Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 335 The Consciousness of the Great Dao
Outside the Primordial Divine Mountain.

Yi Yan was cultivating when suddenly, she sensed that the missing bit of consciousness within her, which had been faintly present, suddenly became much stronger.

Not only that, the black unicorns that had lost their senses within the Primordial Divine Mountain also sensed nine of them at this time.

"It suddenly disappeared three years ago, and now it has suddenly reappeared. That Primordial Divine Mountain, it seems that something has indeed happened."

During these three years, Yi Yan not only cultivated, but also went out in her spare time to search for creatures and search their souls to understand their situation.

Now, she also knows the name of that magical mountain, which is known as the most mysterious and dangerous place in the Primordial Spirit Realm.

The area within a radius of tens of millions of miles around the Primordial Divine Mountain is protected by array formations set up by the vassal forces of various True Spirit races, while the area within a radius of tens of millions of miles inside is a forbidden zone.

Even now that the Primordial Divine Mountain has been opened, the true spirits of the Primordial Spirit Realm still forbid non-true spirits from entering the forbidden zone.

After learning about the terror of the Primordial Divine Mountain, Yi Yan was somewhat glad that she hadn't entered it.

After learning about the terror of the Primordial Divine Mountain, Yi Yan did not leave. Firstly, because she still had a faint connection with that separated consciousness, and secondly, because of the question of whether the Azure Bird was alive or dead.

Compared to the Bluebird, the key now lies in the awareness of separation.

If her consciousness were separated to another place, Yi Yan wouldn't care; she wouldn't mind losing it.

However, while the Primordial Divine Mountain is dangerous, it also offers many opportunities.

If that separated consciousness were to gain some opportunity and become another person who inherits all of its abilities and memories, wouldn't that be utterly terrible?

This has happened before.

As far as Yi Yan knew from Soul Searching, there were two Kunpengs in the Primordial Spirit Realm that were almost identical in size, appearance, and even magical abilities.

The two Kunpeng fought for countless years in the Primordial Spirit Realm, each wanting to kill the other, but after billions of years, neither could defeat the other.

Legend has it that one of the two identical Kunpeng was born from the Primordial Divine Mountain after its consciousness was separated.

Since this situation arose, other true spirits have dared not casually allow their clones, spirits, or other means to enter the Primordial Divine Mountain.

Yi Yan didn't know why the two Kunpeng were fighting, but she didn't want that to happen.

Now that he had finally sensed that bit of consciousness, he felt slightly relieved and immediately used his supernatural powers to retrieve it.

The moment she pulled back, Yi Yan was in a daze.

In an instant, she experienced the world's disintegration and also participated in its rebirth.

The overwhelming amount of information caused her tens of thousands of Golden Core Stars to momentarily stagnate due to overload.

The information shock was secondary; the more crucial factor was the invasion of the Great Dao power along with those fragments of consciousness.

Various chaotic forces of destruction, creation, and creation invaded her body and soul.

Just as she was about to be assimilated by the power of the Great Dao, the golden core stars within the magical space began to reactivate, forcibly pulling her back to her senses.

A hint of lingering fear flashed in Yi Yan's eyes.

"Is this what is called the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth?"

That's really scary.

This fragment of consciousness is actually able to fuse with the power of the Great Dao; isn't this a technique only ancient cultivators who had achieved Dao integration possessed?

If someone were to experience this scenario, it would be an opportunity even greater than the chance to attain enlightenment, because it would be equivalent to directly obtaining a piece of the Great Dao consciousness, and taking a crucial step on the path to Dao integration.

However, Yi Yan is only at the Golden Core stage. Even though the Golden Core she cultivates now is dozens or hundreds of times stronger than the Golden Core cultivated in ancient times, this strength is due to the support of "external objects". The Golden Core she cultivates now is essentially a combination magic weapon built later, which can also be considered a kind of external object.

Ignoring all external factors, the life level of the Great Dao Golden Elixir and the Ancient Cultivation Golden Elixir is the same.

Let alone the Great Dao Golden Core stage, even the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage cannot comprehend the Dao based on their own abilities.

The current cultivation system relies on spiritual energy technology, using sophisticated technology to draw upon the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth for its own use. The so-called mastery of the Great Dao by the Nascent Soul is actually the ability of the Nascent Soul Daoist Temple to receive and carry the Great Dao.

Without the Nascent Soul Dao Field, the Great Dao Nascent Soul would have no way of driving the power of the Great Dao.

If ancient cultivators tended towards idealism, then modern cultivators tend towards materialism.

For ancient cultivators, enlightenment was an unparalleled opportunity, but for modern cultivators without a Nascent Soul cultivation ground, enlightenment yielded virtually nothing. Not only that, they were sometimes even corrupted by the power of the Great Dao.

At this moment, Yi Yan was in that situation.

Fortunately, Yi Yan's magical space contained Golden Core Stars far more powerful than ordinary Golden Core Cities, and the abilities of those Golden Core Stars prevented her from being assimilated by the power of the Great Dao.

In a moment of lingering fear, Yi Yan instinctively tried to separate and destroy the fragments of consciousness that had been corrupted by the chaotic power of the Great Dao.

Suddenly, Yi Yan thought of something else.

"The Great Dao Nascent Soul guides the Great Dao, which is actually to perceive the changes in heaven and earth, and then use formations, magic treasures, spiritual treasures and other means to draw out the corresponding power of the Great Dao."

For example, the Gravity Dao Dao uses treasures with great mass, such as star cores or void iron, to construct a gravity field.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, the knowledge of any Nascent Soul cultivator is extremely precious.

Even if I were to obtain the method for building a Longevity Daoist Temple in the future, aside from that, the only other methods I could probably devise would be the construction of some ordinary Nascent Soul Daoist Temples.

The three regimes representing the interests of ancient aristocratic families also have cultivators at the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage within them, but over the past 100,000 years, the Immortal Emperors have always been cultivators from meritorious families.

This might be due to the deep-rooted influence of meritorious families in the Immortal Kingdom, and also because Nascent Soul cultivators from ancient families often fail to access powerful Dao of Heaven and Earth. In the Immortal Kingdom, ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators are slightly inferior to True Immortals who have achieved Dao Integration.

However, the combat power of each Immortal Emperor surpasses that of many Dao-Merging True Immortals, and is even comparable to that of powerful True Spirits.

These fragments of consciousness contain the Great Dao of Destruction, the Great Dao of Creation, the Great Dao of Creation, and so on.

Even fragments of consciousness can draw upon a little bit of the power of the Great Dao.

Unfortunately, there is no path to immortality.

Yi Yan knew that it was impossible to research a corresponding Nascent Soul Dao Field by relying on the power of the Great Dao through fragments of consciousness.

However, all she needed to do was compile the data on how her consciousness guided the power of the Great Dao, and then have the Great Awakening Puppet under her father Yi Dong study it.

If the Great Awakening Puppet won't work, then the Primordial Purple Apricot, which can observe the changes in heaven and earth, will also do.

In short, with the Great Awakening Puppet and the Primordial Purple Apricot, this fragment of consciousness might really give the Yi family and themselves more options for Nascent Soul Daoist sites.

"Therefore, this trip to the Primordial Divine Mountain was not entirely fruitless, and it was not in vain that I gave up the search for the Dragon Transformation Pool to come here."

However, the matter of Mount Taichu seems to have come to an end here.

Yi Yan knew that the opening of the Primordial Divine Mountain usually took about a thousand years.

However, she dared not separate her consciousness back into it to merge with the power of the Great Dao.

Her soul had limited capacity to withstand the erosion of her consciousness by the power of the Great Dao, thanks to the many Golden Core Stars.

If she were to absorb more of the power of the Great Dao, she might actually be transformed by it.

With that thought in mind, Yi Yan prepared to leave.

She didn't plan to take back the nine unicorns either, because if they didn't come out, she couldn't take them back anyway.

As for the bluebird, all we can do is pray for its own good luck.

Suddenly, Yi Yan looked at the magic artifact screen on one side of the cultivation room. As the screen switched images, it showed a divine bird covered in blue flames slowly flying towards her.

The warship formation she set up had a system to distinguish friend from foe, but Yi Yan set it to attack all invading creatures.

At this moment, the azure divine bird was being bombarded by the dense fire of hundreds or even thousands of warships.

However, whether it's a material projectile or an energy bombardment, it will pass right through the divine bird, just as if the divine bird were merely a phantom flame.

Even the devastating bombardment couldn't harm the divine bird in the slightest.

Similarly, no array could restrain that divine bird.

Despite being attacked by the fleet of warships, the divine bird did not retaliate at all, as if it were familiarizing itself with its own supernatural power, and its flight speed was not fast.

The warships in the picture are about to charge at the divine bird.

As Yi Yan thought about it, the magical artifacts in the several golden core stars in the magic space that were responsible for controlling the warships issued commands, and immediately, the warships calmed down.

Seeing that the warships were no longer attacking it, the bluebird looked at Yi Yan's location with its burning flames, and instantly transformed into a line of fire, quickly arriving above the underground palace complex where Yi Yan was located.

Yi Yan, however, had somehow appeared in the air as well.

Looking at the bluebird, which had grown much larger and more majestic, and especially sensing its aura...

Yi Yan sighed:
"It seems you have had quite a fortuitous encounter at the Primordial Divine Mountain, and have actually become a true spirit."

Creatures with the bloodline of the True Spirit and the True Spirit themselves may seem to be separated by a fine line, but they are actually two different kinds of beings.

Without a place of great creation like the Primordial Divine Mountain, it would be virtually impossible for beings with the bloodline of true spirits to become true spirits.

These perfect beings, the True Spirits, possess a unique aura that makes them impervious to all laws and unbreakable by anything.

Yi Yan had seen quite a few true spirits, so she naturally wouldn't mistake one for another.

"Oh, so I really am a true spirit?"

The bluebird transmitted its voice:
"I only felt that my bloodline was much stronger, and my body and supernatural powers were stronger. Apart from that, I did not inherit any memories or gain any other supernatural powers. I thought I had not truly become a true spirit."

Then, Qingniao told Yiyan about the reason why she became like this and her encounter with Tianfeng.

Upon hearing this, Yi Yan knew that Tian Feng harbored ill intentions.

In Yi Yan's view, those true spirits who have lived for countless years have long since blurred the so-called concepts of good and evil, and the things they do are basically all purposeful.

However, Yi Yan was not afraid. In any case, she and Qingniao were about to leave the Primordial Spirit Realm and return to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm. No matter how much Tianfeng schemed, she would be helpless.

Seeing the bluebird looking worried, Yi Yan couldn't bear it. But then she thought that the bluebird had lived in the mortal world for many years, which had some spiritual energy but no powerful intelligent creatures, so it had no idea what a true spirit meant. So she felt relieved.

"Alright, as far as I know, there is no magic or supernatural power in the world that can affect a true spirit for a long time. All magic and supernatural powers applied to a true spirit will quickly lose their effectiveness over time. You don't need to worry about what Tianfeng did to you."

After giving a brief explanation, Yi Yan prepared to recall the Golden Core fleet and leave.

However, considering that the Bluebird transformed into a true spirit on the Primordial Divine Mountain, the nine remaining of the more than ten thousand black unicorns might not be without this opportunity.

"Let's check on those nine black unicorns first."

(End of this chapter)