Making a Name, Leaving Seclusion

"Of course!" Fuxi said without hesitation.

After breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, they had wandered Mount Buzhou for several kalpas and obtained quite a few treasures.

Though they had found no supreme-grade innate spirit treasures, they had acquired several high-grade innate spirit roots and high-grade innate spirit treasures.

For the following dozen or so kalpas, they had continuously refined innate divine restrictions and comprehended 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 themselves against Heaven and Earth could they more swiftly perfect and complete their own Dao.

Nuwa and Fuxi came to an agreement. Activating the innate grand formation and leaving behind traces of their Dao intent to show that this place had an owner, they transformed into two streaks of light, left Mount Buzhou, and began traveling the Primordial World.

Not long after the two departed Mount Buzhou, Di Jun, Taiyi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, Red Cloud, Dongwang Gong, Queen Mother of the West, Jieyin, and Zhunti—

One after another, they unexpectedly broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm within several kalpas. Using their own Dao to connect with the laws of Heaven and Earth, they announced themselves to the Primordial World, left their respective dojos, and set foot upon the land of the Primordial World.

In an instant, Heaven and Earth of the Primordial World became lively! One newly born Great Luo Golden Immortal innate sacred being after another saw their fame spread far and wide, and for a time, the Primordial World brimmed with vibrant life.

Yet although Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were hidden deep within Yingzhou Immortal Island, cultivating in seclusion, their renown still far surpassed that of the other innate sacred beings of the Primordial World. Their names were widely passed among countless living beings of the Primordial World, and they were deeply revered.

The reason was the merit they had earned over the previous thirty or forty kalpas, diligently cleansing and restoring the battlefields of the three races.

Indeed, those battlefields of the three races, which had become forsaken lands and ruins after the great war, were thick with blood, Baleful Intent, and resentment, while the laws and Great Dao were in chaos. They were unfit for the survival and reproduction of living beings in the Primordial World. Yet beyond those battlefields lived innumerable beings, multiplying and thriving.

When Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling cleansed and restored the battlefields of the three races, they had not deliberately concealed themselves. In fact, to improve their efficiency, they employed all manner of earth-shaking divine abilities and secret arts, refining blood, Baleful Intent, resentment, and remnants, repairing the cracks in the earth veins, and sorting out the disordered laws and Great Dao—

Every move brought forth heaven-shaking phenomena. Naturally, the beings living nearby sensed them and witnessed with their own eyes how forsaken ruins transformed into blessed lands of divine beauty.

After those battlefields of the three races were cleansed and restored, innate spiritual qi, Dao resonance, and spiritual opportunities revived. Since they became suitable for living beings to survive and multiply, vast numbers of beings naturally migrated there, and their names were naturally sung far and wide.

At first, Yuan Yan had not cared much about this. But later, as his reputation spread farther and farther, the reverence and gratitude of countless beings gathered into intangible destiny and fortune, which settled 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 had even preached the Dao and demonstrated its methods many times to earn merit and fortune.

But after trying it several times, he gave up! The merit and fortune gained from preaching the Dao and demonstrating its methods were far too little. He felt that earning merit and fortune through preaching was probably far less efficient than going to the Western Continent to restore earth veins.

Time slipped quietly by, and in the blink of an eye, fifteen kalpas had passed.

Deep within Yingzhou Immortal Island, Three Lights Divine Water Lake shimmered with rippling light. Golden, silver, and jade-colored divine waters mingled within it, immortal mist coiled through the air, and atop the lotus platforms in the lake, Yuan Yan and the other three still sat cross-legged, boundless Dao resonance permeating their surroundings.

Suddenly, with a thunderous boom, the vast source power stored within their companion innate gourds poured out without end, flooding into their bodies and being refined and absorbed by their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits.

They had just undergone an Yin-Yang evolution. Both their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits had shattered their shackles and broken past their limits. Now, refining and absorbing that boundless source power which shared the same origin as themselves, their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits were continuously transforming and rapidly strengthening.

With an endless supply of source power, even though Yuan Yan and the other three had reached higher cultivation realms this time, and their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits required more power for their transformations, it did not take them long.

In less than twenty thousand years, the physical bodies and Primordial Spirits of Yuan Yan and the other three had completely finished transforming.

Their entire beings radiated Dao intent that transcended the river of time, indestructible and imperishable. With the slightest movement, they carried the might to collapse time and space.

No, that was not right—not merely carried it!

If they had not been within Three Lights Divine Water Lake, where more than twenty World-Purifying White Lotuses had bloomed together and emitted gentle, warm white light of purification to firmly suppress the surrounding Heaven, Earth, time, and space, then unless they deliberately restrained their auras, every gesture they made would have been enough to shake the universe and shatter time and space.

Their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits had completed their transformations, all reaching the level of mid-grade innate spirit treasures. Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling opened their eyes together, temporarily ending this session of secluded cultivation.

"Not bad!" Sensing their cultivation realms and the strength of their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits, Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling all nodded in satisfaction.

At present, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had already broken through to the late Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Yan had broken through to the perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

However, they had not just broken through. It had already been quite some time since their breakthroughs.

Fifteen kalpas earlier, after Yuan Yan and the other three had taken stock of the resources and treasures in their possession, they had begun cultivating in seclusion, seeking to advance their cultivation realms further.

Having consumed many innate spirit fruits and numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures, while occasionally burning Heavenly Dao merit to enter states of enlightenment where they merged with the Dao, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling broke through to the late Great Luo Golden Immortal realm one after another in merely eight or nine kalpas.

At that time, Yuan Yan had yet to break through to the perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. The important innate spirit treasures in their hands had not yet been refined to their limits, and they had not cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions to bring their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits to the corresponding level. Thus, the three of them did not immediately leave seclusion.

Instead, while further refining the innate spirit treasures in their hands, they comprehended the profound principles of the Great Dao contained within them, deepened their understanding of the three thousand laws and Great Dao, and evolved and perfected their own Dao.

The minds of the four were interconnected, and their comprehension of the three thousand laws and Great Dao could be shared. With Yuan Jie and the other two deeply studying the three thousand laws and Great Dao, Yuan Yan's cultivation progress also accelerated somewhat.

Three or four kalpas later, Yuan Yan's breakthrough came as naturally as water flowing into a channel, and he smoothly advanced to the perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

At that time, although Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had not yet refined the high-grade and supreme-grade innate spirit treasures in their hands to the furthest limits they could attain, they temporarily set aside their refinement and cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions alongside Yuan Yan, tempering their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits.

After breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, Yuan Yan had once cultivated Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions again during the mid Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, completing three Yin-Yang evolutions. Yuan Jie and the other two, however, had been too occupied to cultivate it and had not completed even one Yin-Yang evolution.

At that time, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had already broken through to the late Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, while Yuan Yan had broken through to the perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. With their attainments, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling could complete five Yin-Yang evolutions, while Yuan Yan could complete another four.

Though the four differed in their cultivation progress, through a fortunate convergence of circumstances, they almost completed the cultivation of Nine Yin-Yang Evolutions at the same time.