“Then why did you lose your title of Lesser Sancte?”
“That was Greater Sancte Blood Tower! He framed me!”
“Greater Sancte Green Lotus captured you and handed you over to me. Did Greater Sancte Blood Tower stop that from happening? Did Greater Sancti Awe Gate intervene? No, they didn’t. All of them wanted you dead.” As Lu Yin finished speaking, he waved his hand again, tearing apart several more dark-gold streams.
“No, that’s a lie! Why would they want to harm me? Why would they want me dead?”
“Because you’re useless. I baited you and lured you into a trap. You’ve disgraced the entire Nine Odysseys Megaverse.”
“No! You were despicable! You teamed up with that traitor! How could I not have been pulled in? How could you have fought back? You were never supposed to resist!” Yue Ya’s words grew increasingly insane and irrational. He sounded like a child throwing a tantrum.
Lu Yin continued to tear the dark-gold streams apart. He understood that, while Yue Ya still controlled all of the manifested thought, he was quickly losing his rationality.
The manifested thought had given birth to Yue Ya, and it could also erase him.
If no one did anything to this manifested thought, then at some distant point in the future, a new being of manifested thought would eventually be born. They might even call themselves Yue Ya, or perhaps they would adopt a different name.
Lu Yin was erasing Yue Ya from the manifested thought. “I’m about to succeed. I will definitely fuse this manifested thought with my consciousness.”
“Impossible! You’ll never pull it off! Manifested thought is the method, and consciousness is the compass! How can you ever discover the method by relying on the compass?” Yue Ya howled.
At that moment, Lu Yin’s mind snapped. He honed in on the dark‑gold currents within his inner universe. So that’s it... of course... that’s how it works.
Yue Ya’s right: thought is the journey, consciousness its destination. You can only reach a destination by traveling the journey, never the other way around.
Process is the cause; result is the effect. Cause always comes before effect.
That was why Progenitor Ku had been sealed in the Mirari Realm; he had tried to invert cause and effect, and the forbidden region had refused to allow it.
It was also why Lu Yin was so intrigued with Qing Yun; her body was also inverting cause and effect.
Yue Ya was able to merge with Lu Yin’s consciousness to achieve the power of Word Manifestation because he was a being of manifested thought: he was the cause, while Lu Yin was the result. It was impossible to reverse that and merge manifested thought into consciousness, as doing so was equivalent to inverting karma.
The Origin Progenitor had only mentioned to Lu Yin that his body was unable to endure the power of Manifested Thought, but he had never commented on the karmic relationship between manifested thought and consciousness.
This was no fault of the Origin Progenitor’s. He had never comprehended karma, and neither had he cultivated manifested thought nor consciousness. It was only natural that the man had not considered such a thing.
If Yue Ya had not happened to point this out, Lu Yin also would not have seen it.
He stared intently at the dark-gold streams, all the while listening to Yue Ya’s curses. If Yue Ya was in his normal state, he would have never said anything that might offer Lu Yin a bit of enlightenment. He knew that Lu Yin had already comprehended the power of karma and would figure things out from even the smallest hint. Even if Yue Ya did not believe that Lu Yin could invert karma, he would have never taken such a risk.
However, at this moment, Yue Ya was like an insane child, and he would say just about anything. The more the dark-gold streams dispersed, the further Yue Ya’s will deteriorated.
Upon understanding the reason for his failure, Lu Yin realized that he needed to change the karmic relationship.
Changing one’s karma was deceptively simple, yet only Lu Yin or Greater Sancte Green Lotus can actually do it. The original course of an event was taken, as well as its outcome, and then an extra outcome was appended that looped back to the very course. In practice, the original course was simply the process leading to a result.
When a karmic loop was established, it changed to the process leading to a result, followed by a new result. It was just that the new result simply triggered the original Process to reoccur.
By replaying the event from the past exactly how it had originally unfolded, with every detail intact, the karmic bond was reinforced. This was not about inventing the future, but about re‑manifesting what had already happened. However, knowing the theory was not enough, wielding the power of karma itself was also necessary, as there was no other way to produce the added outcome.
That extra outcome was not some future act, but a replay of a past event.
Lu Yin’s eyes swept the starry expanse of his inner universe, seeking those dark‑gold streams of light. Above him, the Investiture of the Gods chart flared to life, its radiance joining Wordless Heavenly Book. He pressed his hand down and intoned,
“Manifest.”
Moments later, the past event flickered back into being, and the new link was sealed into his karmic loop.