Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 365 Yi Ling's Path
Upon hearing Yi Qing's words, Yi Ling frowned, having originally intended to shower the other party with praise.

Given Yi Qing's arrogant personality, as long as he flatters the other party and the other party becomes complacent, no matter how difficult the request is, the other party will agree even if they realize it.

Unexpectedly, over the years, although Yi Qing's arrogant personality remained unchanged, he had become much more composed.

When the other person didn't go along with her wishes, their help wasn't given with all their might, but rather with "trying their best," which made Yi Ling somewhat frustrated.

Yi Qing felt that his Whispering Insect was very useful; the insect's abilities were comparable to those of some true spirits.

There are many supernatural abilities that allow one to hear other people's secrets, but few are as secretive as this.

Now, not only Yi Ling, but even the True Spirit Turtle can't detect that it's using the Whispering Bug.

Of course, the Whispering Bug seemed unable to hear the True Spirit Turtle's soul whispers, only Yi Ling's. Clearly, the True Spirit's soul was too perfect, exceeding the Whispering Bug's capabilities.

As long as Yi Ling is in front of him, her thoughts cannot be hidden at all unless she is on guard and uses various spells to block her mind.

If it weren't for this insect, I might have really fallen into Yi Ling's trap.

However, Yi Qing wasn't angry, because through the Whispering Insect, he could tell that Yi Ling was very relaxed in front of him, not treating him as an enemy to be wary of, and had no intention of harming him. She just wanted him to work harder.

Actually, even without Yi Ling saying it, the power of the Soul-Slaying Sword increases with the number of lives it kills.

As long as it's a fight, Yi Qing would never show mercy just for the sake of the Soul-Slaying Sword.

After some discussion...

Yi Qing frowned as she looked at Yi Ling.

"Simply helping you kill people is nothing, but you also want to establish a new Buddhist sect in the underworld and develop a large number of followers."

You said the Yi family would do these things, but neither you nor Wuming are in Luofu Prefecture. How much can those ancient cultivators with low cultivation levels accomplish? In the end, won't I be the one doing all this?"

The Yi family has a group of cultivators following Yi Ling, and some of them are even Nascent Soul cultivators.

After all, there are many miracles of creation in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm. Yi Ling even obtained the essence of the Great Sun, so getting some Nascent Soul spiritual light, which is the essence of heaven and earth, is not a problem at all. It is not strange that there are Nascent Soul cultivators among her clansmen.

However, in a superior state like Luofu Prefecture, what are Nascent Soul cultivators? Only cultivators at the Void Returning, Dao Integration, and Great Dao Nascent Soul stages are the top combat power, and only these cultivators can determine the distribution of benefits in Luofu Prefecture.

If one wants to develop a Buddhist following in the tens of millions, one will likely encounter obstruction from the official forces of the Immortal Kingdom and top-tier cultivation families. Many things cannot be accomplished simply by fighting and killing.

She'll still have to deal with these problems outside of the battle.

In the past, Yi Qing's usual method of solving problems was to directly deal with the person who caused the trouble; if that failed, she would simply move on to another location.

Yi Qing understood the importance of negotiating or even compromising with other cultivators, but she didn't want to do it.

Since Yi Qing was born, she has never wronged herself. The reason she gave up her position as a celestial official so quickly was because she didn't want to wrong herself.

Now, Yi Qing is unwilling to compromise herself for Yi Ling's sake.

Moreover, once you establish a power base, you'll have a fixed territory to protect. In that case, you never know how many Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators or at least Void Returning cultivators will come to ambush you from their bases.

If one cannot teleport flexibly, their strength will be significantly limited.

At least a cultivator with the power of returning to the Void Realm, let alone killing one, Yi Qing would need at least several months or even years to defeat one.

If she were to provoke a dozen or twenty groups that would take turns attacking the territory she occupied, even if she and Yi Yan's true spirit fought endlessly for hundreds of years, she might still not achieve the result that Yi Ling desired.

Establishing a power, the formation of spiritual veins, the buildings for cultivation, the modification of the underground living environment, and other miscellaneous tasks also required her to devote a great deal of energy.

Without the powerful logistical capabilities of modern cultivators, it would take an unknown amount of time to create an environment capable of nurturing a large number of Buddhist cultivators, relying solely on the ancient cultivators who mostly reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Although Yi Qing intended to help Yi Ling, he did not want to waste too much time in Luofu Prefecture.

According to Yi Qing's estimate, Yi Yan has already sought help from Mu Mu or Tai Chu Zi Xing, and they should be able to find a suitable new world in the void within three to five hundred years at most.

Compared to being unable to fully utilize their abilities in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, both she and Yi Yan's abilities are suited for large-scale resource plundering or enslaving the beings of other relatively weaker worlds to dedicate everything to them.

Yi Ling also knew that Yi Qing was just trying to avoid trouble.

Before witnessing Yi Qing's strength, she planned to have him help her lay the foundation for establishing a Buddhist sect in Luofu Prefecture.

However, since Yi Qing's strength exceeded her expectations, and she was able to fight at least five Dao Integration True Immortals head-on, wouldn't it be better to let her directly establish a Buddhist sect for her in one step? Once she received the memory images of a hundred lifetimes and achieved the Great Dao Golden Core, she could then directly transform devout believers to enrich their Great Dao Golden Cores and rapidly improve their strength.

Just as Yi Ling was thinking this, Yi Qing gleaned some of the other's thoughts through the whispering insect, and a thought immediately struck him.
"Yi Ling's supernatural powers are also starting to develop in the direction of quantity?"

However, she actually wants to use people's faith as an additional energy source for her supernatural powers. Is she crazy?

Jin Xiu wouldn't even contract another spirit beast, yet she wants to accept faith power that's impure?"

Previously, Yi Qing had no idea about the power of faith.

However, during her massacre of cultivators in Qinghai, she learned some things through soul searching.

The ancient cultivation methods of returning to emptiness and achieving the Dao of True Immortals are largely related to the power of faith.

True Immortals who have achieved Dao Integration do not need vast and sensitive soul power to control complex Nascent Soul Dao Fields. Furthermore, the souls and bodies of ancient cultivators are relatively independent, so minor problems on one side have little impact. Moreover, True Immortals who have achieved Dao Integration and extensively utilize the power of faith can fuse their immortal souls with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. They utilize the essence of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, so the impurities of faith power are unlikely to affect them.

However, modern cultivators are different. Although the combat power of a Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivator is no less than that of a Dao Integration True Immortal, their life level is the same as that of ancient Nascent Soul cultivators. Their soul power is comparable to that of a Dao Integration True Immortal because it is strengthened by the accumulation of one Nascent Soul Dao Field after another.

The soul resistance of a fourth-order Great Dao Nascent Soul is not comparable to that of a sixth-order Returning Void Soul or even a seventh-order Dao-Merging Immortal Soul.

Perhaps Yi Ling's Great Dao Golden Core has the ability to purify the impurities of faith power, but this ability is ultimately limited and will sometimes err.

Whether it's the Golden Core Immortal City or the Nascent Soul Dojo, they are generally like a series of massive, interconnected machines. When replacing parts or upgrading, there are always times when they stop working or malfunction.

If anything were to happen, Yi Ling's soul would likely be in danger.

Yi Qing couldn't understand why he would use the power of faith, a power that would have such severe side effects for him.

However, Yi Qing thought about it again.

If Yi Ling doesn't use the power of faith, then the Great Dao Golden Core condensed by combining Buddhist knowledge seems to have little significance, because Buddhism seems to rely on the power of faith even more heavily than the major sects and religions in the Immortal Realm.

Without Buddhist knowledge and a different approach to building a Great Dao Golden Core, Yi Ling's hope of fighting against a Great Dao Nascent Soul in her Great Dao Golden Core form would be extremely slim. Even if she advanced to the Great Dao Nascent Soul form, she would probably only be an ordinary one, because people of their background would not be able to build a powerful Great Dao Golden Core without an extraordinary stroke of luck.

Even if Yi Ling quietly accumulates knowledge in the academy like Yi Feng, it won't work, because her supernatural abilities don't have the same huge auxiliary ability to assist in the accumulation and application of knowledge as Yi Feng's.

"It seems that Yi Ling has already thought about her future path."

"Indeed, someone as proud as her, if she were to become an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator in the Immortal Kingdom thousands of years later, watching us siblings reach the pinnacle of power, she would probably feel extremely distressed."

Putting herself in his shoes, Yi Qing realized that she also couldn't accept this outcome.

Thinking about this, Yi Qing suddenly realized that Yi Ling's path to immortality seemed much more arduous than his own.

As long as she isn't swallowed up by the Heavenly River Space, she can always become one of the most powerful Nascent Soul cultivators on her own path of cultivation.

Even now, Yi Qing has not sensed any signs of the backlash from the Heavenly River Space, so her path of cultivation seems to be a smooth one.

Amidst a flurry of thoughts, Yi Qing suddenly spoke:

"Alright, I will try my best to help you achieve the result you expect. If the spiritual veins are not enough, I have a lot of spiritual resources that I have plundered from the Mountain and Sea Realm."

Any other resources that I don't need, I can give them to you.

Yi Ling looked at Yi Qing in surprise. She had prepared herself for Yi Qing to refuse her request, and she would have no choice but to ask for her help according to the original plan. However, she did not expect that the other party would suddenly change his mind and even use his own resources to help her.

You should know that among her five siblings, Yi Qing has always been greedy since childhood, and Yi Ling doesn't think Yi Qing's personality will change over time.

Although she didn't know how Yi Qing's thought process had changed, Yi Ling didn't want to delve into it. As long as Yi Qing was willing to help, that was enough.

Next, Yi Ling and Yi Qing discussed the details of how to develop Buddhism for three whole days.

During this time, Yi Ling also explained to Yi Qing many manufacturing details of Buddhist architecture, ritual implements, and magical treasures that were difficult to record in writing.

On this day, Yi Ling said to Yi Qing:
"I'm going to find Yi Ze. After Yi Ze contacts Yi Yan, I'll have Mu Mu pick me up and take me to the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm."

By the way, Yi Jun will also be returning to Qingzhou in a while, and will also be going to the Vast Sea Spirit Realm. Do you want to wait until you see Yi Jun before going to Luofu Prefecture, or do you want to set off now?

"No rush. I'll go with you to see Yi Ze. If nothing unexpected happens, Yi Yan will also come with me to Luofu Prefecture this time. With her help, the establishment of your Buddhist sect will be much smoother."

(End of this chapter)