Chapter 988: The Fruit of the Dao Principle Takes Shape (Supplementary Update)

Among rogue cultivators, those who manage to reach the Foundation Establishment stage are truly ruthless individuals. Each of them typically has hundreds of lives on their hands.

The young Foundation Establishment cultivator who called out was the leader of a group of bandit cultivators named Gao Mingxin. After learning that the Five Elements Sect was willing to offer Spirit Pills for Core Formation, this bandit leader, hidden in the Cloud Dream Marsh, decided after a short contemplation to bring his subordinates to join the main army. If any other family or force in East Wu had offered such terms, Gao Mingxin would have scoffed and ignored them completely.

But the Five Elements Sect was different. Ever since Chen Mobai took charge, while the sect's methods against enemies were brutal, often involving annihilation, its word was as good as gold. What they said, they did. Chen Mobai declared that the profession of bandit cultivation could not exist in the East Desolation, and indeed it ceased to exist; at least, no cultivators dared to openly engage in it. Other major projects like land reclamation, sand control, river dredging, and formation deployment were unimaginable across the entire East Continent, yet all were successfully completed under Chen Mobai's leadership.

Now, Chen Mobai intended to resist the fiends from the Desolate Sea, offering various valuable items from the Five Elements Sect as rewards. Even Gao Mingxin, a bandit cultivator utterly devoid of morals, didn't first consider the truthfulness of the offer, but rather how to survive on the battlefield. However, bandit cultivators earn their achievements through fierce fighting throughout their lives. This rare opportunity, with the Five Elements Sect offering Core Formation Spirit Pills, made Gao Mingxin believe he could also fight for one.

In mid-air, Chen Mobai watched as two torrents collided within the Myriad Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation. Under the barrage of light from various magical artifacts and talismans, flesh and blood splattered, causing him to sigh. In this battle, more than half of the living beings on the land of East Wu might perish. This was the consequence of not having a unified power with absolute authority. If the Five Elements Sect were stronger, and both he and Qing Nü had reached the Soul Transformation stage, the fiends from the Desolate Sea would never dare to set foot on land. Even the Eastern Dawn Demonic Path, the Luminous Venerable Ghost Gods, and others would have to retreat into their sects, not daring to show themselves.

Chen Mobai had been in the Heaven River Realm for over a hundred years, bringing an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity to the East Desolation, but only to the East Desolation. With great power comes great responsibility. He felt it was necessary to bring an era of peace and prosperity to East Wu, and even the entire East Continent. Regardless of whether the Immortal Alliance's system was suitable here, unification as a prerequisite for peace was absolutely correct.

After realizing this, the forty-nine pages of the Dao Law Heavenly Scripture, which Chen Mobai had memorized, suddenly began to merge in his mind, forming a translucent Dao Fruit. The Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth appeared above his head at some unknown moment. Millions of lines on it began to trace the outline of the translucent Dao Fruit, one by one. This Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth was his symbol as the master of the East Desolation, its power maximized within that region. It was with the help of this ability that Chen Mobai resonated with the will of heaven above and the spiritual energy of the earth below, making him almost a Son of Destiny. But this was limited to the East Desolation.

Now, Chen Mobai felt that the scope of the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth had expanded almost several times over. This expanse of East Wu, including the Cloud Dream Marsh between it and the East Desolation, was now encompassed. The will of heaven and the spiritual energy of the earth were resonating with him. Even the cultivators of East Wu below, and the more distant mortals within the twelve commanderies of East Wu, were praying and supplicating to him, hoping he could lead the army of cultivators to repel the fiends from the Desolate Sea.

At that moment, Chen Mobai suddenly felt a vast and immense power of collective will, similar to when he led the Five Elements Sect army to resist Revered Ice Cloud in the Desolate Ruins. However, that time it was the collective will of the East Desolation, and this time, it was the collective will of East Wu! After receiving the collective will from another region, the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth underwent subtle changes. A new indentation appeared in the center of the original white jade crown. The lines of collective will continuously converged and merged within this indentation, forming the shape of a Dao Law Fruit.

Within the Heavenly Calculation Pearl, all content related to the Dao Law Heavenly Scripture downloaded from the Immortal Alliance was instantly comprehended by Chen Mobai. His understanding of the Dao Law Heavenly Scripture could be said to surpass all previous sages of the Immortal Alliance. He now had confidence that if he were to perform a star divination, his compatibility with the Immortal Alliance's rules would be at least 90%.

Chen Mobai turned his head to look at the East Desolation, specifically the capital of the Zhao Dynasty. A green Dao Fruit, invisible to ordinary people, emerged from an altar within the royal palace. Under the summons of the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth, it transformed into a streak of light and flew towards Chen Mobai's location.

"Huh?" Mou Xiaotian, who was cultivating in King Zhao's tomb outside the capital, opened his eyes. In an instant, he appeared on the ground, just in time to see the Dao Law Fruit flying away. "Is that... a Dao Fruit?" Mou Xiaotian's face was filled with shock. The Dao Law Fruit was one of the Immortal Alliance's Soul Transformation Dao Fruits, and it contained the profound mysteries of the manifestation of the Grand Dao's laws, causing Mou Xiaotian, a demonic cultivator of the Demonic Sect, to immediately misunderstand.

"Rumor has it that this One-Yuan Dao Child of the Five Elements Sect inherited the teachings of the Longevity Sect. Could this be a Dao Fruit left by a Heavenly Venerate?" Mou Xiaotian muttered to himself. He naturally knew that a catastrophic battle must be raging in East Wu. For this One-Yuan Dao Child to even use a Dao Fruit, it seemed the pressure on the battlefield was immense. This was both a good thing and a bad thing for him. Because the Five Elements Sect was, after all, a righteous sect, inherently adversarial to him. But precisely because of this, the dragon veins beneath the East Desolation could flourish, allowing the Imperial Corpse he was nurturing to achieve greater accomplishments in the future.

"But why did Chen Gui Xian leave the Dao Fruit in a mortal city?" Mou Xiaotian had another unanswered question. If he had known, he would have spent more time exploring the royal palace. Even if each Dao Fruit required special incantations to refine, it would have been good to observe it up close.

More than forty years had passed since Chen Mobai obtained the Seed of Dao Law and Jiang Zongheng planted it in the East Desolation. Over these years, Jiang Zongheng had promoted the Five Elements Laws, which he and his master had compiled and revised, throughout the entire East Desolation. With the powerful backing of the Five Elements Sect, these laws were implemented from top to bottom, both in the cultivation world and the mortal realm. And this Dao Law Fruit had taken root and sprouted, manifesting today as a nascent Dao Fruit.

Today, Chen Mobai fully comprehended the Dao Law Heavenly Scripture, understanding all the mysteries of the Dao Law Fruit. Coupled with the sincere prayers of the beings of East Wu, this Dao Fruit finally took shape. The East Desolation, East Wu, and the Cloud Dream Marsh were now all under the dominion of the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth. In mere moments, this Dao Law Fruit flew from the East Desolation to East Wu, like a verdant gem, embedding itself into the indentation of the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth. Millions of lines seemed to find their anchor, integrating one by one into the Dao Law Fruit, making this newly formed Dao Fruit's interior become profound and solidified.

At this moment, Chen Mobai felt an unstoppable prowess on the land of East Wu, just as he did in the East Desolation. The Dao Law Fruit and the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth produced a synergistic effect that Chen Mobai had not anticipated. An ineffable power of the Grand Dao surged from all corners of heaven and earth, settling upon the Dao Law Fruit. It was then filtered and transformed by the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth, bestowing a blessing upon Chen Mobai.

Under the Dao Fruit's blessing, Chen Mobai felt his Nascent Soul suddenly swell, then effortlessly break through its bottleneck, advancing to the seventh layer of the Nascent Soul stage. After the breakthrough, Chen Mobai felt a sense of emotion. He hadn't expected it to be so easy. It was important to note that, relying on Qing Nü's elixirs, he had already reached the peak of the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul stage shortly after returning from the Big Dipper Assembly, having refined that bottle of Pure Yang Condensing True Pills. However, the bottleneck between the sixth and seventh layers was incredibly firm. Moreover, the ongoing Righteous-Demonic War kept him constantly on edge, preventing him from fully relaxing into secluded cultivation. He himself had even thought that a breakthrough might only be possible after the war concluded.

But who would have thought that on this very battlefield, his comprehension of the Dao Law Heavenly Scripture would advance further, granting him an invincible blessing from the will of heaven? He even used this as an opportunity to cultivate the Dao Law Fruit into its complete form. Although this Dao Law Fruit couldn't compare to those matured over thousands of years by the Immortal Alliance, it could certainly be called a Dao Fruit. Once Chen Mobai extended the Five Elements Laws to East Wu, and even East Yi, it was estimated that he would then possess Soul Transformation stage power.

Currently, the Dao Law Fruit only had the blessing of the East Desolation, at most granting the one who refined it the strength of a perfected Nascent Soul cultivator. However, Chen Mobai certainly wouldn't be confined to merely the East Continent in the future, so he wasn't refining the Dao Law Fruit with his true body, but rather wearing it with the Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth.

With a thought, the Myriad Swords Dharma Body materialized behind him. The Crown of All Beings of Heaven and Earth, originally above Chen Mobai's head, instantly expanded and settled upon the head of this avatar. In that instant, this external avatar was empowered to the perfected fourth-tier realm. Chen Mobai even had a feeling that if this avatar had originally been at the perfected fourth-tier, it might have been able to cross that chasm and wield Soul Transformation power through this means.

"Is this what a Dao Fruit is!" Only after realizing this did Chen Mobai truly understand how powerful Ye Qing was. His Dao Law Fruit, a small fruit that had only rooted and developed for a few decades in the East Desolation, possessed such power. Dao Fruits secretly passed down by major Sacred Lands, or those left by ascended cultivators, would surely be ten or even a hundred times stronger, right? And how formidable would a Dao Law Fruit be after refinement, one nurtured by the Immortal Alliance's rules for thousands of years?

Thinking of this, Chen Mobai's desire to protect East Wu became even more urgent. Beyond East Wu, there was also East Yi, the Desolate Ruins of the East Continent, and even the Desolate Sea. He believed that all places with living beings should be encompassed by his Dao Fruit. Only with such a grand unification would the Heaven River Realm be free from the cruelty of war.

With his Dao heart clarified, Chen Mobai immediately directed the Myriad Swords Dharma Body to move out, striking a sword blow at the fiends rushing into the Myriad Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation! This sword strike was Azure Frost! A sky-filling cold tide surged forth. Thousands of Desolate Sea fiends within the range of this sword strike instantly transformed into ice sculptures, their life force completely extinguished.