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"Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, Radiant Light Fan, Azure Flame Bindings, Crimson Jade Ribbon, Brahma Crossbow, Li Fire Bell, Great Sun Golden Needle."
Chen Mobai examined the names and images of the seven magical instruments displayed on the tablet, feeling that the two credits spent were well worth it.
"There's no telling how many third-tier magical instruments are actually in the Wanbao Cave; even the school principal might not be sure. The Wanbao Chart passed down by our student council only lists the confirmed ones."
Liu Tian Suan took Chen Mobai's contact information, packaged the search content into a file, and sent it to him.
"That is to say, these seven third-tier magical instruments are definitely located somewhere in the Wanbao Cave."
After receiving the file, Chen Mobai's eyes sparkled with anticipation.
After all, on the Tianhe Realm side, even the cheapest third-tier magical instrument would cost tens of thousands of spirit stones.
These instruments, after all, were meant for Foundation Establishment cultivators to use. Some of high quality could even serve as the embryo for a life-bound magical treasure, making their value incalculable.
"We can only confirm that these seven instruments were once sealed within the Yunqi Spheres and placed in the Wanbao Cave. As for whether they are still there now, that's not something we can guarantee."
Liu Tian Suan was meticulous in his speech, not leaving any loopholes.
"After all, some students, even if they find something good, won't make a big announcement about it. So, we can only try to perfect the information and content on the Wanbao Chart."
The one who said this was Mi Yu Dao, who usually earned some credits by updating information for the Wanbao Chart.
"The Yunqi Sphere I found previously should contain a broken flying sword, of the metal attribute…"
Chen Mobai sold the information about the Yunqi Sphere he had discovered to the student council. After all, it was worth one credit, and it was a waste not to earn it.
"Good, thank you for the information."
After listening to Chen Mobai's description, Liu Tian Suan cross-referenced the data of past graduates stored in the student council and came up with several guesses about the origin of the flying sword.
After finishing the business, Mi Yu Dao took Chen Mobai and left.
***
"Junior brother, would you be interested in joining forces with me?"
Mi Yu Dao was skilled in the art of Earth Escape. If he teamed up with Chen Mobai's Spirit Eye technique, they could earn a good amount of credits.
Chen Mobai thought it over and found it made sense.
After all, finding Yunqi Spheres was the hardest part. Once found, using various methods to detect and view the sealed magical instruments inside was relatively simple.
Just this year, Mi Yu Dao had found eight Yunqi Spheres not recorded on the Wanbao Chart, four dead-sealed and four live-sealed.
The live-sealed ones had also been inspected by another Foundation Establishment cultivator from the student council who practiced the Spirit Eye technique. He had to share the one credit worth of information fee.
"Since senior brother has made the offer, I'm naturally willing. You don't need to give me the credits; after all, it's your hard work."
Chen Mobai simply wanted to broaden his horizons.
Moreover, relying on himself to find third-tier magical instruments, who knows how long it would take? It was better to directly seek out Mi Yu Dao, the professional.
"Let's go."
***
Chen Mobai followed Mi Yu Dao to a Yunqi Sphere hanging at the entrance of a tunnel.
Activating his Hollow Spirit Eye technique, he saw a bell-shaped magical instrument inside, seemingly guarding the tunnel entrance, absorbing fire spirit energy.
Next, they went to the other three live-sealed locations.
Inside, he saw a pagoda, a page of a jade book, and a water-dividing trident.
"Not bad, not bad. Junior brother, your Spirit Eye technique is no less than Vice President Ming's. You saw exactly the same things."
After testing Chen Mobai's mettle, Mi Yu Dao nodded in satisfaction.
Then he took him to see the remaining four dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres.
Unfortunately, despite Chen Mobai's best efforts, he could not discern the shapes of the instruments inside.
"This Yunqi Sphere, Vice President Ming saw a square shadow, saying it might be a box."
Mi Yu Dao pointed to a Yunqi Sphere placed in an underground current and uttered words that slightly surprised Chen Mobai.
It was known that this Yunqi Sphere was dead-sealed. To be able to see through such a seal, it seemed that Vice President Ming's Spirit Eye technique was above his own.
"Not necessarily. His Spirit Eye technique leans towards the water attribute, so if the sealed magical instrument is of the water attribute, he can see a bit of a blurry outline."
After hearing Chen Mobai's sigh, Mi Yu Dao shook his head and explained the reason.
"What about you? What attribute is your Spirit Eye technique?"
"Fire, I guess."
Chen Mobai hesitated, then chose an attribute.
In truth, the Hollow Spirit Eye technique does not lean towards any attribute and is the most popular and adaptable Spirit Eye technique in the Immortal Gate.
"What a pity. If it were of the metal or earth attribute, that would be great."
Mi Yu Dao looked regretful. He was a true spiritual root of both metal and earth attributes, which was why he could practice the Earth Escape technique that allowed him to freely travel underground.
The reason he had been working so hard in the Wanbao Cave for so long was to find a third-tier metal-earth magical instrument suitable for himself.
However, in the Dance of the Instruments Academy, it had been nearly twenty years since anyone had found a third-tier magical instrument.
After bidding farewell to Chen Mobai, he randomly found a tunnel entrance, set up a formation and a prohibition to declare that someone was there, and started reading the information about the seven third-tier magical instruments given to him by Liu Tian Suan.
The information included not only the appraisal of the instruments but also the life stories of the previous users.
It even recorded the year they were placed in the Wanbao Cave.
Most valuable of all, it even included the incantations for cultivating and using the instruments.
It could only be said that the two credits were well spent, or perhaps it was the intention of the Dance of the Instruments Academy's student council to encourage them to open more Yunqi Spheres.
After all, once the incantations were in hand, there was a subtle mindset that only the instruments were missing.
After reading the introductions to the seven third-tier magical instruments, Chen Mobai felt an itch in his heart.
He took out his own instrument fragment, eager to open one and try his luck.
But in the end, he calmed down.
"As long as I continue to persistently cultivate the Hollow Spirit Eye, one day I will be able to see through the dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres."
Thinking this way, Chen Mobai dripped two drops of Clear Eye Bamboo Spirit Dew into his own eyes.
After completing the cultivation of the fire attribute spells in the Wanbao Cave, Chen Mobai teleported to the Divine Tree Secret Realm to continue practicing the wood attribute spells from the Immortality Scripture.
***
After brushing up on the proficiency of spells from both systems, Chen Mobai was about to make an appearance at Xiao Nanshan.
Looking at the towering treasure tree in front of him, he suddenly thought of the "Immortal Tree Sap" he still had.
Could this be used to cultivate the Hollow Spirit Eye?
It wasn't Chen Mobai's style to rashly experiment with his own body.
So he went to the Divine Wood Sect's library.
With his status as a Foundation Establishment elder, he could take three Qi Refining techniques for free each year.
Last year, he got the Earth Mother Technique and two other techniques whose names he forgot for Zhuo Ming. This year, he hadn't used this privilege yet, so it was a good opportunity to exchange for a Qi Refining chapter of the Immortality Dao Body to take a look.
After greeting Brother Hu, he found out that there was no Qi Refining chapter for the Immortality Dao Body; it started with Foundation Establishment.
Having no choice, he paid one medium-grade spirit stone for a deluxe edition.
Back at Xiao Nanshan, he first patrolled the sixty acres of fertile land.
Under Zhuo Ming's meticulous care, coupled with the gathering of earth energy during the cultivation of the Earth Mother Technique, which condensed the mother energy of all things, the seeds in these spirit fields were thriving, even better than the ones Chen Mobai planted at Xiaoyangling last year.
However, this was not because Zhuo Ming's agricultural skills had surpassed his, but because the spirit fields at Xiaoyangling were only first-tier, while the sixty acres of spirit fields under Xiao Nanshan had been upgraded to second-tier after last year's plowing and fertilizing.
The ten acres with the most abundant spirit energy were planted with jade bamboo, in preparation for the Divine Wood Sect's only second-tier spirit rice.
It seemed that there would be a good harvest this year.
He grabbed a handful of soil and put on his gold-rimmed glasses to check the spirit energy over a large area. Seeing the originally barren spirit fields becoming more and more vibrant, even attracting the spirit energy of Xiao Nanshan, Chen Mobai was very satisfied with Zhuo Ming's achievements.
At this rate, it was possible that in a few decades, Xiao Nanshan would upgrade to a fourth-tier spirit vein.
Speaking of spirit veins, Chen Mobai thought of Yun Yangbing.
His good brother had a special Gathering Spirit Array that could enhance spirit veins. Placing one on the mountain peak would at least allow him to enjoy it first.
Even if it couldn't reach the fourth-tier, a third-tier peak was also very good.
Chen Mobai was thinking about whether to set up a set for his two disciples as well, but after thinking about it, Jumuling was not an Immortal Gate, and Liu Wenbo and Zhuo Ming didn't lack spirit energy.
Moreover, if their realms were rashly improved, their foundations would be unstable, and it would become a hidden danger when establishing their foundations.
After all, not everyone was like him, able to integrate the techniques of the Immortal Gate and the resources of the Tianhe Realm, and forcibly succeed in Foundation Establishment.
Soon, Zhuo Ming also came over.
She was accompanied by two disciples from the Alchemy Department, who came over and saluted Chen Mobai.
"Master, why didn't you call me when you came out of seclusion?"
"Stillness leads to movement. You don't have to worry about me; I'm just taking a look."
Chen Mobai scattered the soil in his hands, patted his hands, and turned to return to Xiao Nanshan.
Zhuo Ming, who was about to report on the progress of the spirit wine development, saw her master flying into the sky and could only shake her head helplessly, continuing back to the wine-making workshop with the two Alchemy Department disciples.
At the foot of Xiao Nanshan, Zhuo Ming had built quite a few wooden houses, not only for the ordinary people who plowed and sowed to live in but also to store spirit rice and spirit wine.
Chen Mobai initially inquired about it, but seeing Zhuo Ming so capable, he completely let go this year.
After reading the Immortality Dao Body, Chen Mobai nodded to himself.
This Immortal Tree Sap could affect any part of the body.
According to the explorations of the ancestors of the Divine Wood Sect, this was the best body-refining spiritual substance in the entire Donghuang, with no side effects and, if there was enough quantity, it could break through the shackles of talent and continuously advance.
The Immortality Dao Body had only three realms: Immortality, Indestructibility, and Eternal Life.
This body-refining technique, the orthodox method of cultivation, required infusing each of the 206 bones in the human body with a drop of Immortal Tree Sap. This would create an indestructible skeletal framework, and then through the bone channels, the power of the Immortal Tree Sap would spread from the inside out, permeating the internal organs, muscles, skin, meridians, acupoints, and so on.
In other words, to cultivate the Spirit Eye, one could start by infusing the bones around the eye sockets with Immortal Tree Sap.
It is said that the body-refining technique is a method to unlock the original power of human bloodlines.
Some cultivators with average spiritual roots, by practicing body-refining techniques, could awaken innate divine abilities and step onto a broader path.
However, after reading it, Chen Mobai had no intention of cultivating the Immortality Dao Body.
Because without Immortal Tree Sap, relying solely on refining one's own spiritual energy and drawing from spirit stones, it was almost impossible to succeed.
The Divine Wood Sect's method of using 206 drops of Immortal Tree Sap to infuse into the bone marrow, and then spreading it throughout the body through the bone channels, was already the most economical method.
And this was just the first "Immortality" realm.
Chen Mobai took out that drop of Immortal Tree Sap and dripped it onto the bone above his left eye.
Instantly, he felt a gentle and vast vitality merge into it.
He ran the Lamp Lighting Technique to refine the vitality, manually spreading the effect of the Immortal Tree Sap towards the left eyeball and the surrounding blood vessels, muscles, and eye socket skeleton.
Chen Mobai multitasked, also running the Hollow Spirit Eye technique, and began to rapidly absorb the vitality of the Immortal Tree Sap.
He didn't know how much time had passed when he lifted his head.
He saw a ring of green light around the pupil of his left eye, like the halo of the sun, mysterious and profound.
Since the Hollow Spirit Eye technique was the most popular in the Immortal Gate and didn't have specific realm divisions, Chen Mobai didn't know what level his left eye had reached after absorbing some of the Immortal Tree Sap.
But he had a way to verify it.
***
Back in the Wanbao Cave, Chen Mobai went to one of the dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres that Mi Yu Dao had shown him.
It was a tributary of an underground dark flow, and this Yunqi Sphere was said to be a square box.
Chen Mobai's eyes shone with a clear luster, especially his left eye, which lit up with a mysterious deep green light. He focused his gaze on the white jade sphere at the bottom of the water.
Soon, he saw a dual vision in his eyes.
The right eye still couldn't see clearly, only the surface layer of white jade luster.
But in the vision of the left eye, he saw through the shell and spiritual liquid to a vague square shape occupying most of the space.
It seemed that although the left eye had absorbed some of the power of the Immortal Tree Sap and the Hollow Spirit Eye had reached a higher level, it still couldn't completely see the true face of the dead-sealed Yunqi Sphere.
His left eye's Spirit Eye technique should now be about the same as that of the student council's Vice President Ming.
To be precise, it was on the same level when viewing dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres containing water attribute magical instruments.
But Chen Mobai's Hollow Spirit Eye could see all attributes of dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres.
To verify this, Chen Mobai went to see the other three dead-sealed Yunqi Spheres that Mi Yu Dao had shown him.
However, he was only able to see through one of them, which was a circular magical instrument. Although he also saw through the shells of the other two dead-sealed spheres, he couldn't see their specific shapes.
It might be because they hadn't been sealed for long, and the isolation effect of the spiritual liquid hadn't worn off too much.
It seemed he needed to find a way to obtain more Immortal Tree Sap to continue improving the Hollow Spirit Eye.
Chen Mobai checked the information; there are seven bones around the eye socket.
If he had six more drops of Immortal Tree Sap, he should be able to bring his left eye to its peak, right?