Each to Their Own Tasks, Cultivation Mechanism

As for whether the number of beings they encountered with a foundation of superior innate being or higher would be too small, or if it would be too time-consuming and energy-draining to deduce them one by one and traverse the void to bring them back for cultivation?

That certainly wouldn't be the case!

Previously, they had traveled to countless locations in order to clear and repair the Three Clans Battlefield.

Although those Three Clans Battlefield areas were not suitable for the survival and reproduction of living beings, that did not mean the adjacent regions were unsuitable; vast numbers of beings lived in the surrounding areas.

When they were repairing the Three Clans Battlefield, they did not hide their actions. The heaven-shaking phenomena naturally attracted nearby beings to come and watch.

The nearby beings naturally did not dare to disturb them upon seeing them clearing and repairing the battlefield, but watching them display various divine abilities from afar was a significant opportunity in itself.

They were not petty people and would not drive those beings away. Seeing that they were not being expelled, those beings naturally did not leave.

Although they did not pay special attention to those beings, with their cultivation realm, a casual sweep of their divine sense was enough to firmly remember everything about them, allowing them to recall the information at any time.

Therefore, the number of beings they remembered with a foundation of superior innate being or higher was at least over one hundred thousand, which was more than enough.

As for deducing the information of those beings one by one, it was not the period of a Great Tribulation now. During a Great Tribulation, the tribulation energy obscures and conceals heavenly secrets, and those beings were not Great Luo Golden Immortals; in fact, the vast majority were not even Taiyi Golden Immortals.

As long as there were no innate spiritual treasures, innate spiritual roots, or experts at the Great Luo Golden Immortal level or higher to conceal and shield the heavenly secrets for them, deducing the information of those beings was merely a matter of a single thought.

Even if the number was large and required some time, it would not be too much.

As for Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun, they remained in the Great Awakening Blessed Land to deduce a suitable and powerful formation. It could use ley lines, innate spiritual treasures, and innate spiritual roots as the formation base to set up a grand formation, drawing in and converting chaos energy through the endless void into the origin power he needed.

And their true self, Yuan Yan?

They did not intend for him to do anything specifically; they only hoped he could provide them with some support, starting by recalling and passing on to them the information about the beings he had encountered with a foundation of superior innate being or higher.

Then, he was to contribute the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven as well as the heavenly treasures, innate spiritual treasures, and innate spiritual roots he had harvested. In the future, if he encountered suitable talent, he should not let them go and could send them over for them to cultivate.

Before long, the three of them contacted Yuan Yan and compiled the information on the beings they had encountered with a foundation of superior innate being or higher for Yuan Ling.

It only took nearly a thousand years for Yuan Ling to deduce the heavenly secrets, investigate the past, select fifty or sixty thousand suitable beings, and traverse the void to recruit them one by one, bringing those willing to follow him back to Yingzhou Immortal Island.

As for the few beings who were unwilling to follow him? Yuan Ling did not care.

The origin of the Primordial World was too profound, nurturing countless innate beings and innate divinities. With their cultivation realm and the foundation of top-tier innate divinities, they were not lacking in beings willing to follow them.

It was not he who suffered if those beings were unwilling to follow him, but rather they who missed out on a massive opportunity.

After bringing over fifty thousand beings back to Yingzhou Immortal Island, Yuan Ling pondered and deduced for a period of time before establishing a sound cultivation mechanism.

He did not intend to manage and cultivate them personally, nor did he have the time.

However, he could not completely wash his hands of it either, so he had to use a clone technique to split off ten late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal clones specifically responsible for management and cultivation.

His cultivation plan for these fifty thousand-plus beings was to spare no cost, requiring them to give nothing in return, and under the premise of not affecting their future potential, to cultivate them into Taiyi Golden Immortals as quickly as possible.

Following that, they had only one basic benefit: every Yuan cycle, they could listen to one of him, Yuan Lun, or Yuan Jie preach the Dao for a thousand years. The time was fixed, and if they missed it, they missed it!

As for wanting anything else, it all required merit. As long as they had enough merit, heavenly treasures, innate spiritual fruits, opportunities to comprehend innate spiritual roots and innate spiritual treasures, innate spiritual treasures, and innate spiritual roots—everything could be exchanged.

While there were basic benefits, there was also a basic mandatory task: every two Yuan cycles, they had to go and guard/preside over the operation of the formations they had set up for at least one Yuan cycle.

This could be accumulated; for example, one could guard and preside over the operation of the formations for ten Yuan cycles at once, then take ten Yuan cycles off at once.

Among these, early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals could earn one to three minor merits for guarding and presiding over the formation for one Yuan cycle; mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals could earn five to fifteen minor merits; late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals could earn twenty-five to seventy-five minor merits; and peak-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals could earn one hundred twenty-five to three hundred seventy-five minor merits.

As for Great Luo Golden Immortals, they were calculated in terms of major merits, with the method similar to Taiyi Golden Immortals. An early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal guarding and presiding over the formation for one Yuan cycle could earn one to three major merits—one major merit was roughly equivalent to ten thousand minor merits.

Subsequently, Yuan Ling used a special divine jade that Yuan Yan had obtained at Mount Buzhou, the Innate Enlightenment Jade, to refine three thousand Law Steles, each containing a perfected law.

At the same time, each Law Stele could be used by ten beings for comprehension. Under the influence of the Dao rhymes of the Law Stele, the beings could easily fall into a state of enlightenment, making it easier to comprehend the corresponding laws to perfection.

After finishing all this, Yuan Ling returned to the Three Lights Divine Water pool to enter seclusion, falling into a deep state of enlightenment and leaving the miscellaneous matters to his clones.

Yuan Ling had completed his task, and Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun were not slow either. It took them only a little over one Yuan cycle to deduce a suitable grand formation: the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.

This formation had no requirements for the objects suppressing the formation base or the people setting up and operating it. It relied on the formation to connect and draw upon heaven and earth, using their combined power to absorb and refine chaos energy, which could be converted into the origin power of heaven and earth.

The effect of the heaven-earth origin power was extremely heaven-defying; it could make up for the deficiencies of heaven and earth, contained the three thousand Great Daos, could help people comprehend the Great Dao, and if the quantity was sufficient, it could even help innate beings break through their innate limitations and transform into innate divinities.

The two of them deduced a suitable formation, and Yuan Lun, who was essentially working unpaid overtime, immediately lent the Mountain-Driving Whip to Yuan Jie before slipping away.

He first returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island and the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven, leaving behind a clone, and then returned to the Great Awakening Blessed Land, leaving another clone to manage the blessed land before he also began seclusion, falling into a deep state of enlightenment.

As for Yuan Jie, it was already his turn to repair the ley lines and test the efficacy of the formation they had deduced and created, so he was naturally duty-bound.

In an instant, Yuan Jie traversed the void and rushed to a mountain range that had been repaired by Yuan Lun, using his innate ley lines and a low-grade innate spiritual treasure as the formation base to evolve and set up the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.