Chapter 1293: Refining Swords, Refining Bells, Refining Tai Sui

From the Novel:

Chen Mobai's expression changed to one of sudden realization after he finished reading about the initial origins of the Seafixing Sword.

It turned out the answer had been clearly stated from the very beginning.

The unique martial art of the Shanhai Academy was called the Thirteen Swords of Heaven and Sea. It was a fragmented sword manual discovered by the Immortal Sect in the ruins of the ancient Shanhai Villa.

The two characters "Tianhai" (Heaven and Sea) were the key.

As for why the cultivators of the ancient Shanhai Villa tradition called themselves "Sword Slaves," it was because they served Tianhai, who had saved humanity on Diyuan Star.

These stone swords were believed to be the avatars of Tianhai on Diyuan Star.

Chen Mobai, born as a human on Diyuan Star, also had to be grateful to Tianhai for intervening at that time.

After understanding all this, Chen Mobai became even more demanding of the Seafixing Sword.

This was a sword left by his senior sister, yet it was only at the fifth tier. It was truly an embarrassment to the disciples of the Purple Cloud Palace.

Consequently, in the following period, the spirit of the Seafixing Sword, which had already prepared itself for arduous effort, found its mental preparation utterly insufficient. Every waking moment, Chen Mobai was relentlessly pushing it.

Firstly, Chen Mobai entrusted his Nascent Soul to it, guiding it into the Dao, cultivating its spirituality, and absorbing the power of the Great Dao.

In simple terms, this process involved exposing the sword spirit directly to the impact of the Great Dao, allowing it to recover after being exhausted to its limit, thereby naturally strengthening its spirituality.

The spirit of the Seafixing Sword had never endured such hardship. Several times, it felt as if it would instantly dissipate into ashes within the Great Dao.

However, each time it was fortunate enough to endure, feeling its spirituality grow stronger than before.

The reason it was pushed to its limits every single time was not due to Chen Mobai's precise control, but because he had tampered with the Seafixing Sword beforehand.

He had endowed it with an "Irreversible Progression" state.

In fact, at first, Chen Mobai lacked experience, and the Seafixing Sword's spirit genuinely fractured under the impact of the Great Dao's power. Normally, even if a sword spirit could recover, it would suffer a significant loss of spirituality and drop in rank. But with the Irreversible Progression enchantment, it could only ascend, not descend.

Therefore, Chen Mobai had no concerns about its safety and relentlessly pushed it, determined to refine it to its absolute limits.

There was another benefit: the Seafixing Sword was not a Yang-attribute flying sword. To apply the Irreversible Progression state, Chen Mobai also made significant progress in the Dao of Yin and Yang.

Since his path to Dao integration had been chosen long ago, Chen Mobai hadn't put much effort into the Dao of Yin and Yang after mastering its basics, only casually meditating on it when encountering relevant altars in the Purple Cloud Palace.

Days passed by like this.

Inside the Yellow Dragon Grotto, Chen Mobai simultaneously pushed the Seafixing Sword, cultivated the Dao of Yin and Yang, and upgraded his personal magic artifact, the Morning Bell.

In the Pure Yang set, the bell was meant to embody the Dao of Innate Yin and Yang. Its primary functions were to ward off inner demons and purify the mind, having little utility in combat. Therefore, Chen Mobai had never really focused on this personal magic artifact.

However, precisely because it was a personal magic artifact, the Morning Bell's rank steadily increased with his cultivation, and with the refinement of various precious materials, it effortlessly reached the peak of the fifth tier.

Chen Mobai had also prepared the path for the Morning Bell's advancement to the sixth tier long ago.

In the past, when he dispatched his second Nascent Soul to Xizhou, he obtained a Yin-Yang Spirit Pearl from the Lan Yuan Valley secret realm, left by an ascended cultivator.

This was the inner core of the true spirit Black and White Twin Snakes, which had perished instantly when trying to enter the sixth tier, unable to withstand the impact of the Dao of Yin and Yang. However, its essence had merged with the power of the Great Dao, leaving behind this sixth-tier treasure pearl.

For the Morning Bell, this was undoubtedly the most suitable material for advancement.

Yet, over the years, less than ten percent of it had been assimilated.

After all, Chen Mobai was too busy, and the Morning Bell was rarely used. It was even less likely that he would specifically focus on co-cultivating with it for this purpose.

Now, however, he had the time. After achieving complete mastery of the Soul Transformation stage, he had no particular inspiration for the upcoming Void Refinement stage. He could use this opportunity to co-cultivate and upgrade all the magic artifacts in his possession.

Moreover, since he began cultivating the Primordial Demonic Talismans, the Three Thousand Demonic Paths had increasingly influenced him, causing concern that he might fail during Void Refinement due to issues with his mental state. If he could promote the Morning Bell to the sixth tier, this problem would likely be resolved.

Therefore, Chen Mobai multitasked. On one hand, he co-cultivated with the Seafixing Sword by entrusting his Nascent Soul to it, refining this sword which lagged behind the Immortal Sect's three great flying swords. On the other hand, he used his second Nascent Soul to help the Morning Bell assimilate the Yin-Yang Spirit Pearl.

Since the Seafixing Sword's spirit often fainted from overexertion, Chen Mobai would also use its recovery time to guide the cultivation of the creatures in the Yellow Dragon Grotto.

There was no need to mention his sister-in-law, Yang Jing; both the little Yellow Dragon Girl and the Tai Sui Child had fifth-tier potential.

Among them, the little Yellow Dragon Girl matured somewhat slower due to her powerful bloodline, remaining in the form of a young girl after all these years.

The Tai Sui Child, however, progressed rapidly. Its entire body was verdant like crystal, and even purple vertical lines were visible between its eyebrows.

Once its entire body transformed into a purple-gold color, it would reach the fifth tier.

The main reason for the Tai Sui Child's rapid progress was that it followed the right people.

On a daily basis, it either followed Zhuo Ming or stayed close to the little Yellow Dragon Girl. One was the Earth Mother, whose very presence was the spiritual nexus of the earth; the other was a top-tier true spirit of the Earth element, naturally attuned to the Great Dao of Earth.

By staying with them, the Tai Sui Child was essentially immersed daily in the core of an Earth elemental spiritual vein, and constantly influenced by the Great Dao of Earth. It would be difficult for it not to make progress.

"Master, I feel like my body is burning up!"

One day, Chen Mobai used the method of Nascent Soul entrustment to allow the Tai Sui Child to briefly experience the Great Dao of Earth. Instantly, a wisp of black smoke emerged from the latter's entire body.

These were the impurities and toxins accumulated within the Tai Sui Child's body.

Although it could advance to the fifth tier, it was, after all, naturally born and raised. Before joining Chen Mobai, it was ignorant and ate whatever it pleased when hungry. Thus, in addition to Earth elemental spiritual energy, its body contained many noxious and poisonous qi. These had long been deeply integrated into its being, and even with continuous cultivation advancement and the Earth Elemental Immortal Sutra imparted by Chen Mobai and Zhuo Ming, there was no way to clear them.

Chen Mobai had discussed solutions to this problem with Qing Nü long ago.

When refining pills, if the Tai Sui's flesh and blood were refined in a medicine pool or alchemy furnace, only its pure medicinal properties would remain.

However, if the entire Tai Sui were refined, it was estimated that not only would its body become pure, but its mind would also become blank.

So Qing Nü's idea was to gradually remove the toxic parts of the Tai Sui. Over many years, this would allow it to become completely renewed and pure. Since the Tai Sui's flesh and blood could regenerate continuously, they could use this method to accelerate the renewal of its entire body.

However, to achieve this, Chen Mobai or Zhuo Ming would need to constantly oversee it using the "Sound of the Empty Valley" or "Universal Sensitivity" techniques. As the busiest master and disciple pair in the Five Elements Sect, they certainly lacked the time. They could only first impart the Tai Sui the Earth Elemental Immortal Sutra and let it strive on its own.

It was a born Earth Spirit Body, and after reaching the fourth tier, it had already taken human form, developing human meridians and acupoints. Coupled with Chen Mobai's tailored adaptation using the "Five Tones of Regulation," it quickly mastered the technique.

During this period, under Chen Mobai's guidance and its perception of the Great Dao of Earth, not only did the noxious qi within the Tai Sui's body begin to be purified strand by strand, but the demonic and evil aura that had persistently clung to its body due to its non-human origin also gradually dissipated.

Amidst their busy schedules, another three years quickly passed.

On this day, an unprecedented torrential downpour suddenly began over the Cloud Dream Lake. Rain fell like woven threads, pouring densely from lead-gray clouds, resembling silver strands intertwined across the lake's surface.

Each raindrop was like a sword of flowing water. The moment it struck the surface, it created ripples that were quickly absorbed by the endless expanse of waves. Bursts of thunder ripped through the sky, accompanied by flashes of lightning, illuminating the vast lake spanning thousands of miles.

Yet, no matter the meteorological phenomenon, once it fell into the water, it vanished without a trace.

Water, encompassing all things!

In Wind and Rain Immortal City, located at the heart of the great lake, Chen Lingming and Ruan Lilong, along with several other Nascent Soul cultivators, stepped out of a teleportation array. Seeing this scene, their expressions filled with shock.

They sensed a vast sword intent amidst the falling rain, one that ordinary cultivators could not perceive!

"Is this, by any chance, Master Danxia refining a sword?" Ruan Lilong looked at the boundless and all-encompassing sword intent that enveloped the entire Cloud Dream Lake, his face filled with awe, and asked Chen Lingming.

Although he didn't know the exact rank of this sword intent, it was clearly a power far exceeding that of Nascent Soul cultivators like them.

It was widely known that the Five Elements Sect's Old Ancestor Chen cultivated the Fire Elemental Immortal Sutra, and this sword intent was clearly water-attributed, leading him to guess it belonged to Qing Nü.

"No, this is Old Ancestor Chen's sword intent."

Chen Lingming shook his head. As the Dao Child of the One-Yuan Dao Palace, he was well-informed and clearly understood that the vast sword intent currently covering Cloud Dream Lake could absolutely not be unleashed by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Chen Mobai had long since perfected the One-Yuan Dao Scripture, achieving supreme mastery of the Five Elements Great Dao, operating it with complete ease. As the foremost sword cultivator in Eastern Continent, it was only natural for him to possess such a water-attributed sword intent.

Hearing Chen Lingming's words, Ruan Lilong and the other Nascent Soul cultivators from the Barren Sea felt a mix of shock and slight relief.

If Qing Nü had indeed mastered such a sword intent, then the Dao companion of the Azure Emperor would likely be close to achieving Soul Transformation.

If the Five Elements Sect gained a second Soul Transformation cultivator, then their desire to return to the Barren Sea and rebuild the Myriad Stars Alliance would become even more impossible.

*Boom!*

Just then, an earth-shattering thunderclap suddenly reverberated from the lead-gray clouds in the sky. Immediately after, a streak of light abruptly flared, extending horizontally and vertically in the blink of an eye, like an invisible sword cleaving through heaven and earth, completely splitting apart the rain clouds that spanned thousands of miles.

The leaden clouds dispersed, and sunlight streamed down.

A ten-thousand-meter-long azure-blue giant sword descended from the sky, heading towards the lake surface beside Wind and Rain Immortal City.

Everyone immediately looked. They saw that at some point, a young man had appeared on the lake surface. He extended his hand, and the tip of the colossal sword perfectly landed in his palm. Instantly, the ten-thousand-meter sword shadow transformed into a profoundly dark blue, magnificent longsword, which obediently floated before him.

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