All living beings in this world were trapped within the web of karmic calamity, generating karmic calamity power at every moment. Yet in this world where the transcendent walked openly and divine beings vied with demon beasts, once that power was divided among individuals, more than ninety-nine percent of living beings were practically negligible.
Hong Yuan had already examined the red fox. Both her cultivation and her allotted fate were unremarkable; the strange karmic calamity power entwining her had not originated from her.
More likely, it had come from someone close to her-or rather, some fox!
Through prolonged contact, it had unwittingly affected her. Through that karmic calamity power, Hong Yuan could sense that its owner was not particularly powerful either and was still growing, but possessed a measure of heavenly fortune.
Provided such beings did not perish halfway along their path, they would eventually accomplish something.
The only catch was that those around them would either ascend to heaven along with them, chickens and dogs included, or suffer inexplicable bad luck.
Hong Yuan thought of the Marriage Contract with the Cui daughter in his possession. A faint trace of karmic calamity power lingered around it too, while Zheng Heng's family had ended up slaughtered by a mountain imp in the county town. Even after Zheng Heng died, the mountain imp had flayed him and assumed his identity. It had been a truly gruesome end.
"So that was why the red fox nearly died too?"
Hong Yuan looked thoughtful.
His earlier examination had revealed no signs of outside harm on the red fox, and the demonic power within her was solidly condensed. Every step of her cultivation had been steady. By rights, the chance of it backlashing against her was pitifully small.
"Hmm?" Hong Yuan suddenly frowned, vaguely sensing something