Cultivation begins with separation.

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Yi doesn't care about his so-called brothers at all.

Logically speaking, Yi Fu said that Yi Hao wanted to offer treasures, but Yi Dong didn't care at all.

Because in Yi Dong's eyes, people like Yi Hao can't produce any treasures at all.

With his current wealth, he doesn't need to care about ordinary ancient magic tools or the like.

It was only when Yi Fu said that Yi Hao might have a large amount of spirit stones that Yi Dong became interested.

The main product of Zijin Mountain is magical rice.

In the fairyland, there are advanced magical instruments and a large number of super-large farms.

Spiritual rice is something that not only independent cultivators but even ordinary mortals in the city can afford to eat. It can even be bought with gold and silver coins. It can be said to be a spiritual item of extremely low value.

There are also other spiritual plants on Purple Gold Mountain.

However, those spiritual plants usually take dozens or even hundreds of years to mature, and there is no benefit at all in a short period of time.

The spiritual plant husbands in this world are merely people who are proficient in the cultivation of spiritual plants. They do not have any magic that can speed up the maturity of spiritual plants several times or even dozens of times. They can only slightly increase the growth rate of plants by using better quality culture fluid.

Today's cultivation requires the consumption of a large amount of spirit stones.

Knowing that Yi Hao had a large amount of spirit stones, Yi Dong was willing to meet him.

As for what requests Yi Hao would make when he met him, Yi Dong didn't care.

In Zijin Mountain, even if the person standing behind Yi Hao was an ancient cultivator in his Nascent Soul stage, he didn’t care.

Because he had originally planned to practice in seclusion on Purple Gold Mountain for decades, and only when he had exhausted all his spirit stones would he go out and find ways to earn more spirit stones.

Yi Dong was originally planning to advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining, so he had no free time during this period.

But a cow changed his plans.

That is the little green ox, the spiritual beast that was received in the Taoist temple.

In the Taoist temple, the green ox became Yidong's spiritual beast through a special blood contract.

But a spiritual beast cannot be enslaved forever by simply refining its soul or extracting a trace of its soul.

To control a spirit beast, one needs to use spells and medicines for a long time to deepen the contract, because as the spirit beast's cultivation level increases, its body and soul will also transform, and there is no spell or even magical power in this world that can last forever.

Moreover, you can't just take in a spirit beast whenever you want. When you take in a spirit beast, after the blood contract is made, your soul will instantly merge with the soul of the spirit beast, and will be slightly contaminated with the spirit beast's aura.

It doesn’t matter if it happens once or twice, but if you contract too many spirit beasts, your own soul will be polluted and your own qualifications will be affected.

This problem in the soul realm is basically a terminal illness for low-level cultivators and there is basically no way to cure it.

During the chaotic times, there were beast taming sects and beast taming families in many places.

Those immortal cultivators randomly collect spirit beasts and use some kind of soul contract. It seems to be very effective and the contract lasts for a long time, but they don't know that there is a price to pay for any power. Their own souls have long been polluted to the point where they can hardly look directly at it.

According to the records in the Taoist temple, those who made random contracts with spirit beasts during the chaotic period, no matter how talented they were, would probably only be able to stop at the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, Taoist temples generally recommend that students only contract one spirit beast in their lifetime.

Furthermore, if the contracted spirit beast dies or betrays you and runs away, do not contract a second one, because the pollution of the soul will not disappear with the death of the spirit beast.

The ancient cultivators might not care, because most of the immortal cultivators do not even dream of cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, so the ancient cultivators in the Immortal Kingdom will make a contract with any good spirit beast they see, without any scruples at all.

The students in the Taoist temple are different.

The exercises we practice today, together with the cultivation of the essence, energy and spirit, are intended to establish a nearly perfect body circulation, with the fewer uncontrollable factors the better.

Therefore, the first spirit beast of a cultivator is extremely important, and it may be the only one in his life.

However, Yi Dong didn't care at all. He didn't expect to meet any good spirit beasts. What's more, Jin Xiu's combat power was extremely strong. He could fight back and forth with ancient cultivators of the same level. Spirit beasts were basically useless to Jin Xiu except for transportation, unless he trained the spirit beasts to be two or three levels higher than himself. But in that case, the consumption would increase significantly due to maintaining the contract, which was not worth the loss.

The little green ox was placed in the yard by Yi Dong, because in Yi Dong's eyes this thing was of no use. After coming back, he didn't even use the spell to maintain the contract a few times.

After refining the Primordial Purple Apricot, Yi Dong thought that this little thing might have run around everywhere and triggered the formation and been killed, or it might have taken advantage of his identity as Yi Dong's spiritual beast and slipped out of Purple Gold Mountain while he was not paying attention.

But unexpectedly, after returning to the yard, the little thing was still lying lazily eating spiritual herbs.

However, the contract spell has lost its effect due to being interrupted for a long time. Even if the contract spell is used again, it probably won't achieve the original effect.

However, Yi Dong discovered that after this little creature came to Zijin Mountain, its eyes became much more lively and its wisdom obviously increased greatly.

Even without the contract, it still did not run away, and continued to pretend to be Yidong's spiritual beast, enjoying the spiritual herbs sent by its family members every day.

I don’t know how wise it is, but the blood of this little blue ox seems to have changed.

After Yi Dong refined his natal spirit tree, he felt his wisdom increased greatly, and suddenly he became interested in studying the bloodline of the little green ox.

So this month passed.

The bloodline of the little blue ox actually gave him some clues.

There are some so-called auspicious beasts in this world. Auspicious beasts do not refer to a specific spiritual beast, but the product of individual mutation. Auspicious beasts can be a snake or a fish.

In times of chaos, auspicious beasts are also called spiritual beasts of merit and often follow people with great merit.

In fact, after research by the Taoist temple, it was found that the theory of merit is extremely nonsense.

There will be no retribution for killing millions of people, and there will be no favor from heaven for saving the world.

As for making contributions to heaven and earth, that is out of the question. How can turning a desert into a forest be a contribution to heaven and earth?
I'm afraid not necessarily.

Turning endless green forests into sand is nothing to the heaven and earth.

It has been verified by many senior masters in the Taoist temple that there is no such thing as merit in this world.

The so-called merits are nothing but the rootless speculations of those ancient cultivators about unknown things, which are almost the same as superstition.

The so-called auspicious beasts and meritorious beasts are nothing more than mutations that can come into contact with some rare spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Just like sound waves, different creatures can receive different wavebands. The same is true for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. On the surface, there are different attributes. The research of the Taoist Academy believes that there are some rare attributes of spiritual energy of heaven and earth that cannot be observed at present.

Inside the hall, Yi Dong was waiting for Yi Hao to come.

"Mutated spiritual plants, mutated spiritual beasts, and people rushing to offer treasures?"

For a moment, Yi Dong was a little dazed.

Could it be that his understanding of himself is too shallow?

Could it be that his golden finger is "God's favor"?
Can treasure fly to you just by lying down?
Come to your senses.

Yi Dong fell into deep thought.

He was a science major in his previous life and generally scoffed at feudal superstitions.

Although time travel is unscientific, it may be possible to explain it by forcing it to be explained by science.

After traveling through time, I spent a year in the Taoist temple, and what I learned was extremely "scientific".

Therefore, he does not believe in fate or divine providence.

He would rather believe that there is someone behind this.

After a while, he saw Yi Hao.

To be honest, most of the brothers in the Yi family have good looks. After all, after thousands of years of improvement in the aristocratic family, it is rare to find an ugly person.

Yi Dong, who is not good-looking, may be the one who lowers the appearance of the Yi family.

When he just crossed over, Yi Dong suspected that the mother of this body must have absorbed the nutrients that belonged to him when she was pregnant with him, otherwise why would she have given birth to such an ordinary appearance.

Looking at Yi Hao's expression.

Yi Dong wanted to laugh.

In previous lives, there were many people who were resentful of the injustice of the world and who were conceited and had this kind of expression.

After all, this kind of person is eager to change his own situation. If it were a chaotic period, Yi Hao would probably become a calamity cultivator.

Yi Hao also looked at Yi Dong, his eyes revealing an unyielding look. He originally wanted to call out "A Dong", but looking at Yi Dong's dark and deep eyes, he instantly felt unprecedented psychological pressure, and the words he said changed to - "Greetings, Mountain Master!"

Yi Hao’s last stubbornness was not to follow his brothers on Zijin Mountain and call them “Dong Ge”.

Yi Dong was about to speak when he suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked at the quaint ring Yi Dong was wearing.

Only a faint shadow appeared.

The phantom was an old man with a fairy-like appearance, wearing a green robe and with a long white beard.

"Good guy!"

Yi Dong cried out in his heart. He had always suspected that there was some mastermind behind the scenes who wanted to plot against him, but he didn't expect that the classic "old man" would show up.

As Yi Dong thought about it, his spiritual power burst out of his body, and the formation of the entire Zijin Mountain was like turning on a main switch, and spiritual weapons everywhere flashed with light.

The spiritual energy of Purple Gold Mountain was in turmoil, and the invisible pressure made the immortal cultivators on the mountain tremble.

"Wait, we don't mean to fight."

The shadow spoke hurriedly.

As the formation was activated, Yi Dong felt relieved.

He was certainly not afraid that this remnant soul would take over his body.

There are hundreds of spell combinations in the Taoist temple that target possession of other bodies. Even the so-called divine soul will be wiped out by these spell combinations.

Yi Dong spent one year in the Taoist Academy, but his performance in the exams was poor because he was distracted by learning a lot of miscellaneous life-saving spells, and paid little attention to the spells in his main subject.

The formation was activated to prevent this residual soul from escaping.

Now, he looked at the remnant soul as if he were looking at fish on a chopping board.

Under normal circumstances, Yi Dong thinks that he is a good person and would not do anything like a robber. However, where there are normal circumstances, there are naturally special circumstances.

Now, it’s a special case.

He didn't listen to the remnant soul's call at all.

As soon as the thought came, infinite pressure came crushing down.

Following the invisible pressure, there was the bombardment of wind and thunder emitted by the spiritual power converted into magic tools.

In an instant, the entire hall turned into ashes.

Under the influence of the formation's force field, Yi Dong flew in the sky.

Ok?
As he thought about it, a gust of wind blew, the smoke and dust dissipated, and only a black and white light shield was seen protecting Yi Hao.

"Are attacks at the foundation-building level useless?"

Yi Dong was not in a panic. The formation could evolve into the power to kill Nascent Souls, thus increasing the intensity of the attack.

"If you do it again, we'll leave."

Yi Dong stopped.

What made him pause his attack was naturally not the words, but the fact that the remnant soul took Yi Hao and teleported a distance away.

This shocked Yi Dong.

From the knowledge of the Taoist Academy, we can judge that only those who have reached the level of Nascent Soul and above can use a little bit of the power of space.

Is that ring the magic weapon of the ancient cultivator who achieved the state of transformation?
(End of this chapter)