Karma of Qi and Luck

The night in the primeval forest was very cold, especially for Xingtao, who hadn't eaten enough. Although he gained the power of the cheetah, he didn't have its fur.

At this moment, he was suffering from hunger and cold, so he didn't extinguish the campfire. Instead, he added some wood to make it burn brighter. Then he lay down quietly beside the fire and rested.

In the hazy sleep of the night, he suddenly felt a pain in his arm and abruptly opened his eyes.

Red!

Bright red!

All he could see was a sea of red.

"Fire!?" Xingtao woke up instantly.

He saw the blazing flames leaping wildly on the pine tree in front of him, and the burning tree let out a more desperate cry. The branches on the canopy also began to blindly strike the ground.

"What's going on? I have the alertness of a cheetah, how could the flames develop to this extent!?" Xingtao was horrified, "Oh, I was upwind, and the flames were developing away from me, so I only noticed them when they spread!"

Actually, Xingtao also knew that it was dangerous not to extinguish the fire after sleeping, but he believed that with his alertness, he would feel it immediately if the flames spread towards him. However, Xingtao never expected that his own luck, which had been in a huge pit, would show its power this time, silently changing the direction of the wind in the middle of the night. As a result, the small campfire became a raging inferno.

A sea of fire surged and roared, with waves of flames one after another, seeming to devour the sky. Below the sea of fire, endless thick smoke suddenly rose, as if the dark clouds of May had descended to the ground.

"It's a forest fire!" Xingtao stupidly looked at the sea of fire in front of him, "What luck, I encountered such a rare event!"

"Luck!?" Xingtao suddenly focused and looked at his panel. The number behind the luck point had changed from 2 to 22, and it seemed to be increasing gradually.

"No way! Setting a fire in the forest can earn me this much luck!?" Xingtao felt like he was dreaming, "Right, the system said that whether doing good or evil, you can earn luck points. Could it be because I burned down this part of the forest, so half of the luck of this small forest was added to me!?"

"If that's the case, then if I set fires everywhere, wouldn't I accumulate enough luck quickly!?" Xingtao suddenly had an evil thought. However, he quickly dismissed the idea, realizing that while burning, killing, and plundering could accumulate luck quickly, there might be other consequences.

"If you don't understand, ask the system!" Xingtao suddenly realized that he hadn't chatted with the system for a while, "System, what are the consequences if I burn down a whole mountain!?"

"The host will receive a large number of luck points," the Beast King System replied.

Xingtao frowned, feeling that the system seemed to be hiding something, "I'm asking you, besides getting luck points, what other consequences will there be if I burn down the mountain!?"

"After burning down the mountain, the host will not only gain luck points, but also face disasters!" The system remained silent for a while before speaking, "Everything in the world has its balance. After the host burns down the mountain, they will gain half of the luck points destroyed by the mountain, but they will also bear the corresponding karma."

"What's the effect of karma!?" Xingtao felt the mystery of the system for the first time, "Does it mean that for every luck point I gain, I have to bear corresponding karma!?"

"Harboring evil intentions will damage luck!" the system said indifferently, "Establishing karma with others depends on the comparison of luck between the person and the host. If the host's luck is high, the other person is likely to have bad luck from then on; if the other person's luck is high, the host's luck will greatly decrease!"

"What's the use of that!?" Xingtao said somewhat helplessly, "Establishing karma with others is one thing, but establishing karma with the earth means that all the luck I gain will be lost again!? It's not worth it!"

After hearing Xingtao's words, the system suddenly spoke up, "Everyone's luck can never be negative, even if someone dies, their luck points may not necessarily be 0."

"Damn, even dead people's luck points may not be 0, but when I first came here, my luck was a big fat 0. Are you kidding me!?" Xingtao cursed inwardly.

"At that time, the host's luck points were not 0, but because the value was too small, after rounding, it was displayed as 0 by the system." The system began to defend itself.

The system continued, "The system suggests that the host can do more of these things like setting fires and burning mountains when they have free time. Although the karma of heaven and earth will consume luck points later, if the host consumes all the luck points in advance, the consumed luck points will be permanently owned by the host."

"Oh!? There's such a way!" Xingtao's eyes lit up, but soon his expression dimmed, "But with the amount of luck points I have now, I can hardly exchange them for anything useful! It's still useless..."

Before Xingtao finished speaking, he suddenly froze because he saw his luck points skyrocketing.

25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 65...

"Why is it increasing so fast!?" Xingtao exclaimed.

"The fire is getting fiercer, and the more animals and plants burned by the fire, the faster the host gains luck points!" the system said calmly.

"It's so cruel!" Xingtao couldn't help but shiver with a hint of chill.

"Phew!"

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the fire, fueled by the wind, burned even stronger. At the same time, Xingtao's luck points increased rapidly, breaking through the 300-point mark in an instant!

Boom!

A thunderous sound erupted, a deafening thunder that seemed to shatter the entire world.

With the angry roar of thunder, the mountains echoed, and the sound seemed to reverberate endlessly, like ten thousand drums beating together.

Along with the thunder, a heavy rain poured down.

The rain fell like waves, as if it were poured down by an angry hand, shooting diagonally and forming a curtain of rain with countless diagonal lines. It whipped, burst, and engulfed everything.

"Such heavy rain, it seems like the fire is going to stop!" Xingtao shook his head with resignation. Because the rain came, the fire weakened, and his luck point growth slowed down. Previously, it was increasing by tens, but now it was only increasing by ten points.