I Have A Cultivation World - Chapter 2629 - 1201: An Unexpected Visitor
Chapter 2629: Chapter 1201: An Unexpected Visitor
“Disciple has successfully completed Nascent Soul Formation, thanking Master for your protection!”
Upon seeing Chen Mobai, Zhuo Ming immediately performed a grand gesture of respect.
She was very aware that her achievements today were all thanks to her Master’s guidance.
If she hadn’t bowed her head and come under his tutelage back then, she would likely have been buried in Giant Tree Ridge long ago.
“Rise, your success is not solely due to me but also because of your own good fortune.”
Chen Mobai said with a smile. Next to him, Luo Yixuan, sensitive to the moment, went over and helped Zhuo Ming up.
“Senior Sister, congratulations on your Nascent Soul Formation. You are rightfully the first among the second generation of Xiao Nanshan lineage.” Luo Yixuan sincerely admired and congratulated.
“Not quite, while my cultivation level is ahead, I am still the second disciple in terms of seniority,” Zhuo Ming shook her head and said. She knew Chen Mobai placed great importance on hierarchy; Liu Wenbo remained the eldest disciple for life. Furthermore, she was able to enter the sect entirely because of Liu Wenbo’s favor.
Therefore, in her heart, Liu Wenbo would always be the grand senior brother.
“Ming’er is right. In my sect, hierarchy is not determined by cultivation level.”
Chen Mobai reiterated the hierarchical etiquette, and Luo Yixuan, upon hearing it, lowered her head with some embarrassment.
“Do you have any doubts?”
The trio sat on the ground in front of the main hall, and Chen Mobai asked. Zhuo Ming nodded and voiced some of the perplexities she encountered during her years in seclusion.
By rights, such perplexities should prevent smooth advancement.
But Zhuo Ming muddled through surprisingly smoothly.
Whether in Nascent Soul Formation or Artifact Refining.
Both were very successful.
After Chen Mobai resolved each of her doubts, he inwardly marveled at her being truly fortunate.
“How is the Merit Cauldron?”
Chen Mobai pointed to the square cauldron suspended in midair. When Zhuo Ming was reminded, she realized her Lifespan Artifact was still hanging in the sky, and immediately used the Sacramental Refinement Mantra to retrieve it.
The cauldron landed beside the three, with Luo Yixuan being curious and shocked.
As a core disciple of Xiao Nanshan lineage, she definitely knew that once the cauldron had become a merit treasure, it was already Rank-5.
Chen Mobai, as the foremost Artifact Refiner in the East Continent, had no disciples inheriting his Artifact Refining Technique until now when Zhuo Ming promoted her Lifespan Artifact to Rank-5, indicating she had received Chen Mobai’s teachings.
But this is Rank-5!
Luo Yixuan, very aware of the value of Rank-5 artifacts, would not believe Zhuo Ming produced the Merit Cauldron without seeing it herself, assuming Chen Mobai must have refined it instead.
Under local conventions, Zhuo Ming could now call herself a fifth rank Artifact Refiner.
Through “The Union of Differences” and studying the Merit Cauldron, Chen Mobai found himself unable to fully fathom the cauldron’s complete formation, especially the process of achieving Rank-5 and gaining merit. This was because the cauldron belonged to Zhuo Ming. To force a full insight would require obliterating her traces within it.
However, as he initially crafted the cauldron, by releasing his energy, he still glimpsed the Merit Great Dao.
Yet, Chen Mobai already possessed enough Great Dao practices that after briefly comprehending the Merit Great Dao on the cauldron, he returned the artifact to its rightful owner.
“Such a splendid Merit Treasure. If you achieve Harmonization in the future, it will be your Treasure of Dao.”
Upon hearing Chen Mobai’s commendation, Zhuo Ming was delighted, though she remained somewhat puzzled, unsure of Harmonization’s meaning.
Chen Mobai briefly explained, revealing it as the realm beyond ascendent monks. Zhuo Ming was fearful.
“Disciple is dull-witted and unsure if I can achieve Spirit Transformation. Such a realm is beyond my imagination.”
Chen Mobai, hearing this, laughed heartily. Then he reached into the void with his hand, and two Dao Fruits landed in his palm.
“The one on the left is the Earth Element Dao Fruit, on the right is the Primordial Dao Fruit, which I promised you previously. Have you decided?”
After explaining the effects and usages of the two Dao Fruits, Chen Mobai watched his beloved disciple fall into contemplation.
At the same time, Luo Yixuan swallowed hard.
These are Dao Fruits!
And two of them, why isn’t there one for me?
“Master, I’ve made my choice.”
While Luo Yixuan’s mind was spinning, Zhuo Ming lifted her head, looking at the Earth Element Dao Fruit on the left.
“Oh, why choose this one?”
Upon glimpsing the Merit Great Dao, Chen Mobai already knew the Earth Element Dao Fruit suited Zhuo Ming best because, for her, calamities were nonexistent. With the most compatible way to elevate her realm, she was bound to smoothly cultivate to the pinnacle her talent could attain.
This was why her path mirrored Chen Mobai’s in the Sect of Realms.
While Primordial Dao Fruit holds broader prospects, this Great Dao has a predecessor in Yi Yuan True Monarch.
Comparatively, by choosing Earth Element Dao Fruit, Zhuo Ming is secure—to Spirit Transformation Stage, she can certainly crystallize Earth Element Dao Fruit and pursue a more attuned Merit Great Dao for herself.
Before that, the priority is Spirit Transformation first.
“Disciple believes that cultivating the Yellow Emperor’s Benevolence Scripture to break through the realm is easier; the Yi Yuan Dao Scripture is somewhat too complex, and the disciple cannot fully comprehend it.”
Zhuo Ming spoke frankly. Although her Spiritual Root was top-notch, her comprehension was outstanding only in cultivation techniques and divine skills related to the Earth Attribute. The Yi Yuan Dao Scripture was vast and profound, encompassing the Five Elements and all phenomena. She had read the entire thing in Northern Abyss City and found it obscure and difficult to understand.
As Chen Mobai’s disciple, pragmatism had been ingrained in her very bones.
So after pondering for a while, she instinctively chose the simple Earth Element Dao Fruit.
“Very well, I will impart this Dao Fruit to you.”
Hearing this, Chen Mobai felt that Zhuo Ming was indeed blessed with divine providence, even her choices were the best for herself.
He smilingly retracted the Primordial Dao Fruit, then imparted the Yi Yuan Seal for the sacramental refinement of the Dao Fruit.
After learning a few times, Zhuo Ming’s Nascent Soul emerged and she held the Earth Element Dao Fruit to refine it into her Sea of Knowledge at the Purple Mansion.
Refining the Dao Fruit also requires a period of time.
While guiding her, Chen Mobai explained to Zhuo Ming all the insights gained from the Primordial Great Dao related to the Yellow Emperor’s Benevolence Scripture, regarding the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation.
The more Zhuo Ming comprehended, the more she admired Chen Mobai.
After all, she was aware that her master cultivated the Fire Element Technique.
With one teaching and one learning, and another disciple serving tea, six months quickly passed by.
Initially, Chen Mobai was still imparting cultivation techniques. Later on, when Zhuo Ming’s understanding was almost complete, he began teaching the Seventh Rank Celestial Stars Earth Luo Star Formation.
After all, wanting to set up this formation within the Five Elements Sect is not feasible with Song Huangdae, a third-generation disciple. Now that Zhuo Ming has successfully undergone “Nascent Soul Formation,” this heavy responsibility undoubtedly falls on her.
And Zhuo Ming had truly inherited the secrets of formation study.
Although the Seventh Rank Large Formation was beyond her understanding at her current Realm, she grasped at least half of the Sky Curtain Ground Network Formation.
Chen Mobai passed on the Three Hundred and Sixty Formation Diagrams piece by piece, ensuring Zhuo Ming could arrange them according to the diagrams, then contentedly stopped the lessons.
“At my Realm in cultivation, each seclusion period could be dozens or even hundreds of years, so these matters must be entrusted to someone trustworthy.”
“The disciple will not disappoint Master’s expectations.”
Zhuo Ming had become accustomed to having responsibilities. Previously at Wandering Mountain, she had found work in developing the sunken remains of Golden Crow Immortal City’s underwater Spirit Field. Now tasked with the formation work, her enthusiasm was even greater.
“Matters concerning the Sect have been entrusted to Zongheng, while Xiao Nanshan’s lineage is left to you, along with some friends I have in East Continent. You will need to interact with them on my behalf in the future.”
Chen Mobai was referring to his personal connections with cultivators like Ye Qing and Yuan Zhen from East Continent. Deities of the Spirit Transformation Stage typically do not act lightly; only during events like righteous and demonic wars or pioneering expeditions will their True Body participate.
In the future, communication with friends and others is mostly entrusted to disciples first and sent to interact on their behalf.
And these disciples are the inheritors of the mantle from the Spirit Transformation Stage.
The Righteous Path of the Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators all know that these disciples are the future liaisons and treat them with respect.
In East Continent, it’s a tacit understanding among the Holy Land Spirit Transformation cultivators.
After Zhuo Ming formed her Nascent Soul, Chen Mobai could finally introduce her to the platform of the East Continent.
Informing all Holy Land Spirit Transformation cultivators that she is his future successor.
She is also the Dao Seed of the Five Elements Sect supported entirely by the next generation of Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators.
“Understood, disciple complies!”
As Zhuo Ming spoke these words with a solemn expression, Chen Mobai felt that his already dwindling line of fate had shortened even more.
Although he had given the Crown of Heaven and Earth to Jiang Zongheng, he was still able to utilize external vision of the Heaven and Earth and internal view of himself.
After two disciples had taken over the mantle, Chen Mobai’s line of fate in the Tianhe Realm was visibly thinning to the naked eye.
Many were lines that could fade and disappear with the passage of time.
Yet some remained, vivid and exceptionally strong.
These represented at least the fact that at the end of these lines was the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Such as Ming Zun, True Lord Tianling of the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect, etc.
For this reason, Chen Mobai did not use the Secret Technique left by Yi Yuan True Monarch to transfer these lines to Zhuo Ming, but planned to resolve them himself as much as possible.
If in the future, before he starts Cultivating Void, he cannot solve the remaining issues, he would then pass them to Zhuo Ming.
By then, she should also have reached Spirit Transformation, able to bear it.
After instructing Zhuo Ming, Chen Mobai returned to the Eastern Wilderness.
Regarding Zhuo Ming’s “Nascent Soul Formation” ceremony, E Yun, knowing the news, would naturally organize everything well, and he could appear with Qing Nu then to lend their support.
However, upon his return, Chen Mobai found unexpected guests waiting in Northern Abyss City.
“Han Xingzi, Luoying Shangren?” Chen Mobai fell into thought after E Yun’s report.
He had long had no ties with the Three Veins of Ice Heaven.
Why would these two come seeking him?
