The Gentleman Takes It as Writing; the Common People Take It as a God

Ding!

The Karmic Thread twitched, transmitting through the Void, and soon returned, vibrating in Qiu Yan's Divine Soul.

Karma are interconnected!

This Karmic Thread was captured by Qiu Yan amidst the dazzling light and shadow; it was extremely subtle. With Qiu Yan's current cultivation level, he could easily break free from such Karmic Thread, and it would not hinder him.

This entanglement of Karma is also related to one's cultivation level and realm. When one's strength is insufficient and one's perception is muddled, it is difficult to bear any Karma. However, once one's cultivation is sufficient, and Three Souls are clear and Seven Souls Transformation, Karma will have nowhere to hide and will no longer be elusive. One will then be able to concentrate one's strength to sever and break free from them.

However, minor Karma and effects involve a limited scope, which can certainly be severed by one's own power. But if they involve too many, such as the three Karma of the scholar in his previous life, which involve the Samsara of Yin-Yang, even with Qiu Yan's power, even with the help of his Divine Spirit Body and Heart Demon Body, he still cannot sever them. He must proceed slowly according to the Principle of heaven and earth.

Fortunately, the grudges Karma have been largely settled, and the remaining two are showing signs of completion.

Of course, even small Karma, if numerous and entangled in one's being over time, will eventually have an impact.

However, the thing that Qiu Yan flicked originated from the demon in front of him and was also faintly connected to himself, allowing him to deduce a reason for it, which turned out to be related to the Tongshan Demon King Shi Jianhui.

Although Qiu Yan had many encounters with demons, he had only fought them a limited number of times, with the Tongshan Demon King being the most prominent among them, a mountain that had weighed heavily on Qiu Yan's head in the past.

The Tongshan Demon King possessed profound cultivation and a lifespan spanning several hundred years. After being reborn as a human, he was determined to pursue the Great Dao and had left behind many backup plans and trump cards. Although he was reborn and began cultivating anew, he retained his demonic body and cultivation from his previous life.

Even now, Qiu Yan still carries the red bead formed from the demon king's demon core, which is inlaid on a jade pendant.

"The Tongshan Demon King? Who is that?" The voice sounded doubtful. "Could it be an old acquaintance? Do we have some past connection? Then we shouldn't be fighting each other."

"Oh? You don't know Tongshan? But to stumble upon a demon's lair and then have a connection to your own Karma seems too much of a coincidence."

This thought surfaced in Qiu Yan's mind, causing his thoughts to race, and various possibilities emerged in his mind, eventually condensing into two.

One of them was that the encounter with demons on the road was not accidental, but rather a result of someone's scheme, and that he had fallen into someone else's trap.

Qiu Yan doesn't agree with this possibility, not because he's avoiding the issue, but because it's a judgment he made after weighing the options.

With Qiu Yan's current cultivation level, none of his three bodies are considered top-tier in any single field. However, the power he can unleash when his Three Bodies are combined is not simply an addition, but a geometric increase.

During his trip to the Eastern Capital, he visited Eastern Capital Scholar Forest and left behind nine paintings. At the same time, he launched an attack in the Netherworld to prevent any potential trouble. Through these back and forth trips, his cultivation and State of Mind have been elevated and transformed, giving his Three Bodies a common foundation. If anyone tries to scheme against him or even use him as a pawn, plotting against one body alone will immediately alert the other two.

This is caused by information asymmetry. Even if one's realm is higher than Qiu Yan's, as long as the remaining two bodies are not taken into account, it's like calculating an equation without understanding how many variables there are. Not only will one not be able to calculate the true result, but one will also alert the enemy.

Of course, if it's someone who could annihilate Qiu Yan's Three Bodies with a mere thought, that's a different story. But why would such a person pay attention to Qiu Yan for no reason?

In the eyes of that kind of person, Qiu Yan was like an ant; how could the other party possibly have the patience to scheme against an ant?

Besides, there is a second possibility...

"Karma -effect relationship doesn't necessarily mean they are mutually antagonistic; it could also be an indirect connection..."

Qiu Yan felt that the second possibility was very likely, because that faint Karmic Thread did not seem to be targeting him; on the contrary, it seemed to be an unintentional outcome.

A slender figure flashed through Qiu Yan's mind, but before the figure could truly solidify, it was interrupted by the dangerous aura surging from the front. Then, strange and distorted rays of light flew over rapidly, dense and chaotic, each representing a thought, filled with the most fundamental human desires!

"Finally, I couldn't hold back and made my move."

After Qiu Yan's Divine Soul entered the screen, only a few breaths passed, but during this time, the other party constantly tried to read Qiu Yan's mind and make him lower his guard.

Even the questions and conciliatory words just now were nothing more than smokescreens, meant to put Qiu Yan at ease for a moment.

However, with his experience with the Heart Demon Body and the tenacious spirit honed through reading and writing, Qiu Yan was naturally not going to let the other party have his way. With a turn of his Divine Soul, he manipulated Karma, making his Divine Soul as solid as a rock, causing the demon behind him to stop pretending and launch a real attack.

Outside the screen, this demon manipulated Spiritual Qi and Yao Qi to attack the Divine Soul. Now, however, it was generating many more profound thoughts, and each ray of light it produced could corrode people's hearts, representing the desires in a person's heart.

Birds of a feather flock together.

The radiance, imbued with Human Desires, flew in beams, striking directly at the heart. Even those who cultivate themselves would inevitably be affected by such layers upon layers of light.

But as Qiu Yan's Divine Soul shifted, the Myriad People's Heart Fire up, and the Soul Aperture resonated with it. Incense Faith surged forth, and the scene of the people appeared in droves, bursting forth with his Divine Sense.

"You want to demonstrate people's true character, and I'll just happen to be there to prove it."

As soon as he finished speaking, his Divine Sense, carrying the People's Wishes, intertwined with beams of light, instantly creating a dazzling display of light and shadow, like blooming fireworks.

The hearts of the people are intertwined. Although the changes in the hearts of the people, which originated from Qiu Yan's Divine Sense, are not significant, their numbers are enormous, and they are as powerful and mighty as a mighty army, advancing layer by layer.

The radiance emanating from the other side was unpredictable and unpredictable, striking directly at the depths of people's hearts and stirring up a storm among the people's hearts. However, the army was so large that it kept coming forward one after another, and before long, it completely overwhelmed the radiance!

"How is that possible! You are a cultivator. Even if you have some understanding of Human Path, how could you possibly have evolved such a phenomenon? This kind of deduction of Human Path is almost on par with the Human Path a Grand Confucian scholar. What are you, a cultivator, doing studying these things for no reason?"

A startled cry rang out from the opposite side, filled with frustration. Immediately following, the voice roared, and a ferocious black hound, its head white, materialized in the light and shadow, lunging towards the Divine Soul!

The dog lunged forward, its ferocious aura almost tangible, as if it wanted to perish together with Qiu Yan!

But Qiu Yan immediately understood.

"Trying to run?"

Without saying a word, a roar came from within the Soul Aperture, his whole body trembled, and a giant hand emerged from his Divine Soul's chest.

This hairy hand was none other than the Heart Ape Giant Hand, its chaotic thoughts colliding and Fire Star surging within, extending all the way to grab the black dog. Fire spewed from its palm, crushing the black dog along with its ferocious aura!

Boom!

The aura was explosive, but the power it released was not great, clearly showing that it was all bark and no bite. It was obvious that the demon was deliberately putting on a desperate act to hide its true purpose, which was to escape!

Tremors! Tremors! Tremors!

Outside the screen, the entire inn was shaken once again.

"It's starting again?" Everyone in the room jumped up in surprise, looking around, but suddenly their arms were grabbed by the women next to them. They immediately felt weak, their vision blurred, and they saw the women next to them twisting and deforming. Then they felt dizzy, their legs went weak, the world spun around them, and they all fell down.

Upstairs, the Xiao Yu servant boy cried out in surprise and rushed forward to support his young master. When he looked up again, the woman in white had already vanished.

A chill ran down his spine, and he immediately shivered.

"Could it be a monster?" The pageboy was startled. His confused mind gradually cleared, and the thought of a brightly lit inn deep in the forest made his teeth chatter.

"Why would a normal inn be built in the middle of nowhere? My lord and I missed our lodging because we were in a hurry, and that's how we ended up here by mistake. Seeing such a strange sight, we should be wondering why we went in without any precautions?"

The more the pageboy thought, the clearer his mind became, and the more his teeth chattered, making a clanging sound. Finally, his body swayed, and he too fell to the ground, losing consciousness.

Shake.

The entire inn shook violently. Only Hu Qi and Dai Guo remained standing inside; the others had either collapsed or vanished—all of them were the women.

"It seems this monster is going to get serious!" Hu Qi glanced down at Qiu Yan, whose Divine Soul Spirit Projection left his body, leaving only his physical form. Qiu Yan was now silent with his eyes closed, remaining motionless despite the shaking of the inn.

Boom!

With a loud crash, several roof beams fell, but instead of hitting the ground, they made a "squeaking" sound and hovered in mid-air. Then, two eyes and a gaping maw Ascending Life and lunged at Hu Qi!

"A roof beam can bite?" Hu Qi was shocked, his Qi and Blood surged, his clothes billowed in the wind, and he struck out with his palm, sending the roof beam flying.

"Not only the roof beams, but the lanterns outside the door can bite too!" Dai Guo's voice came from behind. He turned around, kicked in mid-air, and condensed his True Qi into a beam, which struck the outside of the door, knocking away the two large red lanterns that were flying towards him.

The lantern is making a strange, wailing sound!

After they finished doing all that, they looked around and immediately gasped in shock.

Inside and outside the house, the beams, pillars, stairs, lanterns, and even the tables and chairs all came to life, sprouting eyes and mouths that howled and roared, sending chills down one's spine.

"Good heavens! The whole house is full of demons? Even the house is made of demons?" Dai Guo's eyes widened, then he grinned. "Well, that's good. It'll be a good opportunity for old Dai to test his skills. I haven't had a proper fight since I refined my Fourth Soul!"

Before he could finish speaking, a gust of wind arose from the ground, and the screen inside the room was lifted up, quickly contracted, and surged forward, exiting the inn. It then soared into the night sky. Unexpectedly, a speck of dust rose from the threshold, rapidly expanded, and merged with a speck of light, radiating a luminous spirit, forming a line of poetry—

"The wise consider it literature, while the common people consider it divine!"

The text then shifted, transforming into the treatise "On Heaven," releasing the Sage Spirit that directly enveloped the screen! (To be continued. Please search for the novel for better and faster updates!)