The droplet creature was no fool. It would never fight against Lu Yin while he was merged with a megaverse. Fleeing was its best chance of survival. If it could escape, great. If not, it would still deprive Lu Yin of his advantage.
Soon, Lu Yin had chased the Verdant Sage far from the Tianyuan.
The megaverse was still protected by the karmic wall, but when the people of the megaverse saw Lu Yin leaving, their hearts clenched.
Lord Lu, you must win!
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In the Aevum Inch, Lu Yin was sitting on a green lotus leaf. He was moving faster than the droplet-shaped Verdant Sage. The bug occasionally turned around to fling water droplets and attack the pursuing human.
At this moment, it had no reason to fear Lu Yin.
A spiral of karma coiled around his hand before being flung out. “Weave karma for me.”
The Verdant Sage’s body instantly dispersed, transforming into endless water droplets that filled the region. Endless Water Realm: absolute dominion.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed as his body started to dry up.
It was the same technique as before. He had previously overcome it by using the Immortal monster’s cosmic law, but that beast was no longer nearby.
Water droplets filled the cosmos, stretching out into the distance.
Even if Lu Yin used the Tri-Azure Sword Intent to destroy one droplet after another, there were so many that eliminating them all would take an untold amount of time.
However, there was another way.
Above Lu Yin, the Investiture of the Gods appeared, radiating its golden light.
Already, it had become the home of a cluster of consciousness bodies, Ming Yan among them.
Lu Yin entered the Investiture of the Gods himself, and as Ming Yan looked at him in puzzlement, he smiled and took her hand. “Let me borrow some consciousness.”
She just smiled gently at him and silently offered her support.
Countless droplets surrounded the Investiture of the Gods, but when Lu Yin stepped out of it, the droplets could no longer affect him at all.
He had just become a consciousness body as well.
Naturally, his consciousness body was not as strong as his true body, lacking both Lifeforce and Immortal matter, but its greatest advantage was that it was immune to the water droplets while still being able to unleash consciousness techniques.
Both the Tri-Azure Sword Intent and the Heaven and Earth Lock were technically consciousness techniques.
While the lack of Immortal matter meant that neither technique could achieve the strength of an Immortal, they were both Immortal-level techniques. Even without Immortal matter, they were capable of destroying the water droplets, as there were simply too many of them. Most of the droplets could not possibly contain Immortal matter, let alone Lifeforce.
These water droplets formed the droplet-shaped Verdant Sage’s unseen world.
Lu Yin raised a hand and released multiple strands of Tri-Azure Sword Intent. While being a consciousness body meant that the attacks were far weaker than before, they were still able to destroy the water droplets.
“Human, you cannot defeat me with a consciousness body. Even if you are no longer affected by my Endless Water Realm, you cannot destroy every one of my droplets in time.”
“I know. But do you think you still have time?”
The droplet creature fell silent. Having been sealed within the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm, it could sense that its true body was also taking action but was not able to tear the karma open.
“Just so you know, Awe Gate and Ku Deng are already on their way. When the three of us are against you alone, we’ll watch how you die,” Lu Yin threatened.
The Verdant Sage was shocked. “Impossible! The fighting’s still ongoing outside.”
“If it was, how would you be trapped right now?” Lu Yin retorted.
The droplet creature had no argument for that. With what its true body was capable of, so long as the human Immortals were outside of the realm of karma, it would be possible to coerce the human civilization into releasing the Immortal Verdant Sage. However, it was clearly trapped within the karma, unable to escape. There was only one conclusion: the human Immortals had abandoned the other battlefield and, as Lu Yin claimed, they were on their way.
Of course, it was also possible that the human Immortals had been killed and that they wanted the droplet creature to join them in death.
Regardless, its chances of survival were slim.
Its only hope was to flee and escape from the bounds of karma.
With that, the countless droplets converged and reformed into the droplet-shaped Verdant Sage. It then immediately sped off in a single direction. It could only escape from the bounds of the karma with its own power.
It was restricted by the human karmic Immortal, just as its true body was restricting that human. No one could help the droplet creature, but at the same time, no one could stop it.
Lu Yin dropped back into the Investiture of the Gods and allowed his true body to emerge. Lifeforce surged from him, sheathing the Tri-Azure Sword Intent as he also released a spiral of karma.
The droplet creature had a specific weakness; whenever it used its Endless Water Realm, it would no longer be able to move. At that time, it could only expand its range. No matter how large an area it encompassed, it would remain centered on the same point. Unless, of course, it could extend beyond the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm.
If that were possible, it would not need to escape, as not even Greater Sancte Green Lotus would necessarily be the bug’s match.
All of that meant that, if the Verdant Sage wanted to escape, it needed to survive the karma that surrounded it. If not, it would remain trapped forever.
That was an outcome that it refused to accept. As far as the droplet creature was concerned, the longer it waited, the more likely that it was that it would be attacked by the human Immortals.
Hence, it most likely would not use its Endless Water Realm again, as Lu Yin was able to transform into a consciousness body and render it useless.
Battles were not only won with strength, but by wits.
Karma moved about ceaselessly as the droplet-shaped Verdant Sage evaded it again and again. However, as soon as Lu Yin merged his Karmic Dao with the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm, the entire Aevum Inch seemed to be filled with spirals of karma. The bug was left with nowhere to run, and it was finally pierced by karma, and karma was woven.
This direction?
No, over there instead.
The karma that Lu Yin wove was simple; it merely changed the bug’s direction. Such a thing only used a little of Greater Sancte Green Lotus’s karma, but that was enough to make it nearly impossible for the droplet-shaped Verdant Sage to ever escape.