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Chapter 264: The Karmic Scholar

“Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands The three forces; Heaven, Earth, Man – the Three Luminaries; the Sun, Moon and Stars So, too, are there Three bonds: The First – Obligation of Sovereign to Subject The Second – The Love between Father and Child The Third – Har white lights appeared around the ht, hunched down and diligently reading from books in their tiny hands They revolved around the scholar as though in orbit, reciting from the text

The Confucian wise man smiled, a sether The dots of light rose in to the heavens and vanished

Overhead white light still spread out over the horizon, as though the universe were ht descended froh to illule word appeared within the to on the parchment

“Karma”

The Keeper cackled merrily “Hah! A fine display A hundred years of penance, and the reward is ion, you will need a new na laughter came from everywhere, and the massive spectral scholar dissolved in to a ure appeared within it rising froht dimmed, it revealed an elderly man clad in the white robes of an acadee the old man was alive with a vibrant aura, his face pink and cheeks ruddy His eyes twinkled with a lively spirit that reflected the pure light of knowledge that encoripped a book in his hands, one identical to the one the h Lan Jue had his suspicions, he was still surprised when the figure was finally revealed

The one who’d broken through to Paragon status, the one who’d shocked both the Western Citadels, was none other than the cantankerous ht back from planet Lyr; the Bookworm

Compared to when they’d er for it, full of life and positivity And not only hied siht

The Bookworht fanned out behind him With a flash, he appeared beside the Keeper

“A fine nahtened by a smile, and he nodded in satisfaction He didn’t seeerously at theratulations, Honorable Karmic Scholar” The Pontiff’s deep voice called out to the newly anointed Paragon By noas also aloft with the others, but not with intention to fight This fight would be one they lost, he knew The Avenue’s strength was far and beyond what they’d anticipated Without even considering the many powerful Adepts that surrounded the of the Clairvoyant

The Gourmet may have been on the weaker side of the scale, but the Kar to say the least He didn’t seem at all weaker than these established leaders who stood before And as far as the Pontiff could remember, he had absolutely no inforor he and the Keeper e their final days

Once again Skyfire Avenue proved its superiority in force Even without the presence of the Clairvoyant, their pillar, the Avenue still had enough paragons to ether!

The Karmic Scholar, Bookworh, do not try to curry favor here You mean just as little as this uncouth visitor If you have no other business, you all are free to leave Skyfire Avenue does not tolerate iuests”

Neither he nor the Keeper appeared to be in a very forgiving mood In fact, it was the Keeper’s fa him further when he visited the Citadel Both of these elderly e and scientific discovery, and though their actual combat proas difficult to discern at least the Keeper’s pure destructive poas fabled No one wanted to have this sort of man as their enelare “What say you, King of Devils?”