Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Because the twelve-grade Pure World White Lotus and the nine-grade Pure World White Lotus did not remain in the Three Lights Divine Water Pool to be cultivated by Nuwa.

When Yuanjie, Yuanlun, Yuanling, and Fuxi go out, they usually bring their own Pure World White Lotus as a protective treasure. Once they leave the Three Lights Divine Water Pool, the Pure World White Lotus will naturally stop producing lotus seeds.

Since Yuan Yan had refined the Great Luo Dao Pill, he couldn't possibly use it all to create Great Luo Golden Immortals who hadn't yet transcended their own path.

The Great Luo Dao Pill has little effect on Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling; at most, it can save them two or three Yuan Hui of cultivation. However, it is of great benefit to Nuwa and Fuxi.

In other words, once you take one Great Luo Dao Pill made from the same type of lotus seed, taking more will not be of much benefit. Otherwise, Yuan Yan would definitely not mind having the six of them divide all the Great Luo Dao Pills among themselves.

The Great Luo Dao Pill had some effect on Yuan Yan and others, and it was even more beneficial to the Great Luo Golden Immortals under their command who had developed their own paths. Taking it would definitely bring them great benefits.

In Yuan Yan's view, it is more important to help a Great Luo Golden Immortal who has broken free from his own path to quickly cultivate to a higher realm than to create a useless Great Luo Golden Immortal who has not broken free from his own path.

Because a Primordial Golden Immortal is definitely more useful and more important than thousands of useless Daluo Golden Immortals.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Yan has had the Yin-Yang Twin Lotus and the Pure World White Lotus for quite some time, accumulating a considerable number of lotus seeds of superior quality. After refining them all into Great Luo Dao Pills, totaling no less than two hundred, he has only created a little over eighty Great Luo Golden Immortals who have not yet transcended their own paths.

The remaining Great Luo Dao Pills were distributed among Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fu Xi, Nuwa, and the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Yingzhou Immortal Dao lineage who had forged their own paths. Each person received two pills: one made from the seeds of the Pure World White Lotus and the other from the seeds of the Yin-Yang Twin Lotus.

Furthermore, after more than a hundred eons of development, the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage not only produced tens of thousands of Taiyi Golden Immortals at the peak of their cultivation, but also hundreds of Daluo Golden Immortals. Those Daluo Golden Immortals who had walked their own paths, regardless of whether they had entered the Zixiao Palace to listen to the Dao or whether they were newly promoted Daluo Golden Immortals, all made great progress in their cultivation.

In order to cultivate those Great Luo Golden Immortals who could forge their own paths and help them grow quickly and reach higher realms, Yuan Yan and others offered many benefits:

For example, each of them can obtain two Great Luo Dao Pills, one made from the seeds of the Pure World White Lotus and the other from the seeds of the Yin-Yang Twin Lotus.

For example, every five cycles, the Yuan Realm, Yuan Wheel, and Yuan Spirit will take turns preaching to them for 50,000 years, explaining the mysteries of all realms from Earth Immortal to Great Luo Golden Immortal.

For example, every so often, they can be assigned the task of repairing the earth's veins with the power of the origin of heaven and earth, which can earn them a lot of merit. Burning merit can lead to a state of enlightenment where they are in harmony with the Dao, allowing their cultivation level to advance by leaps and bounds.

For example, they would sit in charge of the earth veins in various places, operate the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, and enhance the power of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array. Although they could not obtain much merit, it was enough to make up for the time and energy they spent.

For example, they can comprehend the great Dao contained within many innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots.

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However, all the cultivators of Yingzhou Immortal Island, including those who have forged their own paths and attained great immortality, have received so many benefits, but not all of them are free; many must be exchanged for merit.

For example, the Great Luo Dao Pill and the Enlightenment Pill; the opportunity for Great Luo Golden Immortals to comprehend innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots; the opportunity for cultivators below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level to comprehend the Law Stele; the opportunity to repair the earth's veins with the power of the origin of heaven and earth; and so on...

Otherwise, Yuan Yan and the others would be at a huge loss if they were given so many benefits for free.

Moreover, this is not conducive to future management and training, as it may foster a habit of reaping without sowing, making them lazy and unwilling to contribute. It is also detrimental to internal unity, and may cause dissatisfaction among cultivators who have not received enough benefits.

As for the claim that they haven't been with the Yingzhou Immortal Island faction for long and haven't accumulated enough merit to justify the benefits they've received, that's a separate issue.

That's alright! They can receive many benefits in advance, quickly improve their cultivation level, and then slowly repay the merits needed to exchange for these benefits later.

The cultivators of Yingzhou Immortal Island were not the least bit unwilling to do so; in fact, they were vying to be the first to participate.

To exchange for a Great Luo Dao Pill, one needs 300 Great Merits. An early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal needs to work hard for 100-200 Yuanhui to accumulate enough Merits, while a mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal only needs to work hard for a few dozen Yuanhui, a late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal only needs to work hard for a dozen or so Yuanhui, and a perfect Great Luo Golden Immortal only needs to work hard for one or two Yuanhui to accumulate enough Merits.

And what about a Taiyi Golden Immortal at the peak? It would probably take a great eon, ten thousand eons of tireless work, to accumulate enough merit to exchange for the Great Luo Dao Pill.

If they can receive many benefits in advance to improve their cultivation level, the time required for them to repay the benefits and make contributions when they reach a higher level will be much shorter. For them, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

Furthermore, as Yuan Yan and others employed their various methods, and as the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage developed rapidly, the progress of Yuan Yan and others in repairing the Western Continent also accelerated, and not just by a little bit, but by one or two times.

Moreover, this is because as time goes by, the damaged and broken ley lines of the Western Continent continue to deteriorate, the source of the ley lines continues to dissipate, the difficulty and cost of repair continue to increase, and the power of the source of heaven and earth condensed by the various Heaven and Earth Returning Origin Arrays is limited...

Otherwise, the restoration of the ley lines on the western continent would have progressed much faster than just one or two times.

However, it is foreseeable that with the development of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage and the deployment of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array in more repaired ley lines, more power of the origin of heaven and earth can be gathered. The progress of the repair of the ley lines in the Western Continent will not slow down, but will continue to accelerate.

Of course, as Yuan Yan and others repaired more and more of the ley lines in the Western Continent, more and more areas of the Western Continent began to recover, and Yuan Yan and others also gained more and more merit.

In other words, merit is hard to come by, and Yuan Yan and others are unwilling to waste it. They want to accumulate enough merit for their future goal of becoming a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal or attaining sainthood.

They did not choose to squander their merits and exhaust them completely, but instead accelerated their spiritual progress as much as possible.

Generally, it is only after one has accumulated a certain level of understanding of the Three Thousand Great Daos and resolved the doubts in one's heart that one burns a small amount of merit to enter a state of enlightenment where one merges with the Dao, resolves the doubts in one's heart, evolves and perfects one's own Great Dao, and allows one's cultivation level to advance rapidly.

Otherwise, if they were to squander all their merits and use them up, their cultivation progress would definitely be several times, or even ten times, faster than it is now.

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