Chapter 1263 - 729: Heart Monkey, Flaws, and the Karma of Good and Evil!

Chapter 1263: Chapter 729: Heart Monkey, Flaws, and the Karma of Good and Evil!

The foolish method is also the most effective way to best utilize one’s strengths.

At the early stage, first accumulate, then once you begin, rise like the "Prajna Dragon Elephant," and use its special characteristics to accelerate growth.

"In this way, not only can it help the humble monk advance further in the path of physical cultivation, but also perfectly master the body, unleashing greater power from the Inner World.

Able to restrain external forces from entering, when facing Chen Zhiming, this monk will have hope of victory..."

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With his thoughts settled, Liao Huo focused his mind again.

With his eyes slightly closed, his expression remained neither joyful nor sorrowful.

He slowly activated the mental method, the karmic fire within his body rising and falling, silently displaying the fundamental Divine Skill of "Silent Illumination Bright King’s Karmic Ocean."

All of a sudden, his consciousness sank into an illusionary scene akin to a dream.

Before him was no longer the war preparation scene, but countless faintly visible karmic threads surfaced, intersecting and criss-crossing like a network.

Concentrating intently, one karmic thread stood exceptionally clear, connecting him and Chen Zhiming.

The thread was tinged with a faint karmic power, born from fierce battles and persistent thoughts, subtly stirring the Heart Spirit, foreshadowing that entanglements will continue.

Shifting his gaze slightly, another karmic thread entered his heart.

That was the old connection with Meng Chuan.

At this moment, this thread seemed to glow faintly as well, due to his recent insights and determination, and the sparring of the previous day, experiencing new changes and extensions.

Dense and unyielding, it suggests future intersections are certain.

Liao Huo gazed at all this without expression, his heart untroubled, only a still peace.

Karma has revealed itself, karmic power is born, then face it calmly.

The initial battle with Chen Zhiming has ended, the result yet concretized, temporarily ignore it.

Liao Huo turned back to look at another thread, his expression suddenly changed.

In his heart, he urged strength, his sight piercing through the thick mist, clearly seeing the karmic thread linking him with Meng Chuan, the other end faintly showing a ripe fruit.

Liao Huo knew deeply, it was his defeat that pushed karma to develop further, now it’s the time when "the fruit falls from the tree."

The path of karma is the true foundation of Liao Huo’s cultivation.

Everything he does will bring corresponding karmic retribution.

But this is not the worldly notion of "good begets good, evil begets evil," rather it transforms the invisible force of accounting between heaven and earth into cultivation nourishment that can be controlled and utilized, that’s the core cultivation path of this Dao.

This road is extremely profound, and Liao Huo has only scratched the surface, yet he has benefited greatly from it.

Utilizing "Silent Illumination Bright King’s Karmic Ocean," he approaches the Dao of karma through karmic power, cultivating karmic retribution and the flow of karmic force.

In his eyes, karma is like fruit on a tree, ready for picking and taking.

Whether it is good karma bearing good fruit, or evil karma bringing evil fruit, even neutral fruits, entanglement fruits, and so on.

These are the most basic forms of "fruit," and are currently what Liao Huo can comprehend about the "Dao."

What he seeks is "good fruit."

To pick good fruit, transform it through Cultivation Technique into karmic force, circulating through himself to enhance cultivation and advance insights into the Dao.

And this approach is not like moral precepts advising people towards good.

Those are merely human ethics to restrain behavior, not the laws governing the operation of heaven and earth.

"Heaven and earth are unfeeling, treating all things as straw dogs."

Liao Huo silently chanted this phrase, his eyes calm.

Since the Dao is inherently unfeeling, then when one steps into the path of karma, there is no need to carry emotional entanglements.

As long as something is beneficial to one’s cultivation, it is accumulating good fruit.

Conversely, if it hinders one’s Dao path, it is bad fruit.

So-called good and evil, here are not related to virtue, only about benefits and drawbacks.

But is the path of karma truly so simple?

Take the good to nourish, remove the bad, just so straightforward?

Karmic relationships are constantly changing.

When a thought arises, evil karma births evil fruit, the defiled karma corrodes the body, gradually consuming the Dao path!

Liao Huo once again closed his eyes, lying on the bed, as he closed them, a mysterious darkness.

Along with his focus, a faint light emerged, densely forming lines, interweaving into a net.

At this moment, Liao Huo could clearly see, sensitively grasp...

The intersection of his karma with Meng Chuan has reached an almost crucial moment!

"Therefore my next action will determine the final form of the ’fruit’..."

Liao Huo’s eyes darkened, as the light receded like the tide, his vision returned to a deep darkness.

In his heart, he estimated, eighty percent is bad fruit!

Having just broken the Fourth Limit, he went to trouble Meng Chuan, attempting to seize his Iron Body fortune.

As a result, Meng Chuan not only resisted his three punches successfully, he didn’t gain the fortune, instead it started forming an adverse karmic connection.

Setting the stage for the birth of bad fruit...

Initially when Liao Huo had just broken the Fourth Limit, although his body completely recovered from the damage caused by the Gang Transformation, his mind was still unclear, inflated.

In today’s circumstances, he would never act like that.

Yet Liao Huo also knew clearly, given a hundred chances to return to that moment without today’s memories, he would act the same!

As a Four-Limit Grandmaster, is it really so difficult to seize fortune from a junior at the One or Two Limit?

Back then as a grandmaster, Liao Huo didn’t take Meng Chuan seriously at all, it was only after the humiliating defeat the previous day that he fully awoke!

"Now talking about all this is just hindsight, the bad fruit is not dissipating, instead it’s growing larger, what should be done?"

Liao Huo slowly let out a turbid breath, the dream-like dark clouds in his mind completely dissipating from his vision.

He got up and paced to the window, seeing dense cloud formations piling up like fish scales, transmitting muffled thunder sounds, reflecting his mood.

This bad fruit...

It’s a bit too big.

Larger than Liao Huo imagined!

It must be resolved, this will endanger his Dao path!

Various thoughts arose, Liao Huo entered meditation, sorting them one by one.

Karma is invisible lines, Liao Huo relies on the karma between him and Meng Chuan to find the answer.

Meng Chuan came to Shaolin, images of one high monk after another passed quickly, gradually illuminated in Liao Huo’s heart.

The one who led him to enter the temple for the first time...

Venerable Shi.

Divine Monk Baibao need not be mentioned further, serving as his initial Protective Talisman within the temple.

Guided by Meng Chuan "not to enter the wrong path," Jue Ming cultivating Daoist Qi Refining Skill.

This little monk not only wasn’t punished by his master, but was ignored by the venerable monk, Master Xingwu, known for harshness and presiding over the cultivation treasure land and the path of karmic cultivation in the Shaolin Temple!

The highly respected Senior Brother Ding Guang took him as a disciple, and Abbot Xuanmou became Meng Chuan’s great senior brother...

The Shaolin strongmen sowed good karma, formed good connections with him, in contrast to Huiyuan who formed bad karma with Meng Chuan, he was already marginalized in the temple...

Furthermore, Liao Huo heard, this disciple holds grudges very strongly, it’s likely that Huiyuan junior brother has already invited death upon himself...

Hiss...

The car in front has overturned, the future is unknown, what’s the lesson!

Although his relationship with Meng Chuan hasn’t deteriorated to Huiyuan’s level, concerning the cultivation of the karmic path, such backlash from bad fruit’s karmic power is unbearable for him!

Since that’s the case...

Having seen the future, why not turn it around now?

"Only wise men know when to act and stop, and true men can bend and stretch..."

It’s as if Liao Huo strengthened his resolve at this moment, his broad lips lightly parted, his voice as faint as a mosquito’s buzz...