I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 2625 - 1199: Foundations of a Comeback

Before this, Chen Mobai had relied most heavily on the Five Elements Sect and the Immortal Gate as his main sources of connections for logging in.

Connections from the Immortal Gate had already shrunk a lot after he stepped down from the Orthodox Law Hall Master role. Once he quits as principal of the Dance Tool Dao Academy too, only personal ties would remain mostly.

Bai Guang's left experiences indicate that to Cultivate Void, keeping some connections tied to oneself is essential. These can yank the true self back from the Endless Void during the direst moments.

Even though Chen Mobai sat only at the Middle Stage of Deity Transformation right now, this stage held no challenge for him. Time was all it needed; swallowing the Ascension Dragon Gall Pill would propel him straight to Perfection.

Thus, setting up the handover of connections at this point isn't premature at all.

"Master, there are still some places..."

Having gained the Emperor’s Scroll inheritance, Jiang Zongheng grew even keener on spots in the secret realm where the small Dragon Capturing Tripod reacted strongly.

Sharing the same feeling, Chen Mobai trailed him to every such spot.

A shoreline pavilion welcomed them, featuring a jade round table etched with dragons and phoenixes right in the middle. Emerald stools encircled it, radiating the Imperial Court's opulent splendor.

Primordial True Qi poured down, letting Chen Mobai swiftly detect a concealed restriction under the table, shaped like a miniature mountain.

The Primordial Clock's resonance allowed him to effortlessly dissolve this restriction.

Another jade box lay revealed inside.

A jade scroll rested within that box as well.

As Chen Mobai assumed this was yet another segment of the Emperor’s Scroll, the Multicolored Python shifted form, lifting the scroll to display opening characters: "East Continent Dragon Vein Map."

Disappointment instantly clouded Chen Mobai’s expression.

Long before, amid the Eastern Emperor Court's cloud dispersal, the Dao Morale Sect had reshaped the East Continent Dragon Vein into East Land's grandest medicine field. Its lowest zones hit Rank-5 Spirit Field, with the heart soaring to Rank-6, nurturing nearly every rare bloom, herb, and millennial treasure of the East Continent.

Still, since the Eastern Emperor Court stashed this here, it surely hid secrets beyond mere dragon veins.

Channeling his Dragon Spirit Power into it, Chen Mobai soon realized that despite the dragon vein map label, it truly mapped the Spirit Vein minerals under Eastern Emperor Court control throughout the East Continent.

Its scope stretched past East Land into farther regions.

Chen Mobai spotted Wandering Mountain—now Five Elements Sect territory—plus various ruined spirit veins spotted by imperial Earth Masters, like the Dongling Domain Spirit Vein freshly tapped in recent decades, Shetuoling, and more.

All marked spirit veins ranked Rank-4 or higher.

Eastern Wilderness, for instance, bore the note "Yunmeng River, Yellow Dragon Mansion"!

In the Eastern Emperor Court days, Eastern Wilderness remained the True Spirit Yellow Dragon's turf.

Near the map's close, Chen Mobai saw the makers: Jiangshan Pavilion and the Land Observation Bureau.

Belonging to the Hall of Ten Directions, these two shone in Array Dao and Earth Mastery prowess. Probably commissioned by the Human Emperor, they drafted this East Continent resource map. Regrettably, time has buried these mighty forces in oblivion.

"Master, this spot actually hides a massive Spirit Stone mine?"

While poring over the distribution map, Jiang Zongheng and Chen Mobai swiftly matched it against Five Elements Sect lands today, jabbing at a red-circled zone.

The note called it a Spirit Stone Mine.

What's more, it lay close to Eastern Wilderness—think advancing a hundred miles deeper into ruins from where Chen Mobai and Ye Qing slew devil cultivators amid Mirage Fog, exactly E Yun's next scouting ground.

Such a vast Spirit Stone Mine brims with Superior Grade Spirit Stones in its main vein, and Supreme Grade ones pop out easily from the nucleus.

When the Five Elements Sect shattered Xuan Xiao Dao Palace, they claimed its assets, among them Dove Mound Mountain's huge Spirit Stone Mine, split between three clans.

Over a century of extraction by those three families had nearly drained it dry.

And yet, the Five Elements Sect hauled out more than a billion Spirit Stones from it.

From this, one can easily grasp the tremendous worth of an untouched Spirit Stone Mine, which could fetch tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of Spirit Stones.

"Here, you take this. From now on, the matters of the Five Elements Sect will be left to you juniors."

With the Heavenly Calculation Bead, Chen Mobai examined the "East Continent Dragon Vein Map" before passing it over to Jiang Zongheng, who nodded promptly and accepted it respectfully using both hands.

Next, they headed to additional sites.

The majority consisted of jade boxes filled with scripts and diagrams of various inheritances. What astonished Chen Mobai most were scores of jade slips outlining the Hundred Arts of Cultivation Immortal—spanning Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Formations, Talisman Making, Puppetry, and detailing everything from Rank-1 through Rank-6.

Chen Mobai sighed in wonder at this; it proved beyond doubt that knowledge held supreme value in this realm.

For the Eastern Emperor Court, evidently, these inheritances ensured that decline could one day give way to resurgence.

Regrettably, they now all fell under the Five Elements Sect's possession.

Chen Mobai used the Heavenly Calculation Bead to scan them all, then instructed Jiang Zongheng to secure them within a Storage Bag.

In short order, the duo reached the ultimate spot signaled by the small Dragon Capturing Tripod.

This lay deep within a palace.

It resembled a Cultivation Room.

Upon dissolving a floor tile, Chen Mobai uncovered not some form of knowledge this time, but rather a compact tripod.

A careful check revealed it to be yet another small Dragon Capturing Tripod.