"You're being quite direct."
Ye Tianlan sounded somewhat resentful.
Gu Qingfeng paid no mind, simply waiting silently.
After a moment, Ye Tianlan finally spoke.
"Actually, even if I don't tell you, you should be able to guess somewhat. You might not have been able to before, but now your heart should have some sense of it."
Gu Qingfeng thought for a while before asking, "So when you went to such great lengths back then to become Immortal Fate Dao Companions with me, was it also for Karma?"
"Heh, so you really have started to sense it."
Yes.
Gu Qingfeng had sensed it for a long time.
He had considered many possibilities, but after thinking it over, apart from the two words 'Karma', he truly couldn't think of any other reason why Ye Tianlan would have gone to such extremes back then to become Immortal Fate Dao Companions with him.
Of course.
It was only a sense.
As for *why* it was for Karma, Gu Qingfeng did not know.
"Legend says that Karma is the original sin of all calamities, and also the root of all calamities. Only by resolving one's own Karma can one cut off all calamities, and thus ascend to become a deity. Therefore, since ancient times, many, many people have pursued and sought their own Karma. To seek their Karma, and to sever their Karma, many began laying plans long, long ago."
"In the rumors, during the time of the Calamity, the Heaven and Earth are reborn, the Great Dao is re-derived, and Fate and Karma are also re-derived. After the Calamity, many also believe this is the only chance to sever Karma—to take advantage of Karma being re-derived to cut off the root of one's Karma. So, everyone lays plans just to borrow this once-in-a-millennium opportunity of the ancient Calamity's Heaven and Earth rebirth to sever the source of their Karma."
"But rumors are just rumors after all. Whether they are true or false, and whether anyone has succeeded, no one knows. Yet everyone chooses to believe, because, after all, this is the only chance to sever Karma. No one wants to miss it and regret it for a lifetime."
"Heh."
As she spoke, Ye Tianlan inexplicably laughed, as if mocking herself, and continued.
"Severing Karma is not an easy thing. Many seniors, in their attempts to sever Karma, only made it more chaotic, severing and ending up with even more Karma. In the end, not only did they fail to sever their Karma, they instead incurred a body of sins. Even worse, some severed their very Ego, becoming mad and deranged, lost in the endless Karma, sinking deeper and deeper..." Pausing, Ye Tianlan looked at Gu Qingfeng and said, "I know of a senior who, to sever her Karma, dared to defy the heavens multiple times, incurring a body of sins. But she severed and severed, defied and defied, and her Karma only became more chaotic the more she severed. She went mad, she broke down, she became lost. At the same time, she also awakened. In the end, she had no choice but to bury her soul and be reborn."
Hearing the words 'bury her soul and be reborn', Gu Qingfeng's heart jolted, immediately thinking of one person: Yun Nishang.
In his impression, Yun Nishang was exactly as Ye Tianlan described—severing Karma until she severed herself into a state of mental confusion, finally burying her soul to be reborn.
He didn't know if the senior Ye Tianlan spoke of was Yun Nishang.
Gu Qingfeng didn't ask, continuing to listen.
"Do you know why the ancient Calamity is called the once-in-a-millennium opportunity to sever Karma?"
"It's not just because after the Calamity, the Heaven and Earth are reborn and Fate and Karma are re-derived. It's also because during the Calamity, the first Reincarnation Storm in history appeared."
"Back then, no one knows exactly how many people used the Reincarnation Storm to be Reincarnated. Some reincarnated to contend for the Mandate of the Present Era, some reincarnated to reshape their Ego, some reincarnated to escape judgment, and similarly, quite a few reincarnated for Karma."
"Some perhaps wanted to sever their Karma, while others perhaps held no hope at all, only wishing to change their Karma. There are quite a few such people. They gave up everything from their Previous Life, even abandoning their Previous Life's Ego, just for Reincarnation, just to change their Karma."
"It's just a pity that Reincarnation is unstable. No one can guarantee that after Reincarnation, they can still maintain the self-awareness of their Previous Life. Similarly, no one can guarantee that after Reincarnation, the self-awareness of their Previous Life will definitely disappear."
"Even more regrettable is that those who gave up everything from their Previous Life to reincarnate for the sake of changing their Karma—when their Previous Life's self-awareness awakens, they discover that Karma cannot be changed. Even if they abandon everything from their Previous Life, they will still encounter it anew in this life."
"And unfortunately, I happen to know a friend who is exactly like this. She deduced that her Karma was very bad, utterly disastrous, because her Karma was related to the two words Wu Dao, and Wu Dao Karma is also publicly recognized as the most terrifying Karma in the world."
Hearing the words 'Wu Dao', Gu Qingfeng's brows furrowed slightly. He still didn't ask, continuing to listen.
"The two words 'Wu Dao' are a taboo of Heaven and Earth. Karma entangled with Wu Dao—you don't need to think to know how terrible it must be. My friend didn't hope to sever her Karma either, only seeking that after Reincarnation, she could forge new Karma in this life to replace the Karma of her Previous Life."
"What a pity!
Truly a pity."
"It's a pity that after she reincarnated, the Karma she forged in this life was again Karma related to Wu Dao. My friend didn't know whether the Wu Dao Karma forged in this life was the same as the Wu Dao Karma of her Previous Life. When her Previous Life's self-awareness awoke, she no longer wanted to know. What does it matter if it is? What does it matter if it isn't? They're both Wu Dao Karma; whether it's the same or not holds no meaning anymore. In the end, she also awakened, knowing Karma cannot be changed, so...
In a fit of rage, she sealed her true self..."
Again Wu Dao Karma, again sealing one's true self.
The more Gu Qingfeng listened, the more familiar it sounded.
He didn't know if Ye Tianlan was hinting at something, referring to Feng Zhuyue or Tang Hengheng?
But Ye Tianlan did not stop, continuing.
"Can Karma really not be changed?"
Ye Tianlan asked and answered herself, shaking her head incessantly, mocking herself incessantly.
"Not entirely. At least I know of people who, after Reincarnation—and more than one—truly had their Karma change. The Karma of their Previous Life vanished, and they opened new Karma in this life. Some had retribution Karma turn into auspicious affinity Karma. Of course, there were also those whose Karma wasn't originally that bad, turning into Karma worse than they could have imagined."
"And again unfortunately, I also know of a person. The Karma of her Previous Life wasn't originally that terrible, and the tribulations it brought weren't that bad either. If she gritted her teeth, she probably could have endured. But she, watching others reincarnate one after another to change their Karma, ultimately couldn't hold back either, and followed them into Reincarnation."
"After Reincarnation, she indeed forged new Karma in this life, hehehehe..." At this point, Ye Tianlan laughed, a complex laugh, and said, "You know?
It wasn't until later, when her Previous Life's consciousness awoke, that she discovered she had forged in this life a Karma publicly recognized as the most terrifying in the world. That's right, it was precisely Wu Dao Karma, hehehe...
!"
"Do you know how tragic, how miserably pitiful this is?
Originally not-so-terrible Karma exchanged for a Karma publicly recognized as the most terrifying in the world, hahaha...
Every time I think of this, I can't help but want to laugh...
hehehe...
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