Chapter 189: Mastery of the Mind Cultivation and God Forging Technique

Inside the wooden cabin, Chen Mobai sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his forehead veined and his face twisted in pain. Just then, the white jade bell beside him chimed with a clear, melodious sound, like a heavenly melody entering his ears. His pained expression began to ease, gradually returning to normal.

About fifteen minutes later, Chen Mobai opened his eyes. Two bright flashes emanated from his pupils, slowly dimming after a long moment. This was a sign that his spiritual sense had broken through again, and he had yet to fully master it.

“The Clearfire Pill is truly remarkable,” Chen Mobai mused, shaking the white jade bell, its spirit-calming chimes ringing continuously. This allowed his spiritual sense, which had surged after the breakthrough, to gradually calm and slowly merge into the *Qingtong* sapling in his Sea of Consciousness. The sapling now had five leaves and even a flower bud emerging at its tip.

Unbeknownst to him, Chen Mobai had already been away from Danxia City for five months. After being taught by some of the most exceptional teachers from the Immortal Sect at the Weapon Dance Academy, he had resolved all his questions regarding Foundation Establishment. With the aid of the Dharma Performance Puppet, his transition to cultivating the Longevity Scripture was exceptionally smooth. His innate Five Elements technique could seamlessly convert into any Five Elements attribute cultivation method, and with ample spiritual energy and Qi-replenishing spiritual water, he quickly reached the sixth level of Qi Refining. If he desired, he could easily break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining after just seven days of secluded cultivation, thanks to the Dharma Performance Puppet's guidance.

However, it was at this time that his “Nourishing Thought Forging Spirit Art” reached the Grand Completion realm. While this was primarily due to taking a Clearfire Pill every seven days and the white jade bell's spirit-calming effect, which helped him manage his surging spiritual sense, it was still the first cultivation technique Chen Mobai had mastered to the Grand Completion realm, and he was overjoyed. Today, after taking his twenty-second Clearfire Pill, he successfully advanced his spiritual sense to the ninth level of Qi Refining. From this point on, while the Nourishing Thought Forging Spirit Art could still enhance his spiritual sense, further advancement—specifically, having his spiritual sense leave his body—would require cultivating other, higher-level techniques.

Listening to the white jade bell's spirit-calming chimes, Chen Mobai felt that the spiritual sense enhanced by the pills was now fully under his control, especially as the flower bud at the tip of the visualized *Qingtong* sapling in his Sea of Consciousness finally took shape.

“Qing Nu prepared just the right amount of pills for me,” Chen Mobai mused, “only one extra.” Chen Mobai picked up the jade bottle beside him. It contained the last Clearfire Pill, but it was of little use to him now.

After placing the pill and the white jade bell into his storage bag, Chen Mobai teleported to the Tianhe Realm.

It was another wooden cabin. He opened the wooden door to reveal neat rows of lush green seedlings. Looking out, he saw that the three *mu* of spirit fields, once overgrown with weeds, were now entirely covered with spirit rice seedlings. Although this was Chen Mobai's first time germinating and sowing seeds himself, he was familiar with all the steps, having often accompanied his mother to terraced fields in his childhood. He had also consulted the agricultural teacher at the Daoist Academy, so the seedlings he had sown were growing exceptionally well. Their leaves were tender green and slender, and their stems were straight and long, indicating that a bountiful harvest of spirit rice would soon be reaped.

Beyond these initial three *mu* of spirit fields, Chen Mobai had also begun cultivating additional spirit fields in his spare time, applying the knowledge he gained in class. He was likely the only one in the Divine Wood Sect who would undertake such a task. For other disciples, establishing new fields would take at least a year.

Agriculture was the most advanced sector within the Immortal Sect; all arable land had been converted into spirit fields. Not only was their technology highly developed, but they also possessed a wide variety of magical artifacts for tilling and cultivating the soil. After commissioning the Dharma Performance Puppet, Chen Mobai found himself short on funds and couldn't afford farm tools. Fortunately, the Daoist Academy had some available. He submitted an application to Lin Wenkang. Lin Wenkang, pleased with Chen Mobai's focus on agricultural studies following his work with puppetry, immediately approved his request to borrow the academy's farming tools. The academy's farm tools were of much higher quality than those available on the market, though they did consume a fair amount of spiritual energy.

Before establishing the spirit fields, he first needed to chop down the nearby Scarlet Sun trees. Chopping wood, for Chen Mobai, was second nature. The cultivation of spirit fields primarily depended on the grade of the spiritual vein. According to the Immortal Sect's methods, the second-grade, low-tier spiritual vein here could be evenly distributed across ten *mu* of first-grade, low-tier spirit fields. The Jade Bud Spirit Rice, which the Divine Wood Sect required Chen Mobai to cultivate, was a first-grade, low-tier spirit plant. The initial three *mu* of spirit fields, now cleared, tilled, and covered with soil, had already been fully sown. However, the newly opened seven *mu* of spirit fields, having just received the spiritual energy from the vein, would require another half a month of nurturing before they could be sown.

After inspecting the seedlings and confirming there were no signs of wilting, disease, or pests, he pulled up a few of the withered ones. As it was his first time farming within the Divine Wood Sect, Chen Mobai did not dare to plant the well-cultivated rice strains from the Immortal Sect. He could only use the Jade Bud Spirit Rice seeds distributed by the sect. With no room for seed selection, despite meticulously performing the sun-drying, soaking, germination, and sowing procedures, nearly a tenth of the sprouted seedlings were still less than ideal. However, thanks to the application of the Immortal Sect's spiritual fertilizer, Chen Mobai didn't need to worry about soil fertility or pest and disease infestations. Moreover, with his spiritual sense at Grand Completion, he could easily identify the yellowish seedlings. After removing and replacing them, these three *mu* of spirit fields now contained only excellent rice strains. Chen Mobai was confident that once the Jade Bud Spirit Rice matured, he could harvest at least 150 *jin* per *mu*. If he were given a few more years to optimize the strains, a yield of 200 *jin* per *mu* would certainly be possible.

Retrieving the spiritual fertilizer purchased from the Immortal Sect from his storage bag, Chen Mobai then produced the only farming tool he hadn't borrowed from the Daoist Academy. It was a small, circular disk, about half a meter in diameter—a flying puppet device he had crafted himself. A low-grade spirit stone placed in its central groove allowed it to fly for ten days and nights. Chen Mobai inserted one end of a transparent plastic hose into the large water tank by the wooden cabin's entrance, and the other into a protruding pipe on the upper part of the flying fertilizer puppet's disk. After injecting spiritual energy to activate it, the disk began to spin and fly, drawing the spiritual fertilizer solution from the tank and spraying it over every part of the spirit fields along the route Chen Mobai had set.

After confirming the fertilization was proceeding smoothly, Chen Mobai returned to his wooden cabin to continue his cultivation. Perhaps due to his spiritual sense reaching Grand Completion, this session of quiet meditation unexpectedly led him directly to a breakthrough to the seventh level of the Longevity Scripture. At this point, the spiritual energy vortex in his Dantian Qi Sea, which had once represented his Five Elements technique, was now merely a rudimentary outline. Chen Mobai had a strong intuition that once the Longevity Scripture fully absorbed this spiritual energy vortex, he would break through to the eighth level of Qi Refining. This was likely another benefit of his spiritual sense reaching Grand Completion.

At this thought, he remembered an unopened storage bag he possessed. Since his Nourishing Thought Forging Spirit Art had reached Grand Completion today, he could attempt to open it once more.

Stepping outside, he put the flying puppet, which had just completed its fertilizing work, back into his storage bag. Chen Mobai then activated a set of protective arrays he had acquired from the sect, primarily to guard the spirit fields against wild beasts from Giantwood Ridge that might come to gnaw on the seedlings. He then returned to Diyuan Star and retrieved the storage bag he had acquired from Qingguang Island from his backpack.