Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 350 Waiting
At almost the same time, Yi Dong in Zijin Mountain also learned of the changes on the battlefield.

A sixth-tier celestial demon, possessing immense power, far surpassing the strength of human cultivators who have returned to the Void Realm.

The warships are said to be able to shoot down sixth-tier beings, but in reality, even with the assistance of many formations, it would be difficult to kill a Heavenly Demon by the warships alone.

Yi Dong watched as six celestial demons, resembling whales, continuously used their supernatural powers or physical bodies to shoot down warships, their faces expressionless.

Turning his gaze to another magical artifact screen, he saw a massive amount of data flashing continuously on that screen.

Those data are the data that the Great Awakening Puppet manipulates to continuously calculate variables such as the speed, strength, physical structure, and even combat habits of the six Heavenly Demons, in order to build a model of the Heavenly Demons.

While the calculations were being performed, the warships on the battlefield were constantly changing their formations.

Slowly, ten days passed, and the six celestial demons could no longer easily shoot down the warship.

However, warships would have a hard time harming them.

Yi Dong remained silent for a moment.

"Is this the power of the Great Dao?"

The reason why sixth-order beings are so much stronger than fifth-order beings is twofold: firstly, sixth-order beings have a massive amount of energy stored within their bodies, and secondly, sixth-order beings are generally able to comprehend the Dao and master the power of the Great Dao.

The Dao is profound and mysterious; even a highly intelligent puppet cannot accurately analyze the specific effects of the power of the Dao.

Just like the six celestial demons in the picture, they all mastered one or two kinds of water-related powers.

When they utilize the power of the Great Dao, the spells and supernatural abilities they employ will have various unpredictable effects such as force reduction, penetration, and rebound.

Because after being empowered by the power of the Great Dao, spells and supernatural abilities will undergo some changes.

It was precisely because of those extremely difficult-to-calculate changes that the Great Awakening Puppet was never able to devise a method to kill or even injure a sixth-tier Heavenly Demon.

The sixth-order beings have incredibly powerful senses. Even the slightest flaw in the warship's formation makes it difficult to trap them. Without a relatively complete analysis of the Heavenly Demons, killing them is extremely difficult.

"However, it's only a matter of time. Cultivating spells and supernatural abilities takes time, especially spells and supernatural abilities that can be used to fight against a fleet. Even a sixth-tier celestial demon is not so easy to master."

Once their spells and supernatural powers are exposed, and the Great Awakening Puppet has discovered the weaknesses of their souls and bodies, even the most profound and mysterious power of the Great Dao can be thoroughly analyzed over several years.

Yi Dong watched as the demons, unable to shoot down the fleet, began attacking the simple cities on the ground, destroying them one by one, without changing his expression.

"Sixth-tier Heavenly Demons are not true spirits. They can be defeated or even killed by warships. Unless their numbers are overwhelming, it is impossible for them to break through the defenses of the Frozen Continent."

However, if even a sixth-order celestial demon is this troublesome, then those so-called perfect beings, the true spirits, will probably be even more troublesome. The Great Awakening Puppet probably won't be able to analyze their physical weaknesses in a short time.

If they attacked together with many celestial demons, there might actually be a chance they could reach the Nine Heavens Ice Peak.

Thinking about it, Yi Dong couldn't help but look at the floating pagoda outside Zijin Mountain.

The warships researched by Taichu Zixing and Dajue Puppet may not be inferior to the elite warships of the Immortal Kingdom in terms of attack power, but apart from their attack power, their artificial spirits and some seemingly insignificant functions such as detection and analysis are ultimately not as good.

According to Mu Mu's relay of Yi Ze's words, the Immortal Kingdom's fleet had repeatedly ambushed and killed Void Returning Immortals, Heavenly Demons, and even True Immortals and Demon Immortals in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm.

Perhaps it was the accumulation of those insignificant auxiliary functions that offset the effect of the Great Dao, allowing the warship's attack power to be maximized.

Of course, the fact that the Great Awakening Puppet remotely controls the warship is not as easy to operate as the Immortal Kingdom Legion's use of cultivators.

With the help of the Primordial Purple Apricot and the Great Awakening Puppet, the research on warships will take hundreds of millions of years to catch up with the current elite warships of the Immortal Kingdom.

Compared to warships, pagodas and causal puppets might be able to be created.

The Hundred Thousand Pagodas can not only slay true immortals, but also drive away invaders from the immortal realm.

But now, with tens of millions of warships, he is not confident in slaying a single dragon.

The difference between the two is still quite significant.

However, the pagoda requires Buddhist practitioners to control.

If the two sacred body puppets in his possession were legitimate Buddhist cultivation puppets, Yi Dong wouldn't mind having members of the Yi family become Buddhist cultivators.

However, these two sacred puppets appear to be evil Buddhas.

Yi Dong doesn't care about good versus evil; his main concern is that too many evil Buddhas might harm him.

After some thought, Yi Dong realized that if he wanted to transform the Frozen Continent into Qingzhou, he needed to master the exact means to kill the True Dragon. Otherwise, the threat of the True Dragon race would persist, and the various construction projects on the Frozen Continent would become incredibly lengthy.

After Yi Dong issued an order, two Guanyin Bodhisattvas appeared before him shortly afterward.

After glancing at the two Guanyin of Karma, Yi Dong realized that these two puppets were two of the original twelve Arhats of Karma.

After listening to what Yi Dong said, the two Guanyin Bodhisattvas quickly left.

After the two Guanyin Bodhisattvas disappeared, Yi Dong seemed to be deep in thought.

Generally speaking, if one's commands to the causal puppets are of no benefit to them, they will not take them seriously and may pretend to forget Yi Dong's commands after a while.

However, when Yi Dong had just instructed them to build the pagoda and develop some Buddhist practices, he sensed that the two Guanyin Bodhisattvas were somewhat eager. Clearly, this matter was in their favor.

"It makes sense. Perhaps a true causal holy body can sever countless causal ties and advance continuously by killing. However, the causal holy bodies of these holy body puppets seem to always be just one step away from perfection."

This slight difference might prevent them from advancing to the Bodhisattva or Buddha realms through killing.

Besides the mass killing of living beings, once they truly cultivate a large number of Buddhist followers, they might be able to ascend to the level of Bodhisattva or even Buddha.

Over the years, Yi Dong gradually discovered that although the causal puppets seemed to have been on the battlefield many times, not a single puppet was ever destroyed.

This is highly abnormal.

Especially during the attack on the Frozen Continent, hundreds of Guanyin Bodhisattvas besieged an ice dragon and fought fiercely with it, yet they were never harmed.

This abnormal ability to survive may be even stronger than that of a true spirit.

If this were in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, Yi Dong would never have allowed the Karma Puppet to break through to the Bodhisattva realm so quickly.

At least until he breaks through to the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao, he will try his best to slow down the advancement of the Causal Puppet.

Unfortunately, having arrived in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, I now desperately need powerful strength.

Through Yi Yan's information, Yi Dong learned that the Dragon Tomb in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm is connected to many worlds occupied by dragon races, which means that the true dragons in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm are not just the Four Seas Dragon Race.

To gain a foothold in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, he had no choice but to increase his combat power at all costs.

"Would a causal puppet need to kill its creator, me, to sever causality in order to advance at some point?"

Upon realizing this, Yi Dong felt uneasy.

"It seems I can't be too lax in my cultivation from now on. I need to quickly advance to the Golden Core stage and nurture more Yellow Heaven Spiritual Treasures."

Yi Dong looked at the celestial demons on the magic artifact screen, and with a thought, six sword lights rose from the six peaks surrounding Purple Gold Mountain.

Six true spirit swords disappeared as they traversed space.

The Frozen Continent was enormous, more than ten times larger than Qingzhou in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm. It took the True Spirit Longsword a full ten days to traverse space and reach the battlefield, even with the assistance of the Void Sword, which possessed spatial supernatural powers. Otherwise, it would have taken even longer to travel from the center of the Frozen Continent to its edge.

This forced Yi Dong to consider establishing a teleportation array.

After ten days, the outer defenses of the Frozen Continent were breached by the Heavenly Demon and his many demon clans.

However, after the defenses were breached, the Ice Dragon Clan launched several attacks inland to test the inland defenses before halting and resuming their previous protracted battles.

When the six True Spirits arrived at the battlefield, things did not develop as Yi Dong had predicted, with them cooperating with the warships to kill the Heavenly Demons.

Because the True Spirit Longsword completely ignored the Great Awakening Puppet's orders and fought the Heavenly Demon on its own.

Because they didn't coordinate, their arrival disrupted the warships' formation.

Later, perhaps feeling frustrated, the True Spirit Longsword simply stopped fighting the Heavenly Demon and focused on killing those fourth and fifth-tier demonic beasts.

Looking at the image on the magic artifact's screen, Yi Dong felt somewhat helpless.

If I were on the battlefield in person, the True Spirit Sword would naturally obey me. However, when I am not around the True Spirit Sword, even if I use a remote communication device to transmit commands, the sword spirit is not very obedient.

Because the True Spirit Longsword was incredibly powerful and diligently protected him, Yi Dong was able to tolerate the sword spirits even though he knew they had various flaws.

Therefore, Yi Dong was helpless regarding the sword spirit's refusal to fight the Heavenly Demon.

On an island encased in solid ice, outside the Frozen Continent.

Thirteen ice dragons are hiding inside a glacier.

The ice crystals in front of them displayed various scenes, which were the scenes of the battlefield on the icy continent.

"Tell me, what is the Ancestor thinking? How can we possibly defeat those humans by increasing our combat strength little by little?"

"I think the ancestor is waiting for an opportunity, the opportunity when the cold air of the Nine Heavens Ice Peak erupts intermittently."

"It's hard to say when the cold energy of heaven and earth will erupt. If it's quick, it might erupt in one or two hundred years. If it's slow, it might not erupt for several thousand years."

"We don't know, but our ancestor should know when the chilling energy of the Nine Heavens Ice Peak will erupt."

Moreover, even if we really have to wait for thousands of years, it's nothing to us.

In recent days, we have also figured out that the human race that occupied the Frozen Continent was led by three second-tier Foundation Establishment humans and the Golden Core human from before.

Apart from those four humans, all the other humans were puppets.

In other words, perhaps we just need to wait, and those humans will slowly die out, leaving only puppets. Then conquering the Frozen Continent will be much easier.

"It all depends on when the cold energy of heaven and earth erupts."

(End of this chapter)