Lu Yin understood. "This junior will go bring Gu Yuan back."
"Wait." Chang Chuan stopped him, hesitating.
"Are you worried it's a trap, Senior?"
"Though that's what I said, still..."
"Regardless, I still want to take a look. Even if it isn't Gu Yuan but someone else, I'll bring them back if I can."
Chang Chuan took a deep breath. "I'll go with you."
Lu Yin considered it. "All right."
Everyone understood power differently. Given enough time, even the same power could produce different effects.
He had never imagined that, without any preparation, he would witness the Karma Master's most fundamental method of using karma.
That method broke the usual rules governing karma's power and drew Lu Yin into another understanding—one he knew all too well: karma as a plane.
Far away, two points and a line formed an incomprehensible prison, imprisoning Gu Yuan within.
The sight stunned Lu Yin.
Chang Chuan saw Gu Yuan and recognized him.
But Lu Yin saw the use of karma: the simplest, yet most direct application. It was so direct that he thought everything he had done with karma before this had been wrong.
Two points: a beginning and an end. A most ordinary pebble struck the starting point. The force that rebounded sent it toward the endpoint. Then the endpoint could rebound with the same force, sending the pebble back to the starting point.
And so the cycle continued forever.
That rebounding force was karma.
The beginning and end were merely two points of karma. With two points so tiny they could hardly be smaller, and a common pebble as the medium, a prison had been set up that needed no external force to imprison Gu Yuan.
This use of karma was breathtaking.
Lu Yin brought Chang Chuan with him in an Instant