As the patriarchs of the three clans fulfilled their Heavenly Dao Oaths, immeasurable Mysterious Yellow Merit descended between heaven and earth.
Yet before it could fall, it was completely offset by the incomparably dense Bloodshed Karmic Force of the three clans, leaving not a trace behind.
However, because of this, the Bloodshed Karmic Force upon the Primordial Three Clans was greatly weakened, leaving less than thirty percent.
Though it still weighed like an insurmountable mountain upon the surviving members of the three clans, making their Dao Injuries difficult to heal, causing their cultivation to fall, preventing them from cultivating in peace, and leaving them prone to cultivation deviation... it would no longer cause them to perish utterly.
At this moment, within a gorge halfway up Mount Buzhou, protected by a Primordial Formation.
Suddenly, the Primordial Gourd Vine, wreathed in the three thousand Dao laws and suffused with boundless law principles, trembled slightly. Yuan Yan awoke from his enlightenment.
He looked toward the source of the Great Dao fluctuation that had awakened him, his gaze piercing through space and time. He saw the Three Clans Battlefield, saw immeasurable Mysterious Yellow Merit descend only to vanish in an instant, and saw the surviving Primordial Golden Immortals and Great Firmament Golden Immortals of the three clans tear through space and depart with their remaining clansmen.
"The Three Clans War has already ended! Next comes the Dao-Devil War! Once the Dao-Devil War is over and the Dragon-Han Calamity ends, it will be time for us Innate Divines to enter the world!" Yuan Yan muttered.
It had already been sixty or seventy Epochs since he broke through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm and entered seclusion to cultivate.
Because he had already broken through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, his efficiency in comprehending the three thousand Dao laws had greatly increased. His development, evolution, and refinement of the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao had also proceeded very smoothly.
In merely twenty or thirty Epochs, not only had his comprehension of the three thousand Dao laws deepened, but he had also developed, evolved, and perfected his Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage.
At that time, because the three clans had set the date for their decisive battle, the calamitous aura had grown increasingly dense and was already on the verge of erupting. Moreover, around then, the three clans tacitly began purging the Primordial World. His Dao Heart warned him of danger, so he did not leave seclusion to travel outside, instead continuing his secluded cultivation.
Since, after breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, his speed in developing, evolving, and perfecting his own Dao had far surpassed what it had been at Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection, Yuan Yan had focused all his efforts during this seclusion on the Yin-Yang Dao.
He planned to first evolve and perfect the Yin-Yang Dao to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, then return to evolve and perfect the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the same realm.
While deeply comprehending the three thousand Dao laws, he used Yin-Yang to explain and evolve his understanding of all things in the world, evolving and perfecting the Yin-Yang Dao as his cultivation realm slowly rose.
During this time, he suddenly gained an insight that caused his Yin-Yang Dao, Reincarnation Dao, and World Dao to resonate with one another, seeking common ground while preserving differences and learning from each other's strengths.
This unexpectedly brought considerable benefit to his evolution and refinement of his three Daos, allowing his Dao realm to improve significantly in a short time.
Thanks to this, more than two Epochs ago, he evolved and perfected his Yin-Yang Dao to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, and his cultivation broke through accordingly.
After breaking through to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, he turned to cultivating Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions. It took him more than an Epoch to complete three Yinyang Evolutions, strengthening his Fleshly Primordial Spirit by nearly another tenfold.
Only then did he turn back to evolving and perfecting the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao.
However, with only a single Epoch having passed, there naturally had not been much progress.
After pondering for a moment, Yuan Yan stopped paying attention to the outside world, collected his thoughts, and prepared to continue cultivating in seclusion.
He was only a Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal. Even if his Fleshly Primordial Spirit could withstand a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure head-on, to great cultivators like Hongjun, Rahu, and Yang Mei, he would be no more than a single strike away from death.
The River of Time was suppressed beneath three great mountains, and he had only one life. Yuan Yan had a bright future ahead of him and had no intention of taking risks.
Even if he were to travel outside in search of opportunities, he would wait until after the Dao-Devil War ended.
And since he could not travel outside, aside from continuing his secluded cultivation, he had nothing else to do.
However, before Yuan Yan could immerse himself in enlightenment again, he suddenly recalled something and paused slightly.
Should I really continue cultivating three Daos simultaneously? Or should I focus on the Yin-Yang Dao from now on and encompass the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao within it?
If he made the Yin-Yang Dao his primary Dao and encompassed the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao within it, then as the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao evolved and improved, the Yin-Yang Dao would evolve and improve alongside them. Naturally, his cultivation progress would not be slowed!
But if he continued cultivating three Daos at once, the difference between the Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage and the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm was merely a minor realm difference, unlike the vast realm difference between the Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage and Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection.
Even though he had already broken through to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, he would need at least sixty or seventy Epochs to evolve and perfect the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
Even if, by then, he could once again make the Yin-Yang Dao, Reincarnation Dao, and World Dao resonate with one another, seeking common ground while preserving differences, learning from each other's strengths, and advancing together.
His cultivation progress would still not be fast, perhaps only half as fast as if he specialized in a single Dao.
He would not foolishly believe that the top-tier Innate Divines of the Primordial World—the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun and Taiyi, Nuwa and Fuxi, Jieyin and Zhunti...—would possess inferior comprehension or cultivate more slowly than he did.
If cultivating three Daos simultaneously slowed his progress, he would certainly fall behind them.
As he pondered this, Yuan Yan gradually began leaning toward a decision. Yet he still felt unwilling in his heart.
He wanted to cultivate three Daos simultaneously not only because he wished to be invincible among those of the same realm, but also for the sake of his future Dao path.
If he could neither attain the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm through the Yin-Yang Dao nor obtain a Heavenly Dao Saint Position and become a Heavenly Dao Saint in the future.
Then the Reincarnation Dao would be his opportunity to attain the Dao through the Earthly Dao, while the World Dao would offer limitless possibilities for escaping the constraints of the Primordial World.
Moreover, he had spent considerable time and effort developing and evolving these two Daos. They were the fruit of his labor, and naturally, he was unwilling to let them go to waste so easily.
If only I could split myself into three. Then I could cultivate all three Daos simultaneously without worrying about slow cultivation progress. This thought suddenly occurred to Yuan Yan.
"Split myself into three?" Yuan Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, but they quickly dimmed again.
How could it be so easy to divide himself into three while preserving his foundation and comprehension?
And there was no need to mention splitting the Innate Imperishable True Spirit or Primordial Soul into three!
That would be useless!
The Primordial Soul was not the core of a living being. Even if he separated a portion of his Primordial Soul to refine into an avatar, it would be unable to comprehend the Dao or cultivate.
As for separating a portion of his true spirit to refine into an avatar? That would indeed allow it to comprehend the Dao and cultivate.
But the problem was that after splitting off the true spirit, the separated portion was not destroyed. The multiple portions of his true spirit would still add up to a complete whole, making it fundamentally impossible for each portion to recover and grow independently to the level it had possessed before the true spirit was split.
As a result, once the true spirit was divided, it would become weaker, and the efficiency of comprehending the Dao and cultivating would naturally plummet.
After splitting into three, the combined cultivation speed of the three bodies would likely be slower than if he had not split himself at all.
Therefore, although dividing one's true spirit to refine avatars could greatly improve one's ability to preserve one's life, among the many great cultivators of the Primordial World, almost none divided their own true spirits to create avatars.
At most, when they sensed that something might go wrong, they would separate a wisp of true spirit and hide it away, concealing and blocking Karma, Fate, and Heavenly Secrets as a contingency for resurrection.
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