Chapter 1627: 808: Returning to the Hunyuan Immortal City

Chapter 1627: Chapter 808: Returning to the Hunyuan Immortal City

Chen Mobai casually waved his hand, and the five-colored radiance bursting forth from the Tai Yi Wu Yan Luo unfurled like sharp blades and swords, effortlessly tearing through the bamboo shadows.

At the same time, Yi Chenghan could feel through the array plate that the spirit vein connected to the large formation was trembling slightly, as though struck by a massive boulder.

Who exactly is this person?

Yi Chenghan was horrified, unable to comprehend how this Nascent Soul cultivator before him had managed to enter the formation.

Could he be a cultivator from the Taixu Piaomiao Palace?

Ignoring the formation and freely entering and exiting? Among all the great sects in the Eastern Continent, the only one he could think of capable of this was that holy land.

“My Master has returned to the East Barbarians to meet Master Kuzhu. Might Senior be a friend of my Master? Would you care to leave your name so that I may report it to her when she returns?”

Knowing that even with the formation’s assistance he couldn’t possibly resist, Yi Chenghan immediately softened his tone and replied to Chen Mobai’s question.

“Returned? How odd…”

Chen Mobai, hearing this, found it strange.

Logically speaking, Muqin Patriarch should now be nearing her end and ought to remain here to await her passing. Returning to the Nascent Soul battlefield on the East Barbarians’ frontlines would not offer any real value and might even lower the morale of Kongsang Valley.

Could it be that she had obtained some heavenly and earthly treasure and managed to prolong her life?

Chen Mobai considered this but decided that, even though Muqin Patriarch was absent, it would be a waste to leave empty-handed now that he had come.

Yi Chenghan, after all, was a Golden Core cultivator and had been left to guard the sect’s legacy, clearly marking him as a core figure of Kongsang Valley. Revealing a little might be acceptable.

With this thought, Chen Mobai’s divine sense guided the five-colored clouds around him, dissipating the mist that concealed his face to reveal his true appearance.

“Sect Master Chen!”

The moment Yi Chenghan saw Chen Mobai, he was utterly shocked, his disbelief written all over his face.

“After nearly a century of bitter cultivation, I’ve attained the Nascent Soul realm. Hoping to exchange pointers with fellow cultivators, I looked around the surrounding areas but only found Fellow Daoist Muqin as a peer. So I decided to visit, but I didn’t expect such poor timing…”

Chen Mobai feigned the guise of someone who, having just broken through to Nascent Soul, was seeking companions to exchange insights with.

“Sect Master Chen indeed lives up to being the Eastern Wilderness’s greatest talent in a millennium. So young, and already you’ve formed your Nascent Soul.”

As Yi Chenghan spoke these words, his heart felt a whirlwind of emotions—envy, jealousy, bitterness, and awe—all tangled together. After three centuries of bitter cultivation, he had only just broken through to the late stage of Gold Core.

Yet this man before him advanced realms as if there were no bottlenecks, breaking through naturally as he accumulated strength.

With his talent, had he been in one of the holy lands of the Eastern Lands, his achievements would have been even more unimaginable.

It’s even possible… he could one day reach the Divinity Transformation realm!

At this thought, Yi Chenghan couldn’t help but feel even more despondent in comparison.

“Since Fellow Daoist Muqin isn’t here, I won’t stay any longer. Once she returns, I’ll visit again.”

After revealing his Nascent Soul realm cultivation and identity, Chen Mobai did not bring up the matter of joining forces against Xuanxia Dao Palace with Yi Chenghan.

The bait had been cast; he would wait for Kongsang Valley to come to the Five Elements Sect for help.

“By the way, my Nascent Soul formation—please keep it confidential.”

As Chen Mobai departed, he left this one sentence behind without offering an explanation, but Yi Chenghan immediately began speculating.

The Five Elements Sect now had two Nascent Soul cultivators, yet both kept their breakthroughs a secret—was this sect’s custom, or were they concealing some grand plan?

Soon, Yi Chenghan recalled the occasion in Northern Abyss City when he had accompanied Muqin Patriarch to meet Chen Mobai and the others.

At that time, wasn’t it mentioned that they were concealing their Nascent Soul cultivators to ambush Xuanxia Dao Palace?

Could it be…

At this realization, Yi Chenghan’s heart burned with excitement.

He even had the impulsive urge to immediately facilitate an alliance between Kongsang Valley and the Five Elements Sect. If they cooperated, lifting Kongsang Valley’s siege would be well within reach.

Perhaps they might even seize the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive and completely annihilate the opposing force, Xuanxia Dao Palace.

“Sect Master Chen…”

Just as Yi Chenghan was about to speak out, unable to restrain himself, Chen Mobai vanished in a flash of silver light.

Witnessing this, Yi Chenghan’s expression froze in astonishment.

It seems that this Sect Master Chen of the Five Elements Sect has mastered the True Void Body.

He, as an elder of Kongsang Valley, was familiar with the body refining technique disseminated in the Eastern Continent by Taixu Piaomiao Palace. In his youth, yearning for the holy lands, he had even attempted to cultivate it himself.

Alas, at that time, he lacked the financial resources and had no aptitude in spatial attributes, so he quickly gave up.

Unexpectedly, this Sect Master Chen not only excelled monstrously in the Sword Dao but also possessed remarkable talent in spatial attributes.

Yi Chenghan knew that while Void Stones could enable entry-level attainment of the True Void Body, achieving mastery to the extent that it could pierce through large Rank-4 formations with a mere thought required cultivation to perfection.

Reaching such a level would require an astronomical expenditure of Void Stones—at least from a large-scale vein.

Yet the Eastern Wilderness, though known to possess Void Stone mines, absolutely lacked large-scale reserves. For Chen Mobai to have perfected his True Void Body, it must have been purely due to his extraordinary talent.

“No, I must report this to my Master at once.”

At this moment, Yi Chenghan realized he, a mere Golden Core cultivator, was utterly unqualified to negotiate with a Nascent Soul cultivator like Chen Mobai, whose future was boundless. At the very least, someone of equivalent realm from his sect would be required.