Clone Technique, Recruitment and Cultivation

After waiting a hundred yuanhui, or even several hundred yuanhui, the origin power in their hands would be exhausted.

By then, the grand formations they had set up earlier should have absorbed and transformed enough chaos qi, producing enough of the power they needed. Naturally, they could use it to continue efficiently repairing the earth veins!

However, using the repaired earth veins together with innate spirit treasures or innate spirit roots to set up grand formations that absorbed and transformed chaos qi was not without flaws.

The formations they set up were primarily meant to absorb and transform chaos qi, so their concealment, defensive, and offensive effects would naturally be weakened.

Of course, it was not impossible for all those aspects to reach the same level, but the time and effort required would increase greatly. The loss would outweigh the gain.

But in that case, any Da Luo Golden Immortal or stronger expert passing by could easily notice them.

If they discovered the formations and no one was presiding over them, they might not care whether they had been set up by someone else. Should greed arise, they might study the formations, break them, and take away the innate spirit treasures or innate spirit roots suppressing them.

Although they would certainly sense it if someone broke a formation, the more formations they set up, the greater the chance of one being encountered. It was even possible for ten grand formations to be discovered at the same time.

Then they might find themselves unable to be everywhere at once!

Even if that did not happen, repeatedly dealing with Da Luo Golden Immortals who came knocking would definitely create countless karmic entanglements and waste an enormous amount of their time and energy.

However, they had methods to resolve this:

First, the clone technique!

This clone technique had been created by them with reference to the clone technique, one of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities. It allowed them to 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, cultivate, or raise their cultivation realm. The more clones they created, the more power and consciousness they had to divide out. If they created too many, their main bodies could easily fall into weakness.

But with their strength, each of them could create over a hundred late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal clones without suffering any adverse effects.

With clones stationed at the grand formations, able to mobilize the formations' power against enemies, they certainly had no need to fear ordinary Da Luo Golden Immortals.

Even if a powerful Da Luo Golden Immortal could forcibly break a formation, once they sensed that someone was presiding over it, they would not casually break it and offend others without cause.

Moreover, he planned to bind the formations to the earth veins. If no one presided over a grand formation, its mechanical operation would make its flaws easy to find, allowing someone to follow those flaws and directly ignore the formation to enter it.

But if someone presided over it, then unless their realm surpassed it by far too much, the only way to break the formation would be with brute force. And breaking it by force would inevitably destroy the bound earth veins, bringing great karmic sin upon the one who broke it.

As for him? He had been attacked at his own door. Although karmic sin would still fall upon him, according to the judgment of karma, the karmic sin he received would be far less than that of the formation-breaker.

Second, they could cultivate a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals, or even Da Luo Golden Immortals.

With a certain number of Taiyi Golden Immortals or one Da Luo Golden Immortal presiding over a grand formation, it would naturally be as impregnable as a fortress, and there would be no need for him to split off clones to guard it.

Furthermore, the power a formation could unleash when someone presided over it was worlds apart from the power it could unleash without anyone presiding over it.

If every grand formation he set up had a certain number of Taiyi Golden Immortals or a Da Luo Golden Immortal presiding over it, then they would certainly be able to absorb and transform more chaos qi, producing more of the origin power he needed.

And for him, cultivating a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals, or even Da Luo Golden Immortals, was not particularly difficult.

Now that the Dragon-Han Calamity had passed, a new age had begun. Heaven and earth brimmed with vitality, continuously giving birth to innate living beings—and, naturally, innate sacred beings as well.

Given their cultivation realms and their foundations as peak innate sacred beings, it would not be difficult for them to recruit and subdue beings whose foundations were above high-grade innate living beings but below mid-grade innate sacred beings.

In particular, recruiting high-grade innate living beings and peak innate living beings would take no more than a word. They would not need to pay any price at all. So long as they lectured on the Dao for them from time to time, countless beings would be willing to join them.

But to recruit innate sacred beings—even merely low-grade or mid-grade innate sacred beings—they would likely need to pay some price, such as innate spirit treasures, innate spirit roots, or certain promises.

As for high-grade innate sacred beings? While it might still be possible to recruit and subdue them, they would certainly have to pay an immense price, unless their aspirations happened to align perfectly.

Peak innate sacred beings? Unless they had already attained the Dao of Hunyuan Da Luo, 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 Race.

And 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 an opportunity arose, they would immediately be bitten back.

Since they and their true body had traveled through the Primordial World, they had obtained an enormous quantity of heavenly treasures and earthly materials. They also possessed quite a few innate spirit treasures and innate spirit roots.

Especially the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus and the World-Purifying White Lotus, which produced quite a few lotus seeds at regular intervals.

So long as they could recruit beings with sufficient aptitude, comprehension, and potential, it would not be difficult for them to cultivate them into Taiyi Golden Immortals or Da Luo Golden Immortals.

At the very least, they could easily cultivate high-grade innate living beings and peak innate living beings into Taiyi Golden Immortals. If those beings cultivated diligently, worked diligently, accumulated enough merit, and received Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus seeds of high grade or above, then they would also have hope of becoming Da Luo Golden Immortals.

As for low-grade innate sacred beings and mid-grade innate sacred beings, they could easily cultivate them into Da Luo Golden Immortals. If they cultivated diligently and worked together with them to repair the earth veins, accumulating enough merit, then they would also have hope of becoming Quasi-Saints. And if they could manage to attend the Dao lectures at the Purple Firmament Palace, they would most likely break through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

As for which of these two methods they would use to resolve the flaw?

Naturally, they would use both!

Although cultivating a group of Taiyi Golden Immortals and Da Luo Golden Immortals would not be difficult for them, it would still take quite some time.

After all, recruiting and subduing a group of beings whose foundations were above high-grade innate living beings and who were not burdened by excessive karmic entanglements would take time. Cultivating them would require even more time.

During that period, they naturally would not stop repairing the earth veins of the Western Continent. After repairing the earth veins, they would set up grand formations, so they would naturally need to split off clones to guard them.

However, once they had recruited and subdued a group of beings and cultivated them, they would no longer need to use the clone technique to create clones for guard duty.

By now, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had already deduced a complete plan. After discussing it for a while, they decided to contact their true body and act separately.

First, they would compile their experiences and see how many beings with foundations above high-grade innate living beings they had encountered during their several dozen yuanhui of travels through the primordial heaven and earth.

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 cultivation.

If they were suitable, he would deduce their locations, then directly cross the void and bring them to the Great Awakening Blessed Land, Yingzhou Immortal Island, or even the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven for cultivation.