Chapter 1343: Tianzun, Yiyuan Zhenjun’s Files

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After obtaining what he wanted most, Chen Mobai was deeply content.

However, since the remains of the Primordial Black Dragon could not be taken through the Dharma Realm, and Qing Nü's embryonic vital energy reacted to the Eye of the Sea, he decided to stay here for a while.

Considering the vastness of the Abyssal Sea and that many remnants of the Abyssal Flood Dragon clan had escaped, the Spirit Venerable left his disciples from the Cangliu Sea behind, allowing them to roam and hunt in this sea area.

Furthermore, the young flood dragon Xuan Ze had performed well after surrendering, so Chen Mobai decided to spare its life and let it atone for its sins through meritorious service.

First, Xuan Ze issued an announcement in the name of the last Abyssal Flood Dragon King, stating that from now on, all territory in the Abyssal Sea would belong to the Five Elements Sect and the Abyssal Flood Dragon clan would become a vassal of the Five Elements Sect.

This news caused a tremendous sensation throughout the Sky River Realm.

After the Mother of Waters created this world, the first beings to rule were the aquatic creatures, and the Abyssal Flood Dragon clan was among the most prominent.

Later, powerful beings raised the Five Continents, and land and aerial creatures emerged. The eight true spirit races that occupied the most territory were referred to by later human generations as the Eight Royal Courts, and they were the rulers of the Sky River Realm during that period.

However, with the subsequent birth of humanity and their efforts, they became the protagonists of this world. Several branches of the Eight Royal Courts were annihilated by humans during this process, and the remaining ones, such as the Abyssal Flood Dragon Royal Court, were the most powerful entities in the Sky River Realm, both in terms of strength and heritage.

Yet, even with such power, the Abyssal Flood Dragon Royal Court, rooted in the Eye of the Abyssal Sea, became history from this day forward.

The Five Elements Sect's ability to breach the Dragon Palace greatly astonished all forces.

Initially, those who only knew the outcome but not the specific process thought it was the Dao-Attaining Treasure, the Grand Void Sky-Measuring Ruler, that had struck again.

However, soon they received detailed intelligence about this battle from the Wuchang Study and couldn't help but marvel at how powerful the Five Elements Sect had become.

The Wuchang Study's intelligence was, naturally, sold by Chen Mobai.

Considering that True Monarch Fuhai and his disciple might not keep the acquisition of the Primordial Black Dragon's remains a secret, Chen Mobai preempted them and sold this Level Seven knowledge, along with the detailed process of breaking through the Dragon Palace's grand formation. After this transaction, he immediately became the Wuchang Study's highest-tier client.

Chen Mobai always made the most of everything, so this knowledge was directly exchanged for archives concerning the Celestial Venerable and True Monarch Yiyuan.

Because this was a large transaction, and the intelligence that the Primordial Black Dragon left behind the Ocean Stabilizing Pearl as a contingency for resurrection was extremely important to the Wuchang Study, Cui Tai, after consulting with King Lunzhuan, directly gave Chen Mobai over a hundred archives related to the Longevity Sect as a gift.

This made Chen Mobai think very highly of the Wuchang Study, and he decided that if he had any surplus knowledge in the future, he would approach them first.

After reading through these archives, the doubts that had lingered in his mind for years finally had an answer.

It turned out that the reason the Longevity Sect vanished as a whole back then was because the Celestial Venerable had taken them all away.

The Celestial Venerable did this to maintain the clarity of his own Great Dao during his Dao-integration. Thus, he integrated all beings within the Longevity Sect into the Azure Splendor Realm that he had created, and together they entered the Innate Dao of Life and Death.

Regarding this action, the Wuchang Study's phrasing was cautious.

They referred to it as "the entire sect ascending."

However, Patriarch Ming Luo of the Wuchang Study also elaborated on the consequences of this action.

If the Celestial Venerable's Dao-integration failed, all beings within his Azure Splendor Realm would vanish along with him, transforming into nourishment for the Innate Dao of Life and Death.

After reading this archive, Chen Mobai also felt a chill.

If it were him, he certainly wouldn't choose to entrust his life and death to others.

However, when the Longevity Sect emerged, this karmic bond with the Celestial Venerable had already been formed. Glory would be shared, and so would death.

In one of the Celestial Venerable's archives, the Wuchang Study also described the location of the Azure Splendor Realm: a star river beyond the Nine Heavens Tribulation, close to the Spirit Void Immortal Realm.

The Celestial Venerable took the step of Dao-integration there and vanished without a trace, but the terrifying power of the Great Dao turned the place into a forbidden zone where even Level Seven True Immortals dared not venture deep.

Now, as the Sky River Realm reorganizes the Six Paths of Reincarnation, that forbidden zone has instead begun to constantly converge inwards, as if it is giving birth to some terrifying entity.

Powerful beings in the Spirit Void Immortal Realm speculate that the Celestial Venerable has fully mastered the Innate Dao of Life and Death and is about to return.

However, others believe that the Celestial Venerable failed, and all beings of the Longevity Sect along with him transformed into nourishment for the Ghost Mother's rebirth and return.

Another possibility is that neither of these is true, but merely that the Innate Dao of Life and Death, which was shattered by the Mother of Waters in the past, is re-evolving to become complete and perfect during this great cosmic change.

For Chen Mobai, as long as it wasn't the second possibility, he could generally accept it.

Although he had never communicated with the Celestial Venerable, the legacy of the Longevity Sect significantly contributed to his current achievements. Thus, he hoped that the members of the Longevity Sect within the Azure Splendor Realm could survive.

He imagined that if the Celestial Venerable truly succeeded in Dao-integration, seeing such an outstanding successor of the Longevity Sect in him, he would be very pleased.

Moreover, a secret was recorded in the Celestial Venerable's archives.

It was that after he received offerings from the Longevity Sect and transformed, shedding the shackles of the earth veins, he personally went to the Heavenly Sea to pay respects to the Mother of Waters, who was still residing in the world at that time, and sought her guidance on Dao-integration.

At that time, the Mother of Waters had just shattered the Innate Dao of Life and Death and slain the Ghost Mother. Upon seeing the Celestial Venerable, she felt their fated connection, guided him through his confusion, and kept him by her side to impart the Great Dao for three hundred years.

Therefore, nominally speaking, the Celestial Venerable was also a disciple of the Mother of Waters.

The reason the Wuchang Study knew this was because its Patriarch Ming Luo also happened to be growing during that period and was considered a fellow disciple with the Celestial Venerable.

In that case, the Celestial Venerable and Ming Luo would still have to address me as "Martial Uncle."

Chen Mobai calculated the seniority according to the Purple Heaven Palace's hierarchy and immediately felt that his own seniority was quite high in the Sky River Realm.

During the three hundred years the Celestial Venerable studied under the Mother of Waters, besides the Innate Dao of Life and Death, he also comprehended the "Heaven-Severing Thread" Longevity Sword Intent from the Mother of Waters' Dao of Seizing Fortune.

So, the Celestial Venerable's sword intent originated from here.

Upon reading this, Chen Mobai suddenly had an epiphany.

No wonder this sword intent was so defying of natural order; with Chen Mobai's aptitude, he could intercept and utilize various sword intents from Immortal Sects and pose as an unparalleled sword dao genius.

He had previously thought it was due to the Celestial Venerable's origin, where he struggled to extract the vitality of heaven and earth from a single branch to take root, sprout, and grow strong, which led to such a sword intent.

However, it could also be due to that experience.

Knowing this origin, Chen Mobai wished even more for the Celestial Venerable's success.

He was truly one of their own.

Thinking this, Chen Mobai then began to read the archives concerning True Monarch Yiyuan.

The information recorded in the first two volumes he mostly already knew. It was the story of True Monarch Yiyuan, as a descendant of pioneering cultivators, who, after obtaining the heritage left by the Longevity Sect in the Eastern Continent, began to rise step by step, cultivating to the Void-refining stage and ascending.

Of course, the intelligence recorded by the Wuchang Study was certainly far more detailed than what he had heard through rumors, and even included many private matters of True Monarch Yiyuan that were not kept in the Yiyuan Dao Palace.

For example, he experienced betrayal by a disciple when forming his Nascent Soul, he robbed a certain force after his Primordial Dao Fruit reached perfection, and he had a romantic entanglement with the Saintess of the Phoenix clan of that generation, and so on...

Even the Primordial Bell was unaware of these things, as by the time the latter was forged, True Monarch Yiyuan was already a top-tier Soul Transformation cultivator of his era.

What Chen Mobai was most concerned about was how True Monarch Yiyuan obtained the Longevity Sect's inheritance.

However, in the Wuchang Study's archives, this was only briefly mentioned.

However, if True Monarch Yiyuan, the party involved, did not speak of these matters, it would indeed be difficult for others to know the precise details.

After all, neither the Divine Tree Secret Realm nor the Yiyuan Secret Realm was known in detail even by the Yiyuan Dao Palace itself; it was only when Primordial Ancestor Li Zhongji accidentally obtained True Monarch Yiyuan's inheritance that these secrets were unveiled.

In the Spirit Void Immortal Realm, True Monarch Yiyuan was also renowned.

This was because he had entered the Innate Primordial Dao during his Void-refining stage.

If he succeeded in Dao-integration, he would directly become a top-tier Innate Dao Lord in the Upper Realm, second only to the Celestial Emperor and the Grand Void True King.

Among humanity, the last one to achieve this was none other than Patriarch Qianqiu of the Qianqiu Pen and Ink Forest, Sage Qianqiu.

However, it was precisely because of this that True Monarch Yiyuan encountered many fierce battles in the Immortal Realm. After all, the demon true spirits certainly wouldn't want another Innate Dao Lord to emerge from humanity.

Even within humanity itself, there were numerous factions, and some karmic ties extended from the Sky River Realm, with some not wishing True Monarch Yiyuan to succeed in Dao-integration.

In recent centuries, True Monarch Yiyuan's whereabouts in the Spirit Void Immortal Realm had been secretive. The Wuchang Study speculated that he intended to take the step of Dao-integration.

Regarding this, Chen Mobai felt somewhat nervous.

After all, he had absorbed True Monarch Yiyuan's Dao lineage, which had now become a branch of the Five Elements Sect.

However, if True Monarch Yiyuan succeeded in Dao-integration, Chen Mobai wouldn't mind directly renaming the Five Elements Sect to Yiyuan Dao Palace. He could then claim that the geomancy in the Eastern Lands wasn't good and that his lineage from Primordial Ancestor Li Zhongji was clear. He figured True Monarch Yiyuan wouldn't mind having such an outstanding junior who revitalized his lineage.

Unfortunately, what Chen Mobai most wanted to know was information about the Celestial Venerable's branch within the Divine Tree Secret Realm, but after scouring all the archives he had obtained this time, none of them mentioned it.

This matter, apart from the Celestial Venerable, was probably only known by True Monarch Yiyuan himself.

Or perhaps, after Yin Qingmei reaches the perfected Soul Transformation stage, she could try to refine this Celestial Venerable's branch. After all, if one wished to cultivate to the Void-refining stage using the Azure Emperor Longevity Scripture, this was the only path.

Rumble!

On this day, Chen Mobai was attempting to refine the Primordial Black Dragon's remains with the Primordial Bell when dark clouds suddenly gathered over the Abyssal Sea, and a True Spirit Tribulation appeared.

Amidst the flashing silver light, Chen Mobai had already appeared on the sea surface.

Seeing Chen Mobai approach, the Spirit Venerable casually said that one of his disciples had reached Level Five and he was sending it up. With a move of his Dao of Wind, he then sent an immense giant beast of the Cangliu Sea into the Nine Heavens Tribulation.

The Heavenly Tribulation rules in the Sky River Realm were effective for all external beings.

Knowing this, Chen Mobai discussed a solution with the Spirit Venerable: to send the Spirit Venerable's disciples, who were going to be active in the Sky River Realm, one by one into the Nine Heavens Tribulation to undergo it in advance. This way, when they were needed, this problem wouldn't arise. Moreover, undergoing the tribulation directly within the Heavenly Tribulation would not attract as much attention as doing so within the Five Continents and Four Seas.

The one advancing to Level Five this time was a sea snake covered in lightning. After the Abyssal Flood Dragon Royal Court was breached, it had consumed many abyssal flood dragons and some Level Four demonic beasts. Its already extremely vigorous vital energy finally underwent a qualitative change.

Although protected by the Spirit Venerable, Chen Mobai was worried about unforeseen circumstances, so he still followed to prevent any sudden issues.

After all, once the Spirit Venerable displayed Void-refining power, it would attract the ascending spiritual light from the Spirit Void Immortal Realm.

As it turned out, he had been overly cautious.

Although this incident was directly triggered over the Abyssal Sea, attracting the attention of forces like the Wuchang Study, upon seeing Chen Mobai's figure, the Soul Transformation cultivators from these forces all halted, and after waving a greeting from afar amidst the lightning tribulation, they all withdrew to avoid misunderstanding.

Cultivators in the Sky River Realm had a strong sense of boundaries.

Especially when others were undergoing tribulation, unless one was a close relative or friend, it was best to stay far away. Because according to local tradition, approaching at that time was certainly interpreted as an intention to interfere or sabotage.

Even if one merely observed throughout, if the tribulation failed, the blame might be laid upon the observer, who would be thought to have put pressure on the tribulation-taker with their gaze from the side.

If one truly became entangled in such a groundless accusation, it would lead to a major grudge.

Therefore, as soon as they saw Chen Mobai escorting the tribulation-taker, even though the one undergoing tribulation was clearly not human, the various forces dared not linger. Only Cui Tai of the Wuchang Study, out of his professional integrity as an intelligence dealer, sent a voice transmission asking Chen Mobai if the detailed information about this tribulation was for sale.

Chen Mobai had just finished reading the archives concerning the Celestial Venerable, True Monarch Yiyuan, and the Longevity Sect, and had no further curiosity about other matters.

Furthermore, the origin of the Cangliu Sea giant beast could not be exposed, so he directly declined, and even sent a voice transmission to remind Cui Tai not to inquire about such matters.

After the Five Elements Sect crushed the Abyssal Flood Dragon Royal Court, they were able to control the vast Abyssal Sea with such ease. Besides the young flood dragon's surrender as a local informant, this was also due to the deep-sea giant beasts from the Cangliu Sea.

These disciples of the Spirit Venerable were like tigers entering a flock of sheep in the Abyssal Sea; their appetites, starved for many years in the Dharma Realm, were finally satisfied.

The local demon races of the Abyssal Sea, though hundreds or thousands of times more numerous than the Five Elements Sect's cultivators, dared not offer the slightest resistance. This was because any resisting tribes were hunted down by these deep-sea giant beasts, and their territories, including their spiritual veins, were consumed overnight, leaving nothing but deep pits in the sea.

Upon hearing Chen Mobai's words, Cui Tai nodded repeatedly, stating that the Wuchang Study would not offend the Five Elements Sect in this regard. Then, seeing that the Heavenly Tribulation had begun to encircle the sea snake, he immediately took his leave.

Half a month later, Chen Mobai returned to the Abyssal Sea with the sea snake, which had successfully passed its tribulation, and instructed Mo Douguang to take it to eat more and replenish itself.

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