Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 360 Confrontation
Looking at the tiny creature radiating scorching light before it, the Nine Netherworld Crow sensed that the creature's divine flames were comparable in heat to the Heavenly Phoenix's Phoenix Fire.

Moreover, in addition to the scorching heat, the opponent's fire magic also possesses a power that causes the soul to sink.

In the void, the Nine Netherworld Crow only had a few true spirits with top-level fire divine abilities, such as the Heavenly Phoenix, the Golden Crow, and the Vermilion Bird. This was because when encountering these true spirits, their divine abilities were like the blazing sun, which would greatly weaken its shadow divine abilities. Moreover, the opponent's divine abilities could even burn its soul hidden deep within its divine ability space.

Over Qinghai, the sun and shadow each occupy half the sky.

Yi Ling's pupils changed; his Wisdom Eye opened, and his pupils became like the void of the universe, with countless stars twinkling within them.

Future visions and the nature of shadow magic flashed before my eyes.

"Huh, this supernatural power is actually the same type as Yi Qing's, both communicating with an unknown space."

Within the Heavenly River space that Yi Qing's supernatural powers connect to, there is energy capable of causing living beings to distort and evolve. This mysterious space that the Nine Netherworld Crows connect to is filled with the power of death, and countless undead spirits are active within it.

"It seems that Yi Qing's supernatural powers are evolving in a similar direction to this true spirit, both emphasizing quantity over quality. In the future, if she puts the insect race into the Milky Way space, she may be able to obtain countless powerful insects that evolve using the power of the Milky Way."

However, it seems that the undead in the death space that the Nine Netherworld Crow communicates with don't have many powerful individuals. Could it be that Yi Qing's death space is even more powerful than the space that the Nine Netherworld Crow's true spirit communicates with?

Just as Yi Ling was thinking this, he suddenly analyzed some information and discovered that the space that the Nine Netherworld Crow communicated with was divided into two layers. One layer was the material layer, which contained countless undead, while the deeper layer was the space where souls existed. From that space, Yi Ling vaguely sensed that there were many incredibly powerful souls.

"So that's how it is. The core of the Nine Netherworld Crow's divine power is the soul space."

Fortunately, their current magical power is insufficient; they can't even summon the undead from the material realm, let alone the powerful souls within the soul realm.

Just then, the Shadow of Death unleashed countless shadowy swords in all directions.

They actually want to form a large formation?

Yi Ling's keen insight allows her to see into the near future, so she naturally won't let the Nine Netherworld Crows succeed.

Countless gods and Buddhas flew out from the blazing sun, not only towards the enormous shadow of death, but also chasing after the scattered shadowy swords.

Each of those gods and Buddhas was like a giant torch, rushing into the shadow of death and continuously destroying the shadow swords and shadow mechanical legions.

The Shadow of Death, capable of replicating supernatural powers, cannot be replicated by any god or Buddha.

The luminous deities charged toward the direction of the Slaughtering Sword.

Clearly, Yi Ling also realized that obtaining the Spirit-Slaying Sword was the key to subduing the Nine Netherworld Crows in a short time.

Just then, a black water vortex appeared in the fire not far from Yi Ling.

The black vortex spread and expanded, driving away the surrounding fire.

The next moment, two figures emerged from the black water vortex.

"Yi Qing, do you no longer use insects or fallen creatures as coordinates for your teleportation?"

Yi Qing was currently in the heart of the blazing sun, where the temperature was so high that even the space itself was fluctuating.

Under her supernatural powers, Yi Ling did not believe that the dust-like insects that Yi Qing had scattered on the Qinghai Lake could survive.

Yi Qing glanced at Yi Ling, but didn't answer. He then looked into the Shadow of Death, which was filled with many dim lights.

"That priceless sword is something I painstakingly acquired; you wouldn't want to take it away, would you?"

"What effort did you put in?"

It's simply a matter of releasing this longsword and letting it wreak havoc in Qinghai.

Moreover, this precious longsword not only carries the twisted and evolved power of the Heavenly River Force in your supernatural abilities, but also a crazy will. Only my Buddhist Dharma can suppress this crazy will.

Moreover, even if you could resolve that madness, you couldn't subdue the Nine Netherworld Crow bound to the treasure. My divine power counters the Nine Netherworld Crow, while the Nine Netherworld Crow, whose divine power is somewhat similar to yours, is superior to you in every aspect.

Yi Qing looked at Yi Ling,

"I'll take this precious sword as a gift, as a way of repaying the favor of the Immortal Spirit Jade Liquid you gave me."

Yi Qing thought about it and realized that the treasured longsword seemed to be the type that relied on quantity to win, which overlapped with his own supernatural abilities. It seemed that taking it would not be of much use to him.

Because activating the Arcana requires a large amount of mana.

Instead of wasting mana on using treasures, it's better to use mana on more efficient supernatural powers.

Most importantly, he couldn't obtain the treasured longsword on his own.

Yi Ling shook her head.

"That won't do. I came to you because I need you to help me with some things in Luofu Prefecture."

Here's what we'll do: I'll find you another treasure to compensate you later.

"I came here this time to help you out of this predicament. I wanted you to go to Luofu to help me. Don't worry, when you go to Luofu, all you need to do is kill people. The rest will be taken care of."

Although Yi Qing greatly enjoys destruction and killing, he has absolutely no interest in becoming someone else's henchman.

She prefers to do as she pleases rather than be someone else's tool, not even Yi Ling.

Unfortunately, she owed Yi Ling a favor. If it weren't for Yi Ling's Immortal Jade Elixir, she would have been forced to use ordinary essences of heaven and earth to construct her Great Dao Golden Core.

For Yi Qing, a water-attribute cultivator aspiring to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage, the Immortal Spirit Jade Liquid is, to some extent, even more precious than the most precious treasures.

Just as Yi Qing was about to say something, she suddenly looked into the distance.
"Those five Dao-Merging True Immortals have actually returned."

Yi Ling frowned and transmitted his voice to the longevity tortoise hidden in the space:
"You help me block those five Dao-Merging True Immortals."

They don't know your background, so dealing with them won't be difficult.

The longevity tortoise hidden in the space shook its head.

"I am good at defense, but not good at offense and movement."

Without the help of the blue ox, I couldn't stop them.

Previously in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm, Yi Ling, along with Wuming, the Longevity Turtle, and the Green Ox, survived countless battles without sustaining any damage.

Now, neither Qingniu nor Wuming are by his side.

After returning from the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm, Qingniu went back to Yunmeng County in Qingzhou ahead of everyone else.

To this day, Qingniu has not contacted him again.

In the past, Qingniu would occasionally return to Yunmeng County, and Yi Ling was not worried that anything would happen to him.

Seeing that Yi Ling was communicating telepathically with the True Spirit Turtle, Yi Qing roughly knew what the other was thinking, so he said:

"The reason I was trapped before was because there was a large array in Qinghai that was set up at some unknown time, which not only restricted my movement but also allowed it to know the location of my true body at any time."

Previously, those five Dao-Merging True Immortals suddenly left, and after the great formation lost its controller, I casually destroyed it.

Without the grand formation, it shouldn't be difficult for me to stop those five Dao Integration True Immortals."

With that, Yi Qing disappeared into the black water vortex.

Before long, an endless black river appeared above Qinghai, from which countless insects and biological warships flew out, heading in five directions around Qinghai.

Yi Ling looked at Number Two, who hadn't left with Yi Qing.
"Aren't you going to take action?"

Just as Number Two was about to say something, Yi Ling continued:

"I already know what you want to say. My Great Awakening Holy Body is very different from that of your Great Awakening Puppet. Even if you analyze my Great Awakening Holy Body thoroughly, you will not be able to replicate it, because my Holy Body is fundamentally different from the Buddhist lineage."

You and Number One are more special than the other Great Awakening Puppets. This specialness is due to Namelessness.

Only by being nameless can you and Number One achieve true enlightenment and holy body.

"If you can help me capture a Dao-Merging Immortal or a True Spirit, I'll have Wuming lend you a hand."

Upon hearing Yi Ling's words, Number Two immediately thought of the True Dragons in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm who lacked combat experience.

Each of the true spirits wandering in the void has gone through countless battles. Even if one becomes a Buddha, Number Two is not confident of capturing one.

In contrast, the young true dragons in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm are like flowers in a greenhouse, seemingly with very little combat experience.

As for True Immortals of the Dao Integration Realm, they are basically impossible to capture in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Although the Dao Integration True Immortals of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm have not cultivated for a long time, each of them has drawn on the methods of contemporary cultivators and developed a set of combined divine abilities that can counter contemporary cultivators. It is hard to say whether their combat power is stronger or not compared to Dao Integration True Immortals of other worlds, but they are definitely more difficult to deal with.

While Number Two was still thinking, Yi Ling said:

"Alright, now go help Yi Qing."

Number Two didn't say much before his body disappeared into the black water vortex.

She understood Yi Ling's meaning. If she didn't help now, even if she captured the true spirit later, Yi Ling might not let Wuming help her.

On the other side, as a large number of gods and Buddhas entered the Shadow of Death, the Nine Netherworld Crow felt countless restless murmurs echoing in its soul.

This kind of murmuring has the effect of making the soul lose itself and the consciousness sink into oblivion.

However, the soul of the Nine Netherworld Raven was much stronger than its physical body, and apart from feeling irritable, it was not affected in any other way.

However, the Nine Netherworld Crow is currently using its soul power to unleash its supernatural abilities and fight against Yi Ling. As time goes by, its soul power will become weaker and weaker, and it's hard to say whether it will be affected in the future.

However, even if the Nine Netherworld Crow wanted to leave now, it couldn't. Before the power of the contract with the Spirit Slaughtering Sword was cleared, if its true spirit body was far away from the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, the rampaging energy within its body might cause unknown changes to its body, and it might even affect its soul.

It's alright now that it has an extra head, a pair of wings, and claws, but if it turns into a grotesque shape later, even the Nine Netherworld Crow doesn't know if it will still be itself.

"This human's supernatural power restrains me, and I am currently at my weakest."

That's not all; this human also has a tortoise-like true spirit guarding him, so even using soul-damaging divine powers is completely useless against him.

With that thought in mind, the Nine Netherworld Crow charged toward the Spirit-Slaying Sword.

(End of this chapter)