Chapter 2909: Karma Not Exhausted, Dusty Ties Not Severed

It cannot touch the Red General, but it can touch this purple gem!

Seize the Dream Cocoon, and He Lingchuan will never have another chance at reincarnation.

The Red General patted the hilt of the Floating Life Saber, and the dragon head at the pommel automatically opened its mouth, letting her embed the Dream Cocoon inside.

A gem fused into the Floating Life Saber will temporarily become one with it. This way, unless the Snake of Fate seizes the Floating Life Saber, it cannot take He Lingchuan's memories either.

But both sides understand: as long as the Red General cannot truly defeat the Snake of Karma, it will eventually find an opportunity to snatch the treasure — time is on its side!

"Karma cannot touch you." The giant Karma Snake laughed loudly, "But Fate can!"

"You mean I must struggle against Fate?" The Red General cleaved through more than a dozen resentful spirit hands reaching for her; a gale from nowhere in this space whipped her hair into the air, "I've been doing this my whole life!"

"But you failed in your last life!" The giant Karma Snake mocked her, "You did not complete the task the Dragon God entrusted to you, you did not reverse Panlongcheng's destiny!"

"Your resentment and unwillingness have made your Fate unable to end. The world changes, yet you can only hide in the Great Fanghu, day after day, suffering repeatedly! Hehe, how pitiful!"

"Fate?" The Red General's long brows lifted, "Good, then let us speak properly of Fate!"

She secretly mobilized her divine power, simultaneously raising her saber tip to point at the black snake: "This time you arranged the last two trials for He Lingchuan all at once — has he passed them?"

Over a decade ago, when He Lingchuan completed his Fate Divinity, he underwent the first trial; the latter two were long in coming, until the Battle of Liaotian Plain opened its curtain.

The black snake replied: "He is dead, so it naturally counts as failure."

Cutting off the head and tail and shaving away so many details, the rough outline of this whole process is: it initiated the trial, He Lingchuan died in the trial, thereby concluding He Lingchuan failed, could not pass the trial —

Isn't that nonsense? A Divinity can only be possessed by a living person / living god! He is already dead, how can it not count as failure?

Several dozen streams of black water turned into pythons, but before they could near the Red General's body, she sliced them apart.

The black snake was also vexed; this woman was too fierce, it seemed the torrent of Fate could not take her down for the time being.

But it also understood: the reason dealing with the Hundred Battles Heaven was easier before was because the Hundred Battles Heaven was covered in sins, the torrent's impact on Him was too great. But the Red General has no karma and is light of body; even placed in the torrent she is light as a swan feather, towering waves cannot push her underwater.

Karma has no way to handle her; only Fate can punish her.

But she seems not to care at all: "He Lingchuan has already succeeded; you simply refuse to acknowledge the fact!"

The black snake was baffled: "What do you mean?"

"You were wrong from the root." The Red General surveyed her surroundings, pondering a way to escape the torrent, "From the moment he obtained the Divine Bone Necklace, He Lingchuan's Fate has been deeply bound together with Panlongcheng and the Great Fanghu, no longer isolated. Now Panlongcheng's destiny has been completely rewritten, the Great Fanghu's evolution is about to succeed, and He Lingchuan, bound to them, naturally will not be left behind!"

He Lingchuan said before: if he does not help Panlong, how can Panlong help him?

Then a step further: he saved Panlong and the Great Fanghu from fire and water, so how would Panlong and the Great Fanghu betray him?

This is Karma — powerful Karma! Therefore —

"His Fate has not yet reached its end." Her saber pointed at the black snake, "As the Fate Divinity, you should know the Karma is not exhausted, the dusty ties are not severed, yet you deliberately evade these deep connections, letting Karma cheat away his god-soul. Hmph! He Lingchuan is the person involved, so he is confused and cannot see through your tricks, but you want to steal him from under my eyelids? Not that easy."

The black snake still wanted to argue: "But his trial has indeed already failed..."

"Is that so? The last two trials you arranged for him were originally just 'see Heaven and Earth, see all beings.' But how did he do it?" The Red General extended two fingers, lightly wiping across the Floating Life Saber; blue-white electric light crackled and snapped on the blade.

"He saved Panlong, reversed the destiny of all of us — this is 'save all beings'; he also helped the Great Fanghu complete its evolution, with far-reaching influence on the future mortal world — this is 'aid Heaven and Earth'!"

"See oneself, save all beings, aid Heaven and Earth!" She raised three fingers in succession, "Three trials — which one did he not exceed expectations on?"

The Snake of Fate judged He Lingchuan's trial a failure, speaking in terms of life and death.

The Red General judged He Lingchuan's trial a success, judging by the result.

"In terms of bonds, He Lingchuan's ties to Panlong and to the Great Fanghu are not something a mere Divinity like you is qualified to sever; in terms of effect, he also perfectly passed your trials!" The Floating Life Saber in the Red General's hand, the Lei Ting light gradually flourished, the surrounding gloom dared not approach, "From now on, you ought to submit to him, how dare you still mix with Karma?"

One who passes the three trials is the master of the Fate Divinity!

"Daring to help an outsider deal with the master's Divinity — intolerable in this world!"

During her dialogue with the black snake, the smoke streams around them stirred restlessly. Karma still would not give up, wanting to sneak close to the hilt and corrupt the glowing purple gem.

"My torrent can be endless, the time in this dark sky canopy is likewise endless!" The Snake of Fate did not fear her, "Human power has its limits; sooner or later you will have to submit."

It did not agree with the Red General, but neither did it want to argue further.

"This form of yours was still bestowed by the Ancient God of Fate." The Red General pierced through it with one sentence, "His understanding of Fate is long outdated, so you are outdated too!"

She had fused Lady Lady Lady Mitian's memories. As one of the Ancient Three Saint Gods, the Ancient God of Death, Lady Lady Lady Mitian's understanding of the Ancient God of Fate's Divinity was exceptionally profound.

The Ouroboros form of the Fate Divinity has never corresponded to an individual, but to the birth and death of Heaven, Earth, and all beings — from beginning to end, from nothingness to existence, finally returning to nothingness.

Cycling endlessly, without beginning or end.

"You claim to represent the laws of Fate, yet dare not acknowledge this Karma. Since that is so, you have no reason to exist; I will sever you for He Lingchuan!"

Finishing these words, the Red General dove downward, unexpectedly sinking into the pitch-black water bottom of her own accord.

This action gave even the Fate Black Snake a start. What does she mean, she's seeking her own death?

There's even such a good thing?

But merely four breaths later, the depths of the torrent suddenly exploded, and a Lei Guang dragon leaped out from within, whiskers, tail, and fangs all complete!

It charged at the giant Fate Snake, truly worthy of "wind-driven, lightning-fast." As it surged upstream, the black smoke had not even pounced on it before it was decomposed into nothingness by the Lei Guang in an instant.

The Red General rode atop the dragon head, one hand gripping a dragon horn, the other holding the Floating Life Saber inverted. Wherever the saber tip passed, it conducted Lei Guang electric snakes into the surging flood.

Visibly, the torrent transformed into Lei Ting, replenishing the Lei Guang dragon's body. In just a few short breaths, the Lei Guang dragon's bulk more than doubled, its electric light turning from blue to white, blazing radiance in ten thousand rays, illuminating that red figure on the dragon's back!

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