Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 392 The Forge of Creation
Yi Dong's consciousness followed the Demon Gate to sense the demons far away in the Land of Creation.

He soon discovered that the number of demons in the Creation Realm was outrageously high.

Logically speaking, in the Land of Creation, where Dao Integration and Great Dao Nascent Souls are everywhere, even the strongest third-tier demons are mere ants, easily wiped out by the aftershocks of battle. It's impossible for them to multiply into more ones.

Soon, Yi Dong found out what was going on.

Within the Secret Realm of Creation, there are some places devoid of spiritual energy. These places have neither spiritual energy nor spiritual objects, and no cultivators ever come here.

Thanks to these desolate places, the demons, who had little power, survived the period when immortals were rampant.

The great battle between numerous True Immortals and Nascent Soul cultivators caused changes to the Creation Realm.

After the transformation, the Creation Realm was in chaos, with violent spiritual energy and an extremely harsh environment, causing cultivators from all realms to leave one after another.

These changes also affected the Land of the Dead, but demons are a race adapted to harsh environments, so they survived there.

After losing most of their demons, the remaining demons developed environmental resistance specific to certain regions and tenaciously survived throughout the Creation Realm.

"Are there quite a few demons who have broken through to the fifth rank?"

Yi Dong knew that the demons had great potential, after all, the True Spirit Bloodline was real, but the speed of their cultivation was beyond his expectations. In the various layers of the abyss, the space was small and the pressure of survival competition was great. Without Yi Dong's intervention, the demons were almost always fighting each other. The slightly stronger ones would be surrounded and killed. Almost no demons lived long, and there were no individuals at the late stage of the third tier.

Of course, it's not surprising that demons can leave the abyss space and advance to the fourth rank, but what is strange is that they can advance to the fifth rank so quickly.

Now, all sorts of demons inhabit the various layers of Yi Dong's abyss.

During his years in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, Yi Dong obtained various monsters and intelligent races as research materials, and researched a large number of demon species.

These demons possess various abilities, which greatly pleased Yi Dong, and he is preparing to cultivate them in the upcoming abyss space.

However, it seems that although there are many new types of demons, their potential may not be as good as the previous ones. The previous demons, after all, used the bloodline of the True Spirit Unicorn.

The demons that follow have at most the bloodlines of sixth-order demon beasts and some dragon-blooded demon beasts, which are not comparable to the bloodlines of true spirits.

"If these demons can advance to the fifth rank, then if the strongest black birdman is released, wouldn't there soon be sixth or even seventh rank individuals?"

Previously, Yi Dong was afraid that the black birdmen were too strong and worried that if they were released, they would develop wildly and launch a counterattack against his abyss space, so he had been suppressing them.

It seems there's no need to suppress it anymore. With the Demon Gate's suppression, the seventh-tier black birdman probably won't be able to cause any trouble in the abyss space.

Thinking it over, Yi Dong focused his consciousness on the first layer of the abyss space.

This space was filled with all sorts of beautiful buildings, and there were even many buildings that seemed to float in the air.

The forest of white jade and silver trees provides ample energy to this space.

The energy of the white jade silver tree is transformed by the black birdman through special buildings for various purposes, supplying energy for formations or cultivation. Some of the energy is even transformed into spiritual energy for research on the growth and cultivation of spiritual plants.

This floor is overflowing with spiritual energy. Ordinary areas are like being in a fifth-order spiritual vein, while in some special buildings, the spiritual energy even surpasses that of a sixth-order spiritual vein.

When Yi Dong's consciousness observed the Black Birdman King's Palace, the Black Birdman King Sifre opened his eyes.

"Um?

This birdman king is indeed formidable. He has already cultivated the sixth level of the "Creation Heaven Scripture." If he were released, he could become a sixth-tier birdman in less than ten years. It seems that the seventh tier is only a matter of time for him.

Over the years, Sifre has basically digested the knowledge it inherited from its bloodline, and began to comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth at the third level, which is simply heaven-defying.

Of course, among the entire Black Birdman race, only this Birdman King is special.

Yi Dong's restrictions could only limit the improvement of this bird-man's body and soul, but could not limit his understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Among the various Golden Elixir building information provided by Yi Dong, many are related to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

With the help of those buildings, Sief actually began to comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, making Yi Dong feel that the black bird-man race might have stronger talent and potential than many true spirits.

True spirits are the most perfect beings in the world, but the pure white beings inherited by the black bird-men are a race of gods who can use True spirits as research material.

It's not impossible for the divine bloodline to have fused with a large number of true spirit bloodlines, making its strength surpass that of ordinary true spirits.

"This is the king of the black birdmen. As long as this birdman is alive, the other birdmen will not be gone forever."

As he pondered this, a large number of knowledge jade slips descended from this layer of space.

These jade slips contain knowledge on how to upgrade a magical space to a blessed land or even a small world.

The knowledge about advancing to a minor world was obtained by Yi Dong from Yi Ling.

After regaining her memories from a hundred lifetimes, Yi Ling passed on a great deal of knowledge to Yi Dong.

Advancing to a minor world might be of little use to other wood-attribute cultivators. But for him, it might be a different story.

His magical space probably can't advance to a small world, but his abyssal foundation spaces at each level might be able to.

Of course, it's unrealistic for him to upgrade the Ten Thousand Layer Space into a small world on his own, even if he squeezed the Ice Continent dry.

Therefore, Yi Dong simply had the demons on each floor collect resources to advance to their respective spaces.

After disseminating the knowledge, Yi Dong stopped paying attention and his consciousness returned to his body.

The knowledge passed down by Yi Dong in the first layer of the abyss was immediately gathered by Sifre.

After reading it, Severus was slightly moved.
"It seems that the will of the abyss intends to release our race."

Over the years, Yi Dong has never communicated with the beings in the Abyss. Even though Sief could sense the existence of Yi Dong's consciousness, he could not determine whether Yi Dong was a living being or a world will or something similar. Therefore, he called the consciousness that could control the Abyss the Abyss Will.

Over the years, Siever has learned the spatial abilities from his inherited memories. However, he cannot tear space apart, but he can vaguely sense the situation in other layers of the abyss.

Between the abyss spaces, there are layers upon layers. The second layer of the abyss is the space where the Yellow Heaven Immortal Vine is located, and the third layer is the space where the mutated peach tree is located.

These two spiritual plants made these two layers of space far more stable than the other spaces, greatly weakening Siever's senses. Otherwise, he might have been able to cross several layers of space and capture the demons below by relying on the various buildings within the space.

Of course, even if he couldn't capture them, he knew that some demons had left the abyss.

This time, it was finally their turn.

"Once we've digested this knowledge, it will be time for our clan to go out and gather resources."

Soon, under Sief's leadership, the wise men of the Black Birdman race gathered, quickly digested and improved the knowledge passed down by Yi Dong, and then spent three months creating a Creation Furnace.

The Creation Furnace is not a magical artifact, but rather a series of enormous psionic structures containing countless refining pools and massive chimney-shaped converters.

This building can refine everything into energy, and then combine various energies into an energy similar to the power of the world, thereby allowing the space to evolve.

Inside the cultivation room, Yi Dong was browsing the knowledge in his mind with his eyes closed.

The thoughts and ideas of all living beings in the abyss can be manifested in words within the "Hall of Thought".

Yi Dong also learned about the Creation Furnace.

Yi Dong opened his eyes and revealed a slight smile.
"These black birdmen may have similar comprehension to the Great Awakening Puppet, but their creativity surpasses that of the Great Awakening Puppet countless times. Perhaps this is the difference between living beings and puppets."

I only gave them some scattered pieces of knowledge, and they were able to integrate that knowledge and create the Furnace of Creation.

If the Abyss Space were to construct billions of Creation Furnaces, refining tens of thousands of mortal realms or even spirit realms into them, my Abyss Dao Foundation might not just be a small world, but comparable to a mortal realm or even a spirit realm.

If I had an infinite lifespan, the Abyss Space might one day become a small void.

If we were to describe the void using the metaphor of the universe, then my abyss space might one day become a microcosm within the human body.

Thinking about this, Yi Dong felt that even if he deviated from the path of cultivation, it didn't seem to be a big deal. With the power of tens of thousands of worlds surrounding him, his strength was beyond description.

"Unexpectedly, this black birdman is the greatest opportunity I have ever had."

It seems that some of the knowledge gained from this Creation Furnace is inherited knowledge from the Pure White race.

Previously, Yi Dong lacked confidence in advancing to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage; now, the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage is no longer his goal.

With a touch of arrogance, Yi Dong felt that one day he might be able to refine the entire void, refining all the myriad worlds of the void into the abyss space. At that time, his power would surely surpass the imagination of all living beings in the world.

Of course, reason made Yi Dong realize that this was impossible. Everything has its limits, and he figured that his Abyss Dao Foundation also had its limits. Refining the entire void was basically impossible.

Suddenly, Yi Dong thought of something.
"The most crucial member of this black birdman race is the Birdman King Sief. This birdman's strength and wisdom far surpass those of the other birdmen, and he may even surpass the white creatures."

It seems that the Nascent Soul cultivation ground of the Path to Immortality will depend on this person.

Yi Dong estimated that if he were to rely on himself, even with complete information, it would probably take him thousands of years to research a Nascent Soul cultivation ground. After all, the knowledge of each Nascent Soul cultivation ground was refined over hundreds of millions of years by countless members of meritorious families. Even if his comprehension surpassed that of most cultivators, it would be impossible for him to research a Nascent Soul cultivation ground that matched the current version of the Immortal Kingdom in less than tens of thousands of years.

Of course, with the help of the Primordial Purple Apricot and the Great Awakening Puppet, this process will be shortened, but it will still take a lot of time. And the research results of the Primordial Purple Apricot and the Great Awakening Puppet are probably not comparable to those of Sifu.

"Very good, this person is the key to my overtaking on the curve."

Putting aside the Holy Body Puppet and the True Spirit Longsword, Yi Dong's own combat strength is no match for Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu, let alone Yi Jun and the others. It's impossible for him not to care at all.

"It's time to put these black birdmen into the Creation Realm and see if they can refine the entire Creation Realm into the Abyss Dao Foundation."

(End of this chapter)