Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai offered Yin Qingmei the Jade Wutong Tree, a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, after she failed to meet the Longevity Sect’s trial requirements. Yin Qingmei became its symbiotic cultivator and insisted on calling Chen Mobai her adoptive father, despite his discomfort.

• Chen Mobai explained the Jade Wutong Tree’s immense value and told Yin Qingmei that only Longevity Sect Holy Sons and Saintesses who took twelve steps in the Dao Inquiry Pass could claim it.
• After learning Yin Qingmei had failed at the eighth step, Chen Mobai hesitated to break the sect’s rules, while she proposed becoming his descendant to inherit sect status.
• Yin Qingmei knelt and asked Chen Mobai to accept her as his adoptive daughter, and he agreed to give her the tree while asking her to consider him a teacher instead.
• Yin Qingmei communed with the Jade Wutong Tree, cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra, and formed a symbiosis with the spirit plant under Chen Mobai’s guidance.
• Afterward, Yin Qingmei praised the tree’s limitless potential and continued addressing Chen Mobai as her adoptive father, promising to use his proper title around others.

Chen Mobai helped Yin Qingmei transplant the Jade Wutong to Green Dai Mountain and gave her a path to develop it through work in the Eastern Wasteland. He arranged Core Formation opportunities for Yin Qingmei and Zhuo Ming, then enlisted Zhou Shengqing to adapt the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle for the sect as he prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• Chen Mobai explained how the Jade Wutong could earn Merit by combing earth veins and invited Yin Qingmei to assist with developing the Eastern Wasteland.
• Zhuo Ming found a spiritual acupoint on Green Dai Mountain, and Chen Mobai planted the Jade Wutong there for Yin Qingmei.
• Yin Qingmei gave Chen Mobai the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle technique, and he awarded her one hundred thousand Sect Contributions.
• Chen Mobai promised Zhuo Ming a chance to form her core through enlightenment and sent her to study Earth Master techniques for the Eastern Wasteland project.
• Chen Mobai asked Zhou Shengqing to adapt the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle for use with Heavenly Wood Spiritual Light, then said he would cultivate in seclusion after arranging the sect's affairs.

Chen Mobai entered seclusion after arranging Divine Wood Sect’s affairs, while he arranged care for Luo Yixuan and planned to expand the sect’s trade. Half a year later, he broke through to Golden Core Second Layer.

• Chen Mobai rejected Granny Ming’s offer to seize Luo Yixuan’s body and make her a Ghost Core cultivator, choosing to preserve her humanity instead.
• Chen Mobai arranged for Chu Zuoshu to obtain higher-grade Pure Clean Bamboo for Luo Yixuan, but Chu Zuoshu was ambushed after buying bamboo in Golden Crow Immortal City.
• Chen Mobai decided to rely on the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association for outside purchases and ordered Liu Wenbai to sell Talisman Paper with free Little South Ink to capture the Eastern Wasteland market.
• Chen Mobai entered seclusion, and six months later, he broke through to Golden Core Second Layer.

After reaching Golden Core Second Layer, Chen Mobai claimed another Longevity Sect Immortal Sutra and chose the earth-element Yellow Emperor's Great Virtue Sutra for his disciple Zhuo Ming. He gave her the complete scripture and advised her to advance the Nine Ren Dharma Body toward the innate Earth Spirit Body it required.

• Chen Mobai broke through to Golden Core Second Layer, expanded his Golden Core Domain, and improved his cultivation techniques and Seven Yang Body.
• Chen Mobai visited the Talent Tree and, after receiving permission to choose another Immortal Sutra, selected the Yellow Emperor's Great Virtue Sutra.
• Chen Mobai studied the scripture and learned that cultivating it required an innate Earth Spirit Body, which Zhuo Ming did not possess.
• Chen Mobai gave Zhuo Ming the complete Yellow Emperor's Great Virtue Sutra and explained its prerequisite, encouraging her to study it despite the obstacle.
• Chen Mobai learned that Zhuo Ming had slowed her Nine Ren Dharma Body training and advised her to cultivate it toward the fifth layer, which might simulate an innate Earth Spirit Body.

Chen Mobai visited Little South Mountain, where Zhuo Ming’s Pure Clean Bamboo grove helped Luo Yixuan suppress her Yellow Springs Spiritual Power and showed promise for producing higher-grade Spirit Rice. Inspired by the bamboo and Enlightenment White Tea, Chen Mobai realized he could help Luo Yixuan advance the Return to Origin Secret Art without relying on an outside artifact refiner.

• Chen Mobai learned that Luo Yixuan could walk and keep a normal routine after Zhuo Ming used Pure Clean Bamboo to suppress most of her Yellow Springs Spiritual Power.
• Chen Mobai examined the thriving Pure Clean Bamboo grove and found that Zhuo Ming’s experiments had produced Spirit Rice grains with the potential to surpass Second Grade.
• Chen Mobai used Yi Wood Divine Thunder to ripen the Spirit Rice and grow the Third Tier Pure Clean Bamboo, confirming that Zhuo Ming’s cultivation method could work.
• After drinking Enlightenment White Tea, Chen Mobai realized that Luo Yixuan might use the third layer of the Return to Origin Secret Art to transfer her Yellow Springs Spiritual Power without a Natal Magic Tool.
• Chen Mobai took out Void Stones and offered to teach Luo Yixuan the key points of the third layer, hoping she could skip the second layer and avoid owing an outside expert a favor.

Chen Mobai arranged Natal Magic Tool plans for his disciples, received reports on the Divine Wood Sect, and learned that Kunpeng Daoist Academy’s Bailang was supposedly a dragon with extraordinary status. The chapter ended with Yu Huiping watching Xiao Hei choose Wuqi Dao Academy as her first choice.

• Chen Mobai explained Natal Magic Tool embryos to Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan, who began considering customized designs, and learned that Zhuo Ming had used Tai Sui Juice to improve Green Jade Spirit Rice.
• Chen Mobai heard Yue Zutao and Luo Xueer report that the sect was stable and profitable, then ordered the Witchcraft Department to investigate strange spiritual energy fluctuations near the Shuang Country and Snow Country border.
• Chen Mobai visited Green Mulberry Academy, praised its enrollment, and stamped the graduate applications of three Foundation Establishment students who had not chosen Wuqi Dao Academy as their first choice.
• Song Mutu told Chen Mobai about rising geniuses at the other Daoist Academies, and Wenren Xuewei revealed that Kunpeng Daoist Academy’s Bailang was supposedly a dragon with True Dragon bloodline.
• Yu Huiping watched Xiao Hei use a computer to select Wuqi Dao Academy as her first choice.

Chen Mobai decided to study artifact refining and other skills after learning that his return to Wuqi Dao Academy had been blocked. He discovered that Xiao Hei, a Pure Yin Body from Yumu City, had joined the academy, and the chapter ended with retired master Hong Mengkui accepting Chen Mobai as his disciple.

• Ming Yihua suggested Chen Mobai learn artifact refining and other cultivation skills, so Chen Mobai asked Che Yucheng about returning to Wuqi Dao Academy to study.
• Che Yucheng told Chen Mobai that Opening the Origin Hall had rejected his transfer because it wanted him to remain in Yumu City, so Chen Mobai decided to study on his own.
• Che Yucheng revealed that the academy's new prodigy, Xiao Hei, had a Pure Yin Body and had chosen Wuqi Dao Academy despite other proposed paths for her cultivation.
• Chen Mobai suggested that Wuqi Dao Academy seek Venerable Qingping's Five Elements Technique instruction videos to help Xiao Hei, then learned about her origins and ties to Yumu City.
• Chen Mobai asked Che Yucheng for an artifact-refining mentor, and Che Yucheng connected him with retired master Hong Mengkui.
• Hong Mengkui accepted Chen Mobai as his disciple, and Bian Jingchun sent Chen Mobai a message greeting him as a junior brother.

Chen Mobai studied artifact refining in the Immortal Sect, then returned to the Eastern Wasteland and refined a flying sword that became the prize for the Divine Wood Sect’s Sect Grand Competition. He also oversaw the sect’s Foundation Establishment Pill production, which yielded 60 pills after Golden Light Cliff’s share.

• Bian Jingchun advised Chen Mobai on artifact refining and told him that Ming Yihua was an even more talented young refiner.
• After a year of study, Chen Mobai showed Hong Mengkui his artifact blueprints and explained that he planned to practice by refining magic tools.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Sky River Realm, where Luo Xueer presented the gathered materials and Wang Tingbo prepared the sect’s artifact refining room.
• Chen Mobai refined a Divine Wood Purple Light Sword and donated it as the prize for the Sect Grand Competition’s top true disciple; Xie Yuntian eventually obtained it.
• Chen Mobai organized the Divine Wood Sect’s resources to support Zeng Woyou’s Foundation Establishment Pill production, which produced 86 pills over three years and left the sect with 60 after its share for Golden Light Cliff.

At a sect meeting, Chen Mobai set rules for distributing the Divine Wood Sect’s newly refined Foundation Establishment Pills and rewarded cultivators for their contributions. The meeting ended with new hope for future pill supplies, while disciples crowded Spirit Treasure Pavilion to exchange for the pills.

• Zhou Shengqing learned that the Divine Wood Sect had refined eighty-six Foundation Establishment Pills and discussed the sect’s growing strength with Fu Zongjue.
• Chen Mobai allocated fifteen pills to the Five Elements Sect and upheld the promised share for Golden Light Cliff.
• Chen Mobai reserved ten pills for Alternate True Disciples, offered a pill to each year’s Sect Grand Competition winner, and imposed a ten-year restriction on disciples who exchanged for one.
• Chen Mobai assigned one pill to the Chief of Longevity Academy and rewarded Zhou Wangshen for bringing three demon-beast Inner Cores suitable for pill refinement.
• E Yun reported that Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma rescued from Mountain Shaking Peak had recovered and could mature in five years, earning E Yun and Yue Zutao great merit.
• After the meeting, disciples crowded Spirit Treasure Pavilion to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, and some regretted not placing higher in the Sect Grand Competition.

The Divine Wood Sect distributed Foundation Establishment Pills to the Five Elements Sect’s three meridians and Golden Light Cliff while preparing its own disciples for breakthroughs. Ji Guanhai reached Divine Wood Hall to seek Chen Mobai after the Five Elements delegation missed him.

• Qi Cultivation disciples exchanged Foundation Establishment Pills and rented guarded Cultivation Rooms, so Chen Mobai directed extra spiritual energy toward them.
• Kong Shanxu, Tan Rong, and Ji Guanhai arrived from the Five Elements Sect to receive Foundation Establishment Pills, while Yue Zutao explained that Zeng Woyou’s refining schedule was full.
• Yan Jinye received Chen Mobai’s approval to attempt refining Yao Beast Foundation Establishment Pills as the sect cultivated another alchemist.
• Yue Zutao and Luo Xueer handed fifteen Foundation Establishment Pills in glass bottles to the three Five Elements meridians, which divided them equally and departed by teleportation array.
• Tan Rong learned about Longevity Academy and considered visiting it, while Jia Songyang collected twenty-six pills for Golden Light Cliff and asked Chen Mobai for guidance on the Crimson Flame Sword Art.
• Yue Zutao brought Ji Guanhai into Divine Wood Hall while Chen Mobai was meeting with Jia Songyang.

Chen Mobai agreed to help Nujiang and the Sun Family fight the yao beasts threatening Cloud Dream Marsh and the seal holding the Fourth Grade Poison Dragon. At Little South Mountain, he also found that the Immortal Peach Tree had produced twenty-seven fruits and planned to use one to help Zhuo Ming break through.

• Ji Guanhai delivered Nujiang’s letter describing the Sun Family’s losses, the growing war against the yao beasts, and the danger posed by the sealed Fourth Grade Poison Dragon.
• Chen Mobai agreed that the Divine Wood Sect and Golden Light Cliff would send cultivators to Wind Rain Dock to aid Nujiang.
• Ji Guanhai praised Chen Mobai’s concern for Eastern Wasteland, and Yue Zutao said the Sect Master’s ambitions reached beyond the region.
• At Little South Mountain, Chen Mobai counted twenty-seven fruits on the Immortal Peach Tree, whose unusually rich growing conditions had increased its yield.
• Chen Mobai told Zhuo Ming that an Immortal Peach Fruit could help her overcome her Foundation Establishment Early Stage bottleneck and promised to protect her when she took it.

Luo Yixuan completed the transfer of her Yellow Springs Spiritual Power into her Fire Jade Heart Lotus, and Chen Mobai confirmed that she could resume normal cultivation. Zhuo Ming chose to pursue the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron as her Natal Magic Tool, while Chen Mobai discovered that Earth Origin Star had only 4,236 kinds of ore.

• Luo Yixuan finished cultivating, and Chen Mobai examined her and confirmed that the Yellow Springs Spiritual Power was safely stored in her Fire Jade Heart Lotus.
• Chen Mobai explained how he had refined the Fire Jade Heart Lotus for Luo Yixuan and warned her to use the hidden power only in a crisis.
• Zhuo Ming asked Chen Mobai not to cut down her Pure Clean Bamboo, then proposed refining a Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron as her Natal Magic Tool.
• Chen Mobai agreed to support Zhuo Ming's plan, and she prepared to use her accumulated Sect Contribution and Spirit Stones to gather ore essences.
• Chen Mobai checked the Immortal Sect's data while Zhuo Ming meditated and learned that Earth Origin Star had only 4,236 kinds of ore.

After Zhuo Ming advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and improved her potential with an Immortal Peach, Chen Mobai gathered Life Stones to enter the Divine Tree Secret Realm and claim the three remaining Longevity Sect Immortal Sutras. He obtained all five Immortal Sutras and found that the Crimson Emperor Illumination Sutra offered a way to condense Great Sun Fire that suited his cultivation.

• Zhuo Ming completed her breakthrough beneath the Immortal Peach Tree, reaching Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and the third level of her Nine Ren Dharma Body.
• Chen Mobai gave Zhuo Ming a second Immortal Peach, which increased her potential, and her Spirit Root readings prompted him to realize that refining Life Stones could help him enter the Divine Tree Secret Realm's Heritage Space.
• Chen Mobai requested Life Stones, and Yu Lian and Zhou Bingyan brought supplies from Yan Kingdom and Xiao Kingdom.
• After refining the Life Stones, Chen Mobai entered the Heritage Space and claimed the Fire, Water, and Metal Element Immortal Sutras, completing the set of five.
• Chen Mobai studied the Crimson Emperor Illumination Sutra and discovered that its Clear Sky Mirror could condense Great Sun Fire, with help from an Azure Emperor Longevity Sutra cultivator's Lifebound Spirit Plant.

Chen Mobai used his Immortal Sect privilege to reserve a Void Blind Box and fabricated ancient blueprints explaining how to add the Clear Sky Mirror’s functions to his Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror. After the box yielded only two jars of Spirit Wine, he sent the blueprints to Hong Mengkui, who began working with him on the upgrade.

• Chen Mobai asked Wenren Xuewei about obtaining a Void Blind Box and learned that his Third-Tier User privilege let him reserve one before it was listed.
• Chen Mobai reserved the Void Blind Box, then spent a month using Enlightenment White Tea to prepare plausible Clear Sky Mirror blueprints in the Immortal Sect’s style.
• Chen Mobai opened the box and found two jars of Spirit Wine that seemed no better than Third Grade, but decided he could use the box as an explanation for items he brought from the Sky River Realm.
• Chen Mobai sent his Clear Sky Mirror blueprints to Hong Mengkui, who judged the proposed upgrade feasible but warned that material limitations might lower the grade of the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror.
• Chen Mobai and Hong Mengkui began breaking the Clear Sky Mirror’s functions into parts and planning how to add them to the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror.

Chen Mobai completed the Clear Sky Mirror with Hong Mengkui’s help, secured spirit wood through Yumu City’s official channels, and tested the mirror’s powers on Green Dai Mountain. The Jade Wutong began advancing to Second Grade after absorbing Solar Vitality, and Chen Mobai called Ming'er to examine it.

• Hong Mengkui finished the Clear Sky Mirror blueprints and warned Chen Mobai that acquiring suitable spirit wood would require complicated approvals.
• Chen Mobai worked with Wen Ping to arrange Yumu City’s legal sale of spirit wood, then reserved a section of Third-Grade Spirit Elm Wood through the Immortal Sect Network.
• Chen Mobai used Golden Sun Spirit Wood to make a replaceable frame for the Clear Sky Mirror and tested its ability to gather Solar Vitality and condense Great Sun Fire.
• Yin Qingmei and the Jade Wutong cultivated under the mirror light until Chen Mobai stopped the session when they reached their limits.
• Chen Mobai saw smoke rising from the Jade Wutong and recognized that it was transforming into Second Grade, then called Ming'er to Green Dai Mountain for help.

Chen Mobai and Zhuo Ming helped the Jade Wutong advance, and its vitality fed back to Yin Qingmei, increasing her lifespan by about ten years. After entrusting Yin Qingmei with the Clear Sky Mirror to care for the tree, Chen Mobai advised Zhuo Ming on her artifact refining and asked whether she wanted to go out for a walk.

• Zhuo Ming used Omniscient Connection to manage the Jade Wutong's advancement, while Chen Mobai and Yin Qingmei brought the water and sweet dew she needed.
• The Jade Wutong advanced successfully, and Yin Qingmei entered a Trance State as the spirit plant fed vitality back to her.
• Chen Mobai discovered that Yin Qingmei had gained roughly ten years of lifespan and lent her the Clear Sky Mirror to help nourish the Jade Wutong.
• Chen Mobai learned that Zhuo Ming had collected only fifty-six of the ninety-nine ores needed for her Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron and directed her to ask Wang Tingbo for help.
• At Zhuo Ming's home, Chen Mobai saw her spirit beasts and asked if she wanted to go out for a walk.

Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming and Zhou Bingyan to Yan Kingdom for Longevity Academy’s first graduation ceremony, while bringing new Natal Magic Tool embryos for his disciples. In North Abyss City, he found its Cave Mansion development had left many homes empty, then gave Jiang Zongheng the Path-Practicing Ruler, whose material Zhuo Ming recognized with suspicion.

• Chen Mobai invited Zhuo Ming to travel with him to Yan Kingdom and gather ores for her Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron, and she prepared gifts for his junior brother.
• Chen Mobai refined the Green Ripple Sword for Liu Wenbai and secretly used Third-tier Pure Clean Bamboo to make Jiang Zongheng’s Path-Practicing Ruler.
• Zhou Bingyan joined Chen Mobai and Zhuo Ming on their journey, bringing twelve new kinds of ores she had collected in Xiao Kingdom.
• Chen Mobai arrived in North Abyss City and learned that E Yun had developed most of its permitted Cave Mansion sites, leaving more than half vacant despite the busy commercial street.
• Chen Mobai went to Longevity Academy and gave Jiang Zongheng the Path-Practicing Ruler, which delighted him; Zhuo Ming then recognized its material and questioned Chen Mobai.

Chen Mobai awarded Han Zhiling a Foundation Establishment Pill as Longevity Academy’s first Chief Graduate, drawing admiration from the ceremony’s guests and making her father, Han Tingfeng, proud. Han Zhiling then confronted Song Huangda about concealing his strength, while E Yun later capitalized on the graduation ceremony’s effects to sell the academy’s remaining First and Second Tier Cave Mansions.

• Chen Mobai named Han Zhiling Longevity Academy’s Chief Graduate and personally gave her a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Han Tingfeng proudly showed off Han Zhiling to other parents, then took her and Han Ronglu to North Abyss City’s commercial street.
• Han Zhiling met Song Huangda in an alley and asked why he had forfeited the competition despite being stronger than her.
• Song Huangda said he wanted to avoid attention and keep a low profile before entering Divine Wood Sect, then left after warning Han Zhiling that their paths would diverge.
• Han Ronglu found Han Zhiling at the alley entrance, and they returned to meet their father without discussing Song Huangda.
• After news spread of Han Zhiling’s reward, E Yun sold the remaining First and Second Tier Cave Mansions for over eight million Spirit Stones.

Chen Mobai laid out his plan to restore the Eastern Wasteland Plateau through barriers, spirit-grass planting, and animal husbandry, despite the Divine Wood Sect’s doubts. After Han Tingfeng died following a failed Foundation Establishment attempt, Jiang Zongheng and Ding Ying protected his children from a merchant seeking to seize Han Zhiling’s Foundation Establishment Pill, then advised the siblings to go to Giant Wood Ridge.

• Chen Mobai learned that Han Tingfeng had died after taking a Foundation Establishment Pill and sent Jiang Zongheng to offer condolences.
• Chen Mobai presented his plan to restore the Eastern Wasteland Plateau, while Zhuo Ming listened and later asked him to explain the parts she did not understand.
• Jiang Zongheng and Ding Ying arrived at Han Tingfeng’s Cave Mansion and found Wang Juyuan pressuring Han Zhiling to mortgage her Foundation Establishment Pill against her father’s debts.
• Ding Ying’s Foundation Establishment pressure forced Wang Juyuan to leave without the pill, and Han Zhiling thanked her and Jiang Zongheng.
• Jiang Zongheng and Ding Ying told Han Zhiling and her younger brother to pack after Han Tingfeng’s first seven days and go to Giant Wood Ridge.

E Yun, Ding Ying, and Jiang Zongheng debated how to handle Wang Juyuan’s claim against Han Zhiling without undermining North Abyss City’s rules or the Divine Wood Sect’s reputation. They decided that the rules must be enforced even if Han Zhiling lost her Foundation Establishment Pill, leaving Ding Ying worried about the cost to her student.

• Wang Juyuan demanded that Han Zhiling’s family repay Han Tingfeng’s debt, and Wang Xuanming failed to persuade him to withdraw the claim.
• E Yun considered paying the debt himself to protect Chen Mobai’s reputation, but Jiang Zongheng warned that favoring Han Zhiling would damage E Yun’s standing and the city’s impartial reputation.
• Ding Ying suggested taking Han Zhiling out of North Abyss City, but E Yun and Jiang Zongheng rejected the plan because it would violate their duties and risk Han Ronglu’s property and Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Jiang Zongheng argued that allowing Han Zhiling to suffer the consequences would demonstrate that North Abyss City’s rules applied equally, and Ding Ying understood that she would become an example of their enforcement.
• Jiang Zongheng declared that he intended to help Chen Mobai establish rules across the Eastern Wasteland, even if he himself had to be sacrificed for that goal.