Yellow Middle Li? Innate Embryo!

Zhou Yuan stared at the Water God's Golden Seal of the Wei River before him with pleasant surprise.

"That Tianshui Dao Lord must have misjudged it."

"He thought this Water God's Golden Seal was just an ordinary divine seal formed from the authority of the Wei River. While precious, capable of allowing living beings to re-enter the path of the Innate Ancient Gods, it was ultimately just a divine position at the level of an Innate Great Sage."

"As an Innate Dao Lord, he naturally wouldn't care for it."

After all, with the Heavenly Dao manifesting now, all authority had to operate within the rules of the system.

If you were the Water God of the Wei River, you could only be the Water God of the Wei River.

Unlike the ancient era, when one could devour other Water Element positions to enhance their own authority.

That was no longer possible now.

Even if the Eighteenth Prince successfully became the Water Lord of the Wei River and thus occupied the Huai River, he would only be the nominal Water Lord of the Huai River.

The authority and origin of the Huai River would not be usurped by him.

At most, he could rely on his ability to gather the great momentum of heaven and earth, and the destiny of heaven and earth.

By cultivating with destiny, he might have a chance to glimpse the realm of an Innate Dao Lord.

"But this Water God's Golden Seal is not just a Water God's Golden Seal."

Various thoughts flashed through Zhou Yuan's mind.

"This golden seal has merely fallen from an extremely high position, but its essence is still the supreme being of the Water Element of heaven and earth. It was formed from a supreme divine position that once touched the Black Emperor's realm. Theoretically, it can inherit the Black Emperor's authority."

After all, the Ancestral Dragon was long dead.

If I don't inherit this Black Emperor's authority, who else could be more rightful?

"As long as I continuously expand the Water Element authority of the golden seal, the Great Dao of Water Element under my control will increase."

"As long as I restore the seal's grade, I can even achieve the position of the Water Element Black Emperor in one step."

Nominal deities, who haven't condensed their origin authority, can only rely on the region they govern to gather destiny, and then borrow authority from the Heavenly Dao to comprehend. This is a false path of the Innate Gods, and it can only speed up their cultivation, but not allow them to ascend to the heavens in one step.

After all, those authorities belonged to heaven and earth, not to individual beings.

As for true Innate Ancient Gods, as long as their divine position was reached, their cultivation would naturally follow.

After all, the authority was their own.

As for the incense-worshipped gods enfeoffed by the Heavenly Court in later generations, they were even more unfortunate.

The authority they controlled was the divine position granted by heaven and earth, neither increasing nor decreasing. There was no possibility of self-cultivation.

However, the servants of the Heavenly Emperor in later generations could determine their life and death with a single word.

"If I ascend to the realm of Innate Dao Lord, or even higher to the Saint realm, by following the path of the Innate Ancient Gods."

"And then return to cultivate the Mystic Gate Immortal Path, with the advantage of a higher vantage point, wouldn't that offer a chance to overtake them on the curves?!"

The older one is, the more powerful one is.

This was an undeniable truth in the Primordial World.

The ancient beings had profound foundations, existing from the very beginning of the world's creation, growing wildly.

As the world evolved and the Great Dao receded, not only did cultivation resources become increasingly scarce, but comprehension of the Great Dao and its laws became more difficult.

Therefore, it was very, very difficult for later generations to surpass those ancient beings.

But the legacy of the Water Ancestor gave Zhou Yuan an opportunity to overtake them on the curves.

"Perhaps, in the future, I will have the opportunity to play chess with those Great Divine Ability Users."

To step out of the chessboard and become a player.

Zhou Yuan's gaze burned with fervor.

This trip to the Water Mansion had been incredibly rewarding for him.

What's more, there was a supreme treasure hidden beneath this Water Mansion.

According to the information within the Water God's Golden Seal, that item was something that would change his fate.

With this thought, Zhou Yuan wasted no more time.

He casually destroyed the Grotto-heaven and Sea of Qi within the unconscious Eighteenth Prince, and then stirred up his Sea of Consciousness between his eyebrows, cutting off any possibility of him playing tricks.

This brat couldn't be killed carelessly at the moment, lest the Tianshui Dao Lord sense the decline of his offspring and awaken from the mist of heavenly secrets.

Even with the Innate Supreme Treasure concealing the heavenly secrets and altering karma, Zhou Yuan feared unforeseen complications.

Never mind, he was just a cripple now anyway.

He would deal with him after he proved himself to be a Grand Unity Great Sage.

Zhou Yuan completely stripped the Eighteenth Prince of all his treasures.

Only then did he place him into the Pot-Heaven Magical Treasure.

Afterward, he set up an array to guard the Water God Palace, just in case.

After ensuring everything was done and meticulously checking for any oversights.

He then arrived at the center of the great hall, formed a hand seal, and recited an incantation.

Rumble.

Array patterns lit up one by one, shining ceaselessly. Zhou Yuan glanced at them and realized they were ancient seal script from the Primordial Era.

A moment later, the center of the great hall rumbled, and an opening appeared before Zhou Yuan.

"The Heaven-Shielding Great Array of One Qi, set up by the Primordial Water Ancestor, is truly extraordinary."

Even though Zhou Yuan was inside the Water God Palace, he hadn't detected the slightest trace of it.

However, as a powerful figure from the Primordial Era, although his divine abilities were no match for fate and he ultimately perished in regret, this existence was an ancient relic that had lived since the beginning of the epoch.

Possessing some foundation was nothing to be underestimated.

Zhou Yuan suppressed the emotions within him.

He transformed into a stream of light and entered the underground.

The instant he vanished, the opened portal closed again.

The entire Water God Palace fell into complete silence.

Beneath the Water God Palace lay another world.

As soon as Zhou Yuan entered the underground palace, he sensed a dense aura of Innate Water Element.

This aura was immense and supremely noble.

Vaguely, he seemed to hear the roaring chant of the Great Dao.

Zhou Yuan looked up and saw a Primordial Water Eye in the very center of the underground palace, exuding boundless spiritual energy.

Streams of clear springs flowed from the water eye, nourishing the entire Water Mansion secret realm.

If the Water Mansion secret realm was the nexus of the entire Wei River, then this Primordial Water Eye was the most crucial place within the Water Mansion secret realm.

It was the hub of the Wei River's Water Element circulation.

The source of all spiritual energy in the entire Wei River.

It was generated by the creation of Heaven and Earth.

If ordinary beings could find a Primordial Water Eye and cultivate beside it, their cultivation speed would increase by more than tenfold.

But at this moment, what stunned Zhou Yuan was not the Primordial Water Eye, but a Primordial Dao Embryo floating above it.

"A monumental creation."

"A divine opportunity."

Zhou Yuan's gaze was fiery as he looked at the Primordial Dao Embryo, clapping his hands in admiration, his heart filled with joy and excitement.

Because within the Primordial Dao Embryo, a small tree, nine inches and nine fen tall, floated amidst the chaotic aura.

The treasure tree's aura was ethereal, as if it were the Primordial Chaos of the Great Dao, enveloped by immeasurable radiant light.

The dense Jia Wood aura emanated rosy clouds, with all sorts of phenomena continuously unfolding.

"Innate Jia Wood, the Yellow Middle Plum."

Zhou Yuan exclaimed.

Innate Divine Beings were nurtured by the Great Dao, and every Innate Divine Being was gestured from a Primordial Dao Embryo.

The first strand of Innate Jia Wood Qi, combined with the primordial essence of the Great Dao of Wood in the Primordial World, had also nurtured an Innate Divine Being, namely the top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Yellow Middle Plum.

"It's a pity that it's extremely difficult for Innate Spiritual Roots to achieve the Dao."

Cultivation for plants and trees in the Primordial World was already incredibly difficult.

Often, before they could even develop sentience, they would be picked or devoured by other beings.

Innate Spiritual Roots were no exception.

Since the creation of Heaven and Earth, the Primordial World had nurtured ten top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.

But currently, only Daoist Zhunti, transformed from the Innate Geng Metal Qi, Daoist Jieyin, transformed from the Innate Bitter Bamboo, and Zhen Yuanzi, transformed from the Innate Wutu, were among the few divine beings revealed to the world.

The remaining spiritual roots were either secretly collected by Great Divine Ability Users as foundations to suppress their Dao lineages and magical paths, or they met misfortune before they could even take form, damaging their primordial essence, making it difficult to develop sentience, let alone transform into Innate Divine Beings.