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."
Chapter 564: The Caretakers - 564
Inside of the cage, Ye Li panted heavily while blood poured out of his mouth. He looked into the distance quietly, but anger was bubbling up within him. He had lost too much during this battle. He had not been able to read or strip Ying Xiong of Karma, and had instead consumed immense amounts of Karma.
He had been severely injured, and Ying Xiong had seen all of his moves. Luckily, Ying Xiong would not be regaining even a bit of his memory for a while.
At the very least, Ying Xiong was gone for the time being. He was the one who posed the greatest threat to Ye Li besides Yhwh.
Ye Li let the four beasts go back to where they came from as he cleared the battlefield of any remnant traces of this battle. The three Bad Karma's returned through a teleportation array to the Fog Qi domain.
With Ying Xiong out of the way, the next steps were much easier.
First, Ye LI needed more Karma, and the best way to do that was to strip sages of it. However, especially after Ying Xiong's death, the sages of the alliance against him would probably stay together. In that case, it was best to go after the group of sages that weren't part of the alliance. It was hard to find out, but Ye Li discovered the location of the organization known as the caretakers.
They were in the Zhou Supercluster, the same Supercluster that the Cosmic Sect resided in.
Although it was a little dangerous to enter that area, he didn't even fear the entire Cosmic Sect at this point. At worst, he would simply leave.
He had the ability to hide with his Karma, so this would not be necessary unless something else happened.
Ye Li spent a few thousand years recovering before setting off. It would be best to do as much as he could before Ying Xiong recovered some memories.
Hiding his Karma, he quickly traveled through the universe and reached the Zhou Supercluster. This was the most ancient existence known to all.
The Zhou Supercluster was the first place to ever have life, as far as everyone knew.
Ye Li would love to strip the Karma of this entire place, but he did not have the ability, nor did he dare. He had learned his lesson about doing such things the last time he came here and tried to strip the Karma of a manor.
Ye Li was able to smoothly enter, as expected, and reach his target location. The center of the Zhou galaxy cluster, where a Great Attractor resided. The Cosmic Sect was at the top of the Supercluster, while the Zhou galaxy cluster was almost on the other side.
The Zhou Galaxy itself, where the origins of life had been traced back to, was near the cosmic sect, and within it was Earth, where all life began.
Ye Li moved past the clustered black holes that absorbed all light that came from within. It was not even slightly difficult for him, someone with the same power as a sage.
As he slipped past a black hole after many before it, he saw light. Within, no longer that dark and dangerous space of the past, a milky white color filled the entire space.
In the distance, a city of white, green, and gold floated around a giant being that was seemingly human.
The being stood tall with her eyes closed.
Around her were three platforms, each of them with one being on them. These were the three sages of the caretakers, and what they guarded was unknown.
Even Ye Li, through reading Karma, was unable to learn what it truly was.
Perhaps Ying Xiong had known, but he was unable to ever strip or read his Karma. However, it appeared to be a human shaped Great Attractor.
Ye Li stepped forward, three Karma Spirals shooting out, one each at a sage.
They sat peacefully until the three Karma Spirals hit.
The three opened their eyes, feeling something enter them.
At the same time, Karmic Shackles appeared on their wrists.
"The unknown." One said.
Clearly, they had at least been informed of his existence by Ying Xiong.
"This isn't something we can handle." Two of them said. They looked towards the third one.
The third one looked deeply at the Great Attractor.
"Ying Xiong also died recently. This is at least an enemy capable of killing Ying Xiong." One of the two said.
The third human turned his gaze away from the Great Attractor. "Return to Origin."
The two looked at him silently for a moment before solemnly nodding.
Ye Li, still hidden by Karma, watched curiously as the two turned into green specks of light that flowed into the giant human.
The eyes of the giant human opened.
"Mother, please take action to expel the intruder." As he said this, he stood on the shoulder of the Human.
Ye Li watched, but as the eyes of the Giant human locked onto him, his eyes widened in shock.
"Human? Does he have bad intentions?"
The man on her shoulders spoke. "So he is human. However, Mother, he has killed countless humans, and has come to harm you and us three."
The giant human's eyes looked at Ye Li again, now angry.
"Audacious. Harming your brothers and sisters. I'll teach you a lesson."
A Karmic Shackles appeared on her wrist and Ye Li activated the Karmic Dao.
Her ancient arms moved for the first time in countless years. Her power combined with the power of the sage on her shoulder and the two that had turned into specks of light and entered her body.
In addition to this, there was something else, something hard to discern. Anything was possible in the universe. Path creators only represented one of the most well known near impossibilities.
However, they were not the only near impossibility that could become possible.
As the giant human swung her arm at Ye Li in a slapping motion, he directly shot out a giant Karma Spiral.
The hand and the Karma spiral collided, and the Karma spiral was knocked back, as well as the giant hand.
Ye Li's jaw nearly dropped. Two fights in a row, two fights where his Karma spiral seemed to be some common housefly that could be pushed back however his enemy pleased.
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