Chapter 598 Incarnation (2/2)

Li Yuanliang and co could do nothing but look at Shen Lian entering the city. Finally, he vanished into Zimu River.

After a long while, Yuan Xuefeng spoke, ”My apprentice-brothers, a while ago, it was not because of Uncle-Master using the mighty strength of his Primordial Spirit that he was able to defeat it. Did you all not realize that it was like we were caught in a game that Uncle-Master created from the moment he first made his move? Everything was played by his rules. We were helplessly toyed around and there was nothing we could do about it.”

The hearts of the other three trembled. In the end, they acknowledged Yuan Xuefeng's view. Even if what he said was so, when Uncle-Master once again advanced, they were still without a way that would enable them to endure the test after Uncle-Master's advancement. As of now, that became their most pressing dilemma.

The four of them did not notice the tacit admission they simultaneously made – Uncle-Master would not be in any danger anymore.

As Shen Lian sank into the Zimu River, he heard the words of Yuan Xuefeng, and it seems that the latter could still be considered to have perception.

In fact, it was not only rules that Shen Lian could formulate. Inside his body, there was an embryonic form of a non-existent/illusory universe. The plan he wished to commence today was indeed akin to what Daoist Master Taishang said – all the things in the world are produced by being, and coming from non-being.

The so-called being was Taiyi, while the non-being was Taiyi.

Taiyi was indeed the soulful aura which led to the creation of heaven and earth and all living things.

The water from Zimu river, if drank, enabled the embryo to be born of the parent body with no foundation, not that it was a different kind of being from non-being. This was the reason why Shen Lian needed the essence of the Zimu River.

It was precisely because of this point, Shen Lian gradually understood something. From the beginning up until the end, not once did he escape from the plans fate had in store for him. He came to the Netherworld because Chen Jing had drunk the water from Zimu River to give birth to Xiliang, in the end, reliance on the river's water was still needed in order to achieve Taiyi. Everything was too coincidental.

Even Wen Zhong's sudden appearance with the use of the Mighty God of Thunder could not be as simple as just another plan. If there was no Wen Zhong, forgetting the principle would require a longer time and Shen Lian would definitely be unable to be in his current position with so quick a period of time.

Even though Shen Lian had earlier on established Zhou and caused Xia, Shang, and Zhou to coexist at the same time, there was still some uncertainty on whether he could achieve the desired outcome in the end.

He could not help but to miss Ye Liuyun. Among the both of them, there were empathy as fellow sufferers. If they were together, it would be more certain that they could join forces and collapse.

For Shen Lian, the quest for freedom contributed to the heightening of his power and state. Even though he seemed to be free, the truth was that it was all predetermined by fate. He and he alone could profoundly understand this.

Regardless of how much danger and torments he experienced, and how the complicated and touching story unfolded, ultimately he was still unable to break free of that unperceivable shadow.

Shen Lian slowly sank into the depths of the water. There was neither any light nor any sound. Even the flow of water was absent. It conjured up the thought of the self-divine aura that he still entrusted in the Realm of Dreams (databank uses Village of Nothingness).

Only after he thought about the aura did he feel a slight peace of mind. No matter what happens, he had already reached this step. Whatever the dangers were, he faced them all. Surely a chance would still exist for Dongshan to rise up again.

In another sense, from this day onwards any Shen Lian outside the Realm of Dreams (Village of Nothingness) would strictly, be an incarnation. Even if the incarnation was annihilated into scattered ashes and a puff of smoke, another Shen Lian would still appear in the world.

If he cultivated for a thousand years, then that is the amount that would be restored in his cultivation experience.

As this gradually happened, Shen Lian finally understood more on a deeper level why the State of Taiyi was this fearsome. If one's karma was bounded with a person possessing the Taiyi state, it would result in a lifetime of nightmares.