Chapter 1203 - The Old Port (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

The Karma Art was one of the most mysterious and powerful Dharma Spells in the world, which involved the laws of time, space and karma itself. Ordinary people were unable to use it and strong cultivators like Chen Fan couldn’t hold it for a long time. The light screen would shatter in almost a single breath.

“Swish.”

A light wheel which seemed like an hourglass with transparent ripples appeared slowly behind Chen Fan.

Then, the aura around Chen Fan’s body became unstable. Many tiny veins like threads of a spider’s web appeared on his face, but immediately vanished again. The black iron rod next to Chen Fan also let out a green light, making sounds from rumbling Dao Laws at that moment, which exploded in the sky like bolts of green thunder. All of it turned into a web that surrounded the entire valley.

A few breaths later—

The hourglass-like light wheel gradually dimmed and became shapeless, while the aura around Chen Fan also faded and stabilized slowly.

Finding his mother, Wang Xiaoyun, wasn’t as harmful to Chen Fan as his prior use of the skill when he looked for Fang Qiong; he had almost collapsed because of the backlash. That was certainly because Wang Xiaoyun was much closer, but the main cause had to do with the many secrets related to Fang Qiong. When Karma was involved with higher laws, more powerful energy and more prohibitions, its impact would surely be stronger.

When he spied on Fang Qiong—who was under the protection of the True Martial Celestial Sect—the Perfected Immortals weren’t provoked into attacking, slapping Chen Fan to death across the universe, which went to show that he had already been careful enough.

Chen Fan closed his eyes and thought, “The bloodline of that young boy and young girl undoubtedly belong to my parents. I feel extremely close to them, meaning that they’re directly related to me. Although my father isn’t there, things should be fine. If not, my mother wouldn’t be as calm.”

Even though the light screen had shattered, the appearance of that young boy in his teens and the ten-year-old young girl was imprinted deeply in Chen Fan’s heart. He looked at the two of them slowly in his mind.

“The clothes they’re wearing are different from those used in the Little South Heavenly Realm, but they are obviously exquisite enough. They are probably made of some Spirit Materials. I could sense Spirit Qi energy. This means that my parents aren’t rich, but they’re not doing poorly in that place.

“A boy and a girl. The boy is more mature, while the girl is a bit arrogant. Judging from their ages, he should be the big brother and she is the younger sister.

“Calculating by time, the older one should have been born before Master Cangqin visited Earth, but A’Xiu didn’t tell me about it. I wonder if she forgot or my parents hid it from me.

“Unfortunately, my Immortal Will can’t extend any further. I can’t detect their level and talent through the light screen. If not, I would have known if they’ve cultivated…”

Chen Fan closed his eyes and pondered.

He quietly got up after some time passed. Knowing his parents were safe and sound made Chen Fan feel relieved; he didn’t have to rush over to find them. And yet, the sight of that city in the light screen kept appearing in Chen Fan’s mind. He was doubtful about the direction the Karma Art had given him; he felt that somehow that direction seemed familiar.

Bright, developed cities like that one were rarely seen at the border of the Little South Heavenly Realm, but they were everywhere in the Star Ocean. The human civilization at the center of the universe had finally entered the glorious golden era after going through the difficulties during the Tinder Age and the rise in the Pioneering Era. Technology and Immortal Cultivation were developing at the same time, while Gods and civilizations coexisted. Those were truly brilliant times.

The very sight of that city in the picture was the thing that gave Chen Fan a sense of familiarity. He felt he had been there before, but he hadn’t visited the Star Ocean that life; the furthest he had gone was only up to Planet Tianhuang.

“Where is it…”

He thought about it for half a day, but it was too far away. Not even the Full Nascent Soul Power could show him things happening thousands of miles across so many planet regions with just a bit of connection between souls.

He soon made up his mind. It was useless to think so much at the moment; he should simply go there first.

“Whoosh.”

Chen Fan got up and picked up the rusty black iron rod. He tapped in the air and the ship sailed straight into the vast universe.

During the next few months, Chen Fan remained constantly on the road.

He was neither slow nor fast. Wang Xiaoyun and the others were safe for the moment, so Chen Fan wasn’t in a hurry to reach them. He mostly teleported across the galaxy with his peak-stage Soul Formation Dharma Power almost every time in his previous life; he had never truly seen what the places in space were like.

This time, he traveled and watched at the same time.

He went past a giant planet with signs of life and saw countless people in ancient clothes, like those in ancient China, working hard on cultivating the land; they farmed for the Immortal Cultivators above them during all four seasons of the year. They couldn’t even have a bite of the produce they grew with painstaking efforts, and the cultivators in charge had already taken them away. Whoever resisted would be burnt to ashes with Dharma Spells, just like lowly slaves.

He saw that a member of a poor family showed signs of having cultivation talent and was immediately recruited by the cultivator from an Exalted Sect. His entire family was thrilled; they moved from the cold, dangerous suburb area where they used to live, and joyfully relocated in the city. They didn’t have to pay taxes to the sects and wouldn’t be attacked by low-level monsters anymore.

He saw a Nascent Soul cultivator who lived a luxurious life, who had countless farms and mines in a magnificent, towering palace with many gorgeous maids in thin tulle dresses that showed their bodies as they walked around. The Dharma Power around his body was still strong, but his Divine Soul had started to decay.

He saw that a bastard in a large family was being scolded, disdained and treated like a pig or a dog by his seniors when it was detected that he had no cultivation talent whatsoever. As for the young boys and girls who had been tested to have cultivation talent, they immediately became arrogant, thinking of themselves as superior. They glanced around their brothers and sisters in disdain, as if they weren’t of the same kind anymore, treating them like lowly beings.

He saw…

Chen Fan only watched expressionless as he passed by.

He saw a beautiful but poor young girl being bullied by a low-level cultivator. All she could think of was to die, since she was beyond frightened and desperate… But Chen Fan summoned a thunderbolt and struck that cultivator to pieces. Countless others were stunned. Under the lead of an old Connate Cultivator, all of them immediately knelt and said as they faced the sky, “Senior, please don’t kill us. Please don’t kill us.”