Lu Yin did not waste any more time talking. He simply threw karma straight at Jiang Qi. As before, the karma veered around the man, as though karma was simply unable to touch Jiang Qi.
How could such a person exist?
During his time in the Spirit Nidus, Lu Yin had seen many strange constitutions. Qing Yun’s physique had been especially memorable, and he had not been able to understand it at all back then.
Her body acted as though she was constantly being burned by flames. If he interpreted her situation through karma, it was essentially effect without cause.
Only after seeing the murals on Greater Sancte Green Lotus’s stone wall had Lu Yin understood.
Qing Yun had been split. By cultivating some kind of cloning technique and using Greater Sancte Green Lotus’s mastery of karma, her physique had been split in two, resulting in a cause-body and an effect-body.
The cause-body was burned from within by flames, yet would not die.
The effect-body moved towards death, yet carried no flames.
Had Qing Yun not been split in such a manner, her physique would have already reduced her to ash. Splitting her apart had allowed her to survive.
Understanding what had been done was one thing, while being capable of replicating it was something else entirely.
Lu Yin readily admitted to himself that he was incapable of doing such a thing. He could not use karma to split someone’s physique. Greater Sancte Green Lotus walked a completely different path of karma, and he was also far stronger than Lu Yin.
While he had come to understand Qing Yun’s constitution, Jiang Qi’s still left him baffled.
No matter how Lu Yin wielded karma, not even borrowing the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm allowed him to understand Jiang Qi.
There was no sense to it at all.
It was like a master chef who was capable of recreating any dish, only to be faced with a block of wood. Such a thing was not food, and it would be impossible to turn food into wood, no matter how much time one spent trying.
Jiang Qi was like a block of wood. He was simply completely unrelated to karma.
The thing was, this “wood” mattered. It should be impossible for anyone born in the cosmos to be without karma.
Jiang Qi waited anxiously. After a while, Lu Yin had the Second Nightking escort the man out.
“Why did you summon that man?” Long Xi asked, curious.
“He’s odd. He can avoid karma.”
Long Xi was taken aback. “Avoid karma? Such a person exists?”
Even someone like Long Xi, who had not comprehended karma, was amazed. That just went to show how bizarre Jiang Qi was.
Lu Yin told her not to speak of the matter. He still had not been able to find why Jiang Qi was able to avoid karma. Was it his physique? There did not seem to be anything unusual about it.
Jiang Qi hid under his blanket because of the fear that he had felt from sensing the walls of karma in the Spirit Nidus.
Imagine living every day beneath towering walls with an inverted funnel covering the sky; what would that do to a person?
They would end up like Jiang Qi.
The man was quite pitiful.
Progenitor Chen continued to search for Master Qing Cao. In that manner, another half year passed.
One day, after leaving the River of Aeons in the Mirari Realm, Lu Yin went to visit the Immemorial Citadel. He wanted to speak with his master, but he also did not want to disturb him.
The Immemorial Citadel had been the site of the final battle fought in the war over the Tianyuan.
It was the place where humanity had defeated Aeternus. If not for the Spirit Nidus’s invasion, the Tianyuan would have stabilized long ago, and there would have been no need to revert time.
Reversing time by thirty-seven years had saved countless lives.
Experts still filled the Immemorial Citadel. Most of them had once fought there, and they had managed to survive until the end.
If they returned to their own universes, they would be regarded as leaders and ancestors. Most of them no longer felt like they belonged in their native universes. Instead, they felt a strong sense of belonging to the Immemorial Citadel.
Lu Yin heard loud laughter ring out. It was the ancestor of the super giants. His massive figure was impossible to miss.
He was drinking with some others.
“What a pity that old Zhong Tou and the rest aren’t able to see this. We’re able to enter the Mirari Realm and cultivate there, and we’ve even had breakthroughs. Such a thing was unthinkable for so long.”
“Babal, Jian An, Bai Mu... ah...”
“A toast to our fallen brothers!”
“To them...”
Lu Yin’s expression remained calm. He had not known Bai Mu and the others well at all, but any who had fought to defend the Immemorial Citadel deserved respect.
“Behave! Are you still wriggling about when your master’s gone?” The ancestor of the super giants smacked the ground, shaking the entire Immemorial Citadel.
Qiu Buman grumbled, “Old man, be gentle! The Immemorial Citadel’s brittle now. Don’t break it!”
The ancient giant just snorted. “I’m just disciplining that little thing so that it will behave a bit better.”
When he lifted his hand, he revealed a writhing black cloth that seemed to be alive.
The others nearby were all used to seeing the cloth.
The cloth was a member of Aeternus by the name of Qi. It had been sent to the Immemorial Citadel to participate in Aeternus’s Divine Selection, only to be captured by the ancient giant. Even after so long, the cloth had still not been released, and it was often smacked around.
“Aeternus is already gone, so this thing should behave.”
“If it doesn’t, just tear it apart. Why bother keeping it, old man?”
The giant grinned. “It’s a foot rag.”