Huo Zha

Taiyi Zhenren really did make a trip around the Eastern Sea.

There was no helping it. Since the Dao Master had asked, Taiyi Zhenren had no choice but to comply.

After returning, Taiyi Zhenren said with a helpless look, "Could you stop adding to my karmic burden?"

"The karmic burden is still growing?"

Li Ping'an calculated by counting fingers and laughed dumbly.

"I can't decide that. The Heavenly Dao acts according to its rules."

"Weren't the rules made by you?!" Taiyi Zhenren tucked both hands into his sleeves and sat down beside Li Ping'an's low table. "I only made some pills, and the fish and shrimp in the sea multiplied by who knew how much. Why is that karmic burden? I truly don't understand. Even if the Heavenly Dao refuses to grant me any merit, it shouldn't condemn me like this."

Li Ping'an said slowly, "Wine Rain Hides Spirits. Fish and shrimp gain sentience, harm fishermen, and plague the coast. Uncle-Master, you can slowly bear that karmic burden."

"This!"

Taiyi Zhenren could neither laugh nor cry.

"Fine, it isn't much in total. I'll just go do some good deeds.

"Is there anything mysterious over in the Eastern Sea?"

Li Ping'an asked, "How did the investigation go?"

"I didn't find anything strange," Taiyi said. "I didn't enter the Crystal Palace, but I observed the dragon sons and dragon girls in the Dragon Palace one by one. Most were nothing worth mentioning. They spent their days indulging in pleasure, and their innate origins had long since been depleted. None could become great."

He sighed with the air of an elder.

"The descendants of the Ancestral Dragon have fallen so low. It truly is lamentable."

"What about the Third Prince of the Eastern Sea Dragon King?"

"The Third Prince?" Taiyi murmured the words