"Of course we should!" Fuxi said decisively.
After breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, they had wandered Mount Buzhou for several Epochs and obtained some treasures.
Though they had not found any Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, they had acquired several High-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots and High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
For the following dozen or so Epochs, they had continued refining Innate Divine Restrictions and comprehending the Great Dao contained within them.
Now that the progress of their cultivation had gradually slowed, it was time to venture out. Only by verifying their Dao against Heaven and Earth could they perfect their own Dao more quickly.
Nuwa and Fuxi came to an agreement. They activated the Primordial Formation and left behind their own Dao intent to show that this place had an owner. Then, transforming into two streaks of light, they departed Mount Buzhou and began traveling through the Primordial World.
Not long after the two left Mount Buzhou, Di Jun, Taiyi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Dongwang Gong, Queen Mother of the West, Jieyin, and Zhunti—
One after another, within several Epochs, they broke through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. Using their own Great Dao to connect with the laws of Heaven and Earth, they announced themselves to the Primordial World before leaving their dao fields and setting foot upon the Primordial World.
In an instant, the Primordial World became lively! One newly born Great Firmament Golden Immortal Innate Divine after another gained widespread fame, and for a time, the Primordial World brimmed with vitality.
Yet although Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling remained hidden deep within Yingzhou Immortal Island, cultivating in seclusion, their fame still far surpassed that of the other Innate Divines of the Primordial World. Their names were widely spread among countless living beings and held in great reverence.
The reason for this was the merit they had earned through diligently cleansing and restoring the Three Clans Battlefield over the previous thirty to forty Epochs.
Indeed, the Three Clans Battlefields, which had become desolate wastelands and ruins after the great war, were filled with bloody fiendish and resentful qi, while laws and Great Daos lay in chaos. They were unsuitable for the survival and reproduction of living beings. Yet beyond those battlefields, countless living beings continued to thrive.
When Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling cleansed and restored the Three Clans Battlefield, they had not deliberately concealed themselves. To improve their efficiency, they had even displayed all manner of earth-shaking divine abilities and secret arts, refining bloody fiendish and resentful qi and lingering remnants, repairing cracks in the Earth Veins, and sorting out the chaotic laws and Great Daos—
Every move they made manifested heaven-shaking phenomena. Naturally, the living beings nearby sensed it and witnessed with their own eyes as desolate wastelands and ruins transformed into blessed lands of divine beauty.
After those Three Clans Battlefields had been cleansed and restored, Innate Spiritual Qi and Dao Rhyme Spiritual Essence revived, making them suitable for living beings to survive and reproduce. Naturally, great numbers of living beings migrated there, and their fame spread far and wide.
At first, Yuan Yan had not cared much about this. But later, as his fame spread, the admiration and gratitude of countless living beings gathered into intangible destiny, and Fortune descended upon him.
He clearly felt the benefits this brought him, so he took the initiative to spread the names of himself, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling.
He even preached the Dao and expounded the laws many times in order to earn Merit and Fortune.
However, after trying it a few times, he gave up! The Merit and Fortune gained from preaching the Dao and expounding the laws were far too little. He felt that earning Merit and Fortune through preaching was probably much less efficient than going to the Western Continent to repair the Earth Veins.
Time quietly passed, and in the blink of an eye, fifteen Epochs had gone by.
Deep within Yingzhou Immortal Island, the Three Lights Divine Water Lake shimmered with rippling light. Golden, silver, and jade-colored divine waters mingled within the lake, while misty immortal qi curled about it. Upon lotus platforms in the lake, the four of Yuan Yan's group still sat cross-legged, endless Dao Rhyme suffusing their bodies.
Suddenly, with a deafening boom, the vast Origin Force stored within their Companion Innate Gourds poured forth without end, flooding into their bodies and being refined and absorbed by their Fleshly Primordial Spirits.
They had just undergone another Yinyang Evolution. Both their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits had shattered their shackles and broken through their limits. Now, as they refined and absorbed the vast Origin Force that shared the same origin as themselves, their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits continuously transformed and rapidly strengthened.
With an unending supply of Origin Force, even though Yuan Yan and the others had reached higher cultivation realms and their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits required more power to transform, it did not take them long.
In less than twenty thousand years, the fleshly bodies and primordial spirits of Yuan Yan and the other three had completely finished transforming.
Their entire bodies radiated Dao intent that surpassed the River of Time, immortal and indestructible. With the slightest movement, they contained the power to shatter spacetime.
No, that was not right. It did not merely contain such power!
If they had not been within the Three Lights Divine Water Lake, where more than twenty World-Purifying White Lotuses bloomed together and released gentle, warm white purifying light to firmly suppress the surrounding Heaven, Earth, and spacetime, then unless they deliberately restrained their auras, every movement they made would have been enough to shake the cosmos and shatter spacetime.
Their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits had completed their transformation, all reaching the level of Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures. Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling opened their eyes together, temporarily ending this period of secluded cultivation.
"Not bad!" Sensing their cultivation realms and the strength of their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits, Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling all nodded in satisfaction.
By now, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had broken through to the Late Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Yan had reached the Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
However, they had not just broken through. They had achieved those breakthroughs quite some time ago.
Fifteen Epochs earlier, after Yuan Yan and the others inventoried the resources and treasures in their possession, they had begun cultivating in seclusion, intending to raise their cultivation realms further.
Having consumed many fruits of Innate Spiritual Treasures and numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures, while occasionally burning Heavenly Dao Merit to enter a state of enlightenment where they merged with the Dao, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had broken through to the Late Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm one after another in merely eight or nine Epochs.
At that time, Yuan Yan had yet to break through to the Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. The important Innate Spiritual Treasures in their possession had not yet been refined to their limits, and they had not cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions to bring their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits to the corresponding level. Thus, the three of them did not immediately leave seclusion.
Instead, they continued deeply refining the Innate Spiritual Treasures in their hands, comprehending the Great Dao principles contained within them, deepening their understanding of the three thousand laws and Great Daos, and evolving and perfecting their own Dao.
The minds of the four were interconnected, allowing them to share their understanding of the three thousand laws and Great Daos. With Yuan Jie and the other two deeply comprehending those laws and Great Daos, Yuan Yan's cultivation progress also accelerated somewhat.
Three or four Epochs later, Yuan Yan naturally reached fruition and smoothly broke through to the Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
At that time, although Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had yet to refine the High-Grade and Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures in their possession to the utmost limits they could reach, they temporarily set aside the matter of refinement and cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions alongside Yuan Yan, tempering their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits.
After breaking through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, Yuan Yan had cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions again while at the Middle Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, completing three Yinyang Evolutions. Yuan Jie and the other two, however, had lacked the time to cultivate it and had not completed even one Yinyang Evolution.
At that point, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had already broken through to the Late Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Yan had reached the Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. Given their Dao attainments, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling could complete five Yinyang Evolutions, while Yuan Yan could complete another four.
Although the four differed in their cultivation progress, through a fortunate coincidence, they nearly completed the cultivation of Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions at the same time.
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