Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

(ps: After Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fu Xi, and Nuwa addressed each other as brother and sister, Nuwa and Fu Xi called Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling "elder brother," "second brother," "third brother," and "fourth brother," respectively. Nuwa called Fu Xi "elder brother," while Yuan Yan and the others addressed Nuwa and Fu Xi either by their given names or as "younger sister" or "fifth brother.")

Before Yuan Yan could respond, Fu Xi said with a hint of apology, "It must be I who disturbed you, elder brother!"

"It's none of your business!" Yuan Yan shook his head slightly and said, "With the protection of the Twenty-Fourth Grade Creation Green Lotus, your Qi fluctuations from evolving the Eight Trigrams Great Dao and breaking through to the twelfth level of the Great Luo Golden Immortal cannot affect me."

"I've been in seclusion for so long, and I was getting a bit bored. I just happened to sense that you had broken through, so I took the opportunity to come out of seclusion."

"I will not continue my seclusion. Nuwa, what is it you need?" Yuan Yan turned to Nuwa and asked.

"It's nothing much. It's just that my second, third, and fourth brothers and I were setting up the Heaven and Earth Returning Origin Array after repairing the mountains and rivers. Now it's the turn of my eldest brother!"

Nuwa pursed her lips slightly, waved her hand, took out several sets of Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array flags, and sent them to Yuan Yan, also indicating the locations of several newly repaired earth veins.

Upon seeing this, Yuan Yan was slightly surprised and said, "Wasn't it already decided that you would be in charge of setting up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array on these repaired ley lines?"

Of course, this was not decided by the true bodies of Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi, but by the avatars they separated to manage and cultivate the lineage of cultivators from Yingzhou Immortal Island.

(P.S.: Yuan Yan and others have not yet formally prayed to Heaven and Earth to establish a sect or clan; for the time being, they are referred to as the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage.)

Long ago, Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fu Xi, and Nuwa had agreed to take turns going to the repaired ley lines to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array.

However, before this, Yuan Yan was in seclusion and Fu Xi was comprehending the Eight Trigrams. Their clones indicated that they could not be disturbed for the time being, so they had to be left out.

In this cycle, it was Nuwa's turn to go to the repaired earth veins to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array.

However, now that Yuan Yan and Fu Xi have emerged from seclusion, Nuwa feels that not only should they be included, but also those she previously missed should be added to the list.

Therefore, Nuwa mentioned that she was preparing to give Yuan Yan the opportunity to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array after the earth veins had been repaired.

Of course, the reason why Nuwa was prepared to give Yuan Yan the opportunity to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array after the earth veins were repaired was because it was not a difficult task, but a great opportunity.

Once you take control of the array flag, you can set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array on the repaired ley lines, accelerating the ley lines' absorption and transformation of chaotic energy, and continuously condensing the power of the origin of heaven and earth. In addition to gaining a considerable amount of merit at once, you can also gain merit steadily and continuously.

This can be considered a merit-generating device in the hands of Yuan Yan and others, and it is also the most profitable among the several ways that Yuan Yan and others have mastered to earn merit.

As for the other two ways to earn merit?

One is to use the power of the origin of heaven and earth to repair the damaged and incomplete mountains and rivers.

Secondly, he went to oversee and operate the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, allowing it to exert even greater power, absorb and transform more chaotic energy, and condense more power of the origin of heaven and earth.

Of these two methods, the first one will bestow a massive amount of merit upon the person who repaired the earth's veins after the earth's veins are repaired. However, not all of this merit will belong to the person who repaired the earth's veins.

Because Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Lun, Nuwa, and Fuxi generally do not participate in repairing the earth veins; they usually send their subordinate Grand Luo Golden Immortals to repair the earth veins.

They were cultivators from the Yingzhou Immortal Island lineage, and they went to repair the earth veins following the instructions of Yuan Yan and others. The vital power of the origin of heaven and earth that was crucial in this process belonged to Yuan Yan and others, along with other factors.

They naturally cannot obtain all the merits of Heaven, or even most of them; they can only obtain two or three tenths of the merits.

Although this amount is considerable, not only making up for the time and effort they spent repairing the earth veins, but also far exceeding it, the bulk of the merit belongs to Yuan Yan and the others.

As for the second option, one can go and take charge of operating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, allowing the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array to exert even greater power, absorb and transform more chaotic energy, and condense more power of the origin of heaven and earth.

The merit they can earn is not much; it is estimated that it can only barely make up for the time and energy they spent sitting and operating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array.

If it weren't for the fact that the cultivators under Yuan Yan and others, including the Great Luo Golden Immortals, could gain merit by overseeing the operation of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array and exchange that merit for various treasures, probably very few of the cultivators under Yuan Yan and others would be willing to oversee the operation of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array.

"But that was because you and your brother were in seclusion. Now that you've come out, it's your turn to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, and even make up for what you did before. You can't be lazy!" Nuwa said, blinking slightly.

"Alright, I'll set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array this time. But just make up for what happened before, let me take a break!" Yuan Yan said with a light laugh.

As he spoke, Yuan Yan also put away the array flags used to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array.

At this moment, Yuan Yan examined the array flag in his hand and nodded slightly. This array flag was no ordinary item.

Of course, if you insist on using ordinary goods, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

However, it won't be long before the array flags collapse due to their inability to withstand the power of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array. The time they can last is directly proportional to the quality of the array flags.

In order not to waste resources and treasures, nor to waste time and energy, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, who were responsible for refining the array flags, would naturally not be perfunctory in their work.

Before they begin refining, they will examine the grade of the earth veins they intend to repair, and then refine array flags that match or even exceed the grade of the earth veins. Once the earth veins are repaired, they can directly set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array.

This approach can prevent the array flags from being too low-grade and unable to withstand the power of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, thus avoiding them from slowly collapsing. It can also prevent the array flags from being too high-grade and being too wasteful.

A formation flag that can match or even exceed the level of a primordial earth vein is naturally extraordinary. Even the worst formation flag is a low-grade Dao artifact that combines formation and weapon.

Of course, Yuan Yan and others are used to corresponding it with innate spiritual treasures and calling it acquired spiritual treasures.

It is no exaggeration to say that although such array flags cannot assist cultivators in comprehending the Dao, their power is absolutely no less than that of innate spiritual treasures of the same level.

If activated by an early-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal, the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array could definitely trap a powerful expert of the same level who does not possess a powerful spiritual treasure, or even completely refine him into the power of the origin of heaven and earth.

(P.S.: Acquired spiritual treasures are divided into five levels: low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, top-grade, and elite.)

Among them, the low-grade acquired spiritual treasures contain one to twelve acquired divine restrictions.

A mid-grade acquired spiritual treasure contains thirteen to twenty-four acquired divine restrictions.