Innate Magic Array

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

"My West Sea Dragon Clan will surely repay this kindness handsomely."

Ao Sheng, his face pale, looked at Zhou Yuan with immense gratitude.

Zhou Yuan said calmly:

"Since fellow Daoist has said so."

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

Ao Sheng's expression stiffened.

He glanced at Ao Lin, who gave a wry nod.

For a moment, he hesitated.

That Innate Magic Array was discovered by him and Ao Lin while they were charting the Yunmeng Water Vein.

The array was deeply hidden.

If not for the dragon race's innate affinity for water, they might not have sensed it.

An Innate Magic Array would protect either an Innate Spiritual Treasure or an Innate Spiritual Root.

Its value was immeasurable.

If he were to hand over such a great opportunity just like that to the Daoist before him.

Even though the Daoist had saved his life.

Ao Sheng felt unwilling in his heart.

"What is Dragon Lord thinking?"

Zhou Yuan asked softly, his tone casual.

His eyes were filled with coldness.

Ao Sheng heard the dissatisfaction and killing intent in his voice, and his heart gave a jolt.

This was the person who had just brutally killed that powerful old Flood Dragon.

Ao Sheng shrunk his neck; his neck was not as tough as that old Flood Dragon's.

So, he could only brace himself and say:

"Since Ao Lin has already agreed with fellow Daoist, my son and I will lead you to find that Innate Magic Array now."

Zhou Yuan nodded.

"Then, please, Dragon Lord, lead the way."

Ao Sheng felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.

But he dared not disobey Zhou Yuan's command.

Two white dragons led the Daoist into the Yunmeng Marsh.

After an unknown amount of time.

A forest of water weeds appeared ahead.

The water weeds in the forest shimmered with a faint blue light.

Illuminating the dark seabed as if it were day.

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

As Ao Sheng spoke.

The scene before them changed again.

The space in the water distorted, emitting ripples of spatial energy.

In an instant, a colossal magic array, exuding an innate aura and shimmering with innate Dao principles, appeared beside Zhou Yuan.

Innate Seal Script covered its surface densely.

It glittered with a golden luster.

"Fellow Daoist, please look, this is that Innate Magic Array."

"However, this array is extremely perilous."

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

Zhou Yuan calculated with his fingers.

He had a plan in mind.

"No matter."

"This humble Daoist can go alone."

With that, he didn't wait for Ao Sheng and Ao Lin to speak.

He transformed into a stream of light and plunged directly into the Innate Magic Array.

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

After Zhou Yuan left.

Ao Lin immediately straightened up.

Ao Sheng sneered:

"This Daoist is insatiably greedy, trying to seize our treasures."

"He's just a wild rogue cultivator, lacking manners."

"The Four Seas are too far, and there are too many old folks in the clan. It's not appropriate for them to know about this matter."

Otherwise, this treasure wouldn't have fallen into their hands.

"Your father has old ties with those Dragon Lords who came to the mainland."

"Go quickly and invite them here."

"We'll capture this scoundrel together."

Ao Sheng glared ferociously at the Innate Magic Array.

I can't deal with you alone.

What if four or five more Dragon Lords come?

Ao Lin bared his teeth:

"If we do this..."

"Won't we have to share a lot of the benefits?"

Ao Sheng shook his head, saying helplessly:

"This wild cultivator has vast Divine Abilities."

"I definitely can't take him down alone."

"Those Dragon Lords are my sworn friends, and they each have Innate Spiritual Objects to protect them, so there's no need to worry about them coming to fight over it."

"It's just that we'll have to offer some spiritual objects then."

Those who could come to this Primordial Era continent and hoped to prove themselves as Innate Dao Lords by relying on the Great Dao of Water Element were all the Dao Lord seeds within the various Dragon Clan lineages.

They all had backing within the clan.

The Dragon Clan loved treasures.

They all had something hidden away, more or less.

Only Ao Sheng was an exception.

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

He had no one supporting him from behind.

If it weren't for the clan leader and elders helping him out of past sentiment.

He might not have gotten the chance to come to the Primordial Era continent.

Naturally, he didn't have any Innate Spiritual Objects on hand.

This was why this father and son pair valued this Innate Magic Array so immensely.

Upon hearing this, Ao Lin was about to transform into his dragon form and flee.

But the voice that echoed in his ears made his body stiffen, and his blood run cold.

"Oh, right, I just remembered something else."

Zhou Yuan manifested from the void.

He rubbed his chin, deep in thought.

Ao Sheng's eyelids twitched wildly.

He swallowed, forcing a smile, "Daoist friend, didn't you already enter the magic array?"

"Why did you come out again?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head, chuckling sinisterly, "If I hadn't come out, how would I have known the Dragon Lord's clever plan?"

Ao Sheng's smile froze, and he said with difficulty, "Daoist friend, it's all a misunderstanding. It's all a misunderstanding!"

Zhou Yuan couldn't be bothered to speak further.

He had hidden in the void precisely to hear what scheme the Dragon Clan was hatching.

He hadn't expected it to be this.

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

He reached out slightly, and a verdant bamboo staff emanated an aura of purity and freedom from worry.

With a slight sweep.

In a flash.

He sealed the six senses of the two dragons, plunging them into a state of dazed confusion.

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

Zhou Yuan used a Universe Technique to put them away.

"Dragons coming ashore is never a good thing."

"Perhaps these two white dragons can be used for something."

His eyes flickered.

But with the Innate Magic Array before him, the matter of Ao Sheng had to be put aside for now.

Vast and boundless, deep and dark.

The moment he entered the magic array, Zhou Yuan felt as if he had entered a world of water.

Primordial Heavy Water surged towards him.

A single drop of Primordial Heavy Water was like a lake.

Towering waves crashed down, like Primordial Divine Mountains toppling over.

In the blink of an eye, the Three Lights Divine Water of the sun, moon, and stars churned.

It wore away flesh and blood, corroded souls, and dissolved True Spirits.

Zhou Yuan unleashed his Divine Abilities, thunder rumbling, profound light flashing, and sword light swirling.

He looked at the myriad True Waters before him with a heavy expression.

In an instant, Profound Nether True Water and three thousand strands of Weak Water attacked.

"This array does not follow the order of the Three Powers, nor does it revere the Five Elements as its Dao."

"It is purely an array of Water Element."

"It needs to be countered by the Earth Element."

But these True Waters were all generated by Heaven and Earth; how could ordinary Earth Element Divine Abilities counter them?

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

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

Zhou Yuan's mind raced.

Breaking the array with Divine Abilities and magic power was no longer feasible.

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.

This array would naturally pose no threat.

"An array of Water Element, its core must be an Innate Spiritual Treasure or an Innate Spiritual Root of the Water Element Dao."

Since that was the case.

Zhou Yuan immediately sat cross-legged in the void.

Three Flowers bloomed above his head.

The illusory Three Flowers outlined the Law of Water Element.

In the depths of the void, it seemed as if a Dao sound was singing.

"One Yuan Begins Anew, all phenomena are renewed, the Dao of Primordial Water, vast and supreme..."

As the Dao sound between heaven and earth transformed from illusory to real.

Myriad phenomena evolved around Zhou Yuan.

Rivers, lakes, and seas, with surging waves.

Water vapor rising, forming clouds and bringing rain.

A drop of water forming spring, all things beginning.

Vast and profound, all realms returning to ruin.

There was life and destruction, circulation and renewal.

The Water Element was subtly trending towards breaking free from the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, becoming a Heaven and Earth Yuan on its own.

The cycle of Heaven, Earth, and Water Three Origins.

Is the orthodox Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Just as Zhou Yuan was evolving 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 turbulent.

They even felt subtly docile.

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

Elevating the status of the Heaven Earth Water Three Origins benefited all things of water.

After a long while, Zhou Yuan opened his eyes.

The scene before him was no longer the end of the Profound Nether.

A stone platform permeated with chaotic energy appeared not far away.

The object upon the stone made Zhou Yuan's eyes widen.