Chapter 711: Chapter 428: The Art of Longevity Puppetry (8k)_1
“Just point to whom you want to kill when the time comes.”
The Purple Electric Sword eventually succumbed to the Spirit Stone, and Chen Mobai nodded in satisfaction.
He was gradually testing the Purple Electric Sword. It seemed that the sword could still strike independently even without a cultivator wielding it. He wondered if this Rank-4 sword could confront a Golden Core Cultivator?
“How many Spirit Stones will it need at that time?”
“At least 1… half of a high-grade Spirit Stone.”
The Purple Electric Sword originally wanted a year’s worth of tribute but felt it might be too much, so it changed its demand to half a Spirit Stone on the spot.
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“Isn’t that a bit too little? After all, if you need to make a move, it definitely means facing a Golden Core Cultivator.”
Chen Mobai thought for a while and felt it was a bit cheap.
After all, in the Eastern Wilderness, even a hundred high-grade Spirit Stones wouldn’t be enough to invite a Golden Core Cultivator. These people were either patriarchs or famous Loose Cultivators with immense reputation.
“It’s not even certain that I could win. Without the support of a sword master, I can only exert a tenth of my power, so half a Spirit Stone should be considered the minimal fee for wielding the sword. The specific amount will depend on the outcome of the battle.”
After hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Purple Electric Sword, although naive as a child, felt as if it had lowballed itself and added another sentence.
“Alright then, but given my cautious nature, the chances of you being used are not high.”
Chen Mobai had done enough probing and learned about the Purple Electric Sword’s limit.
However, he felt that a tenth of its power was too low and it might not be a match for a Golden Core Cultivator, so he decided it’s better to remain low profile and humble, true to his original intentions.
The Purple Electric Sword had no reaction to this and continued to enjoy the abundant sense of Spiritual Energy bathing its body, still embedded in the raw Spirit Stone.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
That day, Chen Mobai, seated on the top of Xiao Nanshan’s wooden house, opened his eyes as they were wrapped in dense Spiritual Energy.
His one intermediate grade Spirit Stone had become dim, its Spiritual Energy completely absorbed by the Pure Yang Daoist Body.
He skillfully fetched a Spirit-Testing Instrument from his storage bag. This delicate device had been with him for nearly ten years, and its price of 580 Good Deed Points had already long been proven to be a worthy one.
“Spiritual Root: Gold 23, Wood 48, Water 19, Fire 75, Earth 14”
After infusing a line of Spiritual Power, Chen Mobai saw his Spiritual Root Value increase and nodded with satisfaction.
After two continuous years of cultivating with intermediate-grade Spirit Stones, there was significant progress in his Six Yang body. He further reduced his Wood and Water Spiritual Roots by one point, and increased his Fire Spiritual Root by three points.
This time, he learned from past lessons. Once he felt changes in his Spiritual Roots, he stopped and planned to touch the Talent Tree in the Divine Tree Secret Realm later.
During the past half year, he had basically been in a state of meditation and Cultivation on Xiao Nanshan’s Spiritual Energy-rich land.
Depending on the Qi-replenishing Spirit Water exchanged from the Daoist Academy, the Pure Yang Spiritual Power progressed steadily and 130 drops of Liquid Spiritual Power had been condensed in the Dantian Qi Sea.
However, to advance to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment with the Pure Yang Scroll, 150 drops of Liquid Spiritual Power were needed.
Without the Immortal Peach Fruit given by Yuan Hongyuan, Chen Mobai originally had no hope to advance to the late Foundation Establishment stage before graduation.
But now, with a year’s time left and sufficient Qi-replenishing Spirit Water, it should be no problem.
Nevertheless, compared to the increase in Pure Yang Spiritual Power, the progress of the Pure Yang Daoist Body undoubtedly made him happier.
After all, his Dantian Qi Sea and Sea of Knowledge at the Purple Mansion had been expanded to the Perfection of Foundation Establishment due to several opportunities. There were no more bottlenecks before Core Formation, and it could all be achieved sooner or later.
However, the Pure Yang Daoist Body was different.
As the easiest Divinity Transformation Cultivation Technique among the Immortal Sects to learn, the only thing that held back the Cultivators from Cultivating the Pure Yang Scroll was this Pure Yang Daoist Body, which required a lot of resources and time.
Chen Mobai’s mentor, Shao Yang the Real Man, had been expending a lot of resources and time on this matter from the moment he started studying until now, almost ten years. It was unknown whether he would be able to cultivate the Nine Yangs in his lifetime and reach the threshold before Nascent Soul Formation.
Despite not being short of Spirit Stones, there were no examples in the Immortal Sect of progressing and enhancing the Pure Yang Daoist Body entirely with Spirit Stones from start to finish. It was all just theory.
Chen Mobai was also a bit afraid that later on, these Spirit Stones would be ineffective for the Pure Yang Daoist Body, and he would have to rely only on his own diligent Cultivation.
Luckily so far, the Spirit Stones have always been useful.
After two years of continuous refinement, he finally sensed the breakthrough of his Six Yang body today.
Judging by this rate, approximately in four years, the Six Yang body should be able to reach Perfection.
Even if according to the experience of the Immortal Sect’s Pure Yang Scroll Cultivators, the progress of the Pure Yang Daoist Body would slow down as it reached the later stages, Chen Mobai had originally planned to wait twenty years for Meng Huang, so this period would definitely be enough for him to achieve Six Yangs.
In that case, all the prerequisites to Core Formation for the Pure Yang Scroll would be fulfilled.
Once the problem of the Pure Yang Daoist Body was solved, there would be no more obstacles for Chen Mobai’s Core Formation. What remained was to acquire the Golden Core Spiritual Materials to raise the success rate.
After glancing at the Five Elements Spiritual Root Values on the screen of the Spirit-Testing Instrument, Chen Mobai smiled and opened the Cloud Mist Array on the mountain top.
Shortly after, several Message Talismans fell into his hands.
The first ones were from his three disciples.
Liu Wenbo had been traveling all this year, expanding the South Mountain Shop while also looking for the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Material, the Water Mist Ice Crystal, on behalf of Chen Mobai.
Indeed, it was found in the Snow-blowing Palace.
However, it was referred to as the “Cold Ice Condensing Crystal” over there. It was a unique kind of Ice Crystal used by Snow Country’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators for purifying Spiritual Power. They also discovered that it could increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment for those with the Ice Spiritual Root and viewed it as a strategic resource, hence not available for sale.