Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 342 A Dream of a Thousand Autumns
A Dong was enveloped in white mist, and in an instant, his entire body transformed into a slender white ice dragon, seven or eight meters long.

Although the change was only instantaneous, the combined magical artifacts within the many stars of Yi Yan's Great Dao Golden Core instantly calculated a massive amount of data.

Yi Yan quickly received the information.

"This is a true transformation of flesh and blood, but the quality of this human body is more than ten times different from that of the ice dragon body."

It's as if a portion of the ice dragon's flesh and blood appeared out of thin air, rather than simply being formed from the proliferation of human flesh and blood.

However, during the process of change, Adong's flesh and bones did indeed split and proliferate, and no flesh or blood appeared out of thin air.

It seems that this change is not so easy to analyze and understand.

However, our current cultivation method simulates the cultivation of true spirits and auspicious beasts. This A-Dong himself possesses the body of a true dragon. What will happen if he undergoes the current cultivation method?

After thinking about this, Yi Yan sighed regretfully.

If A-Dong didn't have an ice spirit root, I might have guided him onto the path of cultivation.

However, if the other party didn't have an ice spirit root, he wouldn't have given her the "Nine Transformations of the Ice Dragon," and she probably wouldn't have been able to cultivate the body of an ice dragon.

Moreover, the ice dragon body that the opponent has cultivated is equivalent to having a near-infinite lifespan, which makes what a human can cultivate insignificant.

Adong looked at Yi Yan with the same bewilderment.

Over the years, she had stayed on Dragon Island, never met any outsiders, and knew nothing about cultivators.

However, from the Ice Dragon's inherited memories, she was able to clearly determine that Yi Yan was a third-tier being, which meant she was at the same Golden Core realm as herself.

But how come my strength, at the Golden Core stage, is so much weaker than his opponent's?

His ice dragon body was more than ten times stronger than a human body, yet he could still feel a faint pressure when facing Yi Yan.

Then he asked the question that had been on his mind.
"How can your cultivation be so different from mine?"
We're both at the Golden Core stage, so why are you so much stronger than me?

Yi Yan didn't hide anything from A Dong and briefly explained Jin Xiu's situation.

Seeing that A-Dong had returned to human form and was somewhat tempted, he continued:
"If you were still at the sixth level of Qi Refining, you might have been able to become a cultivator, but now you've already reached the Golden Core stage."

Cultivation is evolution; there is only progress, no regression.

Your body and soul have already reached the Golden Core realm, making it virtually impossible for you to continue your current cultivation.

However, you don't need to regret it. Even if we cultivators reach the Nascent Soul stage, we are still inferior to True Spirits. Your True Dragon Body only needs time to reach adulthood, at which point you will be a being more powerful than most cultivators.

Adong suddenly became somewhat frustrated.

Although Yi Yan said that the True Immortal of the Dao Integration Realm and the Nascent Soul of the Great Dao are almost the same.

However, Yi Yan, at the Great Dao Golden Core stage, already possessed the strength to fight against an adult true dragon, clearly demonstrating that modern cultivators are far more powerful than ancient cultivators.

Seeing A-Dong's sullen expression, Yi Yan thought for a moment, then with a wave of her hand, a jade disc hundreds of meters tall appeared.

"This is the Heavenly Book of the Dragon Clan, 'Nine Transformations of the Ice Dragon,' a legacy that only the Ice Dragon Clan can cultivate. Your 'Six Transformations of the Ice Dragon' is derived from this Heavenly Book. Now that you possess the body of an Ice Dragon, this Heavenly Book will be entrusted to you."

The Heavenly Book inheritance is the most powerful inheritance of every living being, impossible to record through ordinary means. The Ice Dragon inheritance memories you obtained are probably nowhere near comparable to the Heavenly Book inheritance.

This time, Yi Yan entered a special space within the Dragon Tomb.

That space is the exchange space for the dragon race of all realms.

In that space, Yi Yan came into contact with many true dragons and learned a lot about the dragon race.

Some powerful dragon clans have developed exceptionally advanced spiritual energy civilizations. Their weapon refiners are able to create all sorts of acquired spiritual treasures and even supreme treasures, while their alchemists are able to create pills that allow true spirits to rapidly increase their cultivation.

In that exchange space, Yi Yan witnessed just how terrifying the knowledge accumulated by the Dragon Clan over countless years had become.

However, even though the Dragon Clan can refine acquired treasures and various pills that seize the creation of heaven and earth, there is one thing that they still cannot refine, and that is the Heavenly Book.

There are also differences in celestial books.

The True Spirit Heavenly Book was exceptionally valuable in that space, worth thousands of times more than the heavenly books of ordinary races.

The dragon race has many methods to record the inheritance of the Heavenly Book, allowing many true dragons to cultivate it.

However, since it's not the original version of the Heavenly Book, it's quite different.

Within the entire dragon race, only a minority are capable of cultivating the true Heavenly Book inheritance.

When Adong saw the dragon script on the jade disc, he immediately recognized it as the original text of the cultivation technique he was practicing.

Before she could do anything, she suddenly sensed an unusual fluctuation emanating from the treasured Feather of a Thousand Autumns.

A Dong was taken aback. Of the three abilities of the Feather of a Thousand Autumns, she could only use Dream Reality at the moment. If she disregarded the consequences, she could also activate Enlightenment in Dreams.

However, the third ability, "Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns," could not be activated no matter what he tried, and he didn't even know what the conditions were for its activation.

At this moment, this treasure gave him the feeling that the Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns was about to be activated. Following this feeling, A Dong placed his hand on the Heavenly Book Jade Wall.

Instantly, the Thousand Autumn Feathers within his body flew out, emitting seven-colored light, and the jade disc gradually disappeared into the light.

In the radiance, Adong experienced a life that seemed like a dream.

After leaving this place, she followed her master Yi Yan and Yi Qing, causing endless slaughter in various worlds, plundering massive resources, and collecting a wealth of knowledge.

The battles, both dreamlike and real, left an indelible mark on A Dong.

In the dream, A Dong finally witnessed Yi Yan's power.

With the help of the Vermilion Bird, the nine True Spirits Taotie, and countless black unicorns, along with her sister Yi Qing's boundless insect swarm, Yi Yan annihilated the creatures of world after world and enslaved countless races.

Finally, the three of them went so far as to hunt down True Spirits indiscriminately in the void, which eventually provoked the four powerful True Spirit races: True Dragon, Heavenly Phoenix, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger.

Finally, the four races mobilized more than three thousand true spirits, using countless void treasures and acquired treasures to surround the three of them in the void, and fought for more than three hundred years.

In the battle, Yi Yan's body was shattered, her Nascent Soul Daoist Temple dissipated, and all the massive black unicorns and the nine True Spirit Taotie were killed. In the end, her remnant soul was taken away by the heavily injured and dying Vermilion Bird and disappeared without a trace.

Yi Qing was also driven to the brink of despair. The insect nest within the Heavenly River shattered, and he finally used his ultimate supernatural power. The Heavenly River Space emerged from the lowest level of the Heavenly River, devouring Yi Qing and hundreds of true spirits before disappearing into the void.

After Yi Yan and Yi Qing went missing one after another, he himself, who had used the Feather of a Thousand Autumns and the World of Ice to save his life, eventually ran out of strength and was eventually killed by several powerful Heavenly Phoenixes who used their fire magic to burn his soul.

Images of tens of thousands of years of experience flashed through his mind like a streak of light, making it hard for A Dong to tell whether he had been reborn or was experiencing the future ahead of time as depicted by the treasure.

The seven-colored light dissipated, and the Feather of a Thousand Autumns became unusually dim, returning to A Dong's body.

Adong was still in a daze, one moment she was feeling the pain of her soul being burned, the next she was back to reality.

It wasn't until Yi Yan's surprised voice brought A Dong back to his senses.

"what?
You actually reversed the laws of evolution and turned your body back into a mortal state?
Do you also possess some primordial energy?
Like my mother?
Or is it that your treasure possesses the function of primordial energy, allowing one to dissipate their cultivation and rebuild it without loss?

A Dong looked at Yi Yan again. This time, her gaze was no longer cautious or wary.

In the tens of thousands of years of her dream, Yi Yan and Yi Qing spent an extremely long time with her.

Although the Yi sisters were not kind people and committed countless murders throughout their lives, they never abandoned or betrayed themselves until the very end.

Upon hearing Yi Yan's words, A Dong said:
“The Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns is somewhat different from your mother Mu Mu’s situation.”

"The Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns allowed me to wander in the river of time for a while, but upon returning, it only caused me to regress slightly from my starting point."

"The passage of time?"

After a moment's thought, Yi Yan knew what was going on.

Time reversal is indeed possible, but this refers to time reversal within a specific region. For example, the True Spirit Sword Xuanyuan can do something similar.

However, the possibility of something truly flowing backwards through the entire void and myriad realms is probably impossible.

The treasure that Adonna allowed Adon to enter the so-called river of time is probably a powerful deductive ability.

Returning Adong's body to its state before cultivation would be the true way to reverse time.

After asking A Dong a few questions, Yi Yan confirmed this.

In the future that Adong experienced, he had very clear impressions of his mother Mumu, his younger brother Yize, and his older sister Yiqing.

However, his impressions of Yi Jun, Yi Feng, and their father Yi Dong were rather vague; he could only clearly remember their names.

Clearly, the other party's most precious treasure was a deduction of the future based on the information A-Dong himself had come into contact with.

Ah Dong is now close to me, so that treasure may have already read my and Ah Dong's memories, which is why I have such a high degree of involvement in the future that Ah Dong experienced.

During this period, I had contact with Mu Mu, Yi Ze, and Yi Qing, but not with many other people.

Then A Dong briefly described what would happen in the future, which made Yi Yan thoughtful.

While A-Dong's experiences of the future may not be entirely accurate, some of them could serve as a reference.

Seeing that A-Dong still looked dazed, Yi Yan shook her head.

"The future you experience can be used as a reference, but it cannot be completely believed."

Alright, according to your statement, a great war with the dragon race that will last for thousands of years will begin on the Frozen Lands.

Let's go over there now.

"Yes, I want to switch to the current cultivation path and continue my cultivation. I also want to go to the Frozen Land to ask your father for a spatial fragment."

(End of this chapter)