The karmic tribulations of this world stretched on without end. The Buddhist sect believed that only by finding a way to resolve them could one break free of karma's shackles.
He Ping was no Buddhist monk, nor did he eat vegetarian food or chant sutras. In his view, it was best to sever this thread of karmic connection, this root of deathly tribulation, as soon as possible.
"Severing karma is also a solution. If we can't peacefully resolve the entanglement between us, then I might as well cut you dead with a single slash!"
I might not be able to solve the problem, but I can solve you. That, too, was a means of bringing karma to an end.
However, he recalled something else. Back when he had met Great Sage Lieyun on Vast Cliff Path and picked the Yingying Wonder Flower, he had encountered the "Underworld Void" phenomenon amid a chaotic void current.
The "Underworld Void" phenomenon and Great Sage Lieyun's perfected "Time River Countercurrent" both belonged to the Water Origin Nine Forms—nine supreme secret arts concerning the concept of the "Nine Springs."
Moreover, the Underworld Void involved the laws of life and death. One had to transform into countless incarnations, experience the partings and deaths of all living beings, and evolve the Underworld Void—the dharma form of the netherworld's hidden springs and the cycle of life and death. In terms of profundity, it was even slightly superior to the Time River Countercurrent method.
For the laws of life and death were also the karma of life and death. They could likewise evolve the waters of tribulation waves, and their power was unfathomable.
Throughout the generations, cultivators of Water Origin Dao arts who reached the Primordial Spirit level could sense the Cavern Yin Lineage's sect-suppressing supreme treasure, the "Nine