Yang Rai left the place and made his way to Void Land. On his way he stopped and collected the last remaining life in the Territory he just fought in. He could sense there were many StarFields that had yet to be destroyed. Likely due to no one refining their source. Yang Rai's harvest was vast and fruitful.
All of the StarFields were mostly dead but that really didn't matter. In fact just having all of the dead StarFields and even Worlds was a massive help to him. Maybe he could find a way to grow Whole Universe Worlds as well. But that would require many dead Universe Worlds. If it was even possible. Maybe there was another way to do it. He might try it later.
Yang Rai arrived in Void land and started his 1st year of seclusion there. This was so the Cultivators of Void land would get the opportunity to visit the Cultivation Springs. This included the many 5th and 6th ranks. Only the manager was left out for this time around but it was fine.
In this 1st year Yang Rai had used his new Attainments in his abilities to speed up the Artifact World. In fact it was so drastic this time. He would have to speak with the manager and others about the difference once the year was up.
During this time Yang Rai didn't really bother to worry too much about the others. He already had soul wisps refining the Artifacts everyone needed and he would periodically help others to absorb the 12 columns into their Universe World.
Now that he had plenty of time by himself he began synthesizing a great many of the resource generators he had. After he realized just how much he needs to consume in order to ascend to the open heaven realm he knew there was nothing he could do about it aside from preparing more Resource Generators.
Over the course of that full year of seclusion, Yang Rai tripled his Resource generators. The synergy they have with each other really helped there a lot. Now that he has so many He figured he might finally have enough to make the highest rank elements.
He also took the StarField Fruits and made more of the little world Spirits while increasing his world's population. Then used the remnants to synthesize a great deal more of the StarField Trees and by the end of the year he had created a great deal of them. The remnants from the Chaotic Dead Territory helped an incredible amount, boosting the number of trees to 729.
All of the disciples that came in were given the choice of living inside the World and helping to train more or leave. Most chose to leave but some had even started families inside. SO those stayed. However this time was incredibly fruitful. All of the cultivators that entered had grown a lot in strength.
Yang Rai now took this time after removing everyone that wasn't staying. And thus began the conversations with Lan You Ruo and the Manager.