Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 408 The Problematic Immortal

Above the stars, the new Purple Mountain.

Yi Dong looked at the images on the screens of the various magical artifacts.

These myriad images are from within some unusual spaces.

In some scenes, the light and shadow flicker, looking like high-frequency flashes, and everything is blurry. Clearly, time is accelerating within these spaces. Some scenes are intermittent, with overlapping figures and disjointed movements. These scenes are filled with forces of fate and chaos.

In many chaotic spaces, some people can even encounter their future or past selves.

Yi Dong has never been able to figure this out.

He had studied the knowledge of the Immortal Kingdom and concluded that the past and future should only exist at the information level, merely a concept, and should not exist in reality.

Gaining power and knowledge from the past or the future is probably also due to the influence of information; in reality, it is about gaining power from the universe and nature.

However, the people in those unusual spaces, both past and future, do not appear to be images composed of information.

As far as Yi Dong knew, there were many people in the Demon Temple whose present bodies died, and whose past or future bodies replaced their present bodies, directly inheriting everything from the Demon Disciples.

There are even instances where the past, present, and future selves appear simultaneously.

The past self is one thing, but the future self is the most bizarre.

Some disciples' future incarnations are so well-versed in the "Demon Codex" that they can directly summon demons from Yi Dong's abyss space, which is outrageous.

Yi Dong's "Demon Codex" provides some information about the Abyss Dao Foundation and the Demon Gate, allowing the Great Awakening Puppet to combine the knowledge of the Divine Idol Clan and the cultivators in this calamity to create it.

Since there is no information about Yi Dong's cultivation method, and only some information about the Abyss Dao Foundation and the Demon Gate, even if the Great Awakening Puppet is incredibly intelligent, there are still many areas in the "Demon Codex" that need improvement in the short term.

Take demon summoning for example. The current Demon Codex only has spells for summoning first-tier lesser demons. Second and third-tier demon summoning spells are only just beginning to be created. But those future beings can easily summon second and third-tier demons.

Even the black birdman summoning technique, which is not mentioned in the Devil's Codex, can be summoned by some people.

What puzzled Yi Dong even more was that he could only recognize people from the past or future by seeing them.

Once he loses visual information, he will subconsciously ignore such things.

Although the "Palace of Thought" had clearly organized all the information into text, he could not access this information in normal times.

This uncontrollable distortion of thought made Yi Dong very uncomfortable.

Is this the power of calamity?

This fortune itself is a power that only True Immortals can use. However, after being mixed with the power of calamity, it allows those below the True Immortal level to use it, making it even more bizarre.

There were too many unknown forces in this calamity, and Yi Dong was somewhat afraid.

"No, we can't stay in this calamity for too long. We need to find a way to escape as soon as possible."

It can only be said that calamity is indeed calamity. Yi Dong estimated that his soul, which even the Yellow Springs Karmic Fire could not burn, was essentially similar to the immortal soul of a True Immortal of the Dao Integration Realm. And since this could have such an effect, it seems that calamity has an even greater impact on those below the True Immortal of the Dao Integration Realm.

Those most affected should be those with Abyss Dao Foundation.

Yi Dong's thoughts sank into the abyss of Dao foundation.

At this moment, within the layers of abyss space, everything between heaven and earth was much more harmonious.

In the past, although the Abyss Space experienced something similar to creation, with things like air appearing, the evolution of the world took a very long time. Most of the terrain in the Abyss Space consisted of volcanoes or lava, the sky was always filled with thick smoke, and the light in the space always came from volcanoes.

At this moment, everything in the space has changed considerably. The volcano has extinguished much of its heat, and after a large amount of magma has condensed and cooled, huge lakes or seas are rapidly forming. The sky above is no longer filled with black smoke, but with starlight, as if stars are slowly forming in the starry sky.

In this situation, Yi Dong couldn't say whether he was happy or unhappy.

To be honest, the evolution of the abyss space is moving towards the direction of "starry universe", not "void and myriad worlds".

In the end, the starry universe is just a vast world formed by a calamity in the void, and it is no match for the myriad worlds in the void that contain endless calamities.

But he wasn't unhappy, because Yi Dong felt that even if he lived for trillions of years, he probably wouldn't be able to evolve the abyss space into the void of countless worlds, not even a scaled-down version.

Overall, it's not perfect, but it has some shortcomings.

So far, it seems that no negative effects have been found in this Abyss Foundation.

As Yi Dong made his thought, his consciousness entered the magic space, where a purple gas floated.

This purple aura is from the Primordial Purple Apricot.

Yi Dong felt that Tai Chu Zi Xing should have a way to use this purple energy to calculate the void coordinates of this calamity, and then find a way to get Mu Mu to pull him out of here.

However, this may take quite some time.

Because Yi Dong vaguely knew what Tai Chu Zi Xing wanted to do on the Frozen Continent, and what it wanted to do might not be allowed by him.

Even if the Primordial Purple Apricot were to pull itself out of the calamity, it would probably have to wait until its plan was complete.

Just then, Yi Dong frowned and looked in one direction.
"What happened? Why was the Floating Pagoda mobilized?"

Under the influence of the power of calamity, the human race in the starry sky experienced an inexplicable increase in the probability of developing spiritual roots, resulting in an unimaginable number of cultivators. Consequently, the Karma Puppet refined Nascent Soul Golden Bricks and even Deity Transformation Golden Bricks, strengthening the Floating Pagoda to an unprecedented level.

Even the Xuanyuan Sword, which has become a priceless treasure, is increasingly wary of the Floating Pagoda. This shows just how ridiculously powerful the Floating Pagoda has become.

Yi Dong retrieved the relevant information, read it through, and then fell silent.

Previously, the planets destroyed by the Karma Puppet were usually the strongholds or bases of some immortal forces, not normal life-bearing planets, and the victims were basically cultivators.

However, recently, in order to advance to the Bodhisattva realm, the Eighteen Guanyin of Cause and Effect actually destroyed eighteen huge inhabited planets, and the number of human beings who died was countless trillions.

In the process, they destroyed the lineages of countless major sects and schools, including the lineages of the three Dao Ancestors.

Sure enough, this caused trouble.

This time, it wasn't the three major Taoist sects that came.

However, the trouble is not small either.

This attracted the attention of the Great Dream Immortal Sect.

The most famous figure in the Great Dream Immortal Sect is its founder, the Great Dream Immortal Venerable.

The Great Dream Immortal Venerable, known as the one who attained enlightenment in dreams, is present wherever there are dreams, and is eternally immortal.

Of course, the Great Dream Immortal Venerable may have been exaggerating, but he has existed for countless years, and his strength is undeniable.

Moreover, the Great Dream Immortal Sect also contains countless True Immortals, and there is more than just one Immortal King, the Great Dream Immortal Venerable.

"The true immortals of the Great Dream Immortal Sect are more or less related to dreams, and even their disciples are recruited in dreams."

It's likely that their supernatural powers and magic are also related to dreams.

Fortunately, I no longer need to sleep.

After being inexplicably brought into this calamity, Yi Dong is now extremely wary of supernatural powers and spells that can be targeted at him.

Yi Dong roughly understood the principles behind this kind of supernatural power.

Therefore, after he established the Demon Temple, he not only refused to show himself to his disciples, but also kept all information about himself secret. He used countless formations and treasures to seal off all information related to himself, making it impossible for others to even deduce his identity.

As for his own human destiny, it was suppressed by the Xuanyuan Sword.

He refused to believe that if he couldn't even gather information, the supernatural power targeting him could still be effective.

If someone is powerful enough to use the Xuanyuan Sword to deduce his own destiny from the human realm, then Yi Dong will be helpless.

Now that he knew the general information about the Great Dream Immortal Sect, Yi Dong was no longer flustered.

Immediately, Yi Dong instructed the Great Awakening Puppet to construct various spiritual structures and formations to defend against the Great Dream Immortal Sect's spells and supernatural powers, thus firmly protecting himself.

At this moment, the Xuanyuan Sword appeared in front of Yi Dong.

"Do you need help with the causal puppet?"

This time, the Great Dream Immortal Sect has sent quite a few True Immortals. If we don't defeat them, the ensuing war will likely destroy many Demon Plazas in the starry sky, which will be detrimental to the development of the Demon Temple.

Yi Dong glanced at the Xuanyuan Sword. Compared to him, the Xuanyuan Sword was probably the one who cared most about the Demon Temple, because it had passed down countless sword techniques within the Demon Temple.

The Xuanyuan Sword has been upgraded to a supreme treasure. In the short term, there is no qualitative improvement in its power. If there is any earth-shattering change, it may only be possible to accumulate power over a long period of time.

Xuanyuan Sword clearly wanted to take a shortcut by using the Demon Disciple, such as passing down various sword techniques, and then taking back everything after the Demon Disciple died.

Not only the Xuanyuan Sword, but other True Spirit Swords are also like this.

Before Yi Dong could say anything upon seeing the Xuanyuan Sword, he waved his hand and said:
"No, without the Floating Pagoda, if you and the other True Spirit Swords leave, and any Void Returning cultivator or even a stronger Nascent Soul cultivator gets close to me, I could be finished."

Although many of the Great Awakening Puppets are also at the Guanyin realm, those who have been researchers for many years may not be able to protect themselves in a sudden battle.

As for himself, the only powerful technique he possesses is probably the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, which he hasn't practiced for very long.

As for the Yellow Heaven Spiritual Treasure and the demon within the Abyss Dao Foundation, without sufficient magical power to drive the spiritual treasure, the demon, once summoned, has a considerable probability of breaking free from the Dao Foundation's control and devouring its master. It can hardly be considered a self-defense technique.

Seeing this, the Xuanyuan Sword said no more. In fact, it did not want to help the Karma Puppet, since the Karma Puppet was practically immortal and did not need its help at all.

Three days later, Yi Dong looked at the information on the magic artifact's screen, somewhat incredulous.
"Are the true immortals of the Great Dream Immortal Sect, or rather, the true immortals of this void, really that trash?"

How could the Karma Puppet have wiped out hundreds of people in just three days?
Is this truly a Dao-merging Immortal? And what Dao has he merged with?

After reading it, Yi Dong still couldn't quite believe it.

In his mind, whether it is returning to emptiness or merging with the Dao, "thick blood" is the most important characteristic.

At this moment, Yi Dong vaguely felt that the immortals cultivated by humans in this calamity were not the same as the immortals in the outer void.

Whether it's combat effectiveness or other aspects, there may be problems.

(End of this chapter)