Redemption of a Born Demon

The three Sleepers scattered and fled. This time, Yi Beidou chose to pursue Lotus.

This man had attacked him multiple times, and his movements were always unpredictable. Now that Yi Beidou finally had a rare opportunity to confront his true body, he certainly wasn’t going to let him escape.

As he fled, Lotus sensed Yi Beidou’s pursuit, and his heart sank.

’So he’s really coming after me?’

Although Lotus was the first to flee, he was a pure Spirit Cultivator who had integrated with very little Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood. His physical strength was the weakest of the group, so he hadn’t gotten far. Now, Yi Beidou was rapidly closing the distance between them.

If Yi Beidou caught up to him, he would have nowhere left to run.

"I have subordinates hidden among the top echelons of governments around the world! Enough high-yield weapons are already locked onto this city to completely annihilate it!"

"If you push me into a corner, I’ll give the order for mutual destruction! All weapons will fire at once! The lives of every soul in this city will become your karma!"

Lotus was making a last-ditch effort, using a long-range Divine Sense transmission to communicate with Yi Beidou, who was several kilometers behind him.

"You can give it a try. As it happens, I’d also like to see if those weapons can penetrate the ’Celestial Curtain’ I’ve deployed."

Yi Beidou’s calm voice rang in Lotus’s mind.

Lotus glanced at the Black Flame that blanketed the sky over half the city, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He hadn’t held out much hope for his threat to succeed; it was merely a shot in the dark.

After Lotus’s threat, Yi Beidou picked up speed. Before his eyes, the distance between them shrank to less than a kilometer.

’It looks like I have to use *that* method.’

Lotus sighed. Mutual destruction wasn’t something he wanted to see.

His Great Dao was still incomplete; he couldn’t afford to perish so easily.

He had long prepared a contingency plan for such a desperate situation. For a top-tier Spirit Cultivator of his caliber, anything was possible.

He formed a Seal Technique with his hands. His flesh and blood rapidly withered away, while his head, covered in fleshy protuberances, swelled to a grotesque size, becoming severely disproportional to his shrunken body.

POP! POP!

His eyes burst from the explosive growth of his skull and brain. Blood gushed uncontrollably from his seven orifices.

But in doing so, he had pushed his brain’s capacity and his Spiritual Power to their absolute peak in a short amount of time.

HUMMM!

A Golden Lotus Platform, condensed from terrifying waves of Spiritual Power, shot out from between his eyebrows and instantly vanished into the Void.

In the dark void of the Human Dao River, a Golden Lotus Platform materialized. Golden lotus petals detached from it, piercing into the river and forging a connection to an unknown, distant place.

Across the ocean, in a secret base, a tall, naked male body floated inside an incubation chamber, bobbing gently in a pale-yellow nutrient fluid.

The man’s eyes were open, but they were utterly vacant, as if he possessed no consciousness at all.

This male body had been created by Lotus using the Super Warrior technology developed by Beretta. It was a vessel specially prepared for his own perfect reincarnation.

It possessed the physical strength of the Saint Realm, but its mind was a complete blank.

The Pioneer Group had long been conducting similar research. While their official goal was to create bodies comparable to Earth Immortals, that was merely a lofty ambition. Their true objective was to produce vessels for the Ancient Ones to use, allowing for a perfect reincarnation that completely skipped the vulnerabilities of childhood.

This research had already yielded some results, but the success rate for creating these perfect reincarnation bodies was extremely low. However, as a leader of the Pioneer Group, Lotus naturally had a backup for himself.

Suddenly, the dim lights in the chamber began to flicker erratically. A spectral golden lotus materialized above a signal port on the incubation chamber. Simultaneously, the unconscious body inside began to tremble violently as life rapidly returned to its eyes.

It had to be said that Lotus was a prodigy, particularly skilled in the strange, long-range techniques unique to Spirit Cultivators.

Building upon the original Reincarnation Technique and integrating it with modern technology, he had developed a method of reincarnation that was truly unprecedented.

He didn’t need to be face-to-face. Even from thousands of miles away, he could use the Human Dao River as a medium to transmit his memories and his Great Dao into another body.

This was his escape route for life-or-death situations. The Lotus Platform he had manifested was the very embodiment of all his memories and Taoist Skills!

Theoretically, as long as he had enough perfect reincarnation bodies and had made sufficient preparations, he could be endlessly resurrected. He would be functionally immortal. Not even an invincible foe like Yi Beidou could truly threaten him!

However, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

"Lotus. It’s been a long time."

A message suddenly intruded upon the Golden Lotus Platform, the vessel of his entire life’s memories and Taoist Skills.

"Who?! Who is it?! You?! It’s you!! Fu Yaozi! You were waiting here for me?!"

An unspeakable terror flooded Lotus’s consciousness.

"You and I once traveled the same path for a lifetime; we could be considered fellow Daoists. Your talent is extraordinary, a rarity in any age. It’s a pity you strayed from the path and created so much evil karma. As for this collection of your Divine Powers and Taoist Skills... you’d best hand it over to me. I will put it to proper use."

The voice spoke again. Lotus could clearly feel the memories condensed within the Golden Lotus Platform rapidly fading, being siphoned away by some other entity.

And here, within the Human Dao River, he found himself utterly unable to resist.