Chapter 496 - 345 I will make a move_1
Chapter 496: Chapter 345 I will make a move_1
Chen Mobai was savoring a newly acquired wood-based spell from the Talent Tree, feeling fairly odd.
The spell was called “Jia Wood Jue.”
It seemed to be of the same kind as the “Pure Qing Jue” he had used previously to enhance the Green-sun Fire, which was also used for enhancing spiritual objects.
It’s just that the Pure Qing Jue was for enhancing fire, while the Jia Wood Jue was for enhancing wood.
This spell allowed one to select an ordinary Rank-1 Red Sun Wood, absorb the essence of about ninety-nine similarly ranked Red Sun Woods, and upgrade it to a Rank-2 Green-sun Wood.
However, the Jia Wood Jue seemed to be incomplete.
Logically, there should be subsequent Parts for upgrading Green-sun Wood to Golden Yang Wood and then Golden Yang Wood to Everlife Wood.
However, what Chen Mobai received only included the method to upgrade Red Sun Wood to Green-sun Wood.
That seemed less appealing to him.
Although Green-sun Wood is indeed a precious spiritual object for Qi Practitioners and many Rank-2 magic puppet artifacts within the Divine Wood Sect were made from it, for Chen Mobai, it was not much use anymore.
Had there been a part of the technique that entailed upgrading Green-sun Wood to Golden Yang Wood, he would have been much more excited.
That’s not to say it’s completely useless.
He had cut down quite a few Red-sun Spirit Trees in the Divine Tree Secret Realm using the Gourd Sword Art; now, those could be upgraded without being wasted, potentially producing tens of Green-sun Woods.
Of course, he will postpone dealing with this until after he travels to the Jumang Daoist Academy, as the journey was impending.
Luckily, leaving the wood exposed to the weather for a while wouldn’t hurt.
But then Chen Mobai thought that synthesizing the thousands of felled Red-sun Spirit Trees on his own would inevitably be a vast waste of his cultivation time.
It seemed necessary to plan ahead and create puppets for processing.
With this in mind, Chen Mobai took out his mobile phone and returned to the Immortal Gate.
After he stepped out of Building Nine, he was bombarded with messages.
It was Zijing reminding him to hurry up. They were about to leave for the Jumang Daoist Academy and he, as the core member and student council president, was still out of sight.
“Senior Sun, senior Chi, you’re here too.”
Within the student council’s residence, Chen Mobai saw the other two Foundation Establishment rank-9 graduates that Che Yucheng had invited.
This included Sun Daoji, who graduated at the top of his class twenty-five years ago and worked with Bian Jingchun in the student council for two years, making them quite familiar with each other.
The other, Chi Shicheng, was the oldest in their batch, having graduated thirty-five years ago. He was not top of his class and, because he didn’t like socializing, he focused on technology and is now a fellow at the Immortal Gate’s Ancient Biology Research Department.
Chi Shicheng agreed to go to the Jumang Daoist Academy because he needed to observe the Big Tree for a project he had piled up, which totally coincided with the trip.
“It’s been a while since I’ve visited Crimson Mountain, and it’s not changed at all.”
Sun Daoji, a tall young man with a rugged face, quickly mingled with the members of the student council, unlike Chi Shicheng, who was quieter behind his rectangle glasses. As a former top student of the Daoist Academy, he got used to socializing quickly.
“I heard senior Sun went to Wangwu Cave Sky to establish a Gold Core domain five years ago. How did it go?”
In the midst of conversation, Bian Jingchun asked a question she was very concerned about.
In the Immortal Gate, Foundation Establishment rank-9 cultivators with no criminal record could apply to relevant Immortal Gate departments for the opening of a Gold Core domain, using a realm portal.
Despite there being hundreds of Foundation Establishment rank-9 cultivators, the realm portal is very valuable, and every activation requires a personal intervention from a Nascent Soul cultivator.
As top-level beings of the Immortal Gate, they naturally cannot be constantly on call for opening realms to establish a Gold Core domain.
Thus, applications from Foundation Establishment rank-9 cultivators are temporarily put on hold by the Immortal Gate until a sufficient number have accumulated, at which time they are reported to the three Hall Masters. A free Nascent Soul cultivator is then invited to activate the realm portal.
This process could take as little as ten years, or it could span two or three decades.
Of course, there is one other scenario. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator successfully forms a Core, such a person could quickly arrange to use the Realm Portal to establish a Gold Core domain through the Immortal Gate’s application process. In this case, Foundation Establishment cultivators who were already in line for realm establishment could take advantage of the situation.
For this reason, once Immortal Gate cultivators reach rank-9 in the Foundation Establishment stage, they will immediately submit an application, knowing that they will have plenty of time to reach the Perfection stage of Foundation Establishment while they wait.
Bian Jingchun had just broken through to Foundation Establishment rank-9 three years ago, and she missed the opportunity five years previous when the Law Hall Master opened the portal.
“If I were successful, the Immortal Gate would have publicized it, and the whole world would know by now.”
Sun Daoji joked, causing Bian Jingchun to let out a subtle smile.
“Out of the ten of us in the same batch, my performance was okay at best. I just managed to comprehend the Power of Void. The subsequent step of Shattering True Void to establish a domain, however, was completely beyond my reach.”
“Xia Hou Weihuan was the closest to succeeding, followed by Tao Mingqing from the Primordial Elemental Academy, and Lou Fengcheng from the Repairing Heaven Institute.”
“They had all comprehended enough Power of Void, but failed in Shattering True Void. Even with the assistance of the realm portal, they couldn’t establish and congeal the Gold Core domain.”
After hearing Sun Daoji’s words, the always silent Chi Shicheng chimed in.
“The key to creating a Gold Core domain lies in the first step. Only by absorbing sufficient Power of Void with your divine sense, can you shatter the True Void in the next step and create enough Void Fragments to congeal a domain.”
Chi Shicheng graduated the earliest among those present, and his realm was already complete in the Foundation Establishment stage. He went to Wangwu Cave Sky to open the Gold Core domain using the realm portal before even Sun Daoji did.