Western Developments, Gathering Everyone

As for the survivors of the three races' great war, along with the powerful figures who had pledged allegiance to them, not one emerged from that war whole. They also bore an ocean of bloody baleful karma.

To recover from their Dao wounds while burdened with such immense bloody baleful karma, none knew how long it would take. Nor did they know how many would fail to endure and perish. In their condition, they simply had no time or energy to clean up the battlefields of the three races.

Moreover, it was precisely at this time that the Primordial World's new generation of innate sacred beings had yet to mature, had yet to break through to Great Luo Golden Immortal, and had yet to enter the world.

That was why no one had cleaned up the battlefields of the three races, allowing this heaven-reaching opportunity and fortune to fall into his hands.

And if he had entered the world any later, everything might have been different!

As for whether repairing the earth veins in the west counted as an opportunity and fortune, Yuan Yan's Dao body, Yuan Jie, had the greatest say in the matter.

Only after Yuan Jie rushed to the Western Continent did he gain an accurate understanding of just how barren the west was.

Although the great war between the dragon, phoenix, and qilin races had swept across the entire Primordial World and created countless battlefields of the three races, not many could form bloody baleful Dao domains that affected the workings of heaven and earth.

The bloody baleful resentment from the vast majority of those battlefields would be drawn along the earth veins and gather in the Blood Sea. Under the workings of heaven and earth's laws, the corpses of the three races' powerful figures would return to heaven and earth, nourishing it in turn.

Only a small portion, where the earth veins had been damaged or where excessive bloody baleful resentment had clogged their flow, would form bloody baleful Dao domains.

But precisely because of this, the corpses of those who had died in battle would also remain behind.

With such a vast trove of resources, so long as the earth veins had not been utterly destroyed, even if they had shattered into countless segments and become riddled with cracks, one could easily mend those cracks and fractures after reconnecting the broken earth veins, restoring them to their former state.

But the Western Continent...

It could only be said that Luo was truly ruthless!

Using Mount Sumeru's ancestral vein as the trigger, he had self-detonated the Western Continent's earth veins, directly blasting away most of them into nothingness. Even part of the scattered earth-vein origin had, after Luo swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao, become part of the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm.

As a result, in most regions of the Western Continent, not even a single broken earth vein could be found. Without earth veins, there was nothing to reconnect or repair. To obtain earth veins, one could only create them from nothing—and reconnecting and repairing them was on an entirely different level of difficulty from creating them from nothing.

As for certain regions that did possess ruined and shattered earth veins, there were no Devil Race corpses, nor any other resources that could be used. Even if the broken earth veins were moved and reconnected, their cracks and fractures would not be so easily mended and restored.

The time, effort, and cost required to mend and restore them would be dozens of times greater than repairing the shattered earth veins at the battlefields of the three races, yet the gains would be negligible—far inferior to purifying those battlefields and reconnecting, repairing, and mending their earth veins.

Thus, purifying the battlefields of the three races and reconnecting, mending, and restoring their earth veins was a tremendous opportunity bestowed by the Great Dao. But repairing and mending earth veins on the Western Continent was merely grueling labor that yielded little.

Yuan Yan, however, knew none of this yet.

Though doubts lingered in his heart, he also knew well that opportunities in the Primordial World had always gone to whoever arrived first.

No matter what reasons lay hidden behind it, the most pressing matter was to seize this readily available fortune firmly in his grasp!

After pondering for a moment, a sharp glint flashed in Yuan Yan's eyes. He already had a plan. He had to immediately summon the Three-Selves Dao Bodies and head with them to the battlefields of the three races that needed to be cleared, completing the cleanup and repairs in the shortest possible time.

Though he was not slow working alone, there were far too many battlefields to clear. Relying on his own strength alone, even if he worked day and night without rest, who knew how many years it would take?

If things dragged on, endless variables could arise. Who could guarantee that, in the next moment, no other powerful figure would notice this opportunity and covet it?

By then, trying to monopolize this fortune would be nothing but a fool's dream.

Since that was the case, he might as well act now, while no one knew, together with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, and speed things up! Even if latecomers discovered it afterward, they could still seize the initiative first. Every bit gained was a bit gained.

With his mind made up, Yuan Yan did not hesitate in the slightest! The aura of the Great Dao surged around him, and his consciousness followed the unseen connection to link with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling.

In an instant, his gaze pierced through endless void, seeing Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling upon the western, northern, and southern continents respectively, unimaginably far away.

These three Dao bodies had been born from the Primordial Gourd Vine through the lodgment of his past self, present self, and Dao self. He possessed absolute control over them, and their hearts and minds were connected.

Thus, the moment he contacted the three of them, their hearts and minds became one. In an instant, he understood every experience they had undergone during this period as clearly as if he had lived it himself.

The Western Continent has actually become like this? Yuan Yan was slightly startled inwardly.

He had originally thought that clearing the battlefields of the three races that needed clearing and reconnecting and repairing the damaged, broken earth veins was a great opportunity. Perhaps restoring the Western Continent's earth veins would also be a great opportunity!

But now, it seemed that the two were completely different matters. One was an opportunity and fortune, while the other was truly nothing more than hard labor.

Yet Yuan Yan cast the thought aside in the next instant. At this moment, the most urgent matter was clearing the battlefields of the three races that needed clearing.

"Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling!" Yuan Yan's will was transmitted directly. "Stop everything at hand and come meet with me at once!"

At once, the three figures, each seventy percent similar to Yuan Yan, shuddered simultaneously, their eyes blazing with light.

Without the slightest hesitation, they stopped what they were doing, each tearing open the void and crossing through it toward Yuan Yan's location.

After only a few breaths, the space around Yuan Yan abruptly split open with a massive fissure.

Three figures with majestic auras, each seventy percent similar to Yuan Yan, calmly emerged and stood steadily in the void. The four faced one another from afar, their auras resonating.

Yuan Jie spoke first, his voice calm and steady. "Main body, what are your plans this time?"

Although Yuan Yan's hearts and minds were linked with theirs, and he understood everything about them, that did not mean they understood everything about Yuan Yan.

Of course, at the moment their hearts and minds connected, Yuan Yan had transmitted some information to them, so they were not completely ignorant of the situation.

"First, deduce the locations of the battlefields that need to be cleared and repaired, where Great Luo Golden Immortals fought. Clear and repair those first, then go clear the battlefields that need clearing where no Great Luo Golden Immortals fought," Yuan Yan said, having long prepared his answer.

Although the great war between the dragon, phoenix, and qilin races had spread across nearly the entire Primordial World, there were not many battlefields where Great Luo Golden Immortals had participated—likely only around a hundred.

Though most of those hundred or so battlefields had ended in mutual destruction, there were also exceptions.

Those exceptional battlefields still needed their earth veins reconnected and repaired, but the corpses and treasures of the fallen had all been taken away. Since there was not much profit left, they could be placed lower on the list.

However, the reason only around a hundred battlefields had involved Great Luo Golden Immortals was not because the three races and those allied with them had only that many Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Rather, the three races' main forces—all their Mixed Origin Golden Immortals and the overwhelming majority of their Great Luo Golden Immortals—had fought a decisive battle on the main battlefield.

On that battlefield, Mixed Origin Golden Immortals were the true main force, while Great Luo Golden Immortals were merely supporting roles. As for cultivators below the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm? If they could not form grand formations, they likely lacked even the qualifications to join the fight; although they did participate, they were nothing more than cannon fodder.