Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 401 Catastrophe
On Purple Mountain, a large tree shrouded in purple mist suddenly trembled slightly.

"The Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill and Heavenly Dao Golden Core Pill that I specially refined have indeed fallen into the hands of that Rainbow Moon Child."

The World's Child, born of the Rainbow Moon, is not as good as the Child of the Golden Moon and the Child of the Silver Moon, but the other two cannot be found at all, and it is unknown where the Golden Moon and the Silver Moon are.

Among the many chosen ones in the Vast Ocean World, this one is considered quite good.

Hopefully, this Child of the Rainbow Moon can reawaken the Rainbow Moon; otherwise, we'll have to wait for the next Child of the Rainbow Moon.

The beings known as the Children of the World are never unique; for example, countless Children of the Rainbow Moon have appeared throughout history.

The core of the power of the Vast Ocean World lies in the Four Sea Eyes. The Four Sea Eyes are controlled by the Dragon Clan, making it virtually impossible for a World Child to be born there. Even if a World Child is born, the Dragon Palace absorbs most of the energy from the Sea Eyes, resulting in a low-quality World Child.

There are many types of children of the world. There are children of the stars who resonate with the heavens and the stars, children of the regions who are in harmony with the local area, and children of the energy who are born in response to a special energy. Simply put, they are beings that are favored by the power of the world.

According to Tai Chu Zi Xing's understanding, the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm also has World Chosen Ones. The reason why no related news has been released is because the Immortal Kingdom can control the birth of World Chosen Ones in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm within a certain range or even within specific cultivation families.

In the Vast Ocean World, the Dragon Clan controls the Eyes of the Four Seas, thus controlling the allocation of most of the world's power. The remaining world power can also give birth to the World's Chosen among the various races of the world.

Of course, the Dragon Clan allows the birth of the World's Chosen Ones because the World's Chosen Ones are far less valuable than True Spirits, and they don't care about them at all.

In Tai Chu Zi Xing's view, the strongest batch of World Children are probably equivalent to Innate Saints. However, the most powerful World Children have the potential of Innate Saints but are not restricted from advancing to the seventh rank. After growing up, their strength may not be inferior to some True Spirits with weak combat power.

Of course, among the chosen ones of the Vast Ocean World, only the chosen ones born from the Eye of the Four Seas have the potential to become the strongest. The others, even the chosen ones of the Sun, the Moon, and the Ice Child of the Frozen Polar Regions, are not as strong.

Because of the Dragon Clan, the Four Seas' Children cannot be born in their entirety. The children of the Sun, the Golden Moon, and the Silver Moon have been searched for by the Primordial Purple Apricot for nearly a hundred years without success, so they may not have been born within the human race.

If it weren't for meeting Zhan Mingyue and taking advantage of her special status, Tai Chu Zi Xing wouldn't have been able to find even the son of Hong Yue.

Zhan Mingyue was not originally the chosen one of the world, but due to the quality of her innate Dao body and the favor of heaven and earth after her awakening, she was considered a chosen one of the world at the same level as the chosen one of the moon.

If the Primordial Purple Apricot were an ordinary Enlightenment Tree, even if it could sense the workings of heaven and earth, it would have no way to use the Child of the World to do anything.

However, the Primordial Purple Apricot is an enlightenment tree that can help one cultivate in the present and future. In terms of comprehension, it is much stronger than Yi Dong, and its level of effort is incomparable to that of a lazy person like Yi Dong.

It studied a whole bunch of strange and unusual technologies.

Back in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, it gradually studied the innate Qi and eventually became the Child of the World.

The nature of the Child of the World is very complex, and affinity with the power of the world is only one factor.

The Primordial Purple Apricot did not delve deeply into the essence of the Child of the World; it merely studied how the Child of the World could be of use to it.

Then, it used methods of cultivation such as gravity and resonance to study how the Children of the World transform the power of the world for their own use.

Of course, Taichu Zixing herself did not want to become the Child of the World, because she felt that the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm was perhaps just a temporary place for her to stay, and becoming the Child of the World in this world would be meaningless.

"With the Rainbow Moon supplying energy, the spiritual energy of the Frozen Land, even if it can't compare to some of the most prosperous upper-class states like the Central State of the Immortal Kingdom, will at least be among the top thirty. In this way, there will be enough spiritual energy for my original body to revert to its ancestral form and become an ancient tree of wisdom."

Cultivation doesn't require much spiritual energy, but reverting to one's ancestral form requires far too much.

In fact, becoming a Tree of Wisdom is barely possible with the current spiritual energy of the Frozen Continent.

However, Tai Chu Zi Xing knew that if it really used the spiritual energy born from the entire Frozen Continent as nourishment, the True Spirit Longsword and the two kinds of Sacred Body Puppets would not let it go without Yi Dong saying a word.

For the Primordial Purple Apricot to grow, it would have to find additional energy sources.

Ever since Taichu Zixing obtained the blessed land of Yanshan, she has had a particular fondness for controlling the fate of others.

There are many chess pieces like Zhan Mingyue in Taichu Zixing.

However, the other chess pieces are far inferior to those with innate Dao bodies and are not worthy of contacting the Child of Rainbow Moon.

Suddenly, it seemed that Taichu Zixing had received some kind of message.

"what?

The Great Wilderness Immortal Sect is not actually a sect within the Immortal Realm of the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

Moreover, in the Immortal Realm region where the Great Wilderness Immortal Sect is located, the human and demon races are actually the dominant forces.

Although the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm is far from the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, is the Immortal Realm really that big?
Are humans really that strong in the Immortal Realm?

Tai Chu Zi Xing was somewhat puzzled. Leaving aside the demon race, in any world with animals and spiritual energy, there would basically be demons. In some worlds, intelligent beings such as humans also cultivate demonic energy and can be considered demons as well. The number of demons is enormous, so it's understandable that they are stronger.

However, in its inherited memories, the human race is not a powerful race, and its talent and potential among intelligent races are probably only mediocre.

Humans, a race that is neither strong nor weak, should not exist in large numbers throughout the myriad realms. It would be good enough if they had a small territory in the Immortal Realm. How could they become a regional overlord in the Immortal Realm? It really couldn't understand it.

"Unfortunately, the cultivators who search souls are at most at the Golden Core stage, and they don't know any specific information."

However, this is a bit troublesome.

Among the human cultivators who have entered this time, three are on par with the Great Wilderness Immortal Sect, and four are powerful demon clans. Each of these eight major forces has sent hundreds or even thousands of True Immortals and Demon Immortals. This time, they haven't come to plunder resources from the Vast Sea Spirit Realm; they're here to conquer, or rather, to reclaim it.

Tai Chu Zi Xing sensed that things were getting a little complicated.

It wasn't naive enough to think that, being of the same race, the human cultivators in the immortal realm would give Yi Dong, a human, face and allow him to occupy the Frozen Continent.

After thinking for a while, Tai Chu Zi Xing decided to speed up the progress of each plan.

Yi Dong has lost interest in managing the Frozen Continent.

Transforming the Frozen Continent into Qingzhou is a good way to gain experience. Therefore, there's no need to strive for perfection. Let's just complete the Qingzhou Grand Array as soon as possible.

Immediately afterwards, Tai Chu Zi Xing conveyed some information to Mu Mu.

Meanwhile, Mu Mu, who was in a city called Golden Field Immortal City, received a message from Primordial Purple Apricot and frowned.

"Finding a new spirit world sounds simple, but if a world were that easy to find, the void would be engulfed in war."

That's what she thought, but Mu Mu also knew that she probably couldn't stay in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm any longer.

This made her very frustrated. Originally, she wanted to release the fragments of the Ancient Immortal Realm and ask Yi Yan to help her transform them into a seventh-order spiritual vein on the Frozen Continent.

The current commotion is affecting her progress in achieving the Great Dao Golden Core.

Purple Mountain, Yi Dong's courtyard.

These days, Yi Dong has been absorbing knowledge from the Divine Elephant Clan, and slowly, he has discovered some things that he had not noticed before.

"No wonder, in the Immortal Kingdom, there are few cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage among the current cultivators. Not only are there no cultivators who have reached the Great Dao Deity Transformation stage, but even among the current cultivators of the Heaven, Earth, and Human paths, there are very few who have advanced to the Deity Transformation stage."

It turns out that contact with the Great Dao can potentially lead to being devoured by it.

Since learning about the glorious past of the Immortal Kingdom, Yi Dong had wondered why there were no inheritances above the Nascent Soul stage within the Immortal Kingdom. He had previously guessed that they had been lost.

It now seems that the current cultivator of the Immortal Kingdom of Emotions has no intention of breaking through to the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage.

Yi Dong knew that the Dao-Merging True Immortals were theoretically immortal, but in reality, they seemed to suffer from calamities such as the Three Calamities and Five Tribulations, and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, which threatened their lives at any time.

However, they did not know the principle behind the formation of the tribulation of a True Immortal who has attained the Dao.

Because in this void, the breakthrough of a being's cultivation generally does not involve heavenly tribulations or inner demon tribulations.

After learning about the knowledge of the Divine Elephant Clan, Yi Dong realized that these so-called tribulations were all backlashes from the Great Dao after comprehending it.

How the Great Dao can backfire is not specifically recorded by the God of Knowledge, or rather, the knowledge of the Great Dao is difficult to describe in words.

Within the Divine Elephant Clan, the Great Dao is called the Law. The deeper one comprehends the Law, the deeper one's resonance with the Laws of Heaven and Earth. Then, when the world undergoes dramatic changes, the vibrations of the Laws will cause beings who have comprehended the relevant Laws to suffer different "calamities," or divine punishments.

Without comprehending the laws, ordinary beings cannot advance to the seventh rank.

However, comprehending the laws will lead to suffering the backlash from those laws.

Ordinary beings cannot achieve immortality without cultivating to the seventh level.

Among the Divine Elephant Clan, even the eighth-order Supreme Gods seem to be subject to divine punishment. However, judging from the knowledge of the God of Knowledge, it seems that no Supreme God has ever perished in divine punishment.

Of course, Yi Dong didn't believe that eighth-order beings could truly ignore calamities. The case of the Divine Elephant Clan couldn't be applied to the human race, after all, the bloodline difference between humans and the Divine Elephant Clan seemed quite large.

In this vast void, among seventh-order beings, only true spirits are unaffected by calamities, in Yi Dong's view. After all, a perfect being is not something to be tribulated about; if there are still calamities, how can it be considered perfect?
The Divine Elephant Clan is probably the closest to the true spirit among all living beings. It is certain that their divine punishment is less severe and their ability to withstand it is stronger.

"So it seems I'm only two steps away from graduating from the cultivation world?"

Thinking of this, Yi Dong couldn't help but feel a little happy.

He was glad that he had transmigrated into the body of someone with the bloodline of an immortal kingdom. If he had transmigrated to any other place, even the immortal realm, he would not have had much confidence in becoming an immortal.

Ancient cultivators value idealistic things like comprehension, perseverance, faith, and willpower. Let alone constantly breaking through in cultivation, given his cowardly nature and lack of combat talent, he's likely to be beaten up by geniuses who are above his level, and it's highly probable that he'll perish midway through his cultivation journey.

Modern cultivation emphasizes "technology," completely disregarding things like mentality; combat also relies on technology.

Yi Dong considers himself not a person who can endure hardship, so his perseverance is probably below the average human level. As for beliefs and willpower, needless to say, if he had such talent, he would have been above ten thousand people in his previous life.

Before and after the time travel, he was still himself. In Yi Dong's view, his current level of success in this life was purely a matter of luck, and had nothing to do with his own efforts.

Thinking that he was only two steps away from reaching the pinnacle of cultivation, Yi Dong sighed. It seemed that cultivating immortality wasn't so difficult after all.

"My path has been completed."

(End of this chapter)