Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 358 Nine Netherworld Crows
Number Two looked at Yi Qing's expression, then glanced in another direction.
"If you don't do something soon, the treasure will be taken away."

Upon hearing what Number Two said, Yi Qing was not in a hurry; the blood-stained longsword had already become a priceless treasure.

Treasures possess a spirit, and are not so easily taken away.

Although Number Two could see some vague futures, she had never actually come into contact with the Bloodstained Sword and did not know how powerful it was. Moreover, with supernatural abilities like precognition, if the energy level of the reference point was too high, causing severe interference, it was basically impossible to obtain an accurate future.

The Bloodstained Longsword is now at the level of a supreme treasure, so the future seen by Number Two is bound to be inaccurate.

It's even less likely that it will be stolen.

Not to mention now, even before the Bloodstained Longsword absorbed the black mist, the number of sword spirits was increasing more or less every moment, and it was getting stronger all the time. Even the five Dao Integration True Immortals couldn't do anything about the Bloodstained Longsword.

Now that it has absorbed the black mist, the longsword not only has a sword spirit but also those black mist creatures, making it not so easy for anyone to take it away.

Perhaps if the Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Kingdom were to intervene, there is a certain probability that he could forcibly suppress the Bloodstained Sword.

As far as Yi Qing knew, the biggest difference between the Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Kingdom and the True Immortal of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm lay in the years of cultivation.

The True Immortals of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm all advanced within the last 100,000 years, while the Immortal Emperors of the Immortal Kingdoms probably have no cultivation time of less than a million years. The difference in their magical power is so great that it is difficult to calculate.

In Yi Qing's view, this blood-stained longsword was, to some extent, even more powerful than the hourglass of time.

Suddenly, Yi Qing had an idea. With a wave of his hand, new screen images appeared one after another.

The scene on each screen showed a ten-headed strange bird rising higher and higher, seemingly approaching the gale layer.

Soon, the strange bird disappeared from the screen, indicating that the ten-headed bird had left the range of the scout insects that Yi Qing had placed above the Qinghai Sea.

Number Two also saw the image on the screen and was about to say something when he suddenly realized that all the screens had gone black.

At the same time, Number Two and Yi Qing simultaneously felt an aura of annihilation enveloping them, as if it were about to kill all their life force.

Number Two possessed countless magical secret techniques and supernatural abilities, and she quickly devised a solution to this strange power.

However, she chose the simplest method. She could freely switch between a puppet body and a flesh and blood body. After switching to the puppet body, the aura of the Great Awakening Holy Body was revealed, giving her a feeling of being impervious to all magic. Instantly, that aura stopped bothering her.

Yi Qing's method was even simpler: he instantly enveloped himself with the Heavenly River Weak Water.

Within the Milky Way's Weak Water lie layers of space, each containing countless insects.

The insects used their lives to gradually wear down the aura of annihilation, protecting Yi Qing's body layer by layer.

Qinghai.

One moment the sun was shining brightly, but the next instant it plunged into darkness, the deep darkness absorbing all the light.

A huge shadow of a ten-headed bird fell over Qinghai, and the central area of ​​Qinghai was basically covered by the shadow.

The five Dao-Merging Immortals surrounding Qinghai can communicate in real time through the formation.

"Oh no, those ten strange birds... I didn't realize they were spirits at first, but now I know."

This is the divine power of the Nine Netherworld Crow.

Moreover, this is not an ordinary Netherworld Crow; it is a mutated True Spirit.

Moreover, this mutation made its supernatural powers even more powerful.

"No, we just detected that the Nine Netherworld Crow is not in a good state. It seems that it has lost all its magic power and is now using its soul power to activate its supernatural abilities to convert the life force of the creatures in the Qinghai into its own nutrients."

The true spirits are powerful for two reasons: first, their physical bodies, and second, the magical power they have cultivated for countless years.

Now, this Nine Netherworld Crow is using its innate divine power, the Phantom of Death, which cannot even cover Qinghai, clearly indicating that it is extremely weak.

Thus, we…

"Let alone lacking magical power, even if it were a severely injured and dying Nine Netherworld Crow, we would have no way to deal with it."

I've read some ancient books, and the Nine Netherworld Crow, who has mastered the Great Dao of Death, can even blur the concept of death, making it even more difficult to kill than the Heavenly Phoenix.

In other words, the Nine Netherworld Crow is not a true spirit with a stable reproductive ability like the Heavenly Phoenix or the True Dragon, and its numbers are scarce. Otherwise, the fame of this kind of true spirit would definitely be comparable to that of powerful true spirits such as the True Dragon and the Heavenly Phoenix. We have only cultivated for tens of thousands of years, not tens of millions of years.

What are you thinking about fighting such a true spirit?

They're lying there letting us hit them, and we might not even be able to hit them.

"The Nine Netherworld Crows flew out from the black mist emitted by that longsword, which means they are also related to that supreme treasure. Now that the supreme treasure can't be retrieved either, what should Yi Qing do?"
Tianjizi and Wanxiang Daoren are not easily fooled. If we just give them a perfunctory answer like this, what if they cause us trouble later?

Although these five are true immortals, in a battle, they might not necessarily be a match for Tianjizi and Wanxiang Daoren. Their advantage in cultivation level cannot erase the gap in cultivation years between Tianjizi and the other two.

The patriarchs of the ten great immortal sects were all on the verge of becoming True Immortals. Moreover, the ten great immortal sects possessed secret techniques and treasures that could allow cultivators at the Void Returning stage to live for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. These people were true old monsters who had lived for over a hundred thousand years, and were not comparable to ordinary Void Returning cultivators. It was perfectly normal for them to be unable to defeat them.

However, some people were worried about those old monsters causing trouble for them, while others were not afraid.

"We've helped them besiege Yi Qing for decades. I don't believe they can't get out of the Creation Realm. We've spent decades here, so we've done our duty to them."

Besides, things are not the same as they were 100,000 years ago. Those people were a powerful ancient sect 100,000 years ago, but now they're nothing but a pack of stray dogs. Even if they have fellow disciples outside the realm, what can they do as long as we don't leave the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm?

"But they ultimately played a significant role in our advancement to the Dao Integration Realm. If we do this, will they let it go so easily?"

The Ten Great Immortal Sects are no ordinary sects; even the Immortal Kingdoms have been unable to annihilate them.

Furthermore, these ten immortal sects are similar to the Heavenly Dao Sect, having branches not only in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, but also in many other spirit realms and even immortal realms.

The five True Immortals of the Dao Integration Society repaid the favor to Tianjizi and the others, not because they were all people who would repay kindness, but because Tianjizi and the others came from the Ten Great Immortal Sects.

Within the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, Tianjizi and Wanxiang Daoren could cause them trouble, but outside the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, the Ten Great Immortal Sects would likely have even more to cause them trouble.

Moreover, they are True Immortals who have attained the Dao, and can live for a very long time. They may very well go to the Immortal Realm in the future.

I'm not afraid in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, but what if I go to the Immortal Realm and encounter the people of the Ten Great Immortal Sects again? Wouldn't that be terrible?

After the Creation Realm opened, a large number of True Immortals from various Spirit Realms and even Immortal Realms appeared, allowing these five people to truly understand the reason why the Ten Great Immortal Sects could be passed down for tens of millions of years in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Just then, all five of them felt a strong gaze directed at them.

A chill ran through them. True Immortals who had reached the Dao rarely experienced any unusual sensations, but at this moment, they all knew it was the feeling of death.

In an instant, the five True Immortals vanished from their spots, no longer caring about the ten Immortal Sect Ancestors.

If Tianjizi causes them trouble, they still have room to maneuver, but now, fighting the Nine Netherworld Crows, the possibility of death is extremely high.

There's no need to consider which option to choose.

In the sky, thick black smoke billowed in and out of the enormous bird's body, and the ten heads of the Nine Netherworld Crow withdrew their gaze.

In the past, it would have already chased after those five seventh-tier creatures and used them as nourishment for its recovery, but now it had no interest in paying them any attention.

When it regained consciousness, it discovered the abnormality in its body. Not only had all the magical power accumulated over countless years disappeared, but an unusual power had invaded its body and become part of it.

Compared to that abnormal power, having an extra head, a pair of wings, and a pair of claws is nothing.

Logically speaking, it is a true spirit, and few forces in the world can modify the body of a true spirit, not even calamities.

Unfortunately, while it was in its "death slumber," it had been eroded by the power of calamity for tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years. Over time, it unknowingly transformed its body.

Originally, this wasn't a problem; as long as it remained conscious, it would eventually be able to gradually dispel the power of the calamity.

Unfortunately, the precious longsword below possessed a strange power of creation, which directly fused the power of calamity with its body. It was precisely because of this drastic change in its body that the soul in the Netherworld noticed the anomaly and returned to its body.

The Nine Netherworld Crows generally don't sleep; they can sleep for thousands or tens of thousands of years at a time.

Moreover, the slumber of the Nine Netherworld Raven is different from that of other living beings. When it slumbers, its soul enters the Netherworld space and it cannot control its body.

Of course, the Nine Netherworld Crow, which has entered a state of slumber, is in the gap between life and death. Not to mention ordinary living beings, even powerful true spirits cannot harm the Nine Netherworld Crow, which is in a cycle of life and death.

Moreover, the sleeping Nine Netherworld Raven is not without the ability to resist. Any weak creature that sees it will be pulled into sleep, and then its soul will be pulled into the Netherworld to become food for the Nine Netherworld Raven.

In short, in this Nine Netherworld Crow's memory, there was no record of any other Nine Netherworld Crows being killed while they were asleep.

Unfortunately, it was too unlucky. It chose to sleep in the spirit world, but unexpectedly, that spirit world was corrupted by calamity.

Ordinary calamities are one thing, but what he encountered was the kind of calamity that subtly alters the nature of things, and continuous damage simply couldn't awaken it.

The calamity power that could instantly turn an ordinary human into a Black Mist human was, in the eyes of the Nine Netherworld Raven, merely a weak power capable of slightly harming its body.

When the Nine Netherworld Crow is asleep, its soul sinks into the Nine Netherworld. As long as its soul is immortal, its true spirit body will also be basically unharmed. The damage caused by calamities is not as fast as its recovery, which has led to its current predicament.

"The most crucial thing is that treasure below. Hmm, this treasure cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of other beings. Otherwise, it would be bad if other beings used the power of that treasure to enslave me before I thought of severing my connection with it."

(End of this chapter)