Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 346 War Costs

"Father, I obtained many sixth-tier treasures and two seventh-tier treasures in the Primordial Secret Realm."

These treasures require a large amount of spiritual energy to function. If they lack spiritual energy for a long time, their original grade may even decrease.

A sixth-tier spiritual item is fine, but it would be a real shame if a seventh-tier spiritual item were to regress in tier.

Yi Yan spoke to Yi Dong in the courtyard of Zijin Mountain.

After pondering for a moment, Yi Dong said:

"The Frozen Land has three fifth-order spiritual veins and many fourth-order spiritual veins."

With the combination of a fifth-order spiritual vein and the formation we are currently cultivating, we can make its spiritual energy concentration comparable to that of a seventh-order spiritual vein.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, most of the True Immortals who have achieved Dao also cultivate using fifth-order spiritual veins. It is conceivable that seventh-order spiritual objects would not regress in rank under such an environment.

If you need it, choose a fifth-tier spiritual vein.

Yi Yan shook her head.
"Seventh-order spiritual veins can generate special spiritual energy, which is incomparable to that of fifth-order spiritual veins after being amplified by arrays."

If we really want to establish ourselves in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, a seventh-order spiritual vein is indispensable.

"With the spiritual energy of a seventh-tier spiritual vein, the Qingzhou Grand Array to be established will undoubtedly be much more powerful. Even if the Four Seas Dragon Palace mobilizes its entire force, they won't be able to easily drive us away."

Yi Dong thought for a moment and realized that to establish a seventh-order spiritual vein, he needed the ancient immortal realm spiritual vein and the corresponding technology.

Only Mu Mu possesses the ancient immortal realm's spiritual veins, but she regards them as the core of her Great Dao Golden Core. It would be very difficult to get her to contribute the ancient immortal realm's spiritual veins.

Technical issues are even more difficult to resolve.

The technology to construct seventh-order spiritual veins must be a core technology of the Immortal Kingdom, and even Yi Jun and Yi Feng should not have access to it at present.

Although the Primordial Purple Apricot possesses some of the memories inherited from the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, it probably lacks the ability to construct a seventh-order spiritual vein.

After thinking about all this, Yi Dong looked at Yi Yan with some confusion, not understanding why she would make an impossible condition for him.

Yi Yan knew what Yi Dong was thinking and said:

"On my way here, I contacted Yi Ze."

I heard some interesting news from him: Yi Feng had entered Tianzhu Mountain.

According to Yi Qing, Yi Feng's supernatural ability is to see the memories of plants.

There is more than one seventh-order spiritual vein within Tianzhu Mountain.

If Yi Feng were to come into contact with the plants on a seventh-order spiritual vein, it wouldn't be difficult for him to deduce the technology for constructing a seventh-order spiritual vein.

Even if he has no interest in deduce it, he can still send over the relevant information so that the Great Awakening Puppet can deduce it.

"Once I have the technology, I won't tell my mother yet. I'll persuade her to retrieve the fragments of the ancient immortal realm from the magic space to build a seventh-tier spiritual vein."

It would take a very long time for the ancient immortal realm's spiritual veins to naturally evolve into seventh-order spiritual veins.

However, if one obtains the method for constructing a seventh-order spiritual vein, one can quickly transform the ancient immortal realm's spiritual veins into seventh-order spiritual veins.

Yi Dong roughly understood what Yi Yan meant.

The purpose was to have Yi Feng transmit the construction data for the seventh-order spiritual vein, so that the Great Awakening Puppet could secretly study it without Mu Mu's knowledge, lest Mu Mu obtain the technology and directly modify the fragments of the Ancient Immortal Realm within the magic space.

Once Mu Mu agrees to retrieve the fragments of the Ancient Immortal Realm, they will be quickly transformed into a seventh-order spiritual vein.

However, if Mu Mu finds out about this later, she will probably be dissatisfied with me.

Although Yi Dong possessed the seed of the Mu Mu Spirit Body Divine Power, this abridged version of the power could not help him escape the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm.

Facing the dragons, Yi Dong was not actually very confident in protecting the Frozen Continent.

Moreover, he never had the determination to give everything to protect the Frozen Continent.

As soon as things turn sour, Yi Dong immediately flees.

As long as you're alive, losing some resources is nothing to worry about.

Yi Dong wouldn't offend Mu Mu until he had other options for escaping.

Besides, Yi Dong is not a hard-working cultivator and does not need to cultivate high-level spiritual veins.

His advancement to the Great Dao Golden Core stage is a long way off. Currently, he has a third-order spiritual vein to make do, and he only needs to cultivate occasionally.

This is also why he didn't move Purple Gold Mountain to the Ice Continent, even though there are fifth-order spiritual veins there.

Furthermore, he doesn't like cultivating spiritual veins to accumulate resources. Nowadays, he can simply rob whatever he wants, so he doesn't need high-level spiritual veins to cultivate any rare and precious materials.

In general, Yi Dong will not need high-level spiritual veins for a long time.

As for the seventh-order spiritual veins enhancing the Qingzhou Grand Array, it's uncertain whether the Frozen Continent can even hold out until the Qingzhou Grand Array is complete, so it's even less important.

It's really not worth risking losing an unwanted seventh-order spiritual vein in the void during Mu Mu's teleportation.

After thinking it through, Yi Dong said to Yi Yan:
"I'm not going to get involved in this."

The Great Awakening Puppet can also be commanded to some extent by Number Two. If you want to use the Great Awakening Puppet, you can have Number Two take over.

Now that you are all about to advance to the Golden Core stage, I also need to work hard.

Aside from the matter of advancing to the Golden Core stage, I don't want to concern myself with anything else.

Looking at Yi Dong's expression, Yi Yan felt somewhat helpless. She knew that her father probably wouldn't help with this matter.

Yi Yan understood Yi Dong quite well, knowing that his ideas differed from those of many cultivators.

Most cultivators would do anything to obtain a seventh-order spiritual vein, which is infinitely more precious than a supreme treasure.

But Yi Dong is different; he only wants what he can use right now, completely disregarding the future.

Things like seventh-order spiritual veins, which are clearly of little use for Foundation Establishment but extremely important for Nascent Soul, are currently of no concern to Yi Dong.

If Yi Dong were about to advance to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage at this moment, his attitude would certainly be different. At the same time, Yi Yan also knew that if Yi Dong could help with many things, she would definitely help him.

But if you refuse verbally, nine times out of ten they won't change their mind, and no amount of persuasion will help.

"It seems we still have to start with the mother."

Only if the mother is willing to take out the fragments of the ancient immortal realm will it be possible to build a seventh-order spiritual vein here.

Without a seventh-tier spiritual vein, the Taotie's cultivation efficiency is simply too low.

Yi Yan once wanted Taotie to occupy the high-level spiritual veins of the unicorn clan.

However, although the unicorn star gods have a great reputation in various worlds, Yi Yan has no way of contacting the star realms where they reside.

Even if you try to get information out of the golden unicorn, you still won't find out where the star gods' so-called astral realm is.

It was precisely because she couldn't seize a seventh-tier spiritual vein that Yi Yan conceived the idea of ​​establishing a seventh-tier spiritual vein on the Frozen Continent.

Yi Dong watched as Yi Yan disappeared into the horizon.

He looked thoughtful.

"It seems that the Primordial Purple Apricot is preparing to improve itself, and it probably also wants to build a seventh-order spiritual vein."

If it weren't for wanting a seventh-tier spiritual vein, it wouldn't have been constantly fighting with the Dragon Spring Sword for the earth vein.

If Tai Chu Zi Xing knew that Yi Yan wanted to build a seventh-order spiritual vein, she would definitely make it happen.

Yi Dong shook his head. Mu Mu had passed on her cultivation technique deductions to Tai Chu Zi Xing, and Tai Chu Zi Xing's words still had an impact on her.

Unlike myself, when it comes to matters of cultivation techniques, I don't rely on the Primordial Purple Apricot or even the Great Awakening Puppet.

As long as the core techniques remain intact, Yi Dong will not need to be concerned about the opinions of anyone or anything.

Sure enough, a few days later, Yi Dong discovered that Yi Yan and Mu Mu were frequently meeting at Tai Chu Zi Xing's place.

It shouldn't be long before Mu Mu is convinced.

Seeing this, Yi Dong stopped worrying about it and continued to observe the situation on the battlefield.

The battlefield remains the same.

Their own warships kept crashing, and the enemy's demon clan powerhouses were also being reduced one by one.

Although the Frozen Arctic is sparsely populated with life, the lack of war over countless years has allowed many powerful individuals among various monster and intelligent races.

Watched for a while.

Yi Dong knew that this war might last a long time.

The main problem is that the Ice Dragon Clan is too cautious.

To this day, not only have no intelligent races entered the battlefield, but the dragon-blooded demon beasts and sixth-order celestial demons have also not appeared.

Intelligent races probably don't go to the battlefield because they fear being captured and becoming a force to resist them.

The powerful monsters are not showing up, probably to unleash their full power at a crucial moment and break through the defensive array of the Frozen Continent in one fell swoop.

"I wonder how long the Ice Dragon Clan will test us. Once they realize that the formation we've just built doesn't have the obvious weaknesses of traditional formations, they'll probably launch a full-scale attack."

After the war began, resources were consumed like water.

If it weren't for the resources from the Ice Dragon Clan, Yi Dong would have had no way to wage a long war against them.

The construction of a single warship requires a massive amount of resources, and the continuous loss of warships puts increasing pressure on the Ice Dragon Treasury.

Thinking of this, Yi Dong pulled up the image of the mine and looked at it for a while, then nodded slightly.

Fifty million cultivators are diligently mining; with billions more miners, the war's losses and output can be balanced.

Underground cold iron ore veins.

One after another, cultivators were busy going in and out of the mine.

Every now and then, lazy miners would be whipped by the overseer with a ritual whip.

The Great Awakening Puppets were quite intelligent; once they understood the identities of the cultivators from the five great dynasties, they immediately made reasonable arrangements.

They assigned cultivators from different factions, even those from independent cultivation backgrounds, to oversee the miners, allowing them to manage the miners from other factions.

Of course, most of the supervisors are at the Golden Core stage or higher.

It was precisely because those supervisors were highly skilled that they were able to better manage the miners.

Inside a simple house outside the Cold Iron Mine.

Pu Lang and the red-clad female cultivator Zhan Mingyue were manipulating a magical artifact to continuously record the progress of the mine excavation.

After a while, the two stopped working.

"The magical artifacts crafted by the cultivators here are easy to control, which has increased the efficiency of the mine by hundreds of times."

Our sect's mineral veins, even after a year of mining, don't amount to as much as what we get in a single day here.

No wonder these cultivators from beyond the realm could fight the Ice Dragon Clan. Judging from their weapon-refining skills, their progress in cultivation is many times greater than that of our Great Heavenly Dynasty.

Pu Lang marveled at the exquisite craftsmanship of the various magical artifacts in the mine.

Zhan Mingyue, however, said:
I don't care about the mines.

The contribution list includes several celestial book inheritances that lead directly to True Immortal status.

I just want to know, can our contributions really be exchanged for the heavenly book?

(End of this chapter)