33 Mysterious Karmic Force.

Ikuya was really surprised by the sudden voice, then a smile crept up his face.

' A planetary flame heart with a consciousness.... Looks like my luck is pretty decent. My main elemental source and the five basic element sources have already formed and are still increasing in power with each second by absorbing the intense elemental energy in this place. If I infuse this Planetary Flame Heart into my elemental source, My elemental powers will increase drastically and there should be a few more Planetary Flame Hearts around this planet. There are many other planets and stars in the realm of gods as well. If I get them all.... Damn, this is simply the best.' Ikuya thought as his smile widened.

" Answer me, Human! How were you able to enter this lord's abode?!" The Planetary Flame Heart seemed a bit apprehensive and wary about Ikuya and didn't make any tactless actions.

" You know, no one is qualified to address themselves with such honorifics in my presence. Even if its an incorporeal life form." Ikuya said as he appeared before the deep red crystalline flame and plunged his hand into it ignoring the terrifying temperature that can easily outclass countless suns.

This level of fire can easily burn even Divine Origin Realm Experts to ashes in an instant.

Though his mental energy consumption was quite enormous. But Ikuya ignored his large mental energy consumption and put all his focus into the multicoloured orb in the Psionic Elemental Source Diagram, which is his main elemental source.

Before the consciousness of the Planetary Flame Heart could say anything, it was destroyed by Ikuya's mental powers and it's spiritual remnants was absorbed by Ikuya's elemental source/multicoloured orb.

The deep red crystalline flame was then absorbed into the multicoloured orb as Ikuya's mental energy started to recover and also increase.

In a quarter of an hour, Ikuya had completely assimilated the deep red crystalline flame into the multicoloured orb as the rest of the five elements orbs had gotten much brighter.

After he was done, Ikuya directly teleported back to the surface by sensing Fera's energy signature.

When he was at the surface, at one of the mountains of the Sun Fire Mountain Range, the sight before him came as a surprise to Ikuya.

Fera was being patted in the head by Chu Yuechan and it wasn't protesting in the least. And Chu Yuechan, this cold beauty was actually smiling while interacting with Fera.

But what surprised Ikuya wasn't all this. It was Fera's behaviour that surprised Ikuya.

Fera was treating Chu Yuechan just like how it does with Ikuya. Like how it treats it's parent.

" How inconvenient..." Ikuya muttered in an annoyed tone.

" Why are you still here? Woman." Ikuya asked as he walked closer to Chu Yuechan.

Chu Yuechan's strength had recovered and she once again became the ice-cold beauty. Her feeling towards Ikuya seemed to have not been affected even though he saved her.

She turned around and when she saw Ikuya, she felt that something was different about him compared to before.

" You saved my life and even helped me breakthrough. For that I'm very grateful. But, please return the Sun Fire Lotus. I need it urgently. I'll pay you back in some other manner." Chu Yuechan said to Ikuya in her usual cold tone. Her tender face was calm and emotionless.

" Not a chance." Ikuya declined her request almost as instantly as he heard it.

" Please, I really need it." Chu Yuechan said while slightly knitting her eyebrows.

" Your request is hardly convincing with the kind of expression you have." Ikuya said as he arrived next to Fera.

" Scree!~" Fera, as usual was rubbing it's head against Ikuya's chest.

" .... " Chu Yuechan was troubled now. She had no idea how she should ask a favour from Ikuya.

She isn't stupid enough to challenge Ikuya for the Sun Fire Lotus. It's pretty obvious at this point that Ikuya is far stronger than her.

" How..... about I owe you a favour....?" Chu Yuechan said with her usual cold tone.

" Huh? Owe me a favour? Are you right in the head? You owe me a freakin 40 million purple profound coins and you think some mere favour can compare to that?" Ikuya said as he looked at this woman with a 'flabbergasted' expression.

" It's 30 million. Not forty million." Chu Yuechan said as her fist was clenched and trembling as if she was resisting the automatic instinct of her fist.

" Well, it doesn't matter. By the way, why do you even need something like the Sun Fire Lotus, an extreme fire-attribute spiritual herb for? It's basically poison for someone like you." Ikuya said.

Chu Yuechan, of course wouldn't be willing to bow her head towards another. Especially a man.

But the Sun Fire Lotus was extremely important for her 'Mother', Gong Yuxian.

To Chu Yuechan, Frozen Cloud Asgard is her family and the rules of the sect is absolute to her. She is willing to sacrifice her very life for the well-being of Frozen Cloud Asgard.

And the current Asgard mistress, Gong Yuxian is Chu Yuechan's master and also her Foster mother. To Chu Yuechan, Gong Yuxian is a very important figure whom she cares about very deeply.

Currently Gong Yuxian is suffering major problems with her cultivation of Frozen Cloud Profound Arts and her lifespan is also reducing. Only an extreme fire-attribute spiritual herb like Sun Fire Lotus can alleviate her predicament.

In the original timeline, Chu Yuechan should have easily been able to get the Sun Fire Lotus and return to her sect as the red robed duo shouldn't have appeared in this place.

Their original goal was the egg of the half-step Emperor Profound Beast Flaming Eagle which resides at the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range.

But because of Ikuya, they weren't able to get what they wanted and was forced to come to the Sun Fire Mountain Range. Here they came across the extremely rare Sun Fire Lotus that only grows once every thousand years.

It was the same time when Chu Yuechan had collected the Sun Fire Lotus.

In the end, It was Ikuya's existence that messed up the fates of others.

Ikuya himself is capable of analysing this much. This was also one of the reason why he was even bothering to talk with this woman. The other reason being that, he can sense a foreign Karmic force on her that is not her own Karmic essence that keeps on changing with each action of her, as if it was leading her to some new fate.

Of course, Ikuya had already disrupted this Karmic force on her with his own powers.

Back on Earth, he'd fought against a freakishly strong Esper who had the ability to devour the Karma of others and grow in strength drastically.

That Esper was also the only one who was able to make Ikuya get a little serious in battle. During that battle, Ikuya involuntarily developed an ability to sense Karma/Karmic Force of others and also gain the ability to judge them.

The foreign Karmic force Ikuya sensed on Chu Yuechan was neither good nor bad. But it wasn't neutral either. It was something entirely different. Something the likes of which Ikuya has never felt before, which intrigued him very much.

Though, this entire planet seemed to be clad in this mysterious karmic force. Although, the mysterious karmic force on this woman is enormously vast compared to others. He did sense the same on both Xiao Lingxi and Xia Qingyue, albeit just a little bit. Nothing compared to Chu Yuechan.

...

Chu Yuechan then mentioned about how her master requires the Sun Fire Lotus to alleviate her worsened condition.

" Sun Fire Lotus will only temporarily improve her condition but will leave more problems for the future. Seriously, all you have to do is stop cultivating that fu*ked up profound art and you'll be perfectly fine." Ikuya said in an irritated tone.

" How do you...." Chu Yuechan was shocked as she instantly understood what Ikuya meant by his words. She was shocked that Ikuya was able to deduce the Frozen Cloud Arts' demerit.

" I bet some brainless imbecile tried to imitate a fairly decent profound art only to produce a failure of a trash profound art which goes against the main principle of cultivation, which is to seek immortality." Ikuya bluntly said without any care for the other person.

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36th Ice Phoenix Palace, Snow Song Realm, Realm Of Gods.

" Achoo.." An extremely beautiful woman suddenly sneezed, startling the young girl beside her.

The beautiful woman was visibly weak and ill. But it added another mysterious enhancement to her beauty.

" Master! Are you alright?!" The little girl beside the woman asked with a worried expression.

" I'm okay, Xiaolan. Don't worry." The woman slightly smiled.

" Mm." The little girl could only nod obediently.

.......

" Don't insult the founder, Ikuya Senya." Chu Yuechan said as her voice was very cold.

" That aside, I really don't understand why you members of the Frozen Cloud Asgard keep cultivating that flawed technique like that. Even going as far as to sealing away the basic human emotions for the sake of it." Ikuya said as his eyes narrowed. He disliked the Frozen Cloud Asgard. His entire life, other than his pursuit for strength, what he seeked most was human emotions and feel them for himself.

But at this moment, Ikuya failed to notice the subtle changes with himself.