A Divine Ability of His Own

The whole truth had finally come to light.

The Outer Court Calamity hadn't been as simple as some disaster that happened by chance.

Whether it was Huo Mu's monopolizing power or stealing the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul, which had originally been suppressed inside Caiyun Tower, everything had been entirely under Li Haoran's control and guidance.

And the reason behind it all was that so-called "Karma."

As a Guiyi Realm cultivator, Chen Yan found it difficult to truly understand the "Karma" and "backlash" Li Haoran spoke of. Everything was closely tied to the secrets of Heaven's Will, and to Chen Yan, these concepts were simply too abstract.

But he understood one thing.

Once cause and effect had been set in stone, there was no way to stop them.

In other words, on the day the Outer Court Calamity struck, Empty Mountain Sect should have been destined to perish.

But what was destined to happen had ultimately failed to come to pass.

Chen Yan was baffled and confused. Yet when he tried asking Li Haoran why the Karma that had long been set in stone hadn't come to fruition, Li Haoran couldn't give him a definite answer.

Because he didn't know why, either.

The only thing Li Haoran was certain of was that things wouldn't simply end here.

Now that the Black Flood Dragon Remnant Soul had been utterly destroyed, the destined Karma would surely not descend. That meant Empty Mountain Sect would certainly face an even more severe backlash of Karma in the future.

Li Haoran had originally hoped to settle all these future troubles while he was still alive. Now, he could only abandon his original plans and take back the power that should have been his, hoping to cultivate a successor from among the sect's talents—someone who could