Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 332 Blue Bird
The starlight particles re-condensed into Yi Yan's body.

Looking at the mountain peak, Yi Yan sensed a massive spatial fluctuation from the direction of the summit.

"Is this the opening of a secret realm, or the birth of some supreme treasure?"

Yi Yan couldn't quite understand why the four True Spirits had been so anxious earlier.

In her view, true spirits, being beings who have already reached the pinnacle of the world, should have little to offer in return.

"The Four Dragon Kings and the Nine-Headed Dragon should have all arrived here."

Could it be that what appears here is an opportunity that allows a true spirit to break through to the level of a Dragon King, or even to allow a true spirit of the Dragon King level to advance further?

If that's the case, then it's understandable why the four true spirits were in such a hurry just now.

Thinking of this, Yi Yan immediately began to summon the black unicorn.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the black unicorns emerged from the pillar of starlight, they immediately lay down on the ground, as if a huge mountain was pressing down on them.

This applies not only to third-order systems but also to fourth-order systems.

Yi Yan's heart stirred; the mountain in front of her actually possessed such immense power.

A fourth-tier black unicorn is equivalent to a Nascent Soul ancient cultivator, and a black unicorn possesses true spirit bloodline, making it stronger than most ancient cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage.

Just as Yi Yan was about to send all the black unicorns back because they couldn't help her scout the way, she suddenly noticed that a third-tier black unicorn emerged from the starlight pillar. Not only was it able to move freely, but it could even fly around, looking like it wanted to approach the mountain but didn't dare to.

Black unicorns are the most numerous branch of the unicorn race. Although their average intelligence is generally lower than that of other types of unicorns, they are not lacking in any other aspects besides intelligence.

"Once a black unicorn reaches the fourth rank, it becomes very difficult to break through further. That's why I want to study the Dragon Transformation Pool."

With my current supernatural powers, I can communicate with unicorns of other colors at the fifth or even sixth tier. However, those unicorns completely ignore my summons, and I cannot forcibly summon them down.

Unlike me, after Yi Ze advances to the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao, he will likely be able to summon fifth and sixth-tier unicorns.

His supernatural abilities are not much different from mine; there shouldn't be such a big difference.

Since Yi Ze can summon unicorns other than the black unicorn, while I can only summon the black unicorn.

Does that mean that the black unicorn race has the same potential as other unicorns?
In the past, I thought the advantage of black unicorns was their quantity, while ignoring their individual potential.

Now it seems that, in terms of quality, the black unicorn is probably no less impressive than unicorns of other colors.

While other unicorns seem to find cultivation extremely difficult, the black unicorn not only has an exceptionally strong reproductive ability, but also appears to find cultivation remarkably easy.

Just like many barren unicorn worlds, where other unicorn races have basically disappeared, only the black unicorn, in such barren worlds, has not only not disappeared, but its race can still produce individuals of the third or even fourth tier.

Not only can black unicorns survive in harsh environments, they can even cultivate and break through to higher levels.

It seems that the black unicorn race may also possess powerful talents that they have not yet discovered.

With that in mind, Yi Yan immediately began to increase her summoning power.

At the same time, all the unicorns that could not adapt to the pressure of the mountain peaks were sent back.

After three full days of selection, Yi Yan chose a unicorn that could only move freely under the immense power of the mountain.

These 10,000 unicorns were selected by Yi Yan after she had chosen nearly 100 billion unicorns.

As of today, Yi Yan has been able to sense hundreds or even thousands of worlds where black unicorns reside. There are more than ten trillion unicorns living in these worlds, but many of them are only first-tier cubs. In addition, she needs magic power to summon unicorns. In three days, she relied on top-grade spirit stones to restore her magic power and exhausted the top-grade spirit stones she borrowed from Yi Qing before she was able to summon a hundred billion unicorns.

Without top-grade spirit stones, using high-grade spirit stones to restore mana wasn't very efficient, so Yi Yan didn't plan to continue.

Yi Yan mainly believes that unicorns are basically doomed when they encounter true spirits.

If she's lucky, these ten thousand unicorns might bring her some resources or good fortune from the sacred mountain. If she's unlucky, even if she summons a million, she might not be able to get a single unicorn out.

Yi Yan was about to teleport the unicorn towards the summit.

Suddenly, he discovered that not only could his starlight pillar not get close to the mountain peak, but even the space around the mountain peak was affected by the great force, preventing his teleportation pillar from opening.

Yi Yan frowned immediately.

She sensed layers upon layers of spatial power between the mountain peaks, folded into countless layers of space, even more complex than the spatial passage she had encountered when she came from the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm.

This mountain peak appears to be so high that its summit is nowhere in sight, but it is actually probably much higher than what the eye can see.

If they rely on flight, third- and fourth-tier unicorns might be able to reach the summit in varying amounts of time, but unicorns below the third tier would basically have no chance of seeing the summit.

"Forget it, even if we don't go to the top of the mountain, there is a seventh-level spiritual vein in this mountain, so there must be a lot of precious resources inside."

Thinking it over, Yi Yan gave the black unicorns a command to enter the mountain to search for spiritual objects.

That's right. Although the mountain in front of her had an opportunity that even True Spirits would envy, Yi Yan did not intend to risk her life.

Encountering just four True Spirits was already somewhat risky; if we were to encounter a group of True Spirits, not only would I be in danger, but even the past Immortal Emperors of the Immortal Kingdom who had reached the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage might not be able to escape unscathed.

Given the extreme danger, Yi Yan naturally wouldn't risk her life.

She followed the Nine-Headed Dragon, thinking it possessed a treasure more precious than the Dragon Transformation Pool. If it were just the Nine-Headed Dragon, a single true spirit, Yi Yan would naturally have considered competing with it. But now, the number of true spirits on this mountain was countless, and the danger of entering was immense. Even with a great fortune, it wasn't worth it.

As the unicorns approached the mountain peak, Yi Yan felt as if their bodies were rapidly shrinking. Once inside, they became smaller than a speck of dust and then disappeared.

“The four True Spirits didn’t have this problem. It’s one thing for low-level unicorns, but does this fourth-level black unicorn not even have the ability to traverse space?”

Generally speaking, only fifth-order beings can grasp some of the mysteries of space, such as the Nascent Soul stage among cultivators.

However, unicorns are star beasts with true spirit bloodlines. Star beasts can generally travel in the void, which means they are born with some spatial abilities. Logically speaking, a fourth-tier black unicorn should be able to cross different spaces.

"Perhaps the spatial power of this mountain is chaotic, which prevented the black unicorn, which is not very intelligent to begin with, from using its spatial abilities in time."

As Yi Yan thought of this, a hint of helplessness appeared in her eyes.

The intention was to send these black unicorns to the summit to seek opportunities, but unexpectedly, they were sucked into the space at the foot of the mountain.

Suddenly, Yi Yan thought of something.
"True Spirit Bloodline, doesn't the Undying Firebird clan also possess the True Spirit Bloodline?"

Back then, Yi Yan took away all the immortal firebirds that Yi Dong had trained.

Not long after she awakened the supernatural ability of Starlight Teleportation, she teleported the Undying Firebird Clan to a world suitable for their survival.

Starlight teleportation is difficult to guarantee the safety of creatures without star power, but the Undying Firebird has the bloodline of the Vermilion Bird's true spirit.

The Vermilion Bird and the Heavenly Phoenix clans are both extremely powerful True Spirits of the Fire attribute.

However, there are still some differences between the Heavenly Phoenix Fire and the Vermilion Bird Fire.

Both true spirits possess the ability to be reborn from flames.

Tenhou's flames are more focused on the soul; rebirth can cleanse and repair both the body and soul, and the process is relatively short.

The Vermilion Bird's flames possess the power of stars, and its divine power of rebirth through fire lasts for a long time. After rebirth, it can not only restore itself but also become slightly stronger.

Often, the sight of the Vermilion Bird rising from the ashes is like a star hanging in the void, making it difficult for beings from many worlds to distinguish whether the stars in the sky are actually the Vermilion Bird transformed into stars.

Some Vermilion Birds even enter the interior of stars to be reborn in flames.

Gradually, the Vermilion Bird Flame acquired certain characteristics of star power.

Therefore, the Phoenix race is able to travel relatively safely via starlight.

The Undying Firebird clan is relatively compliant with Yi Yan and adapts to her starlight transmission precisely because they possess some of the star power characteristics of the Vermilion Bird bloodline.

However, the Phoenix Clan is far less loyal than the Black Unicorn, who would willingly die for them.

This is also why Yi Yan never managed to get these relatively weak and not very loyal Undying Firebirds to fight for her.

Now, these phoenixes might be able to make some contribution to themselves.

Thinking about it, Yi Yan began to sense the black unicorn in the world of the Undying Firebird.

Before long, the starlight pillar was brought to the territory of the Undying Firebird.

However, Yi Yan wanted to teleport the entire Undying Firebird clan over, but reality made her face turn pale.

In that world where there were no external enemies, the immortal firebirds had multiplied to nearly 100,000. Not counting the immature chicks, there were more than 10,000 with the strength of the third tier. However, now only 1,000 obeyed its commands.

And this thousand was because of the king of the Undying Firebird clan.

"Whoosh~".

A divine bird covered in azure flames flew out from the pillar of starlight, circled once in the air, and then hovered beside Yi Yan.

When Yi Yan saw the bluebird, a smile appeared on her ugly face.

This bluebird was the immortal firebird that had awakened the Vermilion Bird bloodline. Before she entered the intermediate-level Dao Academy, it had always been her mount and had a very good relationship with her.

Now, this bluebird is the king of the immortal firebird clan.

Its strength is no less than that of a fifth-tier demon beast.

However, this level of strength is still insufficient against a true spirit.

Thinking of this, Yi Yan said:
"Alright, we don't need you here. You can go back now."

Although the bluebird did not become her natal spirit beast as planned, she still had some feelings for it because they had been together since they were young. Yi Yan didn't care how many other immortal firebirds died, but she couldn't just watch the bluebird die.

Unexpectedly, the bluebird, which had always obeyed Yi Yan in the past, did not listen to Yi Yan this time. Instead, it looked at the mountain in front of it with a determined look in its eyes. After transmitting its voice to Yi Yan, it ignored her and flew towards the mountain with the other immortal firebirds.

"Does this mountain peak truly hold the opportunity that a true spirit must possess?"

However, how come every single one of these immortal firebirds can move freely under the immense power of this mountain?

Could the bloodline of the Unicorn True Spirit really be that much weaker than that of the Vermilion Bird True Spirit?

(End of this chapter)