If fortune was a branch of the Destiny Great Dao, then karmic force was a product of the Karma Great Dao!
All beings reaped the fruits of their own deeds.
Karmic force fell into three categories: good karma, evil karma, and neutral karma.
Thus, karmic force did not actually refer solely to sinful or evil karma.
That depended on how each world defined karmic force.
In the Primordial World, karmic force was a punitive power the Heavenly Dao imposed upon evildoers. In essence, it was the Heavenly Dao's punishment!
Good karma, meanwhile, was incorporated into merit.
Thus, merit could offset karmic force.
In the Primordial World, there was one and only one way to eliminate karmic force: offsetting it with merit!
Yet merit was simply far too difficult to obtain.
Karmic force, by contrast, would descend from the Heavenly Dao whenever someone harmed living beings or disrupted the balance of the Primordial World. The deeper the sins, the heavier the karmic force; the heavier the karmic force, the harsher the Heavenly Dao's punishment.
Clearly, while merit was difficult to obtain, karmic force could attach itself to someone all too easily!
And the only way to eliminate karmic force was to offset it with merit.
Beyond that, there was no other way!
Thus, karmic force became a guillotine hanging over the head of every living being in the Primordial Wilderness.
Of course, unless someone's karmic force grew excessively heavy and reached a critical threshold, the Heavenly Dao would not directly mete out punishment.
By the time the Heavenly Dao personally intervened to punish someone, their sins truly had become unforgivable and monstrous.
Thus, as long as one's karmic force was not excessively heavy, there was no need to worry too much about it.
Of course, that did not mean karmic force