Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 355: Divine Power Seed

When Yi Feng stepped out of the meditation room again, he had already completed the recording of the spiritual plant he had obtained.

Having come from the true Tower of Omniscience to this place, you are free to do whatever you want, record whatever you wish, or even leave without recording anything.

However, Yi Feng knew a little bit of the inside story.

Those who record nothing, or record only trivial knowledge, or even knowledge not obtained from the Tower of Omniscience, will, barring unforeseen circumstances, not be allowed to step into the true Tower of Omniscience again.

The secret techniques for cultivating spirit plants recorded by Yi Feng can accelerate the growth of fourth-tier spirit plants, which is quite valuable knowledge. I think that if I have the opportunity in the future, I will be able to enter the Tower of Omniscience again.

The moment he stepped out of the quiet room, the space changed, and he was already in another large hall.

In this hall, a large number of people were quietly reading books, just like in a huge reading room.

Among these people were cultivators, but most were ordinary children, and many of the cultivators had only just entered the first level of Qi Refining.

Yi Feng looked around, his expression unchanged.

These people are mostly talented descendants from families with a long history of merit.

This Tower of Knowledge, which many celestial officials spend their entire lives trying to enter, is the foundation they lay before they begin their cultivation journey.

The privileged class is everywhere.

Yi Feng didn't find anything objectionable about it.

From a young age, he experienced differential treatment.

In the Yi family, if he weren't Yi Dong's son, no matter how outstanding his talent was, he would never have received Yi Dong's guidance.

As far as Yi Feng knew, one of his descendants in Qingzhou was named Yi Taizhen.

Then Yi Taizhen's talent might not be inferior to his own.

However, because he wasn't close to Yi Dong, he didn't get Yi Dong's attention or resources, and he couldn't even get into the Dao Academy. In the end, he betrayed the Yi family for his future.

The descendants of these meritorious families are simply enjoying the blessings of their ancestors; there's nothing incomprehensible about that.

Just as Yi Feng was about to ignore these people, a dozen young men and women walked towards him.

These people's cultivation levels are either Foundation Establishment or Golden Core.

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

After these people entered, none of them directly provoked Yi Feng; instead, they smiled at him.

One of the young men said:
“Fellow Daoist Yi Feng, I am Geng Changwen from the Red Sun Heavenly Monarch family. As for your brother’s matter, our families no longer intend to pursue it. The Immortal Kingdom has started the war outside the boundary and it will not end. Once we find a new Spirit Realm, we may fight together outside the boundary again. I am here to tell you this in order to avoid misunderstandings in the future.”

Yi Feng glanced at these people, nodded slightly, and then left without saying a word.

Looking at Yi Feng's retreating figure, some of these people revealed a hint of barely perceptible anger, while others showed a mocking expression.

Only Geng Changwen maintained a smile throughout.

Only after Yi Feng left the Tower of Omniscience did a female Foundation Establishment cultivator whisper:
"But if you have some ability, what's there to be arrogant about?"

Without a complete Great Dao Nascent Soul inheritance, one ultimately cannot advance to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage. Once he remains at the Great Dao Golden Core stage for tens of thousands of years, he'll know how to bow his head then.

"That's right. I've seen many outsiders like him with some talent, but in the end, they all joined our meritorious families to serve us for the sake of the Great Dao Nascent Soul inheritance and blood exchange."
"If they don't join our distinguished family, they can forget about cultivating immortality."

Hearing what the people behind him said, Geng Changwen frowned slightly.

Geng Changwen naturally disliked Yi Feng as well.

However, he is able to control himself and knows what is in his own best interest; he won't speak carelessly just to save face.

Before Yi Feng entered the Tower of Omniscience, these scions of meritorious families were determined to kill Yi Ze, and even persuaded a direct descendant of a Celestial Lord family to commit suicide.

After all, Yi Ze killed not just one or two family prodigies, but a whole group of prodigies from those families who went to the Northern Yue Spirit Realm to "gild" themselves.

These people, who come from families of merit, are naturally proud. How could they tolerate such a thing?

However, after Yi Feng entered the Tower of Omniscience once, the Tower of Omniscience analyzed and recorded Yi Feng's information. These families checked it and discovered that Yi Feng, who was only at the Foundation Establishment stage of the Great Dao, actually had the strength to fight against a Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao in a short period of time, according to the analysis of the Tower of Omniscience.

This level of strength surpasses that of many prodigies from meritorious families. Only those who are born into the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage from Immortal Lord families, or the direct descendants of Immortal Emperors, or a few monstrous talents from meritorious families possess it.

These family scions are not afraid of Yi Feng alone, but the names of the seven prodigies of the Yi family have already gained some fame in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

To outsiders, these seven individuals appear to be roughly equal in talent and ability.

Indeed, Yi Mo was also regarded as a member of the Yi family by the cultivators of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

After all, many cultivation families set up branch families. In the eyes of many cultivators, Yi Mo's Yangzhou Yi family is not really cut off from the Qingzhou Yi family, but rather serves as a backup plan, with the separation only on the surface.

This is quite normal. Many cultivation families are afraid of being wiped out by powerful individuals, so they split into a branch family and create some conflicts on the surface, which may be the only way to ensure that their bloodline can be passed down.

The Tower of Omniscience analyzed Yi Feng's strength, and these people naturally made a judgment on the strength of Yi Jun and the others. The genius from the Immortal Lord family who had been persuaded earlier also changed his mind.

Of course, if a second-rank Heavenly Monarch family were to actually punish Yi Ze, then even if Yi Feng and the others truly possessed the strength of a Great Dao Nascent Soul, they would probably find it difficult to establish themselves in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

In reality, those who wanted Yi Ze dead were only the younger generation of those meritorious families. The Nascent Soul stage cultivators of these families wouldn't interfere in the deaths of some of their family's prodigies.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, those Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators are all equivalent to immortals. Their family's prodigies and even their children are merely insignificant specks in their long lives. If a few prodigies die, the family's Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators will have to go out to seek revenge. How busy are the family's Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators?

Modern cultivators have long lifespans and are even more cold-blooded and ruthless than ancient cultivators.

A typical meritorious family has hundreds of millions of members, with countless geniuses. If a few die, not even a single Nascent Soul cultivator would care.

Not only would a Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivator not waste their time on meaningless revenge for some short-lived ghosts, but the true prodigies in the family would also generally not take action.

True prodigies also don't take ordinary clansmen seriously. What are geniuses in the eyes of ordinary cultivators are just ordinary clansmen in the eyes of those family prodigies.

The true prodigies were already waging war in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm long ago; they didn't need to wait until the war was basically over before reaping the rewards.

Those born into nobility and possessing extraordinary talent don't care about military achievements; they participate in wars for additional purposes.

With the Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators paying no attention and the monstrous talents capable of confronting the Yi family siblings remaining silent, the cultivators from meritorious families, unable to use the power of their immortal kingdoms to suppress Yi Ze, had no choice but to organize their own legions to kill him.

However, Yi Ze is currently in Qingzhou. Putting aside his own strength, Qingzhou is the Yi family's stronghold. Even the official authorities of the Immortal Kingdom do not know how many war machines the Yi family left in Qingzhou. Those self-proclaimed noble and meritorious scions of noble families will not easily risk their lives just to vent their anger.

Yi Feng and Yi Jun were only concerned about the changes in the officialdom of the Immortal Kingdom. As long as the scions of those meritorious families could not use their connections to mobilize the official fleet of the Immortal Kingdom, there would be no problem.

Yi Feng never took these second-rate cultivators from these meritorious families seriously, which is why he didn't even bother to talk to them.

Similarly, Yi Feng knew that whatever he said would probably be useless.

In the future, when Yi Qing, Yi Ling, and Yi Yan encounter cultivators from these families on the battlefield outside the boundary, they will undoubtedly kill them without hesitation. There will be no shortage of struggles between their Yi family and these meritorious families.

Of course, as long as it doesn't involve killing a Nascent Soul cultivator, it's not considered a real conflict.

Even if it's killing a Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivator, or a third-grade True Monarch family, that's fine too. True Monarch families usually only have one to three Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators, and they're usually the weaker ones. The Yi family isn't worried about fighting to the death with such families.

However, killing the Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivator from a second-rank Heavenly Monarch family would make it difficult for the Yi family to maintain their foothold in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Although the Celestial Sovereign Family is not one of those Celestial Sovereign Families where the Celestial Emperors take turns ruling, it still wields considerable influence in the Celestial Kingdom. With a little maneuvering, they can use public resources for private purposes and mobilize the Celestial Kingdom's army to suppress those who resist.

As Yi Feng pondered, he used Wood Release to continuously traverse the Tianzhu Mountain range.

Yi Feng casually took time fragments from every plant that Wood Release touched.

Acquiring knowledge from fragments of time is simpler than acquiring it from the obvious Tower of Omniscience.

Unfortunately, Yi Feng only managed to wander around Tianzhu Mountain for a short while using Wood Release before being teleported away by the formation.

Zhongzhou is the center of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, and everything here is much better than in Qingzhou.

In Qingzhou, people mainly rely on flying boats as a means of transportation.

In Zhongzhou, teleportation arrays connect each of the immortal cities.

After several transfers, Yi Feng arrived at the immortal city where Yi Jun and Yi Ling were located.

In the courtyard, Yi Feng looked at Yi Ling, reached out his hand, and directly took out the gold and red time fragments.

Yi Ling glanced at Yi Feng in surprise, then silently absorbed the fragment of time.

"As expected, you really do possess the supernatural power of 'Forest of Time,' or rather, the seed of that supernatural power."

No wonder you were able to be so sure that I could sense the relevant fragments of time just by sensing a single aura.

You did get the knowledge you wanted, but unfortunately, the time fragments I obtained, which included knowledge of wood-attribute cultivation, weren't very valuable.

However, since you can also use the 'Forest of Time,' you can enter the Tower of Omniscience yourself. Why bother coming to me?

Yi Ling smiled slightly.
"The supernatural powers I possess are merely a weakened version of yours; they cannot steal fragments of time from the World Tree."

Yi Jun, standing to the side, said:

"Yi Ling, you must have deduced our brothers' supernatural powers through the connection of blood and the abilities of your Great Awakening Holy Body, right?"

In that case, you possess the supernatural powers of all four of us, and even those of your father and mother.

The nameless one who follows you possesses the divine power of the Holy Body, which has the abilities of the past, present, and future. You should also have it, in addition to your spiritual divine power.

So, in that case, you're actually the strongest among us five siblings.

Yi Ling smiled but didn't say anything.

The power of the supernatural seed she possessed wasn't the key point; the key point was that she had a general understanding of the supernatural abilities of Yi Jun and the others, while they themselves knew little about their own supernatural abilities.

Given the information asymmetry, Yi Ling naturally has a greater advantage in battle.

However, none of Yi Jun's supernatural abilities were simple, making it difficult to defeat them in battle.

"However, once I condense the Great Dao Golden Core and retrieve the Hundred Lifetimes Imprint from my father, our strength might be able to widen the gap."

(End of this chapter)