Chapter 938: 天地胎膜

The reason Venerable Yunhai called upon Chen Mobai for help was because of the Divine Realms of the Three Dragon Gods. These were three extra-dimensional spaces, similar to the Immortal Sect's minor realms, where the rules and profound mysteries of Dragon God Star could almost entirely be observed. The Nascent Soul cultivators of their Immortal Sect, working together, were already able to easily control the Divine Realms, only needing to decipher the mysteries of the Divine Kingdom at their core.

"Chunyang, when you have free time, you can also come and see the Divine Realms. The power of the void there is rich, and we can all easily perceive it. You will definitely gain more from it." As he left, Venerable Yunhai extended an invitation to Chen Mobai, who nodded slightly.

In the following period, the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Immortal Sect each performed their duties. The three Great Dao Palaces led their respective cultivators to suppress and eradicate the insect beasts on Dragon God Star. Although Chen Mobai took a group of people to set up the Earth Vein Grand Formation, the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace, with the cooperation of Wenren Xuewei and Zhongli Tianyu, also played a significant role. In any case, among the Four Symbols Dao Palaces, the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace was unparalleled in terms of large-scale destructive power. Even though the Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants had strong resistance to fire attributes, with such an absolute disparity in power levels, ninety-nine percent of them turned to ashes. Even if occasional individual Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants evolved under the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace's fire-and-thunder bombardment, they would be surrounded and killed by Immortal Sect cultivators equipped with life detectors.

Nevertheless, the Immortal Sect's progress was slow. This was because after suffering massive casualties, all the insect beasts hid deep underground. Evidently, even though the Matriarch was gone, there were still some intelligent beings among the high-tier insect beasts, using various methods to delay the Immortal Sect's complete control of the planet.

Deep underground, the Four Symbols Dao Palaces had no way to advance without destroying the planet. They could only organize Immortal Sect cultivators into teams to go in and hunt. However, this method was extremely inefficient. After all, even though the Immortal Sect possessed life-detection instruments, their efficiency was greatly reduced by the obstruction of the earth. Moreover, if a battle became intense and underground caves collapsed, Immortal Sect cultivators could become trapped and unable to escape.

Under these circumstances, Chen Mobai and two others reported to the Dual Sages of the Immortal Sect. However, Qianxing and Baiguang stated that such minor matters should not be brought to them and that they should make their own decisions. The three naturally understood that this was because the two Sages did not want to get involved in too many intricate details.

But if the Dual Sages of the Immortal Sect didn't explicitly say so, they wouldn't dare to act on their own authority. "Let's do this then: we'll ignore the underground areas, except for the mineral and spiritual veins. Once the Heavenly Canopy Earth Vein Grand Formation is complete, the spiritual energy of Dragon God Star will fall under the Immortal Sect's control. By then, cutting off their spiritual energy will only weaken these insect beasts until they perish."

Chen Mobai, Qi Yuheng, and Shuixian could essentially make decisions on behalf of the Three Great Halls. After a rough discussion, they reached this consensus. Subsequently, the Immortal Sect's army of cultivators no longer ventured underground to encircle and eliminate the insect beasts. Instead, they spread out across the major mineral vein bases discovered on Dragon God Star. After all, the purpose of the Immortal Sect's pioneering war was to plunder resources from other worlds for their own benefit.

Under these circumstances, Ying Guanghua also arranged for technical personnel from the Immortal Sect to arrive on Dragon God Star in droves. The military could only wage war; developing planets, surveying, and excavating mineral veins all required professionals. Among these, the formation masters and various formation plates, flags, and artifacts from the Immortal Sect were also transported by star-spanning warships under the orders of the Three Great Halls.

After confirming the capture of Dragon God Star, to avoid the consumption of the World Gate, this supreme treasure was also brought under control. Only certain precious resources and materials would be transported through the World Gate.

"Chunyang, look at this!" That day, Chen Mobai was directing the personnel of the Immortal Sect's Formation Master Association. Suddenly, with a flash of silver light in the void, Venerable Chengxuan appeared before him with a joyful expression, handing him a purplish-red metal block. "Oh, could this be... Violet Gold Blazemetal!" As a quasi-fifth-tier artifact forger of the Immortal Sect, Chen Mobai had long since cataloged all high-tier materials within his Heavenly Calculation Bead. Combining the properties of the material in hand with a keyword search, he quickly found a fifth-tier material that perfectly matched the criteria. This fifth-tier material was also the primary material for the Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp, suitable for forging its lamp base. Therefore, Chen Mobai was greatly surprised and pleased upon realizing what it was.

"That's right, I think so too. The material properties of this substance perfectly match the records left by Ancestor Yun Ya. It's just that most of the Violet Gold Blazemetal in the Immortal Sect has been used to create the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace, so I only have about a ninety percent certainty." Venerable Chengxuan remained very conservative, not making a definitive statement.

"Let's go, let's head to my Vermilion Bird Dao Palace and compare it!" Chen Mobai immediately understood his intention. He handed over the current matters to his good brother Yun Yangbing, entrusting him to supervise the Immortal Sect's formation masters in his stead, then, he and Venerable Chengxuan used Void Walking and vanished from the spot.

As one of the Immortal Sect's rare fifth-tier materials, Violet Gold Blazemetal's original ore veins were located in Mount Chicheng. However, in the early days of the Immortal Sect, sustainable development was not emphasized as much, and coupled with the threat of pioneering wars, all fifth-tier Violet Gold Blazemetal was excavated. In fact, there were originally some samples left, but later, when constructing the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace, it was discovered that no other material could withstand the high furnace temperatures at its core, so the last of the Violet Gold Blazemetal had to be used.

After Chen Mobai and Venerable Chengxuan arrived at the Vermilion Bird Dao Palace, Wenren Xuewei immediately sensed their presence and flew over. After being told the situation, she also followed along with interest.

"Ninety-nine percent of the properties match..." After inspection, Chen Mobai found that the purplish-red metal block was indeed consistent with the Immortal Sect's Violet Gold Blazemetal, but there was a subtle difference. It seemed like an active material, possessing a hint of living essence.

"Headmaster, where on Dragon God Star was this found?" Chen Mobai asked curiously. He knew that Violet Gold Blazemetal was a metal-fire attribute mineral, most suitable for the Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants to consume and evolve. If such a mineral vein existed on Dragon God Star, the Matriarch would have surely consumed it long ago.

"It was extracted from inside those insect beasts." Venerable Chengxuan did not hide it and directly stated its origin.

"Can this be extracted from all insect beasts?" Chen Mobai was greatly surprised upon hearing this. If so, wouldn't that mean these insect beasts were valuable treasures?

"Not exactly. Only from the corpses of fourth-tier insect beasts can this fifth-tier Violet Gold Blazemetal be extracted," Venerable Chengxuan said. This discovery was also very coincidental. Because the corpses of fourth-tier insect beasts were incredibly tough and excellent materials for artifact forging, Venerable Chengxuan had previously sent one to the Immortal Sect for the Artifact Forging Department of the Wuqi Dao Academy to study.

Hong Mengkui melted one of its joints and eventually obtained a tiny metal fragment the size of a grain of rice. After material analysis, it was suspected to be Violet Gold Blazemetal. Upon learning of this, Venerable Chengxuan personally returned to the Immortal Sect. In the deepest part of the Ten Thousand Treasures Cave, he used fifth-tier fire-attribute divine light and the Nine Dragons Cauldron to melt an entire fourth-tier insect beast corpse, ultimately obtaining this one piece.

"So, in that case, these Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants are actually good insects for cultivating materials," Wenren Xuewei, who was nearby, thought after hearing this. As the Immortal Sect's premier spiritual plant university, the Jumang Dao Academy was unparalleled in its research on insects. They also raised many special insect beasts. Among them was a type of metal-eating insect that could devour metal, excrete impurities, and digest the purest parts. Once the metal-eating insect turned entirely crimson-gold, it would form a cocoon, and upon breaking out, it would become an exotic Golden Cicada. After six metamorphoses, the metal-eating insect would become the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, one of the Six Primeval Insects. However, since the Immortal Sect lacked sufficient high-tier metals, the Jumang Dao Academy could currently only cultivate the metal-eating insects to the four-winged stage at most.

The Gold-Gnawing Fire Ant and the Six-Winged Golden Cicada were both among the Six Primeval Insects, and their characteristics in this regard were indeed very similar.

"I recall Qi Yuheng killed quite a few fourth-tier insect beasts!" Chen Mobai spoke. Due to its material properties, this Violet Gold Blazemetal was the best material for both him and Venerable Chengxuan. He could use it to forge the lamp base for the Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp, and Venerable Chengxuan could use it to enhance his own Red Heart Treasure Mirror.

Besides Qi Yuheng, Shuixian also had quite a few fourth-tier insect beast corpses. These were all considered spoils of war. However, Chen Mobai held significant sway; as soon as he spoke, both gave him what they had.

"Many thanks!""In the future, when other spoils of war are being distributed, we hope Venerable Chunyang will also speak a good word for us." Qi Yuheng and Shuixian, when giving the fourth-tier insect beasts to Chen Mobai, said something similar in meaning.

The Immortal Sect could be said to have achieved a great victory in this pioneering war on Dragon God Star. Although the most valuable stellar core and Matriarch were taken by the Dual Sages of the Immortal Sect, what remained—be it the World Membrane, the Divine Realms of the Three Dragon Gods, or even precious materials like Violet Gold Blazemetal—were all exceedingly valuable to Nascent Soul cultivators. Qi Yuheng and Shuixian, in particular, hoped to obtain resources from this pioneering war that would allow them to achieve Divine Transformation. However, these items were also coveted by other Nascent Soul cultivators, so they especially desired Chen Mobai's support.

"Of course, of course!" Chen Mobai naturally nodded in agreement, as his relationship with both of them was quite good. Moreover, such a large number of fourth-tier insect beast corpses was considered a great favor.

Subsequently, Venerable Chengxuan returned to the Immortal Sect with these fourth-tier insect beast corpses. After utilizing the Nine Dragons Cauldron, a mountain-suppressing artifact, he managed to melt enough Violet Gold Blazemetal for two people to use within just three months. He also had two more fourth-tier insect beast corpses left over, which he kept for future detailed study.

Venerable Chengxuan used an advancement technique to quickly integrate the Violet Gold Blazemetal into his Red Heart Treasure Mirror. This companion artifact, which had barely reached the fifth-tier due to 'Instant Bloom', now had its realm completely stabilized, even showing subtle signs of breaking through to the mid-fifth tier. With the Red Heart Treasure Mirror reaching this level, it could now melt the World Membrane of Dragon God Star. Once successful, there would be no obstacles until at least the peak of the fifth-tier, and even a possibility of reaching the sixth-tier.

After all, the famous Zhongli Eight Trigrams Mirror only controlled eight types of celestial elemental qi, whereas the World Membrane contained all the myriad transformations of Dragon God Star. The so-called World Membrane was a protective shield born from the union of Dragon God Star's primal essence, conceived to safeguard the planet as it traversed the universe. Over billions of years, it had been tempered by the light of the sun, moon, and stars, containing the essence of the nine heavens and the origin of the earth. Only planets possessing a World Membrane could possibly give rise to life. After all, even the Gold-Gnawing Fire Ants, if constantly exposed to the harsh cosmic environment, would perish, with the exception of the Matriarch and other powerful insect beasts.

The World Membrane not only contained all the myriad phenomena of Dragon God Star, but even a miniature reflection of the cosmic galaxy could be glimpsed within it. After cultivators refined and comprehended it, they could perceive the origins of the heavens and earth, and the creation of the sun, moon, and stars.

In a sense, this World Membrane could be considered a sixth-tier resource.

Therefore, many Nascent Soul cultivators of the Immortal Sect coveted it. If Qi Yuheng's Six Supremacies Scripture could refine the World Membrane, he would likely take the step to Divine Transformation. If Venerable Yunhai obtained it, his formation path would instantly achieve great mastery, and he might even be able to control a sixth-tier grand formation while still in the Nascent Soul realm. Venerable Yuanxu, Venerable Qingping, Venerable Meihua, and others could also utilize the World Membrane to make decisive breakthroughs in their respective fields.

It was precisely for this reason that, without the Dual Sages of the Immortal Sect speaking up, the various Nascent Soul cultivators could only temporarily set aside the World Membrane.

"If the two Ancestors don't take this, I estimate it's most likely to be given to Qi Yuheng," Chengxuan said, "After all, this World Membrane contains all the myriad transformations of Dragon God Star. Once cultivated by a practitioner of the Six Supremacies Scripture, it can lay the foundation for forming a Dharma Realm..." Chengxuan's artifact forging prowess was undoubtedly the best in the Immortal Sect. After completing the enhancement of his Red Heart Treasure Mirror, only the World Membrane caught his eye. With nothing else to do, Chen Mobai pulled him in to help forge the Doushuai Eight-Scenery Lamp.

"As the foremost Nascent Soul cultivator of the Immortal Sect and the most likely person to achieve Divine Transformation, if the two Ancestors intend to depart after this pioneering war, it is only natural to support his Divine Transformation." Chen Mobai said calmly after hearing this. Although he was very fond of such a wondrous item as the World Membrane, he also knew that under the Immortal Sect's system, maximizing its utility was paramount.

In terms of qualifications, achievements, and cultivation, Qi Yuheng was the most suitable person to refine the World Membrane, apart from the two Ancestors.

As the two were talking, Venerable Chengxuan's communication device suddenly rang. He looked at the caller ID, saw it was Venerable Yuanxu, and immediately answered.

"Inside the Divine Realms of the Three Dragon Gods, the core Divine Kingdom is a 'Divine Spark Crystal' similar to a Dao Law Fruit. If it can be refined, it might yield three new Dao Law Fruits..." After ending the call, Venerable Chengxuan relayed what Venerable Yuanxu had said to Chen Mobai, who was slightly surprised upon hearing it. This planet certainly has a lot of good things!