Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 361 Thoughts
Although Yi Ling foresaw what the Nine Netherworld Crows wanted to do, she was powerless to stop them.

If she were currently a Nascent Soul cultivator, she would definitely rush into the opponent's divine power and directly unleash her own divine power to break it. Even if the opponent were a Golden Core cultivator, she would have a high chance of success.

However, she is only at the Foundation Establishment stage of the Great Dao now, and even though the Nine Netherworld Crow is extremely weak, she still dares not rush into the opponent's divine power.

She could only watch helplessly as the Nine Netherworld Crow flew rapidly toward the Spirit-Slaying Sword and then disappeared.

It was obvious that the Nine Netherworld Crow had entered the internal space of the Spirit-Slaying Sword.

Clearly, the Nine Netherworld Crow preferred to have the Spirit-Slaying Sword's binding force strengthened rather than be captured and refined by itself.

As the Nine Netherworld Crows disappeared, the immense power of the Shadow of Death also rapidly dissipated.

Yi Ling did not approach the Soul-Slaying Sword.

Her insightful vision was far more powerful than Number Two's ability to foresee the future.

Even using a treasure as a reference, one can obtain a relatively accurate future.

She could already see her future, which was closer to the Soul-Slaying Sword.

As long as she gets close, the Spirit-Slaying Sword will attack her, regardless of her attitude; the Spirit-Slaying Sword will not choose to be its host.

There's no way to change this situation.

Similarly, she could not see a future for herself forcibly refining the Spirit-Slaying Sword.

Before the Nine Netherworld Crow entered the inner space of the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, she was able to see the future of forcibly refining the Spirit Slaughtering Sword.

Because she possesses various Buddhist secret techniques, many of which are highly effective against the Soul-Slaying Sword, a deadly treasure with malevolent power.

However, the Nine Netherworld Crow entered the Spirit Slaughtering Sword, greatly increasing its power.

This is no simple matter of adding one to one. The Nine Netherworld Crow is a true spirit that has lived for countless years. Combined with the powerful energy of the Spirit Slaughtering Sword itself, let alone someone who is only at the Foundation Establishment stage of the Great Dao, even someone at the Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao would have little hope of forcibly refining it.

It cannot be forcibly refined now. As time goes by, the more living beings the Spirit Slaughtering Sword kills, the stronger it will become. At that time, even without the Nine Netherworld Crow, it will no longer be able to be forcibly refined.

"What a pity, such a wonderful spirit protector, lost just like that."

Within the Immortal Kingdom, there are no supernatural powers or secret techniques that can permanently restrict true spirits, and therefore no means can enslave them.

Although Yi Ling's memories of a hundred lifetimes were entrusted to Yi Dong for safekeeping, she felt in her heart that the Buddhist tradition in her memories contained a way to forcibly convert true spirits into Dharma protectors.

The fact that Buddhism can transform spiritual trees like the Enlightenment Tree into Bodhi Trees clearly shows that Buddhism is very skilled at transformation and conversion.

Of course, Yi Ling also knew that the Buddhist inheritance she received could not be converted by just any true spirit; on the contrary, very few true spirits could be converted.

Upon seeing the Nine Netherworld Crow for the first time, Yi Ling knew that the success rate of converting the true spirit was not low.

Unfortunately, although her keen eyes foresaw the Nine Netherworld Crow's next move, she was powerless to stop it.

At this moment, Yi Ling watched as the Soul-Slaying Sword, having sheathed its thousands of swords, hurtled rapidly toward the location of a Dao-Merging True Immortal.

He couldn't help but ponder that this treasure itself was extremely powerful. Theoretically, it had a good chance of killing a Dao Integration True Immortal on its own. If it could gain the combat experience of the Nine Netherworld Crow or even have the Nine Netherworld Crow use its divine powers to help it, the Dao Integration True Immortal who was targeted would probably be doomed.

The True Immortal of the Dao comes from a powerful and ancient family of cultivators, and most cultivators dare not provoke him.

Because of their ancient lineage, over the years, their relationships with other lineages have become intricate and intertwined. Offending one ancient lineage could mean facing off against several or even a dozen other powerful ancient lineages.

Ancient aristocratic families are extremely powerful, and even for meritorious families, it is very difficult to completely eliminate them.

However, even though ancient families have a large number of modern cultivators, their core traditions are still those of ancient cultivators.

Even in ancient families with members possessing the Great Dao Nascent Soul, the leaders within the family are still those who have achieved Dao Integration or Return to Emptiness.

In Yi Ling's view, these ancient cultivation families would be eliminated by the Immortal Kingdom sooner or later. Even though they have gradually transformed into modern cultivation families and control far more resources than the Yi family, and their combat power and connections are beyond the reach of the Yi family, the final victory will still belong to the Yi family.

Yi Ling obtained the core knowledge of the Luofu Buddhist sect. After a brief review, she discovered that the Golden Core she was about to build would require a large number of believers.

These believers are not just ordinary believers, but the most devout believers.

If Yi Ling were to continue proselytizing in a conventional manner, even with a lifespan of several thousand years, he probably wouldn't be able to gather enough devout believers.

Humans are very pragmatic, especially cultivators, who are selfish and self-interested. How could they possibly give their faith, especially a devout one?

Fortunately, the Luofu Buddhist sect has a unique way to solve this problem: to allow people to ascend to the "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss." Human souls that have been baptized in the "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss" will become the most devout believers.

If she could forge a deadly feud with an ancient family of cultivators, she would have no shortage of "believers."

The Buddha saves people from suffering, but Yi Lingxiu is a heretical Buddha who doesn't care about fate and just "forces" people to be saved.

Thinking of this, Yi Ling looked over with her discerning eyes.

"That's Gu Changtian from the Gu family of Sunset Mountain. He achieved the Dao Integration True Immortal status 30,000 years ago, and he's considered young among the Dao Integration True Immortals in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm."

As for the Gu family, in order to advance the main spiritual vein of the Sunset Mountains to the sixth rank, over the past 30,000 years, the Gu family has acquired a large number of spiritual items through both overt and covert means, as well as borrowing from various sources. Rumor has it that in recent years, the Gu family has been preparing to advance the main spiritual vein of the Sunset Mountains to the sixth rank. Therefore, it seems that the Gu family possesses a vast amount of spiritual items.

In the past, even if Yi Ling wanted to massacre cultivators, it would have been impossible in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, except on the battlefield outside the realm, because fighting was not allowed on the surface of the Immortal Kingdom.

However, with the end of the war with the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm, the war within the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm had only just begun.

The war in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm is naturally a war between the immortal kingdoms that occupy the surface of the earth and the creatures of the underworld.

As far as Yi Ling knew, the reason why the Immortal Kingdom was able to withdraw so easily from this war with the Northern Peak Spirit Realm was twofold. One reason was that the cultivators of the Northern Peak Spirit Realm were prepared for the Spirit Realm relocation. Another reason was that the underground world of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, including the innate deities and other underground beings, was restless, which prevented most of the Immortal Kingdom's fighting force from being transferred to the Northern Peak Spirit Realm.

The war between the immortal kingdom and the creatures of the underworld will surely provide an opportunity for many forces to settle grudges accumulated over the past 100,000 years.

Yi Ling originally intended to use White Lotus Sect cultivators as Golden Core believers.

However, after acquiring knowledge of the Luofu Buddhist sect, he felt that it would be difficult to become a Buddha, and even more difficult to become a Nascent Soul cultivator. It would be best to make a large number of contemporary cultivators his "followers".

Although the highest combat power of ancient families is the Dao Integration True Immortal, in reality, the number of current cultivators in their families may not be less than that of most meritorious families.

If she could convert the current cultivators of the Gu family into "believers," then achieving the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage would be relatively easier for her.

The more Yi Ling thought about it, the more she felt that Gu Changtian deserved to die.

It's not that Yi Ling is bloodthirsty.

If she were an ancient cultivator who wanted to become a Buddha, perhaps "forcibly converting" the souls of millions of cultivators would be enough.

But since she is a cultivator of the present day, it would take many cultivators to barely construct the Golden Core she desires.

To become a Nascent Soul cultivator, one needs hundreds of millions of followers; otherwise, it's practically impossible.

In times of chaos, it might take the slaughter of dozens of cultivators to gather over 100 million cultivators.

However, in the current Immortal Kingdom, cultivators are bound by laws year after year, and very few cultivators have died in battles over the years. In addition, the efficient use of spiritual veins has led to an annual increase in the growth rate of cultivators.

One hundred million cultivators—an ancient family could easily gather that many.

Even a large portion of them are modern revisions.

Of course, whether they are from ancient or meritorious families, most cultivators with insufficient talent spend their entire lives at the Qi Refining stage because they have no way to risk their lives to obtain resources. The Immortal Kingdom has almost managed all the exposed spiritual veins in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Those who lack natural talent will not receive much support from their families, resulting in many cultivators being unable to advance even to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Beneath the shadow of the prosperous and glorious immortal kingdom lies a despairing class restriction.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, very few cultivators at the lower levels are able to rise through the ranks and advance to a higher level.

As far as Yi Ling knew, within the entire Immortal Kingdom, there were very few families that could rise as rapidly as their Yi family, not to mention now, even tens of thousands of years ago.

Of course, Yi Ling was confident in annihilating the Gu family because she planned to go to the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm to retrieve her memories of a hundred lifetimes from Yi Dong.

If all goes well, after gaining the memories, she will be able to formally develop the Great Awakening Spirit Body, instead of only being able to use the Wisdom Eye and some insignificant Buddhist supernatural powers as she is now.

According to Genji Yiling's calculations, if she were to obtain the memories of a hundred lifetimes, her Great Awakening Spiritual Body would definitely be much stronger than the Great Awakening Spiritual Body recorded in Buddhism, and might even be comparable to or surpass the Causal Sacred Body.

Regardless of her combat strength, in terms of comprehension, having fully developed her Great Awakening Sacred Body, her comprehension has likely risen to the top ten in the entire Immortal Kingdom.

This ranking still includes those Immortal Emperors.

In this way, the foundation of the Great Dao is laid, and the Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao is within reach.

Moreover, Yi Ling is not fighting alone. She not only has siblings like Yi Jun, Yi Feng, and Yi Qing, but also sworn sisters from the Xianyou Society.

In an instant, Yi Ling's figure disappeared into the flames.

A corner of Qinghai.

Countless grains of sand formed a huge cloud on the sea surface.

Within the clouds, thousands upon thousands of spirit swords and mechanical legions shimmered.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that half of the spirit swords and mechanical army are completely black, like a shadow.

"The supernatural powers of the 'Dustless Heavenly Book'."

Was the Gu family originally from the Wuchen Sect 100,000 years ago?

However, Gu Changtian clearly did not obtain the complete "Dustless Heavenly Book." If Wuchenzi were to unleash the supernatural powers of the "Dustless Heavenly Book," it might cause some trouble.

Just then, a sandstorm arose.

Yi Ling was taken aback.
"Wuchenzi has come out of the Creation Secret Realm. Could it be that the ownership of the Creation Jade Disc has already been determined?"

(End of this chapter)