Su Lin widened his eyes and tilted his head. "You're the director of the Against-the-Wind Bureau?"
"This is basically unsolvable. Yaotian might only have one poor workhorse doing all the labor, but Great Vow Heaven has deep foundations. A second phase makes perfect sense," Tony Su said solemnly.
"Karma is the continuation of cause and effect, while Vow Power is the force of wishes creating karma. In essence, the two can transform into each other."
"I only just found out myself. I killed the Vow Lord in one hit back then, so I'd never seen this move."
"I was going to take Sakura and the others into the Sea of Vows to find universes without living beings, or ones nearly exhausted, and absorb their origins to strengthen ourselves. Then I saw you couldn't handle it and rushed out."
"So here I am, with no preparation whatsoever."
Living beings accumulated power through their past actions. Those actions produced corresponding consequences and influences, and over time, the accumulation grew ever heavier.
Actions gave rise to Karma; fulfilled wishes gave rise to Vow Power.
In short, Karma was the accumulation of past results, while Vow Power was the desire to shape the future. Neither force had a controller or master. They were the powers of fate and law formed by individual actions.
Great Vow Heaven's methods used them for cultivation and had developed ways to gather, reflect, and spread them, among other things.
"So that's why you not only failed to win Yaotian over with boundless love and add her to your harem, but also triggered her second phase." Su Lin sounded faintly disappointed.
The protagonists of old novels could vanquish villain bosses with whom they had romantic entanglements between bouts of passion. What had Tony managed?
Vows and karma, twin-born. Just look