Chapter 76: True Lord of Unity

After Yan Bingxuan finished her demonstration, she confidently took a cup of coffee and left.

Chen Mobai escorted her to the entrance of the cultivation gym, then thought that he couldn't waste the two hours, so he returned to the spell practice area. Following the key points she had explained, he began to practice the Ice Spell.

With the spiritual energy transferred by Yan Bingxuan and his personal experience, he already understood how to convert the Five Elements power into ice spiritual energy. The only issue now was to grasp the moment when the ice spiritual energy would form.

Even though he understood the key points, mastering the subtle moment when the cold breath was about to form but not yet fully formed still required constant and arduous practice.

If it was too fast, it would cause frostbite to the twelfth floor of the throat; if it was too slow, it wouldn't achieve the freezing effect.

After more than an hour of arduous practice, Chen Mobai returned home, feeling his throat hoarse and almost unable to speak.

On the way, he bought a dozen bottles of pear syrup from a large pharmacy. After returning home, he mixed them with warm water and drank half a bottle in one go. The next day, he felt his throat was a bit better.

When he went out, sure enough, there was a huge package waiting for him.

The shopkeeper of the Wood Spirit Talisman Store had sent it via same-city express delivery. Chen Mobai opened it and saw that the four to five hundred talismans were neatly placed in transparent plastic boxes according to their types, and he couldn't help but admire the shopkeeper's attention to detail.

He put the mid- and low-level talismans in his backpack and carefully placed the eleven first-grade superior talismans in the inner pocket of his traditional-style suit.

Finally, Chen Mobai's gaze fell on the only sealed talisman.

A second-grade inferior Yi Wood Divine Thunder Talisman!

This single talisman alone was worth 50,000 merit points, the most expensive thing he had ever bought with his money.

He carefully read the instructions attached by the shopkeeper, word by word.

The "Yi Wood Divine Thunder Talisman" is activated in the same way as ordinary talismans, but for a Qi Practitioner, it consumes a bit more spiritual energy. The shopkeeper had conducted tests, and a Qi Practitioner at the seventh level would have nearly half of their spiritual energy drained when activating it.

Chen Mobai had known this beforehand, as it was mentioned in the product description.

To be on the safe side, he also bought five Recovery Talismans, so he wouldn't run out of spiritual energy during a battle and be at the mercy of others.

Carefully placing the sealed "Yi Wood Divine Thunder Talisman" in the pocket inside his sleeve, Chen Mobai felt a significant increase in his sense of security.

He called his mother and told her that he had bought a monthly membership at the cultivation gym and would be spending a lot of time there with some ambitious classmates to hone their spell skills.

Tang Pancui knew that this year's Dao Academy entrance exam was a battle, so she naturally supported her son's decision and even transferred him 1,000 merit points, telling him not to be frugal.

Chen Mobai immediately refused to accept it, knowing that the family was also in a tight financial situation. He told his mother that the gym membership included meals, accommodation, and showers, so there was no need for additional merit points.

After all preparations were in place, he teleported to the Tianhe Realm with his backpack full of talismans and spiritual medicines.

In the silver light, Chen Mobai opened his eyes and saw the familiar wooden walls around him, and he let out a sigh of relief.

As expected, Gui Bao had anchored the teleportation point to the same location he had returned to the city from, just as he had tested before. Although the rule was simple, this was Chen Mobai's first time teleporting back in a crowded place, so he was a bit nervous, fearing that someone might notice him.

Looking around outside, he saw that his cheapest low-lying feng shui treasure land was still only occupied by him, and he felt relieved.

In the days that followed, Chen Mobai practiced the Ice Spell while setting up a stall on Qingguang Island to sell talismans and also inquired about which direction in the Yunmeng Marsh was best for him to practice on the beasts.

Thanks to the local cultivators' ability to appraise talismans, his business was very good.

A first-grade inferior talisman, which costs 200 gold taels in the Nanxi Market, could be sold for 300 gold taels here; a first-grade mid-grade Green Arrow Talisman and Wood Armor Talisman could be sold for 2,000 gold taels here.

As for the first-grade superior talismans, he didn't plan to sell them for now.

After all, his business was already attracting some attention from other vendors in the market. He planned to focus on the mid- and low-level market, where the talismans were traded in gold. Most of the backgrounded Qi Practitioners were too lazy to earn this small amount of money.

When setting up his stall, Chen Mobai wrote the name and price of each talisman on a piece of cloth and sat on a small stool made of a wooden stump. When customers came to ask about the prices, he simply pointed to the cloth and then pointed to his throat, coughing twice to indicate that his throat was injured and he couldn't speak.

In this way, he drank pear syrup to nourish his frostbitten throat while reading the book "True Lord of Unity's Great River Dragon Chronicles" given to him by Lu Mu.

This was a small book, about the size of a palm, specifically for passing the time.

It told the story of the last cultivator to ascend to the higher realm in the Tianhe Realm in the past ten thousand years, True Lord of Unity.

The Tianhe cultivation world now uses the Unity Calendar.

The year True Lord of Unity ascended is the first year of the Unity Calendar, which is 6,478 years ago. Before this True Lord, the Yunmeng Marsh was not the current vast water expanse but a continuous range of mountains known as the "Yunmeng Great River," a nearly sixth-grade spiritual land.

At that time, the Yunmeng Great River was dominated by a fifth-grade yellow dragon beast.

This beast not only had true dragon blood but was also at the Transformation Realm. Even cultivators of the same realm would lose nine out of ten times when facing it.

True Lord of Unity, during his Qi Practitioner stage, trained in the Yunmeng Great River. Seeing the humans being enslaved and oppressed by the beasts, he angrily intervened but was severely injured. Fortunately, he fell into the ruins of an ancient cultivator and received a great opportunity.

A thousand years later, True Lord of Unity reached the Transformation Realm. Before ascending, he single-handedly wielded a sword and entered the Yunmeng Great River.

After slaying eighteen fourth-grade Core Formation beasts, he battled the yellow dragon for seven days and seven nights, shattering the Yunmeng Great River into a vast water expanse. He then exhausted his spiritual energy to use a heaven-defying immortal technique to subdue the fifth-grade beast and finally ascended riding the dragon.

The small book given to Chen Mobai by Lu Mu told this story.

After reading it, Chen Mobai had only one thought.

Absolutely cannot let the Tianhe Realm know about the existence of the Deyuan Star.

Although the Deyuan Star has produced many Transformation Realm ancestors in its history, none of them have detailed records of ascending. At most, they reached the pinnacle of cultivation and explored the boundless void of the stars.

In this regard, even though the Immortal Sect has two Transformation Realm ancestors, its overall strength might not be as strong as the Tianhe Realm.

Unfortunately, there were no books in the market introducing the cultivation worlds outside the Eastern Wasteland. It was said that only the seven major sects and large merchant guilds had such information. Chen Mobai could only lament how outdated the information dissemination in this world was.

If he were on the Deyuan Star, he could easily find out how high the sky was, how thick the earth was, and how vast the territory of the Immortal Sect was with just a few taps of his fingers.