As for whether the number of beings they had encountered with origins at the level of high-grade innate lifeforms or above would be too small? Would it take too much time and effort to deduce each one and cross the void to bring them back for cultivation?
Naturally not!
Previously, they had traveled through countless places in order to cleanse and restore the Three Clans Battlefield.
Although those Three Clans Battlefields were unsuitable for lifeforms to survive and multiply, that did not mean the neighboring regions were unsuitable as well. The nearby regions were home to vast numbers of lifeforms.
When they restored the Three Clans Battlefields, they had not concealed their actions. The phenomena they caused had been earth-shaking, naturally drawing nearby lifeforms over.
The nearby lifeforms saw them cleansing and restoring the Three Clans Battlefields and naturally did not dare disturb them. Yet merely watching from afar as they displayed all kinds of divine abilities was already no small opportunity.
They were not stingy people and did not drive those lifeforms away. Seeing that they were not being chased off, those lifeforms naturally stayed.
Although they had not paid special attention to those lifeforms, given their cultivation realms, a casual sweep of their divine senses from time to time was enough to firmly imprint everything about them in their memories, ready to be recalled whenever needed.
Thus, there were at least hundreds of thousands of lifeforms they remembered whose origins were at the level of high-grade innate lifeforms or above. That was already more than enough.
As for deducing each of those lifeforms, this was not during a tribulation era, when tribulation qi obscured and concealed the Heavenly Secrets. Nor were those lifeforms Great Firmament Golden Immortals; indeed, the overwhelming majority were not even Taiyi Golden Immortals.
So long as no Innate Spiritual Treasure, Innate Spiritual Root, or expert above the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm was concealing and blocking the Heavenly Secrets for them, deducing information about those lifeforms was merely a matter of a thought.
Even if there were many of them and it took some time, it would not take too long.
As for Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun, they would remain in the Great Awakening Blessed Land for now and deduce a suitable, powerful formation that could use earth veins, Innate Spiritual Treasures, and Innate Spiritual Roots as formation foundations. By setting up the grand formation, it could draw in and transform Chaos Qi through the endless void, converting it into the origin power he needed.
And their true body, Yuan Yan?
They had not intended for him to do anything in particular. They only hoped that he could offer them some support by first recalling and passing on the information about the lifeforms he had encountered whose origins were at the level of high-grade innate lifeforms or above.
He would also contribute the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven, as well as the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Innate Spiritual Treasures, and Innate Spiritual Roots he had obtained. If he encountered suitable talents in the future, he was not to let them slip away and could send them over for cultivation.
Before long, the three contacted Yuan Yan and compiled the information on the lifeforms they had encountered whose origins were at the level of high-grade innate lifeforms or above, then gave it all to Yuan Ling.
In less than a thousand years, Yuan Ling had used deductions of the Heavenly Secrets and investigated the past, selecting fifty or sixty thousand suitable lifeforms. He then crossed the void and personally recruited them one by one, bringing those willing to follow him back to Yingzhou Immortal Island.
As for the small number of lifeforms unwilling to follow him, Yuan Ling did not care.
The Primordial World's origin was far too abundant, nurturing countless Innate Lifeforms and Innate Divines. At their cultivation realms, he did not lack lifeforms with top-tier Innate Divine origins who were willing to follow him.
Those lifeforms' refusal to follow him was not his loss. They were the ones who had missed out on an enormous opportunity.
After bringing more than fifty thousand lifeforms back to Yingzhou Immortal Island, Yuan Ling pondered and deduced for a time, then established a complete cultivation system.
He did not intend to personally manage or cultivate them, nor did he have the time.
But neither could he simply leave them entirely unattended. He could only use the Clone Technique to create ten Taiyi Golden Immortal Late Stage clones, specifically responsible for management and cultivation.
His plan for cultivating those fifty thousand-plus lifeforms was to spare no expense at first. Without requiring them to give anything in return and without affecting their future potential, he would raise them to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm as quickly as possible.
Afterward, they would have only one basic benefit: every Epoch, they could listen to one of Yuan Ling, Yuan Lun, or Yuan Jie preach the Dao for a thousand years. The time was fixed; if they missed it, they missed it!
As for wanting anything else, they would need merit. So long as they had enough merit, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Innate Spiritual Fruits, opportunities to comprehend Innate Spiritual Roots and Innate Spiritual Treasures, Innate Spiritual Treasures, and Innate Spiritual Roots—all could be exchanged for.
Alongside the basic benefit came a basic mandatory task: every two Epochs, they had to spend at least one Epoch stationed at and presiding over the operation of the grand formations they had set up.
This could be accumulated. For example, they could station themselves at and preside over the operation of the grand formations for ten Epochs at once, then rest for ten Epochs at once.
Among them, a Taiyi Golden Immortal Early Stage cultivator could earn one to three Minor Merits for stationing themselves at and presiding over the operation of a formation he had set up for one Epoch; a Taiyi Golden Immortal Middle Stage cultivator could earn five to fifteen Minor Merits; a Taiyi Golden Immortal Late Stage cultivator could earn twenty-five to seventy-five Minor Merits; and a Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection cultivator could earn one hundred and twenty-five to three hundred and seventy-five Minor Merits.
As for Great Firmament Golden Immortals, their rewards would be calculated in Major Merits. The method was similar to that for Taiyi Golden Immortals. A Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage cultivator could earn one to three Major Merits for stationing themselves at and presiding over the operation of a formation he had set up for one Epoch—one Major Merit was roughly equivalent to ten thousand Minor Merits.
Afterward, Yuan Ling used a special divine jade Yuan Yan had obtained at Mount Buzhou, Innate Enlightenment Jade, to refine three thousand Law Steles. Each Law Stele contained one perfected law.
At the same time, each Law Stele could accommodate ten lifeforms in comprehension. Under the influence of the Law Stele's Dao aura, those comprehending it could easily enter a state of enlightenment and more readily comprehend the corresponding law to perfection.
After completing all this, Yuan Ling returned to the Three Lights Divine Water Pool to enter seclusion, sinking into deep enlightenment and handing the many miscellaneous matters to his clones.
Yuan Ling had completed his task, and Yuan Jie and Yuan Lun were no slower. In just over one Epoch, they deduced a suitable grand formation: the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.
This formation placed no requirements on the objects suppressing its foundations or on those setting up and operating it. It emphasized using the formation to connect with and draw upon heaven and earth. Heaven and earth would work together to absorb and refine Chaos Qi, transforming it into Heaven-Earth Origin Force.
The effects of Heaven-Earth Origin Force were extraordinarily heaven-defying. It could make up for the deficiencies of heaven and earth, contained the three thousand Great Daos, and could help people comprehend the Great Dao. If there was enough of it, it could even help Innate Lifeforms break through their innate limitations and transform into Innate Divines.
Having deduced the suitable formation, Yuan Lun, who had essentially been working unpaid overtime, immediately lent the Mountain-Driving Whip to Yuan Jie, then slipped away.
He first returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island and the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven, leaving behind a clone. Then he returned to the Great Awakening Blessed Land, left another clone to manage the blessed land, and also entered seclusion, sinking into deep enlightenment.
As for Yuan Jie, it was already his turn to restore the earth veins and test the effects of the formation the two had deduced and created. Naturally, he did not hesitate.
In an instant, Yuan Jie crossed the void and rushed to a mountain range Yuan Lun had already restored. Using its innate earth vein and a low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure as formation foundations, he evolved and set up the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation.
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