Before completely destroying the Master's body, Ye Li had taken a card from his corpse. This was one of the main methods of using a teleportation array. These cards could be bought, and they had a specific distance on them.
This distance could be traveled through teleportation arrays at any teleportation hub throughout the universe.
Although it was bound to the Master, Ye Li was able to manipulate the card into working for him with Karma. To do so, it had taken a large amount of effort, but now that it was done, he knew how to do so forever.
Countermeasures had naturally been put in place of such fraud, but they had not accounted for the power of Karma at all.
With his newfound power, Ye Li was able to reach the teleportation hub quickly. He wore a hood to cover his head and face.
Using the teleportation arrays was simple. He walked inside of the hub and found the teleportation array he wanted to use. Then, he handed the card to the guard/activator of the teleportation array.
"I need to see your face to confirm your identity." The guard said.
Ye Li removed his hood, revealing the face of the master. Without another word, the guard used a talisman. It lit up for a moment and faded away with no reaction.
The guard nodded and Ye Li stepped onto the array. In just a moment, he had reached another teleportation hub.
After one more teleportation, he arrived at his destination. The Star Harmonization Sect. As its name somewhat hinted, it was built in between a collection of stars. Ye Li marveled at the sight for a moment before focusing.
From the Karma he had read, he knew how to get a chance to strip the Karma of a being as powerful as the Master. An elder that the Master had been quite close to.
Ye Li found a building and sent a letter to a certain location. This letter had a stamp on it. It could not be imitated by any other and was unique to the Master, but with Karma, this rule was broken.
To that other elder, Ye Li had sent an invitation to meet up. He would not strip this other elder of Karma, but implant Karma into her.
After nearly a year passed, Ye Li used the teleportation hub to reach a medium sized planet. This planet was completely filled with trees. Not a single inch was untouched by roots or wood. There were oceans, but only under the surface of the world. All the roots gathered to form one giant root.
It was rumored that this planet was actually a living being, but that was all. It did not receive much attention and could be used as a secluded meeting spot.
Ye Li descended upon a pre-determined location and saw someone already there, waiting for him.
As he came into sight of that person, a Karma spiral secretly entered them and began to charge up.
"Elder Ou. It is not common for us to meet. What is the reason for this?" She said.
Ye Li did not speak. He waited. His face was that of the Masters, but that was all.
After a moment of silence, the woman's face scrunched up. "That posture. You're not Elder Ou. Who are you?"
That should be enough, Ye Li thought. Piercing through her stomach from seemingly nowhere, a Hidden Karma sword severely injured the woman.
Without hesitation, she ran. Ye Li did not stop her, only sending a Karmic spiral up.
After a few minutes, the woman came back and kneeled. "Lord Memory. Forgive my insolence."
Ye Li did not speak. He began to read her Karma.
After five minutes, the woman spoke again. "Lord Memory. If I may…"
Before she could finish, a Karma spiral stripped her of Karma.
"Useless." Ye Li mumbled as he left.
The woman, unlike the Master had, did not give him any opportunity to silently meet up with another elder of similar strength. She could not help him.
Using the Master's face once again, Ye Li stayed in the Star harmonization sect. He was moving too fast, and he needed to slow down for a moment. He had grown so fast that his thoughts about Karma were in disarray and he needed to sort them out before disaster struck.
Spending an extremely long amount of time living in the Star Harmonization sect compared to the length of his life so far, Ye Li spent a million years thinking about Karma and inventing ways to use it.
When he came out, he had transformed.
Briefly describing his comprehensions, stripping Karma with the Karma spiral no longer increased his bad Karma.
He had simply needed to ask himself, was using Karma bad? No, it was Karma. He should not receive bad Karma for using Karma, even if it hurt others. This was a simple belief.
It hardly made sense, but this was Ye Li's comprehension of Karma. Living under Karma, his thoughts were naturally different from an outside perspective.
In addition to this, Ye Li had accidently created a supreme move. He had a feeling that this would be one that followed him to the end of his path, and perhaps even beyond that.
He called it the Karmic shackles. All actions created Karma, and only time could wear that Karma away.
Ye Li was excited to fight someone and test this ability out. After a million years, his bad Karma had greatly degraded. Although it seemed like he had done a lot of bad things, on a grand scale, he had really not. What were a few planets to the universe?
After thinking for so long, Ye Li left the Star Harmonization Sect. He felt something amiss here, and this instinct was based on his power, Karma.
Something bad would probably happen if he stayed.
He left, and using the teleportation hub, randomly entered a different part of the universe. The Masters teleportation card was nearly used up, and Ye Li could not return to the Star Harmonization sect for the time being even if he wanted to.
The goal of this journey is to increase his Karma. Since he was not in the best situation to find powerful cultivators at the Star Harmonization Sect, he would try his luck elsewhere.
Leaving the teleportation hub by foot, Ye Li moved in a random direction. When he saw a planet, he used the Karma spiral without waiting a moment. The entire planet and all the life on it was stripped of Karma.
He continued onward. He soon came upon a star. Ye Li wasn't sure if it had much Karma, but it definitely had some. He pierced it with a Karma spiral.
It took a few moments, but the Star exploded with an incredibly dangerous power. Ye Li could barely withstand it. The Star had supernovaed.
Luckily, with his current power and after making some distance from the explosion, he was able to resist it without any injury.
His Karma had increased, but not by too much. It was about the same if he used Karma on a planet with no life.
Ye Li continued to move throughout this section of the universe, stripping Karma from everything possible. He continued to do this for a hundred thousand years. In this time, his Karma grew massively.
The universe was so big that nobody of importance noticed, but a section of an entire galaxy had gone dark, all the stars and planets within it gone.
Ye Li had met a fair share of cultivators and cultivating beasts, which only grew his Karma even further. Although none of the cultivators could compare to the Master, they all added up to give far more Karma than the Master.
After the first million years, he continued for another million years before someone actually noticed. Going up a chain of command, a powerful cultivator soon learned that a large section of a galaxy had simply become desolate.
Without too much expectation, that cultivator set out to investigate, as was his job. Through the teleportation hub, he quickly arrived at his destination. He saw the desolate planets and star residue. He traveled around the entire area before finally seeing Ye Li looking at a planet from afar.
The cultivator approached. "You. Have you seen what caused the desolation here?"
Ye Li did not need to respond. A Karma Spiral appeared and stripped the Inner World realm cultivator of Karma in an instant.
"I've been spotted. It is time to return to the Star Harmonization Sect." Ye Li mumbled as he took a teleportation hub card from the corpse.
As he had done before, he easily passed through the teleportation hub and arrived at the Star Harmonization sect once again.
This time, his strength had at least reached the God Realm. He did not waste time and directly snuck into the Sect Masters abode.
The Sect Master could not detect him at all. This was due to a new usage of the Hidden Karma technique.
Ye Li was able to hide his own Karma, and as a result, his entire existence was basically completely invisible.
He set up an intricate trap around the Sect Masters abode and activated it in one fell swoop.
The Sect Master had only been able to release one large burst of power before he was severely injured and stripped of Karma.
This single burst of power alerted the entire sect. Elders and Grand elders rushed to the abode and saw the Sect Master sitting calmly.
"I have reached the True God realm." He stated simply.
The Sect was thrown into an uproar. Nobody even noticed the lack of a tribulation.
Ye Li, disguised as the Sect Master, announced his entrance into seclusion to consolidate his breakthrough.
Ye Li's overall power had truly reached the True God realm after devouring the Sect Masters Karma.
With his unfathomable abilities, he posed a real threat to any True God. His Karma mask technique had been developed, and now he could perfectly imitate almost any humanoid being.
With his disguise and knowledge of the Sect Master through Karma, Ye Li planned to stay as the Sect Master for the time being. The Sect Master didn't really have any superior, though there were many cultivators more powerful than him.
After a few years, the Sect Master announced that the Sect would begin to expand itself and establish itself as a powerful force in the universe.
They would start by completely taking over a large section of space, consisting of multiple galaxies. Coincidentally, there was another unique being there.
As Ye Li had been choosing a location, he felt his Karma stir. It seemed undecided. It was as if, in this area, there was something that could either benefit him greater than anything else, or completely end his path. His Karma could not directly tell the outcome, it could only sense great opportunity and great risk.
The Sect had mixed reactions to this announcement, but the prevailing sentiment was excitement. The Sect was ready to reach greater heights than ever.
After a few years of preparation, the Star Harmonization Sect set out. They began ruthlessly, using Star Qi to wipe out multiple planets and stars. All beings in their way were either captured or decimated. Ye Li did not take any action, not even stripping Karma away. He was waiting for the opportunity to appear.
Until then, he likely did not need to act himself. The Star Harmonization Sect made themselves known, and known they became. A large section of this universal sector became aware of their movements and the Sect Masters breakthrough.
This area had a predominately elf population, but the Star Harmonization Sect had a mix of elves and humans, with the Sect Master being human.
As a result, this expansion was not taken kindly. Two True Gods were sent out to order the Star Harmonization Sect to return back and cease expansion.
When Ye Li saw the two True Gods, he was excited and acted himself.
Hiding the battlefield from view, it was soon reported that the Two True Gods had been killed, shocking many. Even after so many years of development, True Gods were not as common as grass or trees. It was the peak level of theoretically attainable power for countless cultivators.
Any higher and one would be a legend.
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