The Time Had Come, Weighing the Options

Of course, it was not as though they were incapable of earning even a little Merit and Fortune.

They simply disdained such trifling amounts. What they sought was Great Merit and Virtue and Great Fortune.

Some Minor Merit, such as cleaning up the aftermath of battles between great experts, healing the world's wounds, sorting out and repairing Earth Veins, preaching the Dao and spreading teachings among living beings... required time and effort, yet yielded little Merit and Fortune. Some endeavors simply were not worth the cost, so naturally, they disdained them.

Nor were the Three Pure Ones alone in this. Many great experts of the Primordial World were the same.

Yet precisely because they held themselves so high, made no contributions to the Primordial World, received no favor from it, and lacked any origins that drew its particular attention, they naturally could not receive Heaven's aid and easily break through their bottlenecks.

Time passed swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, several hundred Epochs had gone by.

Yingzhou Immortal Island, the Three Lights Divine Water Pool! Atop the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus.

Suddenly, Yuan Yan opened his eyes. Endless Great Dao Rules evolved within his gaze, while an unfathomable Dao intent circulated around him, as though he were the incarnation of the Great Dao itself.

"The time has come!" Yuan Yan said leisurely. His gaze was profound, piercing through time and space as it surveyed the Western Continent.

At this moment, only a tiny portion of the area on the Western Continent covered by the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation remained unrestored. Every other region had already fully recovered. Restoring that last bit of barren land would not take long; it could be done in an instant.

Moreover, so long as they mobilized the power of the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation