Primordial Era: Refusing Hongjun's path to sainthood, I attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

Chapter 5 Karma

After all, the Zhou Tian Star Array, as one of the most powerful arrays in the prehistoric world, was absolutely unmatched before Xuanhuang attained enlightenment.

The complete Zhou Tian Star Array is formed by combining the power of all the stars with the power of billions of gods and demons. Each god or demon represents a star, and once assembled, its power is unparalleled.

They are capable of going toe-to-toe with even saints; before attaining enlightenment, anyone who touches them will die.

However, Xuanhuang did not intend to confront the Zhou Tian Star Formation head-on. Let it be, it is like a gentle breeze brushing the mountain ridge.

Moreover, this only restrains a portion of Xuanhuang's strength. His path is far from over.

It's still uncertain what the future holds.

Xuanhuang headed towards the center of the primordial land, which was the direction of Buzhou Mountain.

Along the way, whenever they encountered a magnificent mountain, they would stop to take a look and see if there was any opportunity to find it, and also collect some rare and precious materials.

After flying for so long, tens of thousands of years had passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Xuanhuang emerged from a great mountain, then shook his head, quite disappointed.

Who exactly said that time travelers could find innate spiritual treasures just by wandering around the prehistoric world?

He hadn't even seen a trace of a primordial spiritual treasure.

All he possessed was the Time-Space Mirror, formed from fragments of the Jade Tablet of Creation, a single innate spiritual treasure.

They've really embarrassed time travelers.

However, upon reflection, Xuanhuang also felt that this was normal. After all, putting everything else aside, among all the powerful beings of the primordial world, only Styx, who came from the Blood Sea, was covered in magical treasures.

Before Hongjun distributed the treasures, weren't all the other powerful beings, including the Three Pure Ones, penniless?

The three brothers obtained a magnificent and precious pagoda, a treasure bestowed upon them by birth.

And what about the other powerful beings? Zhen Yuanzi possessed the Earth Book, and Hongyun's gourd was picked from Buzhou Mountain after he gave a sermon.

Di Jun was born with the Hetu and Luoshu, while Taiyi had the Chaos Bell. These two brothers were considered quite wealthy.

But look at Kunpeng? He's a renowned top-tier expert.

Kunpeng, however, was a penniless man. The only magical artifact he used until old age was one that he had crafted himself.

In other words, Kunpeng did not possess any innate spiritual treasures.

Finally, let's mention the Western duo again. These two brothers also had a very tough time in the early stages.

There weren't any treasures. The origin of the jeweled banner of the Amitabha Buddha is unknown, but the Seven Treasures Tree of the Cundi Bodhisattva was forged from a branch broken off from his own Bodhi tree.

Therefore, it is quite normal that no innate spiritual treasures can be found in the primordial world.

At this moment, it's likely that the vast majority of innate spiritual treasures in the primordial world have been collected on the Treasure Distribution Cliff.

Therefore, Xuanhuang stopped deliberately searching for treasures and instead immersed himself more in traveling and comprehending the Dao.

And somehow, because of this change in his mindset, his enlightenment seemed to be much more effective.

At the same time, Xuanhuang also began to comprehend the Way of the Stars, searching for the main stars one by one among the countless stars in the sky.

These 365 main stars, although all are stars, each have different properties.

Some stars draw down their light, which is purely yin in nature; some are purely yang; some are a balance of yin and yang; some are full of vitality; some are lifeless; and some are full of murderous intent. There are 365 kinds of starlight among the 365 main stars.

What Xuanhuang needs to do is to incorporate these 365 different types of starlight into his body and store them in different acupoints.

Moreover, it is also necessary to ensure that each of these starlights does not conflict with or destroy each other.

It even aims to make the 365 kinds of starlight interconnected and integrated, achieving an effect similar to the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array.

Temper your body with starlight!

Furthermore, it gave rise to all sorts of incredible supernatural powers, Taoist magic, and so on.

The difficulty suddenly increased.

Xuanhuang, however, was not impatient. He used all his wisdom to calculate continuously.

Finally, after numerous attempts, Xuanhuang successfully opened up the seven major star acupoints, which correspond to the seven main stars of the Big Dipper: Tian Shu, Tian Xuan, Tian Ji, Tian Quan, Yu Heng, Kai Yang, and Yao Guang.

All seven acupoints were opened on Xuanhuang's right hand. As Xuanhuang sensed the seven main stars, seven brilliant starlight beams suddenly broke through the void and descended from the darkness.

Then it directly merged into the seven acupoints. There, the seven acupoints seemed to have condensed into tiny stars, slowly rotating within them.

Xuanhuang also felt his right hand filled with power, and his entire arm became dazzling with starlight, as if it were completely filled with the starlight of the Big Dipper.

When the starlight of these seven main stars merges together, another change occurs.

As the saying goes, the Southern Dipper governs life, while the Northern Dipper governs death.

Therefore, at this moment, Xuanhuang's right hand was emitting an extremely dense aura of death.

An extremely terrifying aura of death spread out.

Centered on Xuanhuang, a terrifying aura of death spread out, and in an instant, all life on the entire mountain and within a radius of ten thousand miles vanished.

Instead, it was shrouded in death.

All sorts of flowers and plants, even rare and precious herbs, died completely in an instant.

Even the surrounding spiritual energy felt lifeless.

Fortunately, Xuanhuang quickly withdrew, stopping the spread of the aura of death and shrinking back in the next moment.

Even so, those who are dead cannot be brought back to life.

"call!"

Xuanhuang exhaled, and the starlight on his hand gradually dimmed and receded into his acupoints.

He stood up and looked around at the lifeless scene.

Xuanhuang shook his head.

His attack just now could be described as killing countless lives.

Xuanhuang sensed that, in the darkness, some karma had accumulated on his body.

Killing will bring karmic consequences. This is the rule of this world.

However, despite being burdened by karma, Xuanhuang was not particularly concerned.

At his level, a little karma is actually nothing.

Moreover, it was only killing within a radius of ten thousand miles; those he killed were merely plants and trees that had not yet developed sentience.

This amount of karma is far too little.

It won't have any impact on him at all.

There's no need to even pay attention to it; this little bit of karma will gradually dissipate on its own over time.

In the primordial world, three important things are often mentioned: merit, karma, and fortune.

Merit is something that is recognized by Heaven and rewarded by Heaven.

Karma is the exact opposite.

Luck, on the other hand, can be seen as the connection between the two.

The more merit one accumulates, the stronger one's fortune tends to be; conversely, the heavier one's karma, the weaker one's fortune tends to be.

Luck, roughly speaking, is the degree to which the Way of Heaven favors a living being.

Ultimately, while these three factors do have some impact on cultivators, the cultivator's own strength is the fundamental factor.

For example, Xuanhuang, as a powerful being at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, is helpless simply because of the karma of destroying all living things within a radius of ten thousand miles.

That is impossible.

Some powerful beings even possess special supernatural abilities and methods that allow them to transform karma into their own power.

Or you can directly expel the karma.

Of course, this is under the premise that the karma is relatively weak. If the karma is too strong, even a saint would have to be wary of it.

For example, the Netherworld Blood Sea was refined by the Styx River, resulting in an immortal body where "the Blood Sea never dries up and the Styx River never dies".

If a sage were to insist on killing the Styx River, he would destroy the entire Sea of ​​Blood.

The resulting karma would be extremely terrifying.

Heaven will be angered by this and will send down divine punishment to the sage.

Of course, what we are talking about now is the situation of shallow karma, such as Xuanhuang's current situation. The killing caused unintentionally is something that a great being like him does not even need to care about.

As time goes by, this tiny bit of karma will disappear on its own.

As for Xuanhuang himself, it had absolutely no effect.

And this is the effect of strength.

After all, no matter how terrifying karma is, it is still just a rule of the Heavenly Way.

But what if one day, Xuanhuang's strength becomes even more terrifying than the Heavenly Dao, surpassing this world?

Then the rules of Heaven would naturally be of no use to Xuanhuang.

However, even though we are still in this world, we are still bound by its rules.

(End of this chapter)