The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Moran knew very well that severing each ascension passage was tantamount to stabbing the behemoth that was the Immortal Realm.

The Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm would never sit idly by and would inevitably send even more powerful Dao Ancestor Realm cultivators to settle scores.

She barely managed to defeat Duan Yan, who had just entered the Dao Ancestor Realm, thanks to a series of coincidences and his carelessness.

Above Duan Yan, there are sixteen more senior and terrifyingly powerful veteran Dao Ancestors in the Immortal Realm!

What's even more unsettling is that the Immortal Realm firmly controls all the primordial power. If it so desires, it can create new Dao Ancestors at any time to replenish its combat strength. Relying on luck is by no means a long-term solution.

Even if she manages to get through each time by sheer luck, as long as the source of the Immortal Realm remains, it can continue to try to reopen those severed ascension channels.

If a long-term mechanism that can continuously prevent connections to the immortal realm cannot be established, then all her efforts will be nothing more than a futile attempt to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

"If we can't get to the butcher, we can only try to find a way to get to the 'sheep'..." Moran's thoughts raced.

In fact, the spirit realm and the cultivation realm are part of the same cultivation civilization system as the immortal realm. Their world consciousness actively transforms pure primordial power into spiritual roots and spiritual foundations to bestow upon living beings. This allows the immortal realm to use 'ascension' as a medium to imprint their mark on those cultivators and then take possession of their primordial power.

What if these worlds no longer follow the path of cultivating immortality?

At that time, the intelligent beings in these worlds will no longer need to rely on abundant spiritual energy for cultivation, and they will develop cultivation techniques that absorb the power of the world's origin. Therefore, even if the Immortal Realm forcibly reopens the ascension channel, it will no longer be able to find those cultivators who carry a large amount of the world's origin and are waiting to "ascend".

If the sheep in the sheepfold were fundamentally altered and turned into stone, even the most skilled butcher would be unable to harm them.

Moran thought about it more and more and felt that the plan was feasible.

Throughout the cultivation world, the concentration of spiritual energy has been declining year by year, making cultivation increasingly difficult for cultivators—this has become an almost universal norm.

In such an environment, if a cultivation path that is less dependent on the concentration of external spiritual energy but is equally powerful were to emerge, it would undoubtedly be extremely attractive to countless cultivators who are stuck at a bottleneck.

She couldn't guarantee anything for other races, but for humans, she happened to possess a ready-made human mage training system that had been tested and proven over countless years in the world of Valen!

This path of using mental power to manipulate elements and cast magic is an excellent alternative.

However, a complete transformation still requires the cooperation of world consciousness itself.

If the world consciousness could stop transforming its primordial power into spiritual roots and spiritual foundations for cultivation and bestow them upon newly born intelligent beings, thereby reducing the number of cultivators at the source, then the plundering system of the immortal realm would be shaken at its very foundation.

"The problem now is how to contact the world's consciousness and reach a cooperation agreement with it!" Moran pondered deeply.

If we can get help from the world's consciousness, the benefits might not be limited to this one.

Even if a Dao Ancestor Realm cultivator descends after the black gold pillar is severed, she can hide under the protection of the world's consciousness and fight a protracted battle with him.

The power of those Dao Ancestor Realm cultivators originates from the Immortal Realm.

Once separated from the Immortal Realm for an extended period, without the continuous support of the Heavenly Dao, one is like a tree without roots or water without a source. Once one's immortal power is exhausted and cannot be replenished, one becomes no different from an ordinary person with a stronger physical body.

Her card magic is used by spellcasters from both the Valen and White Crystal Star worlds, and can continuously generate one-time magic power.

In a protracted war, she feared no one. Moran calmly analyzed the current situation. The Spirit Realm was in the most difficult situation, its world consciousness was on the verge of being completely replaced under long-term erosion, while the situation in the Immortal Cultivation Realm was slightly better. Their world consciousness was mostly suppressed by the ascension channels, and communicating with their world consciousness was not impossible.

The Starry Sky Hall records an otherworldly magic called "Star Language," which is specifically used for active communication with the world's consciousness. Even if the other party is weak, in a deep sleep, or suppressed by external forces like they are now, the unique and gentle resonance of Star Language has a high probability of penetrating obstacles and achieving the purpose of communication.

If they could use the Star Language Technique to contact the suppressed world consciousness, and with the two sides working together from within and without, they could not only use the power of the world to deal with the Dao Ancestor after severing the ascension path, but also fundamentally promote the transformation of the cultivation system.

If she cannot contact the world's consciousness, she can only secretly spread mage magic among mortals in various cultivation worlds. She cannot guarantee how much impact this will have on the cultivation system in the end.

Moran focused intently on recalling the key points of the Star Language Technique, preparing to try it out in the Heavenly Profound Realm first.

Although the ascension passage to the Heavenly Profound Realm has been severed, its world consciousness is still recovering. If it can be reconnected, the other cultivation worlds should be fine.

But before that, she still needed to sort out the legacy left by Duan Yan.

According to Duan Yan's memory, once cultivators in the Immortal Realm reach the Golden Immortal Realm, they can construct their own spiritual domain and make initial contact with a major Dao.

Upon reaching the Taiyi Realm, the spiritual domain will further evolve, transforming into a more stable and complete "grotto-heaven".

Duan Yan comprehended the Great Dao of Fire and was known as the Dao Ancestor of Blazing Flame. The Blazing Flame Cave Heaven was nurtured within his dantian.

Now that he has perished in the void, the Blazing Flame Cave Heaven has also lost its master.

This is a small world filled with various fire-type spiritual objects, where fire elemental power is extremely strong.

If she were to follow her usual practice, it would be best to hand over the entire cave to the Book of Cards as material for card making. This way, her Book of Cards could also create many fire-type spiritual items that are only found in cultivation worlds.

However, the core power that constitutes the Blazing Flame Cave Heaven is the primordial power bearing the mark of the Immortal Realm.

The cave was used as material for card making. The Book of Cards only absorbed the knowledge within it, while the power of origin would completely dissipate when the cave was destroyed.

They will likely be attracted to the celestial realm and eventually return there.

Moran wouldn't think there was anything wrong with this in other worlds, but she felt it was a pity for this Immortal Realm that was constantly plundering the source power of other worlds.

Once these primordial powers return to the Immortal Realm, they will only cause the Immortal Realm to give birth to new Dao Ancestors, who will then try to stop her from severing the path to ascension.

The Blazing Inferno Cave is really not suitable for personal use.

Moran had no choice but to turn his attention to the "Star Refining Technique".

Star Refining Technique was originally a forbidden magic used by explorers to extract the essence of level zero or endangered worlds and condense it into primordial magic crystals.

She had resolved not to use it; she had only read the relevant information once and had never tried it.

But now, only this magic can refine the Blazing Flame Cave Heaven, forcibly extracting and refining the primordial power within it that bears the mark of the Immortal Realm. (End of Chapter)