Chapter 1005: Trying the Dao Realm

Successfully refining the Infant Nurturing Elixir this time was entirely due to the Solar Sacred Fruit provided by Yuan Zhen. In the future, if the Five Elements Sect wishes to refine high-grade elixirs, it will likely still require assistance from the Sacred Lands to gather precious Fifth-tier medicinal ingredients.

Therefore, Chen Mobai urgently desired to develop the Five Elements Sect into a Sacred Land. However, reaching the Deity Transformation stage is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

After seeing Yuan Zhen off, Chen Mobai took the letter handed to him by E Yun.

It was from Yue Zutao, containing Xiao Yuli's reply.

She very much hoped Chen Mobai would intervene to rectify matters within the Five Emperors Mountain. Unfortunately, when she returned to the One Yuan Dao Palace to obtain resources for Nascent Soul formation, she had made an oath.

The content of the oath could not be revealed, but Xiao Yuli hinted at it indirectly.

After reading it, Chen Mobai largely guessed its contents. It was likely that after she formed her Nascent Soul, she would lead the cultivators of the One Yuan Dao Palace to emerge and participate in the righteous-demonic war; after the war, she would leave the Five Emperors Mountain to establish an outpost; and presumably, there was also a clause preventing her from joining forces with Chen Mobai against the One Yuan Dao Palace.

This left Chen Mobai feeling extremely regretful.

Without Xiao Yuli's involvement, his reasons for ascending the Five Emperors Mountain would not be compelling enough.

Furthermore, although the One Yuan Dao Palace lost the Fire Virtue Mountain Lord and the outer sect Nascent Soul cultivator Qing Shan during the righteous-demonic war, it still possessed seven Nascent Soul cultivators.

Although Chen Mobai was confident he could suppress anyone, the Five Emperors Mountain possessed a Tier 6 mountain protection array and the sect-suppressing Tier 6 magic artifact, the Primordial Chaos Bell. Throughout history, only the Illustrious Venerable dared to force his way in.

If Xiao Yuli were willing to step forward and mediate for him, Chen Mobai believed that within the One Yuan Dao Palace, there should still be many cultivators awaiting righteousness who would be willing to cooperate with him.

Soon, Chen Mobai thought of Su Ziluo.

Although she had been abducted by the Illustrious Venerable for many years, after Yuan Qingque's review, she was now seen as unjustly wronged.

He could send her back to the One Yuan Dao Palace, to claim she had been betrayed, and see if she could sow discord within the Five Emperors Mountain.

With this thought, Chen Mobai immediately notified Su Ziluo and Zhuo Ming to return.

Coincidentally, the Five Elements Spirit Fruits in the One Yuan Secret Realm had also matured.

"Greetings, Master!"

After Zhuo Ming returned, she first reported on the situation in Dongwu.

Thanks to the various academies in the Eastern Desolation beginning to cultivate geomancers, Zhuo Ming had an increasing number of personnel at her disposal. Currently, hundreds of thousands of acres of land at the core of the ancestral leyline had been restored and developed.

These were all Fourth-tier or even Fifth-tier spirit fields. However, due to the residual power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder, they could currently only be used to cultivate spirit plants like Thunderglow Grass.

Two years prior, before Chen Mobai began refining elixirs, he had already sent the Five Elements Divine Thunder Soil to Wenren Xuewei. She had specifically opened a new elective course at the Jumang Daoist Academy, gathered a group of Tier 4 spirit plant cultivation teachers, along with many students, and personally led a research team.

Currently, the results were quite good. They had specifically researched and developed spirit rice seeds capable of absorbing lightning essence. However, further experimentation was required to determine if they could be cultivated on a large scale.

In response, Chen Mobai made two preparations. On one hand, he brought these newly developed spirit rice seeds to the Sky River Realm and had Zhuo Ming attempt to cultivate them in the spirit fields of Dongwu's ancestral leyline.

After all, the Five Elements Divine Thunder Soil he could bring back to the Immortal Sect was limited. No matter how advanced the Jumang Daoist Academy's research capabilities were, they would be insufficient when it came to large-scale experimentation.

Conveniently, after Zhuo Ming's restoration and development in Dongwu, there was abundant soil, making it possible to conduct these trials.

On the other hand, Chen Mobai also processed a type of Tier 4 Golden Rice from the Immortal Sect and brought it to the Eastern Desolation.

The source of the Immortal Sect's spirit rice all originated from a bag of immortal rice seeds brought by Patriarch Changchun in the past.

After thousands of years of cultivation by the Jumang Daoist Academy, combined with the soil and climate conditions across various parts of the Immortal Sect, it had evolved into a wide variety of spirit rice.

The Water Clear Rice from Chen Mobai's hometown, and this Tier 4 Golden Rice, all came about in this manner.

This Golden Rice was named for its golden color and possessed a delicate, jade-like husk. Long-term consumption could even aid in the formation of a Golden Core.

However, in the Immortal Sect, this Golden Rice was primarily reserved for Nascent Soul cultivators. Furthermore, only one locale, the Huangliang Grotto-heaven, could produce it, and its yield was not abundant.

If consumed by Nascent Soul cultivators, it could comprehensively enhance their vitality, spirit, keenness, and so forth.

Chen Mobai's choice of this particular type among the many Tier 4 spirit rice seeds from the Immortal Sect was also made after much consideration.

Firstly, this Golden Rice required strong sunlight, a very rich plant essence environment, and also had very high water requirements.

In the Eastern Desolation, the Giant Wood Ridge perfectly met these conditions.

As his place of origin, in recent years, due to Chen Mobai shifting the Five Elements Sect's focus to Beiyuan City, the Giant Wood Ridge, which was originally the center of the Eastern Desolation, had somewhat declined in status.

Moreover, this decline was almost irreversible. As urbanization in the Eastern Desolation became more advanced, the spirit fields and medicinal gardens, which were the core industries of the Giant Wood Ridge, would gradually be diluted as the Five Elements Sect's territory expanded.

By planting the Tier 4 Golden Rice here, Chen Mobai aimed to provide the Giant Wood Ridge with an irreplaceable core asset.

This matter naturally received strong support from Zhou Shengqing.

Upon hearing that Chen Mobai had obtained Tier 4 spirit rice seeds from the Secret Realm of the Longevity Sect, he even personally oversaw the cultivation.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator, Zhou Shengqing was well aware that once the Five Elements Sect possessed mature Tier 4 spirit rice, it would completely break free from its last constraint, laying the foundation for a significant increase in the number of Nascent Soul cultivators within the sect.

When Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming to the Primordial Chaos Immortal City, they passed by the Giant Wood Ridge on the way to observe the cultivation of the Tier 4 Golden Rice.

After all, Zhou Shengqing was a Nascent Soul cultivator. If he focused, learning to be a Tier 4 spirit plant cultivator and geomancer was not a problem.

Under his personal guidance, tender shoots of Golden Rice had already emerged in the core Tier 4 spirit fields of the Giant Wood Ridge. A few plants, specifically irrigated with Myriad Transformation Thunderwater, had already grown golden rice ears, shimmering brilliantly in the sunlight.

Zhuo Ming looked at these rice ears, unable to put them down. "These Golden Jade Spirit Rice ears are truly beautiful," she exclaimed.

In the Eastern Desolation, Chen Mobai, following the naming principles of their lineage, renamed the Golden Rice to Golden Jade Spirit Rice.

After the master and disciple provided some guidance at the Giant Wood Ridge, they proceeded to the Primordial Chaos Immortal City.

Currently, the one guarding this place was Kong Shanxu, who had refined an external Golden Core.

However, when they arrived, Kong Shanxu had been transferred by Ning Leshan to practice military formations.

Within the Five Elements Sect, there were currently twenty-nine Golden Core cultivators. Among them, because Chen Mobai had personally taught the Wood lineage, the majority of Golden Core cultivators came from this lineage, resulting in fewer Golden Core cultivators from the other four elemental attributes.

Previously, among the Five Elements Dao Soldiers under Chen Mobai in Dongwu, even the Earth Array required the mobilization of the Grand Star Child, which speaks volumes.

Therefore, after Kong Shanxu refined the external Golden Core, Chen Mobai had him guard the Primordial Chaos Immortal City, while also transferring him to the Hall of Punishing Evil, to form a group of Five Elements-attributed Golden Core cultivators with Ning Leshan and others, to practice with the Five Elements Dao Soldiers.

After leaving a message for Kong Shanxu using the All-Heaven Compass, Chen Mobai took Zhuo Ming into the One Yuan Secret Realm.

The Five Elements Spirit Fruits were easily retrieved, and Zhuo Ming sealed them for transport.

Afterward, Chen Mobai began to attempt to refine the One Yuan Secret Realm with his own domain. He sat cross-legged beneath the Five Elements Spirit Tree, closing his eyes in concentration.

At the level of All-Heaven Blessing Corresponding to Earthly Spirits, his consciousness rippled outwards like water, attempting to establish a deeper connection with this mysterious secret realm through the valuable core spirit plant behind him.

Meanwhile, his domain opened up, transforming into invisible void fluctuations, and slowly permeating outwards.

Chen Mobai's current cultivation was at the seventh layer of the Nascent Soul stage. Due to time constraints, he had not yet cultivated his domain to its peak at this level, but it already encompassed 107.3 billion cubic meters of space.

Even without using the Great Void Teleportation, he could now use his domain to instantaneously travel across more than half of the Immortal Sect's territory. However, the greater the distance of the teleportation, the more spiritual sense it consumed, so Chen Mobai rarely used it.

The Great Void Teleportation, with its positioning facilitated by the Immortal Sect's Sky Curtain and Earth Net, consumed negligible spiritual sense and was much more convenient.

Because Chen Mobai possessed a unique talent in void cultivation, he had expanded his domain to its utmost limit with each advancement in cultivation over the years. Therefore, by the time he reached the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul stage, his domain would likely be able to cover the entire Earthly Origin Star.

However, within the various grotto-heavens and blessed lands throughout the Immortal Sect, there were core spirit hubs connected to the Sky Curtain and Earth Net. If his domain were to cover them, to prevent the connection and disruption of the array formations, it would trigger a counterattack from this Tier 6 grand array. Thus, even Bai Guang would not do such a thing.

Currently, only Xuan Xing, who had completely mastered the Sky Curtain and Earth Net, could achieve this.

But in the Eastern Desolation, there were no such obstacles.

Chen Mobai could expand his domain as large as he wished.

However, a collision between his domain and the real world would trigger a clash between the primordial essences of the void. If his domain were not strong enough at that time, it would instead shatter and be damaged.

It was precisely for this reason that Chen Mobai wished to make his vast domain even stronger and more robust.

This was akin to managing a Lesser Thousand World.

Over in the Immortal Sect, the medicinal realms of the various Daoist Academies were almost indistinguishable from real worlds.

Because Chen Mobai's cultivation period had been too short, his domain was, so to speak, a blank slate. He had merely used void power to partition a few spaces to store essential items such as spirit stones, minerals, spirit rice, and water.

If he were frugal, it would likely sustain him for several hundred years of sustenance and cultivation.

The development of a domain required absorbing vast amounts of void power and the primordial essence of heaven and earth. Therefore, devouring other domains or minor worlds was the fastest method of growth. Ultimately, based on the cultivator's own Daoist principles, it would transform into a Dao-realm domain that could best manifest its characteristics and combat power.

This was the Dharma Realm!

Within their own Dharma Realm, a cultivator's combat power could be unleashed to its utmost, for with every breath, heaven and earth resonated, all directions held phenomena, and the Grand Dao accompanied them.

If an opponent were to be swallowed into a Dharma Realm, their overall strength would be greatly diminished.

Within the Immortal Sect, the Six Imperial Sutra of the Kunpeng Daoist Academy had "Dharma Realm" as its ultimate stage.

Chen Mobai had also experienced the Jade Peace Minor Realm, inherited by the Dancing Weapons Daoist Academy. It was left by Patriarch Yun Ya, and was almost a Dharma Realm, but unfortunately, it still lacked the most crucial power of Void Refinement.

However, for Chen Mobai, due to his unique void talent, as long as he reached Deity Transformation, he would essentially be able to absorb sufficient void power. Thus, he might even achieve the Dharma Realm upon reaching Deity Transformation.

By that time, wherever he went, it would be his home ground.

If he possessed a Dharma Realm, he would not need to worry about the Five Emperors Mountain's Tier 6 grand array. Directly covering it with his Dharma Realm, he could separate the grand array from the Tier 6 spirit leyline, leaving opponents who entered his Dharma Realm at his mercy.

Furthermore, according to Patriarch Yun Ya's notes, the cultivation method of the Dharma Realm had another special name in the Purple Cloud Galaxy—Earth Immortal!

This was also one of the Grand Daos passed down by Dao Sovereign Zixiao.

It was said that when cultivated to its extreme, a Dharma Realm could even replace the entire universe, achieving creation.

Chen Mobai, however, did not harbor such ambitions. He merely hoped to cultivate a complete Dharma Realm.

In that case, the Dharma Realm would be able to, like a true world, refine the void into spiritual energy, supplying it