Secret Realm Water Mansion

When Heaven's killing intent arises, stars and constellations shift.

When Earth's killing intent arises, dragons and snakes emerge from the land.

When Man's killing intent arises, Heaven and Earth are overturned.

The Slayer Aura by the Wei River grew increasingly dense.

Every day, countless living beings died due to slaughter.

The bodies of living beings lay scattered, their colossal Dao Bodies stretching for hundreds of zhang.

Blood flowed like rivers, threatening to dye the mountains and rivers red.

On this day.

A massive divine light suddenly surged from the Wei River, dispersing the thick mist along its banks.

Within the pale blue Rosy Clouds, myriad phenomena swirled.

There were divine beings a hundred zhang tall bowing their heads, aquatic creatures offering sacrifices, and Innate Deities raising their divine thrones.

A primitive, wild aura washed over them.

"Countless living beings have been sacrificed, finally resonating with the altar."

"The Grotto-heaven is about to emerge."

The Eighteenth Prince, who had been in the Golden Palace, now stood in the void, gazing at the grand spectacle appearing in the sky with unconcealed joy.

The method deduced by his imperial father was indeed effective.

Originally, this kind of Heavenly position could only be claimed by beings with great Karma related to the Wei River.

Only when a divinely appointed being appeared would the Wei River Water Lord position reappear.

Even though he was the son of the Divine Emperor Dao Lord and born of a primordial water spirit, he was destined to have no connection with this divine position and would find it difficult to gain its favor.

"But man can conquer destiny."

The Eighteenth Prince stood with his hands behind his back, his deep blue eyes gleaming with spirit.

"My father is the Tianshui Dao Lord."

The Tianshui Dao Lord had expended immense magical power and Greater Divine Abilities to devise a method: sacrifice!

In the Primordial Era, the world was wild and chaotic.

The Primordial Deities were born with the fortune of Heaven and Earth, possessing great magical power and Greater Divine Abilities from birth.

The first Wei River Water Lord was born from the essence of the Wei River.

He was a rare, ancient Innate Deity.

Although not a top-tier Great Divine Ability User, he held a significant position in the Primordial Divine Court.

Such an existence had countless subordinates.

Sacrifice thus became commonplace, and over time, an altar remained from the Primordial Era until the present day.

Even though the Three Sovereigns failed in their Dao attunement during the Primordial Era, and the Three Clans fought for supremacy, shattering the Divine Court, this altar had been passed down.

Successive Wei River Water Lords who inherited the position also used this altar as their sacred object for sacrifice.

"By sacrificing the blood of myriad spirits, this altar is awakened."

"The location of the altar is the site of the Water Lord's secret realm."

A surge of ambition flashed in the Eighteenth Prince's eyes.

As long as he controlled the Water Lord's secret realm.

And became the true Wei River Water Lord.

He could then harness the power of the Wei River and ascend to the rank of Grand Unity Great Sage in one fell swoop.

"With this, the gap between myself and my many elder brothers will be completely bridged."

Furthermore, after ascending to the position of Wei River Water Lord.

With the assistance of the Tianshui Dao Lord, an established Innate Dao Lord.

He might even be able to gradually annex the other tributaries of the Huai River.

Until he could ultimately unify the Huai River, one of the Four Rivers.

"The Great Water Lord of the Four Rivers, a Water Element position comparable to the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas."

"In the Primordial Era, it was a true Innate Dao Lord position."

If he could become the nominal Water God of the Huai River, he could rely on the Huai River's fortune to attempt to attain a Dao Fruit.

The Eighteenth Prince's eyes flickered with light.

How difficult it was to attain the Dao of an Innate Dao Lord.

It required the fortune of Heaven and Earth, innate talent, and profound foundations; without any one of these, it was impossible.

Since the Primordial Era, countless beings had fallen at the threshold of attaining a Dao Fruit.

"Time is like a knife, carving down the proud, on the path of Dao Lords, we sigh at the beauty."

Such an opportunity.

It concerns the path of the Dao.

A determined glint flashed in the Eighteenth Prince's eyes.

"All divisions, gather your Dao Soldiers, and immediately assault the secret realm."

"All beings not of my Divine Dynasty may be slain."

"The merits earned in this battle will be calculated as battle achievements."

"After the battle, you may all enter the palace to exchange for cultivation resources and spiritual items from divine springs."

Seeing that his subordinates' morale had been roused, the Eighteenth Prince raised the divine staff in his hand and pointed towards the altar in the distance, emitting a sky-piercing rosy glow.

"Kill!"

With a single command.

Hundreds of streaks of light immediately shot out, all of them cultivators who had opened Grotto-heavens and achieved the Divine Demon realm.

Even the cultivators in the Mortal Realm who had opened acupoints didn't have the qualifications to participate in the slaughter.

And at this moment.

The other cultivators hidden within the surrounding mist could no longer remain calm.

They transformed into streaks of escape light and swarmed forward.

"Charge!"

"A great Dao opportunity lies before us!"

"With the birth of a secret realm, spiritual treasures must surely appear."

"The Wei River Water Lord was a mighty being who achieved the Grand Unity Great Sage realm. His legacy, even a sliver of it, would be a tremendous opportunity."

These cultivators, who had gathered from all directions, were completely driven mad.

Although the Primordial Great World had abundant cultivation resources, that was only relatively speaking. The legacy of a Grand Unity Great Sage would make even other Great Sage cultivators covetous.

Let alone cultivators in the True One, Heavenly Human, or Grotto-heaven realms?

The rosy clouds above the Wei River grew increasingly brilliant, the pale blue light imbued with a dense Water Element aura.

Rumble.

The Wei River boiled.

Immense waves surged, and a dark cave dwelling, permeated with Xuanming aura, appeared within the Wei River.

It emitted a faint, eerie glow.

The area around the cave dwelling resounded with the Laws of the Great Dao.

"The Water Mansion of the Wei River has appeared!"

A being exclaimed.

This cry seemed to shatter some kind of balance.

Suddenly, from the heavens, the earth, and the water.

Countless streaks of light crisscrossed.

Magical artifacts, mystical arts, and divine abilities filled the four corners of the universe.

It was enough to make beings' eyes blur.

Flesh and blood flew, and drops of divine blood fell into the Wei River, devoured by the fish and shrimp within.

Every moment, beings were injured or perished.

These beings had already gone mad with killing.

The path to the Water Mansion was a path of no return, a path of blood.

Zhou Yuan concealed his tracks, blending in with the crowd, and unhurriedly made his way towards the Water Mansion.

Whenever a being approached him, they would be besieged and killed by the surrounding puppets.

It didn't seem too conspicuous.

The moment the last being entered the Water Mansion, the entire Wei River once again churned with colossal waves, washing away all traces of karma from both banks.

The Water Mansion then transformed into a speck of dust, completely vanishing into the Primordial Great World.

Only the water mist, shrouding an area of ten thousand miles, lingered endlessly.

Within the secret realm of the Water Mansion.

The carved beams and painted rafters of the past had now become ruins.

Buildings collapsed in the water, and corpses exuding powerful auras told tales of past glory and its end.

"It seems this Grand Unity Great Sage didn't perish due to a failed attempt at the Dao."

"Instead, its demise was caused by an external enemy invading the Water Mansion."

The moment Zhou Yuan entered the secret realm, he had already concealed himself in the void.

He looked at the scene before him, a guess forming in his mind.

But the external enemy that invaded the Water Mansion likely didn't fare well either.

Otherwise, the Wei River God Lord would have been replaced long ago, rather than the divine position remaining vacant as it is now.

The other beings who entered the secret realm didn't ponder as deeply as Zhou Yuan.

They gazed at the collapsed palaces around them, their eyes filled with greed.

Each found their own target.

And charged forward.

Before long, small-scale skirmishes erupted within the secret realm.

The Eighteenth Prince, who had entered the secret realm, didn't even glance at these beings.

With a sweep of his divine sense, he transformed into a beam of light and swiftly flew towards the massive palace at the center of the Water Mansion.

The True One Realm Divine Demons and Heavenly Human Realm cultivators who had been closely watching the Eighteenth Prince's movements saw this and followed without hesitation.