Moreover, as the earth veins were reconnected and repaired, linking them to Mount Buzhou's ancestral vein, boundless, inexhaustible chaos qi poured in from the depths of the void.
This region seemed to come alive, slowly breathing in and out. With each inhalation, the world drew in endless chaos qi; with each exhalation, the chaos qi was gradually broken down under the combined influence of the world's great dao rules and the spiritual qi of the earth veins, transforming into innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence.
Some of the resulting innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence flowed freely along the network of earth veins that threaded through the world, gushing from spiritual nodes and springheads throughout the mountains, rivers, and vast marshes before spreading in every direction.
They nourished this land that had endured calamity. Its innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence slowly recovered, and the world brimmed with ever greater vitality.
Another portion was retained by the earth veins to nourish and restore themselves. The newly reconnected and repaired veins slowly replenished their depleted origins, their channels growing sturdier and the flow of spiritual qi becoming smoother.
Though there was no telling how many long ages it would take to return to their prime, there was hope at last.
Yuan Yan took in every one of these changes. His gaze pierced the thick mountain mass and the vast earth, reaching deep into the earth veins. He quietly watched the entire process as chaos qi streamed endlessly from the void and was broken down and transformed by the combined efforts of the innate earth veins and the world's great dao. Not a trace of surprise showed on his face; he remained calm and composed throughout.
In fact, he had known all along!
Back when he was on Mount Buzhou, before taking human form, he had been the Primordial Gourd Vine, a supreme-grade innate spiritual root rooted in Mount Buzhou's ancestral vein. He had not merely drawn upon innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence to nourish himself. In truth, he had also secretly assisted the ancestral vein in breaking down the chaos qi absorbed by the world, transforming it into innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence.
It was precisely because several ancestral veins, including Mount Buzhou and Kunlun Mountain, served as the core of countless interwoven innate earth veins, forming an immense network that covered the entire Primordial World, that this was possible. Together with the invisible rules of the world's great dao, they absorbed, broke down, and transformed chaos qi, ensuring that the Primordial World's innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence renewed themselves endlessly, nourishing the growth of countless living beings.
Without this cycle, if the earth veins merely released innate spiritual qi and dao rhyme spiritual essence, with everything flowing out and nothing coming in, expending without replenishing, then no matter how vast and abundant their origins were, they would eventually run dry. The Primordial World could never have remained so flourishing.
And at the very moment the earth veins stabilized completely and the world's cycle began operating again, Yuan Yan's work finally reached perfect completion!
Boom! A rumble sounded from the unseen depths, as though the world itself were acknowledging his actions.
Along with that rumble, vast quantities of heavenly dao merit gathered high in the heavens, surging like a sea of clouds before forming a magnificent pillar of merit light that descended straight toward Yuan Yan.
Great quantities of dark-yellow heavenly dao merit poured into his body. Its dazzling radiance illuminated him from head to toe, enveloping him in an aura of sacred serenity.
Yuan Yan felt his primordial spirit become clear and lucid. Every pore on his body opened, and his connection to the entire Primordial World seemed closer and more intimate than ever before.
At the same time, an intuitive, wondrous understanding arose in his heart, and countless methods of using heavenly dao merit appeared clearly before him.
Heavenly dao merit was formed from diluted heavenly dao origin, a reward bestowed by the world upon beings who had rendered service. In the Primordial World, it could be called the finest all-purpose treasure, with a vast range of uses and almost nothing beyond its power.
For example, with enough heavenly dao merit, one could directly nourish and strengthen one's origin, improving one's innate foundation and aptitude, up to the level of a Top-Tier Innate Divine.
One could also expend heavenly dao merit to directly raise one's cultivation realm. However, when cultivation was raised this way, the laws and great dao one comprehended were imparted by the heavenly dao. This left an unstable foundation that required careful examination before those insights could truly become one's own.
Moreover, although a Daluo Golden Immortal who had forged his own great dao could expend merit to have the heavenly dao deduce and perfect it, doing so would render that great dao impure, making it difficult to achieve perfect harmony with its creator.
For example, burning heavenly dao merit could bring one into a state of sudden enlightenment, truly united with the dao. In that state, the efficiency of cultivation and comprehending the dao multiplied, allowing one to advance a thousand miles in a single day.
Its wondrous uses were too numerous to count, offering a glimpse of just how precious heavenly dao merit was.
At this moment, however, Yuan Yan did not use his heavenly dao merit. Instead, he condensed it into a Merit Golden Wheel and suspended it deep within his sea of consciousness to guard his primordial spirit and true spirit.
If he had used the heavenly dao merit he had obtained to raise his cultivation directly, it would have been enough to bring him to the peak of the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
But he would never use heavenly dao merit to raise his cultivation directly. At most, he would accept an infusion of great dao insights, then use them to develop and perfect his own great dao, or burn heavenly dao merit to cultivate in a state of sudden enlightenment.
Condensing it into a Merit Golden Wheel also brought him tremendous benefits. Though this Merit Golden Wheel was probably only comparable to a low-grade innate spiritual treasure, beneath its golden merit light, his mind remained clear, inner demons could not arise, and no spell could assail him. Even his speed of comprehending the dao increased somewhat.
As he truly sensed the endless wondrous uses of heavenly dao merit, Yuan Yan's smile deepened, and he silently marveled, Clearing the Three Clans Battlefield and reconnecting and repairing the earth veins truly was a rare opportunity and blessing.
Suddenly, however, Yuan Yan's gaze shifted slightly, and threads of doubt arose in his heart, lingering there:
Since clearing a Three Clans Battlefield that needed clearing and reconnecting and repairing its earth veins was such a rare opportunity-not only earning heavenly dao merit but also bringing many other gains-why were there so many similar Three Clans Battlefields in the Primordial World that no one had cleared?
Especially the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes. The Three Clans Battlefields held not only the corpses of the Myriad Tribes, but those of the three clans as well. Moreover, the three clans' experts were burdened with bloodshed karmic force and needed merit to resolve it. Shouldn't they have been eager to do this?
And if clearing the Three Clans Battlefields and continuing to repair the earth veins was such a rare opportunity and blessing, what about repairing the earth veins in the west?
As these doubts stirred in his heart, Yuan Yan naturally did not know that he had gained this opportunity and blessing by taking advantage of the timing.
Before the Three Clans War erupted among the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes, all three had tacitly employed the carrot and the stick. On one hand, they courted the unaffiliated members of the Myriad Tribes and powerful independent cultivators; on the other, they eliminated those who refused to submit.
As a result, after the Three Clans War, aside from Top-tier Great Supernatural Beings such as Hongjun, Rahu, and Yang Mei, very few experts at or above the Daluo Golden Immortal realm remained in the Primordial World.
And those few experts had either sealed off their cultivation grounds or even entered the chaos beyond the world to avoid the great tribulation, or had submitted to the three clans, participated in the Three Clans War, and survived.
After the war among the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes, Top-tier Great Supernatural Beings such as Hongjun, Rahu, and Yangmei were occupied with the Dao-Devil War and thought nothing of this small amount of merit. After the Dao-Devil War, Hongjun and Yang Mei were busy attaining the dao and had no time at all to clear the Three Clans Battlefields.
As for the few experts who had avoided the great tribulation, the Dao-Devil War had only recently ended. They would neither emerge nor dare to emerge any time soon.
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