Chapter 540: Ye Li - 540
This silhouette was unseeable by almost all beings in the universe. Only the path creators would be able to see it, and only those that had reached the peak.
The fact that a simple mortal could create something invisible to even sage realm cultivators was a feat that may never be repeated.
Of course, Ye Li himself could not see it, but even if unintentionally, he had in fact created it.
Ye Li began to age, and as he lived by Karma, the silhouette above him slowly strengthened.
At the age of 80, Ye Li was on his deathbed. His lifespan was reaching its end, earlier than plenty of others.
However, Ye Lie did not feel any fear. He had seen through this world long ago. He laid on his deathbed, completely alone. His path was his alone, and he would not walk it with anyone, regardless of whether someone wished to join him or not.
Ye Li's consciousness began to fade in and out. In his final moments, he thought of Karma. He reaffirmed everything he had understood in his life, merging it into one thing.
There was another reason that Ye Li did not feel any fear. It was because he knew that he would not die here. His Karma did not end now.
As all of his thoughts and beliefs seemed to merge, his body began to change. His aged body filled with wrinkles began to clear up. His hair grew back onto his head. His consciousness seemed to awaken again.
He stood up, looking the same as he did 60 years ago.
Without waiting, he walked out of his room and left the hospital. There were no surprises, only Karma.
He began to go around, living anew. Now, he had made Karma tangible. Around his finger, a gray spiral rotated. Karma was ever moving and ever changing. Now, it was time to grow his Karma.
To Ye Li, there were two ways to do this. One, continue living and experience Karma. Like he had done his entire life, his Karma would slowly grow through his own karma.
However, there seemed to be another option now. He could take Karma. Not just from humans, or living beings in general, but from rocks, or grass. Everything could have Karma, even if living beings had far more. For example, if a rock was used in a murder, it would have Karma.
Ye Li walked along a crowded street and saw a man that caught his attention. He could feel it clearly. This man deserved to die.
Ye Li tapped him with his finger as he walked past. The man stopped, and his life seemed to flash before his eyes. He fell, and before he hit the ground, Ye Li had taken all of his Karma. By doing so, there was nothing left of the man. Ye Li's Karma had visibly strengthened through this person. Although he could not compare to Ye Li's Karma on a time for time comparison, it was still useful.
The street cleared up as people yelled in shock. As Ye Li walked away, he saw police show up, and some people, presumably his Wife and daughter, cried while looking at him.
Ye Li left, unremorseful, and found others. He mainly focused on killing those with immense bad Karma, but he did not discriminate too much.
He took every opportunity he could to take someone's Karma without being caught. Regardless of whether or not he was stronger than anyone on this world, he felt that there was something higher than this.
The universe had to be bigger, and if it was, it would be best to maintain a low profile throughout all of his life.
After all, he believed in Karma, in cause and effect. If he never revealed himself, then he could never be found.
Ye Li spent twenty years taking Karma. His world had begun to fear some sort of disease going around, but nobody suspected for even a moment that these people were all being killed.
After twenty years, Ye Li felt that he was ready. His Karma had increased by a lot. The invisible silhouette, though as unseeable as ever, had grown clearer and more powerful.
Ye Li let the Karma spiraling around his fingertip begin to spiral across his body. His Karma was being rapidly consumed, but his body was changing. It was growing more powerful, and capable of more things.
When Ye Li's transformation had ended, he was countless times stronger than before. Even if there were cultivators on this world, most could not match him.
This was only a growth in overall physical abilities. The only thing magical about him was Karma.
Living in the shadows of his world, Ye Li increased his consumption of others' Karma. Now, the world truly began to panic. Tens of people would randomly die everyday. In public, in their homes, or working, they would simply fall over and be dead by the time they hit the ground.
After his transformation, Ye Li was able to take Karma from afar. All he needed to do was shoot out a spiral of Karma at a person.
With his enhanced eyesight, he could do this from tens of thousands of feet away. The growth of his Karma seemed slow, but it was actually incredibly fast.
A hundred years later, Ye Li had transformed a few times and had grown to be a completely different individual.
It was time to get rid of this world's Karma. Ye Li raised his hands high and slammed them down.
With a smack, his Karma spiral moved at the speed of light, moving through all living beings of this world, and even the world itself.
After one minute, the Karma spiral returned. Ye Li looked around. There was nothing left. All humans or other living things had no more Karma, all of it taken away by Ye Li. Even the planet itself had died. It turned into a truly dead planet, filled with nothing but Karmaless dirt.
Ye Li remained, the only living being. His Karma was boiling, increasing immensely in an instant.
Chapter 541: The Path of Karma - 541
Ye Li sat still for a moment as the boiling Karma slowly settled down. When it finally settled, he opened his eyes and looked around. The world he knew was gone. Even the atmosphere had collapsed, leaving him without air.
Luckily, he could survive at this point using Karma. It had strengthened his body to the point where he defied all logic. He could fly and breathe in space.
Thinking this far, he shot up into the air and left the planet. He didn't know if there was truly other life in the universe, but he imagined there was, and he would find it.
His speed was rather slow, but good enough to traverse space. After a few hundred years of traveling, he found another planet. From afar, it seemed like his world.
However, only by descending upon it could he truly know if there was life on it.
He fell from space and landed in a grassy meadow. This was enough to prove that there was other life in the universe, and based on the fact that the first planet he discovered had life, there was probably a lot.
As he looked around, he suddenly felt something ethereal. He had never felt such a thing on his planet. He turned around and saw a large beast looking at him with red eyes. This was his first time experiencing killing intent, as nobody on his world had it.
As he locked eyes with the beast, it jumped forward extremely fast and attacked Ye Li. Ye Li's body had been strengthened so much that this beast posed no threat to him, but it was something beyond that which he had ever seen.
Curious, he moved to the side and pointed his finger at the beast. A spiral shot through it, not hurting it, but stripping away its Karma. It was dead before it hit the ground.
When he felt the increase in his Karma, Ye Li was stunned. It was more than a hundred thousand humans worth on his home planet.
Suddenly, from beyond some trees, three beings with large ears wielding bows jumped out, bows drawn.
They paused, stopping their shot, as they saw the beast dead. They looked at Ye Li.
"You killed the beast?"
Ye Li looked at them curiously and nodded.
The three looked at each other for a brief moment before suddenly lunging towards him, bows once again drawn.
Before they could react, Ye Li pierced them with Karma. They were dead before they hit the ground.
Ye Li once again felt a stunning increase in his Karma. Compared to his total amount, it was still tiny, but it was stunning that all of this came from three humanoid creatures and a beast.
Ye Li studied the three humanoid beings but did not quite understand them. Their bodies were incredibly powerful, but they did not seem to have anything special about them.
He could only come to the conclusion that the life on this planet had evolved incredibly.
He looked in the direction of where they came from and began to walk. He moved quickly, but silently. This planet was bigger than his home planet, but not by too much. After an hour of slowly moving, he saw a city of trees in the distance.
The trees appeared to have been made into some sort of odd housing. Bridges were connecting nearly every single tree.
These beings seemed to be aggressive, but they could speak English. Ye Li had a headache wondering about them. He slowly moved, keeping himself in the shadows. After a while, a person wielding a spear moved into the forest and walked down a path.
Ye Li followed him and studied him. He began to think as he followed the man, and eventually had an incredible idea.
He pointed his finger, and a spiral of Karma shot out. This man could not sense it at all, and it pierced him. He paused for a moment, feeling off, but eventually kept walking.
Meanwhile, Ye Li was viewing scenes in his mind. That Karma spiral had been produced with the intention of reading Karma, not taking it. It was a complete test and Ye Li did not know if it would work, but it did. He saw scenes of this individual's past, random bits that only helped a little.
The scenes soon ended and Ye Li followed the being. He used another Karma spiral to read the beings' Karma, but he intended for this one to be more specific. He gave it the directive of understanding the world and the universe through this humanoid beings' past.
He saw many scenes. This time, they were helpful. He could not read the beings thoughts or hear sound through this method, but he could see mouths moving and see events happening.
He began to actually understand everything. There was a power in the universe. It was known as Qi. It existed everywhere and in all things. Throughout the entire universe, they did something called cultivation to use this Qi. It strengthened their body and gave them unimaginable abilities. It allowed one to reach unimaginable levels of power, flipping stars with a glance and changing the weather with a thought.
Ye Li was excited. These cultivators could live for an extremely long time. The Karma he would receive from them would be enormous. In addition, with cultivation, their Karma was far more valuable than a mortals.
Even Karma was somewhat affected by this cultivation.
Ye Li considered cultivating, but he felt an intense rejection from within him. He did not force it.
After piercing the humanoid creature, a being known widely as an Elf, with more Karma spirals, Ye Li had all the information he needed. With a final Karma spiral, the Elf was dead before he hit the ground.
Ye Li wore his clothes and covered his ears with a hat. He understood that the cultivation universe was another form of government, just like on his world.
If he went around massacring for Karma, someone he could not handle would show up, this he could see. So he would not operate in the open, he would hide in the dark.
This was his path, the path of Karma.
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