Chapter 306 – Comprehending the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny, The Price of Severing Karmic Ties! [8k]
by spirapiraChapter 306 – Comprehending the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny, The Price of Severing Karmic Ties! [8k]
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly.
“If the Blackice sword can truly be upgraded to a top-grade immortal treasure, my combat power would increase by at least thirty percent… For the foreseeable future, I wouldn’t be at a disadvantage against same-rank combat treasures either…”
“The question now is whether my magical power is sufficient to refine a top-grade immortal treasure.”
Su Xing was somewhat worried.
Therefore, before fully refining the top-grade immortal treasure and undertaking long-distance void travel, Su Xing hoped to break through to the late-stage Earthly Immortal realm as soon as possible.
After his magical power grew, his chances would undoubtedly be greater.
Thinking thus, Su Xing’s gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Before proceeding with the Blackice sword refinement, you decided to first improve your cultivation realm.】
【Over the next fifteen years, you occasionally refined artifacts, but devoted most of your time to cultivating the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art. Your cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds…】
【Year 125: Your cultivation reached the Peak of the sixth layer of the Earthly Immortal realm.】
【You began attempting to break through to the late-stage Earthly Immortal realm…】
【Year 127: After your first breakthrough attempt failed, your magical power became unstable…】
【So you began accumulating your foundation, preparing for a second breakthrough attempt…】
【Thus, another three years passed.】
【Year 130: For your second breakthrough, you expended one million drops of high-grade spirit liquid.】
【Finally, on a pleasant and sunny morning, your luck was exceptionally good, and you broke through smoothly…】
【Congratulations, you have become a late-stage Earthly Immortal realm cultivator!】
【After breaking through to the late-stage Earthly Immortal realm, your magical power became over fifty percent more robust than before… The immortal power within your body flowed endlessly like a great river…】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly.
“Not bad. Late-stage Earthly Immortal realm — the magical power growth is quite impressive… I can try refining the Blackice sword now!”
Thinking thus, Su Xing’s gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【After breaking through to the late-stage Earthly Immortal realm, you began attempting to re-refine the Blackice sword.】
【You took out the Spirit Sword Stone along with various precious materials and entered seclusion to refine the artifact…】
【This refinement blurred day and night, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed…】
【After a year of re-refinement, your immortal power continuously poured into the Blackice sword. The spiritual essence within the Blackice sword grew ever stronger, as if an Artifact Spirit was beginning to be born…】
【Thus, another year passed.】
【On this day, seven-colored radiance drifted across the sky above the spirit field grotto-heaven. The Blackice spirit sword had finally been elevated to top-grade immortal treasure level, and moreover, it seemed not far from reaching the supreme post-celestial treasure tier!】
【Just when you thought this was the Blackice sword’s limit… the Spirit Vein Dragon suddenly came over and spat out a lustrous, translucent Dragon Pearl…】
【The Dragon Pearl circled above the Blackice sword, causing waves of ethereal resonance…】
【Suddenly, the Blackice sword’s spiritual essence surged dramatically, and its quality completed a sublimation!】
【The Blackice sword directly advanced from top-grade immortal treasure to half-step supreme post-celestial treasure!】
【And it had finally given birth to its own consciousness!】
【Joy surged in your heart as you felt the Blackice sword in your hand respond as naturally as your own arm, moving as you willed…】
【With a thought, you drew the Blackice sword into your body. The Blackice sword trembled lightly for three seconds, then transformed into a rainbow of light and surged into your body!】
【The primordial energy flower within your dantian continuously released primordial energy, ceaselessly nourishing the Blackice sword.】
【As your natal artifact, this Blackice sword would one day, through the nourishment of primordial energy, fully ascend to a supreme post-celestial treasure!】
In the Real World, Su Xing couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy upon seeing this.
“My luck… is really not bad!”
“It actually advanced directly to the supreme post-celestial treasure level? Although it’s only half-step supreme post-celestial treasure… it’s still far beyond what a top-grade immortal treasure can compare to!”
Su Xing murmured.
A half-step supreme post-celestial treasure was typically a weapon that only Mystic Immortals could possess.
Or some Heavenly Immortals and True Immortals with deep backgrounds might have a small chance of possessing such a treasure.
It could be said that with the Blackice sword in hand, even when facing True Immortals, Su Xing would not be at a disadvantage in terms of magical weapons.
“With my current strength… could I defeat a late-stage Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator?”
Su Xing pondered for a moment. He had never fought against a late-stage Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator.
But by his calculations, even if he couldn’t win outright, fighting to a draw shouldn’t be a problem.
“Moreover, the Blackice sword is my natal artifact… Under the continued nourishment of primordial energy, its quality and potential ceiling will be extremely high!”
“With the Spirit Sword Stone’s augmentation to the materials, it won’t fall short either… This Blackice sword should be sufficient for me all the way to the Golden Immortal realm!”
Su Xing nodded in satisfaction.
The weapon issue was resolved for now. Next, he needed to find a way to travel to other worlds in the Three Thousand Worlds…
Thinking thus, Su Xing’s gaze returned to the simulation panel.
【Year 135: You began preparing for the journey through the void node to the Tianyuan Realm…】
【You purchased three million drops of high-grade spirit liquid from the Gold Coin Trading Company as supplies for the long-distance void voyage.】
【At the same time, you spent ten million high-grade spirit stones to purchase a treasure called the “Void Compass.”】
【The Void Compass can help cultivators determine their position during void travel, preventing them from becoming lost in the void. It is an essential item for long-distance void voyages…】
【In addition to the Void Compass, you also purchased some formations and magical instruments for reinforcing the immortal vessel, spending several million high-grade spirit stones.】
【After completing these preparations, you headed to the Tianyuan Realm’s void node, planning to first travel to the nearby Spirit Beast Realm…】
【After advancing to the late-stage Earthly Immortal realm, your void travel speed was thirty percent faster than you had expected. Three months later, you successfully arrived at the Spirit Beast Realm.】
【The Spirit Beast Realm was only about a dozen void nodes away from the Azure Cloud Realm. You were somewhat worried that there was a certain risk of being detected by Qingyunzi.】
【But this realm also concealed one of the Luotian hidden caches, so you had no choice but to come here and search.】
【Following the locations in your memory, you explored toward the site of the Luotian hidden cache. As expected, you did not find it.】
【But you were not discouraged. Instead, you used your Dragon Vein Geomancy talent to search throughout the Spirit Beast Realm.】
【This exploration took you two years.】
【Year 137: After your relentless searching, you finally found a clue regarding the Luotian hidden cache.】
【As it turned out, several cosmic cycles ago, descendants of the Luotian Sect had brought some of the sect’s legacy to the Beast Taming World.】
【Relying on their resources and a single Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator, they successfully established a new sect.】
【This sect was the predecessor of the current Spirit Beast Realm’s Spirit Beast Sect!】
【But as the ages passed and tens of thousands of years went by, the oath to revive the Luotian Sect had long since crumbled to dust…】
【After several upheavals, one group of descendants who held fast to the Luotian creed departed from the Beast Taming World, their whereabouts unknown.】
【Another group who had abandoned the Luotian Sect’s ideals became the founding patriarchs of today’s Spirit Beast Sect, though they too had faded into the river of time…】
In the Real World, Su Xing shook his head slightly upon seeing this.
“Alas, even though the Luotian Sect’s descendants were loyal and devoted at first, after tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years… their descendants have probably long forgotten the glory of the Luotian Sect!”
Su Xing was quite understanding of this.
Nothing could stand unshaken against the river of time.
Even someone as powerful as the Luotian Sect’s founder, a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, had ultimately fallen, hadn’t he?
“Well, let me search around and see if there’s any legacy left behind by the Luotian descendants…”
Su Xing murmured. He estimated that those descendants who had refused to establish the Spirit Beast Sect should also possess some of the legacy…
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Over the next three years, following the clues you had previously obtained, you continued exploring the Spirit Beast Realm.】
【During this process, your Dragon Vein Geomancy talent played an invaluable role.】
【Year 140: You infiltrated a Secret Realm and actually found some of the Luotian Sect’s hidden cache from long ago!】
【This hidden cache contained five million drops of high-grade spirit liquid and ten million high-grade spirit stones…】
【In addition, beside a set of skeletal remains, you found a damaged voice-recording jade slip — presumably worn down by the passage of time…】
【You gave the remains a proper burial, then left the Secret Realm.】
【You piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel and departed from the Beast Taming World.】
【After three months of void travel, you arrived at yet another lesser chiliocosm.】
【You rested in this lesser chiliocosm for half a year, during which you stabilized your cultivation and repaired the damage to the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel’s exterior.】
【Half a year later, you set sail once more, heading toward another small world six void nodes away…】
【Thus, five years slowly passed…】
【Over these five years, you traversed over thirty void nodes in total, passing through six lesser chiliocosms.】
【Although the total time spent traveling through the void was only about two years…】
【Your cultivation was only at the Earthly Immortal realm, so after each transit, you needed to recover your cultivation in the nearest lesser chiliocosm while also repairing the spirit vessel to ensure safe passage for the next leg of the journey.】
【Because there was not a shred of spiritual energy in the void, and dangers lurked everywhere, you had no time to cultivate, so your cultivation did not grow.】
【However, through piloting the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel time and again, your mastery of five-element immortal power became increasingly proficient…】
【What brought you even more pleasant surprise was that, while traversing void nodes repeatedly, you felt your comprehension of the Great Dao of Space becoming ever clearer…】
【Your grasp of the Great Dao of Space, though still at the Initial Glimpse stage, had grown several times stronger than before…】
In the Real World, Su Xing raised an eyebrow upon seeing this.
“Void travel can actually enhance one’s comprehension of the Great Dao of Space!?”
“Then if one were to stay in the void for extended periods… even though magical power can’t grow, comprehension of the Great Dao of Space could continue to deepen!”
Su Xing had once heard that there were powerful cultivators whose comprehension of the spatial Dao had reached the realm of perfection.
With merely a thought, they could traverse the distance of several worlds…
If Su Xing could reach that level, then regardless of anything else, his ability to survive would be absolutely first-rate!
“Tsk tsk… Speaking of which, I possess the Acquired Dao Physique, so my speed of comprehending the Great Dao of Space is several times faster than ordinary cultivators…”
“And ordinary cultivators wouldn’t dare traverse void nodes for extended periods either…”
“This is truly the convergence of heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, and human harmony — the advantage is mine!”
Su Xing smacked his lips, deciding that perhaps in the future he could specifically attempt to cultivate the Great Dao of Space within the chaotic void currents!
“Besides that… the Spirit Beast Realm also contains some of the Luotian hidden caches…”
“Going forward, I should continue searching. Even if it’s just a few million drops of high-grade spirit liquid, it would be a huge relief for me!”
Su Xing murmured.
At his current late-stage Earthly Immortal realm level of cultivation, his annual consumption of high-grade spirit liquid was probably around four to five hundred thousand drops — equivalent to what an ordinary Earthly Immortal realm cultivator would need over several decades.
Over the course of a single simulation lasting perhaps two hundred years, Su Xing would consume tens of millions, approaching a hundred million drops of high-grade spirit liquid.
Although Su Xing’s artifact refining was quite profitable and his net worth was considerable, he still needed to continuously seek out the Luotian hidden caches to sustain his cultivation needs.
“Tsk tsk, and this is just the Earthly Immortal realm!”
“An Earthly Immortal realm cultivator has a lifespan of twenty thousand years. Even a diligent cultivator would need to cultivate for ten thousand years to reach Earthly Immortal Perfection…”
“Yet in just three simulations, a mere five hundred years for me is equivalent to ten thousand years of cultivation for an ordinary cultivator… What more could I possibly ask for?”
Su Xing smacked his lips. His cultivation speed, tens of times faster than ordinary cultivators, translated to astonishingly rapid growth beyond normal comprehension.
But the price paid was resource consumption tens to hundreds of times greater than normal…
All in all, it was worth it!
For Su Xing, time was the most precious resource.
“However, after reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm, I’ll need to master the third layer of the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art as soon as possible… Otherwise, even for me, it would probably take several thousand years of cultivation to advance, right?”
Su Xing murmured.
A Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator’s lifespan was double that of an Earthly Immortal realm cultivator!
Forty thousand years!
If one consumed heavenly treasures and life-extending elixirs, living fifty thousand years would be no problem!
But among Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators, only about one in a hundred could advance to the True Immortal realm…
The reason the probability was so low wasn’t just a lack of aptitude — it was more about resources!
What cultivation required — wealth, companions, environment, and techniques — not a single one could be lacking.
For those born into great sects, such as the Luotian Sect or the Azure Cloud Sect, cultivators of superior aptitude would not lack cultivation resources, training daily with spirit stones and low-grade spirit liquid.
Yet even so, advancing from early-stage Heavenly Immortal realm to Heavenly Immortal Perfection would still take approximately ten thousand years…
“But from the current outlook, the path I’ve chosen should be the correct one…”
“Even wandering through the void, drifting between worlds, is better than being killed by Qingyunzi or the Advent Cult…”
Su Xing roughly calculated the time and the distance of his voyage, murmuring:
“By my calculations, I should be approaching the Tianyin Realm soon… Past the Tianyin Realm and a few more worlds lies the Yinmu Realm!”
Su Xing had passed through quite a number of worlds during his void voyage.
But he didn’t choose to stop at every world.
If it was merely for rest, Su Xing would stay at most one year.
But in some worlds where Luotian hidden caches might exist, Su Xing had to conduct a thorough search.
Such as the Tianyin Realm and the Yinmu Realm.
After a brief moment of thought, Su Xing’s gaze returned to the simulation panel.
【Year 146: After several months of void travel, you arrived at the Tianyin Realm.】
【The Tianyin Realm was one of the more renowned lesser chiliocosms among the Three Thousand Worlds — not because of its cultivators’ formidable cultivation levels, but because of the extremely abnormal gender ratio among its cultivators.】
【In the Tianyin Realm, the ratio of male to female cultivators was one to a hundred—out of every hundred cultivators, there was typically only one male.】
【Moreover, the cultivators of this realm were exceptionally skilled in music and melody, and regardless of gender, they were all extraordinarily beautiful.】
【Within the Tianyin Realm, there existed a divine tree that bore fruit. When female cultivators consumed the fruit, they could bear offspring within a year, and the children had a high probability of possessing spiritual roots with cultivation aptitude.】
【Because of this, many cultivators traveled great distances to the Tianyin Realm, paying exorbitant prices for the chance to have children. This had made the Tianyin Realm rather prosperous.】
【According to the information from your memories, several cosmic cycles ago, a group of Luotian descendants had come to this realm, and should have left behind a legacy…】
【And so you searched ceaselessly throughout the Tianyin Realm…】
【This search consumed several years…】
【Year 150. After five years of searching, you did find possible information about a Luotian hidden cache, but the treasures within had long been used up…】
【You felt some regret in your heart, but could only pilot your immortal vessel and leave this realm.】
Su Xing sighed when he saw this.
“Ah, after all, several cosmic cycles have passed… It’s not surprising that not all of Luotian’s secret caches would still be intact. Most of them have probably been exhausted by now, haven’t they?”
Su Xing took it in stride. Since the Tianyin Realm had nothing, he would simply search for legacies in other worlds.
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Over the next five years, you passed through several minor worlds in succession, sailing toward the direction of Tianyuan Realm.】
【During this time, your comprehension of the Great Dao of Space continued to deepen.】
【Year 155. You successfully arrived at the Yinmu Realm.】
【The Yinmu Realm was also one of the most distinctive lesser chiliocosms among the Three Thousand Worlds.】
【Legend had it that the entire Yinmu Realm existed upon an incomparably ancient, heaven-reaching willow tree…】
【This great tree was as vast as an entire planet, seemingly possessing spiritual intelligence yet also seemingly not.】
【But what was beyond doubt was that all cultivators and living beings of the Yinmu Realm lived upon this divine tree, and thus held the Willow God in the utmost reverence…】
【According to the information provided by Luo Qingniu, the Luotian legacy hidden in this world was buried within one of the Willow God’s branches.】
【But after several cosmic cycles, the seas had turned to mulberry fields—the location where the legacy was buried had long since changed beyond recognition.】
【You used your Dragon Vein Geomancy talent to conduct a detailed search of the nearby branches—each leaf spanning hundreds of kilometers in breadth.】
【Finally, you discovered the Luotian legacy hidden in this realm!】
【To your delighted surprise, the Yinmu Realm’s Luotian legacy had been preserved remarkably intact!】
【Tens of millions of drops of high-grade spirit liquid, tens of millions of spirit stones, and countless precious natural treasures, cultivation techniques, and supernatural arts… There were even several mid-grade immortal treasures!】
【Within the Secret Realm where the legacy was stored, you learned about the circumstances of the Luotian descendants who had carried out the Yinmu Realm mission.】
【As it turned out, the Heavenly Immortal realm cultivator who had led the team was assassinated not long after arriving in the Yinmu Realm…】
【After the assassination, he suspected that spies had been planted among his disciples, so he hid the legacy away. It remained undiscovered until several cosmic cycles later, when you finally found it…】
【After finding yet another Luotian legacy, you were overjoyed. At this point, your cultivation was not far from mid seventh-layer Earthly Immortal realm, so you decided to simply stay in the Yinmu Realm to achieve your breakthrough.】
【Year 160. Your cultivation successfully broke through to mid seventh-layer Earthly Immortal realm.】
【After your breakthrough, you rested briefly before continuing on toward Tianyuan Realm…】
In the Real World, Su Xing felt both joy and worry as he watched.
The joy was that this complete Luotian legacy in the Yinmu Realm was worth at least a hundred years of Su Xing’s own efforts—enough to sustain his cultivation for decades.
The worry was that time had reached year 160, and Su Xing was concerned about pursuit from Qingyunzi and the Advent Cult…
“Sigh, but the Yinmu Realm… even in a straight line, it’s more than thirty void nodes from the Azure Cloud Realm… Surely it wouldn’t be that easy to find me, right?”
Su Xing mulled it over and decided that the probability of Blood Three crossing dozens of void nodes to pursue him was low.
But Qingyunzi—he had to be on guard against!
“After the Yinmu Realm… passing through ten more void nodes and two minor worlds, I’ll arrive at the Medium Chiliocosm, Dongsheng Realm!”
“There’s also a Luotian legacy there… I can search for it as well!”
At this point, Su Xing couldn’t afford to worry about too much. Besides fleeing for his life, figuring out the locations and existence of each Luotian legacy was equally important.
With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【You continued eastward with the Tianyuan Realm as your goal.】
【Soon, two years passed…】
【In two years, you traversed two lesser chiliocosms and arrived at a Medium Chiliocosm—the Dongsheng Realm!】
【Year 162. You decided to stay in the Dongsheng Realm for a few years—besides searching for the Luotian legacy, you could also gather intelligence about the Three Thousand Worlds.】
【You visited the Celestial Secrets Pavilion in the Dongsheng Realm.】
【You spent several million spirit stones to purchase intelligence from the Celestial Secrets Pavilion about the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and the nearby minor worlds.】
【Just as you had predicted, ever since the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was destroyed, the surrounding lesser chiliocosms and their associated minor worlds had been rapidly invaded by the foreign races.】
【In just a few short years, yet another lesser chiliocosm had been completely overrun.】
【The foreign races seemed to be aware of the Azure Cloud Sect’s power, and had avoided the direction of the Azure Cloud Realm, instead invading the lesser chiliocosms to the southeast, devouring the cultivators there…】
【You took out a map and traced the trajectory of the foreign race invasion, feeling shocked.】
【At this rate of invasion, in less than fifty years, the foreign races would reach the Cangwu Realm…】
【Fury filled your heart. You silently cursed the inaction of those mighty cultivators, while also feeling fortunate that you had fled quickly enough…】
【After obtaining this intelligence, you spent the next few years searching for the Luotian legacy within the Dongsheng Realm.】
【This search took another three years…】
【Year 165. Using your Dragon Vein Geomancy talent, you found a portion of the Luotian legacy in the Dongsheng Realm, gaining a total of three million drops of high-grade spirit liquid and one million high-grade spirit stones…】
In the Real World, Su Xing felt somewhat helpless seeing this.
“The foreign races are too powerful… the human race is too weak!”
“I can only hope the mighty cultivators of the human race realize this soon and fight back while there’s still time…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly and murmured:
“But with my current cultivation level, I should focus on taking care of myself first…”
“The simulation has reached year 165, and I could be found by Qingyunzi at any moment… yet I still have one Spirit Awakening Pill I haven’t taken!”
Su Xing had no intention of wasting this opportunity, and began considering which supernatural art or technique he needed to comprehend.
“My Protective Sword Aura is currently at three thousand strands… but it’s hit a bottleneck. I need at least Initial Glimpse in Sword Dao before I can continue advancing…”
“As for the spatial Dao, if I’m just going to contemplate it normally, I’d be better off doing so within the chaotic void currents—otherwise it wouldn’t be worth the cost…”
“The Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art could still be improved though, to reach the third layer sooner… And perhaps I could also try learning the eighth-tier micro spirit-gathering formation?”
Su Xing rubbed his chin, then suddenly recalled that his comprehension of the Dao of cause and effect and destiny was still some distance from fully drawing the Great Dao into his body—from the origin of cause and effect and destiny to the Great Dao level.
“I should continue studying the Eight Trigrams Divination Art… and strive to comprehend the Dao Embryonic Form of the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny as soon as possible!”
Su Xing had made his decision, and silently intoned:
“Activate immersive simulation… duration: 100 days!”
【Ding…】
As the simulation notification sounded, Su Xing appeared within the simulated world.
Without hesitation, Su Xing consumed the Spirit Awakening Pill, activated the Great Wisdom state enhancement, and began comprehending the Dao of cause and effect and destiny.
With the enhancement of his Acquired Dao Physique, Su Xing’s speed of comprehending Dao origins was already several times faster than ordinary cultivators.
With the Spirit Awakening Pill’s enhancement, one month of contemplation was equivalent to twenty years of bitter cultivation.
Thus, although this immersive simulation lasted only a hundred days, it was at minimum equivalent to a hundred years of contemplation for an ordinary cultivator!
On the ninety-third day of the immersive simulation, Su Xing suddenly experienced an epiphany.
He slowly opened his eyes. Threads of cause and effect and destiny continuously intertwined before him.
Su Xing could clearly see that upon his own body, there were several thousand karmic threads, connecting him to every person he had ever come into contact with.
If Su Xing wished, he could pay a price to sever the karmic threads upon himself, resolving the karma between himself and others.
But each karmic thread varied in thickness, the magnitude of karma differed, and the price required to sever them was different accordingly.
For instance, if Su Xing wanted to sever the karma with his parents, that was clearly neither possible nor necessary.
But for a benefactor who had once helped Su Xing, he could repay the favor and then sever the karmic thread, leaving neither party owing the other.
Yet karma was not without its benefits…
As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune are intertwined. The number of karmic threads one bore was not in itself a problem—even a Grand Luo Golden Immortal might have countless karmic threads upon their body.
What one needed to avoid, however, was malicious karma!
That is, karmic threads that could potentially cause great harm to the cultivator themselves…
“Hoo… In the simulation, at year 165, the total number of karmic threads on my body is over thirty-seven hundred… involving countless cultivators and mortals…”
“Hmm? This karmic thread… seems to foretell a great life-or-death calamity in my future?”
Su Xing frowned slightly. He noticed that at his neck, there seemed to be a black karmic thread drifting off to some unknown destination…
“Could it be that this karmic thread points to Qingyunzi?”
Su Xing was stunned for a moment, then attempted to sever this karmic thread.
But immediately after, his heart lurched violently.
He hastily abandoned the idea of severing the karmic thread, and only after taking several deep breaths did he recover!
“Hiss—the price of severing this karmic thread… is actually this enormous? It would probably cause my cultivation to plummet below the Immortal realm… and the outcome isn’t even certain!”
“Indeed, this karmic thread must be connected to Qingyunzi, right?”
Su Xing fell into deep thought.
The very place where he had begun his cultivation was where he had formed a master-disciple bond with a spiritual projection of Qingyunzi—this was a tremendous karma!
One could say that without Qingyunzi’s spiritual projection, Su Xing could never have set foot on the path of cultivation, nor could he have become the Earthly Immortal realm cultivator he was today…
If he wanted to resolve this karma, the only options were for Su Xing to die, or to abandon all his cultivation.
Alternatively, he could repay Qingyunzi by helping him advance further on his path of Dao—only then could this karma be mitigated…
“Qingyunzi…”
Su Xing’s expression was complicated. He naturally bore no hatred toward Qingyunzi.
After all, Qingyunzi was the one who had guided him onto the path of immortal cultivation…
If he could help Qingyunzi regain his virtue and successfully sever his Three Corpses, Su Xing would be more than willing.
Not only would he gain a powerful backer and master, but he could also resolve the karma between them—why wouldn’t he want that?
“It’s just a pity that with my current insight and cultivation, I don’t yet know how to resolve the karma with Qingyunzi…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly, feeling somewhat helpless.
Letting his gaze pass over this karmic thread, Su Xing then noticed that above his head, there was a faint, barely discernible karmic thread.
The reason he noticed this particular thread was that it was blood-red in color!
“A blood-red karmic thread…”
Su Xing frowned slightly. The first thing that came to mind was Red Moon!
“But… why would I have such a strong karma with Red Moon?”
Su Xing was puzzled. He attempted to sever this thread of karma, only to find that the price required was not small either.
At minimum, his cultivation would drop from late-stage Earthly Immortal realm to early-stage Earthly Immortal realm…
“Strange… Could it be because I come from Earth?”
Su Xing shook his head, pondering for a long time without finding an answer.
He decided to stop thinking about it and instead focused wholeheartedly on comprehending the Dao of cause and effect and destiny…
“The Dao of cause and effect—self-karma… and the karma of others!”
“Today’s cause… tomorrow’s consequence!”
“If self-karma continues to interlink… could it ultimately become one’s own Dao of Destiny?”
Su Xing pondered ceaselessly, and in this process, his comprehension of the Dao of cause and effect and destiny deepened continuously…
Soon, the hundred-day immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to reality.
…
In the Real World, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes. His heart stirred, and he exclaimed with delight:
“The Dao of cause and effect and the Dao of destiny—both comprehended… stepping into the Dao Embryonic Form realm!”
Su Xing was overjoyed. For any Great Dao origin, advancing from Origin Force to Great Dao laws was incredibly difficult.
Yet with a single epiphany, two types of Origin Force had directly reached the Dao Embryonic Form level!
And these were the profoundly abstruse Dao of cause and effect and destiny, no less!
“Tsk tsk… comprehending the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny gives me even better odds of evading the Advent Cult’s searches!”
“The commotion from breaking through from Earthly Immortal realm to Heavenly Immortal realm—I should be able to conceal that successfully now, right?”
The corners of Su Xing’s mouth curled upward. He could feel that his ability to shield his own karmic secrets had grown considerably more profound.
“Hoo… Let’s continue the simulation then. Hopefully this time it can run for as long as possible…”
Su Xing murmured, turning his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After a hundred days of contemplation, your comprehension of the Dao of cause and effect and destiny reached the Dao Embryonic Form realm!】
【Thus, you tarried no longer, piloting the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel and continuing eastward…】
【Your next stop was the Aoyun Realm… After passing through the Aoyun Realm, fewer than thirty void nodes remained before you would reach Tianyuan Realm…】
【Year 167. You successfully arrived at the Aoyun Realm.】
【Within this realm, there was also a Luotian legacy.】
【So you spent several years searching this realm, hoping to find information about the Aoyun Realm’s Luotian legacy…】
【Three years later, you finally found information about this realm’s Luotian legacy…】
【Year 170. Following the information you had obtained, you entered a Secret Realm.】
【However, the moment you entered the Secret Realm, your Blessed by Fortune talent began screaming warnings…】