Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Chapter 287 Are the Advantages Outweigh the Disadvantages? City Building

However, if the number of cultivators in the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage reaches hundreds of millions, even if the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage stop cultivating, they may not be able to investigate them all. The stack itself is already considered to have relaxed restrictions, and their character and conduct may not be up to standard. If there is still no investigation and supervision, then the bad apples among them will not be eliminated.

As time goes on, the lower levels of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage may become corrupted, gradually accumulating endless karmic debts of killing, ruining the fortune of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, and ultimately destroying it.

Therefore, Yuan Yan rejected Fu Xi's proposal.

Of course, Yuan Yan did not make a unilateral decision and reject it without reason. Instead, he gave reasons for his rejection, which were recognized by Fuxi and Nuwa.

"Then why are you still here?" Yuanjie didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

Fuxi explained calmly, "Your concerns are nothing more than two things: first, the lack of resources, and second, the fear that a mixed bag of good and bad people would ruin the fortune of my Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage. If we loosen the restrictions and recruit hundreds of millions of Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals, then there might indeed be big problems. But if we only recruit a few hundred million Taiyi Golden Immortals, there shouldn't be any problems."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling all fell into thought. After a moment of contemplation, they also felt that what Fu Xi said made sense.

If we only recruit a few hundred million Taiyi Golden Immortals, there shouldn't be any major problems, and the benefits certainly outweigh the drawbacks.

Admittedly, recruiting hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals without lowering the treatment of cultivators from Yingzhou Immortal Island would also require a massive amount of resources and treasures.

However, after these Taiyi Golden Immortals joined the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, they became both consumers and creators of resources. Their participation in activating and operating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array greatly enhanced its power, allowing them to absorb and transform more chaotic energy and create more resources.

If it weren't for the innate spiritual energy and Daoist inspiration transformed by the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, most of it would be released to various parts of the Western Continent to nourish all things and spirits in the world. The power of the origin of heaven and earth transformed would be mostly used to repair the Western Continent.

The mere fact that they activated and operated the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, generating innate spiritual energy, Daoist inspiration, and the power of the origin of heaven and earth, was enough for their enlightenment and cultivation, and even far exceeded it.

Even if this cannot satisfy their needs for enlightenment and cultivation, the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage occupies the Western Continent and possesses countless blessed lands and grotto heavens. The Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce has a lot of income, so even if they all cultivate to the perfection of Taiyi Golden Immortal, it will definitely be enough to meet their cultivation needs.

As for whether they all cultivated to the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal?

Among them, there are definitely many who haven't even reached the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal, let alone Daluo Golden Immortal. If they could all break through to Daluo Golden Immortal, Yuan Yan and the others would be overjoyed.

As for the problem of a mixed bag of good and bad people potentially ruining the fortune of the Yingzhou Immortal Island, it is not difficult to solve.

It's only a few hundred million Taiyi Golden Immortals, not hundreds of millions.

The Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage has over a thousand Great Luo Golden Immortals, and this doesn't even include Quasi-Saints, Primordial Golden Immortals, or those with Three Corpse Dao Bodies.

If they were to deduce the secrets of heaven and investigate the karmic consequences of killing on these hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals every hundred eons, it shouldn't take too long, at most tens of thousands of years, to find out the bad apples who went too far.

Every hundred cycles, taking tens of thousands of years, is not too long for the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, and is perfectly acceptable.

Moreover, in order to prevent Taiyi Golden Immortals with heavy karmic burdens from using connections, the Daluo Golden Immortals of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage could be allowed to investigate different Taiyi Golden Immortal groups each time, and even Quasi-Saints and Hunyuan Golden Immortals could occasionally take action, or sometimes they could take action themselves.

After these bad apples are caught, they should be punished or executed in front of all cultivators of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, depending on the severity of their karmic consequences. This will surely deter the hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals who have joined the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage from committing too many acts of killing, thus ensuring that the fortune of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage is not ruined.

Yuan Yan even had other ideas: to trade with the Styx River for some Innate Karmic Fire Red Lotus seeds, and then use these seeds as the main ingredient to refine some Karmic Reflection Mirrors, designating them as the treasures of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage.

With the Mirror of Karma, even if the highest authority is in the hands of the six of them, the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage can investigate the karma of killing more easily, and the results of their investigations will be known to them. If a Taiyi Golden Immortal has committed a massive amount of karma of killing, even if he has a powerful backer, it will be much more difficult for him to cover it up.

With the resource problem solved, there's no need to worry about a mixed bag of people ruining the fortune of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage. Recruiting hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals would indeed be far more beneficial than harmful to the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage.

Having made up his mind, Yuan Yan was ready to make a decision.

However, suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Yuan Yan, and he changed his mind, having a better idea in mind.

If, as Fuxi said, we recruit hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals, even if there aren't any major problems, minor issues will certainly arise constantly:

Among those hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals, there must be many whose character and conduct are not up to par. Even if strict systems are established and strict supervision is implemented, those who dare to create too much karmic karma of killing will surely be punished or even killed. However, before being punished or even killed, the karmic karma of killing they have created will not disappear, and the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage will also have to bear part of it.

Even if those hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals dare not commit indiscriminate killing and accumulate too much karmic debt due to the rules of the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, it is impossible for all of them to be alone. Many of them must have clans and relatives. If their clans and relatives rely on their power and act recklessly, committing indiscriminate killing and accumulating too much karmic debt, then they will also be implicated, which will in turn affect the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage.

Those hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals may have had grudges against each other before joining the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage. Many of them must have come from different races, and their races may have been hostile to each other. They may have brought these grudges into the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, which is not conducive to internal unity and stability.

Although these issues are minor, attracting hundreds of millions of Taiyi Golden Immortals is still far more beneficial than harmful.

But Yuan Yan has another method that has no drawbacks:

Cities were built throughout the western continent, with each city located within a certain distance from the others.

If one wishes to enter the city alone, one's cultivation level must not be lower than that of a Golden Immortal. A Taiyi Golden Immortal may bring no more than ten people into the city, while there is no limit for a Daluo Golden Immortal.

To reside in the city long-term, one must pay a certain amount of contribution according to the time limit. The contribution required for renting or purchasing cave dwellings of different grades varies. No one in the city is allowed to fight or kill each other; violators will be executed!

After entering the city, you can sign up to participate in activating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array. Each participation time must be no less than ten Yuanhui, with no upper limit.

If you sign up to participate in activating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, you can receive different contributions depending on your cultivation level, participation time, and the amount of time you spend participating.