The Path of Karma - 541

Ye Li sat still for a moment as the boiling Karma slowly settled down. When it finally settled, he opened his eyes and looked around. The world he knew was gone. Even the atmosphere had collapsed, leaving him without air. 

Luckily, he could survive at this point using Karma. It had strengthened his body to the point where he defied all logic. He could fly and breathe in space.

Thinking this far, he shot up into the air and left the planet. He didn't know if there was truly other life in the universe, but he imagined there was, and he would find it.

His speed was rather slow, but good enough to traverse space. After a few hundred years of traveling, he found another planet. From afar, it seemed like his world. 

However, only by descending upon it could he truly know if there was life on it.

He fell from space and landed in a grassy meadow. This was enough to prove that there was other life in the universe, and based on the fact that the first planet he discovered had life, there was probably a lot.

As he looked around, he suddenly felt something ethereal. He had never felt such a thing on his planet. He turned around and saw a large beast looking at him with red eyes. This was his first time experiencing killing intent, as nobody on his world had it.

As he locked eyes with the beast, it jumped forward extremely fast and attacked Ye Li. Ye Li's body had been strengthened so much that this beast posed no threat to him, but it was something beyond that which he had ever seen.

Curious, he moved to the side and pointed his finger at the beast. A spiral shot through it, not hurting it, but stripping away its Karma. It was dead before it hit the ground.

When he felt the increase in his Karma, Ye Li was stunned. It was more than a hundred thousand humans worth on his home planet. 

Suddenly, from beyond some trees, three beings with large ears wielding bows jumped out, bows drawn.

They paused, stopping their shot, as they saw the beast dead. They looked at Ye Li. 

"You killed the beast?"

Ye Li looked at them curiously and nodded.

The three looked at each other for a brief moment before suddenly lunging towards him, bows once again drawn.

Before they could react, Ye Li pierced them with Karma. They were dead before they hit the ground.

Ye Li once again felt a stunning increase in his Karma. Compared to his total amount, it was still tiny, but it was stunning that all of this came from three humanoid creatures and a beast.

Ye Li studied the three humanoid beings but did not quite understand them. Their bodies were incredibly powerful, but they did not seem to have anything special about them. 

He could only come to the conclusion that the life on this planet had evolved incredibly.

He looked in the direction of where they came from and began to walk. He moved quickly, but silently. This planet was bigger than his home planet, but not by too much. After an hour of slowly moving, he saw a city of trees in the distance.

The trees appeared to have been made into some sort of odd housing. Bridges were connecting nearly every single tree.

These beings seemed to be aggressive, but they could speak English. Ye Li had a headache wondering about them. He slowly moved, keeping himself in the shadows. After a while, a person wielding a spear moved into the forest and walked down a path. 

Ye Li followed him and studied him. He began to think as he followed the man, and eventually had an incredible idea.

He pointed his finger, and a spiral of Karma shot out. This man could not sense it at all, and it pierced him. He paused for a moment, feeling off, but eventually kept walking.

Meanwhile, Ye Li was viewing scenes in his mind. That Karma spiral had been produced with the intention of reading Karma, not taking it. It was a complete test and Ye Li did not know if it would work, but it did. He saw scenes of this individual's past, random bits that only helped a little.

The scenes soon ended and Ye Li followed the being. He used another Karma spiral to read the beings' Karma, but he intended for this one to be more specific. He gave it the directive of understanding the world and the universe through this humanoid beings' past.

He saw many scenes. This time, they were helpful. He could not read the beings thoughts or hear sound through this method, but he could see mouths moving and see events happening.

He began to actually understand everything. There was a power in the universe. It was known as Qi. It existed everywhere and in all things. Throughout the entire universe, they did something called cultivation to use this Qi. It strengthened their body and gave them unimaginable abilities. It allowed one to reach unimaginable levels of power, flipping stars with a glance and changing the weather with a thought.

Ye Li was excited. These cultivators could live for an extremely long time. The Karma he would receive from them would be enormous. In addition, with cultivation, their Karma was far more valuable than a mortals.

Even Karma was somewhat affected by this cultivation.

Ye Li considered cultivating, but he felt an intense rejection from within him. He did not force it.

After piercing the humanoid creature, a being known widely as an Elf, with more Karma spirals, Ye Li had all the information he needed. With a final Karma spiral, the Elf was dead before he hit the ground. 

Ye Li wore his clothes and covered his ears with a hat. He understood that the cultivation universe was another form of government, just like on his world.

If he went around massacring for Karma, someone he could not handle would show up, this he could see. So he would not operate in the open, he would hide in the dark.

This was his path, the path of Karma.