Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 345 defection
Inside an old flying boat, five cultivators at the Golden Core stage watched the battlefield unfold through a projection artifact, and they were all stunned.

These five cultivators are all from the Northern Warehouse Continent.

The Beicang Continent is a relatively warm continent inhabited by many intelligent races and demons.

Of course, although the Beicang Continent is called a continent, its area is less than one ten-thousandth of the Frozen Continent.

In the Northern Continent, the human race is considered a relatively powerful race, with billions of people.

Billions of living beings are nothing on the large islands of the four seas, but in the sparsely populated, icy polar regions, the Beicang human race is the largest branch of the human race.

These five individuals are all Golden Core Ancestors in their respective sects. Although their sects are not as powerful as those with Nascent Soul cultivators or holy lands that have produced Divine Transformation experts, they are all top-tier sects in their respective regions, and they are the lofty Golden Core Ancestors.

For thousands of years, the Frozen Arctic has not seen a large-scale war involving all intelligent races. These three people's sects don't even know the history of the Northern Warehouse Continent, let alone the affairs of the Vast Sea Spirit Realm.

This war started very suddenly; they were all forcibly conscripted.

They were somewhat bewildered after being brought together by the various teleportation arrays.

In the past, those once-in-a-millennium Nascent Soul level experts were now commonplace, and there were also quite a few Void Returning level experts above the Nascent Soul level.

This is still an intelligent race.

The sixth-tier Heavenly Demons, comparable to those who have returned to the Void Realm, are legendary figures on the Northern Warehouse Continent, but after this gathering, they have seen even more of them.

I thought that with so many troops gathered, the war would be won easily.

But after seeing the situation on the battlefield, they began to question their existence.

In the sky, those third and fourth-tier demonic beasts, comparable to Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators, were easily annihilated like ants amidst the massive cannon fire of those flying ships.

Even the self-destruction of powerful demonic beasts capable of easily destroying sects could hardly harm those enormous flying ships.

Only powerful demon beast races using their respective magical treasures could shoot down a flying boat.

The magical artifacts and treasures that struck the flying boat left no trace.

"Fellow Daoist Pu Lang, what is the point of us rushing in under these circumstances?"
Even a Nascent Soul stage demon couldn't damage those flying ships. If we go up there, I don't know what use we'll be except to die.

After a moment of silence, the young-looking Pu Lang said:

"We can still expend the firepower of one airship."

Upon hearing this, the other four men's faces immediately turned ashen.

Within their sects, they were all high-ranking Golden Core elders with long lifespans.

However, upon arriving at this battlefield, they weren't even qualified to be cannon fodder.

The female cultivator in the red dress spoke:

"The Great Heavenly Dynasty has gone too far. I heard that other alien forces only recruited some of their strong members, but the sects within our dynasty not only recruited all the formal disciples and elders except for the newly initiated disciples, but also assigned us to the vanguard as cannon fodder."

"Fellow Daoist Zhan, be careful with your words."

Perhaps we have all misunderstood the Great Imperial Dynasty this time.

I heard that, apart from mortals, cultivators from other forces in the royal families of the five great dynasties of Beicang have also been conscripted, just like those from our sects.

"Look over there, waiting to charge, that's the army of the five great dynasties."

Following Pu Lang's gaze, the four of them used their spiritual eye techniques to look over.

Sure enough, amidst a massive horde of demons, human armies, composed of exquisitely crafted flying boats, were shifting their formations.

By the flags, they quickly identified the legion belonging to the Great Emperor Dynasty, to which their sect belonged.

"Even the Heavenly Strategy Legion, the strongest imperial guard of the Great Heavenly Dynasty, has arrived?"
After this battle, will the Great Heavenly Dynasty still exist when we return?

Pu Lang thought to himself:

"If the information is accurate, let alone the Great Heavenly Dynasty, the Beicang human race would not be left without any human race in the entire Frozen Arctic region except for the Frozen Continent."

Pulang was a distant relative of the royal family and one of the clan's inner and outer factions. Due to his outstanding talent, he was valued and cultivated by an elder of the clan.

This time, the elder specifically sent a message to him, saying that the survival of their human race did not lie with the True Dragon race, but rather with the Frozen Continent.

Thinking of the message from that elder, Pu Lang's heart was slightly excited. If the message was true, it would mean that the Frozen Continent had the true immortal inheritance of the human race.

In the Northern Cang Continent, let alone the True Immortal inheritance, there isn't even a Void Returning inheritance. Even the few available Nascent Soul inheritances are incomplete.

This time, there is both danger and opportunity.

"Fellow Daoists, listen to me. After we went to the battlefield..."

Among the many legions of the human race, in a room of an ordinary airship, there were several blurry projections.

"What do we do now? There isn't a single person on those warships; they're all puppets controlling us. We can't even find anyone to surrender to, and the messages we've sent using magical artifacts haven't received any replies."

"What do we do now? If we just charge in like this, we're guaranteed to die."

"The human race behind the scenes on the battlefield must know the situation on the Frozen Continent. After we entered the battlefield, we rushed into the interior of the Frozen Continent. During this process, we only defended and did not attack, in order to show our attitude."

I suppose that since we are all human, the people of the Frozen Continent wouldn't really be so heartless towards us.

Moreover, we're at war now, and joining the other side would definitely help them. "That's right, joining the other side would be equivalent to weakening the dragons."

However, we can help them, but they must agree to help us rebuild our dynasty on the Frozen Continent.

"Yes, it's not just about establishing a dynasty, but also about sharing cultivation traditions with us."

"Yes, if we want the humans of the Frozen Continent to agree to our conditions, we need to show some sincerity. After we rush over, we'll switch sides and attack those monsters."

"Alright, I've been wanting to get rid of those monsters for a long time. They've been using all sorts of excuses to eat people lately. If it weren't for the bigger picture, I would have given up long ago."

"Yes, once we get to the battlefield, we'll turn against our own side, seeking revenge while also demonstrating our worth."

The figures became more and more excited as they talked.

This doesn't mean these people are brainless or think they're so important; it's because they understand that the number of invading humans on the Frozen Continent is small, and they need a large population to develop the Frozen Continent.

The addition of these five great dynasties is like sending charcoal in snowy weather. It is likely that even if they do not agree to all of our conditions, they will still offer us some preferential treatment.

After the group finished their discussion, the legions of the five great dynasties quickly charged toward the battlefield in the sky.

Purple Mountain.

After discovering the human army, Yi Dong smiled slightly.

"The human race on the Frozen Continent is still uncivilized and basically unusable."

Just when we needed miners, someone arrived.

Using puppets to mine consumes too many spirit stones, and the radiation emitted by many spirit ores requires frequent repairs to the puppets, resulting in excessive expenses.

This is why, even with such advanced spiritual energy technology in the Heavenly Capital Immortal Kingdom, cultivators from the Immortal Prison still need to mine minerals.

For no other reason than that using cultivators to mine is more cost-effective.

"It seems we need to build a Celestial Prison."

Yi Dong thought to himself.

He had no intention of treating the native humans of the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm kindly.

Before the Frozen Continent became Qingzhou, Yi Dong didn't need many cultivators living on the surface.

When the immortal city needs cultivators to replenish its population, Yi Dong will also choose to cultivate the human race of the immortal kingdom.

In Yi Dong's view, the level of evolution of the human race in the Immortal Kingdom is incomparable to that of the human race in the Vast Sea Spirit Realm.

With a superior race, Yi Dong would be crazy to waste the spiritual energy of the Frozen Continent on the natives of the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm.

In Yi Dong's view, humans from the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm are of no value except for mining for themselves.

Just then, Yi Dong saw the human legions rushing towards the battlefield. He immediately used magic to issue an order, instructing the Great Awakening Puppet to control the warships and capture as many human cultivators as possible.

Soon, Yi Dong witnessed a strange scene: the human cultivators' legions defected on the battlefield and launched a collective attack on the demon race, causing chaos in the demon race's battle formation. They were then successfully "escorted" to the rear by warships.

Before long, a Great Awakening Puppet sent a message to Yi Dong saying that they had already brought all the cultivators under control.

At the same time, he also told Yi Dong that those cultivators wanted to talk to him.

Talking is impossible. Yi Dong had already lost most of his humanity in his previous life. After cultivating immortality for so long, the remaining humanity had long since drifted into the sky with the chimneys of the biological laboratory.

Now that we have it under control, we can just send them directly to the mining farm.

As for their contributions in defecting, Yi Dong didn't care at all.

The resources of the Frozen Continent are far richer than those of Qingzhou in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Moreover, due to the unique nature of the Frozen Continent, there are virtually no alien races living deep underground, which means that the mineral veins buried deep underground for countless years have not been depleted and continue to be developed by human hands.

Soon, the legions of the five great dynasties, numbering over fifty million, were successively sent by the Great Awakening Puppet to mines one after another, to engage in a dark and endless mining life.

In the Immortal Kingdom, Yi Dong would treat the miners somewhat better, after all, the laws were very strict.

Having arrived in this lawless place, Yi Dong no longer cared about the lives of other cultivators. He became a miner, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, their potential descendants would be mining for him, with no hope of ever rising above their circumstances.

"By the way, if humans can use it, other intelligent races can use it too. When we encounter other intelligent races, we can capture them and send them underground to mine along with the humans."

In this way, the process of the icy land transforming into Qingzhou can be accelerated.

Thinking about it, Yi Dong felt a little regretful. There was no permanent enslavement spell in this world. If there were, he could use demonic beasts.

Most demonic beasts are more driven by bestiality than reason, even those at the third or fourth tier.

Intelligent races can be restrained by "systems," but it is very difficult for monsters.

Many monsters act impulsively and without considering the consequences, unlike intelligent races, who are more easily controlled because they understand the long-term implications and can calculate the stakes.

The war began in a rather uneventful manner.

Neither side deployed any combat forces above the sixth rank.

Just as Yi Dong was getting a little bored, Yi Yan and Mu Mu arrived at Zijin Mountain.

(End of this chapter)