Causality is causality. Hao Qi recalled the scene he had witnessed at the Final Battlefield in the year 19999—those crowds who looked feeble in might, yet when they launched their attacks, possessed enough power to split heaven and earth. Their source of strength bore a striking resemblance to the Though the Tortoise Lives Long technique, though it was thousands and tens of thousands of times stronger. Without a doubt, the greatest cause and effect in this world was his connection with Xu Duo: the grace of saving his life and raising him. This bond of cause and effect was truly vast enough. To repay this debt and clear the karma, he had improved the Though the Tortoise Lives Long technique. While it could not reach the exaggerated heights he had seen at the Final Battlefield, the technique at least now possessed a path forward, no longer comparable to an ordinary, unremarkable cultivation method. If future generations reached the Inner Qi Realm, or even the more profound Heart Form or Divine Image, this technique could naturally continue to evolve. Generation after generation, it might truly become the very scene Hao Qi had witnessed at the Final Battlefield.
Aside from the karma linking him to Xu Duo and the Though the Tortoise Lives Long technique, he had also forged karma with the Great Scientists of this era, directly or indirectly sharing information about the future with them. This, too, constituted a strand of karma.
By this point, the man before him—whose life, deat…
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