Chapter 847: Breaking the Divine Light of Law

Chen Mobai was greatly surprised upon hearing the conditions proposed by Yu Shuji.

The ten thousand acres of Dragoncoil Spirit Rice in Huajun could be considered one of the foundational assets of the Xing Tian Dao Sect. It had been cultivated for thousands of years since the opening of the Eastern Barrens to reach its current scale, generating over 30 million spirit stones in annual income for them. It also served as the hallmark of the Xing Tian Grand Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, for Chen Mobai, this amount of spirit stones was no longer enough to stir his emotions.

The crucial point, however, was that these ten thousand acres of Dragoncoil Spirit Rice were currently the only territory in the Eastern Barrens not controlled by the Five Elements Sect.

Even with Chen Mobai having achieved the Nascent Soul stage, if the Xing Tian Dao Sect did not agree, there would be no way to seize this land.

This matter had always weighed on his mind.

Now that the Xing Tian Dao Sect had offered this condition, he hesitated.

But after some thought, Chen Mobai still sighed and shook his head.

"Please seek someone else," he said. "Our Five Elements Sect has already departed from the One Yuan Dao Palace, ever since Patriarch Hunyuan."

Chen Mobai was, after all, only at the early Nascent Soul stage, a vast distance from attempting the Deity Transformation. The matter of the Tong Sheng True Spirit Pill was clearly a struggle between the largest powers in the Eastern Continent, perhaps even a probe by the other three Holy Lands against the One Yuan Dao Palace. If he were to truly intervene, he might just become cannon fodder.

Hearing this, Yu Shuji did not press the matter.

He departed with the people from the Xing Tian Grand Chamber of Commerce. However, before leaving, he stated that the conditions would remain unchanged, and that Sect Master Chen could notify him anytime he was willing.

Qu Xiuxian, however, stayed behind to discuss other cooperation matters between the Xing Tian Grand Chamber of Commerce and the Five Elements Sect.

Because Chen Mobai had already formed his Nascent Soul, and the development of Beiyuan City had exceeded expectations, the Xing Tian Grand Chamber of Commerce decided to establish a branch there, with her as the person in charge. Besides procuring various resources from the Eastern Barrens, they would also sell goods collected from other territories in the Eastern Continent here.

Furthermore, regarding the Dragoncoil Spirit Rice, since Huitian Valley had completely merged into the Five Elements Sect, the Xing Tian Grand Chamber of Commerce's next partner could only be the Five Elements Sect.

Chen Mobai considered this and decided to maintain the status quo for now.

What the Five Elements Sect needed to do now was to calmly and slowly absorb the territory of the Xuanxiao Dao Palace. Before that, there was no need to get too entangled with the Xing Tian Dao Sect.

Qu Xiuxian was a Core Formation cultivator, so the person assigned to liaise with her should at least be at the Core Formation stage.

Chen Mobai thought for a moment and called Luo Yixuan over.

After arranging the matters at hand, Chen Mobai returned to the Immortal Gate.

At the airport of Wangwu Dongtian, Ming Yihua saw Chen Mobai, who had come to pick him up, and said happily, "Brother, your coming to pick me up really gives me a lot of face!"

"Haha, we haven't seen each other in decades, and you haven't changed a bit," Chen Mobai replied.

Seeing the always enthusiastic and straightforward Ming Yihua, Chen Mobai's memories seemed to drift back to his twenties, when they were in the Dao Academy. He himself was the type who was relatively silent and cautious with strangers, but Ming Yihua had used his lively and outgoing nature to unite their group of new students into a cohesive whole.

Although few people spoke in their Deity Transformation class group chat anymore, the bonds they had forged during their university days had only deepened and become more profound with the passage of time.

The two waited in a private lounge. Ming Yihua took a cup of tea handed to him by Zhuang Jialan and asked, "Where's Old Yun? Didn't he say he'd be here earlier than me?"

"His flight was delayed, but he should be arriving soon."

No sooner had Chen Mobai finished speaking than Hua Zijing walked in with Yun Yangbing.

When the three met, naturally there was another round of reminiscing.

The Immortal Gate's newly refined batch of Golden Fluid Jade Reversion Pills was completed within just one year, under the personal supervision of Ying Guanghua.

After receiving the notification, Ming Yihua and Yun Yangbing immediately rushed to Wangwu Dongtian.

As the host, Chen Mobai naturally took it upon himself to receive them.

However, it was Zhongli Tianyu who hosted the dinner. Chen Mobai also invited Hua Zijing and Zhuang Jialan, making it a gathering for their group of alumni.

That evening, they all gathered at Zhongli's residence within the Five Peaks Immortal Mountain.

"Putting everything else aside," Ming Yihua said, "our Class of 5012 will surely go down in the history of the Dao Academy. Besides Old Chen, at least three or four more Nascent Souls will emerge from our class."

Ming Yihua drank his wine, looking spirited and confident. He had always been very self-assured.

However, the talents of Chen Mobai and Zhongli Tianyu made him feel inferior.

In his opinion, these two were certainly capable of forming Nascent Souls.

And besides them, Ming Yihua believed he himself also had good prospects of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

"Just Old Chen alone will surely go down in school history," Yun Yangbing said this, and everyone nodded in agreement.

"Oh, not at all..." Chen Mobai replied modestly.

Chen Mobai immediately responded modestly, but for him, being the center of attention at such an alumni gathering brought a long-lost sense of satisfaction.

After three rounds of drinks, Ming Yihua started talking about his busy work after graduation.

"I'm going to tell you something, but don't breathe a word of it to anyone," he began.

"Our First Arsenal has been researching something called the 'Law-Breaking Divine Light'," he continued. "As the name suggests, any formation or restriction that encounters this divine light will be pierced through and nullified."

"This was a strange divine ability encountered by the Immortal Gate during the First Opening War. At that time, in the adjacent otherworldly realm, there was an alien race called the Three-Eyed Race. They were the royal family of that realm, and the third eye on their forehead possessed the ability to nullify all techniques."

"Our First Arsenal's project is to refine the eye of that Three-Eyed King into a magical artifact, thereby mastering the power to nullify all techniques. The 'Law-Breaking Divine Light' is our achievement; it has captured about sixty to seventy percent of the original essence. We have tested it on Fourth-order defensive restrictions, and it can easily break them. Although it cannot completely break through Fifth-order ones, it can still breach a portion of them..."

After Ming Yihua finished speaking, everyone present widened their eyes in shock.

Fourth-order power was equivalent to that of the Nascent Soul realm.

Didn't this imply that if a Nascent Soul cultivator was hit by this Law-Breaking Divine Light, they would perish on the spot, their cultivation destroyed!

It could even harm a Deity Transformation True Monarch!

Given how powerful the Three-Eyed Race was, how had the Immortal Gate managed to win the Opening War back then?

Everyone looked at Chen Mobai, as information about the Opening War was considered the Immortal Gate's highest-level secret, and among those present, only he had access to it.

"I never expected you would have researched it to such an extent," Chen Mobai said, recovering from his shock.

When Ming Yihua was in the Dao Academy, he was selected to participate in the Law-Breaking Divine Light project due to his outstanding talent in artifact refining.

He had always been very curious about it, and after forming his Nascent Soul, he was finally able to view Ming Yihua's complete file, thereby learning about the Law-Breaking Divine Light project. However, he hadn't believed they would achieve anything significant.

After all, the Three-Eyed King's eye had been in the Immortal Gate's possession for thousands of years, and countless individuals before them had exhausted their efforts, yet none could unravel the secret of its power to nullify all techniques.

Who would have thought that the First Arsenal had actually achieved it through artifact refining!

After pondering for a moment, he considered that the Immortal Gate's Opening War was not far off and that revealing these details would not be a violation, so he began to speak.

"During the First Opening War," Chen Mobai explained, "the Immortal Gate's Five Ancestors unleashed all their divine abilities and secret techniques. Patriarch Cailing of the Heaven-Mending Dao Academy sealed the passage between the two realms with her life, and only then were the other four ancestors barely able to slay the king of the Three-Eyed Race."

"But even so, just a few years after the war, Patriarch Yun Ya of our Dao Academy also passed away due to severe injuries. It is said that this was because he was struck by an attack imbued with the Three-Eyed King's power to nullify all techniques."

"If the Law-Breaking Divine Light can be applied to the battlefield, then during this Opening War, we will have another trump card."

After hearing Chen Mobai's explanation, everyone was even more astounded. Zhongli Tianyu, however, maintained a normal expression, seemingly already aware of this historical event.

"Can this Law-Breaking Divine Light be mass-produced now?" Chen Mobai asked again, and Ming Yihua immediately took out a dull gray glass bead.

"This is a test product," he said, "it contains a trace of the Law-Breaking Divine Light..."

Hearing him say this, everyone immediately stood up and moved away from him. This made Ming Yihua smile sheepishly, and he put the glass bead away.

"My purpose in coming to Wangwu Dongtian this time is also to hand this over to the Immortal Affairs Hall," Ming Yihua explained. "The First Arsenal's research funds for the Law-Breaking Divine Light have always been provided by them, so we need to periodically present some results to the higher-ups."

"May I see it?"

Chen Mobai pointed to the glass bead, and Ming Yihua immediately nodded, handing it to him.

"Don't worry," Ming Yihua reassured him, "precisely because this thing is dangerous, the outer glass bead is made of the latest alloy material. Just for this, our First Arsenal attempted to fuse minerals from the Earth Star hundreds of thousands of times before finally determining this material composition that can block the Law-Breaking Divine Light."

Although Ming Yihua said so, Chen Mobai still took out his Formless Puppet before taking the glass sphere from his hand.

However, because he dared not open it, he couldn't discern anything with his naked eye, and he eventually returned it to Ming Yihua.

But Chen Mobai also caught another crucial piece of information from Ming Yihua's words.

"Does the First Arsenal have a lot of ore materials?"

After Chen Mobai returned from the Eastern Barrens, he had ordered minerals from Earth Star online, but could only acquire 2,683 types.

Although these were enough to upgrade the Myriad Things Thick Earth Cauldron to Fourth-order, more would certainly be better.

He had originally planned to inquire with the Mineral Resources Management Bureau, but now, hearing Ming Yihua speak, he realized that artifact refiners would certainly know more about this matter than he did.

"Of course!" Ming Yihua replied. "Aside from those rare, single-digit quantity minerals, our First Arsenal has 3,996 types of mineral samples."

Hearing Ming Yihua's words, Chen Mobai smiled faintly and then stated that he was preparing to refine the Pure Yang Cauldron. However, he wanted to use materials that better suited his own characteristics, so he wished to try sensing different minerals.

"That's simple, leave it to me!"

Ming Yihua readily took on the task.