Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 369 The Twelve Undying True Spirits
Beneath the icy continent lies an environment even colder than on the surface.

The rocks and soil underground are as hard as iron.

This also results in a scarcity of underground plants, and underground life is virtually nonexistent.

The underground spaces formed by the twisting gravity are either covered in solid ice or filled with cold currents.

Currently, the humans captured by Yi Dong are only mining veins in some underground worlds near the surface.

Even Golden Core cultivators cannot linger in the deeper underground areas.

The five spirit swords traveled down the cavern through a series of empty underground spaces.

The spirits of the five swords chatted as they traveled.

"Seven Stars, have you found the right star?"

You came to help this time because you wanted Mumu to teleport you to the target star, right?

Do you need our help with this?

"No need, Longquan is enough for me."

"That's right. With your two swords combined, you won't be afraid even if you encounter a powerful true spirit."

Longquan is now continuously gathering the dragon energy of the earth; it's time for you to begin refining your star.

Perhaps after Xuanyuan, you will transform into supreme treasures even faster than we have.

Speaking of which, everyone has some guesses about the source of our power, but does anyone know the source of Xuanyuan's power?
The power of the Xuanyuan Sword is somewhat abnormal, especially since it is formed from half of a true spirit's essence. In the void, do you know of any true spirit that possesses such a powerful essence?

"Apart from Xuanyuan and Yijun's Heavenly Emperor Sword, probably no one else knows about this. Even Yijun, the sword master of the Heavenly Emperor Sword, may not know."

Even Zhanlu, skilled in deduction and foresight, was unaware that other supernatural abilities of foresight and deduction probably couldn't deduce the origins of the Xuanyuan Sword.

"Moreover, the Xuanyuan Sword itself is about to become a supreme treasure. Once it becomes a supreme treasure, it will be fundamentally different from its predecessor's true spirit. Even if we know this, we will no longer be able to analyze the source of Xuanyuan's power."

"In fact, our spiritual swords are different from ordinary innate and acquired spiritual treasures. Even if they become supreme treasures, their core is their supernatural power, not their supreme treasure abilities. When the Xuanyuan Sword becomes a supreme treasure, it can at most control more of the power of the Great Dao."

The power of the Great Dao is of little use to us.

In other words, even if the Xuanyuan Sword becomes a supreme treasure, its power won't increase much. Taixu, why do you suddenly want to learn about the Xuanyuan Sword?

"That's right. Although the Xuanyuan Sword is the strongest among us, our physical bodies are already comparable to immortal gold. Even if it becomes a supreme treasure, it cannot harm us. We cannot defeat it, but it is also unlikely to defeat us. It is stronger than us, but it is not enough to crush us."

"Well, if you want to know Xuanyuan's background, after you, Qixing, refine your star, why don't you and Longquan have a sword duel with Xuanyuan?"

"Let's forget it. Xuanyuan's power is too strange. If we fight it with swords, we can only make it unleash its true power if the twelve swords join forces."

"That's right, Xuanyuan's power is indeed not something that can be defeated simply by increasing one's strength."

Taixu wasn't surprised to see that neither of the two spirit swords intended to fight the Xuanyuan Sword. Even it didn't want to fight the Xuanyuan Sword, since no one wants to fight a battle they clearly couldn't win.

However, this time, they might be able to witness the true power of the Xuanyuan Sword.

The twin swords of the Xuanyuan Sword are the Emperor Sword.

The reason why the Taixu Sword asked the other four spirit swords was because it learned something from the spirit of its twin sword, the Void Sword.

That is, Yi Jun has condensed more than thirty True Spirit Longswords over the years. Some of these True Spirit Longswords were found by Yi Qing, Yi Yan, and Wenren Mingyue, while others were obtained by Yi Jun in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm.

Without exception, none of these longswords, which possess complete true spiritual origins, can compare to the Emperor Sword, or even their twin swords.

The Emperor Sword in Yi Jun's hand once shattered the immortal body of a True Immortal in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm. If the Emperor Sword hadn't been unskilled at dealing with souls, or if most of its soul-related abilities had been inherited by the Xuanyuan Sword, the True Immortal might have been killed by the Emperor Sword in that battle.

It can be said that Yi Jun's Heavenly Emperor Sword is his strongest True Spirit Longsword, and it is unlikely that he will obtain a more powerful one in the future, not only now but also in the future.

The spirit of the Taixu Sword can obtain some of the true spirit memories from which its power originated.

In those memories, the true spirit from which it originated was not an ordinary true spirit, but one of the true spirits that the so-called gods captured and could not kill.

As far as it knew, such true spirits that could only be imprisoned but not killed after being captured were extremely rare. The existence of the gods was unknown, but until their extinction, there were only twelve such immortal true spirits within the race.

As for those twelve true spirits, in theory, even if they wanted to die, they couldn't kill themselves.

Because the gods had already tried countless times to kill true spirits, but none of them could do anything about them.

Among the gods, there are naturally Void Treasures; however, none of these Void Treasures can do anything about the twelve True Spirits.

These twelve true spirits were the most difficult true spirits the gods had encountered in their countless years of traversing the void.

The reason why the gods were able to capture them was because the gods had too many powerful beings and many acquired spiritual treasures or even supreme treasures that were specifically designed for the physical body and soul of true spirits.

Of course, Taixu Sword knew that the twelve true spirits were not truly immortal.

In reality, the immortality of the true spirit is simply a long lifespan.

As long as there is energy, a true spirit can freeze its lifespan and achieve immortality through various supernatural powers and secret methods.

Judging from the memories obtained from the Taixu Sword, the only ones capable of killing the twelve true spirits are those whose lifespans have been exhausted.

Under normal circumstances, the lifespan of those twelve true spirits could not be exhausted.

Because the Protoss, despite trying countless methods, could not block their energy source.

Indeed, these twelve true spirits, like Yi Qing, possess innate divine abilities that connect them to a mysterious space with a vast amount of energy.

However, the true spirit, which is theoretically immortal, actually turned into bones.

Both the Xuanyuan Sword and the Emperor Sword possess time-related abilities, but the difference is that the Xuanyuan Sword travels back to the past, while the Emperor Sword cuts into the future.

If a true spirit truly possesses control over the past and future, and can manipulate the flow of time on a large scale, accelerating time drastically in a short period, then its lifespan would be consumed extremely quickly during that accelerated time. The gods dominate a region of the void, forcing the true spirits of that void to temporarily retreat; it's hard to imagine them suddenly perishing in such a short time.

After discussing it, the spirits of the Taixu Sword and the Void Sword concluded that the one who destroyed the gods and the twelve true spirits that were the predecessors of their True Spirit Swords must be the Time Divine Power.

The fact that both the Xuanyuan Sword and the Emperor Sword possess powerful time-related abilities may be the work of their predecessors' true spirits.

That unknown spirit accelerated time in a void, presumably by exceeding the limits of its divine power, which caused a backlash that killed itself.

The spirit of the Taixu Sword was not afraid that the merging of the Xuanyuan Sword and the Emperor Sword would cause the mysterious true spirit to revive and threaten it again.

Now, the twelve true spirits have transformed into a spirit sword, and their immortality is even greater than that of their former true spirit forms.

Even if their energy source is cut off, these twelve True Spirit Longswords can remain incorruptible and immortal as long as there is material refined into their blades.

Even in the void, matter contains particles.

Unless that mysterious spirit can use its supernatural powers to pull them into a truly void space and accelerate time to cause the swords to decay.

However, Void Sword believed that there was no magical space in the world capable of trapping the twelve True Spirit Swords.

Taixu Sword was somewhat worried that the resurgence of the true spirit might kill Yi Dong if he wasn't careful, since Yi Dong was still quite fragile.

The fact that these True Spirit Swords can now coexist peacefully is all thanks to Yi Dong.

Without Yi Dong as a link, these sword spirits would all be extremely arrogant, and it would be impossible for them to stay together for so long.

Together, these true spirit swords are fearless of any threat and need not consider the future.

Because the Void Sword has already discerned that Yi Dong's supernatural power possesses the ability to extract life force, and after his transformation, he will most likely possess the ability to extract lifespan.

In other words, it is possible that Yi Dong could achieve immortality like these True Spirit Swords.

In this way, these true spirit swords do not need to find another host.

Without Yi Dong, they may have to find hosts one by one over a long period of time.

Because the True Spirit Sword is ultimately not a living being, without a flesh and blood body to nourish it, if there is no life force from a living host, over time, the sword body will be fine, but the sword spirit itself will undergo unknown changes.

Yi Dong is not the only being in the world with the hope of achieving immortality. On the Frozen Continent, there is a person with an immortal body whose chances of achieving immortality are even greater than Yi Dong's.

However, Taixu Sword couldn't think of any other being who could be like Yi Dong, someone that these True Spirit Swords could follow. Even if it were Yi Jun, these True Spirit Swords wouldn't even look at him.

This time, not only the Void Sword, but also other True Spirit Swords wanted to refer to the supernatural abilities of the other Twin True Spirit Swords in order to complete or even improve their own supernatural abilities.

The spirit of the Taixu Sword itself naturally wouldn't have the idea of ​​merging with Yi Jun's Void Sword, but it wasn't sure if the Xuanyuan Sword had the same idea.

Therefore, if the Xuanyuan Sword does not want to merge, it will most likely compete with the Emperor Sword.

While chatting with the other four sword spirits, the Taixu Sword spirit was thinking about having Mu Mu stay by Yi Dong's side, and if things went wrong, he would teleport her back to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

On Purple Mountain.

Yi Dong looked at the Xuanyuan Sword in front of him, his brows furrowed.

First came the Taixu Sword, then the Xuanyuan Sword came looking for him.

These True Spirit Swords never caused so much trouble before, why are they so complicated now?

After hearing the telepathic message from the Xuanyuan Sword, Yi Dong raised an eyebrow.

"The river of time?"
You said that you and your twin spirit swords can draw power from the river of time—power that isn't just energy, but also knowledge?

Yi Dong's heart skipped a beat. Wasn't this the same kind of supernatural power that the Karma Puppet possessed?
The Xuanyuan Sword also possesses this feature.

Xuanyuan Sword continued to transmit its voice, somewhat impatiently.

Yi Dong was somewhat helpless.

"Don't worry, I won't let Yi Jun do it."

It turns out that the Xuanyuan Sword feared that Yi Jun and another longsword of the same origin would attack it together, so it forcibly absorbed it.

For ordinary cultivators, even those at the Nascent Soul stage, the Xuanyuan Sword wouldn't be a threat.

However, the formation of the Xuanyuan Sword was all due to Yi Jun's supernatural powers, so Yi Jun has a high probability of understanding all its movements through his supernatural powers, and even discerning the essence of its supernatural powers.

If Yi Jun were to help the True Spirit Longsword, which shares the same origin as it, and given that the other party knows its general information while the sword itself lacks sufficient knowledge of the other party, the Xuanyuan Sword is truly unsure whether it could withstand the attack for an extended period.

Having received Yi Dong's promise, the spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Without Yi Jun's timely assistance, the Xuanyuan Sword would not have been afraid of the twin spirit swords it had never seen before, even if the other party knew some of its information in advance.

After Xuanyuan Sword left, Yi Dong looked thoughtful.

The thirteen True Spirit Longswords wanted to see Yi Jun's True Spirit Longswords because they wanted to spar with them to improve themselves.

However, Yi Dong had some doubts. The True Spirit Longsword was already so powerful, was there really room for improvement?
"It's good that they've become stronger. Recently, the Karma Puppet has also been getting stronger for some reason. It looks like the Twelve Karma Guanyin are about to become the Karma Bodhisattva."

Yi Dong had no faith in the two types of causal puppets under his command, nor in the True Spirit Longsword.

He truly wanted them to check and balance each other, so that his own safety could be effectively guaranteed.

Originally, if the True Spirit Sword were to be fused with Yi Jun's True Spirit Sword, Yi Dong planned to find a way to strengthen the Primordial Purple Apricot to form a new triangular protection network.

The fact that the True Spirit Longsword doesn't seem to be fused with him suits his purposes perfectly, as this way, he doesn't need to strengthen the Primordial Purple Apricot.

(End of this chapter)