After waiting a hundred Epochs, or even several hundred Epochs, the Origin Power in their hands would be exhausted.
By then, the grand formations they had previously set up should have absorbed and converted enough Chaos Qi, producing enough of the power he needed. They could naturally use it to continue repairing the Earth Veins efficiently!
However, using the repaired Earth Veins together with Innate Spiritual Treasures or Innate Spiritual Roots to set up grand formations for absorbing and converting Chaos Qi was not without flaws.
The formations they set up were mainly intended to absorb and convert Chaos Qi, so their concealment, defense, and offensive capabilities would naturally be weakened.
Of course, it was not impossible to bring all those aspects up to the same level, but it would require much more time and effort, making it not worth the cost.
As a result, if Great Firmament Golden Immortal experts or stronger passed by, they could easily notice them.
If they discovered the formations and no one was overseeing them, they might not care whether someone else had set them up. Once greed arose, they might study the formations, break them, and take away the Innate Spiritual Treasures or Innate Spiritual Roots suppressing them.
Although they would certainly sense someone breaking a formation, the more formations they set up, the greater the chance of them being discovered. Perhaps ten grand formations might even be found at the same time.
Then they might find themselves unable to cope!
Even if that did not happen, repeatedly dealing with Great Firmament Golden Immortals who came knocking would definitely create countless Karma and waste an enormous amount of his time and energy.
However, they had solutions to this.
First, the Clone Technique!
This Clone Technique had been created by them based on one of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities. It could transform a portion of their own power into clones.
Such clones would be at least one major realm below them. They could not comprehend the Dao or cultivate to raise their cultivation realm. The more clones they created, the more power and consciousness they had to divide out. If they created too many clones, their main bodies could easily fall into weakness.
But with their strength, each of them could split off more than a hundred clones at the Taiyi Golden Immortal Late Stage without suffering any adverse effects.
With clones stationed at the grand formations, able to mobilize the formations' power against enemies, they would certainly not fear ordinary Great Firmament Golden Immortals who came to attack.
Even if a powerful Great Firmament Golden Immortal could forcibly break the formation, upon sensing that someone was controlling it, they would not casually break it and offend others without cause.
Moreover, he intended to bind the formations to the Earth Veins. If no one controlled a grand formation, its mechanical operation would make its flaws easy to find, allowing others to follow those flaws and enter directly while ignoring the formation.
But if someone controlled it, then unless their realm surpassed it by far too much, the only way to break the formation would be through brute force. And breaking it by force would inevitably destroy the bound Earth Veins, burdening the one who broke it with immense Karmic Force.
As for him? Someone had come to attack him at his doorstep. Although he would also be burdened with Karmic Force, according to Karma's judgment, the Karmic Force he received would be far less than that of the formation breaker.
Second, they could nurture a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals, or even Great Firmament Golden Immortals.
With a certain number of Taiyi Golden Immortals or one Great Firmament Golden Immortal controlling a grand formation, it would naturally be as impregnable as a fortress. There would be no need for him to divide off clones to guard it.
Moreover, the power a grand formation could unleash with someone controlling it was vastly different from that of one left unattended.
If every grand formation he set up had a certain number of Taiyi Golden Immortals or one Great Firmament Golden Immortal overseeing it, they would surely be able to absorb and convert more Chaos Qi, producing more of the Origin Power he required.
Furthermore, for him, nurturing a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals or even Great Firmament Golden Immortals was not difficult.
Now that the Dragon-Han Calamity had passed, the world stood at the beginning of a new era. Life flourished throughout heaven and earth, continuously giving birth to Innate Lifeforms, as well as Innate Divines.
Given their cultivation realms and their foundations as Top-Tier Innate Divines, it would not be difficult to recruit and subdue beings whose foundations were above Upper-Rank Innate Lifeforms but below Middle-Rank Innate Divines.
In particular, recruiting Upper-Rank Innate Lifeforms and Top-Tier Innate Lifeforms would only take a word. They would not need to pay anything, merely preach the Dao to them at intervals, and countless beings would be willing to join them.
But recruiting Innate Divines, even merely Lower-Rank Innate Divines or Middle-Rank Innate Divines, would likely require them to pay some price, such as Innate Spiritual Treasures, Innate Spiritual Roots, or certain promises.
As for Upper-Rank Innate Divines? While it might still be possible to recruit and subdue them, they would certainly need to pay an enormous price, unless their aspirations truly aligned.
Top-Tier Innate Divines? Unless they had already attained the Dao of Hunyuan Great Firmament, they should not even think about it. They could only treat them as equals, just as Di Jun and Taiyi had invited Nuwa and Fuxi to join the Demon Clan.
If they wanted to forcibly beat them into submission and use methods to control them, they could look to Di Jun and Kunpeng as an example. Once the opportunity arose, they would immediately be bitten back.
Since they and their main body had begun traveling through the Primordial World, they had obtained an enormous quantity of heavenly treasures, and they possessed no small number of Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots as well.
Especially the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus and the World-Purifying White Lotus, which produced quite a few lotus seeds at regular intervals.
As long as they could recruit beings with sufficient aptitude, comprehension, and potential, it would not be difficult for them to nurture them into Taiyi Golden Immortals or Great Firmament Golden Immortals.
At the very least, they could easily nurture Upper-Rank Innate Lifeforms and Top-Tier Innate Lifeforms into Taiyi Golden Immortals. If those beings cultivated diligently, worked diligently, accumulated and received enough Merit, and obtained Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus Seeds of high grade or above, they would also have hope of becoming Great Firmament Golden Immortals.
As for Lower-Rank Innate Divines and Middle-Rank Innate Divines, they could easily nurture them into Great Firmament Golden Immortals. If they cultivated diligently, worked with them to repair the Earth Veins, and accumulated enough Merit, they would also have hope of becoming Quasi-Sages. And if they could somehow attend the Purple Firmament Palace's Dao lectures, they would most likely break through to the Quasi-Sage realm.
As for which of these two methods they should use to solve the flaws?
Naturally, they would use both!
Although it would not be difficult for them to nurture a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals and Great Firmament Golden Immortals, it would still take quite some time.
After all, recruiting and subduing a group of beings whose foundations were above Upper-Rank Innate Lifeforms and who were not burdened by excessive Karma would take time. Nurturing them would require even more time.
During this period, they naturally would not stop repairing the Earth Veins of the Western Continent. After repairing the Earth Veins and setting up grand formations, they would naturally need to divide off clones to guard them.
However, once they had recruited and subdued a group of beings and nurtured them, they would no longer need to use the Clone Technique to create clones for guard duty.
Having already deduced a complete plan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling discussed it for a while before deciding to contact their main body and split up to act.
First, they would compile their experiences and see how many beings with foundations above Upper-Rank Innate Lifeforms they had encountered during their several dozen Epochs of traveling through the Primordial World.
After compiling the information, Yuan Ling would deduce the Heavenly Secrets to determine whether those beings were still alive, examine their experiences, and see whether they were suitable for nurturing.
If they were suitable for nurturing, they would deduce their locations, then cross the void directly and bring them to the Great Awakening Blessed Land, Yingzhou Immortal Island, or even the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven for training.
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