Chapter 478 - Lilim’s Motive (1/2)

Chapter 478 – Lilim's Motive

At Mount Hua.

On the yin-yang stone altar, four human-sized cauldrons situated there at the square edge. Each contained many colorful flames, blue, red, green, and gold.

No smoke came out of the flame since they were not physical flame. In fact, these colorful lights were the spirits that Lilim created to maintain the stability of this world.

In the middle of the altar, the yin-yang formation diagram looked like a stone sculpting art, made by men. However, several gears rotated left and right as if they were alive.

*Click*

*VHOOM*

White light flashed above the altar, and two humanoid figure manifested. One was the white hair sage in a daoist robes. As for the other, it was a red-face warrior, whose wounds were all over his body.

Zuo Ci and Guan Yu appeared on a yin-yang altar. The former took the latter here per Lilim's order.

”He's here, goddess,” Reported Zuo Ci.

The long wavy blond hair woman in modern clothing descended. Her black t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans did not suit this ancient world.

This was Lilim, the troublemaker that messed with everyone's life for the sake of repairing the incomplete dimension.

Lilim nodded to Zuo Ci, ”Take him to your abode and treat his soul. Once he's healed, persuade him to swear allegiance to me. You can bait him with revenge. If he accepts, take him to me. If he doesn't, throw him back to the mortal world, but don't let Zhang Tong or Li Feihong kill him.”

”… I see. So our priority is to nurture a demon king and a messiah?”

”Indeed. We need those two for our new netherworld. I don't want them to get entangled by another chain of karma.”

”Is that really necessary? Once they get to 10 wings like you, they can forcefully tear off their karma chain by themselves.”

”Karma made by 8-wing immortals are deadly. Zuo Ci, you haven't seen the karma snake of an 8-wing demon yet. I've seen the karma snake of Morning Star and Michael. Those two almost died trying to break through their 13th wing and failed because of those snakes.”

Zuo Ci gulped. Although he had not faced the karmic tribulation yet, he learned many things from Lilim.

The first 8 virtuous souls or the souls of sins could be obtained by having a strong constitution. However, breaking through the ninth wing or higher required the help of their karma.

Merits and good deeds came into play in the cultivation world at this stage. Positive karma became the most precious asset to cultivators, which was the reason why Morning Star valued Tong so much.

Getting tied by a chain of karma lowered their breakthrough chances while having positive karma raised their luck. Still, even if ones had positive karma but they had unpaid debts, they might have to pay back for those favors and grudge first.

If someone forcefully attempted to obtain the 9th wing or higher without solving their old debts or favors, the karmic snakes would manifest from the karma chains, and they would attack the immortal with the strength of the tier, which the immortal attempted to breakthrough.

For example, if Zuo Ci attempted to obtain his 9th virtuous soul by using a system awakening process, bypassing the standard cultivation method, he would be attacked by the snakes with the power of a 9-wing angel.

To avoid this, Zuo Ci had to cut all karmic ties that bound him with others, such as Lilim's favor, Liu Yang's grudge, and Tong's debts.

The debt karma was easy to solve since Zuo Ci only needed to pardon them for what they had owed.

The grudge karmic knot was also easy to revoke. Zuo Ci's good deeds and merits had to surpass what he had sinned in the case that what he did was justified. Or, he could tear it apart by overpowering the karma chain, just like how Lilim did with Liu Ping's karma snake.

However, favors were challenging to deal with.

Favor karma knot was impossible to break by force. Unless the debt owner pardoned them for the favor, the debtee would not be able to advance their ranks.

Lilim stabilized this incomplete dimension and made Zuo Ci an immortal, who could use a bit of dimension law, the system, so he had to return this favor by working under her for the time being. Until the goddess was satisfied, Zuo Ci could not break free from this karmic knot.

Medusa was the same as She also had encountered this karmic knot obstacle during her time in Hell. Since Medusa owed Morning Star her life, she worked for him and ended up becoming his adopted daughter, hoping to get rid of this debt one day.

To all immortals, favor karma was the same as slavery!

”Understood. I shall inform Guan Yu when he wakes up.”