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.
Chapter 565: Mother - 565
Ye Li had gotten used to his power being unseeable and untouchable by others. Now that his power seemed to be getting less and less untouchable and unseeable, it was hard to get used to it.
It wasn't necessarily unreasonable that his power could be affected. It was actually unreasonable that his power could not be seen or touched in the first place.
Ye Li began to treat the giant human as a Path Creator. Meanwhile, the giant human was surprised as well
She was the mother of all humanity. Usually she did not have intelligence as she was simply a Great Attractor. However, there were two situations where this could be changed.
One, when Zhou Fan gave her intelligence, and two, when she had been slowly taken care of and grown, eventually developing some intelligence of her own. Usually, she remained in a dormant state, but when the two sages used the return to origin, she was awakened and strengthened. She was not a cultivator as she lacked the ability to cultivate, but it was not impossible for her to do so in the future.
The caretakers, who had been growing and taking care of her for countless years, were confident that one day, they would be able to transform the "Mother" into a true living being.
As for how she had pushed back the Karma Spiral, it had to do with the current state of humanity and the universe, somehow connected to her.
The Great Attractor was the origin of humanity. Through some accident, a part of her finger was taken off and fell onto earth. The result was humanity, and after humanity, other life was naturally formed.
Being connected to humanity, as humanity grew, so did she. It was something similar to providence, but also different.
Providence was a pity from the universe towards species, affected by the history and power of a race, while the Great Attractors growth came from the advancement of humanity throughout the universe. To describe it best, it was a sort of natural reward.
If one raised good children, the children would take care of them when they were old, and if a Great Attractor created a race that spanned the entire universe and was immensely powerful with deep history, then they would receive a level of natural power as a result.
Thinking deeper, this could also be called a part of Karma, or cause and effect, which showed just how much potential Ye Li's path had. It was terrifying. If he could grasp all of the Karma in the universe, Zhou Fan wouldn't even be able to resist. His death would be assured.
However, if he could do such a thing, he would already be above the Great Dao realm regardless. At the very least, Zhou Fan would stop Ye Li if he ever managed to begin going that far.
This was also Karma. Ye Li was evil, so if he grew too strong, Zhou Fan would stop him to prevent Ye Li from trying to harm him.
Zhou Fan shivered thinking about the true depths of Karma as he watched the battle between Ye Li and the Great Attractor unfold. He paid attention to the invisible silhouette above Ye Li. Its true purpose was still unknown.
Ye Li flew high as another Giant Karma spiral appeared. Within it were many tiny Karma spirals.
The Mother chopped the Karma spiral in half, but failed to see the tiny Karma spirals within it.
They entered her body, creating countless Hidden Karma swords.
"He is strong, young one. Join the other two." The Mother said.
The human on her shoulder bowed and spoke. "Return to Origin."
His body turned into green specks of light that flew into the Mother.
At this point, Ye LI felt a sense of pressure from the Mother, somewhat even greater than that which Ying Xiong had caused.
Ye Li had no wish to experience a draw or defeat, so he backed away and signaled to the Mother that he wanted to stop fighting.
The Mother did indeed stop for a moment. Kindness was in her eyes as she stared at Ye Li.
"I apologize for my actions. I have been stressed out for a while. I've been looking for information on a being that is behind a lot of ancient things, and I was hoping to get them here. I did not know about you, or I would have come peacefully." Ye Li said.
The Mother smiled. "It's alright, young one. Tell me, what do you want to know? I should know it."
Ye Li hesitated, looking up at nothing, before speaking.
"An extremely ancient and powerful being, perhaps one of the first in existence. He created a manor, and should have existed before Ying Xiong."
The Mother thought for a moment, speaking out loud. "Ancient and powerful? Hmm, could you be talking about unfilial child Zhou Fan?"
Ye Li did not know. "Can you tell me about him?"
The Mother smiled. "As long as it relieves your stress. Unfilial child Zhou Fan was one of the first beings to ever exist, existing on a planet now called earth. When he was young, I used to watch him, but he eventually reached a point where I could not gaze onto him. This was when I more or less had zero intelligence, only "watching" him because he was human, a race made of me, and quite special. He created something called cultivation, does that ring a bell?"
Ye Li paused, hardly able to formulate another thought. His shock was like that of Yhwh's.
Creating cultivation? Impossible?
Ye Li had created his own path, but to surpass the path of cultivation, could he ever?
He had never even thought of cultivation as a path like his. It was like Qi to him, a part of the universe. It was like this for almost all beings in the universe.
Even to Ying Xiong, cultivation had always existed.
"Do you know anything else about him?" Ye Li asked.
The Mother shook her head. "As I said, I didn't have much intelligence back then. It is hard for me to remember that much. I just know he hasn't visited."
Ye Li nodded. "Then, if you wouldn't mind, could you let my power into you so that I can see the past?"
The Mother hesitated. "I'm not so sure? It seems dangerous."
Ye Li shook his head. "Not at all. Trust me, I am human after all."
Ye Li had understood the Giant Human seemed to be the creator of humanity and had immense love for humanity. In that case...
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