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.
Chapter 542: Mayor - 542
Ye Li entered the Elf city without any sort of issue at all. Truthfully, this world did not pose too much of a threat to him. From what he had seen through Karma, the strongest being of this world was at a realm known as Space Shattering.
He should be more or less equivalent to a void traversing realm cultivator. Also, with Karma, he may be able to escape a space shattering realm cultivator.
When he said he's equivalent to a void traversing realm cultivator, it was only because of the ability to travel through space and power. If he actually had the power to fight a space shattering realm cultivator, then he would be equivalent to a Space shattering realm cultivator. It had nothing to do with cultivation, just pure battle strength.
Instead of worrying about Space Shattering realm cultivators, he was worried about those above this world, cultivators far beyond his understanding. Who knew the structure of this world? He would not find out the hard way.
Ye Li entered the city under the guise of an elf. He spent his days wandering around, piercing elves with Karma, not to strip it away, but to read their Karma.
After a while, he figured where to start. In this city, the most powerful cultivator was a peak soul formation realm cultivator. As he left the city, traveling above the forest, Ye Li followed him.
As he followed, he tested his theory. Since Karma could be stripped and read from a person, perhaps he could also change that Karma.
A Karma spiral pierced through the cultivator, and in an instant, he fell down screaming. The screaming soon stopped, and Ye Li came out from the shadows. The Elf looked at him in horror. Out of nowhere, it saw its greatest fear appear in front of it. It was just a moment, but it felt like forever.
It must have come from the man in front of him. Ye Li had a gray mask covering his face. He looked at the man for a while, not saying a word.
The man could not tell that Ye Li was reading his Karma. After a few minutes, Ye Li spoke. "Do you know who I am?"
The Elf shook his head quickly.
"I am the Unknown, and I call for your use."
The Elf was confused, but scenes began to fly by in its mind. It was as if repressed memories were unsealed from within.
Ye Li had essentially made up a past through the use of Karma. The Elf saw a giant tree, as well as multiple powerful beings all kneeling to the masked man in front of him. It made sense now. This was the ruler of the Unknown, the most powerful hidden force in the universe.
The Elf got up and bowed. "I apologize, Lord Memory. Please forgive my insolence."
Lord Memory was the fake name that Ye Li had created. He did not know what his future held, but he made sure that he was hidden behind as much of a curtain as possible.
Although he had only created a little bit of fake Karma, the Elf believed him. It could not explain the existence of these memories otherwise.
Ye Li gave the Elf orders. In just a few days, Ye Li held an official position in the Elf City. He was the new Vice mayor, an elf from afar. Nobody questioned this new Vice mayor since the politics of this city had been a bit shaky.
Ye Li always wore a green hood. It was rumored that his face had been disfigured long ago. For now, Ye Li truly intended to help the city.
He had killed many beings, and he could sense bad Karma. Of course, it was a bit different for him.
Karma both affected him the least and affected him the most. It was difficult to explain, but Ye Li was able to.
He was under the direct watch of Karma, so the good things he did were seen clearly, and so were the bad. However, he was also the "Messenger" or "Apostle", whatever you wanted to call it, of Karma.
This made him somewhat exempt. At the very least, this was how Ye Li was able to explain it in words.
Although he was exempt, Ye Li feared Karma more than anything else. In fact, all he feared was Karma. Therefore, it was good to gain good Karma when he could. Of course, he didn't expect good things to happen to him. The exemption went both ways.
However, this way, he could at least wash away some of the bad Karma following him. He both feared Karma and revered it. As far as he was concerned, he was Karma.
Ye Li helped a lot of people and gained a lot of good Karma over a few tens of years. Naturally, it hardly helped considering he had killed countless individuals on his planet.
There seemed to be two other ways to get rid of the effects of bad Karma. One was time. As time passed, both good and bad Karma would slowly dissolve. The second was growing more powerful. The stronger an individual was, the more bad Karma they could handle before it spilled over.
Over these tens of years, Ye Li had killed many cultivator elves in secret, hidden by the mayor, the soul formation realm elf.
Each of the elves he had stripped Karma from had been at the Core Formation realm. He was different from when he first came to this world, but not by too much. He would need a void traversing realm cultivator to truly experience a massive change.
Ye Li had been biding his time, waiting for the right moment. This moment began now. The Mayor stepped down, and he became the Mayor. This changed everything. He had access to a higher level of information, though this was not too important since the last Mayor had told him what he needed to know.
What truly made a great change were the meetings that took place once every hundred years in this world. All of the strongest attended, and as a Mayor, he now had that right.
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