Chapter 465: Karmic Consequences
Seeing this, Li Futian did not panic.
A moment later, his eyes turned hazy and a mysterious aura emanated from them.
The aura felt ancient and irresistible as if everything in the world should kneel before it.
"What’s going on with that stage?" A spectator asked and pointed towards Li Futian’s small martial stage.
In the beginning, the spectator was watching another match.
When the match reached a stalemate, he cast his eyes on the neighbouring stage and suddenly felt scared.
The instinctive fear came from deep within his bones and the man had the urge to kneel.
Fortunately, he was a cultivator at the sixth level of the reincarnation realm and he was used to seeing big scenes.
After the initial shock, he quickly adjusted his mind and suppressed the impulse to kneel.
However, he could suppress himself because his cultivation was not bad but some of the cultivators near him couldn’t do the same.
As soon as they looked at Li Futian’s stage, they felt the irresistible urge to kneel and before they could dissuade themselves, they fell to their knees.
"His eyes are exuding a trace of the great tao." Someone shouted and several cultivators collectively gasped.
"How is that possible? He is only in the first level of the reincarnation realm and his cultivation isn’t even stable."
"If not the great Tao, what’s happening with his eyes?" Someone challenged and several people fell silent.
Indeed, it was difficult to accept that a first-level reincarnation realm cultivator could perceive such a powerful trace of the great Tao.
However, the evidence was right in front of them and they had no way to deny it.
"Fellow Daoist Li seems to be a celestial master." Someone observed.
"So what?" Another asked.
"It is said that the great tao favours celestial masters."
"I have also heard this." Someone said excitedly and then continued.
"Only those who are favoured by the great can perceive the secrets of heaven."
"However, it is also said that revealing too many secrets is not a good thing. The more a celestial master reveals heavenly secrets, the more life they consume. I have heard that celestial masters don’t tend to live a long life."
"Does it matter? As long as they become immortals, their lifespan is endless. Even if they reveal everything, their lifespan shouldn’t come to an end, right?"
"I don’t think it’s like that." Someone said and the surrounding people turned to look at her.
"There is a Heavenly Secrets sect in my world. The sect often accepts divination requests from cultivators all over the world. However, immortal celestial masters rarely do divinations. At most, they do two to three divinations every one hundred years."
"Is that so?" Everyone was a little confused but there was no way to clear their doubts so they refocused on the match.
At this time, the sunny ghost cultivator was looking at Li Futian with a horrified look in his eyes.
"You..., have you perceived the great tao?" The sunny cultivator asked.
Hearing the question, Li Futian didn’t answer.
He smiled at the person and lightly moved his fingers.
Soon after, the sunny cultivator felt a terrifying force on his body.
The force was majestic and completely irresistible.
Although he wanted to resist and prevent it from affecting his body, the sunny cultivator found that he couldn’t do anything.
With a terrified look in his eyes, the sunny cultivator felt the force wrap around his soul and an ancient voice resounded in his ears.
"Cause and effect is the intention and also the judgement of heaven." The voice said.
A moment later, a theatre appeared in his mind.
The theatre contained countless scenes and each scene seemed to correlate to a mysterious value.
’What’s going on? What do these numbers mean?’ The sunny man couldn’t help but panic.
Before he could figure anything out, a scene appeared in his mind.
The protagonists of the small scene were a pregnant woman and several people who looked like physicians.
As the sunny man watched, the woman gave birth to a fat boy but she didn’t survive the birth.
Many years later, the baby grew up and became a heaven-defying alchemist.
The alchemist could refine all kinds of pills and even founded the biggest alchemist’s guild in his world.
After this scene ended, a ’-8’ appeared before the picture flashed to another scene.
This scene was of a young man of about sixteen.
The young man was extremely talented and practised diligently.
Unexpectedly, a pie fell from heaven and hit the young man!
When the young man was practising in seclusion, a powerful soul suddenly seized his body.
At first, it looked like the young man’s soul would be destroyed but before it was, a system activated and rescued the boy.
Unfortunately, the system was of the evil bias and the young man’s soul was directly corrupted.
Since then, he turned to ghost cultivation and eventually became the greatest evil in the world.
After the scene, a ’+7’ appeared before the picture switched to a different scene.
In this way, thousands of scenes played in the sunny boy’s mind.
Each scene had a different protagonist and after a while, the sunny boy discovered a clue.
’Aren’t these the people I killed to make my ghost banners?’ He suddenly thought.
After thinking that, he became more terrified.
Although evil cultivators endured harsher tribulations, the evil way was also a way to the great Tao.
Considering that, the sunny man never regretted his evil and felt that everything was predestined.
He felt it was destined for the people he killed to die at his hands.
In fact, the sunny man was not wrong.
However, his thinking was too simple.
A person’s life was an accumulation of choices.
Each choice realised a possibility and cut off more possibilities.
When a person is killed, the killer cuts off the person’s all other possibilities.
In most cases, killing people did not result in too many consequences because the tao already factored the killing as part of the myriad possibilities.
However, powerful celestial masters could amplify the consequences arising from karmic entanglements.
At this time, Li Futian was doing exactly that.
His technique calculated the karmic consequences arising from the death of the killed people.
For example, if the pregnant woman was not killed, she would have given birth to a heaven-defying alchemist.
Because of her death, the world was denied a powerful alchemist which resulted in a karmic consequence of negative nine.
In the same way, killing the talented young boy prevented a disaster since the boy would have grown up to become a villain.
Unfortunately, most of the people killed by the sunny ghost cultivator were not villains.
Most were ordinary people but some would have contributed to extraordinary positive consequences.
When the scenes ended, all the values were summed and the final number suddenly flew into the sunny ghost cultivator’s soul.
’Negative six.’ The man thought with a confused look in his eyes.
Although he did not understand what was going on, the man suddenly had a bad feeling.
He always felt that something terrible was about to happen but he didn’t know what to do.
As he was trying to figure it out, a change happened in his soul.
For some reason, the person suddenly felt heavy and sluggish.
His sharp mind became a little dull and more confusion was revealed in his eyes.
At a loss, he looked at Li Futian who had already dealt with his ten ferocious ghosts.
"What did you do?" He shouted angrily.
Unfortunately, his heart was filled with fear and his words were useless against Li Futian.
"I have helped you carry your sins." Li Futian generously answered.
"What do you mean?"
Hearing this, Li Futian didn’t answer.
He smiled at the person and a bright light flashed in his eyes.
Originally, the evil cultivator’s luck was severely compromised due to his evil cultivation.
After Li Futian’s attack, the person’s luck had fallen into the negatives.
Not only that, the person’s cultivation talent and intelligence were more than halved.
If the person wanted to break through to the second level of the reincarnation realm, he couldn’t do it within the limit of one thousand years.
’This ability is powerful but it shouldn’t be used often or carelessly.’ Li Futian couldn’t help but remind himself.
This time, Li Futian altered the cause of the ghost cultivator’s life.
Although his actions were justified by karmic consequences, Li Futian still felt that using the attack too often was not a good thing.
After all, he had only comprehended a little of the great Tao.
Until his dao heart became clearer and his comprehension became more solid, it was best to avoid things that may likely challenge the tolerance of the way of heaven.
Still, Li Futian didn’t regret his actions.
The sunny person in front of him deserved everything he got and teaching him a lesson was eliminating harm for the people.
"I don’t know if the evil faction will act against me?" Li Futian wondered but, in the end, he only shrugged and smiled.
