Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai killed the Locust Mother with the Purple Lightning Sword and negotiated with Yu Shuji to exchange its inner core for the Starry Skies Dao Sect’s External Golden Core methods. He also learned that the sect possessed the Dharma Body Nascent Soul inheritance, while Qu Xiuxian was sent to seek approval for the exchange.

• Chen Mobai summoned the Purple Lightning Sword and killed the Locust Mother in a single strike, then burned away the remaining locusts with Golden Flame.
• Yu Shuji asked Chen Mobai to sell the Locust Mother’s Earth-Fire inner core for his disciple Lou Xuelong, who had failed Core Formation.
• Chen Mobai requested the External Golden Core Technique and Golden Core Displacement Method in exchange for the inner core, and Yu Shuji agreed to seek his sect’s approval for the latter.
• Chen Mobai asked about the Dharma Body Nascent Soul method and learned the Starry Skies Dao Sect guarded that inheritance closely.
• Yu Shuji gave Qu Xiuxian letters concerning the exchange and the Green Wood Sha, and instructed her to report to the sect while he remained in Hua Country to eradicate the locust swarm.

After clearing the locusts in Hua Country, Chen Mobai refused Yan Shaoyin’s request to help Returning Heaven Valley obtain an External Golden Core, then traveled into Five Elements Sect territory to meet Zhou Ye. The chapter outlined the struggle over Cloud Dream Marsh and Xiao Kingdom, where the Divine Wood Sect had expanded its influence while Nan Xuan Sect remained a growing threat.

• Chen Mobai finished clearing the underground fissure of locusts with Yu Shuji and Yan Shaoyin, then prepared to leave Hua Country.
• Yan Shaoyin revealed Returning Heaven Valley’s interest in the External Golden Core technique and proposed cooperating against future Third Grade Locust Mothers, but Chen Mobai declined to change his prior promise to Yu Shuji.
• Chen Mobai chose to travel directly to Primordial Immortal City to meet Zhou Ye, while sending Ding Ying with greetings for Sheng Zhaoxi at the Fire Vein headquarters.
• Chen Mobai’s party headed into Ming Country as the chapter detailed the Five Elements Sect’s divided territories and the shared duty of guarding Cloud Dream Marsh’s seal.
• The Divine Wood Sect took control of Xiao Kingdom after Mountain Shaking Peak’s destruction, allowing Zhou Wangshen to claim vacant Spirit Islands and charging Returning Heaven Valley and Blowing Snow Palace tolls to reach Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Nan Xuan Sect sought to seize the Xiao Kingdom passage, prompting repeated clashes with the Divine Wood Sect as Chen Mobai regarded Xuanxiao Dao Palace as a future target for destruction.

Chen Mobai traveled through Ming Country to confront Zhou Ye at Primordial Immortal City, then went to Guiyuan Mountain to investigate Luo Yixuan’s disappearance. He overwhelmed Return to Origin Sect’s defenses and demanded answers from Granny Ming, leaving her facing his Golden Flame.

• Sheng Zhaoxi declined to meet Divine Wood Sect’s envoy but sent Tan Rong to escort the group safely to Ming Country.
• Chen Mobai entered Primordial Immortal City through a side gate and warned Zhou Ye that he would show no mercy when he eventually took the city.
• Chen Mobai settled in Green Wood Hall while Zhou Ye remained in Primordial Hall.
• Liu Wenbai led Chen Mobai to Guiyuan Mountain, where he confronted Granny Ming about Luo Yixuan’s disappearance.
• Chen Mobai suppressed Return to Origin Sect’s array with his Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror and threatened Granny Ming with Golden Flame.

Chen Mobai confronted Granny Ming on Return to Origin Mountain and discovered that she was a powerful ghost cultivator who had taken Xuan'er as her disciple. He defeated and captured her soul, but the mountain’s formation and Spirit Vein were left damaged, and he still needed to learn where she had taken Xuan'er.

• Granny Ming revealed that Xuan'er had entered under her tutelage and threatened Chen Mobai not to acknowledge the disciple.
• Granny Ming overwhelmed the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror and attacked Chen Mobai, who evaded her strikes with Flame Light Escape and fought back with the Purple Lightning Sword.
• Granny Ming poured her essence, qi, and spirit into the Crescent Moon Blade, but Chen Mobai used Pure Yang Fire to subdue her and reduce her soul to a fraction of its size.
• Chen Mobai transferred Granny Ming’s soul into Fourth Tier Soul Nurturing Wood and secured it along with the Crescent Moon Blade in his Golden Core Domain.
• The clash destroyed Return to Origin Mountain’s Grand Array and split the mountain, while Rong Chi arrived and saw the damage.

Chen Mobai found the mountain where Granny Ming had hidden Luo Yixuan and learned that he would have to wait until midnight for the Yellow Springs Road to appear. While they waited, Granny Ming recounted her past in the Longevity Sect and proposed that its Celestial Venerable had achieved Dao Integration and taken the sect to the Upper Realm; Chen Mobai then asked why Ghost Cultivators could not enter the Yang World in force.

• Rong Chi concealed Return to Origin Mountain in Yellow Smoke and headed to Primordial Immortal City to report what had happened.
• Chen Mobai sent Liu Wenbai to notify the sect’s cultivators to withdraw toward Yu Country, then followed Granny Ming’s guidance to a remote mountain range.
• Granny Ming revealed that Luo Yixuan was hidden in the void between the Yin-Yang Crevice and that part of the Yellow Springs Road would appear at midnight.
• Chen Mobai and Granny Ming made a Dao Heart Contract, and she explained that she had once been a Longevity Sect candidate for the Sixth Holy Maiden before becoming a ghost in the Netherworld.
• Granny Ming said the Longevity Sect may have vanished because its Celestial Venerable achieved Dao Integration and led its believers to ascend, leaving Chen Mobai to consider investigating the Great Dao Tree again.
• Chen Mobai asked why Ghost Cultivators did not come to the Yang World in large numbers, and Granny Ming replied that they could not.

Granny Ming explained the Ghost Cultivators’ need for living bodies and revealed the remaining Ghost Cultivators in Eastern Wasteland as Chen Mobai prepared to rescue Luo Yixuan. Chen Mobai entered Yellow Springs Road with a puppet and found Luo Yixuan, who had endured years of isolation and feared her master would never come; he brought her back to the Yang World.

• Granny Ming told Chen Mobai how Ghost Cultivators avoided Heavenly Tribulation and identified the two surviving Core Formation Ghost Cultivators hidden in Eastern Wasteland.
• Granny Ming opened the way to Yellow Springs Road, and Chen Mobai sent his Azure Sun Puppet inside to search for Luo Yixuan.
• Luo Yixuan recalled her years of captivity, her fear of losing her master, and her hope that her family would be cared for as she sank toward a deep sleep.
• Chen Mobai guided the puppet through Yellow Springs Road, found Luo Yixuan inside a Crimson Sedan on a black mountain, and carried her out.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Yang World and lifted the sedan’s curtain, revealing Luo Yixuan.

Chen Mobai rescued Luo Yixuan from her confinement, but discovered that Granny Ming had turned her into a Ghost Embryo with the Yellow Springs Rebirth Technique. He sought a way to reverse the transformation and decided to pursue the Netherworld Scripture before Luo Yixuan weakly called him her master.

• Luo Yixuan awoke to sunlight, feared Granny Ming was about to seize her body, and recognized Chen Mobai when he comforted her.
• Granny Ming explained that three Yellow Springs Sacred Fruits had transformed Luo Yixuan into a Ghost Embryo, trapping her Spiritual Sense and leaving her unable to move.
• Chen Mobai threatened Granny Ming until she revealed three possible remedies: Pure Clean Bamboo, Three Lights Divine Water, or the Netherworld Scripture.
• Chen Mobai chose to seek the Netherworld Scripture from Tu Daohua in Cloud Dream Marsh after the Ming Country visit to the Five Elements Sect.
• Granny Ming explained that the Celestial Venerable created the Yellow Springs Rebirth Technique and that ghost cultivators risk being devoured without the chance of reincarnation.
• Luo Yixuan weakly called Chen Mobai her master.

Chen Mobai brought Luo Yixuan back from Yellow Springs Road and negotiated with Zhou Ye over the possible reunion of the Divine Wood Sect and Golden Light Cliff with the Five Elements Sect. After returning to Yu Country to inspect the sect’s territories, Chen Mobai learned that a man nearby contained Demonic Qi.

• Chen Mobai used a Mystic Mist Talisman to seal off the Yellow Springs Road gateway, then carried Luo Yixuan away in a sedan that concealed her Ghost Embryo nature.
• Chen Mobai met Zhou Ye in Primordial Immortal City and proposed reuniting the Divine Wood Sect and Golden Light Cliff with the Five Elements Sect in exchange for the Primordial Dao Fruit method.
• Zhou Ye refused to pass on the method, but Chen Mobai suggested the reunification could help Zhou Ye cultivate the Primordial Dao Fruit; Zhou Ye later secretly offered the inheritance in exchange for the two meridians’ help.
• Chen Mobai left Primordial Immortal City with Mu Yuan and Gu Yan, while his true body took Luo Yixuan back to the Divine Wood Sect.
• At Flowing Flower Market, Chen Mobai met Yu Country’s local cultivators and advised Hong He before someone detected Demonic Qi inside a nearby man.

Chen Mobai learned from Granny Ming that Hong He might be cultivating the Sea Swallowing Demonic Art and decided to investigate without revealing his suspicions. He left Gu Yan in Yu Country with a valuable spirit-rice planting method and tasked her with observing Hong He.

• Granny Ming identified Hong He's mixed spiritual power as a sign of the Nine Abyss Nine Nether Sea Swallowing Art, and Chen Mobai chose to keep his suspicions quiet while investigating.
• Chen Mobai summoned Gu Yan and offered her family the planting method for Phoenix Tear Bamboo Spirit Rice in exchange for upgrading its spirit fields and giving the sect seventy percent of the harvest.
• Gu Yan swore not to share the planting method, and Chen Mobai instructed her to stay in Yu Country and oversee the preparations.
• Chen Mobai told Gu Yan that Hong He might have cultivated a demonic art and asked her to watch him when he visited her family's fields as Sect Inspector.
• Gu Yan accepted the assignment, seeing it as an opportunity to advance her standing and cultivation.

Chen Mobai brought Gu Yan into the Gu Family’s affairs in Rain Kingdom, then met True Person Nu Jiang in the Water Mansion and learned that Cloud Dream Marsh’s seal might be failing. He left the decision about sending Divine Wood Sect cultivators to his senior brothers, while proposing that Blowing Snow Palace and Returning Heaven Valley share responsibility for the beast threat.

• Chen Mobai arranged for Hong He to sign the Phoenix Tear Bamboo Spirit Rice agreement with the Gu Family, and Gu Yan stayed behind to help upgrade its Spirit Fields.
• Chen Mobai left Rain Kingdom and traveled to the Water Mansion, where he found True Person Nu Jiang reading a scroll inside the broken Array Formation.
• Nu Jiang explained that Eastern Wu had reported five Third Tier Yao Beasts and warned that the seal protecting Cloud Dream Marsh might collapse, freeing a Fourth Grade Demon Beast.
• Chen Mobai declined to commit Divine Wood Sect cultivators immediately and said he would consult his three senior brothers, then hosted Nu Jiang on Second Tier Blood Jade Carp and Spirit Rice.
• Chen Mobai exchanged contact Talismans with Nu Jiang and proposed that Blowing Snow Palace and Returning Heaven Valley contribute cultivators to hunt Yao Beasts in Cloud Dream Marsh.

Chen Mobai toured the Six Kingdoms, advising the Liu Family on expanding Spirit Rice production without damaging its spirit vein and strengthening Zhou Wangshen’s position in Xiao Kingdom. He also guided Zhou Bingyan and Zhou Wangshen in cultivation, leaving Zhou Wangshen openly intent on competing with Hong He for the future Sect Master position.

• Chen Mobai warned Liu Jingxian not to fill in the Spirit Pool, then helped plan new Spirit Fields and offered to buy the Liu Family’s surplus Second Tier Blood Jade Carp.
• Chen Mobai asked Dong Xuanze to protect the Liu Family and planned to support Spirit Rice-growing families across the Eastern Wasteland.
• In Xiao Kingdom, Chen Mobai reassured Zhou Wangshen about the pressure from Nan Xuan Sect, Returning Heaven Valley, and Blowing Snow Palace, and promised to let his departments recruit more Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Chen Mobai recognized Zhou Bingyan, assessed her aptitude, and encouraged her to prepare for Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Mobai advised Zhou Wangshen on cultivation and Longevity Dew, but cautioned him against rushing to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Zhou Wangshen admitted that he wanted to match Hong He’s cultivation realm so he could compete for the future Sect Master position.

Chen Mobai visited Yan Kingdom and proposed school district housing to boost North Abyss City’s sales by linking cave mansions to Daoist Academy admission. After the Second Tier Cave Mansions sold out within days, he asked whether promising a Foundation Establishment Pill to graduates from Third Tier housing could attract buyers for the remaining elite residences.

• Chen Mobai guided Zhou Wangshen in Xiao Kingdom before traveling to Yan Kingdom and meeting E Yun in North Abyss City.
• E Yun described Fang Xuanyang’s influence and the commercial rivalry between Bao Se Market Town and North Abyss City.
• Chen Mobai proposed a Daoist Academy that would give descendants of North Abyss City property owners annual instruction and a path into the Divine Wood Sect.
• Families bought all the Second Tier Cave Mansions within three days, leaving E Yun regretting that he had not raised the price.
• Chen Mobai asked whether a guaranteed Foundation Establishment Pill for graduates from Third Tier school district housing would make buyers purchase the ten mountaintop cave mansions.

Chen Mobai explained how North Abyss City cave mansions would fund the Divine Wood Sect and provide routes into the sect, then planned an academy to train future disciples. After choosing a site near the city, he named it Longevity Academy.

• Chen Mobai explained that Third Tier Cave Mansions would give Cultivating Families a refuge and a Foundation Establishment Pill, and proposed selling five of them.
• Chen Mobai reassured E Yun that academy admissions and future assessments would keep sect costs manageable while helping the Divine Wood Sect grow to ten thousand cultivators.
• Chen Mobai set limits on cave-mansion admission recommendations and proposed a Genius Class for exceptional Rogue Cultivators.
• Lu Daoda showed Chen Mobai several possible academy sites, and Chen Mobai chose the Ji Family Villa location despite losing income from its Spirit Fields.
• Chen Mobai surveyed the site with E Yun, Mu Yuan, Yin Qingmei, and the others, drew the academy blueprints, and named it Longevity Academy.

Chen Mobai established Longevity Academy and demonstrated his teaching skill, drawing crowds and driving demand for nearby homes. Han Tingfeng sought a place for his children and offered his Pill Scripture as collateral, prompting E Yun to summon Yin Qingmei to assess it.

• Chen Mobai named the school Longevity Academy, planned its curriculum with E Yun, and trained experienced sect cultivators to teach.
• Chen Mobai lectured to a packed crowd for a day and night, impressing cultivators with his teaching and strengthening Longevity Academy’s reputation.
• Han Tingfeng learned that the academy would become a Divine Wood Sect lower court and sought housing so his spiritually gifted children could enroll.
• After the available First and Second Tier Cave Mansions had sold out, Han Tingfeng offered his Pill Scripture and savings to secure his children’s future.
• E Yun examined the Pill Scripture, found that it contained seven pill formulas including the Third Grade Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill, and called Yin Qingmei to verify its value.

Han Tingfeng mortgaged the Black Crow Pill Scripture to the Divine Wood Sect for a cave mansion, and Yin Qingmei identified it as the work of Gray Feather Daoist, a renowned alchemist from Sun Bathing Sea. Chen Mobai ordered a search for a possible second volume, stopped Yin Qingmei from going to Cloud Dream Marsh, and left her poised to ask about the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra.

• Han Tingfeng told Yin Qingmei how he had found the Black Crow Pill Scripture and used its alchemy knowledge to build his fortune and attempt Foundation Establishment twice.
• Yin Qingmei confirmed the scripture’s authenticity, and Han Tingfeng mortgaged it to the Divine Wood Sect for fifty thousand Spirit Stones and a cave mansion deed.
• Yin Qingmei revealed that the scripture belonged to Gray Feather Daoist, and E Yun agreed to report it to Chen Mobai rather than claim it privately.
• Chen Mobai examined the scripture and Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill, gave the scripture to Yin Qingmei to safeguard, and ordered Zhou Wangshen to search near Xuanshui Island for another volume.
• Yin Qingmei volunteered to search Cloud Dream Marsh, but Chen Mobai refused and instructed E Yun to reserve Han Tingfeng a First Tier Cave Mansion.
• After E Yun left, Yin Qingmei asked Chen Mobai about the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra.

Chen Mobai taught Yin Qingmei the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra and helped her convert her cultivation method, then continued organizing Longevity Academy in North Abyss City. Jiang Zongheng volunteered to teach there and declared that he would use the academy to change the Eastern Wasteland, prompting Chen Mobai to ask whether he would accept him as a master.

• Chen Mobai warned Yin Qingmei about the risks of the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra, then agreed to transmit it after confirming the method was safe.
• Yin Qingmei chose Longevity Wood as her preferred Lifebound Spirit Plant and offered Chen Mobai her Pure Clean Bamboo for his disciple.
• Chen Mobai taught Yin Qingmei the scripture and helped her convert from the Longevity Sutra to the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra over three days and nights.
• E Yun reported concerns about Longevity Academy admissions, and Chen Mobai insisted that Cave Mansion quotas remain linked to their properties while preserving advancement opportunities for rogue cultivators.
• Chen Mobai remained in North Abyss City to train teachers, and Jiang Zongheng asked to stay at Longevity Academy, saying he would use it to change the Eastern Wasteland.
• Chen Mobai asked Jiang Zongheng whether he was willing to take him as his master.

Chen Mobai accepted Jiang Zongheng as his disciple, equipped him to teach at Longevity Academy, and left Yan Kingdom for Hong Kingdom. After Chen departed Six Armor Mountain, Xu Shengbing met its hidden ancestor, Yan Fusheng, who planned to overthrow the Five Elements Five Meridians and destroy Xuanxiao Dao Palace.

• Chen Mobai accepted Jiang Zongheng as his direct disciple and taught him the Longevity Dao Body and Precious Fire Body Tempering Technique, supplying Longevity Tree Sap and an Azure Sun Fire Fire Seed.
• Jiang Zongheng agreed to lead Longevity Academy with E Yun, while Lian Maozhi and Ding Ying also stayed behind to teach; Chen Mobai instructed them before leaving Yan Kingdom.
• Chen Mobai visited Six Armor Mountain, assessed its spiritual vein, and departed with Hong Kingdom Guardian Yan Yuanhao, leaving Yu Changjian relieved but shaken.
• Xu Shengbing reported Chen Mobai's departure to the hidden Yan Fusheng, who cultivated a Ghost Embryo and vowed to settle accounts with the Five Elements Five Meridians and Xuanxiao Dao Palace.

Chen Mobai inspected Hong Kingdom’s border with the Boundless Sand Sea and began planning a long-term effort to restore the Eastern Wasteland by controlling the desert. Back at Divine Wood Sect, he addressed the danger posed by Hong He’s possible Demonic Art and searched for a way to help Luo Yixuan, but Tu Daohua remained protected behind a powerful formation.

• Chen Mobai confirmed that spiritual energy and buried Spirit Veins remained beneath the Boundless Sand Sea, then planned to channel water from Cloud Dream Marsh through Xiao Kingdom, Yan Kingdom, and Hong Kingdom to support sand control.
• Chen Mobai ordered Yan Yuanhao to collect local Spirit Plants suited to the desert and returned from Hong Kingdom with the Divine Wood Sect group.
• After returning to Giant Wood Ridge, Chen Mobai instructed Yue Zutao to gather intelligence on Blowing Snow Palace’s kingdoms and plan how to bring down the sect.
• Chen Mobai, Zhou Shengqing, and Fu Zongjue agreed to persuade Hong He to leave Divine Wood Sect over suspicions that he cultivated a Demonic Art, while Chen Mobai proposed using him as a hidden protector if he remained safe to trust.
• Chen Mobai told Zhou Shengqing and Fu Zongjue that Luo Yixuan might need to cultivate a Demonic Art, and he planned to seek another solution while preparing to confront Tu Daohua with help from Nujiang and Mo Douguang.
• Chen Mobai and Granny Ming found Tu Daohua on his island in Cloud Dream Marsh, but his Fourth Tier Great Formation made a direct attack too risky, so Chen Mobai set up puppet fish and a Heavenly Calculation Bead to monitor the island.

Qu Xiuxian delivered Green Wood Sha and cultivation-method Jade Slips to Chen Mobai, who later brought Yin Qingmei into the Divine Tree Secret Realm to seek a compatible spirit plant. Chen Mobai tested the Great Dao Tree through a Formless Puppet and earned the chance to receive initiation in one Great Art as a True Disciple of the Longevity Sect.

• Qu Xiuxian delivered thirty streams of Green Wood Sha and two Jade Slips to Chen Mobai, then took the Locust Mother inner core and left under Xie Yuntian's escort.
• Yin Qingmei failed to win a response from Zhou Shengqing's Longevity Wood, so Chen Mobai brought her into the Divine Tree Secret Realm to try other spirit plants.
• Chen Mobai inspected his Wutong Spirit Tree and Logging Yard, harvested two Azure Sun Spirit Trees, and sent accumulated spirit wood to the Immortal Sect.
• Chen Mobai gave Yin Qingmei Jade Bamboo Shoots and left her near the Talent Tree before heading toward the Great Dao Tree with a Formless Puppet.
• Chen Mobai endured the Great Dao Tree's pressure and received word that he could become a True Disciple and choose one Great Art for initiation.

Chen Mobai received the Heaven Intercepting Longevity Sword Intent and Extreme Sun Slash from the Great Dao Tree, but the empowerments cracked his Heavenly Calculation Bead. He met Yin Qingmei after a month of studying Extreme Sun Slash, refused to let her stay in the secret realm, and brought her to see the Jade Wutong.

• Chen Mobai used the Formless Puppet to seek Sword Light Transformation and received the Heaven Intercepting Longevity Sword Intent, experiencing visions as the Great Dao Tree, a sprout, and a branch.
• Chen Mobai used another High-grade Spirit Stone to receive the Extreme Sun Slash empowerment, which cracked the Heavenly Calculation Bead.
• Chen Mobai studied the empowered Extreme Sun Slash for a month and arrived late to meet Yin Qingmei.
• Yin Qingmei admitted she had failed to establish spiritual communication with the Talent Tree and asked to remain in the secret realm, but Chen Mobai refused.
• Chen Mobai took Yin Qingmei to the Jade Wutong and told her it was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root of the same origin as the Longevity Sect's Heavenly Venerable.