Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal, Hesitation

As the leaders of the three clans fulfilled their Heavenly Dao oaths, boundless Mysterious Yellow Merit descended between heaven and earth.

Yet before it could fall, it was completely offset by the incredibly dense blood fiend karmic force of the three clans, leaving not a trace behind.

However, as a result, the blood fiend karmic force upon the Primordial Three Clans was greatly weakened, with less than thirty percent remaining.

Though it was still like an insurmountable mountain, pressing heavily upon the surviving members of the three clans, leaving their Dao injuries difficult to heal, their cultivation falling, unable to cultivate in peace and prone to cultivation deviation... it would no longer cause them to perish completely.

At this moment, within a gorge halfway up Mount Buzhou, protected by a Primordial Formation.

Suddenly, the Primordial Gourd Vine, surrounded by three thousand Great Daos of laws and suffused with endless Dao charm, trembled slightly. Yuan Yan awoke from his enlightenment.

He looked toward the source of the Dao fluctuation that had awakened him, his gaze piercing through space and time. He saw the Three Clans Battlefield, saw boundless 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 open space and depart with their remaining clansmen.

"The war of the three clans has already ended! Next comes the Dao-Demon Strife! Once the Dao-Demon Strife is over and the Dragon-Han Calamity ends, it will be time for us Innate Divines to enter the world!" Yuan Yan murmured.

Since breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm and entering seclusion, six or seven dozen yuanhui had already passed.

Having broken through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, his efficiency in comprehending the three thousand Great Daos of laws had greatly increased. His development, evolution, and refinement of the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao had also proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

In merely twenty or thirty yuanhui, not only had his understanding of the three thousand Great Daos of laws deepened, but he had also developed, evolved, and refined his Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage.

At that time, because the three clans had set a date for their decisive battle, the calamitous fiendish aura had grown increasingly dense and was already on the verge of erupting. Moreover, around that period, the three clans had tacitly begun cleansing the Primordial World. His Dao Heart warned him, so he did not leave seclusion to travel, instead continuing his secluded cultivation.

Because after breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, his speed in developing, evolving, and refining his own Dao far surpassed what it had been at Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection, Yuan Yan devoted all his efforts during this seclusion to the Yin-Yang Dao.

He planned to first evolve and refine the Yin-Yang Dao to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, then turn back and evolve and refine the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the same realm.

As he deeply comprehended the three thousand Great Daos of laws, he used Yin-Yang to expound and evolve his understanding of all things in the world, refining the Yin-Yang Dao as his cultivation realm steadily 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 drawing upon each other's strengths to compensate for their weaknesses.

This unexpectedly brought considerable benefit to his development and refinement of his three Daos, allowing his Dao realm to rise substantially in a short time.

Thanks to this, more than two yuanhui ago, he evolved and refined 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 the Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions. After spending more than one yuanhui, he completed three Yin-Yang transformations, causing his physical body and Primordial Soul to strengthen by nearly another tenfold.

Only then did he turn back to evolve and refine the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao.

However, in merely one yuanhui, there naturally had not been much progress.

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Yan stopped paying attention to the outside world, gathered his thoughts, and prepared to continue cultivating in seclusion.

He was only a Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal. Even though his physical body and Primordial Soul could directly withstand a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, to great cultivators such as Hongjun, Rahu, and Yang Mei, he would still 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. With such a promising future ahead, Yuan Yan had no intention of taking risks.

Even if he were to travel and seek opportunities, he would have to wait until after the Dao-Demon Strife ended.

Unable to travel, he had nothing else to do besides continue cultivating in seclusion.

But just as Yuan Yan had yet to immerse himself in enlightenment, he suddenly thought of something and paused slightly.

Should I really continue cultivating three Daos at once? Or should I focus on the Yin-Yang Dao in the future, encompassing the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao within it?

If he focused on the Yin-Yang Dao and encompassed the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao within it, then as the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao evolved and refined, the Yin-Yang Dao would evolve and refine along with them. Naturally, his cultivation progress would not be slowed!

But if he continued cultivating three Daos simultaneously, 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 gap between the Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage and Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection, which was a major realm difference.

Even though he had already broken through to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, to evolve and refine the Reincarnation Dao and World Dao to the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm would require at least sixty or seventy yuanhui.

Even if, by then, he could once again make the Yin-Yang Dao, Reincarnation Dao, and World Dao resonate with one another, seek common ground while preserving differences, draw upon each other's strengths, and advance together.

His cultivation progress would still not be fast, perhaps only half as fast as if he specialized in a single Dao.

He would never assume that the Top-Tier Innate Divines of the Primordial World, such as the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun and Taiyi, Nuwa and Fuxi, Jieyin and Zhunti... possessed inferior comprehension or cultivated more slowly than he did.

If cultivating three Daos together slowed his cultivation progress, he would certainly fall behind them.

As he thought it over, Yuan Yan gradually began leaning toward one choice. Yet he still felt unwilling:

His desire to cultivate three Daos simultaneously was not only for invincibility among those of the same realm, but also for the sake of his future Dao path.

If he could neither use the Yin-Yang Dao to attain the Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm in the future nor obtain a Heavenly Dao Saint Position and become a Heavenly Dao Saint.

Then the Reincarnation Dao would be his chance 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 fruits of his labor, and he naturally did not wish to let them go to waste.

If only I could split myself into three. Then I could cultivate all three Daos without worrying about my cultivation progress slowing down, Yuan Yan suddenly thought.

"Split myself into three?" Yuan Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, but they quickly dimmed again.

How could it be easy to divide himself into three without affecting his innate foundation or comprehension?

And there was no point in talking about splitting the Innate Imperishable True Spirit or Primordial Soul into three!

It was useless!

The Primordial Soul was not the core of a living being. Even if he separated part of his Primordial Soul and refined it into an avatar, it would be unable to comprehend the Dao or cultivate.

As for separating part of his true spirit and refining it into an avatar, that avatar could indeed comprehend the Dao and cultivate.

But the problem was that after the true spirit was divided, the separated portion was not destroyed. The combined portions of his true spirit would still remain whole, so none of them could independently recover and grow back to the state they had possessed before the true spirit was divided.

As a result, once the true spirit was split, it would become weaker, and the efficiency of comprehending the Dao and cultivating would naturally be greatly reduced.

After splitting into three, the combined cultivation speed of the three bodies would likely be slower than before he divided himself.

Therefore, although splitting off a true spirit and refining an avatar could greatly enhance one's ability to preserve one's life, among the many great cultivators of the Primordial World, almost no one split their own true spirit to create avatars.

At most, when they sensed that something might happen, they would separate a wisp of their true spirit and hide it away, concealing and shielding karma, fate, and heavenly secrets as a contingency for resurrection.