Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 373 Future Vision
Seeing Yi Jun continuously devour the world's origin, Yi Dong finally understood why Yi Jun wanted to advance to the Great Dao Golden Core stage in the Vast Sea Spirit Realm.

If this were in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, the moment the world's origin was extracted, officials from the Immortal Kingdom would likely have come to stop it.

"However, where did Yi Jun obtain such a powerful Golden Core inheritance?"

Yi Dong was somewhat puzzled.

The Golden Core inheritance of Dongfang Hong, Mu Mu, and even Yi Qing and Yi Ling was gradually developed through the combination of foundational supernatural abilities and other Golden Core inheritances.

Most of those inheritances were obtained by Yi Feng from the Tongtian Library, and they were top-tier Great Dao Golden Core inheritances.

However, Yi Dong did not discover any Golden Core inheritance within that could devour the power of the world.

It is likely that the ability to use the power of the world to condense the Great Dao Golden Core is a closely guarded secret of the meritorious families of the Immortal Kingdom. Among the three great treasure troves of knowledge, perhaps only the Dao Inquiry Corridor in the Immortal Capital has preserved it.

Yi Dong thought of some rumors about Yi Jun in the Northern Mountain Spirit Realm, and his heart stirred. Over the years, Yi Dong had accumulated a lot of knowledge.

Just as there are forbidden pills among elixirs, there are also forbidden magical artifacts and formations within the Immortal Kingdom.

Perhaps, there are also types of taboos associated with Golden Elixir architecture.

"Could it be that Yi Jun has really come into contact with forbidden knowledge?"

The Immortal Kingdom has some strictly sanctioned knowledge, such as the Five Elements Warships, which are not considered taboo knowledge.

Forbidden knowledge is generally capable of shaking the foundations of an immortal kingdom.

The Great Dao Golden Core, capable of absorbing the power of the world, is naturally a taboo that is not allowed to exist. In other words, only a few privileged families in the Immortal Kingdom could possibly condense such a Great Dao Golden Core.

A cultivator of Yi Jun's background, who condenses such a Great Dao Golden Core, would inevitably be unacceptable to the Immortal Kingdom.

Yi Dong did not find Yi Jun's choice inappropriate.

On the contrary, Yi Dong also intended to obtain forbidden knowledge from Yi Jun.

For Yi Dong, the harm caused by forbidden knowledge was not something he needed to consider. As long as it was useful to him, he would not hesitate to destroy billions of lives.

Thinking about it this way, Yi Dong felt that it might not be entirely without benefits to slowly condense the Great Dao Golden Core. Perhaps after studying forbidden knowledge, his Golden Core Abyss would become even stronger, and even if he stopped at the Great Dao Golden Core stage in the future, he might not be inferior to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage.

On the other side, within Yi Jun's magical space, countless floating sword tombs shone with multicolored light, like stars.

As the power of the world was absorbed by each sword tomb, the sword tombs began to evolve into islands, and then springs of spiritual energy appeared within them.

Yi Jun's situation is not the typical path of advancement for cultivators with the metal element.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, generally only cultivators with the Earth attribute can refine spiritual veins as their natal objects, and then use them as the core of their Golden Core structures, allowing spiritual veins to be born within their magical space.

Once a spiritual vein is born, it can draw power from the void and transform it into spiritual energy, thus allowing the magical space to slowly evolve into a small world.

Cultivators of the other four attributes generally evolve their magical space towards becoming a grotto-heaven or a blessed land.

The energy source of a grotto-heaven or blessed land depends on a world, while the energy source of a small world is the void.

The reason why earth-attribute cultivators are so powerful is that they can be self-sufficient in the void, just like true spirits.

Grotto-heavens and blessed lands are generally formed only after one has reached the Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao, allowing the magical space to evolve. Only when one reaches the Nascent Soul stage of the Great Dao can cultivators of the other four elements allow the spiritual veins of their magical space to be added to the energy cycle of their world.

Now, although Yi Jun's sword tombs have not yet developed spiritual veins, spiritual springs have appeared, and the birth of spiritual veins is only a matter of time.

Most importantly, the energy source of these spiritual springs is the absorption of energy from the void. Yi Jun absorbed the spiritual energy of Purple Gold Mountain and Nine Heavens Ice Peak, as well as the power of thunder from the sky, to power other Golden Core buildings and activate their functions.

Time passes slowly.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

The sword tombs within Yi Jun's magical space have transformed from islands into floating continents.

At this moment, Yi Jun's magical space, like an earth-attribute cultivator, constructed countless Golden Core continents.

Yi Jun, however, did not cultivate the earth attribute.

In fact, within the Immortal Kingdom, unless one possesses special supernatural powers or a unique spiritual body, cultivators generally do not cultivate additional, mismatched attributes, as it is unnecessary.

Yi Jun had no intention of cultivating other magical attributes as well.

The soil and rocks in his Golden Core Continent evolved from a series of earth-attribute spiritual treasures, magical artifacts, and flying swords.

Three more months passed, and the arrays between the Golden Core Continents were connected one after another, with countless tiny sword lights appearing and disappearing within the magical space.

Gradually, a huge oval-shaped phantom of the Golden Core enveloped the entire Golden Core Continent.

At this stage, the Great Dao Golden Core is basically formed.

In fact, the core formations and buildings of Yi Jun's Golden Core Continent had already been completed long ago.

He spent so much time, mainly using the power of the world to evolve continents and the spiritual springs on them.

Yi Jun, sitting on the cultivation platform, opened his eyes and began to feel the changes in his body.

It's impossible to say that one's strength will increase several times or even dozens of times.

For an ordinary cultivator, their strength might change significantly with an increase in realm, rising by 30% to 50%. However, for someone like Yi Jun, whose combat power primarily lies in his spiritual abilities, realm advancement isn't the key; the refinement of his abilities is paramount. Nevertheless, Yi Jun does feel that he has become stronger, for example, in terms of perception, the purity of his mana, and his information processing capabilities.

Most importantly, Yi Jun felt that his lifespan had increased significantly, seemingly by more than 30,000 to 50,000 years.

Lifespan is of utmost importance to modern practitioners.

The leap from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage is enormous. Even for a third-grade True Monarch family, it might take ten thousand years to accumulate enough experience to create a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Within the Immortal Kingdom, even though the lifespan of a Great Dao Nascent Soul is practically limitless, their numbers are still extremely rare. This is because a Great Dao Nascent Soul requires far too many resources and knowledge, and the vast majority of Great Dao Golden Core cultivators have no chance of advancing to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage.

Cultivators like Yi Dong might not understand the difficulties of advancing to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage, but Yi Jun has already learned some knowledge about the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage.

The Nascent Soul stage and the Nascent Soul training ground are just the basics. Even if many Golden Core cultivators have accumulated enough resources, there is still a high probability that they will fail to advance.

Even Yi Jun values ​​lifespan highly, because he is not sure if he can successfully advance to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage in one go. The longer his lifespan, the higher the margin for error.

After feeling his lifespan increase significantly, Yi Jun nodded to himself, confirming that his creation of the function to steal the power of the world within the Great Dao Golden Core was indeed the right thing to do.

Suddenly, Yi Jun saw some future scenes in the Emperor Sword.

After a brief assessment, Yi Jun stood up, glanced around, and then flew to Yi Dong's courtyard in an instant.

Soon, the others who had come to watch Yi Jun's promotion also gathered in the courtyard.

When Yi Jun and the others arrived in the courtyard, he spoke:
"I have some things to take care of in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm."

The Immortal Kingdom has eight hundred states, an area far too vast. The original plan was to resolve the issues of the underworld over tens of thousands of years.

However, this time I saw some visions of the future. The innate deities and hidden true spirits beneath the various states of the Immortal Kingdom are now colluding with the Immortal forces of the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

Perhaps the first war with the Immortal Realm is about to begin.

Yi Jun briefly explained why he needed to go back.

Upon hearing this, Yi Ling frowned slightly. She felt that Yi Jun's return to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm was probably not for this reason.

The Immortal Kingdom has been entangled with the forces of the Kunxu Spirit Realm and should have no intention of starting a war with the Immortal Realm.

Moreover, invading the immortal realm is not so easy.

Not to mention the Immortal Realm, even the Kunxu Spirit Realm is stronger than the Beiyue Spirit Realm in terms of overall strength. To this day, the Immortal Kingdom's ascension passage has not been able to reach the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

Besides, even if the Immortal Kingdom were to wage another war outside the realm, the preparation time would take decades or even centuries, so there's no rush at all.

Just as Yi Ling was about to say something, Yi Jun looked at her.

"I can stay in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm for about ten more years."

Over the next ten years, I will do my best to help you capture the true dragon.

However, given the limited time, I'm not sure if it will be successful.

Yi Ling was immediately dissatisfied, because Yi Jun hadn't said that in the Divine Wood Forest.

Ten years is far too short a time to fight a true dragon. In that short time, unless you encounter a true dragon with no combat experience, it is impossible to successfully capture it.

Thinking about it, Yi Ling looked at Yi Dong.

Yi Dong quickly shook his head.

"I have reached a critical moment in my cultivation, and it is not appropriate for me to leave Zijin Mountain for the time being."

However, you can borrow any warships or magical artifacts available here.

Yi Dong also wanted to deal with the Ice Dragon Clan to prevent them from constantly threatening the Frozen Continent and hindering its transformation into Qingzhou.

Just then, Adong, who was standing next to Mumu, suddenly said:

"Perhaps I can help with the matter of capturing the true dragon."

However, the Ice Dragon race is not so easy to capture. Every Ice Dragon outside the Frozen Continent has rich combat experience, and as long as the Nine Heavens Ice Peak exists, their energy will be inexhaustible.

Conversely, among the four seas, the East Sea is the most prosperous, with the most true dragons. Furthermore, because the overall situation in the East Sea is stable, most of its dragons haven't experienced life-or-death battles, making them relatively easy to capture.

Everyone present turned their attention to Adong.

Yi Dong's eyes also flickered slightly. Over the years, A Dong had been suppressed at the Nine Heavens Ice Peak.

Could it be that the other party used the Nine Heavens Ice Peak to repair her Thousand Autumns Feather and used this treasure to dream of the Vast Sea Spirit Realm?

Yi Qing glanced at A Dong beside Mu Mu, then at Yang Xiaoli, and thought to himself:

"Is this the Ice Dragon and the Longevity Body?"

"Well, the Longevity Body isn't really useful right now. This Ice Dragon not only guarantees combat power, but it's also a treasure for gathering information. Perhaps we can bring her along when we conquer the outer realms in the future."

(End of this chapter)