Amid the mist, the young figure in black robes with a jade-like face looked innocent and lost.
A hair-thin strand of gu thought hooked onto the figure.
Master Wu was faintly surprised. He had not expected to trace the source of the karmic Fate so quickly through his Gu Sorcery.
He had thought it would take far more effort, but everything had gone unexpectedly smoothly.
My Left Path arts have indeed improved greatly... All those years of bitter cultivation weren't wasted, Master Wu thought.
On the Left Path, years of cultivation often were one's attainment.
The longer one lived and cultivated, the stronger one's attainment naturally became, and the more effortlessly one could wield Thaumaturgy.
Master Wu took another look at Mo Hua's face.
He was young indeed, and rather immature. His gaze was clear as water, offering a glimpse straight into his heart. He looked a little dull and childish too, as though he had never grown up.
This was a cultivator's "Fate manifestation" within his karmic Fate.
It differed from a complete, refined Divine Sense Avatar with a clear sense of self.
A manifestation within a cultivator's karmic Fate was often an insubstantial form born from the convergence of every cause and effect in his life.
Such manifestations usually arose passively, and their appearances and forms varied widely.
Cultivators differed in their origins and experiences, so the images their karmic Fates manifested naturally differed as well.
Even the same person could manifest a vastly different form of Fate at a different age, in different circumstances, or with a different state of mind.
But those were higher secrets of the Divine Path.
The relationship between a cultivator's heart, spirit, and Fate was a secret of life that many Left Path cultivators, and even many old monsters of the Divine