Half an hour later.
Mister You was half-crouched beside the white jade seat in Du Cang Hall, while Qin Qingyu, the second-generation wielder of authority over Chenping Continent, dressed in a Plain White Daoist Robe, stood at his side.
"Sir."
Qin Qingyu slowly spoke:
"What exactly is this sand...?"
Mister You stared at the few grains of fine sand on the tip of his left finger, while his right hand rapidly formed calculations.
After several breaths, Mister You merely shook his head.
"Very strange. This fine sand does not belong to Chenping Continent. It came from beyond this domain."
"Kunwu Continent?"
Qin Qingyu asked.
"No..."
Mister You still denied it.
"Though I have never traveled to other realms, from what I can see, the Karma linking this fine sand and that Immortal Embryo does not seem to stem from the same source."
"Then what exactly is it...?"
Qin Qingyu's brows drew together slightly. This True Lord of the Void Return Realm truly had only a shallow understanding of the Dao of Karma.
After all, her path of cultivation had been far too smooth.
More often than not, cultivators whose Paths of Immortality were more rugged and tortuous were instead more adept at the Dao of Karma.
Of course, there were also cultivators who were simply obsessed with the Dao of Karma.
Because the heavenly secrets were the most mysterious existence in this world.
The principles by which the world operated—past, present, and future, everything and all things—could be entirely explained through Karma.
Yet Mister You merely continued staring at the few grains of fine sand in his hand, his expression growing ever more solemn.
An answer had already formed in his heart.
"This fine sand..."
Mister You slowly said, his tone grave:
"It seems very similar to the Endless Sea,