Slowly withdrawing his hand, which had become muddy and crimson from being soaked in blood and flesh, Shui Wuhen let out a soft breath of turbid air. His inscrutable gaze turned toward the direction in which Daoist Taixu's primordial spirit had fled.
"His reaction was quite swift. Knowing he had no chance of survival, he made a prompt decision, abandoned his physical body, and fled solely with the power of his primordial spirit. Moreover, a primordial spirit cultivated through the Supreme Forgetfulness Heavenly Book will not face much danger.
However, this leaves him with only two paths. Either he finds a newborn infant and reincarnates, sealing away his powerful primordial spirit to start all over again, or he seizes the body of an accomplished martial expert. Neither option is without hidden dangers.
No matter what, although I could not truly kill him, Taixu will no longer be a concern from this day onward. He will not be able to accomplish anything major for at least ten years. That counts as completing the transaction."
With a flick of his right hand, the Dragon King shook off every trace of filth clinging to it, restoring it to cleanliness and radiance. He then relaxed his face and inspected the changes in his internal injuries through inner vision.
The areas of his body that had been constricted by the Water Python's power were blackened, their skin covered in thick, corrosive energy that lingered there, desperately trying to burrow into the flesh beneath and wreak destruction.
At the chest that had been struck by the Water Python's head, shallow tears exposed the flesh beneath. Bright-red granulation tissue wriggled about, looking both horrifying and disgusting. A powerful force likewise lingered there, preventing Shui Wuhen's injuries from healing.
Only because Shui Wuhen had deeply cultivated a body-tempering