Seeing that she had fallen silent, Chu Mo did not press her. He continued studying her Dao of the Web of Connections. Within it, he did indeed glimpse many mysteries of the Dao of Karma.
What was karma?
All the ties between living beings-love and hatred, passion and enmity, obsession, desire, deluded thoughts... every choice a living being made would produce a different consequence.
All things moved according to its laws; all beings were linked by its threads. One cause bore one effect, and one effect became one cause, cycling endlessly, without beginning or end.
It had no substance like water, fire, wind, and thunder, yet it was everywhere. It was unlike fate, in which everything was predetermined, yet surpassed it.
After all, fate was a predetermined outcome. Whatever someone wished to do, the result had already been decided. Once they escaped that outcome, it was no longer fate.
With karma, however, whatever the outcome, it remained karma.
"Where in all the heavens and myriad worlds is there no karma? Truly vast," Chu Mo marveled inwardly. Then he thought of the great Divine Ability of Karma, [Myriad Connections Return to the Treasury].
The good news was that, through Spider Mother's Dao of the Web of Connections, he had indeed gained some idea of how to cultivate it.
However, he could not cultivate it exactly as originally intended.
Mm, that's only natural. Chu Mo had expected this and was not disappointed.
Tai Zhen, Tai Yi, and Tai Shao had all blazed their own trails in their own ways. Tai Zhen used the two techniques of Seizing Truth Through Falsehood and Cultivating Truth Through Falsehood. Not only could he wield similar Divine Abilities, but he also seemed to be the only person capable of using the original [Myriad Connections Return to the