Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Chapter 49 Merit Maker

In just tens of thousands of years, the Yuan Realm completed the Great Array of Returning Heaven and Earth to Origin.

With a flick of his finger, Yuan Jie unleashed a condensed force of world power, which poured directly into the core of the great formation, completely activating the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Great Formation.

In an instant, the innate earth veins deep within the vast mountains and rivers underwent earth-shaking and strange changes. Countless mysterious array patterns emerged from the depths of the earth veins, shimmering and shining brightly.

In an instant, it connected heaven and earth, inducing the great rhythm of the entire world, and perfectly blended with the vast and boundless power of the earth's veins, becoming one with them.

In an instant, the chaotic energy that poured into this world from the boundless void suddenly surged several times over, rushing in like a raging river. It was rapidly refined and transformed by the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array. Within the array's core, the supreme phenomena of the beginning of chaos, the differentiation of yin and yang, and the birth of heaven and earth faintly appeared.

The power generated by the great formation was divided into three parts. One part of the chaotic energy followed the old pattern and was completely transformed into innate spiritual energy and Daoist spiritual energy. It flowed slowly along the main vein of the earth and then gushed out through various spiritual caves, spreading between the mountains and rivers, nourishing the plants and living beings of this world.

The remaining vast majority of chaotic energy was transformed into the primordial power of heaven and earth by the great formation with its supreme power.

Part of this primordial power was absorbed by the damaged earth veins, rapidly replenishing their losses and repairing their original damage, making the earth veins increasingly powerful and stable. The other part was properly stored in the array's core, accumulating little by little for later use.

"Good! Very good!"

The primordial spirit, through the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array, covered and enveloped the entire array, clearly sensing the efficiency of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array in absorbing and refining chaotic energy. The primordial spirit showed a satisfied expression and slowly nodded.

At this moment, he merely activated the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, allowing it to operate on its own. The speed at which it absorbed and transformed chaotic energy already surpassed that of the earth's veins at their peak, when the Western earth vein network still existed.

If he were to personally take action and operate the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Formation to its fullest potential, its power would likely increase several times over, and the efficiency of absorbing and refining chaotic energy would naturally increase several times over as well.

Although he had important matters to attend to and could not stay here indefinitely, Yuanling was cultivating experts above the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.

Once a sufficient number of loyal Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivators are trained and entrusted to take turns guarding and managing the operation of the great formation, even if the power of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Great Formation cannot be fully unleashed, it will not be difficult to activate seventy or eighty percent of its power.

In this way, he not only doesn't need to worry about external enemies breaking in and taking away the innate spiritual treasure that serves as the foundation of the Great Array for Suppressing Heaven and Earth, but it also has an even more important function: it can absorb and transform more chaotic energy, helping him earn more merit.

"Boom!" Just as Yuanjie was lost in thought, a booming sound came from the darkness.

Yuan Jie immediately came to his senses, looked up and gazed through the endless void. He saw a large amount of merit gathering in the heavens and falling directly down towards him, all flowing into the golden wheel of merit in his sea of ​​consciousness. This made the golden wheel of merit expand even further, and the merit glow on the golden wheel of merit became even thicker and the aura of the Great Dao became even more stable.

Moreover, at this moment, Yuanjie sensed that this merit was not a one-time thing. This one-time merit was merely a reward from the Heavenly Dao for setting up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array for him.

In the future, as long as the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array continues to draw and transform more chaotic energy through the boundless void, he will be able to continuously gain merit.

As for how much merit one gains, it depends on how much chaotic energy the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array can absorb and transform, and also on where he uses the transformed power of the origin of heaven and earth.

If he were to refine it himself, or use it to train powerful individuals under him, the merit he would gain would certainly be greatly reduced.

However, if it is used to repair the deficiencies of heaven and earth, or transformed into innate spiritual energy and Daoist inspiration that overflows into the world, then the merit gained will not be diminished.

Having grasped the key to this, Yuan Jie nodded in satisfaction once again, his heart filled with uncontrollable joy, which was evident on his face.

This Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array is truly an inexhaustible source of merit.

Although the merit gained from a single Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array is not much per Yuanhui, what about hundreds or thousands of Yuanhui?

Although setting up only one Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array will not yield much merit, what if you set up hundreds or thousands?

At that time, they might not have to work so hard anymore and could simply lie down and accumulate merit.

After a period of elation, Yuan Jie slowly calmed his surging emotions, suppressed his reverie and daydreams, and regained his usual composure and calmness.

Even if he could accumulate merit while lying down, that would be a long time from now. He still has to work hard now so that he might be able to accumulate merit while lying down in the future.

Moreover, with their current resources, setting up two hundred Heaven and Earth Returning Origin Arrays is relatively easy; it's just a matter of time.

But several thousand? That would be extremely difficult!

The most critical problem is that they simply don't have enough idle innate spiritual treasures and roots to use as array bases.

Since they began their journey through the primordial world, the four of them have encountered numerous opportunities, especially in the Yin-Yang Grotto, Yingzhou Immortal Island, and many battlefields of the three races, where they have achieved great success.

Even so, the four of them only had a little over two hundred innate spiritual treasures and roots in total.

Moreover, the high-grade and top-grade innate spiritual treasures they possess are the foundation of their existence, greatly enhancing their combat power.

The primordial world is a world where the strong prey on the weak and the mighty are respected. Naturally, they would not use these treasured items to set up a grand formation, thus weakening their own strength for nothing.

Upon careful calculation, they found that the number of innate spiritual treasures and roots they possessed that could serve as the foundation for the array and to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array was only about two hundred.

They used this to set up more than two hundred Heaven and Earth Returning Origin Grand Arrays. If they did not obtain more innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots...

Therefore, if one wants to continue setting up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array, one can only settle for second best by expending effort to refine acquired spiritual treasures or slowly cultivate acquired spiritual roots to serve as the array base.

However, if you use acquired spiritual treasures or acquired spiritual roots as the base of the array, you either need to use higher quality ones, or the power of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array will definitely decrease a lot, because in terms of connecting and invoking the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, acquired treasures are far inferior to innate treasures.

Moreover, neither refining acquired spiritual treasures nor cultivating acquired spiritual roots can be done out of thin air; both require massive resources and a considerable amount of time.

Although they have a lot of resources, it depends on who they are compared to. Compared to the three innate races of the past, they probably don't even have a fraction of what the three innate races possessed. They simply don't have enough resources to refine enough acquired spiritual treasures, cultivate enough acquired spiritual roots, or set up thousands of Heaven and Earth Returning Origin Grand Arrays.

With the resources at their disposal, they'd be lucky to set up even a few hundred Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Arrays!