Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan had obtained two volumes of the Chiyou Threefold Scripture. The deeper his cultivation grew, the harder it became to resist Chiyou's influence.
During this expedition to retrieve treasures from the Yuan River, Chiyou exerted a powerful influence over him, even controlling him, telling him that the Golden Ship contained many weapons that had been used against him and wounded him in the past—and that these weapons would soon inflict devastating harm on him once again.
At this moment, Chiyou and Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan shared a single perspective, as though they were one being. Both referred to themselves as "I." In the past and the future alike, the one being harmed was "me," making Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan feel that suffering as his own.
Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan recognized this as well. He knew that the sabers, swords, axes, and spears inside the Golden Ship would all be used against him in the future, all brought down upon his own body!
He felt that he ought to stop this treasure retrieval too. Ideally, he would seize everything inside the Golden Ship and claim it for himself. Failing that, he had to sink it into the Water Eye, deep into Earth's Core, never to emerge again!
Yet he also felt that, since Shi Feiyang's disciples and grand-disciples were overseeing this expedition, he should not make an enemy of his benefactor...
His heart was filled with contradictions. One moment he thought he should do this, the next he thought he should do that. He had never been particularly strong-willed; in the past, even his disciples' words could sway him. Now that Chiyou was influencing his thoughts directly from within his primordial spirit, he found those arguments all the more persuasive.
With this deeply conflicted mindset, and his intentions changing constantly, he arrived