513 Strange People and Schemes

This peerless demon from across time, an incarnated fragment of concentrated will, was finally blasted apart by He Ping and Great Sage Lieyun's pincer attack.

With that horizontal palm strike, the dragon incarnation was shattered into who knew how many fragments, falling through the air like snowflakes as streams of air blew them back and forth, leaving the sky full of drifting debris.

This was an exceedingly dangerous situation.

Clearly, even Venerable Subduing Dragon King's original will had been scattered.

"True dragon undying, heavenly curse descends; one dream, one awakening, life and death ever uncertain; summon all spirits, regather the motes; reverse heaven and earth, holy spirit revive..."

At that moment, the old dragon demon's soul-will began writhing in an exceedingly strange fashion. In an instant, within a flash of radiance and under the effect of some mysterious power, those shattered fragments gathered together anew.

No one could have imagined that despite the severity of Venerable Subduing Dragon King's wounds, its Dharma body could still re-form inch by inch.

"Time River Countercurrent Great Method! Great Yin Life-Slaying Chapter!"

Venerable Subduing Dragon King had only heard of these legends through scattered accounts circulating in the cultivation world. It was said that the Dongyin lineage had always held a certain faith and reverence: the nine rivers flowing down from the Azure Firmament of the Heavenly Realm into the mortal world, eventually reaching the unclean Styx of the nine-layered Abyssal Realm, had each evolved into nine ancient rivers of divine grace and nine great spring-eyes.

As for these nine river-marshes linking Heaven and Earth, both the common folk and the Dongyin lineage had various names and descriptions for them—Nine Springs, Weak River, River of Forgetfulness, and so on.

There was also a saying that among these nine rivers was one that governed time,