Soon, more people chose to withdraw.
In the end, only thirty-six remained.
Some were wealthy, others wanted to take a gamble. Ding Yun belonged to the former category, as the earnings from her last exploration mission were quite substantial. She alone took half of the mission's reward, and that was after expending a considerable portion of her demon realm's origin.
Otherwise, she would have received over sixty percent.
Moreover, what the director-general said was true: the shaping of an innate indestructible true spirit indeed required applications and contributions. This opportunity, which didn't need applications or contributions but only a small expenditure of origin, was truly rare.
If she hadn't accumulated enough world origin, it would have been different. But since she had enough, she naturally couldn't miss it.
As the specific personnel were finalized, Ding Yun and the others, after expending some world origin, were quickly taken for modification. They were placed in the origin sea of the origin universe for a process of reversing to innateness. Before the modification, each person had to choose a law as their core law, preferably one that wouldn't appear at the creation of a world, to avoid two innate deities mastering the same law and becoming mortal enemies upon entering.
Each law in the heavens and earth had only one master.
This was a struggle of the Great Dao, a fight to the death.
In response, Ding Yun specifically chose the law of computation from the technological side as her origin law. She even paid additional world origin to purchase the most advanced cosmic-grade intelligent chip from the origin universe, to be nurtured alongside her in the origin sea, thus creating a unique innate spiritual treasure as her companion.
After all, the companion innate spiritual treasure could be brought back.
This investment was definitely not a loss.
The entire nurturing process lasted tens of thousands of years. Even with the assistance of over ten divine artifacts of time law, it still took nearly ten years in the outside world for them to completely reverse to innateness. Following that, Ding Yun and the others were given advance notice, and then they, who were still in their innate embryonic state and yet to be born, were somehow smuggled into the Eternal World, which was in its primordial stage of creation.
Since that Eternal World was currently in the process of creation and the gods had not yet been born, there were very few active life forms. Therefore, as long as they could deceive the nascent and懵懂 world consciousness, and be successfully sent in, they would generally be safe during their nurturing period.
Furthermore, for their personal safety, the cosmic management bureau had specially embedded some hidden mechanisms within their embryos. Upon entering the Eternal World, they would automatically locate a resource-rich area, and upon landing, an innate grand formation would be established to protect them.
This innate protective formation would only automatically open once they had adapted to the environment and laws of the Eternal World, successfully integrated into that world, and were successfully born.
At that point, they would be granted free access.
This wouldn't appear abrupt, as during the normal nurturing process of innate deities, innate formations would also appear to protect them, with the specific strength linked to their nurturing location and fundamental law.
The more critical the area of the world, and the more important the deity's fundamental law was to the world, the more tightly they would be protected, ensuring they would not perish prematurely.
As for those who were less important or less unique, they could only rely on their own luck and ability.
The innate protective formations for Ding Yun and the others were of a slightly higher level than the protection normally afforded to deities of their caliber. After all, if they perished before being born, the origin universe management bureau would certainly feel the sting of their investment.
So much had already been invested in the early stages.
Naturally, they couldn't be stingy with the protective mechanisms.
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As their protective innate embryos accurately landed on the core of the largest innate spiritual脉 near the designated location, beginning to exchange essences with it, and the external innate formations were officially deployed, ensuring their safety.
Ding Yun, following the descriptions in the guide "Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Dao Ancestor," began the first step for an outsider deity entering the Eternal World.
That was to assimilate themselves and wash away their imprints.
In simple terms, it meant using the innate spiritual energy of this world to gradually replace every trace and inch of innate spiritual energy within their bodies. During this replacement process, they would also wash away all the imprints belonging to the origin universe, transforming them into imprints of this world, so that they could truly and completely become native life forms of this world. Once this step was completed, even if the Heavenly Dao were to emerge, it would not be able to claim them as foreign demons.
Although theoretically, the essence of innate spiritual energy should be the same, the innate spiritual energy of different worlds actually had slight differences. This was because innate spiritual energy was generally derived directly from the world's origin, or transformed from chaotic energy by the world. Whether it was directly derived from the world's origin or transformed by the world from chaotic energy, the process inevitably involved the world as an intermediary.
Therefore, even if the similarity of innate spiritual energy was as high as ninety-nine point nine nine percent, there would still be a slight difference in the world's aura. A small amount of spiritual energy might not attract attention, but they themselves were innate deities formed by the convergence of innate spiritual energy. The convergence of world auras from countless other worlds made it truly difficult to go unnoticed.
If their protective innate embryos were not created by the origin universe using the latest technology, which removed the world aura from the innate spiritual energy, making it the purest innate spiritual energy devoid of any world aura,
and could to some extent help them conceal their presence.
They would have had difficulty even entering.
This concealment couldn't last forever. Moreover, they would eventually be born and couldn't possibly remain hidden within their innate embryos indefinitely. Therefore, they still had to follow the process and make some transformations.
The replaced innate spiritual energy containing the origin universe's aura, after entering the grand circulation of innate spiritual energy, would soon have its corresponding aura gradually erased by the innate spiritual energy of this world.
Only then could they be considered as having replaced themselves with native innate deities of this world without any hidden dangers.
As for Ding Yun, she had to transform an additional companion innate spiritual treasure compared to others. Therefore, she naturally wouldn't dare to delay. As soon as she stabilized, she began to transform with all her might, prioritizing the transformation of her companion spiritual treasure. Because only after her companion spiritual treasure, the cosmic-grade intelligent chip, was transformed would she be able to cheat, right?
In Ding Yun's plan, the cosmic-grade intelligent chip should be comparable to a weakened version of the Creation Jade Butterfly. Although it would have almost no offensive or defensive capabilities, its deductive, computational, and analytical abilities would be extremely strong. The most important aspect of preaching the Dao is having something to preach. If there's nothing to preach, and people come to listen to your rambling, would they still regard you as a Dao Ancestor?
Therefore, the cosmic-grade intelligent chip was absolutely a core part of Ding Yun's plan and must be taken seriously!