Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 3 Scientific Cultivation of Immortality
The next day, Yi Dong and the Mu family made the final handover.

Leading the cow, he walked out of the gate of Qingzhu Taoist Temple.

This step means that Yi Dong has basically nothing to do with the path of an immortal official.

In Qiantian Immortal Cultivation Country, becoming an immortal official can be said to be the way to heaven.

The country has vast resources, countless skills, and various secret spells.

What is more crucial is that becoming an immortal official has the hope of refining the magic weapon under his control into his own magic weapon.

Unfortunately, Yi Dong's weight in the Yi family is not enough. After the death of his great-grandfather, it is foreseeable that as the various branches of the Yi family fight for power, he will get even less support, and even his status as a Taoist student will be deprived.

After the death of the Yi family's grandfather, the various branches of the Yi family, which had already been at odds with each other, had fallen into chaos, and it seemed that a separation was imminent. That was why Yi Dong found an opportunity to get his brothers to cooperate and sell their qualifications as Taoist students.

"Brother Dong!"

A shout brought Yi Dong back to his senses.

Yi Dong looked over.

Two slightly plump teenagers came over while waving.

"Ade, Afu, you're here. When will Brother Liang and Brother Kang arrive?"

"Probably tomorrow."

"Very good, let's go to Xia County first."

Yi De and Yi Fu looked at the cow led by Yi Dong and were a little surprised, but they didn't say much.

Qingzhu Taoist Temple is located on the outskirts of Bowang County, Pingyuan County, Qingzhou, and is far away from Xia County.

The three of them had to go to the spacecraft station in the county town and take the spacecraft to Xia County.

Walking into the county town, a prosperous scene unfolds before Yidong.

There are people coming and going, and traffic is busy.

Occasionally, one can see low-altitude aircraft powered by spirit stones flying around on the streets, but most of the vehicles are exotic beasts or ordinary livestock pulling carts carrying cargo and people.

In Qiantian Immortal Cultivation Country, there is one thing that is very different about the cultivators from what Yi Dong imagined.

That is, storage bags, spirit beast bags, and other things with space attributes that I have almost never heard of.

In the history of Qiantian Immortal Cultivation Kingdom as recorded in the Taoist Academy, logistical materials are a very important part of the Immortal Cultivation War. Countless resources are often transported to the front line by means of spacecraft or spirit beasts.

It is conceivable that even if Qiantian Xiuxian Kingdom has storage magic weapons, there probably won’t be many.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there are countless cultivators transporting goods in Bowang County.

Yi Dong was accustomed to this kind of situation, and he responded casually to Ade and Afu.

These two people are also Yi Dong’s half-brothers.

In the Yi family, Yi Dong's father, Yi Ye, is a cultivator in the foundation-building stage. He is now nearly a hundred years old, has a bunch of lovers, and has given birth to no less than two or three hundred children.

Immortal cultivators are naturally indifferent in nature. Although Yi Dong is one of the few offspring of Yi Ye who has spiritual roots, and his spiritual roots can be said to be the best, except for helping Yi Dong to obtain a place as a student in the Taoist Academy, Yi Ye basically ignored Yi Dong after that.

Even Yi Dong, the descendant of a man with natural spiritual roots, has become like this.

One can imagine the position that Yi De and Yi Fu hold in Yi Ye's heart.

It was precisely because of his father's cold-hearted nature that Yi Dong was able to gather a group of people to sell the places in the Taoist temple in the past six months.

The Yi family has been passed down for five hundred years. From generation to generation, the people in the family have long lost the idea of unity, and everyone only thinks about themselves.

In the mouths of Yi De and Yi Fu.

Yi Dong knew that the division of the Yi family was inevitable.

"By the way, Brother Dong, we were able to do this so smoothly this time, probably because our father also made some efforts. However, this is not his character. I am afraid he has other intentions."

"He is now one of the six foundation-building masters of the Yi family. Naturally, he can get a large share of the family property. He probably also wants to take back Purple Gold Mountain in the future."

Yi De and Yi Fu were shocked and were about to say something.

Yi Dong said calmly:

"Don't worry, Yi Ye is only building a foundation with the ancient method. What can a cultivator like him who has been eliminated by the times do even if he has a higher realm?"

Yi De and the others felt relieved upon hearing this.

The Yi family has six places in the Taoist temple, and there are obviously six people who are at the foundation-building stage. The worries of Yi De and the others are not unnecessary.

However, considering that Yi Dong has natural spiritual roots, if he practices ancient methods and has the support of Purple Gold Mountain, he will most likely succeed in building a foundation, let alone elixir.

Qiantian Immortal Cultivation Kingdom.

The latest cultivation techniques today are very different from those used a hundred thousand years ago.

The gap between them is as big as that between human civilization before and after the Industrial Revolution.

Generally speaking, the ancient method is far inferior to the modern method.

Generally speaking, ancient methods have a set of skills. As long as you have the resources and qualifications, and work hard, you may be able to cultivate to the upper limit of the realm recorded in the skills.

But modern methods are different. Modern methods are a collection of knowledge. One set of exercises contains thousands or tens of thousands of knowledge points, which are adjusted according to the differences in the human body. In ancient methods, there are methods for refining qi, refining the body, and refining the spirit. It is also possible to practice several different methods at the same time.

But the present method is different, one set of exercises is all-encompassing, cultivating the essence, energy and spirit all at the same time. As long as you accumulate knowledge and have inspiration, the exercises you practice can continue to advance.

In Yi Dong's words, the ancient method is a rigid practice that highlights the characteristics of the exercises, while the modern method is a scientific practice that highlights personal characteristics.

The Taoist temple is at the forefront of modern law.

The immortal officials who practice modern methods are infinitely more powerful than the immortals of the same level who practice ancient methods. This power is not only in combat power, but also in terms of lifespan, cultivation skills and other aspects.

In the minds of Yi De and Yi Dong, Yi Dong's leaving the Taoist temple meant he had basically given up on practicing the modern method. After all, the modern method required a great deal of knowledge accumulation. Without the knowledge accumulation of the Taoist temple, and with the current monopoly of knowledge in the Xiuxian Country, it would be basically impossible for the outside Xiuxian families to practice the modern method. At least, it would be basically impossible for a family like the Yi family, which was at the bottom of the list among the prestigious families, to complete the practice of the modern method on its own.

Yi Dong didn’t know what Yi De and the others were thinking, but he had no intention of practicing ancient methods at all.

In the Taoist temple's understanding, practicing ancient methods is almost a dead end, and although modern methods do not clearly have the possibility of immortality, the effect of longevity is quite obvious.

Let’s skip the topic of Yi Ye.

Yi De and his friend continued to talk about the changes in the Yi family.

Now, the Yi family, headed by six foundation-building cultivators, has almost divided up the family property.

The Yi family has eight properties with spiritual veins, and these eight properties have now found their owners.

Many cultivators with three spiritual roots like Yi De had nowhere to go, while Yi Liang and Yi Kang recruited many young people like cousins and uncles.

Except for a part of the young cultivators of the Yi family who were taken in by the six foundation-building masters, the way out for most of the cultivators with low qualifications was probably to become independent cultivators, go to the city to do some low-end jobs, and earn some insignificant resources to maintain their cultivation.

There are also mortals in the Yi family.

After all, no matter how much the bloodline has been improved, the majority of mortals lack spiritual roots.

The mortals of the Yi family were not affected much by the split. After all, most of these mortals owned some land or worked in shops. Their interests were protected by the laws of the empire, and immortal cultivators generally did not look down on those worldly resources. At least in front of the law, few immortal cultivators would be so foolish as to do things recklessly for a little profit.

However, there are still some mortals who will follow Yi Liang and Yi Kang to Zijin Mountain.

These people probably left their homes for the sake of their descendants because their spiritual roots were discovered.

These mortals have their uses, too.

After all, there are still many ordinary fields around Zijin Mountain. These fields were traded by the Mu family. There are people renting these fields, and Yidong also needs some ordinary people to help collect the rent.

In the country of immortal cultivation, specially made gold and silver currencies can also be exchanged for spirit stones.

Soon, Yi Dong and the other two walked into the crowded flying boat station.

The boat tickets have been bought long ago.

Yi Dong watched as several flying boats, each a hundred meters long and loaded with cargo, flew into the sky.

These flying boats are called flying boats, and their actual appearance is not much different from the planes in Yi Dong’s previous life. Their shape is in line with aerodynamics.

There were many independent cultivators and ordinary people waiting inside the flying boat station.

In the country of immortal cultivation, there is not much difference between the low-level immortal cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage and ordinary people.

Because in front of spiritual firearms, most Qi-refining immortal cultivators are as powerless as mortals. The key point is that these spiritual firearms are driven by spirit stones and can be used by mortals.

In the country of Xiuxian, it is not difficult to get a gun license, and many mortals have gun licenses.

Therefore, it is normal to see cultivators and mortals having friendly exchanges on the site.

As for why there are no gunpowder weapons, it is because this land simply does not have many resources like sulfur.

This is also easy to understand. In Yi Dong's previous life, organic matter was deposited for tens of millions of years, or turned into resources such as oil and coal. In this life, with the participation of spiritual energy, the ubiquitous catalytic enzyme, if the organic matter is deposited for a long enough time, it will probably turn into spiritual objects such as spiritual stones and spiritual dust. This also leads to many physical laws being very different from those in the previous life.

Yi Dong and the other two naturally would not wait in the crowded waiting hall with those low-level cultivators and mortals. Instead, they went into the VIP room and talked while waiting.

"In addition to the Mu family, there are six other noble families in Xia County. Except for the official ones, the surrounding immortal cultivation resources are basically controlled by these seven noble families. When our Yi family enters Xia County, the situation may not be too good at the beginning."

“That’s right, among these seven families, the Liu family, which has the shortest lineage, has existed for two hundred years.

They are intermarried and have very complex relationships, so it is difficult for us to fit in.”

With just a few words from Yi De, Yi Dong felt the difficulties he was about to face.

Among these seven families, the Mu family is undoubtedly the strongest. Now the Mu family is in the transformation period from a county family to a county family. This is also the reason why the Mu family is seeking a place in the Taoist Academy.

To become a prominent family, the most important thing is not the level and number of cultivators in the family, nor the amount of resources controlled, but the official relationship.

If there is an immortal official in the family, it is possible to access many channels to earn spirit stones.

In Qiantian Immortal Cultivation Country, the power of aristocratic families is no longer based on fighting and killing. Even a family with a Nascent Soul stage does not dare to use force to seize the assets of a family with only Qi Refining members at the top. At least, they do not dare to do so openly.

In the country of immortal cultivation, there is no such group as a sect. Legally, such a group as a sect is called an illegal assembly and is severely cracked down by the immortal country.

Therefore, in Xia County, if the Yi family wants to develop, the seven major families headed by the Mu family are obstacles that they cannot avoid.

However, Yi Dong is not in a hurry. Family development generally takes a hundred years, so he can just take it slow.

Time passed quickly, and Yi Dong, his two companions and a cow boarded the flying boat and headed for Xia County.

(End of this chapter)