Karmic Entanglement

Hong Yi stopped wasting words on the old Daoist. With a single step, he shortened the distance across the River of Time, crossed the gap between history and reality, and appeared directly before him.

"Who exactly are you?!" Brilliant light burst from the old Daoist's eyes as he cried out in disbelief.

What Hong Yi had just done had already surpassed the limits of Taiyi perfection and entered the realm of Great Luo Divine Mystery.

Crossing through time and space, even reality and history could no longer bind his existence!

"Send your true body here." Hong Yi pressed down with his palm.

Though the old Daoist had been startled by this power, so close to Great Luo Divine Mystery, his consciousness was still that of a Da Luo. With a shift of his body, he evaded Hong Yi's palm.

Yet Hong Yi merely raised his eyes slightly, and the old Daoist fell into a daze for an instant. He seemed to see countless figures chanting, praying, and making sacrifices.

But he could not see them clearly. By the time he recovered, he was already standing atop a Golden Bridge.

Both ends of the Golden Bridge plunged into endless void, arching across the limits of time and space. It radiated a vast Dao Rhyme that would ferry all living beings across and lead straight to The Other Shore.

"Great Liberation Technique." Boundless light and endless destruction arose within Hong Yi's palm.

The old Daoist, having stepped onto the Bridge to the Other Shore, could no longer evade it. He took that annihilating divine art head-on.

Hong Yi's world was not particularly remarkable among the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and could not compare to the worlds of the other Group Friends.

But after joining the Myriad Heavens Chat Group, the cultivation methods and principles of those Group Friends had advanced his Other Shore Realm by countless steps.

His Other Shore Realm was unique, rooted in his own Great Vow. Before that Great Vow was fulfilled, it would never have an end!

This Great Liberation Technique had long since surpassed the limits of Hong Yi's world, becoming a wish, a truth, a state that was neither real nor illusory.

"The mortal world is bitter, the immortal path is difficult, and even Da Luo cannot attain freedom. Then be liberated."

The old Daoist's body began to collapse from its very origin. The power of the Taiyi Realm could not stop it at all!

"How could the Primordial Wilderness have someone like you?" At the end of his life, the old Daoist sighed in confusion.

This divine art was familiar yet unfamiliar, utterly different from the immortal path he had cultivated for countless years. Yet strangely enough, it truly was a power belonging to the Primordial Wilderness.

"Even now, your true body still won't appear?" Hong Yi suddenly asked as he looked at the old Daoist.

He had already cast out enough bait. He had not expected the other party to remain hidden even at the cost of abandoning this avatar.

"The Human Race possesses immense fortune. I dare not provoke them, dare not provoke them." The old Daoist gave Hong Yi a deep look before his entire body melted away under the Great Liberation Technique.

"What a pity." Hong Yi shook his head and swept his sleeve, collecting the essence energy left behind by the body. A Taiyi Golden Immortal could not be wasted.

Hong Yi had arrived in the Primordial Wilderness three Yuan Hui ago, a full several hundred thousand years. With his peerless talent, his equivalent of reincarnating to cultivate anew, and the Myriad Heavens Chat Group, the only reason he had not truly reached Da Luo was because he had been unwilling to.

Western Primordial Wilderness, a land ravaged by Hong Jun and Luohou.

It had been utterly destroyed. Jie Yin and Zhun Ti's claim that the west was barren was no lie; it was genuinely impoverished.

On this land, the only place that could still be considered a blessed grotto-heaven was Spirit Mountain.

"Junior Brother?" While cultivating, Jie Yin suddenly sensed a change in Zhun Ti's aura and spoke up.

Anything capable of causing such a drastic change in the aura of Zhun Ti, already a Quasi-Saint, could not be simple.

"Senior Brother, my avatar was actually killed." Zhun Ti's expression suddenly became extremely grim.

"Did Dao Friend Nuwa make a move?" The Annihilation-like calmness on Jie Yin's face finally shifted.

"No. It was a very strange Taiyi Golden Immortal."

Zhun Ti raised his hand slightly, seemingly intending to restore his avatar.

Great Luo Supremes stood above time, transcending all things. So long as they still existed, results and logic could be altered.

Of course, there was a condition: no equal or greater power could interfere beforehand.

"Too many Great Luo Supremes." Zhun Ti had once held a view not much different from Fang Xun's.

Fortunately, this time, it did not involve a Great Luo Supreme...

Zhun Ti reached into history and pulled out his avatar, leaving only an illusory afterimage in place to endure the Great Liberation Technique.

This way, all losses could be recovered.

Well... in truth, an avatar of a Taiyi Golden Immortal was not worth much, at least not to a Quasi-Saint. But the west was too poor, so it was better to save where he could...

Yet at the instant Zhun Ti pulled out his avatar, both his and Jie Yin's expressions changed drastically. With a flip of his palm, Zhun Ti shattered his own avatar and erased the karma along with it!

"Dao Friend Nuwa truly is... protective of her own." Zhun Ti's expression was ugly.

As he altered history and rewrote reality to retrieve his avatar, even Taiyi Golden Immortals could only watch helplessly, their sense of powerlessness growing.

But Great Luo Supremes could intercept it, for they existed in the same transcendent state.

And now, the Red Embroidered Ball was already waiting upon the River of Time.

Whoever pulled up that old Daoist would naturally be the true culprit coveting the Human Race from behind the scenes. The Red Embroidered Ball would show no mercy. This peerless offensive-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure would cross endless distances and smash directly into whoever tried to retrieve him.

"What a pity..." Zhun Ti abandoned the thought of retrieving his avatar.

"Dao Friend Nuwa's circumstances may be somewhat unusual. We had best not provoke her." Only after everything had calmed did Jie Yin speak.

"Unusual?" Zhun Ti was slightly stunned.

"The path she walks may be somewhat different from ours." Jie Yin's face seemed both puzzled and relieved.

"Senior Brother, do you mean Reverse Proof of Wuji?" Zhun Ti quickly realized something.

Nuwa had not severed her corpse during the third sermon at Purple Cloud Palace. Perhaps her cultivation had not yet reached that level, but such an explanation was rather laughable when applied to the Primordial Wilderness's First Great Luo.

Thus, the greater possibility was that she had no need to sever her corpse at all, because she walked another path!

"Moreover, Dao Friend Nuwa's opportunity to become a saint has likely already been settled," Jie Yin said again.

"The Human Race." Zhun Ti naturally knew this as well. That was why he had risked discovery and sent an avatar to test the Human Race.

Yet the protective force surrounding the Human Race had exceeded his expectations. Aside from Nuwa's disciple, there was also an unknown... Taiyi?

For no reason, Zhun Ti's heart skipped a beat as he recalled the strange aspects of that Taiyi Golden Immortal.

When a Great Luo Supreme sensed something, it meant an event greatly connected to them had occurred.

"Senior Brother, I encountered a very strange Taiyi Golden Immortal among the Human Race..." Zhun Ti recounted his encounter with Hong Yi to Jie Yin.

"It is indeed rather strange." Jie Yin and Zhun Ti exchanged a glance, then joined forces to deduce Hong Yi's origins.

The two Quasi-Saints worked together. One concealed the perception of the Human Race, or rather Nuwa, while the other relied fully upon the Heavenly Dao to conduct the deduction.

After a long while, Jieyin Daoist suddenly stopped, his lips moving as he said, "Chaos Demon God!"

Zhun Ti's pupils contracted slightly. A sudden feeling arose within him: his karma with this Yi Zi of the Human Race might not end here...