Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 370 Bloodline Abilities

Deep beneath the icy continent, in the world of ice and flame.

This space was filled with chilling energy that condensed into clouds of smoke, which gathered and dispersed like blue flames.

Within this icy, bone-chilling space, countless colossal creatures were engaged in a fierce battle.

The battlefield featuring a colossal nine-headed dragon and nine Taotie beasts was particularly spectacular, as they either clashed with their true spiritual bodies or bombarded each other with supernatural spells.

In other words, the soil, rocks, and even the space itself in this underground world had been hardened to the extreme by the astonishing cold air; otherwise, this battle might have been able to collapse this underground space.

Beyond the battlefield of the nine-headed dragon and the Taotie lies the battlefield of countless black unicorns and three dragon-blooded monsters.

The three-headed dragon-blooded demon beast either spews dragon breath to annihilate black unicorns in droves, or uses its powerful beast body to shatter large groups of black unicorns.

It can be seen that these three dragon-blooded demonic beasts are trying their best to control the consumption of their magical power.

In the underground world, pillars of starlight rise and fall, from which a continuous stream of black unicorns fly out.

As the three dragon-blooded demonic beasts killed the unicorn, they continuously destroyed starlight pillars, and then new starlight pillars were generated, so the number of starlight pillars never decreased.

Inside a pillar of starlight, far from the battlefield.

Yi Yan and Mu Mu were watching the battle unfold.

After a long silence, Mu Mu spoke:

"We've been fighting for over a decade, and the Nine-Headed Dragon's magical power shows no signs of waning."

According to calculations, even if they fight for hundreds of years, there will be no result.

Moreover, your nine Taotie beasts exhausted their magical power ten years ago. If it weren't for the fact that their true spirit bodies were harder than the nine-headed dragon's, they would have been defeated long ago. It seems that they have reached their limit in persisting until now.

"Those three sixth-tier demonic beasts are almost out of mana. However, many of your unicorns have also died. Why don't you let my mythical beasts from the mountains and seas take action?"

Yi Yan shook her head.
"Forget it. Those eight sixth-tier mythical beasts of yours used to be subordinates of the Nine-Headed Dragon. The Nine-Headed Dragon has very secretive and powerful control methods. If you don't clean up these methods, when you release the mythical beasts, they will not be helpers, but powerful enemies."

Upon hearing this, Mu Mu did not insist. Although she felt that she had already tamed the eight mythical beasts, since Yi Yan said that she did not need to help, she would not interfere and avoid being blamed later.

Looking at the endless stream of black unicorns on the battlefield, Mu Mu couldn't help but ask:
"Didn't you lose a lot of black unicorns in the Primordial Spirit Realm?"

How come there are so many Tier 3 beings?

"Ordinary black unicorns are not very intelligent, but the Taotie is intelligent."

Over the past few decades, I have placed Taotie into the worlds of various unicorns, allowing them to lead black unicorns to rapidly expand their territory and encroach on the living space of other creatures. As a result, the living environment of black unicorns has been greatly improved, resources have increased significantly, and the quantity and quality of the species have naturally improved.

Moreover, with nine Taotie beasts, the Black Unicorn clan now has the qualifications to compete with other unicorn clans for high-level resources in those unicorn worlds where star power is abundant and comparable to the spirit world.

However, all the seventh-tier spiritual veins in the Unicorn World were taken into the so-called Astral Realm by those True Spirit Unicorns.

The Astral Plane is the sacred land of unicorns, and there is a fixed number of true spirits that can reside there.

There are only nine Taotie at the moment, and they cannot compete with other unicorn herds of different colors for those spots.

Therefore, I still need your fragments from the Ancient Immortal Realm to evolve into a seventh-order spiritual vein.

"By the way, it's been over a decade, and you still haven't found the world where the unicorns live?"

Yi Yan has already advanced to the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao, and it should take her several thousand years to advance to the Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao.

Once she advances to the Nascent Soul stage, she wants to gather her friends and conquer the worlds inhabited by unicorns, maximizing the number of black unicorns.

Besides the ordinary unicorn world, there is also a star realm. In Yi Yan's view, that star realm should have a huge spiritual vein evolved from a fragment of an ancient immortal realm, which is why almost all the true spirits of unicorns can cultivate.

This kind of world might be even more precious than the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Of all the worlds Yi Yan has ever seen, perhaps only the Primordial Spirit Realm can compare to it.

She could no longer sense the Primordial Spirit Realm after leaving the Dragon Tomb, and even the black unicorn she had placed there was no longer a connection.

Unable to find the Primordial Spirit Realm, they naturally wanted to find the world where the unicorns lived.

In such a powerful world, conquest is unrealistic, but claiming territory is not a problem.

Actually, what Yi Yan wants to find most right now is the world where the Star Clan lives.

However, Yi Yan also knew that although Mu Mu's body had been reshaped into a human body by the primordial energy, she still considered herself a member of the Starry Sky Clan and most likely wouldn't help her find the Starry Sky Clan's world.

However, if Tai Chu Zi Xing bypasses Mu Mu and finds the world of the Star Clan, there is a high probability that she will turn against Mu Mu.

Mu Mu listened to Yi Yan's words and said:
Your starlight pillars transmit light point by point, while my starlight vortex transmits light linearly. Since the starlight lines are not connected, there is no way to transmit light across them.

Currently, there is a void region where there is absolutely no stellar energy, so the star path cannot be built. That void region may be the location of the so-called void calamity.

Upon hearing this, Yi Yan was immediately somewhat disappointed.

"In that case, even if you become a Nascent Soul cultivator and your supernatural powers are enhanced, I'm afraid you still won't be able to successfully construct a star path."

Whether it's a calamity or an even stronger forbidden zone, unless Mu Mu personally descends upon it, it's very difficult for her to project her power into the calamity or forbidden zone from a distance.

"That's not necessarily true. You've forgotten that my supernatural powers can blur the concepts of time and space."

I can't control the power of time and space now, but once I reach the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage, I'll have built Nascent Soul Daoist temples focusing on space and time. Mastering the Great Dao of Time and Space might allow me to bypass that void. Simply put, my future teleportation might be able to bypass that void, just like yours. Hmm, I think that's quite possible.

Because of my bloodline, you and Yi Ze are able to possess the ability of starlight teleportation.

"There's no reason why people like you who only inherited a portion of my bloodline could perform interrupted teleportation, while I, as someone with the complete Starburst Clan bloodline, couldn't."

Yi Yan suddenly realized that she had been wondering why Mu Mu had followed her here.

It turns out that she didn't just want to find the coordinates of the Unicorn World in the void, but wanted to obtain the ability to summon unicorns.

On second thought, Yi Yan realized that Mu Mu's line of thinking was correct.

Her and Yi Ze's ability to summon unicorns is indeed due to their bloodline.

If it weren't for their bloodline, how could those unicorns possibly obey their call?

Mu Mu, who is related to unicorn blood, should be able to summon unicorns, right?

However, over the years, Mu Mu has been marking one black unicorn after another, but not a single black unicorn will listen to her.

Yi Yan was also unclear about the reason.

Just as the two were about to say something, they suddenly looked up at each other.

Suddenly, five longswords appeared in the space, and then the sword energy spread like a torrent.

As the sword energy spread, it felt as if the space itself had been cut open.

"This is, Father's True Spirit Longsword?"
Why would Father send his protective magic item here?

Mu Mu was also a little confused. In her memory, Yi Dong always stayed on Purple Gold Mountain. Things like building immortal cities and defending against foreign enemies on the Frozen Continent were either handled by Tai Chu Zi Xing or Da Jue Puppets.

Logically speaking, Yi Dong shouldn't care about battles that have nothing to do with him.

Just then, a thought struck Mu Mu.
"The spacetime blockade of the Nine-Headed Dragon has been broken, and we can leave at any time. The location of the Dragon Transformation Pool component is inside a cold spring in the east of this space. Go and get it quickly, and then we'll leave together."

Once the spacetime barrier was broken, Yi Yan was able to sense the unique aura of the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Yi Yan took out a jade pool, which was the main body of the Dragon Transformation Pool, and instantly teleported eastward.

Just as Mu Mu was about to teleport there, the starlight pillar shattered.

Instead, a magnificent longsword, its blade shimmering with starlight, appeared before her.

"The Seven Star Sword?"

Mu Mu naturally knew about Yi Dong's Thirteen True Spirit Longsword.

Previously, she only knew that the Seven Star Sword could harness the power of the stars, and she once wanted to communicate with the sword spirit of the Seven Star Sword.

However, the Seven Star Sword completely ignored her.

Only now did Mu Mu realize that the Seven Star Sword's control over stellar power was far more refined than her own.

Just now, the Seven Star Sword easily altered the arrangement of starlight particles within the starlight pillar, causing it to shatter.

"Yi Yan, with the aid of the Golden Core Star, actually had the starlight pillar created by the Seven Star Sword broken so easily."

Most importantly, this is not about breaking through with a powerful attack, but about seizing control of the star power with powerful computing and control capabilities and then unlocking it.

This Seven Star Sword is Yi Dong's natal artifact.

Could it be that its sword body contains a spiritual energy circuit similar to that within the Primordial Purple Apricot's body, and that it too has constructed a Golden Core Star within its blade?

Mu Mu was somewhat puzzled.

One's natal item is not something that can be refined in greater quantities.

Just like the natal magic treasures of ancient cultivators, many ancient cultivators only refine one natal magic treasure in their entire lives. This is because the natal magic treasure not only permanently depletes the ancient cultivator's physical and spiritual potential and even lifespan when it is formed, but also consumes a lot of the cultivator's effort to strengthen it in the future.

Similarly, although Jinxiu can gain some benefits from his natal object or even inherit its talent.

However, this comes at a price; some of the essence and soul fragments of the current cultivator will be absorbed by the natal object.

Having one natal item is fine, but having multiple items can directly affect one's foundation by causing the loss of vital essence and soul.

Mu Mu originally thought that when Yi Dong forged the Thirteen True Spirit Longswords, he did not use the "Primordial Spirit Embryo Array" to consume his essence and soul to nurture it, but instead used the ancient cultivation method of using magic power to simply refine it.

Unexpectedly, Yi Dong was so crazy that he used the "Primordial Spirit Embryo Array" to forge the Thirteen True Spirit Longswords. Wasn't Yi Dong afraid that the loss of too much soul would make it impossible to recover?

Mu Mu was unaware that ever since Yi Dong was burned by the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, his soul had been rejuvenating and could recover from its damage very quickly.

Just as Mu Mu was struggling to understand Yi Dong's actions, the Seven Star Sword transmitted some information.

After hearing this, Mu Mu thought about how she hadn't gained anything here over the years, so she nodded in agreement.

However, Mu Mu did not open the Starlight Vortex after reaching the surface as the Seven Star Sword had suggested, but instead opened it directly here.

A short while later, Yi Jun and Yi Ling emerged from the starlight vortex one after the other.

(End of this chapter)