"Treasure Gathering Fairy, are you Secret Faction messengers?" Deng Jin asked solemnly.
"Secret Faction?"
"What Secret Faction? They're nothing but locusts." Wei Bai snorted coldly, staring intently at Yan Qing, the biting chill in his eyes completely undisguised. "These people infiltrate various forces, collect intelligence on secret realms, then gather at the right moment to destroy the secret realms and seize the Calamity Karma, just like... you."
By the Foundation Establishment stage, Calamity Karma was no longer a secret.
Even Deng Jin himself possessed a certain amount of Calamity Force. It was merely extremely weak—so weak that unless it struck an exceptionally tender vital point like the eyeball, it had almost no killing power at all. Many people possessed Calamity Karma, but those who could truly cultivate it to the point of being lethal could be counted on one hand across the entire world—peerlessly vicious people.
It was very simple. If you wanted to cultivate Calamity Karma, you had to destroy secret realms. Destroying a mortal secret realm would affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of nearby mortals, so what about destroying a Foundation Establishment secret realm? Perhaps someone would say that there were also wild secret realms, untouched by development, and that the Calamity Successors could simply destroy those.
But if a secret realm had not been developed, the Calamity Successors would not know how to destroy it!
Moreover, these wild secret realms were often either in remote mountain corners where no people ventured or so difficult that no one was willing to develop them. By comparison, the secret realms fully developed by sects and clans came with complete guides, and they might even have already discovered specific methods for destroying the realms. Anyone of sound mind would know which to choose.
Calamity Karma was only moderately effective