Mayor - 542

Ye Li entered the Elf city without any sort of issue at all. Truthfully, this world did not pose too much of a threat to him. From what he had seen through Karma, the strongest being of this world was at a realm known as Space Shattering.

He should be more or less equivalent to a void traversing realm cultivator. Also, with Karma, he may be able to escape a space shattering realm cultivator.

When he said he's equivalent to a void traversing realm cultivator, it was only because of the ability to travel through space and power. If he actually had the power to fight a space shattering realm cultivator, then he would be equivalent to a Space shattering realm cultivator. It had nothing to do with cultivation, just pure battle strength.

Instead of worrying about Space Shattering realm cultivators, he was worried about those above this world, cultivators far beyond his understanding. Who knew the structure of this world? He would not find out the hard way.

Ye Li entered the city under the guise of an elf. He spent his days wandering around, piercing elves with Karma, not to strip it away, but to read their Karma.

After a while, he figured where to start. In this city, the most powerful cultivator was a peak soul formation realm cultivator. As he left the city, traveling above the forest, Ye Li followed him.

As he followed, he tested his theory. Since Karma could be stripped and read from a person, perhaps he could also change that Karma.

A Karma spiral pierced through the cultivator, and in an instant, he fell down screaming. The screaming soon stopped, and Ye Li came out from the shadows. The Elf looked at him in horror. Out of nowhere, it saw its greatest fear appear in front of it. It was just a moment, but it felt like forever.

It must have come from the man in front of him. Ye Li had a gray mask covering his face. He looked at the man for a while, not saying a word. 

The man could not tell that Ye Li was reading his Karma. After a few minutes, Ye Li spoke. "Do you know who I am?"

The Elf shook his head quickly.

"I am the Unknown, and I call for your use."

The Elf was confused, but scenes began to fly by in its mind. It was as if repressed memories were unsealed from within. 

Ye Li had essentially made up a past through the use of Karma. The Elf saw a giant tree, as well as multiple powerful beings all kneeling to the masked man in front of him. It made sense now. This was the ruler of the Unknown, the most powerful hidden force in the universe.

The Elf got up and bowed. "I apologize, Lord Memory. Please forgive my insolence."

Lord Memory was the fake name that Ye Li had created. He did not know what his future held, but he made sure that he was hidden behind as much of a curtain as possible.

Although he had only created a little bit of fake Karma, the Elf believed him. It could not explain the existence of these memories otherwise.

Ye Li gave the Elf orders. In just a few days, Ye Li held an official position in the Elf City. He was the new Vice mayor, an elf from afar. Nobody questioned this new Vice mayor since the politics of this city had been a bit shaky.

Ye Li always wore a green hood. It was rumored that his face had been disfigured long ago. For now, Ye Li truly intended to help the city.

He had killed many beings, and he could sense bad Karma. Of course, it was a bit different for him.

Karma both affected him the least and affected him the most. It was difficult to explain, but Ye Li was able to.

He was under the direct watch of Karma, so the good things he did were seen clearly, and so were the bad. However, he was also the "Messenger" or "Apostle", whatever you wanted to call it, of Karma. 

This made him somewhat exempt. At the very least, this was how Ye Li was able to explain it in words.

Although he was exempt, Ye Li feared Karma more than anything else. In fact, all he feared was Karma. Therefore, it was good to gain good Karma when he could. Of course, he didn't expect good things to happen to him. The exemption went both ways. 

However, this way, he could at least wash away some of the bad Karma following him. He both feared Karma and revered it. As far as he was concerned, he was Karma.

Ye Li helped a lot of people and gained a lot of good Karma over a few tens of years. Naturally, it hardly helped considering he had killed countless individuals on his planet. 

There seemed to be two other ways to get rid of the effects of bad Karma. One was time. As time passed, both good and bad Karma would slowly dissolve. The second was growing more powerful. The stronger an individual was, the more bad Karma they could handle before it spilled over.

Over these tens of years, Ye Li had killed many cultivator elves in secret, hidden by the mayor, the soul formation realm elf.

Each of the elves he had stripped Karma from had been at the Core Formation realm. He was different from when he first came to this world, but not by too much. He would need a void traversing realm cultivator to truly experience a massive change.

Ye Li had been biding his time, waiting for the right moment. This moment began now. The Mayor stepped down, and he became the Mayor. This changed everything. He had access to a higher level of information, though this was not too important since the last Mayor had told him what he needed to know.

What truly made a great change were the meetings that took place once every hundred years in this world. All of the strongest attended, and as a Mayor, he now had that right.