Innate Magic Array

"Thank you, fellow Daoist, for saving my life."

"Our West Sea Dragon Clan will surely repay this favor generously."

Ao Sheng's face was pale as he repeatedly expressed his gratitude to Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan said calmly:

"Since fellow Daoist has said so,"

"then, as Dragon Prince Ao Lin suggested, take me to find that Innate Magic Array."

Ao Sheng's expression stiffened.

He glanced at Ao Lin and saw the dragon prince nod with a bitter smile.

For a moment, he hesitated.

Ao Lin and he had stumbled upon that Innate Magic Array while sorting out the Yunmeng Water Vein.

The array was hidden extremely well.

If not for the Dragon Clan's natural affinity with water, they likely would not have sensed it at all.

What an Innate Magic Array protected was either an Innate Spiritual Treasure or an Innate Spiritual Root.

Its value was beyond estimation.

If he simply handed such a great opportunity over to the Daoist before him,

even if that Daoist had saved his life,

Ao Sheng was still unwilling in his heart.

"What is Dragon Lord thinking about?"

Zhou Yuan asked softly and casually.

His eyes were filled with indifference.

Ao Sheng heard the dissatisfaction and killing intent in his voice, and his heart jolted violently.

This was the man who had just beaten that immensely powerful old flood dragon to death alive.

Ao Sheng shrank his neck.

His neck was nowhere near as tough as that old flood dragon's.

Thus, he could only force himself to say:

"Since Ao Lin has already agreed to it, my son and I will immediately lead fellow Daoist to that Innate Magic Array."

Zhou Yuan nodded.

"Then I shall trouble Dragon Lord to lead the way."

Ao Sheng groaned inwardly.

Yet he did not dare disobey Zhou Yuan's request.

The two white dragons led the Daoist deep into Yunmeng Marsh.

No one knew how much time passed.

Ahead of them appeared a forest of aquatic plants.

The aquatic plants within that forest glimmered with a pale blue radiance.

They illuminated the dark waters below as brightly as day.

"The place where the Innate Magic Array is hidden lies ahead."

As Ao Sheng spoke,

the scene before them changed again.

The space within the water twisted, sending out ripples of spatial fluctuations.

In an instant, a massive magic array suffused with innate aura and flickering with innate Dao laws appeared beside Zhou Yuan.

It was covered in dense Innate Seal Script.

Golden light gleamed from it.

"Please look, fellow Daoist. This is that Innate Magic Array."

"It is simply exceedingly dangerous."

"My son and I are not as skilled and bold as fellow Daoist, so we cannot accompany you inside."

Zhou Yuan made a calculation with his fingers.

He immediately understood.

"No matter."

"I can go in myself."

With that, without waiting for Ao Sheng or Ao Lin to speak,

he transformed into a stream of light and shot straight into the Innate Magic Array.

"Father, are we really going to let this Daoist take the great opportunity we worked so hard to find?"

After Zhou Yuan left,

Ao Lin immediately became agitated.

Ao Sheng sneered.

"This Daoist is insatiably greedy and seeks to swallow our precious treasure whole."

"He is, after all, a wild rogue cultivator who knows nothing of etiquette."

"The Four Seas are too far away, and there are too many old fellows in the clan. We must not let them learn of this matter."

Otherwise, this treasure would never fall into their hands.

"Your father has ties with several Dragon Kings who came ashore."

"Hurry and invite them here."

"Together, we will capture this wretch."

Ao Sheng glared viciously at the Innate Magic Array.

I alone cannot handle you. But what if four or five more Dragon Kings come?

Ao Lin bared his teeth.

"If we do that,"

"wouldn't we have to share quite a bit of the benefits with them?"

Ao Sheng shook his head helplessly.

"This rogue cultivator possesses great divine abilities."

"Your father alone absolutely cannot take him down."

"Those Dragon Kings are my closest friends, and each has Innate Spiritual Objects to protect them. They will not come here to compete for the treasure."

"We will simply have to offer them some spiritual objects afterward."

Those who came to the Primordial Continent, hoping to rely on the water veins of Rivers, Lakes, and Seas to achieve the Dao of an Innate Dao Lord, were all Dao Lord seeds from the various branches of the Dragon Clan.

They all had supporters within the clan.

The Dragon Clan possessed many treasures.

More or less, each of them had some hidden trump cards in their possession.

Only Ao Sheng was an exception.

His direct-line elders had perished in the Dragon-Han Calamity.

No one had supported him for a long time.

If not for the clan chief and elders helping him out of consideration for old ties,

he might not have obtained this chance to come to the Primordial Continent.

Naturally, he also possessed no Innate Spiritual Objects.

That was why this father and son valued this Innate Magic Array so greatly.

Upon hearing this, Ao Lin immediately prepared to transform into a dragon and flee.

But the voice that sounded by his ear made his body stiffen, and all the blood in his body seemed to freeze.

"Oh, right. I just remembered something."

Zhou Yuan manifested from the void.

He rubbed his chin, seemingly deep in thought.

Ao Sheng's eyelids twitched wildly.

He swallowed and forced a smile.

"Hadn't fellow Daoist already entered the magic array?"

"Why have you come back out?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head and gave a dark chuckle.

"If I had not come out, how would I have known that Dragon Lord had such a fine scheme?"

The smile on Ao Sheng's face froze.

He said with difficulty:

"Fellow Daoist, it is all a misunderstanding. All a misunderstanding!"

Zhou Yuan could not be bothered to speak further.

He had concealed himself in the void precisely to hear what the Dragon Clan was planning.

He had not expected it to be this.

Since that was the case, there was nothing more to say.

He lightly raised a hand.

A verdant bamboo staff emanated an aura of pure tranquility and freedom from care.

With a light sweep,

in the blink of an eye,

he sealed the two dragons' Six Consciousnesses and five senses, plunging them into a dazed state.

Ao Sheng and Ao Lin were already wounded, so they were easily captured.

Zhou Yuan used a Universe Technique to store them away.

"The Dragon Clan coming ashore is no good thing."

"Perhaps I can make use of these two white dragons."

His eyes flickered.

But with the Innate Magic Array before him, Ao Sheng's matter would have to wait.

Vast and boundless, murky and obscure.

The instant Zhou Yuan entered the magic array, it was as if he had entered a world of water.

Primordial Heavy Water surged toward him.

A single drop of Primordial Heavy Water was as heavy as a lake.

Monstrous waves crashed down like a Primordial Divine Mountain toppling over.

In the next instant, the sun, moon, and star Three Lights Divine Water swirled forth.

It wore away flesh, corroded souls, and devoured true spirits.

Zhou Yuan unleashed his divine abilities. Thunder rumbled, mysterious light flashed, and sword light billowed.

He gazed gravely at the myriad true waters before him.

Yet in the next instant, Profound Nether True Water and Three Thousand Weak Water came rushing at him.

"This array does not take the Three Powers as its order, nor does it honor the Five Elements as its Dao."

"It is instead a purely water-element array."

"It must be countered with the earth element."

But all these true waters had been born of heaven and earth. How could ordinary earth-element divine abilities restrain them?

Unless Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, who wielded the Book of Earth, used the Earthly Fetal Membrane to break it, there would be only a sliver of hope.

"Since that is the case, I can only try another method."

Zhou Yuan's thoughts raced.

Breaking the array with divine abilities and magical power was no longer possible.

Then he could only hope to find the core of this Innate Magic Array.

As long as he refined the core of this Innate Magic Array,

the array would naturally no longer pose any threat.

"A water-element array. Its core must be an Innate Spiritual Treasure or Innate Spiritual Root of the water element."

Since that was so,

Zhou Yuan immediately sat cross-legged in the void.

Three flowers bloomed above his head.

The illusory three flowers outlined the Water Element Law.

Vaguely, the sound of the Dao seemed to resound.

"One Yuan Begins Anew, all things are renewed; the Dao of Primordial Water is vast and pure..."

As the Dao sound between heaven and earth shifted from illusion to reality,

myriad scenes unfolded around Zhou Yuan.

Rivers, Lakes, and Seas surged with rolling waves.

Water vapor rose, summoning clouds and rain.

A drop of water became spring, and all things began from it.

Vast Profound Nether, all realms returned to ruin.

There was life, destruction, circulation, and renewal.

The water element faintly showed signs of breaking free from the Five Elements of heaven and earth and becoming a single origin of heaven and earth itself.

The cycle of the Heaven Earth Water Three Origins

was the proper Dao of heaven and earth.

Just as Zhou Yuan evolved his own Great Dao of Water Element and his understanding of the water element...

The myriad true waters within the Innate Magic Array gradually calmed, no longer surging.

They even faintly seemed docile.

Clearly, they had acknowledged Zhou Yuan's Great Dao.

Elevating the status of water essence between heaven and earth benefited all things aligned with water.

After a long while, Zhou Yuan opened his eyes.

The apocalyptic scene of Mysterious Nether was gone.

Not far away, a stone platform shrouded in Chaos Aura appeared.

What lay atop the stone made Zhou Yuan's eyes widen.