Chapter Summaries

Zhuo Ming forged the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron with Chen Mobai’s help, and its completion linked it to North Abyss Mountain’s Spirit Vein. The cauldron gathered Fortune Qi for both of them, leaving Chen Mobai’s spiritual power replenished and Zhuo Ming undergoing a transformation.

• Zhuo Ming selected 176 kinds of ore in North Abyss City and began forging her Natal Magic Tool in the city’s highest Cave Mansion.
• When Zhuo Ming ran low on spiritual power, Chen Mobai used the Two Aspects Rotating Mutual Cultivation Technique to supply her with Earth Spiritual Power.
• Zhuo Ming smelted all 176 ores into the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron, whose completion sent a resonant cauldron note through North Abyss City.
• The cauldron linked with North Abyss Mountain’s Spirit Vein and drew out Fortune Qi, granting ninety percent to Chen Mobai and ten percent to Zhuo Ming.
• Chen Mobai’s spiritual power recovered as the cauldron fed him pure spiritual qi, while Zhuo Ming lay within it, glowing as she underwent a transformation.
• Granny Ming identified the Fortune Qi as Innate Earth Element Essence.

Chen Mobai helped Zhuo Ming refine Fortune Qi, greatly strengthening her earth abilities and revealing that her Omniscient Connection could let the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron locate hidden Fortune Qi. He then guided the Divine Wood Sect’s response to Wang Juyuan’s attempt to exploit its rules, leaving Wang disgraced and ultimately killed by Wang Xuanming.

• Zhuo Ming refined the Fortune Qi with the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron, raising her Earth Spiritual Root and bringing her Earth Mother Technique’s Primordial Qi to mastery.
• Chen Mobai discovered that Zhuo Ming could share her Omniscient Connection with the cauldron, allowing it to find Fortune Qi through earth veins.
• Chen Mobai taught Jiang Zongheng that the sect needed both rules and authority, then ordered E Yun to settle Han Tingfeng’s debt without letting Wang Juyuan achieve his aim.
• Han Ronglu borrowed one hundred thousand Spirit Stones against his Third Tier Cave Mansion and repaid Wang Juyuan, who was forced to accept the money under E Yun’s watch.
• Wang Juyuan lost his shop and Cave Mansions, fled North Abyss City, and was rejected by his family before Wang Xuanming killed him with a flying sword.

Chen Mobai advanced plans to restore the Eastern Wasteland and showed Zhuo Ming the Boundless Sand Sea, inspiring her to dedicate her life to curing the desert. He encouraged Yan Yuanhao’s work on Hong Kingdom’s Protection Belt and corrected his cultivation, while declaring that he would create a lasting era of peace.

• Chen Mobai ordered E Yun to sow Green Luo Grass and other resilient Spirit Plants across the Eastern Wasteland Plateau, and used Zhuo Ming’s Omniscient Connection to locate underground water.
• Chen Mobai took Jiang Zongheng and Zhuo Ming to Hong Kingdom, where Yan Yuanhao showed them the Spirit Shuttle Grass Protection Belt he had built over six years.
• Chen Mobai brought the group into the Boundless Sand Sea, where Zhuo Ming touched the sand and sensed the earth’s suffering through Omniscient Connection.
• Zhuo Ming vowed to cure the desert and pass the mission down through generations, and Chen Mobai promised to pacify the world and secure a peaceful age for her work.
• Chen Mobai praised Yan Yuanhao’s progress, advised him on expanding the Protection Belt, and corrected his Earth Spirit Body cultivation, improving his spiritual-energy absorption by thirty percent.

Chen Mobai assembled a force to aid Wind Rain Dock during the Beast Tide, then led them through Cloud Dream Marsh and cleared a swarm of Black Plague Birds at Iron Green Market. He left cultivators to secure the market’s Teleportation Array and continued toward Wind Rain Dock.

• Yu Lian informed Chen Mobai that four Third Tier Yao Beasts were besieging Wind Rain Dock, so Chen Mobai ordered reinforcements and coastal defenses to be organized.
• Jiang Zongheng and Zhuo Ming insisted on joining Chen Mobai, and several other cultivators volunteered, hoping to earn merit and possibly obtain a Third Tier inner core.
• Chen Mobai gathered Foundation Establishment cultivators from Divine Wood Sect, Five Elements Sect, and local families, then traveled through Xiao Kingdom toward Cloud Dream Marsh.
• At Iron Green Market, Chen Mobai killed the Black Plague Bird king and exterminated the flock with his Primordial Yang Sword Sha and Golden Flame.
• Chen Mobai learned that the Teleportation Array to the next market had stopped working, ordered Zhou Wangshen to reinforce Iron Green Market, and left Qi Rui and Zhou Zhenhong to guard its array.
• Chen Mobai raised the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk and led the remaining cultivators toward Wind Rain Dock.

Sheng Zhaoxi and Nu Jiang defended Wind Rain Dock as the Poison Dragon’s claw and a vast yao beast tide battered the Heavenfall Wind Rain Tri-Element Array. After the array collapsed, Sheng Zhaoxi’s Thunder Pearls wounded the attacking beasts, but a powerful Demon Turtle trapped her weapons and threatened to kill her, forcing her to retreat into the shrinking array.

• The Poison Dragon’s cloud claw restrained Wind Rain Dock’s array while four Third Tier Yao Beasts led an assault on its two flanking islands.
• Sheng Zhaoxi used her fire arts and the array’s power to resist the Black Plague Birds and Demon Turtles, but their coordinated attacks cracked the shield.
• On the seventh day, the array shattered, and Sheng Zhaoxi ordered Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Qi Cultivation elites to unleash Taiyi True Fire Thunder Pearls at the advancing yao beasts.
• The Thunder Pearls burned hundreds of Black Plague Birds, but the Demon Turtles endured the blasts and charged the island as cultivators tried to activate a smaller array.
• A Third Tier Demon Turtle broke through Sheng Zhaoxi’s defenses, seized her Heavenly Circle Fire True Ring and hairpin, and left her facing a lethal attack from the Black Plague Bird’s inner core.
• Unable to defeat the Demon Turtle before the inner core struck, Sheng Zhaoxi abandoned her two magic tools and retreated into the shrinking array.

Sheng Zhaoxi nearly died after the Heavenfall Divine Light failed, but Chen Mobai arrived and saved her from the Demon Turtle. He killed the Black Plague Bird and overwhelmed the Turtle with his Sevenfold Flame Sun Slash, leaving the beast burning as it fell into Cloud Dream Marsh.

• The Seven-Colored Cloud Dragon Claw overwhelmed the Formation, leaving Sheng Zhaoxi exposed as the Demon Turtle attacked her.
• Tan Rong arrived with Chen Mobai and other cultivators, and Chen Mobai cut off the Demon Turtle's foot with his Flame Sun Slash.
• Chen Mobai refused the Heavenfall Divine Light and faced the Demon Turtle and Black Plague Bird alone despite Sheng Zhaoxi's warning.
• Sheng Zhaoxi struck the Black Plague Bird with a Thunder Pearl, giving Chen Mobai an opening to kill it with five Golden Flame slashes.
• Chen Mobai combined seven Golden Flame clusters against the Demon Turtle, breaking its water-light defense and setting its shell ablaze as it fell into the marsh.

Chen Mobai defeated the Demon Turtle and Black Plague Bird, then helped his disciples repel the Yao Beasts attacking Wind Rain Dock. As he flew to aid Nujiang, the Poison Dragon triggered a catastrophic clash that weakened the formation and unleashed powerful Yao Beasts.

• Chen Mobai exhausted his spiritual power with the Sevenfold Flame Sun Slash, then used the Purple Lightning Sword to kill the Demon Turtle and retrieve its inner core and the Black Plague Bird's inner core.
• Chen Mobai left Sheng Zhaoxi to oversee his group while Zhuo Ming, Jiang Zongheng, and the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators fought the disordered Yao Beasts.
• Chen Mobai began replenishing his spiritual power before setting out to help Nujiang.
• The Poison Dragon detonated half the formation's power, weakening Wind Rain Dock's defenses and driving the Yao Beasts into a frenzy.
• Chen Mobai transformed into a Flame Rainbow and flew toward Nujiang's island, burning Yao Beasts along the way.

Chen Mobai helped Nujiang repel two Third Tier Yao Beasts at Wind Rain Dock, then learned that the seal around Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion was failing and the Poison Dragon’s forces were escaping. The chapter left the Eastern Wasteland and Eastern Wu preparing to withstand growing attacks as the seal neared collapse.

• The Poison Dragon watched Chen Mobai through the mist, but he broke away from its gaze and rushed to aid Nujiang.
• Chen Mobai arrived at the battlefield, and the two Third Tier Yao Beasts fled toward Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion after Nujiang warned him not to pursue them.
• Chen Mobai discussed the damaged Demon Turtle shell with Sheng Zhaoxi and refused her offer to refine it, saying he would use it to nourish his body-refining disciple.
• Nujiang reported that the seal around Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion might fail within sixty years and explained how the Poison Dragon and its Yao Beasts had been trapped there by three Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Chen Mobai promised that Divine Wood Sect reinforcements were on the way, while Nujiang and Sheng Zhaoxi worried that Wind Rain Dock and Eastern Wu lacked a Nascent Soul Cultivator to protect them.

Chen Mobai organized Foundation Establishment Cultivators to defend the Divine Wood Sect’s markets in Cloud Dream Marsh as yao beasts devastated the region. A year later, Xue Ting fled the destruction of Blowing Snow Palace’s last market, only to be refused entry at Green Light Island.

• After learning there were not enough guards for the Divine Wood Sect’s thirty-eight markets, Chen Mobai assigned Foundation Establishments from four kingdoms to nearby markets.
• The markets endured several attacks, but yao beasts lured defenders away from Jingbo Island and destroyed it; over the next year, Chen Mobai’s Water Spiritual Root rose to 35 points.
• After Sheng Zhaoxi left to heal, Yan Shaoyin and Kong Lingling declined to help, while He Jintong abandoned peripheral islands and defended Returning Heaven Valley’s core holdings.
• Blowing Snow Palace lost most of its markets, and Qi Cuizhen left Xue Ting to guard its final stronghold after taking its valuables and departing through the Teleportation Array.
• When the island’s Grand Array broke, Xue Ting discovered the Teleportation Array no longer worked, fled toward Green Light Island, and fought off two Second Grade yao beasts.
• The Divine Wood Sect guard at Green Light Island refused Xue Ting entry because her identity was unclear, leaving her in despair.

Chen Mobai left Wind Rain Dock after Mo Douguang demonstrated Sword Sha Thunderous Sound and took a teleportation array back toward South Stream Market. At Green Light Island, Gu Yan rescued Xue Ting from two yao beasts after Xue Ting used Chen Mobai’s Purple Fire Sword Talisman to kill one.

• Mo Douguang demonstrated Sword Sha Thunderous Sound to Chen Mobai, and the group discussed his chances against Sun Huangji.
• Chen Mobai accepted Nu Jiang’s gift of eighty-eight pearls and left Wind Rain Dock with Zhuo Ming and Jiang Zongheng.
• Ji Guanhai sent Chen Mobai and his disciples through the Medium Teleportation Array toward South Stream Market.
• Xue Ting used Chen Mobai’s Purple Fire Sword Talisman to destroy a Second Grade yao beast, but the Black Plague Bird still threatened her.
• Gu Yan protected Xue Ting, learned that the talisman came from Chen Mobai, and brought her inside Green Light Island’s defensive array.
• Green Light Island’s Grand Array killed the Black Plague Bird, and Gu Yan introduced herself to Xue Ting.

Chen Mobai investigated Xue Ting’s injuries, arranged her treatment, and trusted Gu Yan’s report that Hong He had shown no signs of cultivating Demonic Art. After guiding Jiang Zongheng and setting him a task to revisit the mysterious Loquat Tree, Chen Mobai entered seclusion, where his cultivation soon appeared to break through again.

• Chen Mobai reunited with Shen Wei at South Stream Market, gave him cultivation advice, and examined Xue Ting’s damaged foundation.
• Chen Mobai ordered Dong Xuanze to investigate Xue Ting’s account, then learned Qi Cuizhen had fled with Blowing Snow Palace’s savings and arranged for the findings to be sent to the palace.
• Gu Yan gave Chen Mobai her seven-year report on Hong He, which showed no signs of Demonic Art, and Chen Mobai arranged for her return to the sect after the Beast Tide.
• Chen Mobai obtained a treatment plan for Xue Ting, gave Jiang Zongheng cultivation guidance, and asked him to revisit the mysterious Loquat Tree in his hometown.
• As Xue Ting recovered at Ting Mountain, spiritual energy surged toward the Longevity Wood, and Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan sensed that Chen Mobai had broken through in seclusion.

Chen Mobai broke through to the Golden Core Third Layer and arranged for Liu Wenbai to seek a Green Cicada Spirit Tea tree from Yan Shaoyin in exchange for pill formulas. After returning to the Immortal Sect, he met Qing Nü, whose news that she was preparing for Core Formation left their reunion poised for a major change.

• Chen Mobai broke through to the Golden Core Third Layer without using his Pure Yang Purple Qi or Blood Spirit Pills, then found that his Pure Yang Dharma Body cultivation had become faster.
• Chen Mobai sent Liu Wenbai to Returning Heaven Valley with a letter offering pill formulas to Yan Shaoyin in exchange for a Third Tier Green Cicada Spirit Tea tree.
• Chen Mobai guided Liu Wenbai's cultivation and shared a meal at Little South Mountain, where Zhuo Ming served her newly developed Third Tier Pure Clean Bamboo Spirit Rice.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Immortal Sect, applied to report his duties at Opening the Origin Hall, and arranged to meet Qing Nü for an appraisal of the Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill.
• Chen Mobai reunited with Qing Nü, who told him she was preparing for Core Formation.

Chen Mobai persuaded Qing Nü not to spend her Heaven Spirit Root’s innate Water Spiritual Energy on Core Formation, and helped her prepare to attempt the breakthrough safely. He then gave her water-attributed pearls and a Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill to examine, and the chapter ended after the pill’s test made her dangerously overheated.

• Chen Mobai urged Qing Nü to wait for Core Formation medicine so she could preserve her innate foundation for forming a Nascent Soul, and she agreed not to draw upon it.
• Qing Nü still planned to attempt Core Formation without the foundation, but promised not to force the breakthrough if she could not succeed.
• Chen Mobai called Yun Yangbing to arrange an upgrade for Qing Nü’s cultivation room, while Qing Nü explained the preparations she had made for a failed attempt.
• Chen Mobai showed Qing Nü eight water-attributed pearls and a Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill from his Void Blind Box.
• Qing Nü tested the pill and became flushed and drenched in sweat, then recovered after several minutes and told Chen Mobai she was fine.

Chen Mobai spent his visit to Wangwu Cave Heaven reconnecting with Qing Nü, receiving her guidance in Alchemy, and discussing a possible path into Immortal Sect service with Wang Shuye. As he prepared to leave, Lan Haitan offered him research on the Jade Wutong, which he refused to read.

• Chen Mobai reassured Qing Nü that the Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pill's effects were fine, then gave her eight Great Pearls worth eight hundred million Merit Points.
• Chen Mobai and Qing Nü spent the day reminiscing and discussing cultivation and Alchemy before parting reluctantly.
• Wang Shuye told Chen Mobai about the coming Nascent Soul opportunities for Duanmu Longrong and himself, then invited Chen Mobai to consider succeeding him in official service.
• Chen Mobai resisted the temptation of Wang Shuye's proposed career path, gave his report at Opening the Origin Hall, and visited friends at Five Peaks Immortal Mountain.
• Chen Mobai spent the rest of his leave learning Alchemy from Qing Nü, who saw him off at the train station on his final day.
• Lan Haitan offered Chen Mobai research by Venerable Yuanxu and Peach Blossom Venerable on the Jade Wutong, and Chen Mobai refused to read it.

Lan Haitan told Chen Mobai about the Immortal Sect’s approaching leadership changes, the investigation into the Jade Wutong and the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master’s escape, and an invitation for Chen to join the Law Enforcement Hall. Chen arranged to take charge of Vermilion Cloud City and was heading there when Meng Huang’er boarded his train.

• Chen Mobai stayed to hear Lan Haitan explain that the Immortal Affairs Hall Master would retire, the Law Enforcement Hall Master would replace him, and the Law Enforcement Hall Master wanted Chen to join the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Lan Haitan revealed that the Jade Wutong had attempted to advance to fifth tier and that Venerable Yuanxu had discovered the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master survived through Liberation by Violence.
• Chen Mobai said he would aim to achieve Nascent Soul Formation Success within a hundred years, and Lan Haitan told him he could return to Vermilion Cloud City now that Peach Blossom Venerable had left.
• Chen Mobai asked Wang Shuye to arrange for Vermilion Cloud City to be placed under his authority, and Wang planned to have him oversee both Vermilion Cloud City and Yumu City.
• Chen Mobai boarded his luxury train carriage, where Meng Huang’er arrived at their arranged meeting.

Chen Mobai reunited with Meng Huang'er aboard a train, then arranged for Meng Hong to acquire a Third Tier inner core for an External Golden Core. He traveled to Myriad Phenomena Mountain to negotiate with Yan Shaoyin over three valuable pill recipes, and began setting his terms.

• Chen Mobai met Meng Huang'er on her tour train, and the two spent their brief journey together before she got off at her next stop.
• Chen Mobai returned to Giant Wood Ridge, where Meng Hong asked for an inner core to pursue the External Golden Core Technique.
• Chen Mobai set the exchange price at three hundred thousand Sect Contribution for a Third Tier Yao Beast inner core and arranged for Meng Hong to obtain the wind-attribute core.
• Chen Mobai offered to enlist Yan Shaoyin's help refining the External Golden Core, then traveled quietly to Myriad Phenomena Mountain to meet him.
• Yan Shaoyin chose the Infant Nurturing Pill, True Return Pill, and Nirvana Pill recipes, and Chen Mobai said he had three requirements for the exchange.

Chen Mobai arranged for Yan Shaoyin and Sheng Zhaoxi to refine two Outer Dao Golden Cores, then transplanted three Green Cicada Spirit Trees from Xiaoye Mountain to dragon-vein sites in Jian Country and Little South Mountain. With the tea trees established, he began preparing to advance Wenren Xuewei’s Enlightenment White Tea using Green Cicada Tea Essence.

• Chen Mobai and Yan Shaoyin agreed to refine pills under a Dao Heart Oath, with Chen providing half the ingredients and receiving half the pills; Yan Shaoyin was also bound to keep the formulas exclusive.
• Chen Mobai brought Sheng Zhaoxi to Returning Heaven Valley, where she and Yan Shaoyin refined two Outer Dao Golden Cores with his assistance.
• Chen Mobai gave Yan Shaoyin the Nirvana Pill formula and explained its unfamiliar ingredients and methods before leaving for Xiaoye Mountain with Zhuo Ming and Liu Wenbai.
• Chen Mobai and Zhuo Ming uprooted three Green Cicada Spirit Trees and carried them to Jian Country, where they planted two at dragon-vein sites and one at Little South Mountain.
• Zhuo Ming found Fortune Qi at Flying Dragon Pool and another dragon-vein site, while Chen Mobai destroyed a corpse that was turning into a Bronze Armored Corpse.
• Chen Mobai confirmed that Primordial Qi helped the Little South Mountain tea tree survive and planned to use Green Cicada Tea Essence to advance Wenren Xuewei’s Enlightenment White Tea.

Chen Mobai oversaw Zhuo Ming’s spirit-planting work, discussed Little South Mountain Shop’s business and expansion plans with Liu Wenbai, and organized a test to recruit tea-tree specialists. At the Tea Garden, Han Zhiling and undercover Song Huangda joined the applicants, each hoping to enter the tutelage of a different senior disciple.

• Chen Mobai praised Zhuo Ming for connecting the Enlightenment White Tea’s roots, refused Luo Yixuan’s suggestion to take a tea tree from the Snowpeak Bai Clan, and asked Xue Ting to remain until her injuries fully healed.
• Chen Mobai told Liu Wenbai to keep Little South Mountain Shop’s low prices, stop giving away Talisman Paper and Talisman Ink as bonuses, refuse outside partnerships for now, and recruit someone to gather and manage tea trees.
• Liu Wenbai posted a call for tea-tree spirit planters, and thirty-six Divine Wood Sect disciples gathered at Little South Mountain for Zhuo Ming to assess them.
• Zhuo Ming revealed herself as the spirit planter overseeing the test, surprising the applicants who had mistaken her for a village girl in the fields.
• Han Zhiling recognized Song Huangda among the applicants; he concealed his mission to infiltrate Little South Mountain Shop, while she admitted she wanted to join Zhuo Ming’s tutelage.
• Zhuo Ming led the applicants into the Tea Garden, while Song Huangda claimed he wanted to enter Liu Wenbai’s tutelage.

Liu Wenbai and Zhuo Ming assigned work to three cultivators, while Chen Mobai began using Dragon Vein Qi to improve his earth spiritual root and planned to refine Earth Vein Pills. The chapter ended with Tai Sui devouring a spy puppet that had infiltrated Little South Mountain to uncover Chen Mobai’s cultivation secrets.

• Liu Wenbai recruited Pang Xigu and agreed that Pang Xigu’s son could inherit his position if he proved capable.
• Liu Wenbai assigned Han Zhiling to care for the Green Cicada Spirit Tree at Flying Dragon Pool and chose Song Huangda to extract Dragon Vein Qi at Dragon Horn Ditch.
• Chen Mobai refined Fortune Qi from two wisps and raised his earth spiritual root from 20 points to 34, then decided to make Earth Vein Pills himself.
• Zhuo Ming taught Song Huangda to extract Dragon Vein Qi, and Liu Wenbai increased his pay to account for the work.
• Luo Yixuan visited Zhuo Ming while a centipede-shaped puppet crept toward Little South Mountain’s summit to investigate Chen Mobai’s rapid cultivation.
• Tai Sui sensed the puppet underground, swallowed it, and resumed searching the soil for pests.

Meng Hong refined an Outer Dao Golden Core, gained sixty years of lifespan, and received Chen Mobai’s help preparing for another attempt at Core Formation. After Chen Mobai assigned him to guard Wind Rain Dock, Chen considered how to use two newly acquired Great Techniques and summoned Yin Qingmei, who brought him the Clear Sky Mirror.

• Meng Hong told Chen Mobai that refining the Outer Dao Golden Core had let him break through to the Longevity Sutra’s fifteenth layer and gain sixty years of lifespan.
• Chen Mobai assessed Meng Hong’s remaining obstacles to Core Formation, proposed ways to restore his body and clear pill toxins, and tested his combat strength against him.
• Chen Mobai ordered Meng Hong to take Foundation Establishment Cultivators to Cloud Dream Marsh and replace Senior Brother Fu as the guardian of Wind Rain Dock.
• Chen Mobai reviewed the Great Techniques One Leaf Obscures the Eye and Pulling Shoots to Help Them Grow, but found that he could not cultivate them without Azure Emperor Longevity Spiritual Power.
• Yin Qingmei entered the Longevity Wood Dao Field and offered Chen Mobai the Clear Sky Mirror.