I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 2412 - 1081: Gold-Red Immortal Flower (Part 4)

With Chen Mobai's direct involvement, the majority of the Heavenly Tribulation Green Thunder's essence got drawn straight into his personal domain.

After gaining the wisdom from the Ascension Sect leader, his domain starts to display certain features of the Law Domain, enabling him to pull in a bit of essence from heaven and earth over a brief period, but only as much as his body can handle without overflowing.

Handing this over to the Immortal Gate for refining the Qing Shuang Sword might just push it up to the mid-tier of the fifth rank.

Chen Mobai holds a strong bond with all the companions and items that have journeyed alongside him, so the instant he spotted the Heavenly Tribulation Green Thunder sparked by the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple, that idea hit him right away.

After seven full days, the relentless green thunder pouring down from above at last starts to weaken and disperse into the air.

At that very moment, though, the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple hits its breaking point.

The Earth Mother Seal materializes right at the center of her forehead, and the ever-watchful Zhuo Ming wastes no time in alerting Chen Mobai. He responds in a flash, unleashing the Rank-5 Pulling Seedlings to Promote Growth once more, channeling it together with the amassed earth energy from Zhuo Ming right into the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple, helping the spiritual plant that had dropped out of the fifth rank's level from losing too much elemental power.

Along with a dazzling surge of crimson light like nothing before, the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple at last shatters its barrier and unleashes an even clearer, more radiant spiritual glow.

As the fifth-rank aura surges back up to the skies, the Heavenly Tribulation that had scattered earlier in the heavens suddenly gets roused and rushes back together toward the middle.

A sharp, icy green radiance takes shape in the heart of the pitch-black clouds hanging in the void, looking just like a blade of divine retribution, slamming down onto the top of Mount Tianpeng.

Chen Mobai squints his eyes while the enormous Thousand Swords Dharma Body erupts from the earth below and towers over the mountain's peak.

By combining the Heaven Cutting Sword Domain with the Swords Slaughter Formation, the Purple Electric Sword turns into a brilliant streak of color and rockets upward, smashing right into the Heavenly Tribulation's green beam.

In the midst of the booming thunderclap, every cultivator across the Eastern Wilderness senses the ground quaking and the Spirit Veins shuddering!

Could this be an earthquake?

Cultivators who don't know what's happening scratch their heads, since the Sky Curtain Ground Network's full rollout has kept the Eastern Wilderness free from shakes like this.

But the ones in the know feel a chill of terror run through them.

They realize the raw power is already frightening without reaching Divinity Transformation, so when it actually hits that stage, it could flip the entire Eastern Wilderness in a heartbeat.

And knowing their own sect leader is the one pushing toward Divinity Transformation fills the Five Elements Sect's disciples with pride, as they stare at Mount Tianpeng with deeper awe.

Zhou Shengqing and his group feel a knot of worry inside, but to not interrupt Chen Mobai's seclusion, they keep patrolling their Immortal Cities as Town Guards, pacing restlessly while hoping for news from Mount Tianpeng.

Once Chen Mobai's Thousand Swords Dharma Body smashes the final thread of Heavenly Tribulation green light, a clear snapping noise bursts from the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple's trunk.

Cracks spiderweb across its aged bark one by one, as if it's shifting and evolving, but even deeper, the trunk itself starts to fracture open.

"Master, it can’t endure the strength of the fifth rank!"

Zhuo Ming alerts Chen Mobai without delay; through the state of All Things Spiritual Communication, she grasps the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple's condition better than the plant itself does.

"The Heavenly Tribulation has passed; ascendance counts as successful, but the foundation is unstable..."

Chen Mobai tunes into the void's Echoes in the Void and swiftly grasps what's happening with the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple right now.

Without any help, it would slough off all its outer bark and much of its trunk, holding onto just the cleanest core piece at the fifth-rank level, then over countless years, slowly drawing in heavenly essence and fire spiritual power to rebuild bit by bit until it's fully a fifth-rank spiritual plant.

This shows just how tough it is for a spiritual plant to achieve the Tao.

Still, the stubborn vitality and might of a spiritual plant's life force shine through loud and clear in this ordeal.

If this were a human cultivator facing the same hurdle, it'd already count as a botched Divinity Transformation.

But the spiritual plant can cling to its fifth-rank standing by giving up most of its trunk, then rely on time to regrow.

Chen Mobai catches a faint glimpse of understanding, but his hands keep moving without pause.

The Second Primeval Spirit emerges from behind his head, hovering over the splitting Five-Cornered Ancient Maple, and unleashes the Blooming Moment.

A vibrant divine glow spills from the Second Primeval Spirit's palms, like a cascade of rainbow drops falling onto various spots of the spiritual plant. Yet these drops act like little embers, sparking a blaze of multicolored flames across the spiritual plant.

Before long, the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple's changes come to a stop, and then Zhuo Ming feels the plant's core essence starting to gather without end, blending with the colorful divine light to sprout Immortal Flowers in all sorts of hues right on the trunk.

As Blooming Moment keeps working, the gold and red flowers multiply, beginning to consume the other Immortal Flowers of different colors.

In the end, the whole Five-Cornered Ancient Maple fades away from the peak of Mount Tianpeng, leaving behind just a single Immortal Flower blending gold and red, shaped like a spiraling two-tone bloom.

This shade doesn't line up with what Shi Qing first mentioned.

She said the Blooming Moment ought to yield an Immortal Flower in nine colors.

That said, since the Flower Bloom Courtyard lineage rarely gets to apply this forbidden art, examples are few and far between.

When Master Chengxuan once formed the Fire Spirit Tree, the Immortal Flower it produced was a blazing red.

So based on Yuan Xu's studies, the hue of the Immortal Flower from Blooming Moment ties back to the spiritual plant's own nature.

Chen Mobai eyes the golden-red Immortal Flower born from the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple, sensing his own fully refined Innate Pure Yang Qi beginning to churn inside him, leaving him utterly stunned.

This reaction means the Immortal Flower matches perfectly with his Pure Yang Scroll, strong enough to rouse the Pure Yang Qi.

Of course, it might also stem from how he used a forbidden technique to condense a fifth-rank Five-Cornered Ancient Maple; after all, neither Immortal Gate nor Flower Bloom Courtyard records show any case of using fifth-rank spiritual plant material like this.

With that in mind, Chen Mobai extends his hands with grave care and picks the golden-red Immortal Flower.

"Congratulations, Master!"

Zhuo Ming picks up on the Immortal Flower's exceptional quality, as if it holds some deep secret of the Great Tao, holding down the earth network over thousands of miles; using All Things Spiritual Communication, she senses this matches exactly the range of Spirit Veins the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple had drawn upon.

At the same time, the Earth Mother Seal on Zhuo Ming's forehead fades, clearly from brushing against the Great Tao in the golden-red Immortal Flower, even making her head spin.

"Break the connection of All Things Spiritual Communication..."

As Chen Mobai says this, he tucks the golden-red Immortal Flower away into his domain.

Once sealed off, Zhuo Ming snaps back to normal, and the Earth Mother Seal on her forehead glows again.

Not long after, Qing Nu shows up with the little Yellow Dragon Girl after getting Chen Mobai's summons.

Chen Mobai had recorded the full process of the Five-Cornered Ancient Maple's breakthrough, and Qing Nu views it eagerly, then examines the Immortal Flower up close herself, confirming it's at least as good as the Communicating Holy Spirit Pill, and maybe even better thanks to its special harmony with Chen Mobai.

"Ming’er, you and your mistress should leave together; I need to undergo closed-door training here, likely for an extended period!"

After Qing Nu explains the outside world's stir during the Heavenly Tribulation Green Thunder, Chen Mobai chooses Mount Tianpeng as the spot for his Divinity Transformation seclusion without a second thought.

Once Qing Nu and Zhuo Ming head out, he casts one final glance over the Eastern Wilderness and activates Turtle Treasure, heading back to Immortal Gate.