At this time, as the Second Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace came to an end, the Three Thousand Purple Firmament Palace Guests returned to the Primordial World and entered seclusion to digest the gains from listening to the Dao. Conflicts throughout the Primordial World diminished greatly, and an air of calm prevailed.
Time was not counted in the Primordial World. In the blink of an eye, two to three hundred Epochs quietly passed.
Yingzhou Immortal Island.
The ten-thousand-year deadline had arrived. Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fuxi, and Nuwa, who had been cultivating and recuperating within the Three Lights Divine Water Pool and had restored themselves to peak condition, all opened their eyes.
"The time has come!" Yuan Yan's starry, unfathomable gaze pierced through space and time, taking in the Earth Veins across the Western Continent as his emotions stirred.
It had already been more than a thousand Epochs since he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling entered the Western Continent to repair its Earth Veins.
More than a hundred Epochs ago, through the combined efforts of their Dao Bodies and over two hundred thousand cultivators from the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage, they had finally repaired all the shattered mountains and Earth Veins of the Western Continent apart from the Mount Sumeru Ancestral Vein.
Of course, that did not mean they had restored seven or eight tenths of the Western Continent.
In truth, the regions they had repaired accounted for less than forty percent of the Western Continent.
Even more of the Western Continent had been reduced to barren wasteland when Ancestor of Demons Rahu detonated the Earth Veins. Its mountains and Earth Veins had been obliterated, leaving nothing to repair. To restore those places, they could only recreate the mountains and Earth Veins.
Yet repairing