Noble Bloodline

Though the Dragon Clan was powerful, with noble bloodlines, invincible bodies, and vast divine powers, matters involving Great Dao Laws—especially the subtle mysteries of retracing time and peering into karmic bonds—were not their forte.

They could sense the deaths of their blood descendants and the rough karmic connections involved, but they could not, like certain Great Powers who specialized in such arts or beings possessing special Supreme Treasures, clearly trace a specific person's words, actions, and hidden thoughts at a particular moment in time.

Across the Three Realms, there were very few magical treasures or divine powers capable of ignoring most Restrictions and concealments to directly reveal fragments of a living being's past. Deep within the Heavenly Court's Lingxiao Palace hung one such Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Haotian Mirror, which bore part of the Heavenly Dao's authority of surveillance.

It could monitor living beings across all worlds, theoretically including Lin Zhu. However, doing so came at a price and required the Jade Emperor's permission. Then there was Taishang Dao Ancestor, who dwelled deep within Tushita Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, nearly merged with the Heavenly Dao, and could use Supreme Merit and his understanding of the Great Dao to trace the past to a certain extent.

And these were precisely things the Dragon Clan found difficult to attain or was unwilling to touch lightly. The Dragon Clan itself possessed no heaven-defying divine power capable of forcibly peering into the past of an anomaly like Lin Zhu.

Amitabha had evidently grasped this point with perfect accuracy.

He had cleverly combined Lin Zhu's weakness as an "anomaly," whose past was difficult to trace through ordinary means, with the Dragon Clan's lack of powerful time-tracing abilities. Then, through verbal guidance and one-sided evidence, he forcibly pinned Ao Lie's death—a colossal crisis originally sufficient to