Chapter 797: Formation of the Nascent Soul

Sitting beneath the Jade Phoenix Tree, Chen Mobai found himself inadvertently reminiscing about the past.

He took out a tortoise shell that appeared ordinary yet contained infinite mystery. If he hadn't acquired this turtle treasure at the age of eighteen, he might even struggle with Foundation Establishment now.

He was exactly eighty-eight years old this year. Unbeknownst to him, he had been traveling between two realms for a full seventy years. He had progressed from the most ordinary Qi Cultivator to a perfected Golden Core, a speed unprecedented in the Immortal Sect, and likely unsurpassed in the future. Even Grand Ancestor Yuanyang, the pinnacle of talent in the Immortal Sect, only succeeded in forming his Nascent Soul at ninety-nine years old. In the history of the Immortal Sect, Grand Ancestor Yuanyang was the only one to achieve Nascent Soul formation before reaching a hundred years old. After all, everyone else, no matter how confident, would wait for a specific spirit medicine for Nascent Soul formation.

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai picked up a jade bottle placed beside him and poured out a vermilion pill with faint black patterns on its surface. This was a Soul Nurturing Pill refined by Yan Shaoyin, containing a level of pill poison that was somewhat excessive for cultivators of the Heavenly River Realm. If Chen Mobai hadn't possessed the Phoenix Seeking the Sun painting, he certainly wouldn't have dared to consume it. This Soul Nurturing Pill, compared to the official version from the Immortal Sect, was naturally less potent, with Qing Nv having confirmed it was only about eighty percent effective.

Over thousands of years, the Immortal Sect had thoroughly researched the process of Nascent Soul formation. While the information wasn't as detailed as for Foundation Establishment and Golden Core formation, it had established three universally recognized stages for Nascent Soul formation: Nurturing the Soul, Cultivating the Soul, and Transforming the Soul.

Nurturing the Soul involves fusing a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit from nothingness to form their unique Infant Nascent Soul. This stage is also the threshold; eighty percent of cultivators fail, getting stuck at this hurdle. The subsequent stage, Cultivating the Soul, involves continuously infusing one's true qi into the Infant Nascent Soul, nurturing and strengthening it until it can emerge from the shattered core and leave the body. The Cultivating the Soul stage relies on the cultivator's foundational true qi and the spiritual energy from the external world. If there are inherent deficiencies during the Nurturing the Soul stage, significant effort will be required to compensate during the Cultivating the Soul stage.

The final stage, Transforming the Soul, is when the Infant Nascent Soul truly matures, and it is also the most perilous: the moment of the core shattering and the Nascent Soul emerging. In other words, Nurturing the Soul is the source, Cultivating the Soul determines a cultivator's future achievements, and Transforming the Soul is a life-or-death tribulation.

For Chen Mobai, the only difficult part was Nurturing the Soul. After all, the profound purity of his Pure Yang True Qi was second only to Grand Ancestor Yuanyang, and for Transforming the Soul, he even possessed Primordial Chaos True Qi. It was precisely for this reason that Chen Mobai dared to attempt Nascent Soul formation with only one Soul Nurturing Pill.

Before that, however, he first consumed the Three Lights Divine Water he had acquired with great difficulty. Three Lights Divine Water was a spirit liquid shimmering with golden, silver, and white light. Its original formula was not for Nascent Soul formation but for healing, capable of neutralizing all poisons and healing any injuries upon consumption. However, a gifted alchemist from the Starry Heavens Dao Sect had modified it, transforming its immediate effect into a slow release. If a cultivator took it before Nascent Soul formation, the Three Lights Divine Water would integrate into every part of their body, slowly releasing its medicinal power until the cultivator's body suffered significant distress. Should the cultivator fail Nascent Soul formation, the Three Lights Divine Water would immediately activate, helping the cultivator restore their physical body to its intact state prior to the attempt. However, the true qi lost after a failed Nascent Soul formation would still dissipate with the failure.

If Nascent Soul formation was successful, a Nascent Soul Venerable could choose to refine the effects of the Three Lights Divine Water into their body or expel it. After all, besides healing, Three Lights Divine Water could also repair and elevate a cultivator's physical body to a flawless state. In the Heavenly River Realm, many cultivators, upon successful Nascent Soul formation, directly absorbed the Three Lights Divine Water, purifying all accumulated pill toxins and impurities from their previous half-century; if their body tempering was originally third-tier, they could even upgrade to fourth-tier using it.

Chen Mobai's Longevity Dao Body was already fourth-tier, so there was no need to waste it like that. He thought that if he didn't use it, he could give it to Mo Douguang, as Mo Douguang had the highest chance of forming a Nascent Soul among the Five Elements Sect, besides himself and Zhou Ye. Furthermore, Mo Douguang was a sword cultivator; if he successfully formed a Nascent Soul, the Five Elements Sect, even in the Eastern Lands, would be a major power second only to a Holy Land. However, if the Three Lights Divine Water was expelled after consumption, its efficacy would decrease by thirty to forty percent. Yet, even with that reduction, it remained a coveted rarity for many Golden Core cultivators.

Chen Mobai discussed this with Qing Nv, who, after appraising the Three Lights Divine Water, pondered deeply for a while and even had Chen Mobai download many relevant papers from the Imperial Medical Academy in the Immortal Sect. Finally, she found a method to modify the Starry Heavens Dao Sect's slow-release technique, ensuring that its efficacy would not decrease as much on the second use, maintaining eighty to ninety percent.

The Three Lights Divine Water tasted like a beverage, smooth on the palate with a faint sweetness. Before Chen Mobai could savor it, the Three Lights Divine Water had already integrated into every part of his body. Chen Mobai, who had complete control over his body, felt something unusual. But he quickly discarded all distracting thoughts, raised the Soul Nurturing Pill in his palm, and with a calm yet resolute gaze, consumed it.

As soon as the Soul Nurturing Pill entered his body, it instantly transformed into a vast, hot current, carrying endless vitality, rushing into his Dantian Qi Sea. It resembled clusters of red clouds and mist, enveloping Chen Mobai's perfectly round and radiant Golden Core. Within the red clouds and mist, faint traces of black smoke and dust could be seen. But soon, a phoenix's illusory figure took flight from the Jade Phoenix Tree at the center of his Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, descending into it. With a flap of its wings, it fanned the black smoke and dust out from the red clouds. Chen Mobai remained still as a mountain, and wisps of black-gray qi overflowed from his seven orifices. This was a sign that the pill poison from the Soul Nurturing Pill was being expelled from his body. During this process, Chen Mobai's own mind had entered the Golden Core, experiencing the birth of the Nascent Soul.

Among the Immortal Sect's insights on Nascent Soul formation, there was a consensus regarding the Nurturing the Soul stage. An "infant heart" refers to a pure, flawless, and innocent state of mind. The Nascent Soul, on the other hand, refers to the condensed embodiment of a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit; it is the culmination of a cultivator's life, the manifestation and sublimation of their soul and inner life force. The Nascent Soul is most easily conceived and born within the state of an "infant heart." This pure state of an "infant heart" was not the absolute calmness and objectivity of the Square Inch Book. Instead, it required the cultivator to feel the deepest, most unadorned innocence within themselves, which was the original aspiration of their cultivation. Without a Soul Nurturing Pill, a cultivator would need to enter this "infant heart" state on their own, and in that state of mind, imbue their Golden Core with that initial wisp of spirituality.

Within the Dantian Qi Sea, the red clouds and mist formed by the Soul Nurturing Pill began to be absorbed in large swathes by the Golden Core. Chen Mobai's mind, residing within the Golden Core, also experienced a feeling of returning to simplicity yet transcending the material world. This feeling was very contradictory, yet so natural and authentic. The perfected Pure Yang Golden Core suddenly trembled. Chen Mobai felt as if a wisp of primordial spirituality was emerging within it. But after the trembling stopped, this spirituality disappeared again. Chen Mobai did not lose heart, and once again activated the Nascent Soul formation method of the Pure Yang Scroll, causing his Golden Core to tremble. As the medicinal power of the Soul Nurturing Pill integrated, the Golden Core's spirituality appeared for increasingly longer periods, gradually showing signs of truly being born and taking shape.

But at this point, the red clouds and mist formed by the Soul Nurturing Pill had been completely absorbed by the Pure Yang Golden Core. Without the enhancement of the medicinal power, Chen Mobai felt the rate at which this spirituality generated begin to slow, even showing signs of returning to its initial faint and indistinct state. He didn't rush, silently observing and feeling for several more days. Only then did he take out the Tusita Fire. This fire was the embodiment of the power of life. Its greatest function was to "give birth to all things." Besides alchemy and artifact refining, it should theoretically be useful for condensing a Nascent Soul. This was something Chen Mobai had deduced himself using the Square Inch Book, as he was the only one in the entire Immortal Sect who could possess a complete Tusita Fire upon reaching perfected Golden Core. Even Venerables Qing Shi and Qing Jing, who had comprehended the Purple Green Demonic Refining Heavenly Tome, only managed to condense a complete wisp of Nine Heavens Pure Spiritual Purple Splendor Qi for their own use during Nascent Soul formation.

As it turned out, Chen Mobai's idea was not mistaken. The Tusita Fire, positioned beneath the Pure Yang Golden Core, slowly released flames, causing the previously somewhat quiescent Pure Yang Golden Core to begin trembling at its fastest previous frequency. And that faint, indistinct spirituality grew for increasingly longer periods. After an unknown period, Chen Mobai felt a shift in his mind; his vision turned pure gold, and he seemed to have been born into a world filled with golden light. This meant that the initial wisp of spirituality within the Golden Core had been nurtured into existence. However, this wisp of spirituality was extremely weak, and Chen Mobai had a feeling it might dissipate at any moment. Any existence is weakest at the moment of its birth. This was also the final hurdle of the Nurturing the Soul stage: whether one could fully stabilize this wisp of spirituality and transform it into the nascent Nascent Soul. If he had a Soul Cultivating Pill, he could immediately pass through this weak period and allow the spirituality to mature.

Unfortunately, Chen Mobai didn't have one, but he had something else that could serve as a substitute. With a thought from his divine sense, a crimson speck of light, like a red star in the night, emerged from the anxious area of his heart, where his immortal fire spiritual root lay hidden. This was the wisp of innate fire elemental essence qi he had obtained when he first achieved Foundation Establishment. Good steel must be used on the blade's edge. Now was the time. As Chen Mobai's divine sense stirred, this wisp of innate fire elemental essence qi flowed out from his heart like a red star, moving along the meridians and descending into his Dantian Qi Sea. The Tusita Fire immediately cleared a path, allowing the red star to rush into the Pure Yang Golden Core. That newly born wisp of spirituality seemed to sense it, instinctively orienting itself towards the red star. The two touched, then merged seamlessly, becoming indistinguishable. In an instant, that wisp of spirituality was imbued with innate fire elemental properties, becoming completely stabilized and sublimated.

Chen Mobai felt this wisp of innate fire elemental Nascent Soul spirituality, experiencing his derivative Pure Yang Golden Core continuously trembling, and an unprecedented joy surged forth. The formation of this spirituality meant that the Nurturing the Soul stage had been successfully passed. Next was to cultivate this wisp of Nascent Soul spirituality until it reached completion. This was the Cultivating the Soul stage.

He did not retract the Tusita Fire, allowing it to continuously refine the Golden Core. Then, he manipulated his Pure Yang True Qi, first extracting the smallest unit of a wisp and slowly injecting it into the Golden Core. But even this single wisp of Pure Yang True Qi was somewhat too potent for the newly born Nascent Soul spirituality. Chen Mobai didn't rush, cultivating it bit by bit. The Nascent Soul is a combination of a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit, so this wisp of spirituality would only fully mature after absorbing all the Pure Yang True Qi and even divine sense he had condensed. Chen Mobai's patience had always been excellent.

The spirit gathering array he had set up on the peak of Danxia Mountain had long been activated. The supreme-grade spirit stone glowed with a crystalline, jade-like luster, continuously releasing the purest and most vast spiritual energy towards Chen Mobai, enveloping him entirely, like an immortal in the clouds swallowing and exhaling mists. Seven days later, under the neutralization of the pure spiritual energy, this wisp of Nascent Soul spirituality finally merged with a wisp of Pure Yang True Qi. Then came the first strand, the first flow... Three months later, the spirituality had grown considerably, and Chen Mobai attempted to infuse an entire stream of Pure Yang True Qi. A feeling of fullness made him slow down again...

Spring came and winter went; imperceptibly, a full year had passed. The phenomena on Danxia Mountain's peak had also attracted the attention of many. Under the influence of the Yin You Yi, the fire spiritual energy of the entire Danxia Mountain Range continuously converged towards the peak, centered around the Jade Phoenix Tree, forming a brilliant, multi-colored sea of clouds. At the center of the cloud sea, rays of light shimmered in countless directions, and auspicious qi flowed in thousands of streams. The rosy glow pierced through the cloud sea, scattering over the entire Chixia Mountain Range, enveloping each peak in a mysterious radiance, like a golden-red veil adorning the mountains as if they were immortal peaks rising from a sea of clouds. At this moment, the Chixia Mountain Range seemed to have transformed into a fairyland.

The teachers and students of the academy at the foot of the mountain were utterly astonished, feeling the surrounding clouds and mist, and the spiritual energy within them, which was several times more vigorous than usual. For the past six months, the entire Danxia Mountain had been enveloped in this spectacular phenomenon of mist and colorful clouds. The cause of all this, naturally, could only be the one in seclusion on the mountaintop. "This doesn't seem like the phenomenon caused by a Golden Core cultivator breaking through?" Some older teachers from Chixia Academy dimly guessed what was happening, their faces filled with shock.

Soon, Sui Shanfu, the City Lord of Danxia City, who had received the news, also arrived. He personally observed from the foot of Danxia Mountain for three days. It was precisely then that the rosy glow on the mountaintop suddenly became even more brilliant and dazzling. The multi-colored cloud sea seemed to ignite, burning into a fiery expanse. The intensely vivid golden, red, and crimson hues intertwined, like a true red sun descending onto the peak. Within this fiery sea and crimson sun, a colossal illusory figure stood, like a radiant pearl, continuously absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy to strengthen itself. It emitted an intense light, illuminating the entire mountaintop and overshadowing everything around it. And this was the rosy glow and auspicious qi that had previously emanated from the cloud sea.

Sui Shanfu listened to the sound of the rolling cloud sea, bathed in the light of the scattered rosy glow, his face solely expressing shock. "This is Nascent Soul formation!" Although he was only at the Foundation Establishment realm, he was, after all, a genius who graduated from the Heaven Mending Dao Academy, capable of discerning such phenomena. The Golden Core realm was absolutely incapable of achieving this level. This most talented individual in the Immortal Sect's thousands of years of history was actually attempting to break through to this realm without waiting for a Nascent Soul spirit medicine. "No, I must report this as soon as possible!"

Sui Shanfu's arrival and departure were entirely within the range of Chen Mobai's divine sense, but he paid no attention to them. He manipulated his Nascent Soul spirituality, absorbing the 107th stream of Pure Yang True Qi. Within the Dantian Qi Sea, the originally dazzling and brilliant Pure Yang Golden Core had now become almost transparent. A fist-sized, lifelike miniature Chen Mobai sat within, his face beaming with joy as he felt his fully cultivated Nascent Soul spirituality. One could even say it was already a Nascent Soul. With 107 streams of Pure Yang True Qi, combined with the life force of the Tusita Fire, the Cultivating the Soul stage posed no difficulty for Chen Mobai. Next, he only needed to use Primordial Chaos True Qi to dissolve the Golden Core, allowing the Nascent Soul to ascend to the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, absorb all the divine sense, and complete the final stage of Nascent Soul formation. "So Nascent Soul formation isn't that difficult after all!" As Chen Mobai thought this, the Nascent Soul within the Golden Core couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Just as he was about to unleash his Primordial Chaos True Qi, he suddenly noticed the Haotian Mirror in the corner of his Dantian Qi Sea. This natal magical artifact had been moved aside by him during the Nascent Soul formation. He remembered that a wisp of fifth-tier Pure Yang Qi was within the Haotian Mirror. "What if I use this wisp of Pure Yang Qi instead of the last stream of Pure Yang True Qi to nourish my Nascent Soul? Could it lay a profound foundation no less impressive than Grand Ancestor Yuanyang's?" This thought suddenly surfaced in Chen Mobai's mind. At any other time, given his cautious nature, he would surely prioritize a stable Nascent Soul formation and would definitely not attempt such sudden ideas. But this time was different. He had the Three Lights Divine Water. Since he had one chance for trial and error, he could certainly give it a try. After all, even if he failed, with the Tusita Fire at hand, he could re-condense the 107 streams of Pure Yang True Qi in just over three months. After this attempt, he would have a hundred percent certainty for his next Nascent Soul formation.

Furthermore, the more Pure Yang True Qi used to cultivate the Nascent Soul during its formation, the easier it would be to break through to the Soul Transformation stage in the future. The Pure Yang Scroll, as revised by Grand Ancestor Yuanyang, served as the Immortal Sect's grand Soul Transformation cultivation method. Compared to the other six methods, its greatest advantage was the lowest threshold for breaking through realms; as long as resources were abundant, the foundation profound, and there was enough time for gradual cultivation, success was largely guaranteed. The number of Pure Yang True Qi streams used for Nascent Soul formation made no difference to combat power at the Nascent Soul realm, as there was no longer an upper limit to the Pure Yang True Qi that could be condensed after Nascent Soul formation. However, when transforming into Soul Transformation, there was a world of difference. Grand Ancestor Yuanyang's foundation of 108 streams of innate Pure Yang True Qi allowed his breakthrough to Soul Transformation to be incredibly smooth. Although Chen Mobai possessed acquired Pure Yang, if he integrated this wisp of Grand Ancestor Yuanyang's innate Pure Yang Qi, it would not only lay the most profound foundation for the Pure Yang Scroll but might also offer a chance in the future to reverse the acquired into the innate, using this as a reference.

With this thought, Chen Mobai no longer hesitated. But after truly extracting the Pure Yang Qi from the Haotian Mirror, he still paused for a moment. Then he entered the Square Inch Book state and began to deduce whether his idea could succeed. Based on all the Nascent Soul formation knowledge and Pure Yang Scroll data he had accumulated, the Square Inch Book gave a 73% success rate. This indicated that it was still somewhat risky. But thinking of having consumed the Three Lights Divine Water, Chen Mobai's mind focused, and he integrated this wisp of innate Pure Yang Qi into his Golden Core. He manipulated his Nascent Soul, carefully initiating contact. Though both originated from the same source, they were cultivated by two different individuals. During this process, some rejection reactions occurred. Chen Mobai immediately brought out the wisp of Pure Yang Purple Qi he had prepared. With this as a buffer, the Nascent Soul slowly began to absorb the fifth-tier Pure Yang Qi. Next was refining. This process also went very smoothly.

Chen Mobai felt his Nascent Soul grow stronger, and a sliver of hope for future Soul Transformation appeared. Before the joy on his face could dissipate, his Nascent Soul suddenly turned entirely crimson. His own 107 streams of Pure Yang True Qi, upon contact with the innate Pure Yang Qi, suddenly became incredibly active, subtly showing a tendency to break free from his control. He immediately sat cross-legged within the Golden Core, activating the Great Pure Yang Art, intending to calm and regain control of his Pure Yang True Qi. However, his Nascent Soul had not yet absorbed the vast divine sense from the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness. Previously, it relied entirely on the docility of the Pure Yang True Qi to manipulate a hundred times its own strength with just a sliver of spirituality. But now, after contacting the innate Pure Yang Qi, the Pure Yang True Qi was like a country bumpkin coming to a big city, developing its own ideas; it wasn't trying to escape Chen Mobai's control, but rather felt it deserved a better life and treatment.

While appeasing it, Chen Mobai also pondered a solution. Among the options, the simplest was to directly unleash Primordial Chaos True Qi, dissolve the Golden Core, allow the Nascent Soul to ascend into the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, and integrate all his vast divine sense. In this way, he could rely on his powerful divine sense to forcibly control the now more active Pure Yang True Qi. However, dissolving the Golden Core meant that success was absolutely essential. If the Pure Yang True Qi became riotous during the process of the Nascent Soul ascending into the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, he might fail Nascent Soul formation. Chen Mobai didn't know if the small wisp of spirituality within his Nascent Soul could support him through this process. But it seemed he had no other choice?

Just as he sighed and prepared to unleash Primordial Chaos True Qi to dissolve the Golden Core, the Square Inch Book suddenly retrieved a crucial piece of information and alerted him. It was Yan Bingxuan's Primordial Yin True Cold! But would it be useful? However, at this point, he could only treat a dead horse as if it were alive. Chen Mobai immediately manipulated the Primordial Yin True Cold that Yan Bingxuan had previously sent into his body with his divine sense, guiding it into his Dantian Qi Sea. Up until now in his cultivation, Chen Mobai had only absorbed the primordial yin of two women. Compared to Meng Huang'er's, Yan Bingxuan's was considerably more abundant. After all, she had nurtured it for a longer period and possessed an ice spirit root. However, compared to Chen Mobai himself, this abundant Primordial Yin True Cold was but a firefly compared to a bright moon, rather insignificant. He didn't hold much hope.

Yet, the reality surprised Chen Mobai immensely. As this Primordial Yin True Cold integrated, the previously exceptionally active Pure Yang True Qi suddenly found its anchor, gradually stabilizing and settling down with it as the core. It was as if a solitary person suddenly gained a family, a vulnerable point that could be held. The small wisp of spirituality within Chen Mobai's Nascent Soul, by merely controlling this point of Primordial Yin True Cold, made all the Pure Yang True Qi obediently follow his command and manipulation. "It actually worked!" At that instant, Chen Mobai's feelings for Yan Bingxuan reached an unprecedented level.

Without delay, he immediately activated his Primordial Chaos True Qi. In his middle Dantian, a vast, multi-colored stream of qi surged downwards, enveloping the now completely transparent Pure Yang Golden Core, with the Primordial Chaos True Qi above and the Tusita Fire below. However, Chen Mobai's Golden Core foundation was incredibly profound; even with Primordial Chaos True Qi, dissolving it was extremely difficult. Fortunately, he had condensed forty-nine streams, and they surged down one after another. Soon, an opening appeared at the top of the Pure Yang Golden Core, which then, like a chain reaction, began to continuously expand... As the last fragment of the Golden Core dissolved, Chen Mobai's Nascent Soul was finally completely freed from its restraints. He was somewhat concerned that the Pure Yang True Qi might lose control at this moment, but they all tightly revolved around that point of Primordial Yin True Cold, like one half of a Tai Chi diagram, with a speck of yin within the vast pure yang. This process, however, should originally only occur after Pure Yang True Qi cultivation reaches its peak, leading to "yin arising from extreme yang." Yet Chen Mobai, in the midst of forming his Nascent Soul, remarkably achieved it.

Accompanied by a slight dizzying sensation, Chen Mobai had already manipulated his Nascent Soul to ascend into the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness. Then, the vast divine sense, long awaiting there, transformed into streaks of flowing light, like thousands of beams pouring in, and was absorbed by the Nascent Soul. After the core shattered and the Nascent Soul emerged, it could essentially be said that Nascent Soul formation was successful. Therefore, this final process of fusing with divine sense was as simple as breathing for Chen Mobai.

Before long, he guided his Nascent Soul to the Jade Phoenix Tree at the center of the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness. The illusory phoenix figure, formed from the Phoenix Seeking the Sun painting, still stood upon it. Chen Mobai sat cross-legged beneath the tree, which was where the majority of his divine sense resided. Soon, as he absorbed it, the Jade Phoenix Trees in the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness began to disappear one by one. Eventually, even the tree on which the illusory phoenix figure rested slowly dissolved into nothingness. Just as the phoenix soared with a high cry, a Nascent Soul was fully formed!

Accompanied by hearty laughter, on the peak of Danxia Mountain, a crystalline, fire-jade-like miniature figure suddenly appeared above the head of Chen Mobai, who was seated beneath the Jade Phoenix Tree. This was precisely his Nascent Soul! Chen Mobai guided his Nascent Soul into the sky. At this moment, the surrounding spiritual energy, like a sea of clouds, suddenly surged towards him more than ten times faster. But no matter how much spiritual energy, it was all refined and absorbed by this small Nascent Soul. During this process, Chen Mobai's Nascent Soul rose out of the fiery red sun sea, like a brilliant pearl, emitting an intense light that illuminated the entire Danxia Mountain Range and dimmed everything around it. It seemed to be announcing its existence to the heavens and earth!

Simultaneously, Chen Mobai felt the boundaries between himself and the heavens and earth gradually disappearing. With a thought, he could merge into it and control it. The surrounding void was filled with fire spiritual energy, which, under his control, continuously integrated into his Nascent Soul and his true body beneath the Jade Phoenix Tree, giving him an unprecedented sense of comfort, as if his mind and body had been cleansed, becoming purer and more transparent. At this moment, he merged with the heavens and earth, becoming a part of nature. He felt intimately connected to everything around him; whether it was the brilliant rosy glow or the rolling sea of clouds, all could move according to his will. This wonderful feeling lasted for a long time, until the Nascent Soul absorbed enough spiritual energy and became more solidified. Only then did Chen Mobai contentedly guide his Nascent Soul back to the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness!

From this day forward, he was a Nascent Soul cultivator!