Heaven's Will was impartial; with loss came gain.
"I was just scaring myself."
He came back to his senses. He had only been distracted for a moment, and once he understood the crucial point, he saw there was no need to panic or fear that he might meet the same fate.
"But this Ghost Path genius actually became like this for that reason."
"And my Cause and Effect is to protect him through one Tribulation?"
The result he had calculated could not be wrong.
It was precisely because of this that he doubted whether the reason behind the genius's downfall was truly so simple.
Was it really because of this strand of Cause and Effect?
He did not know, nor could he see clearly.
"Forget it. Once he reincarnates, I'll naturally sense it."
Having obtained the core Heaven's Will Providence of the other's previous life, he also needed to bear a karmic debt. Settling it quickly was the proper course.
Nor did he worry about whether the other would encounter a calamity.
What a joke. At a time like this, practically every cultivator carried Tribulation Qi.
When traveling outside, running into bandit cultivators was standard procedure.
At times, some even more unfortunate cultivators would randomly enter unknown spatial rifts, or fall into ancient ruins that their predecessors had already picked clean.
It could only be said that among living beings born during such a Great Tribulation, even mortals carried Tribulation Qi, though most of it was concentrated in the Cultivation World.
Thus, after birth, once one had that Karmic Affinity for cultivation, there was basically no escaping it.
After all, in the reckoning of the Heaven's Way Great Tribulation, it was only natural for cultivators to undergo tribulations.
As for how previous lives, present lives, and future lives were determined,