Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 404 Disaster
On a small island outside the Frozen Continent, the old ice dragon watched a group of cultivators working on eighty-one enormous altars for over four hundred years.

This short time is nothing; the old ice dragon can remain calm.

However, the ice dragons around it were becoming somewhat agitated.

"Ancestor, we have invested a great deal of resources to invite the Holy Spirit Sect to help us reclaim the Frozen Continent."

In recent years, the cold air of the Frozen Continent has been severely lost, affecting the entire Frozen Polar Region.

The Holy Spirit Sect has been here for four hundred years, built all this useless stuff, and just stayed here doing nothing. It's really excessive.

“Indeed, Ancestor, the Life and Spirit Sect sent over a thousand True Immortals, which is why we asked them for help. However, less than a hundred True Immortals came to the Frozen Polar Region, showing no sincerity whatsoever.”

"We know what the Holy Spirit Sect wants to do."

However, if remote magical abilities could work on that human, why would we need to seek them out? Our dragon race has plenty of magical abilities for attacking from a distance.

In my opinion, the Holy Spirit Sect has been doing useless work for the past four hundred years.

The ice dragons around him were making a ruckus, but the old ice dragon didn't say anything.

As for what the Holy Spirit Sect members were doing, it probably knew; its knowledge far surpassed that of the young ice dragons within its clan.

However, it offered no explanation.

Over the years, it has come to a general understanding that some of the humans on the Frozen Continent possess precognitive abilities, and that talking about it too much might have negative consequences.

Suddenly, the eighty-one altars shone brightly, and a vast spatial power emerged from the altars before disappearing into the space.

The old ice dragon's eyes lit up.
"Is this, done?"

Just then, a True Immortal who had achieved Dao Integration suddenly emerged from the space.

"Fellow Daoist Ao, you have lived up to expectations and it is done."

The old ice dragon smiled and said:

"I wonder what kind of void calamity your immortal technique targets, that it could send that human into it without him even realizing it."

"Nature is not the kind of thing that destroys."

My immortal technique is not inherently harmful. If it had destructive power, those puppets that master the Great Dao of Cause and Effect would have intercepted it long ago.

It was fortunate, for some reason, that the formation on Purple Gold Mountain suddenly broke; otherwise, it would probably have taken another hundred years to gather all of Yi Dong's information and then transmit it in.

"Are you sure you want to send it to the Void Calamity?"
"Teleporting him to the void would be useless; one of Yi Dong's Daoist partners possesses the divine power of breaking through realms and teleporting, which would easily bring him back."

"Don't worry, your dragon race is also aware of that calamity. It is the foundation of our intelligent race. If you don't believe me, you can go inside and see for yourself."

"Um?

You actually sent Yi Dong to that place, isn't that giving him an opportunity?
The calamities caused by those disasters are not enough to take their lives.

"It is precisely because the calamity seems harmless and even an opportunity for our human race that the teleportation was successful. If the destination were extremely dangerous, do you think the teleportation would have succeeded?"

Old Ice Dragon had nothing to say.

Generally, beings who embark on cultivation will have sudden bursts of inspiration. Cultivators like Yi Dong cannot be viewed as simple second-tier beings. If it were a ranged attack technique, the opponent might sense it during the preparation stage and immediately react.

Only relatively "harmless" supernatural powers can deceive the other party's spiritual senses. Similarly, only serendipitous immortal techniques will not be interfered with by the protective forces around Yi Dong.

The Holy Spirit Sect's magic, though described as long-range attacks, is actually more accurately described as a type of blessing magic.

The conditions required for using ranged magical techniques to attack enemies are generally different.

Blessing-type celestial arts, relatively speaking, only require breath.

However, just to meet this insignificant condition, the Holy Spirit Sect spent a full four hundred years collecting enough energy to make the immortal techniques effective.

It is conceivable that achieving the conditions for launching attacks far exceeding those of other targets would likely take thousands of years.

The area around Zijin Mountain, where Yi Dong is located, is patrolled by countless warships within a radius of tens of thousands of miles. Not to mention cultivators, even a wild beast with an unusual aura would be bombarded and killed by the warships if it entered.

In order to gather Yi Dong's aura, over the past four hundred years, the Holy Spirit Sect has sent tens of thousands of its disciples to possess cultivators on the Frozen Continent and risk their lives to approach Purple Gold Mountain.

As a result, quite a few disciples of the Holy Spirit Sect perished, their souls and spirits destroyed.

This shows that the Holy Spirit Sect could not easily banish Yi Dong to calamity.

"That's enough, banishing Yi Dong is enough."

Next, we...

"Wait," the human Dao Integration True Immortal interrupted.
"Our deal seems to be about 'getting rid of' Yi Dong, right?"
Now that we've helped your Ice Dragon clan get rid of Yi Dong, your subsequent conquest of the lost territories is no longer our concern.

"But Yi Dong is not dead."

"You didn't say that Yi Dong is so troublesome, and that dealing with him is more troublesome than dealing with that black dragon."

Our transaction is now complete.

After saying that, the Dao-Merging Immortal ignored the old ice dragon and disappeared into the air.

Soon, the cultivators of the Life and Spirit Sect entered the flying warship one by one and disappeared into space.

Old Ice Dragon breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Holy Spirit Sect had truly left.

With Yi Dong gone, the defensive capabilities of the Frozen Continent have been greatly weakened. If the Holy Spirit Sect remains, we will still need to be on guard, which will be detrimental to our counterattack against the Frozen Continent.

"Alright, it's time for us to reclaim the Frozen Continent." Inside a warship sailing through space.

Thirteen True Spirit Longswords circled around Yi Dong, constantly transmitting their voices.

After a moment of silence, Yi Dong spoke:
"Are you saying that, in essence, it was the human fortune of this place that brought me here, and that the immortal arts were merely the key?"

"That's right. I didn't expect that the human race in the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm hadn't even condensed the Human Dao Luck that spanned the void, while the human race here had actually condensed such a terrifying Human Dao Luck."

Perhaps this is the core region of your human race across the entire void, while the void where the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm is located can be considered the border of the human race.

Yi Dong glanced at the Zhanlu Sword, his gaze shifting slightly.

My own Buddha Eye is incomplete, so I cannot predict the future at will, but the Zhanlu Sword does have the ability to foresee the future.

Moreover, both the Void Sword and the Shadow Sword possess spatial abilities.

Not to mention the most powerful Xuanyuan Sword, which has the ability to time itself.

Yi Dong didn't believe that these True Spirit Swords couldn't sever the teleportation.

It's probably because these True Spirit Swords knew that this teleportation would be beneficial to them that they went with the flow.

Yes, those causal puppets probably have the same idea.

"Sigh, these sword spirits and puppets still don't understand me."

Am I the kind of person who needs a stroke of luck? I can wait for my children to rise to prominence, and then I can ride their coattails and take off. Why would I need to take risks?

Yi Dong felt a pang of sorrow. He could have taken off lying down; there was no need to take the risk.

Moreover, Yi Dong doesn't pursue being invincible among his peers.

For him, whether he is strong or weak is not important, because he rarely fights personally.

Therefore, Yi Dong has always wanted immortality, not to be invincible.

However, he himself did not want to fight, but the causal puppet and the True Spirit Longsword did not prevent the opportunity from coming to him.

Is this really inside the calamity?

Yi Dong looked at the starry sky outside the warship through the magic artifact panel. It looked like the starry universe, and he could not sense any danger at all.

"This is indeed a void calamity. If it were an ordinary void region, we could return to the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm in a while."

However, we could not sense the slightest aura of the Vast Ocean Spirit Realm in this place.

Of course, calamities also have their mechanisms. Since humanity has gathered its fortune here, it must be related to the humans of the Immortal Realm. Since people from the Immortal Realm can enter and leave this place, once we find the mechanism of this calamity, we will be able to leave.”

At this moment, the Xuanyuan Sword said:
"The human spirit and fortune here are like a great river, extending into countless tributaries."

Each tributary is a major sect or religion in the celestial realm.

The cultivators here use human fortune to cultivate, which makes breakthroughs easier and can also be considered a shortcut.

Perhaps the immortal realm corresponding to this void has many more True Immortals who have achieved Dao than the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, but their individual strength may not be comparable to that of the human cultivators in the immortal realm corresponding to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm. And the number of Immortal Kings is probably greater in the human immortal realm corresponding to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

Simply put, relying on the luck and fortune of the human realm to comprehend the Dao is not as effective as comprehending the Dao on one's own, and there will be significant obstacles in breaking through to the Immortal King realm.

"And the pursuit of perfection in modern times requires the help of human fortune."

Yi Dong waved his hand.
"Even without you saying so, I will not use human destiny to cultivate."

In terms of combat power, one's cultivation level and the purity of one's magical power are not important; what matters is "technique".

If a Qi Refining King were to construct immortal techniques within their magical space, their combat power might not be weaker than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator without immortal techniques.

Given his longevity, Yi Dong wasn't in a hurry to break through in his cultivation.

Upon hearing Yi Dong's words, the spirit of the Xuanyuan Sword continued:

"Human destiny is not used for cultivation, but it can be used to hone your abyssal foundation."

Normally, the spatial fragments that make up the foundation of the abyss would take a long time to evolve into a small world, but the calamity power here can accelerate this process.

If the spatial fragments of the Abyss Dao Foundation were all transformed into small worlds, achieving the Great Dao Golden Core would not be a problem. Otherwise, with spatial fragments of varying sizes, it would be difficult to construct a perfect Great Dao Golden Core.

In summary, the reason Xuanyuan Sword brought Yi Dong into this calamity was to help him advance to the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao.

If Yi Dong doesn't enter this calamity and use its power to refine his Dao foundation in the abyss, in Xuanyuan Sword's view, his chances of advancing to the Great Dao Golden Core stage are extremely slim.

Because Yi Dong's Dao Foundation is not within the magic space, the connection between the Dao Foundation and the magic power fused with essence, energy, and spirit is not high, and the structure of the Dao Foundation is too crude.

"What to do?"

After the Xuanyuan Sword was upgraded to a supreme treasure, it gained some of the ability to merge with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth and become a True Immortal. It was able to receive information from the void. In a short period of time, among the thirteen True Spirit Swords, only the Xuanyuan Sword knew the most about this calamity.

"The area shrouded in this calamity possesses the ability to decompose infinitely, extend infinitely, and evolve infinitely. This intangible power is tangible within this calamity."

By plundering the power of these calamities, you can slowly shape a unique river of humanity that belongs to you.

If you want to plunder this power of calamity, spreading the word is the most suitable method, because one of the conditions for the manifestation of this power of calamity is the native creatures that live here.

The human forces within this space did the same.

"Now, let's seize a planet as our base."

(End of this chapter)