In the bleak Spirit Sea, Su Mo lay on the ground, his vitality all but exhausted.
Hui Kong helped Su Mo beneath the Bodhi Tree. Golden light shimmered from the tree and poured steadily into Su Mo's body, keeping him from dying outright.
At that moment, a dense deathly aura seemed to have appeared within Su Mo's body.
This deathly aura had been born from the rules of the Spirit Sea. It was the karmic backlash from Su Mo sending Shi Jiuxuan across the River of Forgetfulness.
This karma was immense. The principle of karma was equivalent exchange!
What one gained, one lost...
Su Mo had sent someone into the River of Forgetfulness to be reborn, and he, too, had to pay with his life!
If not for the Bodhi Tree and Su Mo's own divinity, Su Mo would probably already have...
Even so, Su Mo was happy.
Truly happy!
The greater the backlash of the [effect] he endured, the greater the hope it proved there was in the [cause].
The stronger this "near-death" effect he suffered, the more likely the cause of Shi Jiuxuan crossing the River of Forgetfulness was to be "rebirth"!
"Hui Kong, perhaps I really succeeded." Su Mo felt the karmic backlash within him devouring his vitality without pause, and an aged voice emerged from his mouth.
Hui Kong looked at the weary, aged Su Mo and gently shook his head. "Amitabha. Young friend, you had best refrain from speaking for now."
Su Mo gazed entranced at where that figure had vanished at the end of the bridge and smiled softly.
He had completely forgotten the vitality steadily draining away within him.
"Perhaps in a few decades or a few centuries, I'll be able to find my wife again..."
"Today is a joyous occasion. Hui Kong,