Chapter 587 - 585: Tracing Karma, Repayment Begins...
Chapter 587: Chapter 585: Tracing Karma, Repayment Begins...
When Su Qing emerged, he found himself being torn at by hordes of Chaos Guards!
Damn!
His defenses were broken.
This time, they were truly broken.
Su Qing immediately used the Flame of Space-Time, enveloping himself in a state of safety.
Then, he activated his twin pupils, the Cause of Annihilating Universe.
He saw everything in the Chaos World with perfect clarity.
"There are so many of them." Su Qing saw that he was surrounded. Like being inside a giant eggshell, Chaos Guards swarmed him from all sides, trying to tear him to shreds.
But Su Qing was protected by the Flame of Space-Time.
Anything that got close died instantly.
The Chaos Guards were endless, but Su Qing’s Flame of Space-Time was no ordinary power.
He had managed to block the initial threat of the Chaos World.
’Now, then. It’s time to open up my own Space-Time Veins.’
Su Qing activated the Technique, drawing upon his own karma...
His body, however, slowly began to disintegrate. His form became like a thousand points of starlight, illuminating the surrounding Chaos World.
Seeing this, the Chaos Guards charged at Su Qing’s position with even greater frenzy.
Unfortunately for them, the area was completely surrounded by the Flame of Space-Time, which they could not approach.
As the starlight that was Su Qing faded away, a power that froze space and time appeared in the Chaos World.
This mass of power pushed out all the Breath of Chaos.
An embryonic Great Thousand World, modeled after the space and time Su Qing had experienced, was creating a set of Space-Time Veins that belonged to him alone.
It was born.
And with that, Su Qing vanished from the Chaos World.
The embryonic Great Thousand World, meanwhile, was guarded by the Flame of Space-Time.
There was no fear of it being destroyed.
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The Great Yu Dynasty, Kexiang County, Funing County, Chuanshui Town, Flood Village.
Su Qing awoke.
This time, he appeared from another person’s perspective. When Su Qing manifested, he was stunned for a moment...
The first karmic entanglement was Su Qing.
The other Su Qing.
He was already dead.
This time, Su Qing appeared beside the boy’s small body. The smell of blood still hung in the air.
Su Qing sat quietly on the grass, watching the nearby river flow by.
"Su Qing, oh, Su Qing... Tell me, how should I repay my karmic debt to you?"
In truth, the karmic debt from borrowing his body had long been settled.
There were just a few lingering connections.
Without the current Su Qing, the corpse would have remained a corpse. It would never have been revived, nor would it have known that the people who killed him had also died.
"Su Qing, oh, Su Qing... If I were to resurrect you now, could you decide your own fate?" Su Qing asked the corpse beside him.
He could bring him back to life. He could also personally kill Zhang Mazi, Liu Dan, and Guan Gousheng to fulfill the boy’s last wish.
Su Qing might owe many karmic debts to others.
But to the Su Qing who was already dead, he truly owed no debt at all.
Su Qing thought it over and over.
His eyes flickered toward Flood Village.
The three men who had beaten the original Su Qing to death had already vanished.
The karmic debt was repaid.
’Now, we two Su Qings owe each other nothing.’
Fortunately, Su Qing had the Absolute Rule on his side.
Within the Grand Thousand Veins he had created, he could use annihilation to end karmic ties.
"Resolved."
"Su Qing, rest in peace." Su Qing sighed, stood up, and used Magic to have the other Su Qing’s body merge with the earth.
He laid the body to rest and erected a tombstone, carving two words onto it: Su Qing.
As he carved the words, Su Qing couldn’t help but laugh. "Well now, it feels like I’m carving my own tombstone."
Having set up the tombstone, Su Qing bestowed consciousness upon all the surrounding weeds.
The grace of bestowing consciousness is equivalent to the grudge of taking a life.
Especially for ignorant and unenlightened beings like weeds.
Once Su Qing bestowed consciousness upon them, they were no longer ordinary.
Another karmic debt was thus repaid.
This time, Su Qing wanted to simply experience life, not change the world again.
He would repay every person in this world who had ever shown him warmth.
It had nothing to do with incurring new karmic debts.
"The plants and living things in this area have all been affected by me. Forget it, I’ll just bestow consciousness on all of you now."
With a flick of his finger, all the plants and trees here gained consciousness.
This is what happens when you owe too many karmic debts.
’It’s just so difficult.’
He had to repay debts nearly everywhere he went. After all, he had constantly pulled up grass back when he was making grass cakes.
Almost everywhere Su Qing passed, he completely repaid his karmic debts.
"I’ve incurred too many karmic debts."
"Some debts involve beings that have not yet been born. I’ll have to wait for those."
"I wonder how much karma the grace of spreading my teachings can resolve." As Su Qing walked, he went into town and burned those few human traffickers to ash with his flames.
’Hmph. As a former victim myself, I don’t think it’s excessive to kill them no matter how many times I do it.’
Regardless of the karma involved, they had to die.
By killing them with the Flame of Space-Time, he could avoid incurring an even heavier karmic debt.
This time, Su Qing didn’t travel to the County City in a cage.
Instead, he walked there, one step at a time.
"Hardship hones the spirit to ascend the Dao; worldly affairs seize the mind and bring confusion."
"Without the autumn wind, sharp as a tiger’s blade, how could a beast break its cage to become a Dragon?"
Arriving at the outer city of the County City, Su Qing immediately went to the dilapidated little thatched hut.
He looked at the desolate place.
But it had once been a place that sheltered him from the wind and rain.
’I miss it.’
Su Qing sat down inside.
He closed his eyes and leaned against a wall, completely lost in memories of the past.
’Wang Li, this time you won’t be entangled in karma with me either. Fortunately, our karmic bond wasn’t deep.’
Su Qing thought about it. Back then, Wang Li’s death was the one thing he couldn’t understand.
It was clearly just a servant who had died, yet Wang Li had to die for it. And not only Wang Li, but even her birth mother had to die with her.
’Is this what a great family is like?’
’Truly laughable.’
"Young man, you look well-dressed and noble. Why are you sitting in this little wreck of a hut? If you don’t mind, you can come sit at my old place," a lame old man said with surprise as he walked over, asking with good intentions.
A memory surfaced in Su Qing’s mind. ’Ah, it’s that old man.’
’We really are fated to meet.’
"That’s alright. I’m just here to experience a different kind of feeling," Su Qing said, shaking his head.
"Alright then. You’d best get inside the city. It’s dangerous out here. A tender-looking fellow like you should hurry on home."
"Thank you for the warning, old sir," Su Qing said, nodding with a smile.
’This old man... he’s truly kind-hearted.’
’He was last time, and he is this time, too.’
’A kind word can warm three winters. It seems that’s not just an empty saying.’
Sometimes, sincere words and actions can truly move any living being. And sometimes, no words are needed at all.
"Oh, Qianyou, so this is one of your believers. As the Master of Pure Goodness, how can someone who believes in kindness not have a good end?"
Su Qing’s eyes grew distant as he watched the lame old man leave.
He would find a suitable beggar nearby to help this old man in his final years.
The one Su Qing selected would, of course, be chosen after observing their past and character.
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Ye Yi, twelve years old, was a beggar from the area. He also had a younger sister.
Unwilling to give up, he fought fiercely every time he scrambled for scraps of food.
This made many of the nearby beggars afraid to compete with Ye Yi.
「One day.」
As usual, he snatched two portions of food—enough to fill their stomachs—from a mad dog and other beggars like himself.
He didn’t have much learning, as he couldn’t read, but he wanted to live.
「That night.」
Ye Yi fell asleep hugging his five-year-old sister. The late-season "Autumn Tiger" heat had arrived, which meant he needed to start collecting warm things to get through the winter.
"Ye Yi, go to this place. Ask him to take you as his apprentice. Tell him you want to care for him in his old age. Then both you and your sister will be able to eat your fill every day."
"Ye Yi..."
"Ye Yi..."
Su Qing projected the location of the old lame man’s home into his mind.
The old man had extra food in his home and a trade. Once Ye Yi learned it, he could really support the two of them. Besides, Ye Yi was a loyal and righteous person.
Su Qing didn’t just give the information to Ye Yi. He also sent a message to the old lame man, telling him to wait for a loyal and righteous child who would come to take him as a master. As long as he treated the boy sincerely, being cared for in his old age wouldn’t be a problem.
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