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"No wonder these fragments of the Bronze Mother Weapon are so sharp and useful. Their quality and origin are so high. No wonder I couldn't tell their origins at all when I was in the Azure Sky World."

Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.

These fragments of the Bronze Mother were rewards he received when he was in the Azure Sky World, but at that time Lu Yuan had no idea what they were.

However, it is exceptionally easy to use, extremely sharp, and much better than my own magical weapons.

Later, it even became Lu Yuan's only trump card that could hurt a True Immortal.

Lu Yuan was thinking that if this thing was so powerful even when it was broken into pieces, how terrifying would it be if it were a complete magic weapon?
Now I know, so this thing is a fragment of the God-Slaying Spear. No wonder it's so powerful.

How could the natal magic weapon of the Destruction Demon God Rahu not be powerful?

Although the God-Slaying Spear shattered after being surrounded and killed by Yang Mei, Shi Chen, Qian Kun and others, it was still a supreme innate treasure of the Heavenly Dao, and its power remained even after the fall.

Now that it has been repaired by the system, the Rahu Spear is missing its shaft and no longer has the ferocity it once did, but its power is still no weaker than that of a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

Moreover, Lu Yuan had made preparations beforehand. He knew that these fragments, when combined, would form a spearhead, so he prepared a spear shaft in advance.

That is, the heavy spear shaft is made of Gengjin stone after the innate Gengjin is refined.

Combining these two elements, the power of the God-Slaying Spear may not be restored to its former glory, but it is still a peerless weapon of supreme innate spiritual treasure level that kills without incurring any karmic consequences.

Lu Yuan stroked the new Godslayer Spear.

"This God-Slaying Spear should be the highest quality weapon and magic treasure I currently possess. Although its magic treasure level was shattered by Immortal Yangmei, Qiankun, Shichen, and others due to the death of Luo Hou, causing it to drop from the level of a supreme innate treasure, it is still no less than a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse."

Moreover, the most useful innate malevolent treasure is the one that, unlike ordinary magical artifacts, does not incur karmic consequences from killing.

Most of the normal magical weapons in the immortal realm, although powerful, cannot kill without incurring karmic consequences.

As for cause and effect, it is the most mysterious and profound thing in the immortal realm, something that even immortals find difficult to deal with.

Under the illumination of the Great Dao, all living things are connected by a thread of cause and effect; every action, if it has a cause, will bear a result.

Therefore, even the top immortals in the celestial realm cannot kill people at will; otherwise, they will bear the consequences of killing someone.

If it's a low-level immortal, the karmic retribution isn't so terrifying. But if you kill a Taiyi Xuanxian, or even a Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, or Daluo Golden Immortal...

The higher the realm, the more terrifying the karma becomes, because such a powerful being was so influential in life that killing such a person would cause their karma to fall on you, which would be extremely troublesome.

The most direct effect is that after the cause and effect are grafted onto you, it will cause your karmic debts to be too heavy and your karmic fire to be too intense, which will burn away your merits.

At that time, you will be directly blacklisted by the Great Dao, and a terrifying Great Dao Tribulation will descend to kill you.

This is what is known as karmic retribution. It's like killing someone the Great Dao values ​​or breaking the law; the Great Dao will naturally come to kill you.

There is a solution, though, unless you refine karma, but refining karma is too slow. This is why the higher the level of immortals, the less likely they are to kill each other. They usually stop short of killing each other.

It's not worth killing the other person; you'd only lose more. And if you did kill them, you might end up dying together with them.

However, magical weapons that are not bound by cause and effect are different. There are peerless vicious weapons that are not bound by cause and effect. Killing someone automatically severs the cause and effect. If cause and effect do not entangle you, you will never enter the blacklist of the Great Dao.

Because the Great Dao implicitly acknowledges that this weapon is meant for killing people. The ultimate treasure of the killing path is something that all immortals fear. This thing can kill you without breaking the law, so who can withstand it?
Looking across the entire Immortal Realm, besides this God-Slaying Spear, the only magical weapons that can kill without incurring karma are the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, the Six Soul Banner, and the two innate killing swords, Yuan Tu and A Bi, held by the Blood Sea Styx Ancestor at the bottom of the Netherworld Blood Sea.

However, in the current Immortal Realm, apart from the two innate killing swords, Yuan Tu and A Bi, which are still in the hands of the Quasi-Saint Ancestor Styx, the other killing treasures are all in the hands of saints.

The Four Swords of Zhuxian are in Tongtian's hands and are currently under the supervision of Hongjun. Even the saints are trapped in the Chaos Dojo, so they are essentially banned and cannot be used.

The Six Soul Banner was damaged, with two of its tails shattered by the Pangu Banner of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, causing it to suffer a severe loss of vitality that was difficult to recover. It also fell in the realm of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and was now in the hands of the Tongtian, where it was imprisoned in the Chaos Dojo.

The Heaven-Suppressing Coffin is in Hongjun's hands, but since Hongjun does not appear in the Immortal Realm, it can be ignored.

In other words, in the entire Immortal Realm, apart from the Styx Ancestor, only Lu Yuan possesses a deadly weapon that can kill without incurring karmic consequences.

Moreover, he had also obtained the annihilation energy of the Demon Ancestor Rahu's Law of Destruction. With the annihilation energy attached to this God-Slaying Spear, its power was probably even more terrifying.

With a multitude of trump cards stacked up, Lu Yuan is now completely unafraid of even the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

In the current Immortal Realm, Saints are banned, Quasi-Saints don't take action, and Lu Yuan can do whatever he wants.

……

Meanwhile, in another world.

In a chaotic land, there is no concept of time; chaos reigns in all directions.

Beside a void of golden light, a wide river flows across the void, its waves surging, each wave a world, a moment in time.

This long river is the river of time.

An old man with a white beard sat upstream of the River of Time, meditating with his eyes closed amidst a mass of chaotic energy; he was clearly a hermit.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he opened his eyes and looked at the river of time before him.

"what?"

The old man let out a soft exclamation, as if he had discovered something wondrous. Looking over, he saw three small purple-gold flowers blooming on the surface of the River of Time.

The little flowers remained undisturbed by the swift currents and surging waves upstream.

This strange scene immediately caught the attention of the old man upstream, who was curious.

Because no one understands better than him the significance of these three golden flowers appearing in the long river of time.

Because he too left behind three golden flowers in the river of time, something no one else had done before him.

Even his disciples, who have already achieved great success but are trapped in the Chaos Dojo, are still some distance away from leaving their mark on the river of time.

"One certificate for eternal proof—who is so incredibly talented as to achieve this before even becoming a saint?"

The old man wanted to touch them, reaching out to try and retrieve the three golden flowers from the river of time to examine them.

But just as he reached out, a force suddenly emerged from the river of time, blocking and resisting him. That force sealed off the three golden flowers, making them unreachable to him.

The old man was taken aback, but after a moment he understood.

As expected, it's a permanent certificate, and it can't even be checked. Oh well, it seems that the immortal realm has produced new talents after many years.

The old man gave up the salvage attempt. He stood up, took a step, and arrived at the chaotic arena on the banks of the River of Time.

As the old man stepped into the Chaos Dojo, six figures slowly emerged.

Upon seeing the old man arrive, the six figures all bowed in greeting.

"Disciple greets Master."

The old man nodded and said, "I left the six of you here and prevented you from returning to the Immortal Realm. You don't resent me, do you?"

The six said, "Teacher is considering the fate of the Immortal Realm. He fears that the power of the Sages might bring about an even greater calamity in the Immortal Realm, causing immense suffering to all living beings. This is an act of great compassion. How could we dare to be disrespectful to Teacher?"

The old man smiled and continued, "I have something important to tell you today."

"Important matter?"

The six were taken aback. Their teacher had already merged with the Great Dao, and ordinary matters were of no concern to him.

So many people died in the final battle of the Investiture of the Gods back then, but in the teacher's eyes, it was just a small matter.

Even at the very end, if it weren't for the fact that the saints were almost blinded by rage, and the biggest loser, the Tongtian Sect Leader, was so defeated that he threatened to destroy the immortal realm and repeat the cycle of earth, fire, wind, and water, Hongjun would not have shown up.

What important thing is the teacher talking about now? They are very curious. Is there something more important than the great battle between the saints during the Investiture of the Gods?
The old man spoke up: "Just now, I observed the river of time and saw three golden flowers bloom within it."

"Three Golden Flowers?"

The six figures were all taken aback.

They certainly knew what that meant.

The river of time is so vast that even a saint cannot leave an indelible mark on it. Time is too cruel; even the most invincible saints will have their methods erased by time.

There is only one thing that cannot be erased, and that is the Tao, which transcends time and reaches the point of eternal proof.

In the present chaotic and immortal realms, only the teacher can achieve eternal proof.

Even the Six Sages couldn't do it, and even the teacher only achieved it after merging with the Heavenly Dao.

The teacher said that someone has left behind three golden flowers in the river of time again? Who are they?
The six saints exchanged glances. Although their relationship was not particularly close, they knew each other quite well, since they were all in the same Chaos Dojo and knew roughly what level the others were at.

If one can leave a mark over time, their strength will definitely increase significantly; it's impossible for it not to be noticeable.

The old man said, "Stop looking. It's not you. It's someone from the Immortal Realm who has achieved a very high level in a certain field. It may not be that their realm is extremely high, but this person has great potential."

I have a deep-seated feeling that an eighth saint may be born in the immortal realm.

The old man merged with the Dao, and although he could not touch the three eternal golden flowers in the river of time, he could sense any changes in the immortal realm immediately.

At this moment, he could sense that something was about to happen, but he couldn't confirm who that person was.

At this moment, someone asked, "Teacher, didn't you say back then that our world could only support a maximum of seven sages? That escaped wisp of primordial purple energy was the will of Heaven in the dark."

Hongjun had told them this privately back then.

There are only seven destined saints in their Three Thousand Great Worlds. Hongjun has already taken one place, and the remaining six are the six people they currently have.

Although there were seven primordial purple energies back then, the number of sages destined by Heaven was already sufficient, and the path to becoming a sage in the future had been cut off. No new sages would emerge. Why is the statement being changed now?

The old man said, "Times have changed. This time, a person of extraordinary talent has appeared, and he is even influencing the river of time. Moreover, I can sense that there is a mysterious force behind that person, which I cannot even fathom. It is very likely that it is not a force from our world."

The opponent left their mark on the river of time even before achieving sainthood. It's not impossible that they could break through their limits and become a saint in the future.

Hongjun meant that the other party had already done the impossible, and the previous statement by the Seven Sages was only true under normal circumstances.

But this situation is unconventional, and who knows what might happen.

The old man continued, “You can send messages to your respective sects to find out who this person is, so that we can be prepared. But you must keep it a secret; the matter of the Three Golden Flowers in the River of Time must not be spoken of to outsiders.”

After the old man finished speaking, he drifted away.

The remaining six people bowed respectfully and watched the old man leave.

After the old man left, the remaining six people exchanged glances, and one of them said, "What do you all think of what the teacher said?"

"It seems that the heavens of the immortal realm are truly about to change."

"Shall we intervene?"

"Intervene? How can we interfere? We are both confined to this Chaotic Dojo by our teacher. Saints cannot interfere with the Immortal Realm. Moreover, the Eighth Saint is about to appear. Even our teacher said he cannot see it. How can you and I interfere? Don't do anything presumptuous. Let things take their course."

"That's right. The predetermined fate cannot be changed. The teacher said that an eighth sage will appear in the dark. If you interfere casually, you may get into serious trouble. You might end up losing more than you gain, making a fool of yourself and creating enemies out of thin air."

The six people initially wanted to intervene, but fearing they would be entangled in the karma, they abandoned the idea and went their separate ways.

However, the six of them certainly still hoped that the eighth sage would come from their own school.

After all, almost all the immortals in the current immortal realm are their disciples. If the eighth saint were to come from their sect, that would be the best outcome, as it would provide an additional ally in the Chaos Dojo.

With more voices and more sages in the teacher's eyes, how can the orthodox tradition not flourish?

The six saints each returned to their respective posts to deliver messages.

Before long, a message spread among the top echelons of the Immortal Realm.

In the Heavenly Court, Mount Ling, and among the Three Religions, each patriarch sent messages from the chaos beyond the heavens, saying that there was a great change in the Immortal Realm, that the eighth Saintly position was in jeopardy, and that an eighth Saint would be born in the great calamity to come.

The news caused an uproar among top executives and influential figures from all sides.

The Great Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints were overjoyed.

Since Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao, the Six Sages returned to their positions, and the last wisp of primordial purple energy disappeared.

Becoming a saint has become an unattainable dream among the top experts in the immortal realm, which is extremely regrettable.

Especially among quasi-saints, which one doesn't want to go further and become a true Heavenly Saint?
But there was no opportunity before, yet now news has come from above, and it seems the opportunity has arrived? (End of Chapter)