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Chen Mobai saw the two words replied by Lan Haitian and felt slightly relieved.
This guy, known as the closest to the Golden Elixir among the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Immortal Gate, a distinguished disciple of the Kunpeng Daoist Academy, and also the leader of the sixth group of the Mending the Sky division, should have no problem dealing with a minor terrorist, right?
"Why are you daydreaming? Try on these glasses and see how they are."
Qing Nv's voice came over, and Chen Mobai saw a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with thin frames in her hand, clearly the type worn by successful people.
"Sir, you have good taste. These glasses are the latest model researched by the Heavenly Eye Academy. The frame is made of spirit titanium alloy, and the lenses are the latest synthetic spirit-detecting glass. Wearing them, you can see the traces of spiritual energy flow and directly measure the spiritual energy value."
In the Immortal Gate, to make the best sales, everything must be linked to the cultivation of spiritual energy, and even common items like glasses are no exception.
Ordinary glasses can only be used as glasses, but glasses that become magical instruments have all sorts of gimmicks.
But not many people would buy them.
Sure enough, Qing Nv, upon hearing such fancy features, felt they must be expensive and immediately declined, switching to a similar style that only served to shield the spiritual light.
Chen Mobai, however, had a thought. Since all the spiritual energy here was centrally managed, these glasses that could observe traces of spiritual energy were overlooked by most.
But it would be different in the Tianhe Realm.
It might be worth buying a pair.
The Hollow Spirit Eye could see through things on a small scale, but if he had to use it to inspect sixty acres of spirit fields, it would probably exhaust him to death.
However, the style Qing Nv chose was definitely too flashy.
Qing Nv puffed her cheeks and picked another pair with silver-rimmed half-frames, but Chen Mobai still shook his head.
In the end, he chose a pair of black-framed glasses that Qing Nv found extremely unattractive.
Too ugly.
Seeing Qing Nv a bit downcast, Chen Mobai couldn't help but buy the two pairs of glasses she had liked as well.
"It's too wasteful; one pair is enough."
However, after he bought three pairs of glasses, Qing Nv instead reminded him to be more frugal.
"Next year, I want to research the second-order spirit rice cultivation. I need to see the distribution of spiritual energy in the spirit fields, and these glasses will come in handy."
This was true. The sixty acres of spirit fields below Xiao Nanshan had been painstakingly tilled by Zhuo Ming and a group of helpers, and according to his plan, the process of cultivating the soil for next year had been completed.
However, due to the long period of neglect, the spirit fields had only recovered to the lower level of the second order. It would take several more cycles of cultivation, along with fertilization and maintenance, to possibly return to the third order.
"Alright then, there's no problem after wearing them, right?"
Qing Nv was too embarrassed to ask directly, and Chen Mobai nodded, indicating that the special black-framed glasses that blocked the uncontrollable Hollow Spirit Eye were effective.
After paying fifty thousand Good Deeds, the two left the glasses store.
Mainly because the gold-rimmed glasses that could see the spiritual energy value were expensive, equivalent to a mid-grade first-order magical instrument.
Boom!
Just as the two were about to take the bus, they suddenly heard a muffled sound like thunder.
"Is it going to rain?"
Qing Nv looked up at the sky, which was clear and cloudless, and couldn't help but pout about the unpredictable weather.
"It might just be thunder and not rain."
Chen Mobai suddenly took off the black-framed glasses he was wearing and put on the gold-rimmed ones to look in the direction of the thunderous sound.
He saw the spiritual energy in the air crazily gathering there.
"Let's go, the bus is here."
Qing Nv turned her head and called out to Chen Mobai, seeing him switch to the glasses she had chosen, and couldn't help but smile sweetly.
"Mhm."
Chen Mobai had no intention of joining the commotion. He simply followed Qing Nv onto the bus and left the area.
***
Bang!
Lan Haitian clenched his right fist and smashed the bald young man, who was trying to breach the barrier, heavily into the ground.
But he immediately withdrew his fist, frowning and shaking off the soreness.
"Jinshi An's Indestructible Concrete Body, are you immovable or unquiet?"
As soon as Lan Haitian finished his question, the bald young man who had been smashed into the ground suddenly leaped up, and a two-meter giant concrete fist condensed in his palm, swinging heavily.
"Don't you know who I am?"
Lan Haitian looked at the bald young man who dared to strike at him, frowning, and with a light press of his right hand, the overwhelming force of primal magnetism erupted.
Boom!
The giant stone fist swung by the bald young man's right hand disintegrated the moment it touched Lan Haitian's fingers.
Then Lan Haitian's pale fingers turned from claws to palms, casually pushing against the bald young man's chest.
Strands of steel-black flow emerged, like tattoos bursting all over the immovable body, resisting Lan Haitian's palm thrust.
"The Indestructible Concrete Body is well cultivated, but it's a pity that your realm is lacking."
Lan Haitian looked at the bald young man, whose forehead veins bulged, his skin turned red, and his meridians looked like thick black worms, suddenly transforming into a two-meter giant. Lan Haitian withdrew his fingers into a fist.
With a "clang" as if a bronze bell rang,
The giant's immovable golden body was broken, like a cannonball rebounding from in front of Lan Haitian, leaving a blood-stained trail of destruction on the ground before the man spat blood skyward.
"You… butcher, how come… you are… here."
The immovable man struggled to stand up but felt his strength draining away with his blood. His previously enlarged body slowly shrank, becoming very hunched and emaciated.
"Hmm, how should I explain it to you? Just a coincidence?"
Lan Haitian stroked his chin, stepping towards the immovable man. At the same time, the originally murky sky also began to shrink with his steps, gradually enveloping the two men.
"Sure enough, there's… a traitor… within the sect…"
Seeing the primal magnetism domain begin to shrink, the immovable man knew he couldn't escape today. He tried to activate the Indestructible Concrete Body, but found that in just three short moves, Lan Haitian had already broken all his bones and meridians.
With such injuries, he was essentially crippled.
The immovable man only felt his luck was too bad. He had reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment and cultivated the Indestructible Concrete Body. Only a handful of true Foundation Establishment cultivators in the vast Immortal Gate could render him powerless.
But the man in front of him was one of those few.
"Tell me why you came here, and I promise to spare your life."
Lan Haitian came to the immovable man's side, lowered his head, and looked directly into the latter's blood-seeping eyes due to the broken Indestructible Concrete Body.
"Cough cough cough… I won't be a traitor…"
The immovable man was also a tough guy, simply closing his eyes.
"Tsk, what a pity, you insist on learning the hard way."
Lan Haitian sighed and extended his finger, touching the immovable man's dantian, directly crippling his cultivation.
Beep beep beep!
After finishing his work, Lan Haitian called the third group leader of the Mending the Sky division, who was specially responsible for extracting memories from the Purple Mansion's sea of consciousness.
"I understand, I'll send someone over right away."
After hanging up the phone, Lan Haitian looked down at the unconscious immovable man and suddenly became curious.
"Could it be that behind the line of Gu Changfeng, a big fish can be hooked?"
Thinking this, he was about to search the body to see if he could find something useful when his divine sense suddenly issued a frantic warning.
The force of primal magnetism erupted, and Lan Haitian lifted the immovable man, and six pitch-black, dark-gold hand grenades came into view.
This guy!
Lan Haitian cursed angrily, and the Six Imperial Scriptures erupted with full force.
Boom boom boom!
***
While dining with Qing Nv and the others, Chen Mobai felt a sudden slight earthquake and put down his chopsticks, looking in the direction where the spiritual energy was converging.
Is that guy up to the task or not!
Just as he was wondering whether to call and ask, a text message came through.
[Handled]
It was sent by Lan Haitian, concise and to the point.
Quite capable, huh.
Seeing the reply, Chen Mobai breathed a sigh of relief.
It had to be said, Yang Jing and Kong Feichen's cooking skills were not bad; he was very satisfied with the meal.
Qing Nv said that when they were in the welfare institute, the three of them secretly cooked on their own, honing their culinary skills.
"By the way, I saw two pill recipes in an ancient book in the Weaponry Daoist Academy's library. I wonder if they can be improved. Take a look?"
After the meal, Chen Mobai and Qing Nv sat on the sofa, while Kong Feichen and Yang Jing cleaned up the dishes.
"Hundred Herbs Pill, Nourishing Spirit Soup?"
Qing Nv looked at the two pill recipes sent by Chen Mobai and seriously began to read them.
"The recipes are fine, but the materials are a bit wasteful. These seven herbs can be replaced with…"
Chen Mobai intended these two recipes from the Hundred Herbs Classic for his disciple.
Liu Wenbo had the backing of his family and was almost certain to become a true disciple when the next batch of Jade Marrow Ganoderma matured, but Zhuo Ming was a bit more challenging; she had already set her sights on the batch after next.
However, Chen Mobai felt that since he had taken her as a disciple and had her switch to a new cultivation method, and she would likely be in charge of the sixty acres of spirit fields at Xiao Nanshan in the future, which might delay her cultivation progress, he thought it necessary to compensate her.
He didn't want to bring the pills from the Immortal Gate to the Tianhe Realm, and besides, there, pills were only trusted if they came from known brands. It would be risky to introduce a new type of pill or Spirit Water, no matter how eloquently described, as no one would dare to consume it.
Chen Mobai's idea was to use the technology from the Immortal Gate to modify the Hundred Herbs Pill and Nourishing Spirit Soup and see if he could cultivate a talent in pill refinement in the Tianhe Realm as well.
To lay the groundwork for his future collection of Golden Liquid Jade Pills and spiritual herbs.
After all, if he didn't refine pills himself but occasionally purchased spiritual herbs, it would be easy to arouse suspicion over time.
However, Zhuo Ming had already taken on the heavy responsibility of farming for him. Was it too much to also assign her the task of pill refinement?
As Chen Mobai pondered these things, Zhuo Ming, who was selecting rice seeds in the Tianhe Realm, suddenly couldn't help but sneeze.
She wiped her nose without much concern and continued to select good seeds for planting and watering the seedlings.
***
"Immovable is dead."
In a closed staircase of a shopping mall, a woman in sunglasses met with Tuoba Wanyi, both with serious expressions.
"Weren't we told that the Red Robe Taoist Master and Master Shi Qing wouldn't make a move?"
Tuoba Wanyi frowned. He knew the strength of the immovable man; apart from the two Golden Elixir Taoist Masters in Danxia City, no one could kill this disciple of Jinshi An.
"It wasn't them."
"Then who? The Mending the Sky division?"
"We haven't received any intelligence from the undercover line yet, but since the immovable man is dead, it's very likely that our mission has been exposed."
After saying this, the woman in sunglasses took out a talisman and lit it.
This was the only way she could contact the master of Shen Yu Xuan, the Descending God Talisman. Although it felt a bit wasteful, she decided to use it out of caution.
"What's the matter?"
A silver flame rose after the Descending God Talisman burned out, turning into a two-meter-wide silver fire ring, like a round mirror, revealing a vague figure holding a seven-colored treasure tree.
"Greetings to the master of Shen Yu Xuan…"
After the woman in sunglasses finished explaining the situation, the master of Shen Yu Xuan responded with an "Oh."
"What should we do next? Please instruct us, master of Shen Yu Xuan!"
Tuoba Wanyi secretly glanced at the revered deputy master of the Ascension Sect, known as the master of Shen Yu Xuan who had once devoured a deity.
"I have a hidden piece that I didn't want to use."
As the master of Shen Yu Xuan spoke, he suddenly turned around, extended a finger through the silver fire ring, and lightly touched the woman in sunglasses' forehead.
"Go!"
After leaving the last words, a breeze blew, and the silver sparks instantly dissipated, as beautiful and splendid as fireworks.
"Thank you, master of Shen Yu Xuan."
The woman in sunglasses raised her head, and a silver fire mark appeared between her snowy brows.
Tuoba Wanyi felt that she, already powerful, seemed to have surpassed the limit and reached a terrifying realm beyond his comprehension.
"What did you get?"
He couldn't help but ask.
"Great power. With this mark, I can obtain invincible strength below the Golden Elixir. As long as I don't encounter someone like Lan Haitian, the strongest Foundation Establishment combatant of the Immortal Gate, I am confident I can fight and win."The woman in sunglasses radiated an unprecedented confidence, her beautiful face aglow. Tuoba Wanyi looked on with envy, but consoled himself that such power was like a castle in the air, unstable at its foundation.
"We've found the person, let's make it quick."
With those words, the two vanished from the spot.
***
At night, in the Evergreen Medicine Shop.
Chen Mobai had just flown in when he saw that Lan Haitian was already waiting.
"What's the background of that terrorist?"
"A disciple of the Ascension Sect, a successor of the ancient Golden Stone Hermitage, with the Dharma name 'Immovable'."
"Is he strong?"
"Foundation Establishment sixth level, and he has cultivated the Indestructible Concrete Body. He once fought three hundred moves against the deputy head of Group Seven, neither winning nor losing."
"Such a formidable guy, why would he come to Danxia City?"
Hearing Chen Mobai's question, Lan Haitian's brow furrowed slightly. He had laid the groundwork for a while, emphasizing Immovable's strength, just to set up the reveal of his own ability to defeat the opponent in three moves, to show off impressively.
But Chen Mobai cut off the question halfway, leaving Lan Haitian feeling a stifled irritation in his chest.
"I had intended to extract information from his Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, but he destroyed himself with six Gengjin hand grenades."
"But I checked his itinerary; there were three people who left the train station."
"The other two have also been located. I'll take care of them tonight."
Lan Haitian spoke with ease, as if he was talking about going out for a simple meal.
"Then you be careful."
Chen Mobai didn't take the bait, simply leaving those words behind as he flew off.
"Hey, wait, don't you want to see the hidden, dark world of the Immortal Gate?"
"With me taking action, your safety is absolutely guaranteed."
"Not everyone gets this kind of opportunity."
Lan Haitian had barely finished speaking when Chen Mobai had already disappeared.
After returning home, he chatted with Yan Bingxuan for a while, then took a medium-grade spirit stone in one hand to cultivate his Four Yang Body, and with the other hand, he released the Qingyang Fire Seed, enhancing its power with the Pure Qing Technique.
The ability to multitask was taught to him by Yang Jing, and it was just in time as his Divine Control Technique had reached the level of Distracted Mind and Thoughts, which he learned instantly.
Chen Mobai, with his unwavering Dao heart, was completely immune to any verbal temptations, maintaining his true self and enhancing his strength in his own way.