfall, while Chen Mobai protected Lan Haitan and Gongsun Jielü's cocoon with the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror.
• The wounded Flower Blooming Courtyard Master prepared to blow open Danxia Mountain's Fire Vein and use its spiritual energy to advance the Jade Wutong Tree.

Chen Mobai and Lan Haitan fought the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master while Venerable Water Immortal contained the Northern Darkness Domain, and Chen killed her with three strikes from the Purple Lightning Sword. Venerable Water Immortal then brought them back to the Danxia Mountain Range, where Yu Tianguang had survived.

• The Flower Blooming Courtyard Master tried to reopen a rift to the Jade Wutong Tree, but Venerable Water Immortal sealed it and asked Chen Mobai and Lan Haitan to hold her off.
• The Flower Blooming Courtyard Master attacked Chen Mobai and Lan Haitan with her damaged Seven-Colored Treasure Tree, while Lan Haitan drew her attention and Chen prepared another sword strike.
• Chen Mobai struck the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master with the Purple Lightning Sword, and Lan Haitan sacrificed his Star Gathering Stone and flying needles to keep her Stone Flower Artifact from blocking the attack.
• Chen Mobai followed with a third sword strike that cut the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master in two and left the treasure tree dimmed.
• Venerable Water Immortal arrived, confirmed the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master was dead, and returned Chen Mobai and Lan Haitan to the Danxia Mountain Range with Yu Tianguang alive.

Chen Mobai guarded the sealed Jade Wutong Tree while Lan Haitan led the purge of Vermilion Cloud City’s Immortal Sect institutions. Lan Haitan later revealed that the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master’s planned Forbidden Technique involved the tree and might expose the secret behind his Spirit Transformation.

• Venerable Water Immortal took Gongsun Jielü and Yu Tianguang to find Sanjue after arranging Yu Tianguang’s treatment through Venerable Cheng Xuan.
• Lan Haitan mobilized Enforcement Department personnel to investigate Immortal Sect graduates and officials connected to Shi Qing and Yu Tianguang, while Chen Mobai guarded the sealed Jade Wutong Tree.
• Chen Mobai helped Lin Yin collect Shi Qing’s residual spiritual power and cut a branch from the Jade Wutong for Venerable Yuanxu’s research.
• After learning that Spirit Sealing Tubes could preserve energy, Chen Mobai asked Qing Nü about storing powerful flames such as the Great Sun Heavenly Solar Fire.
• Lan Haitan told Chen Mobai that Peach Blossom Venerable would soon handle the Jade Wutong and that the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master’s domain contained preparations for a Forbidden Technique tied to the tree and the Ancient Evil Dao Tradition.

Lan Haitan explained the limits of Liberation by Violence and reincarnation, then revealed that the Immortal Sprout Cultivation and Modulation Project had secretly created gifted bodies for powerful Immortal Sect figures to use in reincarnation. Chen Mobai learned that the project’s backers might be among the Immortal Sect’s highest leaders and left the conversation suspecting that Old Ancestor Bai Guang had also reincarnated.

• Lan Haitan explained that Liberation by Violence and reincarnation could not extend a soul’s destined lifespan, and that the Immortal Sect permitted reincarnation into embryos but forbade snatching infants.
• Lan Haitan invited Chen Mobai to join the Law Enforcement Hall, but Chen Mobai declined because he preferred a quieter life and did not want to compete for Nascent Formation resources.
• Lan Haitan revealed that the Immortal Sprout Cultivation and Modulation Project had begun as medical research before Master Xinji used it to clone a body for his daughter’s revival.
• Lan Haitan said Immortal Sect leaders had supported the project to create gifted reincarnation bodies that could evade the Womb Mystery, karmic sin, and the law.
• Chen Mobai realized that the project explained the laboratory’s Heaven Spirit Root and rare Mutated Spiritual Roots, while Lan Haitan admitted he could not identify its highest backers.
• Chen Mobai connected Hao Cao’s account of Old Ancestor Bai Guang’s unawakened Reincarnation Body to the reincarnation technique and hid his suspicion from Lan Haitan.

Chen Mobai studied the God Devouring Technique and considered its dangers, then resolved to adapt its safer principles for future spiritual sense cultivation. The chapter ended with Qing Nü bringing him custom Spirit Sealing Tubes, and Chen Mobai successfully crafting Third Grade Spirit Sealing Talismans to go with them.

• Chen Mobai speculated that Xiao Hei might be Old Ancestor Bai Guang's Reincarnation Body and that Bai Guang might have masterminded Yumu City's Immortal Sprout Modulation Plan, but chose not to investigate yet.
• Chen Mobai studied Yu Tianguang's version of the Jade Glass Art and learned that its Heavenly Dao method drew spiritual awareness from a surplus source, while its human dao method gathered awareness from living wutong trees and risked creating a Divine Seed.
• Chen Mobai decided not to cultivate the God Devouring Technique as written, but considered adapting its Heavenly Dao method to visualize the Great Dao Tree after confirming it was safe.
• Qing Nü delivered three custom Spirit Sealing Tubes, which Chen Mobai planned to use for cultivating a powerful flame.
• Qing Nü helped Chen Mobai prepare to draw Spirit Sealing Talismans, and he made his first Third Grade Spirit Sealing Talisman before succeeding repeatedly.

Chen Mobai used an ancient Golden Flame Sword Talisman to seed a powerful sword art, then met Peach Blossom Venerable when she arrived at Danxia Mountain. She offered him her daughter Pei Azurefrost as a Dao Companion, but Chen Mobai politely refused, leaving Qing Nü quietly reassured of his devotion to her.

• Chen Mobai appraised two pills with Qing Nü and sealed golden flame from the Golden Flame Sword Talisman into three Spirit Sealing Tubes.
• Chen Mobai refined one tube of golden flame and began cultivating the Crimson Flame Sword Art, but found that recovering the Pure Yang Spiritual Power it consumed was too slow.
• Peach Blossom Venerable arrived at Danxia Mountain with Lan Haitan and the Enforcement Department cultivators, and Chen Mobai and Qing Nü greeted her.
• Peach Blossom Venerable praised Chen Mobai for his Sword Dao exchanges with Pei Azurefrost and asked him to join Goumang Dao Academy.
• Peach Blossom Venerable proposed that Chen Mobai become Dao Companions with Pei Azurefrost, but he declined, saying he had no romantic feelings for her.
• Qing Nü trusted Chen Mobai's refusal and reflected that he was the only pillar left in her life.

Chen Mobai rejected Peach Blossom Venerable’s offer to cultivate with Pei Azurefrost and returned to Vermilion Cloud City, where he helped secure the release of several acquaintances suspected of Ascension Cult ties. Back at Giant Wood Ridge, he handled sect affairs and completed the Golden Flame needed for Flame Sun Slash, whose power was soon felt across Divine Wood City.

• Peach Blossom Venerable urged Chen Mobai to become Pei Azurefrost’s cultivation partner, but he refused and left Danxia Mountain while she began arranging the grand formation.
• Chen Mobai returned to Vermilion Cloud City, asked Lan Haitan to review the cases of his detained acquaintances, and helped get everyone released except Shi Qujin, whose case required further approval.
• Chen Mobai spent the Spring Festival with his parents and maternal grandparents, then returned to Giant Wood Ridge and reassured Zhuo Ming that she could learn from Zhou Shengqing’s Dao Sound.
• Yue Zutao told Chen Mobai that Fang Xuanyang of Xuanxiao Dao Palace was gathering Rogue Cultivators in Yan Kingdom, so Chen Mobai sent instructions to E Yun to challenge Nan Xuan Sect openly.
• Chen Mobai cultivated until he condensed the Golden Flame required for Flame Sun Slash, and the resulting spiritual energy melted snow across Divine Wood City.

Chen Mobai tested his newly mastered Flame Sun Slash and sought more Green Wood Sha so he could advance the Crimson Flame Sword Art. He prepared to visit the Eastern Wasteland’s great sects with a growing traveling party, while Yue Zutao stayed behind to lead the Divine Wood Sect.

• Chen Mobai demonstrated that his Flame Sun Slash could split Fu Zongjue’s Divine Wood Shield and damage his Golden Sun Puppet, then discussed the shortage of Green Wood Sha needed to cultivate more Golden Flame.
• Fu Zongjue suggested seeking Green Wood Sha from Returning Heaven Valley, and Chen Mobai agreed to pursue the resource while considering artificial synthesis as a fallback.
• After a month, Chen Mobai summoned the sect’s leaders and chose Mu Yuan, Xi Jinghuo, and Yin Qingmei to accompany him on his journey to visit the Eastern Wasteland’s great sects.
• Chen Mobai appointed Yue Zutao to manage the sect during his absence and allowed each of the Three Halls Twelve Departments to send one person on the trip.
• Chen Mobai sent Zhuo Ming to deliver Longevity Tree Sap for Longevity Dew refining, then agreed to let Gu Yan join the traveling party when she asked.

Chen Mobai led a Divine Wood Sect delegation to Snow Country to visit Blowing Snow Palace, while considering the sect’s teleportation network and his cultivation. After discussing the border disputes with Zhu Jinyu, he met Bai Si, leaving their encounter poised as the visit continued.

• Chen Mobai used Void Stones to cultivate the Myriad Laws Body, then assembled the delegation and appointed Mu Yuan to command it while leaving Zhuo Ming in charge of Little South Mountain and the Longevity Wood Dao Field.
• Chen Mobai’s group teleported through Jade Pot Market and White Moon Market, where Fu Xiuzuo and Bai Dingxian received them, and Xue Ting accompanied them into Snow Country.
• Lan Lingping welcomed Chen Mobai and the delegation to Blowing Snow Palace, where they learned Kong Lingling was in seclusion.
• Chen Mobai and Zhu Jinyu discussed the long-running border disputes between Jian Country and Snow Country, and Chen Mobai noticed Bai Si watching him.

Chen Mobai demanded that Blowing Snow Palace return territory under an old border agreement, while pursuing his ideal of unifying the Eastern Wasteland. Bai Si challenged the Divine Wood Sect to a Foundation Establishment spell duel and volunteered to face all eight of Chen Mobai’s early-stage disciples under strict conditions.

• Chen Mobai rejected Zhu Jinyu’s plea to keep Blowing Snow Palace’s expanded border and promised the Divine Wood Sect would manage the affected mortal settlements.
• Chen Mobai reflected that unifying the Eastern Wasteland had become his opportunity for enlightenment and the central goal of his leadership.
• Bai Si proposed settling the border dispute through a Foundation Establishment spell duel, and Chen Mobai agreed to send eight early-stage disciples against Blowing Snow Palace challengers of the same stage.
• Chen Mobai offered Bai Si the chance to defeat any five of his eight disciples and claim victory for Blowing Snow Palace.
• Bai Si volunteered to fight all eight, restricted herself to Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and barred external items, declaring that one step of retreat would count as her loss; Chen Mobai accepted.

Chen Mobai guided his disciples through successive bouts against Bai Si, using their fights to expose the flaws in her Timely Rain Sword Art. After Yin Qingmei seemed to gain the upper hand, Bai Si unleashed a deep-blue Sword Light that sent her off the stage.

• Chen Mobai sent Lian Maozhi to test Bai Si, and Bai Si defeated him after a prolonged fight.
• Chen Mobai instructed Ding Ying to probe Bai Si's sword art, then used a speck of Golden Flame to destroy Bai Si's Flowing Water Blade before it could strike her.
• Xi Jinghuo used Chen Mobai's guidance to suppress Bai Si early, but she adapted, broke his Crimson Flame Sword Rainbow, and won.
• Chen Mobai told Yin Qingmei how Bai Si would fight, and Yin Qingmei predicted her moves and countered them with Heavenly Wood Spiritual Light.
• Bai Si unleashed a deep-blue Sword Light from her misting sword rainbow and sent Yin Qingmei off the stage.

Chen Mobai used Square Inch Book to analyze Bai Si’s swordplay and helped Mu Yuan defeat her, then confronted Blowing Snow Palace’s Kong Lingling over the border dispute. He left the battle apparently victorious after overpowering her cold techniques with his Golden Flame.

• Chen Mobai recognized that his battle against Bai Si had let him enter the Square Inch Book state and sent Mu Yuan to fight in the final match.
• Mu Yuan used the Spirit Light Hundred Changes Art to expose Bai Si’s flaws, baited her Sword Light, and forced her to retreat, giving the Divine Wood Sect the victory.
• Chen Mobai warned Zhu Jinyu that Blowing Snow Palace cultivators who crossed the border without reporting would disappear, then left with Mu Yuan and the others.
• Kong Lingling appeared as a face of cold mist and accused Chen Mobai of bullying her Foundation Establishment cultivators, so Chen Mobai challenged her directly.
• Chen Mobai broke free after Kong Lingling froze him in an iceberg and fought her Cold Moon Double Hooks with Golden Flame.
• Chen Mobai emerged holding two Golden Flame spheres and thanked Kong Lingling for yielding, as the icy mist cleared from the sky.

Chen Mobai defeated Kong Lingling in a brief test of strength, then escorted his party from Snow Country to Feng Country, where he met Mo Douguang at Golden Light Cliff. Along the way, his praise delighted Xue Ting, while Bai Si worried about her loyalty to Blowing Snow Palace.

• Chen Mobai defeated Kong Lingling with his Flame Sun Slash, prompting her to treat him cautiously and arrange an escort to the border.
• During the journey, Chen Mobai praised Xue Ting's Fire Spirit Rice cultivation and invited her to visit Giant Wood Ridge.
• Bai Si questioned Xue Ting's ties to Chen Mobai and asked whether she would remain loyal to Blowing Snow Palace; Xue Ting vowed to protect Snow Country and Shuang Country.
• Ning Leshan and Jia Songyang received Chen Mobai at the Feng Country border and led him to Golden Light Cliff.
• Mo Douguang welcomed Chen Mobai and showed him the Primordial Stone.

Mo Douguang explained that the Primordial Dao Fruit could gently dissolve a Golden Core and ease the Nascent Soul emergence hurdle, then revealed that its cultivation method might be inferred from the Primordial Stone. Chen Mobai realized the ability was not limited to Earth Spiritual Roots and began planning how to cultivate it using resources from both worlds.

• Mo Douguang told Chen Mobai that the Primordial Dao Fruit used Primordial True Qi to break Five Elements techniques and safely dissolve a Golden Core before Nascent Soul emergence.
• Chen Mobai asked how to learn the divine ability, but Mo Douguang said his Dao Heart Oath forbade him from teaching its method and pointed him toward the Primordial Stone’s lingering Primordial True Qi.
• Chen Mobai considered obtaining the method from Zhou Ye, while Mo Douguang warned that Primordial Immortal City’s Medium Teleportation Array would let Zhou Ye escape.
• Mo Douguang hinted that a Gold Spiritual Root could cultivate the Primordial Dao Fruit, and Chen Mobai inferred that other Five Elements attributes could also provide a path.
• Chen Mobai used a Spirit Measuring Instrument to confirm Mo Douguang’s strong Gold Spiritual Root and resolved to keep the Five Elements Essence Method from Zhou Ye until Eastern Wasteland was unified.
• Mo Douguang left Chen Mobai to comprehend the Primordial Stone and continued pursuing sword cultivation.

Chen Mobai studied the Primordial Stone at Golden Light Cliff and evolved a Five Elements Sword Sha Formation that revealed profound sword-art principles to the cliff’s cultivators. After three more days of contemplation, he left to search for his missing disciple in Ming Country, intending to return when he reached Golden Core Perfection.

• Chen Mobai examined the Primordial Stone but could not discern the Primordial Dao Fruit’s deepest pattern before his Spiritual Sense ran out.
• Wang Sheng and Luo Lin challenged the Sword Grave, and Senior Sister Guo let Luo Lin pass before the cliff’s Spirit Vein began to shake.
• Chen Mobai’s Five Elements Sword Sha Formation appeared over Golden Light Cliff, astonishing Mo Douguang and the Twelve Sword Holders with its sword-art insights.
• The formation’s black aperture turned pure white and engulfed the sword qi and five-colored sword wheel, leaving the cultivators staring at a field of white.
• Chen Mobai told Mo Douguang that he would leave to search for his disciple in Ming Country, and Mo Douguang promised he would always welcome him back.

Chen Mobai traveled toward Returning Heaven Valley, where Yan Shaoyin had gone to deal with Earth Spirit Locusts in Hua Country. Mo Douguang explained the locusts’ history and the danger of a plague, and Chen Mobai set out to meet Yan Shaoyin.

• Chen Mobai demonstrated his Azure Flame Sword Sha to Jia Songyang and taught Golden Light Cliff’s Foundation Establishment cultivators how to hone their sword arts.
• Mo Douguang escorted Chen Mobai to the border between Feng Country and Xia Country, where Ye Bogui explained that Yan Shaoyin had rushed to Hua Country after Earth Spirit Locusts appeared in the Spirit Fields.
• Mo Douguang offered help against the locusts, then told Chen Mobai how ancient Earth Spirit Locusts had devastated Eastern Wasteland and how Ice Heaven Snow Land froze Snow Country and Shuang Country to exterminate them.
• Mo Douguang explained that Blowing Snow Palace descended from Ice Heaven Snow Land’s effort to suppress the remaining locusts, and that locusts had to be exterminated before they became a plague.
• Chen Mobai asked Ye Bogui to take him to Yan Shaoyin, and the group used Returning Heaven Valley’s Teleportation Array to travel to Hua Country.

Chen Mobai visited Hua Country to help Returning Heaven Valley and the Starry Skies Dao Sect prevent an Earth Spirit Locust plague, while learning about Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice and examining its growth. He met Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji, and left them surprised by his knowledge of alchemy and spirit plants.

• Chen Mobai learned from Ye Bogui and Gu Yan about Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice, Returning Heaven Valley’s past price hike, and the sect’s reputation for expensive but high-quality pills.
• Chen Mobai discussed alchemy with Ye Bogui and privately judged that Eastern Wasteland alchemists lacked the systematic foundations of Immortal Sect alchemists.
• Chen Mobai arrived in Hua Country, examined a Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice stalk, and sensed unusual heavy energy in the earth qi nourishing it.
• Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji arrived, and Chen Mobai reassured them that he had come to help prevent an Earth Spirit Locust plague.
• Chen Mobai spoke amiably with Yu Shuji about Lou Xuelong and Qu Xiuxian, while Yan Shaoyin worried that the two sects would not come into conflict.
• Yan Shaoyin discovered that Chen Mobai’s knowledge of spirit plants was deep enough to keep pace with Yu Shuji’s.

Chen Mobai learned that Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice depended on Hua Country’s Dragon Vein Qi and negotiated with Returning Heaven Valley and Yu Shuji over the reduced harvest. After securing a five-thousand-jin quota, he asked for Green Wood Sha, prompting Yu Shuji to suspect he had cultivated the Golden Flame.

• Yu Shuji explained that Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice required Dragon Vein Qi, and Chen Mobai considered whether Hua Country’s dragon vein could improve his earth spiritual root.
• Yan Shaoyin proposed dividing the reduced harvest among the sects, and Chen Mobai asked to buy all the rice available for sale.
• Yu Shuji offered Divine Wood Sect an additional thousand jin and future priority, and Chen Mobai accepted a five-thousand-jin quota.
• Chen Mobai asked Yan Shaoyin to sell him Green Wood Sha, ideally eighty-one strands, to condense Sword Fiend.
• Yu Shuji realized Chen Mobai’s request might mean he had cultivated the Golden Flame and asked him in shock.

Chen Mobai revealed that he had cultivated Golden Flame, prompting Yu Shuji and Yan Shaoyin to offer help gathering Green Wood Sha for his Extreme Sun Slash. As they shared rare teas and discussed the Eastern Lands, Chen Mobai remained focused on expanding his power in Eastern Wasteland, until a sudden tremor and surge of Yao Qi interrupted their gathering.

• Chen Mobai displayed two balls of Golden Flame, shocking Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji.
• Yu Shuji offered to obtain Green Wood Sha from the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association and Kong Sang Valley, while Yan Shaoyin offered ten streams of his own.
• Yan Shaoyin served Green Cicada tea, and the three cultivators discussed rare teas, including White Dew Sparrow Tongue, Starry Sky Silver Shuttle, and Dao Virtue Sect’s Longevity Eyebrow.
• Yu Shuji explained that Longevity Eyebrow was Fifth Order immortal tea that could extend lifespan, while Chen Mobai privately considered his plans to consolidate power in Eastern Wasteland.
• A violent tremor struck as the three cultivators drank tea, and a powerful surge of Yao Qi erupted from underground nearby.

Chen Mobai, Yan Shaoyin, and Yu Shuji confronted a Third Tier Locust Mother and its swarm after the yao qi erupted from a fissure. The Locust Mother survived their attacks with an Earth-Fire dual-attribute ability, and Chen Mobai stepped into the fissure and summoned a purple thunder sword as the battle continued.

• Chen Mobai arrived first and killed a nearly Third Tier locust yao beast that was attacking a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• The rescued cultivator warned Yu Shuji that a Third Tier Locust Mother was underground, and Chen Mobai used his Void Glimpse Spiritual Eye to locate it among the swarm.
• Yan Shaoyin attacked with Earth Core True Fire while Yu Shuji used his wood-attribute Sickle to kill locusts, but the swarm’s barrier stopped the flames.
• Chen Mobai’s Flame Sun Slash swept away the low-tier locusts and exposed the Locust Mother, but Yu Shuji’s strike only wounded it before its Earth-Fire power dispersed the blow.
• Yan Shaoyin proposed seeking help from Kong Lingling or Nu Jiang, but Chen Mobai explained they could not assist, then stepped into the fissure and summoned a purple thunder sword.