Chapter 180: The Great Law of Karma

The Great Law of Karma

The moment those karma threads entered Victor’s body, something enormous had begun.

And there might be no turning back.

He knew just how terrifying those karma threads were.

Once contaminated, even Grand Saint Realm experts—exalted beings of the highest order—could not fully sever them.

Moreover, the karma threads would subtly invite disastrous outcomes.

Those entangled by them would suffer plummeting fortune.

They could encounter life-threatening dangers at any moment.

A perfectly ordinary step could become a disaster.

A cultivation breakthrough could turn into a deviation.

An enemy that should have been defeated could suddenly receive an unexpected opportunity.

That was what made karma so frightening.

It did not always kill you directly.

Sometimes, it simply made the world itself begin conspiring against you.

The most absurd case Damien had ever heard of was a Grand Saint Realm expert who, after being entangled by karma threads, suffered a cultivation collapse while cultivating with his Law companion—his essence shattering, his body perishing!

It had been such an absurd death that Damien had once thought the story exaggerated.

Now, however, he remembered it with perfect clarity.

So when he saw Victor willingly touch those karma threads, Damien felt his scalp tingle with dread.

His heart nearly jumped out of his chest.

"Patriarch..."

He stared at Victor.

Those threads were not something one casually touched.

Even powerful Grand Saint Realm experts treated them with extreme caution.

Yet Victor had walked toward them himself.

He had practically invited them into his body.

Damien’s throat tightened.

He wanted to warn him again.

But the words caught in his mouth.

Nux and the others didn’t share Damien’s breadth of knowledge.

They had never traveled through the vast world as he had.

They had never encountered the ancient dangers he had seen in his previous life.

But seeing his desperate reaction, they knew something was terribly wrong.

Their faces changed.

Anxiety appeared across every feature.

Only moments ago, these young prodigies had dared to draw their weapons against an expert two full realms above them.

They had stood against overwhelming killing intent.

They had faced death without retreating.

Yet now...

They looked like children again.

Not because they feared death.

They were worried about their Patriarch.

"Patriarch! Are you alright?!"

Austin hurried forward.

His black eyes were filled with concern.

"Uncle!! What’s wrong?!"

His voice carried a trace of panic.

Even Nux’s red eyes remained fixed on Victor.

Nobody dared breathe too loudly.

Victor simply looked at them.

Then he waved his hand.

The gesture was casual.

Relaxed.

As though he were telling them not to worry about something completely insignificant.

He was fine.

That was what the gesture meant.

Victor then closed his eyes.

His expression became calm.

It was almost as though he had completely forgotten the others around him.

He was sensing something.

Something invisible.

Something that existed beyond ordinary perception.

Countless invisible threads pulled at his body.

Some were connected to his past.

Some stretched toward the future.

Others seemed to exist somewhere between cause and effect.

Victor quietly felt them.

Then—

His eyes opened.

The golden light within them seemed deeper than before.

The next moment, he slowly raised his hand.

His fingers reached into the void.

And casually grasped.

CRACK!

A karma thread snapped.

CRACK—CRACK!!

Another shattered.

Then another.

One after another, the karma threads that had locked onto Victor broke apart.

They twisted.

They struggled.

Then they dissolved into nothingness.

The terrifying karmic connection that had caused Damien such dread was severed as casually as weeds being pulled from the earth.

"How interesting..."

Victor chuckled softly.

There was genuine curiosity in his voice.

The so-called most insidious, most terrifying karma threads—

Had been casually plucked out by Victor.

Damien’s mouth fell open.

His eyes widened.

He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

That shouldn’t have been possible.

It simply shouldn’t.

Ignoring Damien’s look of utter disbelief, Victor slowly raised his hand.

His fingers moved.

He formed a hand seal.

WHOOSH—!!

In an instant, an indescribable and unfathomable rhythm emerged around Victor.

The atmosphere changed.

The air seemed heavier.

Space itself appeared to ripple.

Even the surrounding Great Laws of World seemed to fall silent.

The sensation was similar to the Law of Karma.

But it was deeper.

More mysterious.

More ancient.

It carried an authority that the Law of Karma itself could not compare with.

It was the aura of...

The Great Law of Karma!

Victor’s path was one that ascended toward the absolute peak.

The Ten Thousand Great Laws followed his will.

He had etched the foundations of countless Great Laws into his body.

He had stored the essence of countless paths within his heart.

Rather than slowly walking through every stage like ordinary cultivators, he had bypassed the stage of laws entirely.

He had touched the Great Laws directly.

Yet there was a limitation.

Victor could touch them.

He could comprehend their existence.

But he could not yet fully wield all of their profundities.

Still, he had just discovered something.

If he touched the corresponding law of a Great Law, he could grasp a sliver of that Great Law’s power.

That was precisely why Victor had deliberately allowed those karma threads to enter his body.

He had wanted to understand them.

He had wanted to touch the Law of Karma directly.

And now—

He had succeeded.

Victor had grasped a sliver of the Great Law of Karma.

One of the most mysterious paths in existence.

A path comparable in profundity to Destiny itself.

His golden eyes slowly narrowed.

The world seemed different.

Cause and effect became visible.

Invisible connections appeared before him.

He could see the cause hidden behind an effect.

He could trace an effect back toward its origin.

And from there—

He could glimpse what had yet to happen.

With merely this sliver of the Great Law of Karma, Victor could see the cause through the effect.

He could peer through karma and see through his enemy’s causes.

Thus, he could know their future three breaths ahead.

Three breaths.