Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Chapter 52 The Effects, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Karma

However, the Great Luo Golden Immortals are already considered powerful beings, and their numbers are not many. Whenever one appears, the three innate races will collect relevant information about him and share it with their own races and their affiliated Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Therefore, the three primordial races and their affiliated Great Luo Golden Immortals all had a certain understanding of most of the Great Luo Golden Immortals in the prehistoric world.

(Those that have appeared before are somewhat known; the more they are exposed, the more we know about them. Those that have never appeared or have been exposed very little are naturally unknown or very little known.)

Coincidentally, Xuanmo made his move more than once during the Dragon-Han Calamity, and his information was naturally known to the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan.

Therefore, whether it was the Netherworld Serpent Ancestor or other Great Luo Golden Immortals killed by Yuan Yan, they all had some understanding of the Xuanmo (mysterious membrane).

Yuan Yan extracted their memories, so he naturally also had some understanding of the Xuanmo.

At this moment, watching Nuwa, Fuxi, and Xuanmo engage in a fierce battle, clearly not a friendly sparring match but a life-or-death struggle, Yuan Yan couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

He learned from the memories of the Great Luo Golden Immortal he had killed that the three innate races and their affiliated races had fewer than three hundred Great Luo Golden Immortals and fewer than ten Primordial Golden Immortals who survived the Dragon-Han Tribulation without perishing.

But now it seems that although they have survived the Dragon-Han Tribulation, it does not mean that they can rest easy.

He had a premonition that because there was no victor among the three innate races, the fortune of the three races could not suppress the blood evil karma, and they all carried a massive amount of blood evil karma.

If they don't learn from the Great Luo Golden Immortals and Hunyuan Golden Immortals of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, who spare no effort to suppress a region of the primordial world, or try to earn merit and use the power of heaven and earth or merit to protect themselves, they will probably suffer calamity sooner or later.

Otherwise, even if the Netherworld Serpent Ancestor and those Great Luo Golden Immortals who attacked him encountered him and even if they developed greedy intentions, they would never easily take action against him.

Otherwise, the Xuanmo before them would never have easily engaged in a life-or-death battle with Nuwa and Fuxi.

If their minds hadn't been corrupted by the karmic force of bloodlust, they would have known that even if they won, with the immense fortune of top-tier innate saints, their chances of killing them were extremely slim.

Even if they manage to seize this minuscule chance and kill the top-tier innate saints they encounter, they will certainly suffer a terrible backlash of fortune. They will most likely be forced to flee or tear through space, suddenly finding themselves in a deadly predicament. They might even be killed by an even stronger being while they are in the dojo.

If they fail to seize this minuscule chance, given the growth rate of top-tier innate saints, it's estimated that within a hundred or two eons, the top-tier innate saints they encounter will have grown up, and they will likely perish.

As for losing the life-or-death battle? Given the bloodlust and negative karma on his body, and his low luck, the chances of escaping with his life were extremely slim.

If his mind hadn't been corrupted and clouded by the karmic force of bloodlust, and if he hadn't still retained his reason, how could an old fellow who had lived for countless years not understand the pros and cons? And how could he have been so unwise?

However, upon realizing the problems faced by those Great Luo Golden Immortals who had survived the Dragon-Han Calamity, Yuan Yan hesitated. Should he offer his assistance? Or remain indifferent? Or perhaps kick them while they were down?

If he were to offer assistance, it must be for his own gain; otherwise, he would not.

What profit is there in it?

Naturally, they are those Great Luo Golden Immortals themselves!

If they were willing to submit and follow him, with the assistance of a considerable number of Great Luo Golden Immortals, the speed at which the Yuan Realm, Yuan Wheel, and Yuan Spirit repaired the earth veins of the Western Continent and set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Grand Array would surely be many times faster.

Their speed of obtaining the fortune of the Western Continent and accumulating merit will also increase several times over.

Moreover, it wouldn't be difficult for him to help them out of their predicament and achieve his own goals.

He only needs to unleash the Golden Wheel of Merit and let the light of its merit shine upon them to temporarily suppress the influence of their blood-fiend karma.

Then, as long as you explain the relevant causes and effects, advantages and disadvantages to them, they will willingly worship him as their master if they do not want to perish.

Next, if he lends them a Pure White Lotus, he can suppress their blood-fiend karma, keep their minds clear, and allow them to travel to the Western Continent to repair the earth veins, set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, earn merit, and eliminate their own karma.

However, if he were to take them under his wing, he would naturally be affected by their blood and evil karma, and it would probably take a lot of merit and good fortune to eliminate the adverse effects.

If the number of Great Luo Golden Immortals subdued is small, only a few or a dozen, then that's fine.

With his merits and fortune in relation to the Yuan Realm, Yuan Wheel, and Yuan Spirit, consuming some of it would be harmless. At most, his cultivation progress and blessings would be slightly affected, but there would be no major consequences.

However, if he subdues too many Great Luo Golden Immortals, his merits and fortune will be consumed too much, or even exhausted, and he might suffer great misfortune as a result.

If one chooses to remain indifferent, then needless to say, one will gain nothing and lose nothing.

But if he chooses to kick someone when they're down, he'll only gain and never lose.

He will gain three benefits:

Firstly, if he could suppress those Great Luo Golden Immortals and extract their memories, he would gain the culmination of their life's cultivation and experience, which would be of great benefit to his enlightenment, cultivation, and travel in the prehistoric world.

Secondly, after extracting their memories, they are useless to him. He can erase their innate, indestructible true spirits and truly kill them. By killing these beings with overwhelming blood and karmic burdens, he will receive rewards from heaven and earth and gain a great deal of merit.

Thirdly, as Great Luo Golden Immortals, they all possess some treasures, and those who can even survive the Dragon-Han Tribulation mostly have innate spiritual treasures. Their inherent power and the treasures they possess undoubtedly have extremely high value.

No, that's not right either. Choosing to kick someone when they're down isn't all good; there are still some risks involved.

If too many are killed, and the strong who survived the Dragon-Han Calamity find out, they might unite.

If that's the case, even if the Primordial Golden Immortals of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans don't intervene, the numerous Grand Luo Golden Immortals would still pose a tremendous trouble and crisis.

Moreover, when people walk by the river, they are bound to get their shoes wet. Even if he is stronger than those Great Luo Golden Immortals, he cannot guarantee that he can make them helpless.

If we can't leave them powerless and facing a life-or-death crisis, who knows how crazy they'll become? They might even self-destruct, or even destroy their innate spiritual treasures, wreaking havoc on the primordial world at the last moment—who knows?

If that's the case, even if killing those Great Luo Golden Immortals brings considerable benefits, it cannot be guaranteed that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

After weighing the options in his mind and hesitating for a while, Yuan Yan made a decision.

He did not intend to stand idly by, nor did he intend to help all the Great Luo Golden Immortals who had survived the Dragon-Han Calamity and were burdened with a great deal of blood and evil karma to escape their predicament. Nor did he intend to kick them while they were down and try to kill them all. He chose a compromise.