Lu Sizhan shook his head helplessly. “I haven’t changed. I’ve just seen a few things.”
“What kind of things?”
Lu Sizhan’s expression grew solemn. “Is it supposed to be so easy to help someone enter Dukkha?”
“Of course it’s not easy! That’s Dukkha, not some other realm. Forget helping others to enter Dukkha—most people can’t even enter on their own. Like you, Old Lu.”
“Exactly. So... how was Lu Yin able to help me?”
Lu Siyu was curious about that as well. “I’d like to know as well.”
Lu Sizhan looked at Lu Siyu. “Doesn’t Greater Sancte Green Lotus regard him highly?”
Lu Siyu nodded.
“How highly?”
Lu Siyu pursed her lips. How highly? Enough that he offered to marry all of us Seven Fairies to that little thief!
That simply could not be said aloud.
“Very highly. Extremely.”
“Why?”
“How would I know?” Lu Siyu rolled her eyes. Suddenly her expression changed, and she turned back to stare at Lu Sizhan, who met her gaze. Each saw astonishment and disbelief in the other’s eyes.
“N- no. That can’t be,” Lu Siyu stammered.
Lu Sizhan drew a deep breath. “Nothing is impossible. I may not know just how highly Greater Sancte Green Lotus values Lu Yin, but the more highly, the greater the chances.”
Then isn’t it practically certain? Lu Siyu felt powerless. That little thief... Has he comprehended karma?
It should be impossible. Since ancient times, only Greater Sancte Green Lotus alone had ever managed to comprehend the mighty power of karma at a young age. It had to be impossible.
Despite her unwillingness to believe it, Lu Siyu instinctively found herself feeling that the chances were more than merely plausible. She was aware that Lu Yin was from the one of the three megaverses, so why had he suddenly appeared in the Sea of Karma? Why did her master value the man so highly, showing both eagerness to accept him as a disciple and even to marry the Seven Fairies to him? Why did their master not get upset with Lu Yin, despite the fact that he had refused to marry any of the Seven Fairies? Was it really all because of “fate”?
Lu Siyu knew that her master treasured that word, but it was impossible for him to take things to such an extreme in normal situations.
Green Lotus had actually left the decision of whether to marry the Seven Fairies to that little thief.
If word of this got out, it would shake the entire Nine Odysseys Megaverse.
However, the little thief did not care about the seven sisters. While Lu Siyu hated to admit it, both she and her sisters could not help but admire Lu Yin’s determination and resolve.
It did not seem impossible for such a person to have comprehended the mighty power of karma.
At that moment, Lu Siyu once again saw the image of Lu Yin standing atop the Sword Altar, utterly confident that he could help Lu Sizhan enter Dukkha. As Lu Siyu visualized that image and remembered what had happened in the Sea of Karma, she felt a chill run down her spine.
If the man truly had comprehended the power of karma, then the Nine Odysseys Megaverse was destined to change.
Lu Sizhan patted Lu Siyu’s head. “Girl, your father cannot protect you forever. While that man certainly behaves recklessly, he still has principles and lines that he refuses to cross. He may not be a saint, but he is certainly no villain. If I can entrust you to him, I can be at ease.”
Lu Siyu bit her lip. “I don’t want that.”
Lu Sizhan chuckled. “Just think it over. If you agree, your father will find a way to make it happen.”
With that, Lu Sizhan left.
Lu Siyu looked in the direction of Lu Yin’s courtyard. Of course she was not willing. No matter how she looked at him, the little thief was absolutely infuriating! She would be the one to decide her own life. Why should she marry him? Just because he was strong? Even if she agreed, her master could do nothing. Hmph! At least that thief had enough sense to refuse Master.
Elsewhere, Lu Yin’s die landed on four pips: Timestop. He entered his Timestop Space and stared at the karmic bud in his hand as a spiral of karma appeared and twined around it.
As the karmic bud shattered, waves of karma shot upwards, merging with Lu Yin’s Karmic Dao.
He let out a long breath. “Good stuff.”
If a karmic brick contained roughly as much karma as an ordinary human could gather over the course of a hundred years, then a single karmic bud was equal to almost 10 million karmic bricks. Given Lu Yin’s average speed of harvesting bricks, just a single karmic bud saved him about a year of effort.
It was absolutely amazing. As long as he could obtain karmic buds, why should he bother prying out karmic bricks? It was exhausting to gather the bricks, and this made doing so a waste of time.
Unfortunately, there were most likely not very many karmic buds.
While saying that a single karmic bud was equal to 10 million bricks sounded very impressive, each brick contained a miniscule amount of karma. When Lu Yin compared the karmic buds to the amount of karma that he had consumed while facing the Immortal monster, it was far, far too little.
To compensate for such a loss, Lu Yin would need an absurd number of karmic buds. If he tried to compensate with karmic bricks, it would be nearly impossible for him to harvest that many.
He had considered other methods, but after entering the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, he could not use any of those alternatives. It would be no different from stealing power from right beneath Greater Sancte Green Lotus’s nose. It was a guaranteed death sentence.
Including the two karmic buds that Lu Yin had received from Lu Sizhan, he had acquired four of them in total. But despite absorbing all four of them, Lu Yin had not even recovered the amount of karma that he had spent on Lu Sizhan.
Ultimately, the fastest way for him to gather karma was to imprison powerful cultivators in his Champions’ Stage Purgatory.
If Lu Yin imprisoned every expert in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, he could not even imagine how much karma he would gain.
Still, what was the reason that Lu Sizhan had given Lu Yin the two karmic buds? It seemed possible that the man had guessed something.
Lu Yin had left the Sea of Karma after being given a trial by Greater Sancte Green Lotus, which meant that Lu Yin did not need karmic buds to return to that place. Clearly, Lu Sizhan had gifted the karmic buds to test Lu Yin. Had the man already guessed that Lu Yin had comprehended the power of karma? That was not really important. There were already a number of people in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse who already knew about that.
Yue Ya, Chao Yi, and Ming Zhuo were all aware, as was Jiu Xian, though no one knew her current whereabouts. If that woman did return to the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, then Lesser Sancte Dan Jin would also learn that Lu Yin had mastered karma. It was only a matter of time before the entire megaverse learned the truth.
It would be best if he could finish the Seven Fairies’ requests before that happened. Otherwise, someone might come looking for trouble.
...
The next day, a maid reported that Lu Yin had a visitor.
Lu Yin received the visitor: Elder Le. When the man arrived, he was accompanied by Lu Siyu.