Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai began cultivating the God Devouring Technique by absorbing the Great Dao Tree’s spiritual awareness, rapidly increasing his Spiritual Sense while carefully avoiding its hidden connection to the Celestial Venerable’s Great Dao. The Morning Bell interrupted his session, and he left with new progress toward Earth Resonance and plans to refine the technique further.

• Chen Mobai left the empty side hall with the Purple Lightning Sword and rewarded it with Fifth Order Mysterious Gold.
• Chen Mobai realized the Great Dao Tree carried the Celestial Venerable’s Great Dao and considered whether he could eventually absorb it.
• Chen Mobai rejected using the Jade Wutong for the God Devouring Technique and chose the Great Dao Tree as his source of spiritual awareness.
• Chen Mobai used Valley Sound to establish a Heavenly Dao connection and absorbed the Great Dao Tree’s drifting Spiritual Sense.
• Chen Mobai sensed the Celestial Venerable’s Great Dao within the tree but discovered he could safely absorb the tree while the Longevity Trial was inactive.
• The Morning Bell woke Chen Mobai after his Spiritual Sense had grown by nearly one-tenth, and he purified the excess with the Lamp Burning Technique.

Chen Mobai returned to the Immortal Sect after arranging Core Formation retreats for several Five Elements Sect cultivators and began planning his next steps in the Enforcement Department. He set Zhongli Tianyu on course to succeed him and checked on Yan Bingxuan and Meng Huang'er as they prepared to form their cores, then arranged for Shi Wanyu and her daughter to return for the New Year.

• Chen Mobai guided Gu Yan’s cultivation, then revealed ten Core Formation Spirit Medicines at North Abyss City’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion without disclosing their specific effects.
• Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators from the Five Elements Sect obtained the medicines, and Chen Mobai arranged suitable Core Formation locations for Jiang Zongheng, E Yun, Zhou Wangshen, Luo Xueer, and Zheng Deming.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Immortal Sect and reviewed the year’s affairs with Wang Shuye, Hua Zijing, and Zhuang Jialan before deciding Zhongli Tianyu should eventually replace him as Enforcement Department Minister.
• Zhongli Zheng brought Zhongli Tianyu to meet Chen Mobai, who left them and Wang Shuye to arrange the succession.
• Chen Mobai planned to give Yan Bingxuan another Water Origin Golden Core Pill and learned from Bian Jingchun that Meng Huang'er seemed close to forming her core.
• Chen Mobai sent Zhuang Jialan to bring Shi Wanyu and her daughter back so the family could celebrate the New Year together.

Chen Mobai upgraded three magic tools before reviewing the Five Elements Sect’s expansion plans in the Sky River Realm. He then went to North Abyss City after learning that Zhu Jinyu wanted Blowing Snow Palace to surrender to the Five Elements Sect.

• Chen Mobai used fourth-tier materials and Fifth Order Mysterious Gold to upgrade the Morning Bell, Clear Sky Mirror, and Azurefrost Sword.
• Gu Yan told Chen Mobai that the Five Elements Sect had nearly thirty thousand Qi Cultivation Disciples and that conditions were peaceful in the Eastern Wasteland and Eastern Yi.
• Chen Mobai planned to establish academies and five immortal cities across the Five Elements Five Meridians, with the aim of gradually transforming the Eastern Wasteland.
• Chen Mobai inspected Cloud Dream Academy and its planned immortal city with Qing Nü, while Ding Ying and Qi Rui took charge of establishing the Gold Meridian’s academy and city.
• Chen Mobai went to North Abyss City after Liu Wenbai reported that Xue Ting had delivered Zhu Jinyu’s letter proposing Blowing Snow Palace’s surrender to the Five Elements Sect.

Lan Lingping persuaded Zhu Jinyu to submit Blowing Snow Palace to the Five Elements Sect, and Chen Mobai laid out terms for settling its disciples. The chapter ended with Zhuo Ming telling Chen Mobai that she felt signs of Core Formation.

• Lan Lingping chose to remain in North Abyss City, where she witnessed the Five Elements Sect’s rise and urged Zhu Jinyu to surrender rather than risk Blowing Snow Palace’s destruction.
• Zhu Jinyu agreed to offer Blowing Snow Palace’s foundation in exchange for freedom and a place for herself and her disciples to settle.
• Chen Mobai refused to house all the disciples in North Abyss City, but offered Zhu Jinyu a home and proposed disbanding Blowing Snow Palace, assigning its disciples work, and granting them Cave Mansions in a new Immortal City.
• Chen Mobai sent Xue Ting back with his terms, then asked her to stay and catch up with Zhuo Ming.
• Zhuo Ming visited Chen Mobai and said she felt signs of Core Formation.

Zhuo Ming accompanied Chen Mobai across the Eastern Wasteland Plateau to reflect on the land she had restored and understand her Dao before Core Formation. In the depths of the Boundless Sand Sea, she formed her core and awakened the Earth Mother Seal without suffering a Heavenly Tribulation, while Chen Mobai stayed to guard her as she consolidated her realm.

• Zhuo Ming visited Chen Mobai in North Abyss City after sealing her cultivation and storing the Earth Qi she had gathered in the Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron, and Chen Mobai promised to protect her through Core Formation.
• Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming from Frost County's Snow Mountain along the White River and Mo River, helping her reflect on the growth and fragility of the earth she had helped restore.
• Chen Mobai guided Zhuo Ming through Hong County and the Boundless Sand Sea, where she overcame her fear and perceived that the desert had once been fertile land destroyed by locusts.
• The Boundless Sand Sea trembled as Fortune Qi and stored Earth Qi surged into Zhuo Ming, and new plants sprouted beside her.
• Rain poured over the sand sea, and Zhuo Ming's Nine Ren Dharma Body advanced to the Sixth Layer as she formed her core and manifested the Earth Mother Seal.
• Chen Mobai sensed no Heavenly Tribulation and remained beside Zhuo Ming while she consolidated her new realm.

Zhuo Ming awakened from enlightenment with the Earth Mother Seal, an Immortal Earth Spiritual Root, and a complete strand of Innate Earth Element Essence. Chen Mobai set her to lead the Eastern Wasteland Agricultural Reform Plan and gave her ores and a new cultivation path, leaving her prepared to expand her work and strength.

• Zhuo Ming tested her Earth Prime Magnet powers after awakening, and Chen Mobai measured her earth spiritual root at 100 and discovered her Innate Earth Element Essence was complete.
• Chen Mobai agreed with Zhuo Ming's wish to govern the Boundless Sand Sea but urged her to prioritize cultivation as she worked.
• Chen Mobai outlined the Eastern Wasteland Agricultural Reform Plan, and Zhuo Ming and Luo Yixuan listened and offered input on developing wasteland into farmland.
• At Six Armor Mountain, Zhuo Ming reported that her Myriad Virtues Great Virtue Cauldron had refined 267 kinds of ore, and Chen Mobai gave her 165 more kinds and advised her to cultivate the Longevity Sect's Earth Element Immortal Scripture.

Chen Mobai resolved the harvest of Great Sun Purple Rice with the Starry Skies Dao Sect and refused to renew their farming partnership. Yu Shuji then asked him to help Great Elder Xing Ji reach the sealed Primordial Unity Dao Palace, offering ten thousand acres of Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice in return.

• Chen Mobai inspected the ripe Great Sun Purple Rice at Six Armor Mountain and learned that Lou Xuelong had delayed the harvest while hoping to expand the partnership.
• After Chen Mobai summoned Yu Shuji, Lou Xuelong apologized, and the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association harvested the rice according to the original contract.
• Chen Mobai refused Yu Shuji's renewed proposal to grow Great Sun Purple Rice, while Zhuo Ming prepared to return the freed fields to Six Armor Mountain's Spirit Vein.
• Yu Shuji asked Chen Mobai to help Xing Ji reach Five Emperors Mountain, explaining that cultivators with Primordial True Qi could pass through its sealed array.
• Yu Shuji offered ten thousand acres of Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice in Hua Country if Chen Mobai would knock on the Primordial Unity Dao Palace's door, but Chen Mobai had not agreed.

Chen Mobai declined the Starry Skies Dao Sect’s offer to help obtain a Tong Sheng Zhen Ling Pill, then reunited with his classmates and learned that Ming Yihua’s First Arsenal had developed the Law Breaking Divine Light. He left the gathering planning to use the Arsenal’s ore samples to choose materials for refining his Pure Yang Cauldron.

• Chen Mobai rejected Yu Shuji’s offer, and Qu Xiuxian stayed to negotiate trade cooperation with the Five Elements Sect, which Chen assigned Luo Yixuan to handle.
• Chen Mobai welcomed Ming Yihua and Yun Yangbing to Wangwu Cave Heaven, where their old classmates gathered at the Zhongli Residence.
• Ming Yihua revealed that the First Arsenal had refined the Three-Eyed King’s power into Law Breaking Divine Light, which could pierce Fourth Grade restrictions and damage Fifth Order ones.
• Chen Mobai recounted how the Immortal Sect’s Five Ancestors defeated the Three-Eyed King and learned that the First Arsenal’s test product was safely sealed in a special alloy bead.
• Chen Mobai asked about the Arsenal’s ore samples while discussing materials for his Pure Yang Cauldron, and Ming Yihua agreed to help him test them.

Chen Mobai gave Yun Yangbing and Ming Yihua High-grade Spirit Stones to help with their cultivation, and discussed finding an abandoned satellite for his array studies. After the three received their Golden Liquid Jade Return Pills, Chen Mobai reconciled with Lan Haitan and asked where Yun Yangbing and Ming Yihua would form their Cores; they chose Chicheng Mountain.

• Yun Yangbing offered to help Chen Mobai obtain rare ore samples, but Chen Mobai declined for the time being.
• Yun Yangbing said he might switch from the Pure Yang Scroll after forming his Core, and Chen Mobai gave him and Ming Yihua nine High-grade Spirit Stones each.
• Yun Yangbing offered to look for a discarded satellite in orbit so Chen Mobai could study the Sky Curtain Great Formation, and Chen Mobai said they should wait until Yun formed his Core.
• Chen Mobai accompanied Zhuang Jialan, Ming Yihua, and Yun Yangbing to collect their Golden Liquid Jade Return Pills, then told Lan Haitan he would keep Lin Yin for a few decades.
• Ming Yihua handed over the Glass Bead containing the Law Breaking Divine Light, and Deputy Minister Lyu Zengsheng escorted him out.
• Chen Mobai asked where Yun Yangbing and Ming Yihua planned to form their Cores, and they chose Chicheng Mountain.

Chen Mobai discovered that spiritual qi in Myriad Treasures Cave was flowing into Jade Peace Small Realm, suggesting that Venerable Cheng Xuan might be preparing for Spirit Transformation. He arranged to shut down the Immortal Sect’s Lesser Red Heaven server to supply more spiritual qi, then stayed by the Small Realm, worried about Meng Huang’er’s Core Formation.

• Chen Mobai took Ming Yihua, Yun Yangbing, and Zhuang Jialan to Chicheng Mountain to arrange Core Formation sites for them.
• Chen Mobai sensed spiritual qi and Earth Fire essence flowing through the Fifth Order Vermilion Fruit Tree into Jade Peace Small Realm, and realized Venerable Cheng Xuan might be preparing for Spirit Transformation.
• True Person Guo Zhaixin confirmed the spiritual qi was being drawn into Jade Peace Small Realm, and Che Yucheng ordered Myriad Treasures Cave evacuated and preparations made.
• Chen Mobai persuaded Ying Guanghua to authorize shutting down the Immortal Sect’s Lesser Red Heaven server so its spiritual qi could flow into Chicheng Mountain.
• Bian Jingchun and the Dao Academy teachers organized residents and students as the spiritual qi surged, while Chen Mobai remained by Jade Peace Small Realm, anxious about Meng Huang’er.

Meng Huang'er failed her Core Formation attempt in Myriad Treasures Cave when Chengxuan's impending Spirit Transmutation disrupted her cultivation. Chen Mobai comforted her and secretly gave her two pills for another attempt before returning to guard the cave.

• Meng Huang'er woke from her Core Formation trance after the spiritual qi fluctuations disrupted her attempt, and she collapsed in despair.
• Chen Mobai comforted Meng Huang'er, promised to support her next attempt, and gave her a Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill with instructions to conceal its use.
• Chen Mobai helped Meng Huang'er recover from her injuries, and she prepared to leave Myriad Treasures Cave with a Lesser Teleportation Talisman.
• Chen Mobai also gave Meng Huang'er a Water Origin Golden Core Pill and told her to keep both pills secret.
• Chen Mobai followed Meng Huang'er to Hilltop Villa, where she kissed him before he returned to Myriad Treasures Cave to guard it.

Chen Mobai learned that Venerable Yu Xiao was the spirit of Ancestor Yun Ya’s partner’s Taiyi Five Smoke Net, and watched her reunite with the ancient Nine Dragon Cauldron. The chapter ended with Chen Mobai considering whether other Immortal Sect treasures could gain bodies, then concluding that scarce spiritual energy likely prevented the idea from being pursued.

• Chen Mobai monitored the Vermilion Fruit Tree and coordinated with Immortal Sect leaders while Venerable Cheng Xuan prepared for Spirit Transmutation.
• Meng Huang'er visited Chen Mobai, but he asked her not to return because the coming Spirit Transmutation could make the area dangerous.
• Ancestor Qianxing told Chen Mobai to send Venerable Cheng Xuan to see him after he emerged from cultivation.
• Venerable Yu Xiao arrived to learn about Venerable Cheng Xuan and revealed that she was the spirit of Ancestor Yun Ya’s partner’s Taiyi Five Smoke Net.
• Venerable Yu Xiao reunited with the Taiyi Five Smoke Net and the Nine Dragon Cauldron, prompting Chen Mobai to consider whether other Immortal Sect treasures could obtain bodies.

Chen Mobai managed the preparations around Venerable Cheng Xuan’s Spirit Transformation and arranged for Zhai Jianbai to receive support for core formation. He accepted Old Ancestor Bai Guang’s Ink Treasure Sword Mark, but after trying to comprehend it, he still could not understand it.

• Chen Mobai declined Venerable Yu Xiao’s suggestion to Comprehend Together with the Nine Dragon Cauldron and agreed to alternate guarding Myriad Treasures Cave with her every half a year.
• Chen Mobai met with Che Yucheng, Zhuang Jialan, Ming Yihua, and Yun Yangbing to discuss alternative locations for core formation and instructed Wuqi Dao Academy’s staff to keep classes running while warning cultivators against deep seclusion.
• Chen Mobai recommended that the Dao Academy nurture Zhai Jianbai and helped arrange for the next Five Elements Golden Core Pill to be a Golden Element Core Forming Pill.
• After Che Yucheng urged him to examine Old Ancestor Bai Guang’s Ink Treasure Sword Mark, Chen Mobai invited Zuo Gong and accepted the scroll.
• Chen Mobai visited Meng Huang’er, then examined the Ink Treasure Sword Mark that night and found he still could not understand it.

Chen Mobai studied Old Ancestor Bai Guang’s Ink Treasure Sword Mark and used its reflected sword intent to repair flaws in his sword techniques, advancing to Sword Sha Thunderous Sound. He concluded that the mark embodied One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws, then recovered his depleted Spiritual Sense while reflecting on Bai Guang’s legacy.

• Chen Mobai learned that only two Sword Control Department directors and Venerable Cheng Xuan had previously studied Old Ancestor Bai Guang’s Ink Treasure Sword Mark.
• Chen Mobai reflected the mark in Water Mirrors and discovered that the degraded reflection exposed its sword intent and helped him identify flaws in his techniques.
• Chen Mobai corrected deficiencies in the Crimson Flame Sword Art and Primordial Yang Sword Art, then comprehended Sword Sha Thunderous Sound and mastered it over a month.
• Chen Mobai tried to use the mark to advance his Sword Light Transformation, but his comprehension stalled, so he stopped and put the dimmed mark away.
• Chen Mobai recovered his depleted Spiritual Sense and reasoned that the mark represented Bai Guang’s One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws, a reference for Sword Cultivators to uncover flaws in their own sword dao.

Chen Mobai guarded Myriad Treasures Cave while Venerable Cheng Xuan attempted Spirit Transmutation in Jade Peace Small Realm. After thirty-two years, Cheng Xuan emerged having abandoned the attempt, while Chen Mobai had formed a Nascent Soul without a spirit medicine.

• Chen Mobai returned Old Ancestor Bai Guang's Ink Treasure Sword Mark to Zuo Gong and said it had helped strengthen his Sword Dao foundation.
• As spiritual qi surged through Myriad Treasures Cave, Chen Mobai helped the overfed Vermilion Fruit Tree digest and learned that a Fourth Grade power was transforming toward the Fifth Tier.
• Chen Mobai and Venerable Yu Xiao guarded Jade Peace Small Realm as Venerable Cheng Xuan's Spirit Transmutation continued for more than two years.
• Twenty-six days after Ancestor Qianxing predicted the outcome, Venerable Cheng Xuan and Venerable Yu Yi emerged from Jade Peace Small Realm and discovered that Chen Mobai had reached Nascent Soul.
• Chen Mobai learned that he had been away for thirty-two years and three months, and that Venerable Cheng Xuan had given up Spirit Transmutation after the Square Inch Book calculated an 8.6% chance of success.

Chen Mobai learned how Venerable Cheng Xuan had advanced his body and magic tool to the Fifth Order, then obtained permission to study the forbidden art Flower Blooms in an Instant. Venerable Cheng Xuan remained in seclusion from public duties, while Chen Mobai prepared to study the Dao Law Heavenly Book and pursue his plans for the Eastern Wasteland.

• Venerable Cheng Xuan left for Five Peaks Immortal Mountain to meet Ancestor Qianxing, and Yu Yi Shangren explained that he could now use Void Great Shift after his Crimson Heart Treasure Mirror and body reached the Fifth Order.
• Chen Mobai reassured Che Yucheng and the others that Venerable Cheng Xuan had gone to see Ancestor Qianxing, and Venerable Cheng Xuan returned after a little over half an hour.
• Venerable Yu Xiao reported taking a Fourth Tier Magic Tool from Myriad Treasures Cave, received approval from Venerable Cheng Xuan, and returned to Spirit Treasure Academy.
• Chen Mobai told Yu Yi Shangren that he had comprehended Tushita Fire and exchanged one hundred million Points for permanent qualification to study the Dao Law Heavenly Book.
• Venerable Cheng Xuan gave Chen Mobai the secret art Flower Blooms in an Instant and his cultivation insights, with Ancestor Qianxing's permission for Chen Mobai to study it under strict limits.
• Venerable Cheng Xuan explained that his Fifth Order body-tempering art was now called the Heaven-Bearing Dharma Body, and declined Chen Mobai's suggestion that he reclaim the Law Enforcement Hall Master position.

After Venerable Cheng Xuan emerged from cultivation, Chen Mobai returned to Wangwu Cave Heaven, curbed the Wuqi Lineage’s growing arrogance, and became Law Enforcement Hall Deputy Master. He consolidated his influence across the Immortal Sect while Nangong Xuanyu prepared for a dangerous mission to another world, then blocked Nangong’s attempt to claim the entire Pure Yang Set.

• Chen Mobai arranged a core-formation site for Zhuang Jialan and gave Meng Huang'er a Formless Puppet to guide her as she prepared to form her core.
• Back at Wangwu Cave Heaven, Chen Mobai ordered his people to stop looking down on Goumang Dao Academy and disciplined those who had grown arrogant.
• The Opening the Origin Hall Council Assembly elected Chen Mobai Law Enforcement Hall Deputy Master, and Gongsun Jielü handed over her duties before leaving Wangwu Cave Heaven.
• Chen Mobai assigned Hua Zijing to handle the Law Enforcement Hall, kept Yun Yangbing at the Sky Curtain Earth Network Administration Bureau, and arranged for Lin Yin to return to the Sky Mending Group.
• Nangong Xuanyu learned he would lead a dangerous vanguard mission into the Other Realm in six years, while most Military Department factions shifted their support to Chen Mobai.
• Chen Mobai’s ally in the Immortal Artifact Department opposed Nangong Xuanyu’s application to refine all six pieces of the Pure Yang Set, and Jiang Shaopeng postponed the decision.

Chen Mobai negotiated with Lan Haitan over the Pure Yang Set and secured the Pure Yang Immortal Robe and Pure Yang Treasure Cauldron, while Nangong Xuanyu received the Pure Yang Mirror and Golden Bell for his dangerous mission. Chen later gave the cauldron to Qing Nü, who immediately used it to refine perfect-quality Qi Condensing Powder.

• Chen Mobai told Lan Haitan he would not let Nangong Xuanyu take the Primordial Yang Sword and negotiated to receive two other pieces of the Pure Yang Set.
• Chen Mobai chose the Pure Yang Immortal Robe and Treasure Cauldron after learning Nangong Xuanyu would leave the Pure Yang Treasure Bead behind.
• Chen Mobai approved Nangong Xuanyu's application for the Pure Yang Mirror and Golden Bell, then collected the robe and cauldron from Yuanyang Temple.
• Chen Mobai gave the Pure Yang Treasure Cauldron to Qing Nü and kept the Immortal Robe for its defensive protections.
• Qing Nü tested the cauldron's ingredient-storage spaces and used Earth Core Heart Fire to refine perfect-quality Qi Condensing Powder.

Chen Mobai helped Qing Nü prepare the Sky Swallowing Snake for a breakthrough and learned that three Five Elements Sect cultivators had successfully formed their cores. He then sent E Yun, Zhou Wangshen, and Zhuo Ming to Eastern Yi to extract as much Spirit Stone ore as possible before the mine had to be shared again.

• Chen Mobai gave Qing Nü the Pure Yang Treasure Cauldron and helped her prepare the Sky Swallowing Snake to advance, after which it swallowed barrier-breaking pills and entered hibernation.
• Chen Mobai learned that Zheng Deming had failed Core Formation and sent him healing pills, while Gu Yan reported that E Yun, Zhou Wangshen, and Ning Leshan had succeeded.
• Chen Mobai welcomed E Yun and Zhou Wangshen, praised their efforts, and discussed their post-Core Formation cultivation.
• Chen Mobai read Zhou Shengqing's letter and assigned E Yun and Zhou Wangshen to escort Zhuo Ming to Eastern Yi to help mine the Spirit Stone deposit before it had to be shared with Sun Bathing Sea.

Chen Mobai expanded the Five Elements Sect’s library and planned a lasting cultivation scripture, enlisting Jiang Zongheng and Qing Nü to help. He then visited North Abyss City and saw its peaceful, bustling growth, which deepened his interest in the lives of ordinary cultivators.

• Chen Mobai encouraged Ning Leshan after his Core Formation and gave him a token to consult gold-attribute Dao Scriptures in North Abyss City’s library.
• Chen Mobai decided to organize the library’s growing collection and create scriptures that would preserve cultivation knowledge for future generations.
• Chen Mobai urged Jiang Zongheng to prepare for Core Formation and asked him to help write the scriptures afterward.
• Chen Mobai told Qing Nü about the project, and she agreed to lead the alchemy sections.
• Chen Mobai traveled to North Abyss City, where he saw its crowded streets, transport services, markets, and public venues flourishing under the Five Elements Sect’s protection.