Chapter 1142: Six Royal Arts Perfected

Chen Mobai observed the Hunyuan Bell begin its transformation and nodded slightly. This indicated that the advancement was successful. All that remained was to see when the Hunyuan Bell would fully digest the Boundary Stone. If it could refine it, it possessed the potential to advance into a Hunyuan Golden Dipper; otherwise, it would remain a sixth-tier superior-grade artifact.

Chen Mobai naturally hoped for success. Under the control of his Cantong Qi, the silver droplets sliding off the Boundary Stone were just the right amount for the Hunyuan Bell to absorb and refine.

Another piece of stone skin peeled off, and the jade-white bell body shimmered with a gentle, warm glow. Mysterious silver patterns could be vaguely seen circulating on its surface, these lights swirling around the Hunyuan Bell as if alive. Wherever they passed, pieces of stone skin cracked and fell away, gradually revealing the complete new Hunyuan Bell. Once all the stone skin had fallen off, an exceptionally long and clear chime resonated throughout the entire Five Emperors Mountain.

At that very moment, the form of the Hunyuan Bell underwent a radical transformation. Compared to its previous rough, rustic gray, it now appeared as an elegant, warm white jade bell. Its entire body was delicate and pure, with silver patterns flowing both inside and outside its walls like auspicious clouds, adding an extra touch of mystery.

After the Hunyuan Bell completed its transformation, the Five Emperors Mountain suddenly became a whirlwind of activity. The already surging sixth-tier spiritual energy now seemed to be caught by an invisible hand, directly pulled from the depths of the earth. Wave after wave of multicolored light clusters, like a torrent, were swallowed by the white jade bell.

In the back mountain, Tu De sensed that the extremely dense sixth-tier spiritual energy around him began to rapidly decline. Within a few breaths, it dropped to fifth-tier superior-grade, then mid-grade, and finally low-grade, only barely stopping before falling below the fifth tier. At that moment, he knew the Hunyuan Bell had advanced to sixth-tier superior-grade.

Tu De’s expression was very complex as he looked towards the front mountain. After achieving this, Chen Mobai's status could at least rival that of True Monarch Yiyuan. Such an opponent might not even be defeated by the Dao Palace's past Soul Transformation cultivators, let alone Tu De himself. Upon accepting his mediocrity and failure, Tu De suddenly felt a sense of relief.

Xiao Yuli had no time to lament the significant downgrade of the Five Emperors Mountain's spiritual veins. Seeing the Hunyuan Bell successfully advance to sixth-tier superior-grade, she was filled with excitement and shared her thoughts: "Sect Master's artifact refining skills are unmatched in the world. Even Ancestor Yiyuan, before his ascension, didn't reach your level."

"I merely elevated it based on its existing foundation; it cannot compare to Ancestor Yiyuan crafting the Hunyuan Bell from scratch," Chen Mobai replied humbly. Having refined many Dao Fruits from the Elixir Cauldron Jade Tree, he naturally understood that creation was the most challenging endeavor. The Hunyuan Bell's upgrade to sixth-tier superior-grade had, in fact, long had its progression path determined. All Chen Mobai needed to do was find materials and assist it in refining the spiritual veins and so on. Everything had a clear path. If he were to craft a sixth-tier superior-grade Hunyuan Bell from scratch, even with ample materials, it would be utterly impossible for him to succeed.

"You are still the foremost artifact refiner in the Five Continents and Four Seas right now!" Xiao Yuli's words made Chen Mobai smile.

He looked up at the Hunyuan Bell, which, after advancing to sixth-tier superior-grade, was still diligently refining the Boundary Stone. Estimating that it would take a considerable amount of time, he took out a cushion and sat directly in front of the Yiyuan Hall.

"Do you have any confusions when practicing the Yiyuan Dao Scripture? I have some time now, so I can answer your questions or even demonstrate some techniques for you." After the Hunyuan Bell's advancement, it no longer required Chen Mobai's direct guidance with the Cantong Qi; it could refine on its own. So, he decided to instruct Xiao Yuli.

"Thank you, Sect Master, I do have many questions!" Xiao Yuli was naturally overjoyed to hear this. Guidance from a Sect's Soul Transformation cultivator was an extremely high privilege, even in Zhongzhou. Furthermore, Chen Mobai had cultivated the Yiyuan Dao Scripture to a level second only to Ancestor Yiyuan, and he was also a great benevolent teacher skilled in instruction. For Xiao Yuli, this was even better than being personally taught by Ancestor Yiyuan.

On Five Emperors Mountain, the Hunyuan Bell stood in the air, continuously sounding clear, serene chimes that purified the mind. Xiao Yuli sat cross-legged on a cushion inside the hall, her eyes closed, absorbing the content Chen Mobai had explained. Five-colored radiance emanated from her entire body, clearly indicating that her understanding of the Yiyuan Dao Scripture had advanced to another level.

Gradually, wisps of spiritual energy converged towards her, and a surge of breakthrough energy caused Chen Mobai's expression to fill with surprise. He hadn't expected Xiao Yuli's talent to be so extraordinary that she was on the verge of breaking through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage at this very moment. However, since the Hunyuan Bell now controlled all the spiritual veins of Five Emperors Mountain, she might fail due to insufficient spiritual energy.

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai took out the Heavenly Origin Pearl and placed it above Xiao Yuli's head. Soon, pure Five-Element spiritual energy began to descend. He then took out several top-grade spirit stones, which had been fully charged in the Five Emperors Mountain's spiritual veins, and arranged them around her in a formation. This not only supplied spiritual energy but also isolated Xiao Yuli and the Heavenly Origin Pearl from the Five Emperors Mountain. After all this was done, Xiao Yuli, who had initially looked anxious, immediately relaxed.

Chen Mobai split his attention three ways: he monitored the Hunyuan Bell refining the Boundary Stone, watched Xiao Yuli cultivating in seclusion within Yiyuan Hall, but dedicated most of his mental energy to comprehending the Six Imperial Scripture. This lesson with Xiao Yuli allowed him to re-solidify the heritage of the Yiyuan Dao Palace. Some content not explicitly found in the Yiyuan Dao Scripture enabled him to draw inferences, and he suddenly achieved great mastery of the Six Imperial Scripture.

Xiao Yuli possessed an Earth Spirit Body, but Su Zilu had once said that the most compatible body for Primordial Chaos True Qi was not the Earth Spirit Body, but rather the Primordial Chaos Body. True Monarch Yiyuan was a Primordial Chaos Body. After his cultivation reached perfection, he could possess all the characteristics of a Five-Element Spirit Body, and even use the wondrous art of Five-Element Transformation to manifest spirit bodies like wind, thunder, light, and darkness. The people of the Heavenly River Realm might not understand this principle, but Chen Mobai was very clear about it. This was because what were known as 'variant spirit roots' and 'variant spirit bodies' were derived from the combination and evolution of the Five Elements.

His Five-Element Immortal Spirit Root made him a super Primordial Chaos Body, surpassing even True Monarch Yiyuan. Theoretically, he could also achieve this, but despite several attempts, he had previously failed to grasp the essence. At that time, Chen Mobai had thought that True Monarch Yiyuan had held back, not passing down this part of the heritage. But now, he understood it was because he hadn't comprehended the Grand Dao of Primordial Chaos yet. "Only through Primordial Chaos, in its subtle and profound form, can all laws of the world be manifested!"

Therefore, after teaching Xiao Yuli and realizing this, Chen Mobai immediately used the Grand Dao of Primordial Chaos to unleash the mysteries of his super Primordial Chaos Body. After three months of arduous cultivation and comprehension with the Five Tones of Law, he finally transformed within his body the six spirit roots and six spirit bodies required for cultivating the Six Imperial Scripture. Chen Mobai was confident that even if Ancestor Longchuo, Ancestor Zhongli, and others from Kunpeng Daoist Academy were to revive, they would not possess a supreme wondrous body as compatible with the Six Imperial Scripture as his own. He even felt that the mythical True Spirit, the Torch Dragon, might not match his compatibility with the Six Imperial Scripture. After all, this scripture was passed down by the Torch Dragon for cultivators of the Torch Dragon Dao, designed for human cultivation.

And after transforming the six great spirit roots and spirit bodies, combined with the Five Tones of Law, Chen Mobai effortlessly cultivated the Six Imperial Scripture to the Soul Transformation realm. If Qi Yuheng had witnessed this scene, he would likely have felt immense shame. However, the Six Imperial Scripture at the Soul Transformation realm was only just beginning to reveal its profundities. Among the Immortal Sect's seven great Soul Transformation cultivation methods, although their rankings varied in people's minds due to different applications, most cultivators universally recognized the Six Imperial Scripture as the Immortal Sect's supreme divine art. The saying goes: "Ride the righteousness of heaven and earth, wield the Six Qis, roam limitlessly, and be free."

A faint glow flickered between Chen Mobai's eyebrows. This was his spiritual consciousness beginning to circulate along the Torch Dragon's Light-Bearing Art, combining with and elevating the Six Imperial Scripture. As time passed, the sky centered around Five Emperors Mountain grew dark. Lianshui, in Yiyuan Immortal City at the foot of the mountain, stood by her window, somewhat bewildered, watching the sudden onset of darkness. It was clearly the middle of the day.

Recalling how Mountain Master Mu De had led all the disciples from the mountain away a few days ago, Lianshui grew even more suspicious, thinking that Palace Master Xiao Yuli might be up to something. However, since she was the Palace Master of Yiyuan Dao Palace personally appointed by Chen Mobai, Lianshui didn't dare report her to the Five Elements Sect based on this.

At that moment, gasps of surprise suddenly erupted within the Immortal City. Startled from her contemplation by the commotion of the disciples, Lianshui looked up at the sky above Five Emperors Mountain, her eyes widening in shock. She saw darkness enveloping the sun from above and below, as if heaven and earth were closing in, obscuring the sun. This scene made Lianshui feel as if the sun were an eye and the darkness its eyelid, with a colossal, terrifying creature hidden in the gloom, its pupil being the light. Now, it had closed its eye, plunging the earth into night.

Not just Lianshui, but all cultivators who witnessed the sun's disappearance materialized this image in their minds: above them, there seemed to be a terrifying beast whose opening eyes brought day and closing eyes brought night. Lianshui cast a spell to produce light, but discovered that no sooner had it ignited than an invisible force of stillness surged forth and extinguished it. This was true not only for spells but also for any luminous pearls, artifacts, talismans, and the like. It seemed that at this moment, no light was permitted to exist.

A chilling sense of stillness and desolation surged forth, making all the cultivators in Yiyuan Immortal City feel incredibly oppressed. Many cultivators with keen spiritual senses perceived that within the darkness above, there seemed to be a massive, majestic entity, master of the cycle of day and night, slumbering. When it rested, all light would vanish. And if they were to awaken it, endless light and scorching heat would turn all living beings on earth to ash, bringing destruction. Even Lianshui, a Nascent Soul cultivator, felt at that moment that her life and death were no longer her own.

She immediately turned, wanting to leave using the teleportation array, but found that the spiritual veins were depleted, rendering the dependent teleportation array useless. A terrifying entity had taken over Five Emperors Mountain, devouring the sixth-tier spiritual veins!? Upon realizing this, Lianshui was even more terrified. It was well known that Five Emperors Mountain had a sixth-tier grand array personally set up by the Sect Master, capable of holding off even Soul Transformation cultivators from the Daode Sect and Nine Heavens Demonic Extermination Sect for a period.

"Who could it be? Could it be the Luminous Exalt?" The scene of daylight turning into night reminded Lianshui of the time when the Luminous Exalt attacked the mountain, conjuring the netherworld. That too had blotted out the sky, but it had been filled with chilling ghost energy and bone-piercing cold. This time, however, there was a profound and vast majesty that stirred the heart. It was completely different from the Luminous Exalt's Netherworld Scripture. Thinking this, Lianshui slightly relaxed. Then, remembering something, she activated a talisman capable of contacting Su Zilu and sent it flying, hoping to reach the Sect Master through her to resolve this bizarre situation.

On Five Emperors Mountain, Chen Mobai was completely immersed in the profound mysteries of the Six Imperial Scripture. Within the darkness that seemed to engulf everything, he gained endless mysteries. Each unraveling mystery deepened his comprehension of heaven and earth. All the profound secrets of the Six Imperial Scripture were hidden deep within this darkness. The Torch Dragon's Light-Bearing Art was the tool that "carried" these mysteries from the darkness into his mouth, for him to absorb and digest. Protected by the Grand Dao of Pure Yang, he fearlessly immersed himself, unveiling and exploring the mysteries within the darkness.

As time passed, his Six Imperial Scripture had, unbeknownst to him, already reached great mastery. The six great primordial energies—Yin, Yang, Wind, Rain, Obscurity, and Brightness—were all within his control. The profound secrets of the Grand Primeval Heavenly Tome, inherited by the Immortal Sect, were also fully revealed to him. As his Nascent Soul assimilated the evolutions of the six primordial energies, the laws and changes of all things in the universe gradually became clear to him, for he had already comprehended the superior Heavenly Tome of Dao Laws in this regard. Of the six great Heavenly Tomes related to the Dharma Realm, Chen Mobai was only lacking the final 'Creation and Destruction' tome. However, Chen Mobai felt that he might be able to form the Dharma Realm even without comprehending the Heavenly Tome of Creation and Destruction.

Within his Zifu Sea of Consciousness, his Nascent Soul, which encompassed the transformations of the six qis, gradually began to transform into the form of a Torch Dragon as the mysteries of the Six Imperial Scripture were brought forth and merged in the darkness. Soon, Chen Mobai realized that his Zifu Sea of Consciousness could no longer contain the Torch Dragon Dharma Aspect that had just manifested. He allowed it to emerge from his Crown.

At this moment, the Torch Dragon Nascent Soul seemed to break free, soaring through boundless realms. Within the darkness, even vaster and more profound mysteries began to fly towards him, merging. It was precisely at this time that Lianshui and others in Yiyuan Immortal City witnessed the anomaly of day turning into perpetual night.

As he gradually pushed the Six Imperial Scripture towards the perfected realm, the auras of the six great spirit roots and six spirit bodies within Chen Mobai's body began to merge into a seamless whole, as if a true Torch Dragon was sitting in his place. Day and night flowed with its presence; its breath became the winds and rains of the four seasons. Like a deity who commands all phenomena and myriad qis of the heavens and earth!

After an unknown period, Chen Mobai suddenly realized that there were no more mysteries in the darkness that could be brought forth and merged with his Nascent Soul. It was precisely at this moment that his Six Imperial Scripture reached its perfected realm.