Chapter 1109: Three Times Hearing the Dao

Chen Mobai's heart surged with emotion. He hadn't expected that this experience of comprehending the Dao through his Immortal Water Spirit Root would unexpectedly allow him to begin cultivating the Innate Yin-Yang Grand Dao.

This feeling was like accidentally finding a brilliant pearl in the vast ocean. It was both a delightful surprise and unexpected.

However, as soon as he thought about having already cultivated the Saintly Virtue Grand Dao, it suddenly seemed natural.

He was a person of great destiny.

Chen Mobai took a deep breath, calming his emotions. While the true essence of the Pure Yang Scroll, which had been activated deep within his mind, still lingered, he once again meditated upon it to see if he could use this opportunity to further understand the mysteries of the Innate Yin-Yang Grand Dao.

His consciousness immersed itself into his Nascent Soul, slowly sensing this nascent power of the Yin-Yang Grand Dao.

As time passed, the true essence of the Pure Yang Scroll left by Daoist Zixiao guided his Nascent Soul to manifest a Taiji Diagram.

Within the diagram, the black and white energies continuously intertwined, merged, repelled, and separated, evolving into infinite futures and possibilities.

During this process, Chen Mobai's consciousness began to understand why Daoist Zixiao started with the Yin-Yang Grand Dao, because this Grand Dao contained the mysteries of the 'Pure Yang' realm.

The power of one is limited, but if there are two, there are infinite possibilities.

When two Grand Daos, opposing yet unified, exist simultaneously within one person, boundless power can erupt.

The Yin-Yang Grand Dao is precisely this.

Chen Mobai had recently finished reading the Five Tai Sutra of the Heaven-Mending lineage, which recorded the five stages before the birth of the universe, the last of which was named 'Taiji'.

Ordinary cultivators, just by reading this Five Tai Sutra, would merely perceive the birth of the universe as surprisingly simple yet mysterious. But Chen Mobai, having attended lectures in the Purple霄 Palace, and comparing it with his teacher's previous explanations about creating a universe and achieving creation, saw traces of creation within the Five Tai Sutra.

Daoist Zixiao had explained that the Innate Five Tai represented the process of "Dao giving birth to One."

After Taiji came "Two giving birth to Three." This represented the process of beings taking charge of Grand Daos and establishing the three thousand Grand Daos of the universe.

The final stage, "Three giving birth to all things," was the process of Grand Daos becoming infinite and achieving creation.

After Chen Mobai cultivated the first wisp of Innate Yin-Yang Grand Dao power, the Five Tai Sutra in his mind, the lectures he had attended in the Purple霄 Palace, and the Seven Great Heavenly Books he had once read suddenly clicked into place, giving him a sense of profound clarity.

However, this information still lacked a main thread to connect it all.

What was missing?

Chen Mobai couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After a long time, he shook his head and returned to his senses.

For him now, these things were not actually very important. After all, the Grand Daos most likely to lead him to Pure Yang realm were Saintly Virtue and Doomed Fate.

While comprehending the Yin-Yang Grand Dao was certainly gratifying, for him, it was merely the icing on the cake.

The immediate priority was still to perform the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art on himself to transform into a Five Elements Immortal Spirit Body.

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai stopped pondering and wasting time. He brought his Second Nascent Soul before him and had it cast the spell on himself.

Soon, multicolored light flowed into his glabella, transforming into a mysterious power which merged with his mind and traveled along his meridians into the organs representing his spirit roots.

The research of Sanjue and Yuanxu, coupled with Qingping's experience, circulated in Chen Mobai's mind. He quickly managed to grasp the ethereal Five Elements spirit roots and extracted them as an invisible white mist.

After some distribution, the white mist began to merge into his intestines and lungs, transforming into the Metal Spirit Root.

Approximately fifteen minutes later, Chen Mobai opened his eyes, and brilliant golden light erupted from his pupils, like two golden rays.

He picked up the spirit root testing device. Soon, his Five Elements spirit roots, after performing the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art, reappeared on the screen.

Metal 100, Wood 40, Water 53, Fire 100, Earth 100.

The refinement of the spirit roots was very successful. And when his Metal Spirit Root reached 100 points, Chen Mobai experienced another Dao comprehension.

However, this time's Dao comprehension did not yield as significant benefits as the Immortal Water Spirit Root comprehension.

It merely elevated the Treasure-Dropping Golden Light to the fifth tier.

Chen Mobai did not cultivate many Metal-attribute spells; this was the only one he had diligently practiced and spent the most time on. However, as his cultivation realm steadily increased, this spell almost never had an opportunity to be used.

Because his opponents were generally equipped with fifth-tier magic treasures as a baseline, and some even had sixth-tier supreme treasures.

Through this Immortal Metal Spirit Root comprehension, with the Treasure-Dropping Golden Light enhanced, Chen Mobai now had an extra trump card when facing Spirit Transformation cultivators.

If an opponent wasn't careful, they could have a fifth-tier magic artifact suppressed and seized by him in a single encounter.

Compared to Zhuo Ming's Myriad Spirit Connection and Qing Nü's Myriad Transformation Myriad Harmony, Chen Mobai's fifth-tier Treasure-Dropping Golden Light was merely a combat technique, but for him, it was actually the most useful.

After all, he was primarily responsible for fighting and killing.

After re-familiarizing himself with the now fifth-tier Treasure-Dropping Golden Light, Chen Mobai contentedly picked up the Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit beside him.

After refining this, his Wood Spirit Root would also reach 100 points, allowing him to attempt his third Dao comprehension of the day.

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai no longer hesitated. He picked up the fifth-tier immortal fruit and put it into his mouth. Following the experience of past Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Immortal Sect, he enveloped it with Innate Pure Yang Qi and swallowed it whole.

As the Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit was digested within his body, Chen Mobai felt a surge of majestic vitality filling his entire body.

Upon sensing this, Chen Mobai formed hand seals, intending to apply a seal to himself to store the undigestable majestic vitality within his Dantian and Qi Sea.

Nearly all past Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Immortal Sect had consumed the fifth-tier Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit. The records indicated that only cultivators at the mid-Spirit Transformation stage could fully refine the immense vitality contained within this immortal fruit. If a cultivator at the early Spirit Transformation stage consumed it, they would need to seal it using this method, to gradually absorb and refine it later, after their cultivation improved. This way, nothing would be wasted.

But just as Chen Mobai was about to cast the seal, the acupoints throughout his body suddenly seemed to open like various portals, absorbing and drawing in the abundant vitality from all parts of his body.

This was the Longevity Art!

Chen Mobai observed this scene, and his expression brightened with joy.

He had comprehended this great art of the Longevity Sect a long time ago. In his spare time, he would also meditate to absorb the vitality of heaven and earth to improve it.

However, without the aid of a fifth-tier spiritual plant, according to the calculations of the Crown of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Beings, it would take him approximately 120 years to fully cultivate this great art.

Fifth-tier spiritual plants could aid cultivation because they possessed the most vigorous and pure vitality.

The fifth-tier Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit Chen Mobai was currently consuming was formed from the Grand Chūn spirit refining and nurturing the power of the Grand Dao of Life. Its effect was even better than the three Longevity Trees True Monarch Yiyuan had transplanted and cultivated back then.

Realizing this, Chen Mobai immediately activated the Longevity Art, absorbing and refining the abundant vitality within his body.

The passive ability of Pure Yang Body Refinement also became active as he deliberately channeled Innate Pure Yang Qi. His body refinement, which had barely reached the fifth tier due to his realm advancement, surprisingly showed signs of further improvement under the rich vitality and the Longevity Art.

At the same time, Chen Mobai also felt an imperceptible foundation that was gradually strengthening as he refined the vitality of the Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit and as the Longevity Art improved.

This must be his lifespan!

Realizing this, Chen Mobai activated the Crown of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Beings and began to guide the cultivation of the Longevity Art.

After a period of refinement, he couldn't help but nod slightly.

Because the progress bar indicated that refining this fifth-tier Grand Chūn Immortal Fruit would be just enough for him to fully cultivate the Longevity Art.

He truly lived up to his reputation as a person of great destiny.

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai smiled faintly.

As he felt the vitality continuously merge into him, he gradually felt his mind suddenly transform into a tree branch.

His Wood Spirit Root, at some unknown point, had already reached 100 points.

This was the Immortal Wood Spirit Root Dao comprehension!?

Mobai, being highly experienced in Dao comprehension, quickly collected his thoughts and began to observe the scene before him.

He found that the tree branch his consciousness had transformed into was floating in a river, entangled by a spider silk connected to a large tree on the bank. Although it continuously bobbed up and down, it was not washed away by the current.

This scene seemed a little familiar.

Upon recalling, he quickly remembered.

It was the scene he had witnessed back in the Divine Tree Secret Realm, when his mind had merged with the sword intent while receiving the Dao Tree's empowerment of the Sky-Slicing, Lifeline Longevity Sword Intent.

Chen Mobai's consciousness was confined to the tree branch, unable to move, only able to bob with the currents.

Out of boredom, he observed his surroundings.

The large tree on the bank was the most magnificent he had ever seen. Its crown was like a canopy, obscuring the sun, moon, and stars. Its roots spread half over the land and half in the water, seemingly supporting the heavens and covering the earth.

Above the canopy-like crown, swirling white mist lingered, and a faint figure sat upon it, manifesting myriad phenomena.

This seemed to be immortal spiritual energy?

After this thought flashed through his mind, Chen Mobai dared not look up further. He began to survey his surroundings.

The spider silk entangling him was spun by a spider on the large tree by the bank. The spider was multicolored and incredibly vibrant, just like Primordial Chaos True Qi.

In the water where he floated, there were lively fish. One of them gleamed with a jade-blue spiritual light, full of spirituality, occasionally swimming over to him and blowing bubbles.

Gradually, as time passed, Chen Mobai discovered a green bud sprouting on himself.

And at that moment, the spider silk entangling him suddenly broke.

He was like one freed from shackles and was carried by the stream away from the sky-obscuring tree, eventually landing in a valley filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, where he took root and grew.

The green bud on the tree branch stubbornly extended into heaven and earth, extracting wisps of vitality to mend its fragmented self.

It was unknown how much time had passed. From a mere tree branch, he grew into a towering tree, his roots spread across the vast earth, and his divine abilities became boundless.

But as a spiritual plant, he could not leave this valley. He had no freedom.

The method of cultivating an external incarnation naturally flashed through his mind. Just as he was preparing to condense an incarnation, a group of raggedly dressed people suddenly arrived in the valley.

When they saw the great tree, they acted as if they were facing a deity.

He allowed them to reside in the valley, and even helped them drive away terrifying beasts from outside.

Gradually, he gained a title.

Heavenly Venerate!