Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 321 Retreat

On the ocean, a vast fleet of warships sailed on and on.

Mu Mu's long-distance starlight teleportation requires coordinates, which can be obtained using the black unicorn left behind by Yi Yan.

However, Yi Yan has been wanted for decades, and she has very few unicorns left in the South China Sea. She uses the black unicorn closest to the South China Sea Dragon Palace as a coordinate to teleport to the South China Sea Dragon Palace.

The pagoda that allows one to travel through space took a year to build.

At this moment, they were already close to the Dragon Palace of the South Sea.

Even if the pagoda is hidden in the air, it will still be discovered by the outer forces of the Dragon Palace, because it is difficult for the pagoda to hide from the Heavenly Demons when it travels through space.

So Yi Dong simply stopped hiding and let Tai Chu Zi Xing release its warships to attack the demon forces surrounding the South China Sea Dragon Palace head-on, drawing their attention away from the enemy.

The pagoda forcibly approached the Dragon Palace of the South China Sea.

If possible, Yi Dong did not want to go there in person.

Unfortunately, whether it's the Great Awakening Puppet or the Karma Puppet, only I can control it.

If Number Two were here, he could help me command the Great Awakening Puppet, but unfortunately Number Two is still in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

The same applies to the Thirteen True Spirit Longswords; as long as I am here, the Thirteen True Spirit Longswords will not act recklessly.

However, without his supervision, Yi Dong felt that the Primordial Purple Apricot might clash with some of the True Spirit Longswords.

Therefore, Yi Dong had no choice but to go and take command.

Even with the fleet of Primordial Purple Apricot drawing away enemies around the Dragon Palace, the Floating Pagoda still managed to stop them before it could get close to the Dragon Palace.

Various sea monsters launched an attack on the pagoda.

The strongest of the sea monsters besieging the Pagoda was a sixth-order celestial demon, and the weakest was a third-order demon general.

As they approached the seventh-tier spiritual vein, the number of demons surrounding the Dragon Palace exceeded Yi Dong's expectations.

More importantly, these monsters were not a scattered group. The monster armies moved in an orderly manner, with well-balanced offense and defense. Countless military formations formed an even larger array to seal off space and suppress all things, making it extremely difficult for the Floating Pagoda to move, let alone travel through space.

Yi Dong discovered that the reason why the formation of the demon beast army was so strong was that not only did each of the third-tier demon beasts possess excellent magic weapons, but the high-tier demon beasts also wielded their natal spiritual treasures and various acquired and innate spiritual treasures.

The attacks from numerous magical treasures struck the pagoda in rapid succession, causing it to tremble continuously, which made Yi Dong somewhat nervous.

Even with the protection of the True Spirit Sword and the Karma Puppet, being besieged by tens of millions of demonic beasts, one might not be able to escape unscathed.

Just as Yi Dong was about to send out the Great Awakening Puppet to control the warship to fight back.

Inside the pagoda, thousands of karmic puppets began chanting nameless Buddhist scriptures.

The chanting grew louder and louder, until it was as loud as thunder.

The chanting of sutras sounded like muffled thunder, causing the seawater to ripple and gradually drowning out the sounds of the monster army's attacks.

After the sound resounded throughout the seabed, the invisible sound began to form tangible seven-colored Buddhist characters.

Countless Buddhist characters shot out in all directions like winding lines, and spread out in layers like ripples.

The seven-colored Buddhist script has extremely strong penetrating power. No matter what magic, supernatural power, magic weapon, or spiritual treasure the demon beast uses, it cannot resist it. It can only watch helplessly as the Buddhist script invades its brain and even soul.

Gradually, swastika marks appeared in the eyes of the demonic beasts, and the demonic power within their bodies began to forcibly transform into Buddhist power.

The demonic beasts invaded by the Buddhist scriptures initially showed signs of extreme pain, but after the pain subsided, they exuded a strange fanatical emotion, as if they had become fanatical believers.

The demon beasts that had become Buddhist believers quickly shifted their targets, attacking those demon beasts that had not been invaded by Buddhist scripture and those that had been invaded by Buddhist scripture but whose consciousness had not changed.

As Yi Dong watched as one organized legion of demonic beasts after another defected, his pupils began to contract.

"As expected, the inheritance that Yi Ling brought back was the inheritance of the Evil Buddha."

This ability to forcibly convert believers must be a soul-distorting supernatural power.

The Causal Puppet's Causal Sacred Body is even superior to the Lotus Puppet's Lotus Sacred Body. Could it be that the core ability of this puppet is the soul supernatural power?

Now that the Baolian puppet has escaped my control, will the future Causal Puppet, once it becomes powerful, betray me?

Thinking about all this, Yi Dong felt that he could no longer unconditionally trust the causal puppet.

"Fortunately, I will be able to use the Yellow Heaven Spiritual Treasure to control the Karma Puppet in the future."

Thinking of this, Yi Dong's mind stirred, and the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine in the abyss space trembled. Then, countless roots appeared in the seawater and began to absorb various kinds of flesh and blood.

As the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine absorbed flesh and blood, the souls of those demonic beasts had nowhere to go, and their damaged or complete souls were absorbed by the Floating Pagoda.

At some point, Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu also arrived at the tower floor where Yi Dong was located and stood beside him.

Clearly, the strange conversion ability of the causal puppets made the two of them somewhat uneasy, and they consciously came to Yi Dong's side to prevent the causal puppets from using their conversion ability on them.

Yi Dong ignored Dongfang Hong and the other person. He noticed that the causal puppet inside the Floating Pagoda was slowly getting stronger.

One by one, the puppets of cause and effect began to break through to the level of Guanyin, which was equivalent to the God of Deification.

The original twelve Guanyin statues of cause and effect even gave the feeling that they were about to break through to the Bodhisattva realm.

At this moment, Yi Dong's fear of the causal puppet deepened.

Not only does the Causal Puppet's advancement have no bottlenecks, but it also consumes very few resources. It seems that all it takes is killing to meet the advancement requirements, making its breakthrough difficulty more than ten thousand times easier than that of a normal cultivator.
There are countless monsters surrounding the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea.

The battle has been going on for a full two weeks and is still at a stalemate.

The number of monsters that have died in the past two weeks may be over 300 million.

It's important to understand that these dead demonic beasts were at least at the third tier. If it weren't for the Karma Puppet's ability to forcibly convert the demonic beasts into fighting amongst themselves, the Primordial Purple Apricot and the Great Awakening Puppet's warships would have had no chance against the demonic beast army.

Although the battle scenes looked no different from half a month ago, Yi Dong still noticed some changes.

That means the number of celestial demons gathering here is increasing.

The Heavenly Demons are sixth-tier demonic beasts. Most of the Heavenly Demons that have gathered here are dragon-descended demonic beasts with the bloodline of true dragons. Some individuals with rich dragon blood may, to a certain extent, have combat power that is no different from that of a weaker True Spirit.

Surrounded by so many celestial demons, Yi Dong began to feel uneasy.

If Yi Dong was in such a state, Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu were naturally anxious, because Yi Dong still had the Thirteen True Spirit Longswords and the Karma Puppet to protect him, while the two of them did not have Yi Dong's protective power.

After exchanging a few words telepathically, Mu Mu and Dongfang Hong walked over to Yi Dong's side.

Mu Mu spoke up:

"Or, let's go."

My supernatural powers are not invincible, and I cannot guarantee that among those celestial demons, there are none who can intercept starlight transmission.

"We're still on the outskirts, and there are already so many demonic beasts attacking us. If we really go to the South Sea Dragon Palace, it's hard to say whether we'll even be able to get out."

Yi Dong nodded after hearing Mu Mu's words.

He originally thought that besides true dragons, there were only a few demonic beasts in the Four Seas Dragon Palace, and that he could take advantage of the situation after the true dragons left.

Unexpectedly, there were so many demonic beasts guarding the outer perimeter.

It is conceivable that the danger of the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea must be far greater than one imagines.

At this point, even if Mu Mu didn't say anything, Yi Dong would have already backed down.

The reason they haven't retreated yet is because the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine has absorbed a lot of high-quality demon beast flesh and blood, and spiritual treasures are constantly being condensed.

Watching one magical treasure after another being born, Yi Dong felt a surge of exhilaration that made him somewhat intoxicated.

Seeing that Mu Mu was already somewhat uneasy, Yi Dong naturally wouldn't continue to take risks.

As Yi Dong's orders were relayed.

In an instant, the rhythm of the chanting of those causal puppets changed, and the sound, which was originally like a gentle stream, suddenly became rapid and loud.

Outside, the transformed demon beasts seemed to feel an inexplicable joy. Each one raised its head, then emitted a Buddha-light from its body and died on the spot, ascending to the Pure Land.

The souls of the demonic beasts flew to the pagoda along with the Buddhist light emanating from their bodies.

The starlight vortex opened, and the Floating Pagoda disappeared into it.

When leaving, Yi Dong thought that the celestial demons would try to stop him, but to his surprise, not a single celestial demon blocked his way, allowing the Floating Pagoda to leave safely.

"It seems that these celestial demons are not entirely convinced of the dragon race's power."

But that makes sense, a celestial demon would have the power to fight even a true dragon.

With such strength, why would they willingly risk their lives for the dragon race?

The Pagoda reappeared on an island, an island for which Mu Mu had already prepared teleportation coordinates.

After Yi Dong arrived here, he did not find any trace of Tai Chu Zi Xing.

Previously, the Primordial Purple Apricot and the Floating Pagoda were separated, and the Purple Apricot was used to control the warship to attract attention.

It's likely that the enemy's warships were already overwhelmed by the monster army and haven't returned to this rendezvous point yet.

Could it have been captured by a monster?
Even if the Primordial Purple Apricot is lost, Yi Dong will not be sad.

At most, it's a pity that the Azure Mystery Cave Heaven and its large number of spirit stones and spiritual objects were lost.

Just as Yi Dong was thinking this, Mu Mu opened another starlight vortex, and Tai Chu Zi Xing's warships flew out of the vortex one by one, with Tai Chu Zi Xing naturally inside one of the warships.

The warships had all sustained some damage, and the battle appeared to be quite intense.

"It seems that with the Immortal Gold Warship, unless it is besieged by multiple True Dragons or encounters the Four Seas Dragon Kings, the Primordial Purple Apricot will not be in danger so easily."

The Primordial Purple Apricot can observe the workings of heaven and earth. Seventh-order beings can influence the workings of heaven and earth to a certain extent, so it may be difficult for them to stop the Primordial Purple Apricot.

Yi Dong couldn't say whether he was happy or not that Tai Chu Zi Xing was alright.

The reason why Yi Dong always disliked Tai Chu Zi Xing was because her supernatural power might be an enhanced version of his own innate supernatural power, "Mind Palace".

While one can accumulate endless knowledge, the Primordial Purple Apricot may accumulate even more.

If knowledge can be transformed into power, the power that the Primordial Purple Apricot transforms into is even stronger.

In terms of comprehension, the Primordial Purple Apricot has the advantage.

Yi Dong believes that Tai Chu Zi Xing restrained herself to some extent.

Therefore, Yi Dong never had any good feelings towards Tai Chu Zi Xing from beginning to end. He was even happy to see it get into trouble. Even if it didn't die, it would be good for it to leave him.

Unfortunately, for some reason, Tai Chu Zi Xing never left him.

After collecting the warships, Tai Chu Zi Xing also entered the Floating Pagoda.

Soon, the pagoda sped off in one direction.

(End of this chapter)