Jiang Ding made a calculation.
Ever since he began developing the Cause-Extinguishing Sword, his ability to trace things back through deduction had improved enormously. He was no longer in the sorry state where the karmic threads laid by Threadweaver Celestial and Yang Bone Celestial could catch him so easily.
Clang~
The Supreme Clarity Flying Sword gave a soft hum.
Jiang Ding's gaze fell on a carriage traveling between villages. The black-clad driver took bewildered infants and children from parents whose eyes were swollen red from crying, yet who dared not resist in the slightest. He placed them in the prison carriage behind him, taking only one or two from each village before moving on to the next.
A fine thread of karma arose from that carriage.
The thread spread in every direction, reaching deep into towns, sects, and cultivation lineages. It settled on one Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivator after another, forming a watertight web of karma that enveloped everyone. Very few stood beyond its reach.
That web, which covered the entire lesser world, converged through a super teleportation array into one thick strand that extended toward a medium world.
Threads of karma existed in the medium world as well, spreading ceaselessly in all directions.
In the end, they all converged on a medium world called the Imperial Earth Central Realm. Every child and infant disappeared there. The threads stretched toward the Ancient God Path's mountain gate, then ended.
"So many children... How could they bear to do this?"
Jiang Ding sighed softly. He understood now.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Ancient God Patriarch had been a great figure who rendered service to the entire human race. He had saved humanity from oppression by the myriad races and spread them throughout the entire world cluster, establishing their