Chapter 1247: Chapter 685: News of the East Barbarians (Extra for 20,000 Monthly Votes) Chapter 1247: Chapter 685: News of the East Barbarians (Extra for 20,000 Monthly Votes) Chen Mobai didn’t underestimate Yan Shaoyin, but for a Golden Core Cultivator in the Eastern Wilderness to reach Nascent Soul Formation was near impossible.
There wasn’t even a one percent chance of success.
If Zhou Ye, with his Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root, had not utilized his foundation during his Core Formation, he might have had a slightly better chance, but without cultivating into the Chaotic Dao Fruit, the hurdle of Nascent Soul emergence would undoubtedly end in death, not life.
Moreover, in the Tianhe Realm, there was also the Heavenly Tribulation.
Furthermore, the Golden Core Cultivators here mostly advanced their realms by consuming elixirs, which made their foundations unstable and their spiritual power chaotic.
All sorts of negative factors piled up.
Even if Yan Shaoyin managed to refine all three alchemy recipes obtained from Chen Mobai, he would at best adjust himself to the most ordinary state of essence, qi, and spirit for a Golden Core Master in the Immortal Gate.
Even the most elite figures within the Immortal Gate, such as Gongye Zhixu and Duanmu Longrong, who consumed the Infant-Feeding Elixir, failed in Nascent Soul Formation.
The moment Yan Shaoyin took the step towards Nascent Soul Formation, what awaited him was death!
This was also part of Chen Mobai’s acceleration plan.
Since Back to Sky Valley was protected by the Star Heaven Dao Sect, it wasn’t easy to kill him outright, but if Yan Shaoyin committed suicide, there would be no issues.
And with Yan Shaoyin dead, without a Golden Core Cultivator to preside, even with the support of the Star Heaven Dao Sect at their backs, Back to Sky Valley could only decline to a second-rate power.
Whether or not there was a Golden Core Cultivator was critical to the survival of every major faction in the Eastern Wilderness.
Chen Mobai didn’t even need to act personally, as the rogue cultivators of the Eastern Wilderness, knowing the wealth of Back to Sky Valley, would probably target the sect’s stores and markets throughout the Eastern Wilderness directly, and some might even have the audacity to form groups to raid the Summer Country.
This acceleration plan had already been laid out when he delivered the Longevity Elixir Scripture, and the time to reap the rewards was finally approaching.
When Chen Mobai and Yan Shaoyin first agreed to refine three types of elixirs, they each contributed half of the medicinal materials needed, and upon completion, they would each take half of the products.
Because this concerned his own gains, Chen Mobai had shared all the key points regarding the three alchemy recipes with Yan Shaoyin during their previous exchanges.
Later on, as many of the main and auxiliary ingredients were not available in the Eastern Wilderness, he had used his knowledge of medicines to each time provide two or three alternatives for Yan Shaoyin to test out.
Because the alchemy system of the Immortal Gate was vastly different from that of the Tianhe Realm, even a grand alchemy master like Yan Shaoyin consistently failed at first when trying to tune the medicinal properties.
However, through repeated failures, Yan Shaoyin demonstrated why he was considered the number one alchemy practitioner in the Eastern Wilderness.
On his third attempt at refining the Return to True Elixir, he successfully produced the first batch.
Yet, the batch yielded only four pills, and according to their agreement, Yan Shaoyin was to send two over to Chen Mobai. But upon inspection, Chen Mobai found the Dan poison content to be severely over the limit, and thinking of his acceleration plan, he simply used this batch of pills to offset half of the Nirvana Dan material cost, returning it all to Yan Shaoyin.
Yan Shaoyin, naturally, was overjoyed. With these four Return to True Elixirs, as long as he refined another batch and paid attention to resolving the Dan poison, he could elevate his cultivation level to perfect Core Formation.
“Collect the ingredients on this list, and after the Golden Liquid Jade Pill is refined, send it to Back to Sky Valley.”
Chen Mobai instructed Yue Zutao to take away the letter on the table.
After successfully refining the Return to True Elixir, Yan Shaoyin felt he could leave Chen Mobai behind and had considered using the power of Back to Sky Valley to gather ingredients for the Infant-Feeding Elixir.
However, after refining the Nirvana Dan, Yan Shaoyin discovered that it was not feasible.
Just the new batch of Return to True Elixirs and Nirvana Dan had almost exhausted more than half of Back to Sky Valley’s wealth, and the primary and auxiliary ingredients required for the Infant-Feeding Elixir exceeded the sum needed for the two previous elixirs.
This was also why Yan Shaoyin reluctantly agreed to personally assist in refining the Golden Liquid Jade Pill at a critical time when he was preparing for Nascent Soul Formation.
Because the three main ingredients for the Infant-Feeding Elixir were available in the medicinal fields of the Divine Wood Sect.
One dose of Reaching the Void Immortal Ganoderma, Jade Spirit Flower, and Revitalizing Yang Grass.
Seeing these three town-sect treasure-grade, fourth-order medicinal herbs listed, Yue Zutao’s hands trembled slightly.
“Sect Leader, this…”
“Start by gathering the auxiliary herbs; we will harvest the main herbs when we need them.”
Chen Mobai’s words eased Yue Zutao’s mind.
“Sect Leader, I will take my leave then.”
After Yue Zutao departed, Chen Mobai sent Gu Yan to contact Zhuo Ming, instructing his beloved disciple to return to Giant Tree Ridge to help infuse the Water of Ten Thousand Transformations into the fourth-order Immortal Peach Fruit.
While waiting for Zhuo Ming’s return, Chen Mobai, who had just made a breakthrough, visited the neighboring Longevity Wood Dojo.
Fu Zongjue was there, maneuvering two Purple Sun Puppets against each other; one moved as if it were an extension of his own body, while the other was stiff but shone with greater spiritual light, suggesting it was made of better material.
After mastering the Extreme Sun Slash, Chen Mobai could easily harvest fourth-order Longevity Wood, so Fu Zongjue, who had previously been limited by this material, began to truly indulge.
“Junior Brother, your timing is perfect. This Purple Sun Puppet no longer poses a challenge for me. I now want to see if I can restore the Little Azure Dragon from our Ancestor. Come and help me take a look.”
Seeing Chen Mobai coming over, Fu Zongjue stopped adjusting the new Purple Sun Puppet and beckoned his junior to his cave dwelling where a giant table was set.
On the table were the complete blueprints of the Fourth Order Longevity Wood Dragon, and many sections had fresh ink annotations–evidently Fu Zongjue’s own insights while pondering.
“If Senior Brother wishes to do it, I definitely support you.”
Chen Mobai didn’t feel the slightest bit distressed because it was his own Everlife Wood that Fu Zongjue had asked him to cut.
“It’s just a pity that the remnants of the Ancestor’s Little Azure Dragon are in the Hunyuan Immortal City. If we had that as a reference, we certainly wouldn’t be limited to making just some scales and armor as we are now.”
But a Fourth Order Longevity Wood Dragon was beyond Fu Zongjue’s Puppetry Technique limits, so even if he wanted to proceed, he could not construct the main body of the Wooden Dragon.
Chen Mobai saw the dragon scales Fu Zongjue had made from the bark of the Everlife Wood, lifelike, and held up the branches that the latter had modified into what looked like bifurcated dragon horns, his eyes lighting up with admiration.
In the Eastern Wilderness, most puppetry parts could only be fashioned by hand, but the pieces Fu Zongjue produced were like works of art.
Unfortunately, the material of the Fourth Order Everlife Wood was too hard, and without the Extreme Sun Slash, Fu Zongjue could not make drastic changes to this kind of material.
Chen Mobai was one of the rare Rank-3 Puppet Masters from the Immortal Gate, virtually a top-notch expert in the field of puppetry.
Thus, his exchanges with Fu Zongjue often brought forth astonishing insights, clarifying many doubts his senior had about Puppetry Technique.
Fu Zongjue, amazed by this, simply assumed that Chen Mobai had received the true transmission of The Art of Longevity Puppetry.
“Senior Brother, making this Little Azure Dragon might be difficult. Perhaps we should start with some other, simpler Fourth Order puppets.”
Chen Mobai tactfully suggested after having seen the blueprints of the Longevity Wood Dragon, knowing that at least a Rank-4 Puppet Master would be needed to complete it independently.
Although Fu Zongjue was already the best puppeteer in the Eastern Wilderness, specializing here would probably take decades to achieve anything significant.
There were better ways to spend that time.
“Do you mean… the puppets from Liu Jia Mountain?”
Despite being a technical enthusiast, Fu Zongjue caught on instantly, immediately understanding what Chen Mobai meant.
“Yes, exactly. The Six Ding Six Jia Puppet Technique is much simpler than the Longevity Wood Dragon. And when our Sect eventually reclaims the Five Elements Sect, perhaps we could obtain the remnants of the Ancestral Master’s Little Azure Dragon from Zhou Ye’s hands. Why should Senior Brother waste time on this?”
After hearing this, Fu Zongjue found the idea reasonable.
Mainly because, after having completely conquered the Purple Sun Puppet, he was somewhat full of himself and wanted to achieve everything in one fell swoop. However, after a year of even Chen Mobai providing him with ample Everlife Wood material, he could only work on some minor details and edges, which had already somewhat discouraged Fu Zongjue.
Now, with Chen Mobai’s suggestion, he readily decided to set aside the project of the Longevity Wood Dragon.
“Ha ha ha, both Junior Brothers are here!”
At this moment, Zhou Shengqing’s voice came from outside.
Without the pressure from the Xuan Xiao Taoist Palace, he had spent most of the past few years in the Five Elements Sect’s territory, infiltrating the Hunyuan Immortal City several times disguised as an ordinary cultivator to observe the changing patterns of the Mysterious Five Elements Array.
Unfortunately, Zhou Ye was living at the core of the Immortal City, where the formation was at its strongest. Fearful of revealing his Nascent Soul cultivation and failing to kill in one strike, thereby alerting the enemy and possibly even getting caught in the large formation himself, Zhou Shengqing had not yet made a move.
“Greetings, Senior Brother!”
Zhou Shengqing had returned this time because of news from the East Barbarians.
It was that Ku Zhu had finally quelled all dissenting voices within Kong Sang Valley, leading tens of thousands of the Sect’s cultivators out of their protective array and marching towards the Bright Mirror Mountain, which was dominated by Xuan Xiao Taoist Palace.
Because the Five Elements Sect’s ties with the Sun Bathing Sea were even stronger than their own Divine Wood Sect’s, news reached the Hunyuan Immortal City more quickly.
After learning of this, Zhou Shengqing immediately rushed back.
“That’s great news. Although Xuan Xiao Taoist Palace is down to just four Golden Cores, with Jin Feng the old fiend still there, relying on the Mountain Protection Array, they could at least hold out for more than a decade against the army from Kong Sang Valley.”
After hearing this, Chen Mobai calmly analyzed the situation.
Previously, when he had slain Yan Fusheng, Liu Jia Mountain was able to resist their Divine Wood Sect’s forces for nearly a year without a Golden Core Cultivator, relying solely on their Rank-4 Large Formation.
If Xuan Xiao Taoist Palace was determined to turtle up, even with two Nascent Souls from Kong Sang Valley, it might not be easy to break through the Bright Mirror Mountain.
“With Xuan Xiao Taoist Palace definitely preoccupied, let’s take this opportunity to unify the Eastern Wilderness.”
Initially, Zhou Shengqing had only intended to return to the Five Elements Sect to prove he was the rightful successor to Ancestor Hunyuan, but over the years, influenced by Chen Mobai, he too had taken on the mentality of a sovereign.
Their Divine Wood Sect as the overlord of the Eastern Wilderness.
Faced with this unprecedented era, they had the responsibility, as well as the obligation, to end the chaos that had prevailed since ancient times and bring an era of everlasting peace to this region!
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