Cause-and-Effect Threads

"If you want to understand why Xie Chong was special, we still have to return to the limitations of the 'Karma Threads' ability. I mentioned this before: the deeper and heavier the karmic ties of a person, the harder it is for the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord to use its ability on them."

"So, based on this limitation and every time it used its ability, I deduced that the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord would usually first find a relatively marginal, unimportant person as a breakthrough point. Through that person's weak connection with the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord itself, it would alter his past, then use that person's 'past' to gradually devour those who had dealings with him."

As Xuan Yunzi spoke, Lin Yu nodded, deep in thought.

"This ability seems to spread like some kind of plague through 'interpersonal relationships'..."

This also fit the "pattern" he had observed very well. Among the members of the escort caravan, the infection had also begun with the unimportant figures before gradually spreading to those who played pivotal roles in the caravan.

Li Nian muttered aloud, "That sounds a lot like the process of a spider spinning a web..."

Hearing this, Lin Yu looked at Li Nian.

Although Lin Yu had initially thought this process was closer to contagion, after hearing Li Nian's explanation, he realized that her metaphor was indeed more apt.

It really was more like a spider spinning a web—and the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord truly was a giant spider.

Threads connected into a web, and every node on that web was a living person.

"I see. So, besides guarding their original nature, people with heavy karmic ties are themselves highly resistant to it. And it also depends on whether they have an excessively close relationship with someone who has already