Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 406 Thirty Years

Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Initially, Yi Dong intended to seize the treasure by force.

Unexpectedly, the extraordinary treasure born from this calamity was indeed miraculous, existing in a state between non-existence and existence. Unless one sincerely offered it up, it could not be taken away at all, giving one the feeling of being bound to one's soul.

Then, Yi Dong obtained the method for recruiting disciples from the Qingyun Sect and began recruiting disciples.

In this starry sky, many powerful immortals do not descend in their true forms, but rather take on countless incarnations to spread their teachings on numerous inhabited planets.

There are many true immortals, who have even created fifth-order spiritual veins on some particularly large planets as their sect's training grounds.

In the starry sky, it is very important to collect fortune and have a resounding name. Then, with this name, one can create related cultivation techniques and spiritual treasures, and with the help of disciples, one can cultivate and slowly refine the treasures to condense one's own unique fortune.

Of course, in the starry sky, some Nascent Soul cultivators who are not deeply rooted in the Dao can also cultivate the secret methods of the human path, use the secret methods to condense the luck of the human path, and use the luck of the human path to cultivate.

However, the fortune of humanity carries the power of calamity, and cultivators from great sects and religions generally do not cultivate secret techniques to bear the fortune of humanity themselves.

Initially, Yi Dong wanted to call himself the "Taoist Ancestor" and create a "Taoist Scripture" or something similar.

In his mind, titles like "Taoist Ancestor" and "Immortal Venerable" were commonplace.

After all, among True Immortals who have reached the Dao Integration stage, there isn't a significant difference in their explosive combat power if we disregard their endurance. A newly promoted True Immortal who has reached the Dao Integration stage might not be able to defeat an established True Immortal who has reached the Dao Integration stage if the battle is prolonged over several decades or centuries, but that difference would only be in the amount of magical power they have stored and their mastery of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. These differences generally wouldn't give a True Immortal who has reached the Dao Integration stage an overwhelming advantage, nor would they necessarily lose their lives.

Therefore, in Yi Dong's view, True Immortals who have achieved the Dao should all be unruly and unwilling to submit to anyone else.

It's likely that there are countless beings in this starry sky who can be called "Dao Ancestors".

However, when the causal puppet returned and saw the information it obtained from the Qingyun Sect, Yi Dong became uneasy.

In the starry sky, there are only three Cheng Daozu: Yuanshi, Yuanmeng, and Yuanhong.

These three Dao Ancestors not only possessed extraordinary personal strength compared to ordinary Immortal Kings, but their power was also unparalleled. Among the three Daoist sects they founded, True Immortals were as numerous as clouds, and those who had returned to the Void were as plentiful as rain, making them the three most powerful forces among the human race in the Immortal Realm.

Moreover, it is said that these three Dao Ancestors existed back to the time when the human race originated in this void, so one can imagine how powerful their accumulated magical power was.

Perhaps the three Dao Ancestors did not transcend the Immortal King realm, but in Yi Dong's view, the magical power accumulated over countless years, coupled with their comprehension of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, might indeed have created an eighth-order being. For example, the eighth-order main god of the Divine Elephant Clan, whom Yi Dong knew, was probably on par with the three Dao Ancestors.

Just how powerful is the Dao Ancestor?
This can be seen from the fact that countless true immortals in this starry sky dare not use the title of "Dao Ancestor".

Three trillion years ago, the human and demon races had just pacified many alien races. In this calamity, on the life-bearing planets occupied by the human race, there were basically three Dao Ancestors incarnated to spread the Dao. There were countless incarnations, which was terrifying.

It can be said that the most important reason why the human race was able to split the Great Thousand World with the demon race during this calamity was that the Dao Ancestor spread the Dao and laid the foundation for human cultivation.

After learning about these three powerful Dao Ancestors, Yi Dong gave up the title of "Dao Ancestor".

According to information obtained from the Qingyun Sect, the ancient cultivation path in the immortal realm corresponding to this void region far surpasses that of the immortal realm corresponding to the Tiandu Spirit Realm.

It can be said that the immortal techniques possessed by those Dao-Merging True Immortals from great sects and religions, and their scope of application, are even comparable to those of Nascent Soul cultivators who are currently cultivating the Great Dao.

For example, Yi Dong felt that even the most powerful immortal emperor in the immortal kingdom might not be able to match the supernatural power of the three Dao Ancestors transforming into billions to spread the Dao.

The human civilization in this region far surpasses that of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm.

However, the average quality of True Immortals who have achieved Dao Integration is far inferior to that of the Immortal Realm corresponding to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm. This is because the difficulty of advancing to True Immortals who have achieved Dao Integration is lower in this void, resulting in many mediocre individuals being able to achieve Dao Integration.

In the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, to advance to the Dao Integration Realm, exceptional talent and comprehension are the most basic requirements. Then, one needs a Heavenly Book, a seventh-order spiritual vein with a high concentration of spiritual energy, and various treasures to aid in comprehension.

It can be said that in the void corresponding to the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, those who can achieve Dao are all geniuses and prodigies with countless opportunities.

This void contains the fortune of humanity, the assistance of Dao-merging Golden Elixir, and methods of Dao-merging Immortal Artifacts, resulting in the birth of a large number of inferior Dao-merging True Immortals who lower the combat power of Dao-merging True Immortals.

Shouldn't the development of the Immortal Path lead to increasing strength? Yi Dong couldn't understand why the strongest Dao-Merging True Immortal in this void was still a Dao-Merging cultivator who had achieved enlightenment through the ancient methods.

Yi Dong really didn't understand why the human race in this immortal realm would produce these inferior True Immortals.

Although he didn't understand the situation, the presence of a large number of True Immortals in the starry sky made Yi Dong dare not be too arrogant. He directly rushed to the core area to compete with those great sects and schools that had been passed down for countless years, intending to lie low on the outskirts for a few hundred years and see how things went before making a decision.

The True Immortals of those major sects and religions may have somewhat weak combat power, but their large numbers make them powerful.

If they were besieged by tens of thousands of Dao-Merging True Immortals, Yi Dong felt that even the Karma Puppet and the Great Awakening Puppet would not be able to withstand it.

Once the causal puppets have all advanced to the level of a Bodhisattva who has returned to the Void, it will be safer to go to the core area.

As for why Yi Dong, who didn't compete in the past, is now competing?

He used to be several hundred years old, living a leisurely life, but now he's just over a thousand years old. A fraction of his lifespan of thirty to fifty thousand years has passed, so his thoughts have naturally changed.

He might become even more radical when he turns 50,000.

Thirty years have passed, and Yi Dong has only just begun to show some promise by using the title of Abyss Overlord to consolidate his humanistic fortune. For the time being, he has not attracted the attention of powerful forces.

Of course, Yi Dong didn't take the occasional attacks from smaller forces like the Qingyun Sect seriously.

At this moment, Yi Dong was looking at the information on the screen of the magic artifact.

"There's a so-called Dao Ancestor inheritance on almost every planet. It's really troublesome." The Dao Ancestor inheritance ensures that the humans on every human-inhabited planet are not secretly kept by a certain True Immortal.

If a true immortal truly desires to use the human race of a planet as a breeding ground for disciples, then it is possible that the Dao Ancestor would descend in his incarnation.

The strength of most of the Dao Ancestor's incarnations is only around that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

However, most True Immortals were unwilling to be noticed by the three Dao Ancestors just because they were human.

Yi Dong did the same; he recruited disciples in several star systems.

Of course, he didn't negotiate with the forces in those star systems according to the rules, but instead directly and forcefully transmitted his discipleship ritual to the human forces on various inhabited planets.

He dared not act arrogantly in the core region of the starry sky, but he didn't need to be too careful in this outer star system where spiritual energy was scarce.

The forces in the outer starry sky are mostly led by Nascent Soul cultivators, with stronger ones at the Void Returning stage, and the strongest being only three to five second-grade Dao Integration cultivators. Even those second-grade True Immortals from smaller forces cannot get close to him.

"Um?

How could someone be able to exchange for the Heavenly Book inheritance right now?

Yi Dong suddenly saw a message from last month: last month, a Qi Refining cultivator named Zhou Zun exchanged for the Heavenly Book inheritance.

The vessel through which the Heavenly Book was passed down originally belonged to Mu Mu.

However, after Mu Mu and Tai Chu Zi Xing comprehended the Heavenly Book, they no longer cared much about its inheritance.

Yi Dong, intending to study the techniques of the Celestial Phenomenon Clan, borrowed the Heavenly Book from Mu Mu for reference.

The Dao is not easily passed on, and Yi Dong is not a magnanimous person. Originally, he wanted to use the Heavenly Book inheritance as a cover, and put a certain number of Heavenly Book inheritances into the disciple exchange list with a score that even True Immortals of the Dao Integration Realm would find difficult to achieve. This would show that his "Demon Overlord" was not comparable to those trash True Immortals of the Dao Integration Realm around him, in order to attract more disciples to join his lineage.

Upon learning that a Qi Refining cultivator could accumulate such a massive amount of points, Yi Dong immediately suspected that the Great Awakening Puppet had secretly bestowed the Heavenly Book upon him.

Thinking about it, Yi Dong looked through the points record of this "Zhou Zun".

"Time Gem Mountain, Spirit Stone Meteor Cluster, Star Source Qi, Broken Immortal Artifacts."

After reading it, Yi Dong fell silent.

The value of the Heavenly Book in this void is indeed high; it represents the supreme inheritance of great sects and religions.

But even that's not worth so many treasures.

This week, Zun, through his own efforts, accumulated points comparable to one percent of the Demon Disciples.

Yi Dong was quite curious about this Zhou Zun. How could someone at the mere Qi Refining realm obtain so many treasures without being favored by the human destiny? He simply couldn't believe it.

However, when he saw that Zhou Zun's spirit realm was a "superior spiritual root", he instantly lost interest.

In Yi Dong's view, without a top-grade spiritual root, even if one possesses the strongest Dao Body in the Void and Myriad Realms, one's aptitude is still just so-so.

Over the years, although Yi Dong wasn't particularly enthusiastic about biological research, as he accumulated more knowledge, he gradually came to understand that spiritual roots were very important in the path of cultivation, not only for cultivation speed, but also for things like changes in spiritual energy and the purity of magical power.

In the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm, the cultivator values ​​the spiritual root most, followed by the spiritual body.

The superior spiritual root mentioned by cultivators here refers to dual spiritual roots.

In Yi Dong's eyes, dual spiritual roots are just mixed spiritual roots, worthless consumables.

Well, even if someone with mixed spiritual roots becomes a Dao-Merging True Immortal, Yi Dong still looks down on them, because when one reaches the Dao-Merging True Immortal level, in addition to the seventh-order spiritual veins, spiritual roots are also extremely important for accumulating immortal power, even more important than the spiritual body.

Yi Dong began to look up information on the other disciples.

It was discovered that there were indeed few people with good aptitude in this star field. There were very few with single spiritual roots, and even fewer with dual spiritual roots. People with four or five spiritual roots were the mainstream.

The Great Awakening Puppet is not a human being at all. The purpose of each trial is to seize rare treasures and experiment with techniques. It doesn't care about death or injury, nor does it care about cultivating demon disciples.

Many demon disciples don't survive even one trial; fewer than a hundred can live for thirty years like Zhou Zun.

The number of demon disciples who died was at least over a billion.

This starry sky has too many planets suitable for human habitation, resulting in a human population that is too numerous to count.

Just as Yi Dong was reviewing the information.

Inside the core of a star, in a vast palace, hundreds of powerful puppets with solemn auras sat on a grand hall, countless words flowing before their eyes.

Above the Great Awakening Puppet, a phantom book tens of thousands of meters long was constantly rotating, with countless words flashing within it.

Every now and then, the Great Awakening Puppet would use its magic to condense words and project them into the phantom books in the sky. Every now and then, the Great Awakening Puppet would extract a paragraph or two from the phantom books, either modifying them and putting them back, or discarding them completely.

The phantom of the book in the sky is the culmination of the Great Awakening Puppet's greatest efforts over the past thirty years—the "Demon Codex"!
The Devil's Codex is both a cultivation technique and a spiritual treasure, a spiritual treasure used to suppress the fortune of humanity.

(End of this chapter)