Chapter 1292: My Name Is Tianhai!

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In recent years, the Tier 4 Three-Light Divine Water has become Danxia Pavilion's flagship product, highly popular among Core Formation cultivators from major sects in Dongzhou.

Naturally, the Starry Sky Dao Sect is displeased by this. After losing its monopoly on the Three-Light Divine Water, while their number of Nascent Soul cultivators is still second only to the Four Sacred Lands in Dongzhou, they no longer possess their former air of unrivaled supremacy.

However, this was also the Starry Sky Dao Sect's own choice. To contend for a chance at Spirit Transformation and truly ascend to the status of a Sacred Land, they sold the Immortal Tome Jade Slip and the formula for the Three-Light Divine Water.

Not only the Five Elements Sect, but the Morality Sect can also now refine Three-Light Divine Water and has put it on sale in its own pharmacy. The Starry Sky Dao Sect cannot afford to offend any of the Sacred Lands and even needs to rely on them, as they will still have to seek assistance from the Morality Sect and the Five Elements Sect if they wish to achieve Spirit Transformation in the future.

Therefore, they can only brand their Three-Light Divine Water as "authentic," struggling to maintain the scale of the Big Dipper Convention. However, the current Big Dipper Convention can only attract Core Formation cultivators who wish to form a Nascent Soul. The Four Sacred Lands haven't even sent their Dao Children or Holy Maidens to attend the last two conventions.

The Big Dipper Convention is held once every sixty years, and officially, only one portion of Three-Light Divine Water is released each time. Even now, due to competition, the amount has increased to five portions, but for small sects and minor powers, the quantity is still too scarce.

Leaving aside the Morality Sect's supply, Danxia Pavilion's Three-Light Divine Water, though subject to purchase limits and prioritized for Core Formation cultivators within the Five Elements Sect's territory, at least has a batch released every ten years. There are opportunities for panic buying almost every year, and Core Formation cultivators with residences in Beiyuan City, if they wait for over a hundred years and their luck isn't too bad, will eventually get a chance to purchase it.

Currently, in the White Jade Pool of the Yellow Dragon Grotto-heaven, there are a total of thirty-six Tier 4 Jade Pure Glazed Bottles. It's not that Chen Mobai cannot refine more; rather, this spiritual pond's limit only allows it to sustain this many. Of course, the main consumption for sustenance comes from the two Tier 5 Jade Pure Glazed Bottles. The amount of sun, moon, and star light, water essence, and spiritual dew required for the True Three-Light Divine Water is tens of times that needed for the Tier 4 Three-Light Divine Water.

The Jade Pure Glazed Bottle originally only existed in Tier 5 and Tier 6. However, as a master artifact refiner, Chen Mobai easily deduced the blueprints for lower tiers. This innovation completely solved the production issue, instantly allowing Danxia Pavilion to surpass the Morality Sect's pharmacy and become the premier pill shop in Dongzhou.

As for the Tier 6 Jade Pure Glazed Bottle, Chen Mobai already had the materials: Azure Origin Crystals obtained earlier within the Morality Sect's main gate, as a reward for helping Shen Xi refine the Dark Flood Dragon Whisk. However, at that time, Chen Mobai wasn't absolutely confident in refining Tier 6 artifacts, so he kept the materials and didn't proceed.

Now, he was almost ready. After elevating the Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp to Tier 6, Chen Mobai confirmed that his artifact refining skills had reached mastery, giving him seventy to eighty percent certainty in refining this Tier 6 Jade Pure Glazed Bottle. For him, a practitioner of the Grand Dao of Sacred Virtue, seventy to eighty percent certainty meant absolute certainty!

Conveniently, Qing Nü was currently in secluded cultivation, and Chen Mobai's own cultivation couldn't progress further in the short term. So he decided to begin refining this Tier 6 Jade Pure Glazed Bottle. This artifact, in addition to refining True Three-Light Divine Water, could also be used to store various true waters, and even for combat. Chen Mobai himself wouldn't need it, but it would be perfectly suitable for Qing Nü. Since he had refined artifacts for the Five Elements Sect's Nascent Soul cultivators, his own wife certainly couldn't go without one.

However, Tier 6 artifacts, even for Chen Mobai, presented some difficulty. The Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp took eight years, and this Jade Pure Glazed Bottle seemed to require even more time. In Chen Mobai's hands, the Tier 6 Azure Origin Crystal was easily refined into a peak Tier 5 Jade Pure Glazed Bottle. However, he just couldn't cross the threshold to Tier 6. Although its spirituality increased daily with his joint cultivation, according to his calculations using the Fangcun Tome, it would require at least a century of nurturing through joint cultivation to cross the threshold. This came as a rude awakening for Chen Mobai, who had enjoyed smooth progress in recent years. It proved that he, at his current stage, while certainly a Tier 6 artifact refiner, couldn't easily refine every Tier 6 artifact.

Chen Mobai naturally couldn't waste a century of his time on one artifact. However, he soon recalled something else: he still had the Sea-Stabilizing Sword on him. In the past, after he slew the old flood dragon, the detonated Deep Abyss Sea-Suppressing Pearl had three-tenths of its origin absorbed by the Primal Chaos Bell, and the Sea-Stabilizing Sword, being with him, naturally also benefited. He had originally thought that this top-tier flying sword of the Immortal Sect could advance to Tier 6, just like the Primordial Yang Sword and the Profound Guidance Sword. But unexpectedly, the Purple Lightning Sword, which had caught up from behind, was already Tier 6, yet the Sea-Stabilizing Sword still showed no signs of advancement.

After Chen Mobai took out the Sea-Stabilizing Sword and began co-cultivating with it, he quickly discovered that its problem was different from that of the Jade Pure Glazed Bottle. The latter lacked spirituality, whereas the Sea-Stabilizing Sword had sufficient spirituality but lacked sufficient Dao power. For an artifact to advance to Tier 6, besides the prerequisite of spirituality, it also needs to embody a Grand Dao. If the wielder assists with these two steps, the process can be greatly shortened. However, Chen Mobai had too many artifacts, and the Sea-Stabilizing Sword's attributes didn't match his own. So, after it absorbed a portion of the Deep Abyss Sea-Suppressing Pearl's origin, it had been kept in his Dharma Realm, left to evolve on its own.

But then again, hadn't several of Chen Mobai's Tier 6 artifacts, with the exception of the Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp, advanced through their own efforts? The reason the Sea-Stabilizing Sword couldn't break through was certainly due to its lack of effort; he couldn't be blamed. Thinking this, Chen Mobai gave the Sea-Stabilizing Sword spirit a good lecture. Seeing its somewhat unconvinced expression, he couldn't help but release both the Primordial Yang Sword and the Purple Lightning Sword.

The Primordial Yang Sword was one thing, but seeing that the Purple Lightning Sword, which it had always looked down upon, was now Tier 6, the Sea-Stabilizing Sword spirit's eyes nearly popped out in shock.

"You... how did you advance? Did Master help you cheat?"

The Sea-Stabilizing Sword spirit's words enraged the already somewhat smug Purple Lightning Sword spirit. "What do you mean 'cheat'?! I am Master's flying sword; isn't it only natural for Master to help me advance?"

"Hmph," retorted the Sea-Stabilizing Sword, "so you did rely on external forces to advance. Your foundation must be unstable. Once I also reach Tier 6, my progress will quickly surpass yours!"

"Nonsense!" retorted the Purple Lightning Sword, not forgetting to display its Grand Dao of Destruction, emitting a chilling white light. "Setting aside Master's help, my ability to advance also owes much to my own diligence and hard work. You are clearly too lazy, spoiled in the Immortal Sect, unlike me, who has accompanied Master through countless battles, facing life and death, and achieved ultimate sublimation in one battle after another, laying the foundation for embodying the Grand Dao of Destruction!"

"Setting aside Master's help," retorted the Sea-Stabilizing Sword, "you are merely a Tier 4 low-grade sword artifact, not even qualified to look up to me!" Unable to compete in the present, the Sea-Stabilizing Sword could only talk about the past, stressing that, without Chen Mobai's direct intervention, it was far superior to the Purple Lightning Sword.

"Hmph," retorted the Purple Lightning Sword, "anyway, I'm Tier 6 now, and you're only Tier 5. In my eyes, you are the low-grade sword now!" This statement left the Sea-Stabilizing Sword seething with indignation and discomfort. From the moment it was forged, it was a Tier 5 sword artifact, looking down on all flying swords in the Immortal Sect except for the Profound Guidance Sword. Even the Primordial Yang Sword had to show deference to it as a junior. Who would have thought that now the Purple Lightning Sword had gotten ahead of it? But there was nothing it could do. When an artifact was one tier higher, the gap was even larger than a cultivator being one major realm apart. Especially among similar flying swords, and the Purple Lightning Sword embodied the Grand Dao of Destruction, which was the most coveted innate Grand Dao among flying swords.

"Master, I will definitely not be lazy anymore in the future, and will work even harder!"

Watching the Purple Lightning Sword's smug expression, the Sea-Stabilizing Sword felt that Chen Mobai had been right; it hadn't worked hard enough. Otherwise, there was no reason for the Tier 4 Purple Lightning Sword to surpass it in just over two hundred years. The Sea-Stabilizing Sword firmly believed its talent surpassed that of the Purple Lightning Sword. It had merely been lazy before and had indeed experienced fewer battles. From now on, as long as it applied itself a little, it could easily catch up.

"Teachable indeed," Chen Mobai said. "I look forward to the day you also advance to Tier 6."

Seeing that the Sea-Stabilizing Sword had heeded his advice, Chen Mobai contentedly put away both the Primordial Yang Sword and the Purple Lightning Sword. Compared to the Jade Pure Glazed Bottle, the Sea-Stabilizing Sword was just one step away from Tier 6. Chen Mobai thought he could try to help it advance before Qing Nü emerged from seclusion, as a gift.

With renewed motivation, the Sea-Stabilizing Sword indeed behaved differently than before. Furthermore, although Chen Mobai did not primarily cultivate the Grand Dao of Water, he had gained an introductory understanding of this Dao. He could co-cultivate with the Sea-Stabilizing Sword and entrust his nascent soul to it.

During this process, Chen Mobai discovered a hidden past within the Sea-Stabilizing Sword. This was a distant past that the Sea-Stabilizing Sword itself had no memory of.

Within the Immortal Sect's Mountain and Sea Academy, there were thirteen ancient stone swords, said to have been carved from mountains by ancient predecessors, imbued with the essence of heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers, and used to suppress boundless seas. Originally there were fourteen. One of them, over countless years, shed its stone casing, transforming into a sword embryo, and was discovered by Patriarch Yun Ya, who refined it into the Sea-Stabilizing Sword. When Chen Mobai went to retrieve the Purple Lightning Sword, he had heard about this matter and had always been very curious.

What was the true origin of these stone swords?

In the memories of the Ascended Sect Master, there were fragmented mentions of this, stating that in ancient times, there was a Mountain and Sea Villa there, a sect specializing in nurturing swords, which revered these stone swords for generations, calling themselves "Sword Slaves." The cultivation method practiced by these Sword Slaves was called the Heaven Sea Sword Scripture. Upon reaching the final stages of cultivation, they would transfer all their essence and spirit to the stone swords.

But these fourteen stone swords, before ancient times, how exactly were they formed?

This time, Chen Mobai, within the Sea-Stabilizing Sword, saw the answer.

At that time, the Earth Origin Star was still a barren planet, ninety percent water, with only a small landmass. Yet, humans still appeared on the land. However, facing the waves stirred up by gigantic beasts in the endless ocean, humanity had no means to fight back. Submerged repeatedly, the last remaining humans, on the highest mountain, prayed to the heavens, imploring the deities.

Subsequently, a miracle occurred.

The Purple Cloud Palace descended upon this planet.

A blue-haired female cultivator riding on a turtle descended from three thousand steps, setting foot on the last unsubmerged mountaintop of the Earth Origin Star. She listened to humanity's pleas. Facing the fourteen deep-sea giant beasts that stirred up endless waves, she condensed the essence of the earth into stone swords, suppressed all the sea beasts, and caused the tides to recede.

After fulfilling the pleas, she rode her turtle back to the Purple Cloud Palace in the heavens. The humans of Earth Origin Star asked her name, wishing to worship her as a deity.

She replied: "My name is Tianhai!"

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