Chapter 715: Chapter 428: The Art of Longevity Puppetry (8k)_5
In the environment of freedom and relaxation, they not only liberated their latent dispositions, but also consciously maintained the good tradition of mutual aid between themselves.
As expected, after hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Zhuo Ming, who was previously a little worried, let out a smile, completely relaxing her heart.
After returning to Xiao Nanshan with his two new disciples, Chen Mobai took the time to pay a visit to the Divine Tree Secret Realm.
He expertly touched the Talent Tree. He wasn’t sure if the tree could sense his thoughts, but it started to send a massive amount of data, and this time it even gave him a blueprint called “Purple Sun Puppet”.
With Chen Mobai’s proficiency in Puppetry Technique, he could easily see that the Purple Sun Puppet was a part of The Art of Longevity Puppetry. The Hun Yuan ancestor might have received an incomplete version of the art and missed this puppet.
The Purple Sun Puppet is a high grade Rank-3 puppet, positioned between the Golden Sun Puppet and the Everlife Wood Dragon. Most of the materials required for it come from the Golden Sun Spirit Wood, with a small part coming from the Longevity Spirit Wood.
Once it was completed, it would possess immense power, enough to face off against cultivators in the middle and later stages of the Gold Core realm.
After reading the blueprint, Chen Mobai believed it could be of great use to the Divine Wood Sect. If Fu Zongjue could craft this puppet, it could surely play a decisive role in the coming battle against the Shake Mountain.
But, did Elder Fu have the ability to craft the Purple Sun Puppet?
With the thought of offering the blueprint to the sect when he gets a chance, Chen Mobai visited the Devouring Heaven Serpent.
This time, his Divine Sense realm had greatly improved. In just an instant, he locked onto the Little Black Snake hiding in the shadow of a leaf.
After capturing it with his Spiritual Light hand, he noticed that its aura had grown to that of a Rank-2 Qi Cultivation realm. This seemed to be due to eating too many leaves; its originally pitch-black body was now turning azure black. However, its size remained the same, still very small. If one didn’t look carefully, they might even mistake it for a large earthworm.
Chen Mobai’s expectations towards the Devouring Heaven Serpent were now completely different. He hoped it could condense a drop of Azure Dragon’s Blood. Therefore, he fed it a piece of lower-grade Spirit Stone, and even used the Flame Lighting Technique to help it refine it.
After feeding it three pieces of lower-grade Spirit Stones consecutively, and feeling the Spiritual Energy within the Devouring Heaven Serpent becoming full, Chen Mobai finally stopped. He happily returned it to the forest area he had dedicated for its cultivation.
Then, he took out the Heavenly Calculation Bead kept nearby and started checking on his Spider Puppets.
Over the past year, through these Spider Puppets, Chen Mobai had found three Qingyang Spirit Trees in the Divine Tree Secret Realm, and because of it, he had thought of refining a Blue Sun Puppet for each of his three disciples.
Recently, his luck seemed to be doing quite well. After checking the information within the Heavenly Calculation Bead, he found that one of his Spider Puppets had disappeared, which meant it had encountered another Qingyang Spirit Tree.
Chen Mobai discerned the direction where the puppet had disappeared from the information in the bead, and promptly went there using the Earth Departing Flame Light Escape technique.
Soon, he found a Qingyang Spirit Tree, that was nearly burnt to ashes, in an open charred land.
Surprisingly, it was a Qingyang Spirit Tree that was in the process of evolving to Rank-3.
Its robust branches, curled like dragons, had been turned into ashes by the burning, leaving only the thickest main trunk. But even this was being charred and fallen off piece by piece under the burning of the spiritual fire. If it was to continue burning, the trunk would disappear.
If he was lucky, he would be left with seeds of Qingyang Fire.
If he was not, he would end up with only a pile of black ashes.
Chen Mobai remembered the scene where Mu Yuan had created Qingyang Fire Seeds. He could do it too.
But for the current Chen Mobai, who had understood the crux of the Pure Yang Scroll, he could create Qingyang Fire at any time. It was no longer considered rare.
Thus, a bold idea crossed his mind.
Could he help this Qingyang Spirit Tree complete its evolution? If so, he would possess a Rank-3 Golden Sun Spirit Tree.
But how could he help?
Right now, there was definitely no time to search for information in the Divine Wood Sect, so he had to rely on his own understanding. He channeled his pure Longevity Spiritual Power into the tree trunk, hoping to help the Qingyang Spirit Tree survive the burning of the spiritual fire.
However, he found that Longevity Spiritual Power didn’t have much effect on the Qingyang Spirit Tree.
But, the moment he touched the trunk, Chen Mobai’s Divine Sense could feel the endless life force of the tree that was being ignited under the burning spiritual fire.
It was thanks to his Fire Spirit Body that he could sense such fine details in the process of the spiritual fire’s ignition.
Speaking of life force, Chen Mobai remembered the Yi Wood Divine Thunder.
As a last-ditch effort, he condensed the gentle Yi Wood Thunder Light using Longevity Spiritual Power, then carefully guided it into the burning Qingyang Spirit Tree.
As expected, it had the desired effect.
The Divine Thunder of life rejuvenated the weakening life force of the Qingyang Spirit Tree, prolonging its impending demise.
However, it was only regretful that Chen Mobai discovered this Qingyang Spirit Tree too late. If he had been there at the start of its evolution and injected it with the Divine Thunder, he might have been able to help it complete its transformation.
Seeing that all the bark had been burned away and that the trunk was about to be consumed by the Spirit Fire, a trace of regret appeared in Chen Mobai’s eyes.
However, even if it couldn’t transform, he had a second way to save this peak Rank-2 Qingyang Spirit Tree.
He invoked the “Kindwood Mantra” he had acquired from the Talent Tree.
He had also managed to practice this Spirit Plant Technique to Rank-2 this year, and it was perfect to turn this Qingyang Spirit Tree into a “Tree Seed”.
Compared to the conventional method of the Divine Wood Sect, Kindwood Mantra was much more convenient and simple.
Chen Mobai speculated that the Tree Seed Technique of the sect might have evolved from this longevity cultivating technique for Spirit Plants.
In no time, a verdant tree seed fell into his palm.