Though Lu Yun had only recovered to his peak strength and was thus leagues away from the Wei river god, he came from the future. Marvelous cultivation methods and battle styles abounded in his repertoire; it’d take only one small opening for him to doom the river god beyond any hope of reincarnation.

Sacred Origin Runes flared with dark-golden light overhead as Lu Yun crossed his arms in front of his chest and voiced a long hum. In this moment, all of the rivers, mountains, plants, and the rippling Wei River… everything in the vicinity was isolated from the world.

Shrieking and wailing, the river god watched with horrified eyes as beams of cerulean blue erupted from its chest. A ball of blue light roughly the size of a human head flowed out of its chest, and its...