Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai obtained Fourth Grade Earth Vein Qi from Tianpeng Mountain while the Divine Wood Sect prepared to use Yin Qingmei as bait to draw out the Restoration Society. As Yin Qingmei prepared to leave for Hong Kingdom, Yan Fusheng ordered Xu Shengbing to capture her alive, unaware that Chen Mobai planned to secretly protect her.

• Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming to Tianpeng Mountain, where she extracted twenty streams of Fourth Grade Earth Vein Qi from the damaged Five-Horned Ancient Maple’s spiritual vein.
• Zhuo Ming suggested using the Seed Wood Art to save the Five-Horned Ancient Maple, but Chen Mobai said the technique would need to reach Fourth Grade; he then returned to the Immortal Sect to refine the Earth Vein Pill.
• Du Feng learned that Yin Qingmei would travel to Hong Kingdom and informed Yan Fusheng, who ordered Xu Shengbing to capture her alive in Yan Kingdom and frame the Nan Xuan Sect.
• Yin Qingmei worried about transporting her Jade Wutong, so Chen Mobai lifted the tree and its surrounding soil into his Realm Domain and gave her the Clear Sky Mirror for protection.
• Chen Mobai told Yin Qingmei that Xie Yuntian would openly escort her to Hong Kingdom while he secretly watched over her.

Xie Yuntian answered Fei Zhongyu’s plea for help by destroying the Black Plague Bird flock besieging Flowing Flower Market, then hurried back to Divine Wood Sect. Meanwhile, Chen Mobai refined the Earth Vein Pill and assigned Xie Yuntian to escort Yin Qingmei to Hong Kingdom, unaware that Du Feng had passed the mission details to Xu Shengbing.

• Fei Zhongyu struggled to protect Rain Kingdom as Black Plague Birds besieged Flowing Flower Market and awaited help from Divine Wood Sect.
• Xie Yuntian arrived, slew the Second Grade Black Plague Bird and many others, then ordered Rain Kingdom’s families to hunt down the rest.
• Chen Mobai refined Earth Vein Pills in the Immortal Sect, improved the pill toxin level on his second attempt, and asked Qing Nü for guidance.
• Chen Mobai ordered Xie Yuntian to escort Yin Qingmei to Hong Kingdom, while Xie Yuntian accepted the high-reward mission.
• Du Feng saw the escort mission writ and sent word of Xie Yuntian’s assignment to Xu Shengbing.

Chen Mobai followed Yin Qingmei and Xie Yuntian to Changzhuan Mountain market, where the Restoration Society ambushed them. He rescued them, killed the attackers, and captured Xu Shengbing, but the identity of the undercover agent remained unknown.

• Yin Qingmei and Xie Yuntian traveled to Changzhuan Mountain market while Chen Mobai secretly followed them and left his Formless Puppet at Giant Wood Ridge to pass false information to the undercover agent.
• Four black-robed attackers ambushed Yin Qingmei and Xie Yuntian, and Xie Yuntian killed a puppet decoy before the attackers trapped and sealed his spiritual energy.
• Yin Qingmei used the Clear Sky Mirror to break free and protect Xie Yuntian, but activating it exhausted her spiritual energy.
• Chen Mobai appeared behind Xu Shengbing, restrained him with Crimson Cloud Mist Silk, and used his Yellow Gourd to kill the three Ghost Cultivators.
• Xu Shengbing refused to reveal the undercover agent and triggered a Blood Curse Thunder Method, but Chen Mobai contained the blast inside a sphere of Crimson Cloud Mist Silk.

Chen Mobai thwarted an ambush, identified Xu Shengbing as Six Armor Mountain’s former sect master, and killed the surviving attackers. He then oversaw preparations for the Eastern Wasteland’s river and agriculture projects before heading to Six Armor Mountain.

• Chen Mobai learned that Xu Shengbing had been killed by a Blood Curse Thunder Method restriction and identified him as Six Armor Mountain’s former sect master.
• Chen Mobai discovered that the captured Ghost Embryo was also under the Blood Curse Thunder Method, then killed Yan Gongsheng and Mu Xishen after judging that their Dao Heart Oaths prevented them from revealing intelligence.
• Chen Mobai escorted Yin Qingmei and Xie Yuntian to North Abyss City, where E Yun reported on the White River and Mo River canal projects and their shortage of workers.
• Chen Mobai instructed Jiang Zongheng to expand Longevity Academy’s courses to train specialists in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing, water conservancy, and mining.
• After Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan returned, Chen Mobai arranged for Yin Qingmei to plant her Jade Wutong in North Abyss City and help stabilize the riverbanks, then announced that he was going to Six Armor Mountain.

Chen Mobai confronted Six Armor Mountain’s sect master over Xu Shengbing’s attack on Divine Wood Sect cultivators and demanded the Fourth Grade Mountain Suppressing Stone in exchange for sparing the sect. Yu Changjian agreed and retrieved it, but a tall black-robed cultivator appeared in the underground chamber as he was about to deliver it.

• Chen Mobai went to Six Armor Mountain alone and accused former sect master Xu Shengbing of leading the Restoration Society in an ambush against Divine Wood Sect cultivators.
• Yu Changjian denied that Six Armor Mountain was responsible and offered a Third Grade Soul Crystal and a Fourth Grade Spiritual Herb, but Chen Mobai refused them.
• Chen Mobai demanded Six Armor Mountain’s Fourth Grade Mountain Suppressing Stone, explaining that he wanted to weaken its Great Formation and remove it as a threat.
• Yu Changjian negotiated a hundred-year nonaggression agreement between Six Armor Mountain and Divine Wood Sect, then swore a Dao Heart Oath with Chen Mobai.
• Yu Changjian entered the mountain’s underground chamber and removed the Mountain Suppressing Stone, but a tall black-robed cultivator appeared at the doorway.

Chen Mobai confronted Yan Fusheng, Six Armor Mountain’s ghost-cultivator ancestor, after learning he was behind the attacks on Divine Wood Sect. Chen Mobai lured Yan Fusheng away from the sect’s great formation, where Yan Fusheng’s divine sense attack shattered the Great Camellia Flower and a bell toll sounded.

• Yu Changjian tried to lure Chen Mobai into Six Armor Mountain’s great formation, but Chen Mobai sent in a Golden Sun Puppet to retrieve the Mountain Suppressing Stone.
• Yan Fusheng destroyed the puppet with his Divine Sense Yin Wind and emerged from hiding to confront Chen Mobai.
• Chen Mobai recognized Yan Fusheng as the ghost cultivator behind Six Armor Mountain’s hostility and chose to fight rather than retreat.
• Yan Fusheng’s divine sense attack pressed against Chen Mobai’s Great Camellia Flower, and Chen Mobai pretended to flee to draw him beyond the great formation.
• Chen Mobai stopped atop a distant sand dune and revealed that he had chosen the location to prevent Yan Fusheng from returning to the formation.
• Yan Fusheng shattered the Great Camellia Flower with his divine sense, but a steady bell toll rang out as his attack neared Chen Mobai’s consciousness.

Chen Mobai defeated and killed Yan Fusheng with the Pure Yang Fire, then found a Jade Slip recording the Dharma Body Nascent Soul and recovered part of Yan Fusheng’s flag. He besieged Six Armor Mountain with the Divine Wood Sect and allied forces, and the sect’s Fourth Tier formation finally broke after months of attacks.

• Chen Mobai used the Clear Sky Mirror and Pure Yang Fire to trap and kill Yan Fusheng, then burned his corpse and discovered a Jade Slip containing the Dharma Body Nascent Soul.
• Chen Mobai recovered a fragment of Yan Fusheng’s dark flag from a sand dune and postponed searching the storage bag while he dealt with Six Armor Mountain.
• Chen Mobai demanded that Yu Changjian’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators surrender, but Yu Changjian activated Six Armor Mountain’s Fourth Tier formation and resisted.
• Chen Mobai gathered Divine Wood Sect cultivators and allied forces from the Eastern Wasteland’s three kingdoms, while the five great families of Hong Kingdom joined the siege.
• After three months of attacks failed, Fu Zongjue arrived with the Divine Wood Sect’s main army, and the Jia Wood Dao Soldiers weakened the formation until the allied forces broke it near year’s end.

After conquering Six Armor Mountain, Chen Mobai arranged its disciples, inheritance, spiritual vein, and surviving Foundation Establishment fugitives while securing a Dharma Body Nascent Soul method for the Divine Wood Sect. He later confirmed that Yan Fusheng’s storage held Fifth Grade Soul Nurturing Wood and considered whether to introduce the Nascent Soul method and Returning Yang Spirit Water formula to the Immortal Sect.

• Chen Mobai ordered the surrendered Six Armor Mountain disciples sealed and sent to labor, while E Yun reported that most of the sect’s inherited books had been saved.
• Chen Mobai gave Fu Zongjue the three volumes of Six Armor Strategy and a Jade Slip containing the Dharma Body Nascent Soul method, and Fu Zongjue left to return to the sect.
• Ma Gang delivered the Mountain Suppressing Stone, Chen Mobai designated Six Armor Mountain as a branch courtyard, and he sent Xie Yuntian and Quan Shanlin to hunt the fleeing Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Chen Mobai killed three late-stage Foundation Establishment fugitives after the Divine Wood Sect suffered losses, and news of Six Armor Mountain’s destruction spread across the Eastern Wasteland.
• Granny Ming confirmed that Yan Fusheng’s storage contained Fifth Grade Soul Nurturing Wood, and she explained why a ghost cultivator might seek the Dharma Body Nascent Soul method.
• Chen Mobai scolded Luo Yixuan for coveting the Soul Nurturing Wood, then considered presenting the Nascent Soul method and Returning Yang Spirit Water formula as discoveries from a Void Blind Box.

Chen Mobai returned to the Divine Wood Sect, strengthened its finances and puppet production plans, and refined Fortune Qi while continuing to improve his spiritual roots. He finally obtained the Longevity Technique and returned to the Immortal Sect, where new equipment helped him produce Earth Vein Pills with much lower Pill Toxin.

• Chen Mobai helped Zhuo Ming refine a fourth strand of Fortune Qi and discovered that her earth spiritual root had reached 77.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Divine Wood Sect, approved Yue Zutao's postwar compensation plans, and heard that Little South Mountain Shop had earned a million spirit stones for the year.
• Chen Mobai ordered Li Yixian to establish a puppet factory branch in the Divine Tree Secret Realm using his Blueprints.
• Chen Mobai refined Fortune Qi, then obtained the Longevity Technique from the Talent Tree's Heritage Space and learned its strict cultivation requirements.
• Chen Mobai consulted Qing Nü's email, obtained specialized equipment through Zhou Tiangong, and reduced the Pill Toxin in his Earth Vein Pills to 1.6%.

After Tang Lu and Tang Pancui died, Chen Mobai grieved and resolved to find life-extending medicines for his parents. He returned to cultivation, made another breakthrough in his Pure Yang Dharma Body, and learned the Great Art Valley Sound, which let him hear the hidden qualities of spiritual things.

• Chen Mobai called Qing Nü to thank her for refining the Earth Yellow Pill, learned she had failed her first attempt at Core Formation, and asked about finding a Fourth Tier Alchemist.
• Chen Mobai rushed to Green Mountain Village when Tang Lu was near death, held his grandfather’s hand as he died at 119, and later buried him.
• Chen Mobai vowed to become Immortal Sect Master and resolved to seek life-extending medicines for his parents before spending half a month remembering his childhood in Green Mountain Village.
• Chen Mobai comforted Yan Bingxuan after she came to console him, and later comforted Tang Pancui when she died of sorrow half a year after Tang Lu.
• Chen Mobai’s Fire Spiritual Root rose to 90 as his Pure Yang Dharma Body advanced, and he learned Valley Sound to Third Grade in the Divine Tree Secret Realm.
• Chen Mobai used Valley Sound to hear the spiritual qi in a Spirit Stone and helped a Crimson Sun Spirit Tree advance into an Azure Sun Spirit Tree.

Chen Mobai used Valley Sound to master the Void Blade and discover that Yan Fusheng’s Ink Jade Boxes held the Shore Flower and Nine Dragon Pagoda Tree Fruit, two main medicines for Returning Yang Spirit Water. He began arranging to obtain an Immortal Sect alchemist and raise Merit Points for future preparations, leaving Yumu City after an auction-house representative trembled at the sight of his precious pearl.

• Chen Mobai used Valley Sound on a Golden Sun Spirit Tree and the void, then formed a Void Blade with his domain and cut through a thick branch before exhausting much of his spiritual energy and Spiritual Sense.
• Chen Mobai listened through the restrictions on Yan Fusheng’s Ink Jade Boxes and discovered that they contained the Nine Dragon Pagoda Tree Fruit and the Shore Flower, main medicines for Returning Yang Spirit Water.
• Chen Mobai decided he would need an Immortal Sect alchemist to refine the Fourth Tier medicine and considered using a Void Blind Box to ensure the medicinal ingredients’ origins could be explained.
• Chen Mobai contacted Yumu City’s City Lord Wen Ping, traveled to Yumu City, and had Immortal Sect Bank appraise a pearl from a Void Blind Box at a four percent discount.
• Chen Mobai met auction-house representative Bao Zhiyong, who trembled and did not dare take the pearl because it was so valuable.

Chen Mobai sold a Water Spirit Pearl for 163 million merit points and used the proceeds to reserve two Void Blind Boxes. Peach Blossom Venerable bought the pearl for Pei Azurefrost to aid her sword cultivation, but Pei failed to reach communion with the Azurefrost Sword and was left discouraged after comparing herself to Chen Mobai.

• Bao Zhiyong explained the pearl’s value, and Chen Mobai entrusted him with auctioning it; it sold at Wangwu Cave Heaven for 163 million merit points.
• Chen Mobai reserved two Void Blind Boxes with his earnings as Peach Blossom Venerable bought the pearl from its auction winner for double the price.
• Peach Blossom Venerable gave the modified pearl to Pei Azurefrost to help her establish spiritual communion with the Azurefrost Sword.
• Pei Azurefrost visited Wenren Xuewei and learned that Wenren also owned a pearl Chen Mobai had given her as a gift.
• Pei Azurefrost tried to use the pearl to reach the sword’s innermost core, failed, and compared her talent unfavorably with Chen Mobai’s.
• Chen Mobai called Qing Nü, Meng Huang'er, and Yan Bingxuan after receiving their messages about the pearls’ value; he reassured Qing Nü and declined Meng Huang'er's proposed visit.

Chen Mobai bought and opened three Void Blind Boxes recovered from the Pluto Battlefield, finding a notebook that described the Pluto Race and its Asura Dharma Form. He prepared to pass off the Dharma Body Nascent Soul method and Returning Yang Spirit Water as discoveries from the boxes, leaving his plan to help Zhou Shengqing in motion.

• After Wenren Xuewei explained the battlefield blind-box sets, Chen Mobai asked Lin Dongsong to help him buy three boxes recovered from Pluto.
• Chen Mobai opened the boxes inside his Realm Domain and found a notebook, unusual materials, damaged equipment, and a small number of Spirit Stones.
• Chen Mobai read Yu Jirong's notebook, which described the Pluto King, the Death God, and the Pluto Race's pursuit of the Asura transformation through the River of Death.
• Chen Mobai carved the Dharma Body Nascent Soul method onto Soul Nurturing Wood and renamed it Asura Dharma Form, then added the Returning Yang Spirit Water prescription and the Shore Flower and Nine Dragon Pagoda Tree Fruit.

Chen Mobai’s discovery of the Asura Dharma Form and Returning Yang Spirit Water prompted the Immortal Sect to assemble experts to investigate the foreign cultivation method and pill recipe. After the Main Medicines were recovered from the Ink Jade Boxes, Venerable Yuanxu arrived to oversee the effort to test and refine the pill.

• Qiu Chuanhua examined Chen Mobai’s pill recipe and learned that it came from the Pluto Race and was linked to the Asura Dharma Form, a possible alternative path to Nascent Soul Formation.
• Chen Mobai told Che Yucheng about the discovery, and Che Yucheng reported it to Venerable Cheng Xuan; Chen Mobai also registered the items with the World Gate Administration.
• Xue Yuzhuo informed Chen Mobai that an Immortal Sect Expert Group would inspect the items, and Yu Yi Shangren joined the group to study the Asura Dharma Form.
• The experts appraised the items at Danxia Mountain, then sent two sealed Ink Jade Boxes to Wangwu Cave Heaven to open them safely.
• After the Shore Flower and Nine Dragon Pagoda Tree Fruit were identified as likely Main Medicines for Returning Yang Spirit Water, Venerable Yuanxu arrived to take charge of the investigation.

Chen Mobai negotiated with Venerable Yuanxu over the Pluto discoveries, securing a portion of Returning Yang Spirit Water in exchange for research access. After Yuanxu took the materials to Sky Mending Dao Academy and began experiments, he successfully prepared the first portion a year later, which Chen Mobai collected.

• Venerable Yuanxu tried to take the Pluto discoveries, but Yu Yi Shangren insisted that their disposition be decided by an Opening the Origin Hall meeting.
• Chen Mobai and Venerable Yuanxu agreed that Chen would receive a copy of the Asura Dharma Form method if it was deciphered and one portion of Returning Yang Spirit Water after it was refined.
• At the assembly, Venerable Yuanxu used Sky Mending Dao Academy's influence to bring the research materials to his laboratory, after Wang Shuye confirmed that Chen had agreed to the arrangement.
• Venerable Yuanxu had Chen open seventeen more Void Blind Boxes, and the team found Pluto specimens that could help them study the planet and test substitutes for the pill ingredients.
• Chen left the laboratory after two days, returned to Vermilion Cloud City, and learned from Che Yucheng that the Four Great Dao Academies would each receive one portion while the rest belonged to the Immortal Sect.
• A year later, Venerable Yuanxu told Chen that the first portion of Returning Yang Spirit Water was ready, and Chen traveled to West Xuan Cave Heaven to collect it.

Chen Mobai brought Returning Yang Spirit Water to Giant Wood Ridge so Zhou Shengqing could attempt to form a Dharma Body Nascent Soul, then resumed overseeing the Divine Wood Sect and its development projects. The chapter ended with Chen Mobai visiting Little South Mountain, where Liu Wenbai and Song Huangda arrived after hearing he had exited cultivation.

• Venerable Yuanxu gave Chen Mobai adapted Returning Yang Spirit Water and explained that the Asura Dharma Form remained unfinished while he sought a suitable replacement for Soul Nurturing Wood.
• Chen Mobai delivered the spirit water to Zhou Shengqing and told him and Fu Zongjue a fabricated account of a mysterious Fifth-Order Alchemist who had refined it.
• Chen Mobai and Fu Zongjue sealed Zhou Shengqing's Longevity Wood Dao Field and agreed to avoid provoking war while Zhou Shengqing cultivated for two or three years.
• Chen Mobai reviewed the Eastern Wasteland Plateau projects, including the slower Mo River work in Xiao Kingdom and the expanding White River irrigation, livestock, and spirit-rice production in Yan Kingdom.
• Chen Mobai found Little South Mountain's spiritual plants thriving and learned that the Enlightenment White Tea had advanced to second-tier high-grade before Liu Wenbai and Song Huangda came to see him.

Chen Mobai spared Song Huangda and gave him the complete Void Body Incantation, then heard how Little South Mountain Shop was supporting Zhuo Ming’s work on the Eastern Wasteland Plateau. After a year of preparation, Chen Mobai forced a breakthrough with a Blood Spirit Pill and reached Golden Core Fourth Layer, though his spiritual power gained impurities.

• Chen Mobai told Liu Wenbai to teach Song Huangda properly, then gave Song the complete Void Body Incantation after confirming it did not violate his Dao Heart Oath.
• Liu Wenbai reported Little South Mountain Shop’s income and explained that its profits were being used to supply Zhuo Ming’s reclamation project; Chen Mobai told him to keep expanding the market for Eastern Wasteland Plateau goods.
• Over the next year, Chen Mobai refined seven Golden Crow Sun-Holding Pills, each with less than one percent Pill Toxin.
• Chen Mobai’s attempted breakthrough at Danxia Mountain stalled, so he swallowed a Blood Spirit Pill and used its effects to force his way past the bottleneck.
• Seven days later, Chen Mobai reached Golden Core Fourth Layer, expanded his dantian qi sea, and discovered that his spiritual power contained earth-attribute impurities.

After reaching Golden Core Fourth Layer, Chen Mobai refined Earth Vein Pills, advanced his spiritual roots, and improved Xuan Shuang Company’s fortunes. He welcomed old friends Luan Jingsheng and Chan Si, but after Luan left, Chan Si revealed a strange connection to the Jade Wutong.

• Chen Mobai celebrated his breakthrough, refined Earth Vein Pills, and raised his Earth Spiritual Root to 45 with a pill.
• Chen Mobai learned Water Escape and Earth Escape in the Divine Tree Secret Realm, then delayed taking another pill because of accumulated Pill Toxin.
• Chen Mobai visited Yan Bingxuan and learned that Xuan Shuang Company’s profits had surged after he invested Spirit Stones in it.
• Luan Jingsheng and Chan Si visited Chen Mobai, and he offered Chan Si a position at the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory.
• Chen Mobai saw Luan Jingsheng off, while Chan Si dropped her pretended drunkenness and touched the Jade Wutong, which trembled in response.

Chen Mobai received his Fourth Tier Heavenly Calculation Bead and used it to raise several spells to Fourth Tier, while managing the Divine Wood Sect’s resources and learning that Zhou Shengqing was nearing Dharma Body Nascent Soul. The chapter ended with Chen Mobai listening to the Fourth Tier Peak Jade Wutong and furrowing his brows at what he heard.

• Chen Mobai collected his Fourth Tier Heavenly Calculation Bead from Venerable Yuanxu, who warned him that the Asura Dharma Form left no potential for further advancement.
• Chen Mobai used the bead to raise his responsive spells to Fourth Tier, including Yi Wood Divine Thunder, which became Myriad Illusion Azure Thunder, but decided against attempting Fifth Grade initiation.
• Chen Mobai inspected the Divine Tree Secret Realm’s Puppet Factory and learned from Sun Gaochang that Giant Wood Ridge’s spirit veins were strained by its spirit trees and expanded rice fields.
• Chen Mobai questioned Yue Zutao about the strain, accepted some responsibility, and ordered scattered fields to stop growing rice after harvest while shifting future cultivation plans.
• Chen Mobai learned that Zhou Shengqing was drawing on large amounts of spiritual energy to transform the Fifth Grade Soul Nurturing Wood and believed his Dharma Body Nascent Soul would soon be complete.
• Chen Mobai used Valley Sound on the Jade Wutong, then furrowed his brows at its fluctuations.

Chen Mobai suspected Chan Si had been seized by the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master and captured her, but she offered him the Flower Blooming in an Instant secret art and a possible path to Spirit Transmutation. They negotiated a temporary alliance, with Chan Si agreeing to share the secret art in exchange for protection and a chance to reach Core Formation outside the Immortal Sect.

• Chen Mobai heard the Jade Wutong's joy and suspected that either Chan Si or Luan Jingsheng had been seized by the Flower Blooming Courtyard Master.
• Chen Mobai summoned Chan Si to Danxia Mountain under the pretext of collecting talisman supplies, then bound her with the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk.
• Chan Si offered the Flower Blooming in an Instant secret art, explaining that it could make the Jade Wutong bloom and let a cultivator experience its ancient Dao Resonance.
• Chen Mobai released Chan Si, sealed her dantian, and negotiated for the secret art and the Flower Blooming Courtyard's cultivation methods.
• Chen Mobai proposed that Chan Si go to the Other Realm during the World Opening War to pursue Core Formation, and she agreed to share the Jade Wutong's flowers and fruit with him later.