Chapter 1035: Half Six-Level Pure Yang Qi

After breaking through with the Pure Yang Scroll, Chen Mobai could feel his Pure Yang True Qi surging like a tide, yet it was remarkably gentle.

However, this gentleness did not mean a lack of power. With a thought, his Pure Yang True Qi instantly became dense and fiery. Furthermore, with a core point of True Yin guiding it, he could unleash its full power without reservation.

Throughout this process, Chen Mobai felt as if his Nascent Soul was constantly hovering within the omnipresent Grand Dao between heaven and earth.

If it were any other cultivator from the Immortal Sect, they might be bewildered by this process. However, Chen Mobai, having comprehended the Dao Fruit and the One-Yuan Dao Scripture, knew that it was the Grand Dao related to the Pure Yang Scroll beginning to draw closer to him.

Nourished by this Grand Dao, his Nascent Soul slowly began to transform.

Combining this with the cultivation experiences left by the Immortal Sect's predecessors and sages, Chen Mobai knew that, as time passed, his Nascent Soul would increasingly approach the Soul Transformation stage.

This was one of the profound mysteries of the Pure Yang Scroll.

Aside from refining devils, this cultivation method excelled at breaking through realms and weakening bottlenecks.

After reaching the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul stage, whenever Chen Mobai meditated and cultivated, the Pure Yang Scroll would passively draw the Grand Dao associated with it, causing it to swirl around his Nascent Soul. Over years and months, this would subtly guide his Nascent Soul towards advancing to the Soul Transformation stage.

However, truly relying on this method to reach Soul Transformation would require an extremely long time.

Over thousands of years in the Immortal Sect, over a dozen cultivators had formed Nascent Souls using the Pure Yang Scroll, but only Patriarch Yuanyang had truly achieved Soul Transformation.

Chen Mobai used his Crown of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Beings to calculate his progress. Although he knew little about the specifics of the Soul Transformation realm, by building upon the legacy of True Monarch One-Yuan and combining it with all the knowledge left by the Immortal Sect's dozen-plus Soul Transformation True Monarchs, he managed to display a progress bar for his own Soul Transformation.

In his current state, purely relying on diligent cultivation of the method to draw in the Grand Dao and transform his Nascent Soul would take 660 years.

This result greatly surprised and delighted Chen Mobai.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator with a lifespan of a thousand years, he was currently less than two hundred years old. This meant that even without external aids like the Startling Divine Melody or the All-Saint True Spirit Elixir, he could genuinely achieve Soul Transformation on his own.

This was truly a genuine aptitude for Soul Transformation!

Indeed!

In his elation, Chen Mobai was about to resume cultivating diligently, but then he heard a startled cry.

He immediately remembered that he was still in the most intimate state with Yan Bingxuan.

As a Core Formation cultivator, Yan Bingxuan's total ice spiritual power was less than the amount of just one strand of his Pure Yang True Qi. The moment he circulated his power, she felt as if she were sitting atop a volcano about to erupt; any surge could utterly scatter her soul.

Chen Mobai immediately reined in his Pure Yang True Qi, allowing its gentle aspect to surface.

At this moment, Yan Bingxuan felt a vibrant, bright, yet incredibly warm aura spread out, enveloping her entire body, leaving her feeling intoxicated.

Because the core of Chen Mobai's Pure Yang True Qi was that point of primal Yin True Cold from Yan Bingxuan, he could intentionally use it to benefit her cultivation.

"I will guide your cultivation..."

Chen Mobai transmitted his voice to the trembling Yan Bingxuan before him. Though her consciousness was somewhat scattered, under his guidance, she gritted her teeth, focused her mind, and began to circulate her Profound Ice Art.

With the assistance of the fourth-tier peak 'Echo of the Empty Valley', Chen Mobai easily brought the situation under control.

Under the soothing warmth of the Pure Yang True Qi enveloping her, Yan Bingxuan felt her ice spiritual power continuously purifying. Although her cultivation realm hadn't changed, her comprehension of the cultivation method deepened significantly.

Isolated Yin cannot grow, nor can solitary Yang be born.

When forming a Nascent Soul, both Chen Mobai and Yan Qiongzhi would need to consider the extreme transformation of Yin and Yang, and Yan Bingxuan was naturally no exception.

Her ability to attempt the rotation of Yin and Yang at the fifth layer of the Golden Core stage would be a tremendous benefit for her future.

However, her realm was still a bit low. Although her ice spiritual power became increasingly pure and strong, she was consistently unable to take that crucial step.

Seeing that the ice spiritual power within her body had become as clear and icy as her body could withstand, Chen Mobai took out a wisp of Pure Yang Violet Qi from his personal realm.

Since Yan Bingxuan was fully engrossed in circulating her cultivation method and unable to attend to anything else, Chen Mobai had to personally intervene, guiding the qi into her Danzhong acupoint.

With a ripple, the Pure Yang Violet Qi, guided by him, entered Yan Bingxuan's meridians wisp by wisp, combining with her ice spiritual power and manually rotating the Yin-Yang transformation.

At this moment, the two opposing forces embraced each other like lovers, intense yet harmonious, slowly merging.

Because Yan Bingxuan was cultivating the realm of 'Yin extreme generates Yang', Chen Mobai dared not let her refine the entire wisp of Pure Yang Violet Qi, as it would be too much for her.

Therefore, he guided the remaining Pure Yang Violet Qi upwards, into Yan Bingxuan's Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, to expand and broaden it.

Three days later, Yan Bingxuan finally assimilated all her transformed spiritual power back into her Golden Core.

"I feel as if something is gestating within my Golden Core..."

Upon opening her eyes, Yan Bingxuan reached out to cover her Dantian Qi Sea area. Her usually cold, pale skin was now like warm jade, tinged with a faint rosy hue.

"Cherish this sensation. The feeling of giving birth to your Nascent Soul's spirituality in the future will be quite similar to this."

Although Chen Mobai had not cultivated the Profound Ice Art himself, his realm was self-evident, and combined with the vast knowledge of the Immortal Sect, guiding Yan Bingxuan was effortless for him.

"Mm, I hope I can also form a Nascent Soul in the future, so I'll have more time to repay you."

As Yan Bingxuan spoke these words, her gaze was fervent, boldly looking at Chen Mobai.

After half a year of being together, she no longer felt any shyness in any situation; after all, they had done everything between them.

"Then you should properly enter seclusion next to consolidate your current insights."

Upon hearing her words, Chen Mobai spoke with a face full of regret.

This was because Yan Bingxuan's 'Yin extreme generates Yang' realm was not cultivated by herself, but rather achieved with Chen Mobai's power guiding her.

This was mainly due to the 'cause' she had sown when Chen Mobai formed his Nascent Soul. If it had been anyone else, even Yan Qiongzhi, Chen Mobai would not have been able to guide their comprehension using the same method.

"Mm..."

Upon hearing this, Yan Bingxuan, with a reluctant expression, nestled into Chen Mobai's embrace.

If a realm not cultivated by oneself is not consolidated through timely seclusion, it is very likely to regress or even dissipate.

In that case, the two who had finally managed to be together would have to separate for a period again.

However, neither of them was overly consumed by desires, and they understood priorities. So, after one last intimate embrace, Chen Mobai rose and reluctantly bade farewell to Yan Bingxuan.

After returning to the Hall of Rectification via the Great Void Teleportation, Chen Mobai saw Wenren Xuewei, who was already adept at her tasks, and nodded with satisfaction.

While he was lingering in the Academy of Nature, the Immortal Sect's Three Great Halls, with rare efficiency, passed the proposal to shut down the Lesser Red Heaven within half a year.

Naturally, this matter drew widespread public outcry.

After all, for over a century, the Lesser Red Heaven, a virtual combat platform, had long been integrated into every aspect of Immortal Sect life. Besides combat training, various trades, drills, matchmaking events, and communications all took place there.

It was essentially an alternative virtual Immortal Sect.

With it, one could experience the Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands without leaving home, and even witness live broadcasts from high-realm cultivators, greatly broadening the horizons and knowledge of lower-level cultivators.

Now, under the pretext of server upgrades, the Immortal Sect forcibly kicked everyone offline without specifying when the upgrades would be completed. This instantly caused widespread disappointment among many regarding the current leadership, with some even resorting to online rants.

In response, the Immortal Sect's Enforcement Department made a rare move, physically apprehending the most vitriolic critics and taking them offline to control public opinion.

Among this, since Chen Mobai had already entered seclusion to break through his realm when the proposal was passed, there were not many public complaints directed at him.

The most frequent target of their complaints was Ye Yune, the Hall Master of the Hall of Enlightenment.

Because Ying Guanghua, like Chen Mobai, knew that this matter would harm his reputation when the order came down. Therefore, though he had originally planned to retire after the Startling Divine Melody event, he decisively stated his advanced age and desire to use his remaining lifespan to fully assault the Soul Transformation realm while the Hall of Immortal Affairs was drafting the proposal, and submitted his resignation.

Gongye Zhixu had no choice but to take office early, becoming the new Hall Master of the Hall of Immortal Affairs.

However, Gongye Zhixu had been the Deputy Hall Master when Chen Mobai was studying. Aside from his cultivation, his abilities and methods in all aspects were no weaker than Ying Guanghua's, so he also devised a way to distance himself as much as possible from the matter.

Now, the public opinion within the Immortal Sect was that the Kunpeng lineage was primarily responsible for the Lesser Red Heaven server upgrade.

After all, the order was given by Qi Yuheng. Of the original three Hall Masters, one resigned and one entered seclusion during the Hall of Enlightenment's vote, so Ye Yune, the last one remaining, bore most of the blame.

Ye Yune was naturally incensed by this. Just as she was about to mobilize the Kunpeng lineage's media to share the blame, Wenren Xuewei ordered the Enforcement Department to take action.

Previously, the Immortal Sect had been relatively lenient and free regarding public opinion; as long as the criticism wasn't too harsh, netizens were allowed to vent.

But this time, Wenren Xuewei acted uncharacteristically. Aside from her own sensitivity and not wanting to hear herself criticized, her move also served to firmly place the blame on Ye Yune.

Because the Immortal Sect populace believed that Ye Yune was behind this, instructing them to stop complaining, even at the cost of violating freedom of speech.

However, the intervention of the Immortal Sect's authorities had an immediate effect.

After apprehending the most vocal critics, the remaining people began to discuss things more calmly, at most urging the relevant departments to speed up the server upgrade.

Ye Yune was initially quite pleased, but she soon came to her senses, realizing that she now had no way to clear her name.

Most people implicitly assumed in their hearts that she was the main culprit.

She was so angry she nearly resigned, but in the end, she couldn't bear to give up the power she held.

"Huh, I feel like your cultivation has improved again?"

In the office of the Hall of Rectification, Wenren Xuewei, who had been planning to slack off, exclaimed in surprise upon seeing Chen Mobai enter.

"In the past six months, I've gained a deeper understanding of the Pure Yang Scroll. From now until the Startling Divine Melody is played, I expect to be in seclusion..."

Chen Mobai did not mention that he had already reached the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul stage, as this progress was simply too astonishing.

However, he had indeed just broken through. Although it was a natural progression and his realm was stable, he still needed to go into seclusion for a period to fully grasp his Pure Yang True Qi, which had now reached its peak.

Having reached this step, he could now attempt to transform his Post-Natal True Qi back into Pre-Natal True Qi.

Due to the presence of his second Nascent Soul, he could complete this step quickly.

When Chen Mobai met Qianxing at the Dancing Weapon Dao Academy, he didn't forget to tell him about the wisp of Pure Yang Qi left by Patriarch Yuanyang in the Heaven-Mending Dao Academy.

His original intention was naturally to have Qianxing speak on his behalf, so that Yuan Xu could then give him the item.

However, Qianxing, on the contrary, advised Chen Mobai that it would be better to attempt refining it only after reaching the Soul Transformation stage.

"That wisp of Pure Yang Qi was actually Patriarch Yuanyang's attempt at the Void Refinement stage, almost at a half-sixth tier level. It is intertwined and drawn by a certain Grand Dao within heaven and earth. Even at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, trying to refine it could lead to you being unable to withstand it and exploding to your death."

"The wisp you received originally was also given to you by Yuan Xu only after I had purified it three thousand times with my own domain, confirming that it had no Grand Dao entanglements."

"However, your ability to refine it and even use it as a foundation when forming your Nascent Soul still greatly astonishes me."

It was precisely after Chen Mobai formed his Nascent Soul that Qianxing formally recognized him as having the aptitude for Soul Transformation. Later, when the Dancing Weapon lineage and the Heaven-Mending lineage clashed, he suppressed several Nascent Soul cultivators from Heaven-Mending and even gave Chen Mobai some compensation.

Chen Mobai had never imagined that the wisp of Pure Yang Qi he received earlier had such a convoluted history.

He could only say that it was fortunate he had been a rule-abiding person since childhood.

If he had truly given in to greed and used the Pure Yang Qi from the Heaven-Mending Dao Academy for himself, he would likely be long gone now, leaving no trace.

At this moment, he felt that the Immortal Sect's rules were truly excellent.

Precious items like Pure Yang Qi genuinely required the approval of a Soul Transformation Patriarch before they could be utilized.

Otherwise, using them rashly would truly lead to a demise without even knowing how.

After learning this, Chen Mobai hesitated about his desire to refine the Pill Cauldron Jade Tree.

After all, this was left behind by the founder of the Pill Cauldron Sect, Daoist Dan Ding, who was at the peak of the Void Refinement stage.

Even if he attempted to refine it after reaching Soul Transformation, would there still be an unbearable danger?

Chen Mobai, always one to err on the side of caution, decided to reconsider this matter only after achieving Soul Transformation.

Perhaps after reaching Soul Transformation, by refining Patriarch Yuanyang's half-sixth tier Pure Yang Qi, he would gain an even deeper understanding of the Pure Yang Scroll, or perhaps he would find a solution to this problem within the Purple霄 Palace.