The karma tree turned to ash, yet the ash did not vanish. It drifted down gracefully, gathering toward a spot beneath Li Tianming's feet. At that very spot, a tiny crimson sprout unexpectedly emerged.
The sprout resembled a candle, its swaying flame breathtakingly beautiful. When the karma tree's ashes nourished it, it suddenly began growing at a furious pace. Rapidly absorbing the ashes, it took shape from a little sprout in mere moments!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Li Tianming was lifted into the air. What raised him up was an enormous red lotus pedestal. Scarlet lotus flowers bloomed atop it, and he stood right at the center of one. This red lotus was more dazzling, grand, and bewitching than the karma tree, and its aura was even more majestic!
However, this was not the end of the transformation. The next instant, the lotus began to burn again, but this burning was different. Though the red lotus flowers burned, the lotus pedestal remained. Fifty tiny hollows appeared on it, and within each hollow, a fiery-red lotus seed rapidly grew.
As the nourishment formed by the burning red lotus gathered around these seeds, they too underwent earth-shaking changes. They rolled and writhed within the lotus pedestal, bursting with light. One after another, they actually resembled eyes, darting about and looking everywhere. More than that, they gradually became extraordinarily similar to Primordial Unity Pupils!
Such a sight was enough to leave Li Tianming, standing at the center of the lotus pedestal, shaken to the core. Even the disciples of the Rampant Dragon Chen Palace and the young people from the military residence outside were thunderstruck at the sight of the red lotus pedestal.
They had thought that after unlocking the karma tree's mechanism, they would reach another place and explore the so-called Karma Emperor