Tianshui Dao Lord, Karma Entangled

"Fuxi..."

"Nuwa..."

The Eighteenth Prince of the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty slowly woke from his coma.

"When I prove the Dao once more, it will be time for reckoning."

"Hm?"

"Where is this?"

The moment the Eighteenth Prince awoke.

The Innate Water Eye stirred.

Strands of Innate Spiritual Energy turned into spiritual snakes, slithering around the magic formation.

Runes flickered, forming pale blue chains that tightly bound the divine being in the center.

"Should I address you as His Highness the Eighteenth Prince, or Your Majesty Tianshui?"

Zhou Yuan looked at the Tianshui Dao Lord, who was inhabiting the Eighteenth Prince's physical body, and smiled faintly.

Ever since the Tianshui Dao Lord's divine sense projection had been housed within the Innate Spiritual Treasure, manifested within the Eighteenth Prince's Primordial Spirit, and helped him slay the previous Wei River God Lord.

Zhou Yuan had harbored caution and suspicions.

"But I never expected, Your Majesty Tianshui, you're truly ruthless."

"The Eighteenth Prince is your own son."

The Tianshui Dao Lord glanced at Zhou Yuan, and in an instant, the Eighteenth Prince's memories flooded his mind. He calmly said:

"As the blood descendant of my Dao Body, Little Eighteenth died a worthy death."

Since he began cultivating, he had experienced countless eons.

He had witnessed countless lives and deaths.

He was indifferent to what Zhou Yuan said.

Instead, he stared at Zhou Yuan, marveling:

"Not bad, not bad."

"I never thought I, a dignified Dao Lord, would be schemed against by a junior like you."

"I'm just curious, how exactly did you disrupt the Heavenly Secrets and evade my reckoning?"

The Tianshui Dao Lord was genuinely curious.

The Eighteenth Prince was not only his biological son but also a contingency he had prepared.

He had long ago cast a secret bloodline technique upon the Eighteenth Prince.

With such intertwined Karma, as a Dao Lord, he could naturally see through the reality of Karma at a glance.

But in reality, he had been deceived by Zhou Yuan.

Even when he was battling those two above Phoenix Perch Mountain, he still believed it was the Eighteenth Prince who had taken control of the Wei River.

Zhou Yuan chuckled freely:

"Your Majesty, don't waste time stalling."

"Your Profound Nether Weak Water Bead can't be used at all right now."

The Tianshui Dao Lord's expression froze. He turned his head slightly.

Not far away, the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead emitted a faint blue glow, swirling with three thousand strands of weak water.

But it was being suppressed by an Innate Primordial Embryo.

Although the embryo was damaged, its status was far superior to the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead.

It now floated above the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead, exuding a heavy aura that suppressed all heavens.

"Junior, I possess myriad treasures and countless Dao scriptures."

"As long as you help me return to the Tianshui Imperial Dynasty, I promise to discuss the Great Dao with you and achieve the position of Innate Dao Lord together."

Seeing Zhou Yuan smile without speaking.

The Tianshui Dao Lord cursed fiercely:

"I am an Innate Dao Lord, one who has attained the veneration of Water Element."

"How could you possibly comprehend my methods?"

"If I escape today, I will make every living being in the Wei River perish."

"I will stain the surging Wei River with the blood of all beings."

"And you, Wei River Water Lord, will have your marrow extracted, your Primordial Spirit refined into divine fire, and be tormented day and night."

The Tianshui Dao Lord stared at Zhou Yuan's calm face, cursing him with extreme malice.

After a long while, Zhou Yuan sighed and slowly spoke:

"I've made all sorts of arrangements."

"I thought Dao Lord would have more skill than this."

"It seems I overestimated you."

Zhou Yuan looked at the Tianshui Dao Lord before him, who appeared to be driven mad, a flicker of pity in his eyes.

He had been too cautious.

He thought the Tianshui Dao Lord still had some backup plan.

"It's already a stroke of luck for this wretch to have survived Fuxi and Nuwa."

"He must have used up all his tricks, and is now at the end of his rope."

Otherwise, given the pride of this Dao Lord, he wouldn't allow himself to be in such a state.

"If Dao Lord wishes to beg for a swift death to escape..."

"You should abandon that thought."

The Tianshui Dao Lord, who had been cursing, suddenly fell silent as if his spell had been interrupted.

He gazed at Zhou Yuan with deep eyes, and a ripple finally stirred in his previously calm heart.

"Wei River Water Lord..."

"I will remember you."

Although he couldn't have the Wei River Water Lord act personally, leaving behind Karma, allowing other Dao Bodies to sense it.

Nor could he use the power of this Karma to perform secret arts or schemes.

But with the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead here.

Even if this Dao Body were to perish, other scattered Dao Bodies would eventually find their way to the Wei River.

"By then, this Wei River will be the foundation for my resurgence."

"And the Innate Primordial Embryo that can suppress the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead will also be mine."

Thinking this.

The Tianshui Dao Lord suppressed the regret in his heart.

Even if there were minor setbacks.

They were just minor storms.

He looked deeply at Zhou Yuan and chuckled strangely.

"Youngster, you've won this round."

"But the new game has just begun."

"Hahaha, hahaha..."

Under Zhou Yuan's gaze.

The Tianshui Dao Lord's form gradually dissolved into specks of light.

In an instant.

Within the formation, only a trace of immortal True Spirit remained of the imprisoned Tianshui Dao Lord.

Clearly, even with the formation's confinement.

This ancient existence had found a way to control this Dao Body.

"But what I want is not this Dao Body of yours."

"It's this trace of your immortal True Spirit."

Zhou Yuan watched the scene before him, standing with his hands behind his back, his gaze deep and stern.

Innate Dao Lords, who harvested Dao Fruits, were mysterious and unfathomable.

Their Divine Abilities and secret arts were numerous.

Even Zhou Yuan found it difficult to guess how many trump cards he had.

"If you were still within your Dao Body now, I still couldn't touch you."

After all, the Eighteenth Prince was a cultivator who had achieved the True One Realm, and the Grotto-heaven he had opened within his body had long since transformed into reality.

Who knew what hidden trump cards it contained.

"But now you've abandoned your Dao Body of your own accord, leaving only a wisp of incomplete True Spirit that wishes to perish."

"At this moment, whether you live or die is no longer up to you."

As soon as Zhou Yuan finished speaking.

The wisp of True Spirit in the void, emitting an aura of immortal Water Element, flickered with brilliant light, and an aura of annihilation, like the return of heaven and earth to chaos, surged forth.

Clearly, the Tianshui Dao Lord was accelerating the Daoization of his own True Spirit.

But the next moment.

The void rumbled with a tremor.

Great sounds are silent, the Great Dao is formless.

An ancient, simple dao book slowly appeared within the Water Mansion.

Three thousand illusory Great Daos materialized upon it, seeming to suppress all of time and space.

At this moment, all material and illusory things ceased their flow.

And that wisp of immortal True Spirit belonging to the Tianshui Dao Lord was also suppressed and sealed.

No trace could be left upon it by any time or space.

"The Myriad Dao Book is an Innate Supreme Treasure, possessing its own power of suppression and sealing."

"Although I have only comprehended and refined eighteen of its Innate Restrictions over many years, I can still barely mobilize a sliver of its power."

"And this is clearly enough."

Zhou Yuan gazed at the suppressed True Spirit of the Tianshui Dao Lord, sighing softly.

Originally, he had kept the Eighteenth Prince alive, fearing that killing him directly would provoke the killing intent of this Dao Lord.

But clearly, this move had brought him far more rewards than he had imagined.

"Heavenly Secrets and Fortune, all manner of Karma."

"If Heaven offers, but one does not take, one shall suffer the consequences."

Now that the True Spirit of the Tianshui Dao Lord was in his grasp, its legacy was his to command.

Zhou Yuan raised his hand and grasped the wisp of True Spirit of the Tianshui Dao Lord.

Black and white profound light flickered in his eyes.

Wisps of profound Heavenly Secrets materialized around him.

Above his head, the black and white Heavenly Machine Chessboard shimmered with innate, undying spiritual light, its pieces arranged in a formation, evolving all manner of Heavenly Secrets.

"Heaven and Earth without bounds, Heaven and Earth borrow my law, pursue the soul and seize the life."

Zhou Yuan formed a hand seal and chanted the incantation.

The black and white profound light transformed into spiritual snakes, flying out in eight directions.

Seeing this, Zhou Yuan calculated with his fingers, and clarity flashed in his eyes.

"Using the True Spirit to deduce Heavenly Secrets is indeed twice as effective with half the effort."

"It's just that this Tianshui Dao Lord is truly an old fox."

"He actually left behind nine Dao Bodies outside."

Besides the Eighteenth Prince, who was trapped by himself, there were still eight other Dao Bodies as his fallback.

"However, Divine Abilities are no match for Heavenly Mandates."

"Ever since Ancestor Hongjun attained Primordial Chaos, it has been a foregone conclusion that the Mystic Gate would flourish in this epoch."

"These Primordial Divine Demons do not understand Heavenly Mandates, vainly attempting to restore the old ways of the Primordial Heavenly Court, and thus invite calamity."

If their strength were formidable enough to deviate Heavenly Will, that would be one thing.

But clearly, since the Dragon-Han Crimson Bright Tribulation, the strength of the Primordial Divine Race had greatly diminished.

"Thus, it is not surprising that the Tianshui Dao Lord has fallen into my hands."

A sharp glint flashed in Zhou Yuan's eyes.

Since he had already joined the Phoenix Perch Mountain Dao Lineage, he was now marked by the Demon Clan in this epoch.

Coupled with the current expansion of the Wei River's influence, it was no small force among the various Demon Clans.

"Since I have Karma entangled with the Tianshui Dao Lord, and I am also blessed by the fortune of the Demon Clan."

"I am naturally one of the candidates to hunt down and eliminate him."

Since ancient times, Heavenly Will has been high and difficult to question.

If Zhou Yuan had not seized this opportunity.

Other benevolent individuals would naturally have stepped forward to eliminate the remnants of Tianshui.