Chapter 562: Full Karmic Shackles - Backlash - 562
The Karma spiral circled around the small teleportation array for a while before entering it. All this time, Ying Xiong did not detect a single thing. Suddenly, from all sides, power rushed towards him. Looking at his wrists, Karmic Shackles had appeared.
Without hesitation, he activated the teleportation array, but it failed. Ying Xiong's face turned grim.
He looked around. He saw a Giant dragon, a horse, a frog, and an eagle. They surrounded him on all four sides, attacking him.
Suddenly from above, he sensed something. Just as he looked up, a Karma sword fell down onto him.
Ying Xiong could not sense it, but his instinct caused him to move and avoid it through teleportation.
He wanted to teleport again to move away from the fighting, but he found himself completely unable to teleport out of a certain area.
Although he could not see it, a bird cage had formed around this distance. Much stronger than before, Ye Li had specifically tailored this to trap Ying Xiong.
As the four beasts closed on from the sides and Ye Li traveled towards him from above, three other beings came out.
They were Bad Karma #2, #3, and #4.
Bad Karma #2 was at the peak of the Outer world realm, with the power of Karma within him. The other two were still at the peak of the True God realm.
Ying Xiong, with countless years of experience, instantly understood that there was a high chance that he would die here. It seemed unlikely for there to be any other outcome. However, he was not afraid of dying.
'Since you want to kill me, let's see how much I can find out about you first.' Ying Xiong thought.
His upper clothing ripped as a painting on his back glowed.
Around him, a giant golden tree appeared with 1000 meditating buddhists around it.
The golden tree and the 1000 buddhists seemed to light up the universe, but all of this light stopped at the edge of the invisible cage.
Countless buddha phantoms layered around him. He held out his palm, targeting Ye Li.
"Million Cosmic Buddha's palm."
A million cosmic Buddha's palms merged into one that fell onto Ye Li.
Yet it was destined not to reach its target.
The Karmic Dao expanded and Ye Li appeared elsewhere, completely avoiding the Million Cosmic Buddha's palms.
Ying Xiong was not demotivated at all. He had resolved himself to die today, his first death as a Sage.
He chased Ye Li like a madman, teleporting right in front of him. As long as he did not try to escape the cage, he could teleport freely.
Spatial locks descended, but who was Ying Xiong? He could not be bound by such simple spatial locks.
The four beasts and the 3 Bad Karma's couldn't even keep up with Ying Xiong as he chased Ye Li.
Ye LI sneered while constantly moving. "Useless."
The Karmic Dao expanded even further, completely covering the area of the cage. This cost a lot of Karma, but it was necessary. Now, the area was like a chessboard for him.
As Ying Xiong teleported and struck out, the Giant dragon suddenly appeared in front of him through Ye Li's intervention, snapping out with a bite.
The bite and the Million Cosmic Buddha's Palms collided, knocking the Giant Dragon back, but without injury. After all, it was the strongest known beast in the universe.
Ying Xiong sneerted, not teleporting away, but swinging his hands upward. "Scram beast trash."
A large gash appeared as Star Qi formed a blade's edge that ran across the Giant Dragon.
Blood fell as Ying Xiong chased Ye Li. Teleporting again, he appeared in front of Ye Li. This time, at a steep cost, Ye Li brought everyone in front of him. The four beasts, the three Bad Karma's, and Ye Li himself struck out at Ying Xiong.
The Million Cosmic Buddha's Palms met attacks from 6 beings with Sage level power and two with power right below it.
The Million Cosmic Buddha's Palm was torn apart and Ying Xiong was sent flying.
The Golden Tree that stood tall in the middle of the cage glowed, healing Ying Xiong from the slight injuries he had sustained.
Ye Li looked at the Golden Tree solemnly. This was the reason that Ying Xiong was even qualified to fight him.
Even Karma could not directly destroy it. Karma was not omnipotent, after all.
Ying Xiong chased Ye Li for hours. Each time, Ye Li would expend large amounts of Karma to harm Ying Xiong.
Although it was indeed a large amount, Ye Li's reserves seemed endless, but so did Ying Xiong's healing.
Eventually, Ye Li got tired of playing around. Every moment this fight continued, there was a risk of someone intervening.
He looked at Ying Xiong's wrist. Just a hundreth of the way to full completion.
As the Karmic Shackles got closer to completing, it required more and more Karma, but now, they were reaching their end.
When the Karmic Shackles were complete, no foe could possibly resist.
Ye Li shot forward, a giant Karma Spiral appearing and attacking Ying Xiong. This power was unseeable, but it directly collided with a Million Cosmic Buddha's Palm and destroyed it before continuing, causing Ying Xiong to sense its existence. He shot out another Million Cosmic Buddha's Palm, but the giant Karma spiral seemed unstoppable.
It merged many of the powers of Karma into one powerful attack.
Ying Xiong defended with a bell, but he was helplessly pushed back, eventually crashing into the Golden Tree before the giant Karma Spiral stopped.
He began to launch forward, when a feeling of death creeped up on him. He suddenly looked down at his wrist.
Full completion. His face paled. Something within him understood that this was the end. Ye Li stood arrogantly above him, with the four beasts and three Bad Karma's behind him.
"Full Karmic Shackles - Backlash"
Ying Xiong felt a crack travel towards his body from his wrist. This was the end. Since it had come to this, sacrificing his life for one more burst of power was worth it.
Chapter 563: Life and Death Reincarnation: Even After Death, A New Dawn Will Arise - 563
As someone who had died many times before, he had naturally created life sacrificing techniques. After all, he no longer feared death.
Among all of these life sacrificing techniques, there was one that stood out among the rest. It was the reason that the High Sage hadn't dared fight Ying Xiong, and the reason why the outsider leader, even during the peak of the war, had never truly fought with everything against Ying Xiong.
The backlash from the Karmic Shackles slowly destroyed his body as he activated the technique. The power of the Karmic Shackles was truly horrifying, even if he did not understand exactly what they were.
He could not even muster up resistance as he felt his strength rapidly decline and his body break apart.
His body, back up against the Golden Tree, merged into it. At the same time, the thousand Buddhists merged into it as well.
The Golden Tree itself was all that remained. Suddenly, Ye Li felt the Karmic Shackles disconnect. Ying Xiong had died, but he hadn't been able to strip his Karma or find out anything. It had been sudden and unexpected. Even if he had died, there should have been a corpse. That would have been enough.
However, the Golden Tree was the only thing left.
In an attempt to strip the Tree's Karma, Ye Li sent forward a giant Karmic Spiral.
Just as it was about to collide, Ye Li heard the voice of Ying Xiong somehow ring out.
"Life and Death Reincarnation: Even After Death, A New Dawn Will Arise."
The Golden Tree swayed, and a black and white power, infused with the full power of the tree, shout out at the Karmic Spiral. The Golden Tree lost its luster, turning into dust.
The two powers collided, and to Ye Li's utter shock, the Karma Spiral was shattered and the black, white, and gold power continued towards him.
Ying Xiong, though not a path creator, could be considered a semi-path creator. Of course, he had not created any path, but his path of cutlivation was different from others. He followed the path of rebirth. This was both its own path and the path of cultivation.
After countless years, perhaps without even knowing himself, Ying Xiong had somewhat formed something akin to a power.
The power of reincarnation. The only way to produce this power was to reincarnate, and not much of it would be created.
This power could only be used through this technique - Life and Death Reincarnation: Even After Death, A New Dawn Will Arise.
Ye Li, in his shock and surprise, was directly struck with this power and sent flying.
This was Ying Xiong, and although he could not truly compare to these once in a nonillion years, or perhaps even longer, talents known as Path Creators, he was still one of the greatest cultivators throughout history.
Ying Xiong was experiencing another reincarnation, experiencing his life backwards. It felt as if he was in an endless river, submerged, only vaguely seeing the past.
This life was the longest by far. He witnessed all of it, and after that, he began to witness his previous reincarnation. This time, he saw many things he didn't remember. Each reincarnation, he could only record the most important things to remember later.
Although he had recorded strong techniques and important figures, seeing the minor interactions of his life gave a certain sense of peace. This was where he truly belonged, all of his lives as one.
Time passed in an instant, but it felt like an eternity. He saw Chaos Beasts and ancient enemies. He saw Zhou Fan. He slowly remembered everything.
His old innocence, his journey, and eventually, even his first life. A life of ignorance and excitement. A time when Life and Death still mattered to him. It was as if he had gone back in time, experiencing a new beginning once again.
The nostalgia was overwhelming. He saw a fight between talents, the weakness of humans in the past, his mother, his father, his childhood.
Everything was just right as it was, he wouldn't mind dying like this, never to reincarnate.
However, he had cast away the peace of death for the sake of life. He felt himself being dragged out of the river. He wanted to stay forever, to die here, to feel peace, but the force pulling him out was irresistable.
Ying Xiong could not resist, he was just a soul, and on the back of that soul was a painting that had existed for countless years past.
As he began to be dragged up, Ying Xiong gave up on resisting. He questioned himself, why choose such a horrible fate?
This cleared his mind. He had chosen this fate, not for himself, but for humanity. He could not die. He had a responsibility. He could suffer, but humanity could not. He would not allow humanity to experience a time like when he was born in his first life.
Humanity would never suffer again, it would never fall to the bottom. Every race had a chosen one, and he was the chosen one, chosen to protect humanity, even in endless suffering.
If he were to die, the providence of the human race would move on, but could the next person after him be as successful as him.
There were countless races in the universe, and they all had providence, so why were they still so weak compared to humans?
Providence was not a guarentee of success, but a sort of pity given to each race. Even if they experienced horrible luck, at least one being would have acceptable talent.
Ying Xiong could not risk it, so he could not die, and he could not lose the providence of humanity.
He swam upwards to escape the endless river. Even if he suffered for the rest of eternity, he would do it, for humanity.
Ying Xiong broke through the river, and in some part of the universe, a baby was born. A phenomenon appeared, and multiple human sages instantly descended.
They looked at the baby with fear.
"This means…"
"Ying Xiong has died."
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