Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 347 Innate Dao Body
The cultivators that the Great Awakening Puppet wanted to capture worked hard to mine, and considering the long service life, it naturally wouldn't treat them as consumables to be exploited to the death.

The Great Awakening Puppet released a large number of ancient cultivation techniques for the cultivators to exchange.

Besides cultivation techniques, there are also various cultivation knowledge such as alchemy, weapon crafting, and formations.

In short, it's about using knowledge to exchange for the cheap labor of those cultivators.

Of course, in addition to knowledge, resources needed for cultivation, such as low-grade spirit stones and low-level spiritual items, can also be exchanged for contributions.

However, compared to knowledge that can be replicated, the exchange price of physical goods is inflated.

The Heavenly Book inheritance is also real, because the Heavenly Books hanging on the magic artifacts for exchange are the same ones that Mu Mu has.

However, although the Heavenly Book inheritance truly exists, the contribution required is astronomical. Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator helped Yi Dong mine for three thousand years, it would not be enough to make even one-tenth of the required contribution.

With this in mind, the Great Awakening Puppet also came up with the concept of passing on contributions as an inheritance to future generations.

In other words, you may not be able to exchange for the Heavenly Book in your lifetime, but if you accumulate contributions over a dozen generations, and each generation has a God-level cultivator, you can theoretically collect the book. Why would it take a dozen generations?

That's because taxes are everywhere. When Yi Dong's immortal kingdom is established, these cultivators will need to pay taxes on their use of spiritual energy, including high inheritance taxes.

Since a system of contribution inheritance has been created, it is naturally impossible to allow contributions to circulate as currency, so as to prevent people from easily accumulating contributions to exchange for higher-level knowledge.

To this end, the Great Awakening Puppet also rewrote the concept of family. Bloodline is the standard. Apart from that, a family can only have a maximum of one hundred people. People who are more than one hundred people, even if they are close by blood, cannot be considered as a family, and their contributions cannot be shared.

Of the more than 50 million cultivators, only a handful are at the Nascent Soul stage; the majority are at the Qi Refining stage.

In short, those cultivators would never have been able to see a single page of the Heavenly Book unless they had mined for Yi Dong for dozens of generations.

Hearing Zhan Mingyue's words, Pu Lang was speechless. The Heavenly Book was not something they could exchange for. The enormous amount of contribution required was impossible to accumulate even in a hundred lifetimes. It was basically impossible to obtain the Heavenly Book's inheritance.

However, Pu Lang also understood why Zhan Mingyue wanted the Heavenly Book.

Although Zhan Mingyue came from a humble background, merely an ordinary Golden Core sect, her talent was exceptionally high.

How high is it?

This person not only possesses a heavenly spiritual root, but also an unknown spiritual body, making their cultivation speed and value inconceivable.

After Zhan Mingyue began cultivating, it took him ten years to reach the Foundation Establishment stage and thirty years to reach the Golden Core stage.

The reason she didn't make further breakthroughs was not only due to the limitations of inheritance, but also because she was proud and arrogant and refused to marry into the royal family.

If the other party had a higher background and possessed a Nascent Soul inheritance, they would already be a Nascent Soul expert by now.

With such terrifying talent, it's no wonder she wanted to obtain the Heavenly Book inheritance that leads directly to True Immortal status.

Seeing Zhan Mingyue's troubled expression, Pu Lang said:
"Don't even think about inheriting the Heavenly Book; such a thing is simply beyond our reach."

Now, those extraterrestrial humans don't even consider us a threat. Our current situation is not much different from that of the prisoners.

Do you think they would really pass on the secret book to the prisoners?

There's no hope for the Heavenly Book inheritance, but exchanging for Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation inheritances in magical artifacts is something we can try.

Zhan Mingyue didn't speak. When she saw the name of the book "Tai Chi Dao Canon" at a glance, she felt in her heart that this was the most suitable practice for her.

There is one thing that no one knows except Zhan Mingyue herself.

On the surface, she appears to be a prodigy with an unknown physique and a fire-attribute celestial spiritual root.

In fact, her spiritual root was not a normal heavenly spiritual root at all, but rather contained the five elements of heavenly spiritual root and three other different spiritual roots.

Logically speaking, the human race should not produce spiritual roots stronger than the Heavenly Spiritual Root.

However, it was because of Zhan Mingyue's powerful spiritual body that her spiritual root mutated.

Similarly, because her spiritual body was too powerful, ordinary cultivation techniques could not activate it at all.

In other words, Zhan Mingyue's spirit has not awakened at all, and the only spiritual root she can utilize for cultivation is the fire attribute.

In the frigid polar regions, the most suitable attribute for cultivation is ice. However, Zhan Mingyue was still able to quickly achieve the Golden Core stage thanks to her fire attribute spiritual root, which shows how strong her talent is.

Originally, Zhan Mingyue thought that she could only cultivate with the fire attribute heavenly spiritual root for her entire life.

However, when she saw the "Tai Chi Dao Canon," she felt that this divine book could truly awaken her spirit.

With the Tai Chi Dao Canon as a precedent, Zhan Mingyue simply doesn't value other lineages.

However, the Taiji Daodian is a celestial book and obviously cannot be obtained easily.

Nowadays, Zhan Mingyue has hardly seen any human cultivators who have conquered the Frozen Continent, and has no idea how to demonstrate her value.

Indeed, in Zhan Mingyue's view, only by demonstrating her powerful spiritual body could she ensure that the cultivators who had occupied the Frozen Continent would not turn a blind eye to it.

Pu Lang didn't know what Zhan Mingyue was thinking, but he roughly understood what the other party's plan was.

However, Pu Lang felt that Zhan Mingyue was likely to be disappointed. In recent days, countless cultivators had tried to gain favor by showcasing themselves or offering treasures, but according to the intelligence of the Great Heavenly Emperor Clan, no matter what kind of spiritual body they possessed or what their talent was, not a single cultivator had received preferential treatment.

In other words, these people are simply not worth the attention of cultivators from outside the realm.

In Pu Lang's view, if they were able to seize the Frozen Continent from the Ice Dragon Clan, then the number of True Immortals who invaded the human race must be considerable. Therefore, it's not surprising that they look down on low-level cultivators like themselves.

When Zhan Mingyue wanted to showcase her talent but had no way to do so, she was unaware that her information had already been compiled by the Great Awakening Puppet and sent to Yi Dong.

Yi Dong's original intention was to find some people with the "Great Path to Immortality" spiritual body to conduct experiments.

That day, he saw Zhan Mingyue's information.

"Born with the Dao body."

Among ancient cultivators, those with a Heavenly Spiritual Root have a very high chance of advancing to the Golden Core stage, while those with an Innate Dao Body are legendary even within the Immortal Kingdom.

It is said that this type of Dao body has an extremely high chance of achieving Dao unity.

Moreover, a True Immortal who has achieved the Dao Body possesses combat power far greater than an ordinary True Immortal.

After putting down Zhan Mingyue's information, Yi Dong fell into deep thought.

According to some of the information Yi Dong saw, among the Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm who had achieved Dao Integration, there were those with Innate Dao Bodies.

Logically speaking, even if the human bloodline in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm is mixed with the bloodline of the dragon race, it should still be inferior to the human bloodline of the Immortal Kingdom.

But how did A Dong appear among the human race in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, and then Zhan Mingyue appeared?

These two were people he had already discovered, so he figured there must be many other human prodigies in the world who hadn't been discovered by him.

"Could it be that the grand formations in each state of the Immortal Kingdom also have the ability to select and choose the birth of geniuses?"

It's like the ability to draw upon the energy of the heavens.

All the extraordinary human prodigies in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm were born into meritorious families in the Central Plains.

Yi Dong then pulled out a few more documents.

The cultivators recorded in these documents all possessed very strong spiritual bodies, but they were still inferior to those born with innate Dao bodies.

The innate Dao body is probably no less than that of a true spirit body. It seems that among the innate spiritual bodies cultivated today, none can surpass this physique.

Yi Dong remembered that Yi Ling once said that Ding Yunxian seemed to have transformed her spiritual body into a so-called Dao body after birth, but the Dao body transformed after birth is probably not as good as the one born innately.

"A naturally born Dao body is capable of possessing eight independent spiritual roots and cultivating eight kinds of magical power."

From this perspective, it's not as good as Mu Mu's spiritual body, which can refine all energy. However, even if three of the eight independent spiritual roots are different spiritual roots, it's still beyond the norm and not much different from eight heavenly spiritual roots.

Cultivation aptitude is divided into spiritual body aptitude and spiritual root aptitude. Generally speaking, spiritual root aptitude is superior to spiritual body aptitude in terms of cultivation speed. If a spiritual body's supernatural abilities don't accelerate cultivation, then spiritual body aptitude is inferior to that of a celestial spiritual root.

As far as Yi Dong knew, although spirits could join the Dao Academy within the Immortal Kingdom, many of them were considered trash because their spiritual roots were not Heavenly Spiritual Roots, and they fared worse than ordinary Heavenly Spiritual Root students.

With eight celestial spiritual roots, if one were to become a cultivator, their cultivation speed would undoubtedly be incredibly fast.

However, if one is born with a Daoist body but chooses the path of cultivation, then that Daoist body will not be utilized to its fullest potential.

Because the current cultivator cannot unite with the Dao, this wastes the greatest function of the Dao body.

Of course, given Yi Dong's personality, it's impossible for him to cultivate a Dao-Merging True Immortal who has the power to resist him.

Especially this True Immortal, who was born with a Daoist body, is stronger than an ordinary True Immortal.

However, Yi Dong had no interest in studying innate Dao bodies.

The innate Dao Body is one of the strongest physiques among ancient cultivators, but in the modern cultivation system, this Dao Body may not actually be that strong.

With a long lifespan, the cultivation speed at the level of a Heavenly Spiritual Root is sufficient. A faster speed is not very meaningful, because once you reach the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage, the cultivation of magical power is related to the Nascent Soul Dao Field, and the influence of the spiritual root is not very crucial.

However, it would be a great pity to leave one of the strongest human physical attributes unchecked.

Thinking that his cultivation had deviated somewhat from the mainstream path of cultivation, he realized that he might not be able to advance to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage in the future, and the chances of him turning into an ancient cultivator were not small.

"This person might be a good reference; let her cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage first."

A Nascent Soul cultivator has a lifespan of three thousand years. By then, I should have advanced to the Great Golden Core stage. Whether I can advance to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage will be clear by then.

If I really have to switch to ancient cultivation, this person might be able to help me.”

Thinking it over, Yi Dong sent a message to the Great Awakening Puppet, instructing them to arrange for the person with the innate Dao Body to cultivate on a spiritual vein on the ground, so as to prevent the person from being ruined by the radiation of the mine by staying in the mine for a long time.

Just a few days later, the Great Awakening Puppet sent a message to Yi Dong, saying that the woman with the innate Daoist physique had actually made a request to obtain the Heavenly Book inheritance.

(End of this chapter)