After entering Hidden Spirit Palace, Gu An flashed to the center of the great hall, sat down where he was, and began circulating his energy.
He sensed a strange power trying to harm him.
It was similar to karma, but even more terrifying than karma!
Gu An used his own Power of Causality to resist it, but he could not cancel out that strange power in a short time.
As time passed, Gu An gradually came to understand this strange power.
This was karmic backlash!
In the unseen depths of fate, there seemed to be a power that balanced those who used the Path of Karma, preventing order from collapsing.
Though the Path of Karma was one of the three thousand Great Daos, it possessed the ability to affect all Great Daos. It involved time and space, reincarnation, life and death, and so on. The change of a single small karma could overturn everything.
If there were no suppression, the Path of Karma would instead seem like the strongest Great Dao.
But in truth, the three thousand Great Daos were all equal. There was no distinction of stronger or weaker; it depended only on a cultivator's attainment within their own Great Dao.
The stronger the Power of Causality one used, the more karmic backlash one would suffer.
Gu An opened his eyes and called up his Attribute Panel to check. He discovered that his lifespan was decreasing, but his lifespan was already the number after the plunder; right now, it was 5.4 billion years.
He circulated his energy while waiting.
Surely karmic backlash couldn't deduct all 1.4 billion years of lifespan from him, could it?
If that were the case, then this time would be the same as having plundered no lifespan at all.
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