Over those three thousand years, the Three Pure Ones had reorganized their own Daos.
They had severed their good and evil corpses, stripped away the primordial violet qi, and abandoned the Three Corpses slashing system Hong Jun had taught, cultivating anew upon the fundamental Daos derived from the divisions of Pangu's primordial spirit.
Taiqing Laozi used the Great Dao of Yin and Yang to evolve the birth and destruction of all things.
From yin-yang qi, he comprehended the ultimate truth that "Dao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things."
His cultivation steadily recovered from the Daluo Golden Immortal peak, breaking through to early-stage primordial origin golden immortal.
Yuqing Yuanshi used the Dao of Chaos to establish laws of order, refining from the light of chaos a foundation of laws that "elucidated the Great Dao and established rules." He likewise broke through to early-stage primordial origin golden immortal.
Sect Master Tongtian took the Sword Dao as his bones and the gathering of life as his soul.
Through countless sparring matches with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying had been honed ever sharper.
His sword intent had gained a compassionate aura that opened a path to life for all living beings, and he too firmly stepped into early-stage primordial origin golden immortal.
Although they had yet to recover to the peak late quasi-saint level of their Three Corpses period, the auras of all three were purer and deeper than they had been then.
During their Three Corpses period, their cultivation had been high, but a faint impediment had always lingered.
That had been the restrictions within the primordial violet qi invisibly tugging at their primordial spirits, the sense of incompleteness left by the Three Corpses Severing Method cutting apart their primordial spirits.