Chapter 2871: Chapter 1335: 5th-Tier Treasure Ship (Part 2)
“Junior Brother, the next Rank-5 Treasure Ship must have a metal attribute.”
Mo Douguang, who came to watch the ignition ceremony alongside others, rarely made a request to Chen Mobai after touring the Rank-5 Treasure Ship under the guidance of Chen Lingming.
“Then let’s follow Senior Brother’s suggestion and make the next ship produced at the shipyard a Gold Spirit Treasure Ship.”
Chen Mobai said to Chen Lingming, who nodded repeatedly.
According to the stance of the Five Elements Sect, the five Rank-5 Treasure Ships with Five Elements properties already had codenames from the inception of the project.
For example, the one currently being ignited is called the Fire Spirit Treasure Ship.
The name is somewhat simple, but since Chen Mobai named it, everyone applauded and agreed that simplicity is the best, avoiding plex and fancy aliases.
After pleting the ignition ceremony, Chen Mobai returned to the Yellow Dragon Cave Mansion.
This Rank-5 Fire Spirit Treasure Ship was eagerly taken away by Mo Douguang, who was preparing to head to the front line.
“Sect Master, you heard the Ancestor’s words too. The sect’s expedition to the Mysterious Sea is imminent. This Rank-5 Treasure Ship showcases our sect’s strength and serves as a powerful Magic Artifact to protect disciples. It is of utmost importance, and I need you to coordinate all departments to cooperate.”
As E Yun, who also came to attend the ceremony, bid farewell, Chen Lingming promptly stopped him, beginning to request resources, Spirit Stones, and manpower.
Although this Rank-5 Treasure Ship project was instructed by Chen Mobai, the sect’s support in this area was not total. It wasn’t that E Yun was deliberately targeting it, but rather that there were too many projects initiated by Chen Mobai in the Five Elements Sect.
And the sect’s resources are limited; not every project can be sufficiently supplied.
Moreover, the resources needed for this Rank-5 Treasure Ship are at least materials of Rank-4. The loss of a failed ship plank is equivalent to a year’s budget for other smaller projects.
This led to E Yun approving resource supply to the Treasure Ship project at a critical point.
Now that the results are out and with the war imminent, Chen Lingming undoubtedly wants to seize this opportunity to demand a sufficient budget.
“I’ll arrange this as soon as I get back.”
E Yun, seeing no way to avoid it, could only nod helplessly.
Chen Lingming, satisfied with this answer, personally escorted him to the Teleportation Array.
From the time of Chen Mobai, the successive Sect Masters of the Five Elements Sect have always been true to their words. Since E Yun agreed, he certainly won’t go back on it.
Sure enough, after returning to Northern Abyss City, E Yun convened a meeting of department heads, stopping several projects besides the expedition to the Mysterious Sea and reallocating manpower and resources to the Yun Meng Ze Shipyard.
While E Yun was coordinating the various aspects of the war effort, Chen Mobai made a trip back to the Purple Cloud Universe.
At this critical moment, anything capable of bringing him back must be important.
It was a Turtle Treasure Transmission notification, indicating that the Purple Cloud Palace had descended onto a planet.
Upon receiving the news, Chen Mobai was contemplating the Tai Xu four volumes, unsealed by the Taixu Measuring Sky Ruler, but immediately set aside his current matters to address this first.
After all, the descent of the Purple Cloud Palace is an opportunity not to be missed, who knows how long the wait might be otherwise.
Upon activating the Turtle Treasure Transmission, Chen Mobai found himself on a desolate planet.
The Spiritual Energy had already waned, approaching the end of magic.
It was quite similar to the nameless planet he encountered on his way from the Immortal Gate to Zhu Ye Star.
The difference was, this planet was covered with traces of self-destruction.
Seated atop the Purple Cloud Palace, Chen Mobai sent out his Sixth Rank Divine Sense, enpassing every aspect of the entire planet in an instant.
After reading the remaining records and texts, the ancient history of this planet’s civilization gradually formed in Chen Mobai’s mind.
Long ago, the beings on this planet obtained teachings from the Purple Cloud Palace but tread only the path of physical cultivation. So, even though some exceptionally gifted individuals reached the Rank-5 level, they were still unable to cross the stars and leave.
In this scenario, as the Spirit Vein resources on this planet were depleted, internal warfare ensued.
But the final result was that all beings were trapped on this planet, leading to the extinction of their civilization.
Chen Mobai learned from the remaining stele inscriptions that this place was called the Divine Martial Star.
On the Divine Martial Star, humans referred to the path of cultivation as Martial Arts, with the pinnacle being the “Martial God.”
Above the Martial God, there was a conceptual realm known as “Martial Saint,” equivalent to the Sixth Rank, but no one on this planet ever reached it.
“Perhaps it can be used to supplement the sect’s knowledge related to body forging.”
After integrating all the knowledge of the remnants on the Divine Martial Star, Chen Mobai muttered to himself.
Here, martial arts once developed to its peak, with dozens of paths leading to being a Martial God. In terms of Immortal Cultivation, that corresponds to Fifth Rank Body Forging techniques.
After gathering all the intelligence on the planet, Chen Mobai employed a Void Illusion to infiltrate the planet’s core.
He discovered that even the outer energy layer of the Star Core had been partially consumed.
Around the Star Core, he also saw clusters of white bone dust, evidently the last remnants of Martial Gods capable of withstanding the Earth Elemental Magnet’s heavy pressure.
According to the inscriptions on this planet, to break through to the Martial Saint realm, one needed to consume and refine the entire planet’s power. Therefore, before dying, Martial Gods would e here to attempt to eat the Star Core.
However, no one succeeded, and all Martial Gods perished, turning to ash.
In response, Chen Mobai could only conclude that the path was mistaken.
In reality, the method to advance in body forging is to first refine the Heaven and Earth Placenta, then the Star Core.
But perhaps the Ancestors on the Divine Martial Star, in their contemplation in the Purple Cloud Palace, missed a step and believed it was to consume the Star Core directly, leading to a path error and even the extinction of their civilization.
After the Martial Gods exploded, some of their energy returned to the Star Core, while some were drawn back to the heavens via the planet’s Earth Elemental Magnet.
This is also why the Heaven and Earth Placenta of the Divine Martial Star was restored to pleteness after the civilization’s extinction.
For Chen Mobai, this was an unexpected surprise.
Although the Heaven and Earth Placenta was of little use to him now, it remained a Sixth Rank resource.
He could take it back for the Spiritual Venerable to reforge the Law Domain or sell it, as he was still two Dao Merits short of redeeming a Xuanxu Pill. Although this Heaven and Earth Placenta was newly formed and of a lower grade, it was worth at least one Dao Merit.
Additionally, the most precious thing on this planet was the Star Core.
But having narrowly escaped the Apocalypse Great Mill, Chen Mobai wasn’t inclined to get trapped again, so he only recorded the relevant data via a Void Illusion.
In the ensuing time, Chen Mobai started contemplating his Great Tao within the Purple Cloud Palace.
Meanwhile, he also didn’t forget to take out the Nine Tribulations Heavenly Phoenix Zither strings he had pleted, attempting to infuse them with the Power of the Great Dao.
The results proved his plan was less than perfect.
Though it was indeed possible to rely on the Purple Cloud Palace to infuse the Power of the Great Dao, the process was exceedingly slow without guidance.
For example, the zither string representing desire, when placed on the relevant step, estimated by Chen Mobai, would take dozens of times to infuse enough for repair.
After all, the time of each descent of the Purple Cloud Palace was limited.
It was unclear whether placing them on the step meant they’d be left behind or taken along when the Purple Cloud Palace left.
Chen Mobai was preparing to conduct an experiment.
The truth revealed that the Purple Cloud Palace had a strict protocol.
His attempt to exploit loopholes failed as, once the time was up, the zither strings were propelled off the steps by an invisible force. Chen Mobai immediately utilized the Law Domain to collect them, then returned to the Healing Star.
Aside from this bad news, there was good news as well.
Chen Mobai piled a post on the situation of the Divine Martial Star and published it on the Demon Market Platform. Soon enough, someone privately messaged him inquiring about the detailed situation.
Chen Mobai wasn’t in a hurry in this regard; he intended to sell the news to Song Qingyi, as he planned to exchange it for a Xuanxu Pill from her.
Since he was back in the Purple Cloud Universe, Chen Mobai also took the opportunity on the Healing Star to show himself, both to demonstrate his presence and to inquire about recent developments.
He discovered that his timing was impeccable.
On the Healing Star, God-Transcending cultivators were fiercely peting for the Xuanxu Pill.
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