Abdication

Faced with such a tilt, Li Qi did not hesitate to activate his Inner Heaven and Earth. He tried to call upon the mountain spirit, using the methods of a Shaman to communicate, wanting to understand what was happening.

Yet the mountain god refused Li Qi.

Li Qi was stunned.

He immediately began following the threads of karma back to find the cause.

This retrospective search spanned hundreds of millions of years. Time was forever objective to oneself; Li Qi himself had truly experienced that long a span.

Tracing back through so much time was no easy matter even for Li Qi. It was not because retracing karma was difficult, but because hundreds of millions of years of information piled together were simply too hard to distinguish.

Doing this would cause him to fall one second behind his opponent.

In a fourth-rank battle, falling behind by one second basically meant losing the initiative forever.

But there was no helping it. He had to find the reason.

One second passed. At a speed that overloaded his organs of thought, Li Qi processed all that information.

He also found the reason the mountain spirit was unwilling to accept him.

Li Qi owed the mountain god a karmic debt. (See Chapters 48 and 49 for details.)

Back then, Li Qi had exchanged the mountain god's qi for human qi, using it to make up Heaven qi and Earth qi so that he could escape.

This was harmful to the mountain spirit, though it was not truly a major matter. Calling it harm was roughly equivalent to a normal person smoking one cigarette—essentially as though nothing had happened.

But even this matter had been unearthed by the Human Path.

And it was used at this moment, pressing the scales of war down a little