Primordial Era: Taking the blame to become a saint, proving one's path through eccentricity!

Chapter 186 [Self-Inflicted Trauma, the Power of Dao Influence] (Please Subscribe)

These ten spirit shamans were born under the influence of the ten Heavenly Stems. They are Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Di, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wu Zhen, Wu Li, Wu Di, Wu Xie, and Wu Luo. In the dark, they also received the blessings of the sacred mountains such as E Feng, Zhan Meng, and Rou Zhao, and can also be called the Ten Spirit Mountain Shamans.

Xuan Yin could sense that these ten spirit witches, born under the mandate of heaven, could, to some extent, communicate with the heavenly way through rituals.

His drop of essence blood, after merging with the fortune of the Witch Clan, combined with the mysterious power of Heaven, transformed into Wu Luo, one of the Ten Great Spirit Witches!

"Wu Luo!"

Xuan Yin couldn't help but utter the name.

This name, like Dijiang and Zhujiuyin, is a true name bestowed by heaven and earth, carrying an ineffable destiny in the darkness.

However, a sense of foreboding arose in his heart. This avatar, like the Asura avatar, seemed to be tainted with some demonic energy.

"Rahu!"

Although Xuan Yin's expression remained unchanged, a storm raged within him: "Why are you so persistent?"

Once might be a coincidence, and twice could be explained as an accident, but the third time, it was definitely because Rahu had done something to him, or something else, without his knowledge.

Boom!

With Xuan Yin's arrival, the karmic forces in the dark were stirred up, and the ten spirit witches nurtured in the blood pool also showed signs of descending into the world.

Ten enormous blood cocoons rose from the blood pool, drawing upon the mysterious forces of fate, and transformed into ten spirit shamans as majestic as divine mountains.

These spirit witches, newly born, are only equivalent to Golden Immortals in the Immortal Path, but they possess terrifying potential comparable to figures like Zhu Jiuyin.

Xuan Yin glanced at Wu Luo, then said to Zhu Jiuyin, "I'll trouble the Ancestral Witch to take good care of this incarnation of my Daoist sorcerer!"

He wasn't in the mood to study the methods of transcending the limitations of the universe; he just wanted to figure out exactly where Rahu had tampered with things.

A moment later, Xuan Yin sat cross-legged in the Spirit Realm, his thoughts flowing back through the river of time to search for the whereabouts of the ten drops of essence blood.

No problems were found with the drops from the Witch Clan, the Asura Clan, or the Human Clan, so in the end, they could only continue tracing back further.

Soon, Xuan Yin's gaze fell on the Dragon-Han era. When he separated his essence blood, four drops of essence blood fell into this time and space.

Three of the drops merged into the fortunes of the three ancestors, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin, while the remaining drop inexplicably fell into Mount Sumeru.

"etc!"

"I think I've dug my own grave!"

Only now did Xuan Yin realize something was amiss: in this time and space, those occupying Mount Sumeru were not the Daoist Jieyin or the Daoist Zhunti.

But...

Demon Ancestor Rahu!

This drop of essence blood, upon falling into Mount Sumeru, merged with Rahu's primordial demonic energy, becoming imbued with an extremely dense demonic aura.

It wasn't a big deal to begin with!

But later, Rahu became a saint, and learned the memories of past eras. His demonic power spread throughout the endless space-time of the past, present, and future.

Even the slightest anomaly cannot escape Luo Hou's discerning eyes. With just a little backtracking, he can detect the fluctuations in the demonic path's fortune.

After Xuan Yin discovered this anomaly, a memory surfaced in his mind: fragments of time that Luo Hou had concealed.

Xuan Yin's drop of essence blood, after falling into Mount Sumeru, should have transformed into a great demon. However, after Luo Hou became a Heavenly Dao Saint, he reversed the flow of time and space, using saintly methods to separate that drop of essence blood from the demonic destiny, transforming it into the cause and effect between himself and Xuan Yin.

A terrifying power of Dao staining, with that drop of essence blood as the cause and effect, landed on Xuan Yin's main body and the other drops of essence blood he had separated.

Rahu's practice of reducing and seeking emptiness began in the Longhan era. The medium between him and Xuan Yin was the drop of essence blood that Xuan Yin sent to Mount Sumeru!

Xuan Yin looked helpless: "When we tried the method of transcending mortality, we should have found a way to avoid the karmic consequences related to Rahu!"

Under the Dao of Heaven, sages are immortal and indestructible, and it is not difficult for them to manipulate the strings of cause and effect and reshape the established order!

Whether it's the past, the present, or the future, in their eyes, it's just a book that they can flip through or alter at will.

Although the rules of Heaven and the Pangu at the top of the river of time prevented even the sages from easily altering history and the general trend, planting a cause and effect in the past was an easy and effortless thing for the sages of Heaven!

Luo Hou chose Xuan Yin as a tool to reduce emptiness because their timelines had briefly intersected!

During the Longhan era, on Mount Sumeru, when that drop of essence blood merged with the demonic destiny, the cause and effect between Xuan Yin and Luo Hou were already destined!

Luo Hou deliberately concealed this part of history so that Xuan Yin would inadvertently inherit the many causes and effects related to him.

Therefore, when his true form obtained the Twelve-Petaled World-Destroying Black Lotus, when his Asura incarnation inherited the name of Rahu, and when he obtained the authority of the God-Head Rahu Star Lord on Rahu Star, he did not discover the root of the problem.

Ten drops of essence blood represent ten causal relationships. The drop of essence blood that merges into Mount Sumeru is the bridge through which Rahu's causal relationship is transferred to Xuan Yin.

The drop of essence blood that merged into the human body served as a coordinate, a coordinate that allowed the twelfth-grade world-destroying black lotus to precisely locate Xuan Yin.

"The Demon God was, in the very beginning, a Star God!"

Xuan Yin suddenly realized: "Luo Hou is a star god born from the primordial starry sky, the pioneer of the demonic path, the head god of the divine path, and the White Emperor among the Five Heavenly Emperors. However, when Di Jun established the demon race and gathered the origin of billions of stars in the primordial world with the Zhou Tian Star Array, he also became entangled with the demon race!"

"The drop of essence blood that I absorbed into the demon race's destiny did not disappear; instead, it was hidden by Rahu and became the medium for inheriting his star god karma!"

"That drop of Asura's blood essence, and this drop of the Witch Clan's blood essence, have unknowingly allowed me to inherit two more portions of karma!"

"These are five drops of essence blood!"

Xuan Yin's initial goal was to use those ten drops of essence blood to comprehend the art of transformation and to evolve ten essence blood avatars to cultivate different systems, and then feed the gains back to his original body.

But he shouldn't have, absolutely shouldn't have, let a single drop of his essence blood become entangled with Rahu.

With the help of the terrifying power of the demonic path and that drop of essence blood, Luo Hou had already anchored ten causal relationships onto Xuan Yin.

Now, without realizing it, he has inherited five paths of cause and effect.

It can be said that he has already gone halfway on the path to becoming the second-generation Rahu, and he can no longer sever the karmic ties to the second-generation Rahu!

"No!"

"Perhaps more than half!"

Xuan Yin couldn't help but think of the other five drops of essence blood. Four of them fell into the fortunes of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans and the ferocious beast clan, respectively, while the last drop was used to establish a karmic connection with Buzhou Mountain.

In the present timeline, he has immense karmic connections with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, the ferocious beast lineage, and Mount Buzhou, which serves as the pillar of heaven.

There's no need to elaborate on Mount Buzhou.

As the mountain god of Buzhou Mountain, in the primordial world, apart from Pangu who created the world, no one has a heavier karmic connection with Buzhou Mountain than him.

Then there are the three clans of dragon, phoenix, and qilin!

Putting aside everything else, the Earthly Dao Fruit of the Primordial Qilin, the Water Dao Fruit of the Ancestral Dragon, and the Fire Dao Fruit of the Primordial Phoenix alone form an unbreakable causal bond.

As for the ferocious beasts...

The God-Slaying Flying Knife in his hand was forged from Qiongqi, one of the Four Fiends.

The Luo Tian Qing Yun above his head was made from Chaos, one of the Four Fiends.

The four ferocious beasts were extremely vicious, and others could not even encounter one of them, but he encountered two in a row. In particular, the Burial Ground of Chaos was located on the planet Rahu, and the will of Rahu personally told him about it.

Xuan Yin would never believe that Luo Hou hadn't manipulated the cause and effect behind the scenes!

"Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?"

In Xuan Yin's initial conception, ten drops of essence blood were integrated with the fortune of the ten directions, and one day in the future, they would be able to give birth to ten incarnations.

But now, the cause and effect, which seemed like a mirage, terrified him, fearing that he might inadvertently fall into Rahu's trap.

"Rahu, are you there?"

After a moment of contemplation, Xuan Yin's thoughts traveled along the timeline of the Primordial True Realm, towards the manifested will of Rahu on Rahu Star.

He still underestimated the sage.

Although Rahu's true form is suppressed by the Dao Ancestor in the present timeline, his will can still cover the endless timelines of the past, present, and future.

If he wanted, he could easily take over his own account, return to a certain time and space in the past, and leave behind a backup plan in that time and space.

Back when Xuan Yin entered the Tai Di Palace, this sacred land of Dao Origin, the future Ziwei Emperor had already assumed his own title.

The same applies to Rahu.

At that time, if it weren't for Cangli's intervention, Xuan Yin would have almost developed a demonic inner demon. At that time, the White Emperor Rahu was replaced by the Demon Ancestor Rahu!

"Did you finally find it?"

Rahu's voice came from Rahu Star: "Looks like you're not too stupid! Only then are you qualified to inherit my Dao Fruit!"

Yes!

Although Rahu was suppressed, at any point in time before he was suppressed, or at any point in time when he left his mark or had a backup plan, he could replace his former self at any time if he wanted to.

"No one would want your Dao Fruit!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin sneered, "I just didn't expect that the mighty Demon Ancestor Luo Hou would resort to such underhanded methods!"

It can be said that most of Xuan Yin's experiences after trying the method of self-transformation were inseparable from the manipulation of cause and effect by the demon ancestor Rahu.

He was naturally quite angry!

But there was nothing he could do!

Once upon a time, Xuan Yin even thought of sacrificing the demonic path's fortune to the Heavenly Dao, so that at a crucial moment, he could strike at the heart of the Demon Ancestor Rahu.

But Rahu, on the other hand, was secretly plotting against the enemy, having already planted an unbreakable causal link in the endless river of time.

Why would they care about that little bit of demonic luck?

He was already preparing to let Xuan Yin inherit the Dao Fruit, so the fortune belonging to the demonic path would naturally also be a part of the karma that Xuan Yin would inherit.

Let alone the fact that Xuan Yin merely offered himself as a sacrifice to the Heavenly Dao in exchange for the Fire Element Dao Fruit, even if he directly integrated the demonic path's fortune into the immortal path system...

Even Rahu might not care.

Even a fairy is still a fairy!

Hearing Xuan Yin's words, Luo Hou remained unconvinced: "Methods! As long as they work, that's enough! Why worry about whether they're respectable or not?"

"I am the Demon Ancestor, and I shall do as I please. So-called rules cannot bind me!"

"Do you think you can break down my defenses with just a few words?"

"You underestimate me far too much!"

Before Xuan Yin could respond, Luo Hou continued, "Do you know how many great supernatural beings would kill for such an opportunity?"

"Inheriting my Dao Fruit, though it is also a kind of constraint, can save you from many detours in comprehending your own Dao!"

"If you have the ability to break free from the constraints of this Dao Fruit, you can naturally choose to reduce and seek emptiness, passing this Dao Fruit on to the third-generation Rahu!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin's lips twitched involuntarily. He, the second-generation Rahu, was not even a chance to become a Rahu yet, and this person was already thinking about becoming a third-generation Rahu!

However, what Rahu said makes a lot of sense. Inheriting his Dao Fruit, becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint, and then using the Law Dao to inscribe the rules of the Heavenly Dao can indeed help one avoid some detours in cultivation.

Furthermore, once he has laid the foundation to become a true sage, he could even try to emulate Nuwa and attain enlightenment in both the ways of heaven and earth!

Although each cultivator's path to enlightenment is different, learning from others can help one's own path to enlightenment reach perfection more quickly.

It's not all bad!

(End of this chapter)