Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 403 The Passage of Time

As one by one, the Great Awakening puppets gathered at Purple Mountain.

Tai Chu Zi Xing sensed that something was wrong. Originally, it planned to quickly complete the establishment of the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom, but now that Yi Dong had summoned all the Great Awakening Puppets back, how could it speed up the process?

Each of the Great Awakening Puppets is incredibly powerful, far surpassing the power of the Tree People of the Primordial Purple Apricot. The Primordial Purple Apricot only oversaw the design of the Qingzhou Grand Array, while the Great Awakening Puppets handled most of the specific construction details.

Now, the Great Awakening Puppet has suddenly stopped working, causing many immortal cities under construction to come to a standstill, and some intricate formations to remain unfinished, which is causing it great anxiety.

The lineup of Qingzhou has a high chance of being flawed, and Taichu Zixing doesn't need to be perfect either, but it can't be too rough either.

If the Immortal City cannot withstand experts at the level of Returning to the Void and Harmonizing the Dao True Immortal, then even if the Qingzhou Grand Array is completed, the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom will not be at peace.

The most important part of its ancestral plan is the establishment of the Qingzhou Grand Array. If the Qingzhou Grand Array cannot be established, then the series of plans such as Rainbow Moon's ascension to the void will basically be useless.

So it immediately contacted Dongfanghong and Mumu, as well as Adong, who was adjusting the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Now, the only ones who can change Yi Dong's mind are Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu, while Yi Yan is behind A Dong, and she has notified him regardless of whether it will be useful or not.

The Qingzhou Grand Array is not only related to the Primordial Purple Apricot's return to the Void, but Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu also attach great importance to it.

After Dongfang Hong advances to the Golden Core stage, he will begin to construct the prototype of the Nascent Soul Daoist Temple.

Although Dongfang Hong's cultivation technique for the Nascent Soul stage has not yet been fully developed, this does not prevent her from accumulating resources in advance.

As for Mu Mu, since the Golden Core Star requires a lot of resources, she is also waiting for the Qingzhou Grand Array to be completed so that she can slowly accumulate resources.

Only Yi Dong, because his advancement to the Golden Core stage was still a long way off and he didn't have many plans for the future, didn't need many resources and didn't care much about the Qingzhou Grand Array.

Actually, even without Tai Chu Zi Xing saying it, Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu couldn't stand it anymore as the Great Awakening Puppets gradually abandoned their missions, because many of their pills, magical artifacts, and other products could only be produced in large quantities with the help of the Great Awakening Puppets.

They went directly to Zijin Mountain to find Yi Dong.

"So what are you thinking? The Qingzhou Grand Array is about to be completed in less than five hundred years. Now that the Great Awakening Puppet has left, by the time the Kan Water Year ends and the Immortal Kingdom changes its boundaries, the Qingzhou Grand Array will not be completed at all. It would be such a pity to miss the period when the Immortal Kingdom receives the Qi of all heavens."

“That’s right. Right now, there’s a shortage of manpower everywhere on the Frozen Continent. Without the Great Awakening Puppet, not to mention the Azure Continent Array, the continent’s defenses have been significantly weakened.”

Looking at the chattering Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu, Yi Dong pondered deeply. Could it be that this matter made Mu Mu angry with him, and then when he withdrew from the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, she used Starlight Teleportation to throw him into the void?

Unfortunately, Yi Dong cannot predict the future clearly. Even if he could, it wouldn't be good to do anything to Mu Mu now, because the future is unpredictable, and the foreseen future is always uncertain.

Logically speaking, Mu Mu has neither the reason nor the courage to harm herself.

Although he was unlikely to be able to kill her, a small portion of the Starry Sky Clan did not go to the Mountain and Sea Realm, but remained in Qingzhou of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

If the other party harms me, and I don't die, the Starry Sky Clan of Qingzhou will definitely be wiped out.

Has Mu Mu also become cold-hearted over time?
Unsure whether Mu Mu harbored any ill intentions towards him, Yi Dong thought it over and over and decided that unless absolutely necessary, he would never enter Mu Mu's starlight teleportation, meaning he would not leave the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm for the time being.

A jumble of thoughts raced through Yi Dong's mind. Seeing that Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu were still chattering away, he said impatiently:

"The matter of the Great Awakening Puppet guarding Purple Gold Mountain is settled, and no one can change that."

Furthermore, I don't plan to increase the number of Great Awakening Puppets in the short term. The state of the Frozen Continent is not important. If the Azure Continent Array can be completed, great; if not, so be it.

Alright, I won't say anything more. You can handle the rest yourselves.

After saying that, Yi Dong gestured for the two to leave.

But Dongfanghong said:
"When the Qingzhou Grand Formation is completed, it will allow those with inherited bloodlines to join in and be refined. This is the matter of bloodlines."

Yi Dong did not answer, but only gave Dongfang Hong a cold look.

Dongfang Hong knew that Mu Mu had sent many members of the Dongfang family over.

Although Yi Dong doesn't value the Qingzhou Grand Array, it was still built using his resources. He can choose not to unite the Yi family bloodline, but he cannot tolerate Dongfang Hong using his resources to pave the way for the Dongfang family.

However, Yi Dong didn't say anything.

For him, Dongfang Hong was practically useless. If the other party really did something that annoyed him, it would be a good opportunity to get rid of him.

The more he cultivated, the more indifferent Yi Dong became as he grew older, giving off an almost inhuman feeling.

Yi Dong was aware of his own change in temperament, but he had no intention of rediscovering his true self through worldly experiences. To him, this mindset was a normal part of growth. He would not force himself to be ruthless or heartless, but rather to become more rational with the passage of time, which was what he hoped for.

If he had lived for millions of years and was still as sentimental as a mortal, Yi Dong would have become gloomy long ago.

After driving the two away, Yi Dong accelerated the process of transferring the knowledge from the Tower of Omniscience into his own supernatural space.

The spirit of the Tower of Omniscience was initially very arrogant, saying that knowledge was valuable.

At first, Yi Dong's attitude was very good. He gave the book spirit whatever it wanted, using his own supernatural powers, spirit stones, spirit objects, and so on, without haggling over anything he could give.

However, once the Holy Body Puppet deciphered the Tower of Omniscience's defense system, Yi Dong immediately changed his tune. Although he didn't destroy all the remaining Book Spirits, he plundered their knowledge without restraint and refused to give them any supernatural power.

After being treated harshly by Yi Dong, the Tower of Omniscience did not leave. Instead, it mingled with the Primordial Purple Apricot and gained a new source of spiritual power to revive the Book Spirit.

Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

While transferring knowledge, Yi Dong also kept an eye on external information. There was no new activity from the Four Seas Dragon Palace and the Ice Dragon Clan.

They are fighting fiercely against the invaders from the celestial realm.

Originally, the intensity of war was gradually increased. Generally speaking, in the early stages, beings below the third-tier Golden Core stage would fight for several hundred years to test each other's strengths and weaknesses, and then fourth- and fifth-tier Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation stage forces would be deployed to further probe each other.

Finally, powerful beings at the sixth or seventh level of the Void Returning Realm and Dao Integration Realm joined the battlefield, determining the course of the war.

It would take at least several hundred years to complete the first two steps.

However, on the dragon side, a black dragon that didn't follow the rules appeared. It started by slaughtering everyone on the battlefield, skipping the first two steps and starting the final battle.

Of course, while it's called a decisive battle, battles between sixth and seventh-tier beings are generally measured in years.

The strong fight and struggle intermittently for hundreds or even thousands of years to determine the victor.

Therefore, the war in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm will not end in a short time.

If the Immortal Realm truly intends to conquer the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, then with both sides continuously drawing reinforcements, the war might not be measured in millennia, but rather in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years.

Compared to the situation in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm War, Yi Dong has recently become somewhat interested in the situation in Qingzhou of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

After the Creation Realm incident ended, those Great Dao Nascent Soul cultivators and Dao Integration True Immortals quickly left Qingzhou.

However, Qingzhou did not find peace after these powerful figures left.

Because the Immortal Kingdom used twelve medium-sized states, including Qingzhou and Bingzhou, as reserve bases, it launched an expedition towards the Kunxu Spirit Realm.

This expedition to Kunxu was far less successful than the campaign against Beiyue; the Immortal Kingdom failed to establish a stable forward base in Kunxu.

Whenever the Immortal Kingdom gains an advantage there, it is quickly defeated as the forces of Kunxu and the Immortal Realm exert their strength, making the Ascension Channel extremely busy.

A large number of cultivators gathered in twelve prefectures, including Qingzhou, but very few of them were able to return after entering the ascension passage.

It can be said that the battlefield between the Immortal Kingdom and Kunxu was a true meat grinder.

Since the beginning of the Kan Shui year, the Immortal Kingdom has been sending a large number of cultivators to the battlefield of the Kunxu Spirit Realm to deplete the enemy's war potential.

The war in the Immortal Kingdom will naturally lead to the forced conscription of cultivators, and the cultivation families in Qingzhou will be the first to be affected.

This made Yi Dong somewhat relieved. Fortunately, he ran fast; otherwise, even if he had avoided the previous potential crisis, he would definitely have been conscripted into this war.

Ever since he was summoned to the underground by the Immortal Kingdom, Yi Dong has deeply resented being forced to take risks.

After learning that the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm was at war with Kunxu, Yi Dong had even less intention of returning to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Recently, he planned to have Yi Yan find a place in the mortal realm so he could cultivate there slowly. As for whether Dongfang Hong and Mu Mu would come with him, Yi Dong didn't care anymore.

Of all things, your own safety is the most important.

Unfortunately, the world of the void is not so easy to discover.

Another year passed, and Yi Qing and Yi Yan returned to Zijin Mountain. After staying there for a while, they took A Dong back to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

The years are long.

Hundreds of years have passed in the blink of an eye.

It has now been nine hundred and ninety years since the beginning of the Kan River, and there are still ten years until the day when the Immortal Emperor is replaced.

At this moment, Yi Dong was looking at Tai Chu Zi Xing.

Since Taichu Zixing arrived in the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm, she has begun to grow rapidly.

Even now, the sky is filled with purple mist, turning the sky above Zijin Mountain purple.

This scene would not normally have attracted Yi Dong's attention, but at this moment, purple lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky, and the great formation of Purple Gold Mountain was shattered by the strange phenomenon brought about by the Primordial Purple Apricot.

"Could it be that this Primordial Purple Apricot is planning something during the change of the Immortal Emperor?"

Yi Dong thought about how the Primordial Purple Apricot had spent a lot of resources over the past few hundred years to accelerate the formation of the Qingzhou Grand Array.

If I hadn't foreseen the future, I would already be preparing to become the Immortal Emperor of the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom.

"So much time has passed, does that mean I've avoided a future that has fallen into the void?"

Just then, the Floating Pagoda hidden in Zijin Mountain appeared, transforming into a stream of light that rushed towards Yi Dong. At the same time, a large number of Great Awakening Puppets used various techniques to rush over and enter Yi Dong's magical space.

Even faster than the Floating Pagoda and the Great Awakening Puppet was the Thirteen True Spirit Longsword, which instantly appeared in Yi Dong's magical space.

At the same time, a wisp of purple energy fell into Yi Dong's magical space.

Yi Dong was stunned. Pale golden lotus patterns appeared in his pupils. Before he could see the future, he disappeared.

(End of this chapter)