Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 395 Book Spirit
After Yi Jun and Yi Ling left, Yi Dong looked at the golden square tower in the courtyard, which was about nine meters tall and had a base about three meters wide. He scanned it with his divine sense and only felt that it contained endless space, but he did not find any records of text or images.

As Yi Ling also mentioned, a specific method is needed to open the Knowledge Treasury, which Yi Ling also lacks the ability to do. This Knowledge Treasury is not only protected by the divine power of the God of Knowledge, but it is also a supreme treasure in itself.

Yi Yan briefly mentioned the Divine Elephant Clan, letting Yi Dong know that this treasure was one of the most powerful treasures in the Divine Elephant Clan besides the Supreme Divine Artifact.

In other words, even if Yi Dong wanted to force it open, it probably wouldn't work.

This is clearly a supreme treasure created by heaven and earth specifically for the Divine Elephant Clan, and it is impossible for Yi Dong, a human, to perfectly refine it.

"Since my divine sense can't detect it, perhaps I can try my supernatural powers."

Thinking this, Yi Dong placed his hand on the Tower of Knowledge, and supernatural power extended outwards.

Yi Dong's supernatural powers are not spiritual supernatural powers. His supernatural power space cannot be extended outside the body. At present, he only has the ability to read the thoughts of living beings. If he wants to extend his supernatural power, he can only use his body as a medium.

Since the "Hall of Thought" almost gave birth to independent thought, but was rendered lifeless by Yi Dong's actions, Yi Dong no longer intends to spend too much time researching this supernatural power.

Yi Dong simply allowed this supernatural ability to grow along with the cultivation method; how it would develop in the future was irrelevant.

For Yi Dong, the ability of "Think Palace" to preserve knowledge is enough.

The moment Yi Dong's supernatural power touched the Tower of Knowledge, the entire tower emitted a golden light.

Then he felt three abnormal forces invading his supernatural space along with his supernatural power.

"Um?

"How hasty! Could it be the remnant soul of that so-called god of knowledge?"

Yi Dong was slightly startled, but quickly calmed down.

The body and soul of modern cultivators are somewhat different from those of ancient cultivators. The soul and body are integrated into one entity, and the soul resides in any part of the body.

Moreover, his soul is quite special; as long as it isn't completely destroyed, it can slowly recover.

Moreover, he possessed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, which targeted the soul, and Yi Dong did not believe that any remnant soul could possess him.

So he was only slightly surprised before calming down and began to immerse his consciousness into the supernatural space.

Soon, Yi Dong's consciousness entered the supernatural space.

Inside the supernatural space, three golden books were absorbing his supernatural power.

These three books are the source of those three extraordinary forces.

"These three books are in my supernatural space, but my supernatural abilities cannot analyze anything. Just like Yi Ling's memories, they don't seem to be the souls of living beings."

While Yi Dong was figuring out what to do with the three books.

A mysterious message was sent out.

After the message was sent out for a while, the supernatural power translated it into Daoist script.

"This is a kind of spiritual awakening technique. We have finally found a living being with spiritual awakening power, but why is there no spiritual light?"

Without the Light of Enlightenment, it probably won't be able to evolve into divine arts of wisdom or truth.

"Indeed, it's strange that no Enlightenment Light was generated in this divine space. How could such a perfect Enlightenment Divine Art not have any Enlightenment Light?"

"This divine space is a mess, and the knowledge is chaotic and unsystematic. If there were a light of enlightenment to give life to knowledge, it wouldn't be like this."

The three books are communicating like living beings.

After a while, a book said:

"It's a pity that out of the billions of book spirits in the Tower of Knowledge, only the three of us remain."

"Yes, although the Tower of Knowledge is a treasure, it cannot withstand the erosion of time. Those book spirits do not have our abilities and can only perish."

"We were just so bored that we followed those Buddhist cultivators who practiced the Buddhist tradition."

Before the Tower of Knowledge had a master, these three book spirits were its controllers.

Without their tacit approval, even with the secret techniques of the Divine Elephant Clan, Yi Ling would never have been able to see the Tower of Knowledge.

Of course, the main reason they followed Yi Ling was that they felt the Celestial Elephant Clan was useless and could not possibly reach the level of the Divine Elephant Clan.

Even within the Bronze God Realm, the Tower of Knowledge could obtain information from the Celestial Phenomenon Clan of the God-Given Plains. From that information, they learned about the human race to which Yi Ling belonged, which is why they followed Yi Ling out of the Bronze God Realm.

In the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, the dragon race is the ruler and the beings who have mastered complete divine arts. Following the dragon race is the best course of action.

However, the number of dragons is too small, and it is difficult to find beings with spiritual power.

Although the Celestial Elephant Clan obtained some of the Divine Elephant Clan's heritage, they were unable to use the most core inheritance, resulting in incomplete innate divine arts that placed them outside the selection range of the three Book Spirits.

When the three scholars encountered Yi Ling, they sensed that she possessed complete divine arts, and thus knew that the human race to which Yi Ling belonged must have a perfect inheritance of divine arts. It was not surprising that they followed her away.

The three book spirits originally thought it would take a long time to find a human with the Awakening Divine Art.

Unexpectedly, after leaving the Bronze Divine Realm with Yi Ling, they soon encountered Yi Dong, a person with the divine artifact and the Awakening Divine Technique.

Of course, the three book spirits also sensed that the Primordial Purple Apricot also possessed the Spirit Awakening Divine Art. Moreover, the strength of the divine art was even more refined than that of Yi Dong.

However, there is one aspect of Yi Dong's divine arts that Tai Chu Zi Xing lacks: the quantity of divine power.

Among the three scholars' insights, Tai Chu Zi Xing's divine power was equivalent to that of the Divine Elephant King, while Yi Dong's divine power was comparable to that of a celestial god.

The Divine Elephant Clan specializes in divine arts, or supernatural powers, using them to carry the laws of the Great Dao, unlike cultivators who focus on magical power.

The supernatural power of the "Palace of Thought" originates from the soul, and Yi Dong's soul is clearly much stronger than that of the Primordial Purple Apricot.

This power is not due to the level of cultivation, but rather to the strength of the very essence of the soul.

That is why, even though Taichu Zixing's supernatural powers were stronger than Yi Dong's, the Tower of Knowledge did not seek out Taichu Zixing.

The three book spirits seemed to sense Yi Dong's gaze. One of them spoke to the location of Yi Dong's consciousness:

"We are the book of destiny, the book of life, the book of eternity."

They respectively master the three great laws of destiny, life, and eternity.

We just looked at it, and there's a lot of information about longevity here.

If you master just one of these, you can achieve immortality.

Time is one of the greatest obstacles to immortality.

Destiny can transcend time, life can defy time, and eternity can disregard time.

As Yi Dong thought this, countless characters floated through the supernatural space.
"Compared to the laws of destiny, life, and eternity, I prefer the Great Way of Wood."

I wonder if the Tower of Knowledge contains any information on this topic.

"What you call the Five Elements Great Dao, which is what we call the Law of Energy, is actually only a medium-level Great Dao Law, far inferior to the supreme laws such as destiny, life, and eternity."

You should know that within the Divine Elephant Clan, three of the Supreme Gods cultivate these three Supreme Laws.

In the Divine Elephant Clan, the Supreme Laws are so precious that even the God of Knowledge spent countless hours and effort to obtain the inheritance of these three laws from the three Supreme Gods.

Before the supreme law, your so-called law of wood is utterly insignificant.

Yi Dong was speechless. Within the Immortal Kingdom, there was no distinction between high and low in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

In the Immortal Kingdom, there are Nascent Soul cultivators who cultivate the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, such as Time, Space, Destiny, and Destruction. However, the strongest Nascent Soul cultivators in the Immortal Kingdom are those who cultivate the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, such as the Great Dao of the Five Elements. This is because Yi Dong has never heard of any Immortal Emperor who primarily cultivates the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth other than the Great Dao of the Five Elements.

The Divine Elephant Clan only studied a little bit of the Five Elements Dao, and then labeled it as a medium-level Dao. Is that really appropriate?

The Divine Elephant Clan may have also studied the principles of destiny, life, and eternity to a very deep degree.

However, what is recorded in these three books is the Great Dao inheritance obtained by the God of Knowledge, which is obviously not the ultimate study of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth by the Divine Elephant Clan.

If these three books were left behind by the Supreme God, Yi Dong might still have some hesitation, but they belong to the God of Knowledge, and clearly he did not obtain the essence of the three Great Daos.

Therefore, how could Yi Dong possibly abandon the Great Way of Wood to cultivate some kind of Great Way of Heaven and Earth, such as Destiny or Destruction?

If there were no other way, Yi Dong's path to immortality would inevitably be based on the Great Dao of Wood. If he were to become a Nascent Soul cultivator, he would certainly do so with the Great Dao of Wood at its core.

The three book spirits weren't really concerned about Yi Dong's cultivation. Seeing his insistence, they stopped trying to persuade him and instead said:
"I can give you the inheritance of the Law of Wood, but in exchange, you must continuously supply the Tower of Knowledge with your supernatural power."

Yi Dong understood; these three book spirits clearly did not intend for him to become the master of the Tower of Knowledge.

This was exactly what Yi Dong wanted.

Nowadays, Yi Dong not only possesses a large number of Yellow Heaven Spiritual Treasures, but also the True Spirit Longsword, a supreme treasure, which he truly doesn't consider a threat.

Moreover, Yi Dong himself dislikes artifacts that give birth to spirits. The Tower of Knowledge, which allows knowledge to develop independent thought, is something Yi Dong detests even more. Even if the book spirit hadn't said anything, Yi Dong would not have refined the Tower of Knowledge, much less placed it in his supernatural space.

After spending half a day exchanging ideas with Yi Dong and absorbing enough supernatural power, he returned to the Tower of Knowledge.

With the Tower of Knowledge, time seemed to pass even faster for Yi Dong.

Yi Dong couldn't comprehend the Great Way of Wood, but he was completely absorbed in the related materials on alchemy, weapon crafting, and spiritual energy architecture.

Before we knew it, ten years had passed.

During these ten years, Yi Jun and Yi Ling returned to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

According to Mu Mu, the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm has already begun an interdimensional war with the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

The Kunxu Spirit Realm is much stronger than the Beiyue Spirit Realm, and it also has many forces from the Immortal Realm stationed there, so the Immortal Kingdom's campaign is not going very smoothly.

It is said that problems have also arisen underground in the eight hundred states of the Immortal Kingdom, causing some turmoil within the Immortal Kingdom.

Mu Mu knew this not only because of Yi Ze, but also because she had secretly teleported a large number of humans from the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm to populate the various immortal cities on the Frozen Continent.

Yi Dong didn't care at all about news from the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Just when he thought these peaceful days would last for hundreds of years, Taichu Zixing contacted him.
"An ascension passage has opened in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, and a large-scale invasion of the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm has occurred."

(End of this chapter)