The Innate Sacred Being Enters the World

Hearing Zhang Chen's question, the Great Sovereign Demon King was speechless for a moment. "Foolish boy! That was no gathering of energy—it was clearly the true spirit of the Innate Water God awakening."

"The true spirit of the Innate Water God had been entrusted to every bloodline of the Shen family. To evade the Heaven and Earth Calamity and preserve itself, the Innate Water God hid its true spirit and Primordial Spirit within the Shen family's bloodline. But because its true spirit was too powerful, it could only be scattered throughout the bloodlines of all Shen descendants. The more Shen descendants there were, the more dispersed its power became, the deeper it could hide, and the more scattered its strength would be, making it easier to evade the scrutiny of the greater world. But now that the Shen family had suffered a catastrophe of extermination and its hiding place was about to be overturned by the Yellow Heaven Dao, its true spirit had been forced to emerge and fight. That was why it allowed the Shen disciples to be slaughtered, using them to help its true spirit gather power and ascend to the utmost limit," the Great Sovereign Demon King explained to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen's expression changed drastically upon hearing this, and a trace of horror appeared in his eyes. No wonder the Innate Water God in the great tomb had only a body and no soul. To avoid resonance with the greater world, it separated its soul from its body, weakening itself and reducing its connection to the world. The great tomb existed only to preserve its body, while its soul hid within mortal bloodlines and survived in this fashion. What an inconceivable method!

Zhang Chen had glimpsed part of the truth—not merely the truth of the Shen