The Caretakers - 564

Inside of the cage, Ye Li panted heavily while blood poured out of his mouth. He looked into the distance quietly, but anger was bubbling up within him. He had lost too much during this battle. He had not been able to read or strip Ying Xiong of Karma, and had instead consumed immense amounts of Karma.

He had been severely injured, and Ying Xiong had seen all of his moves. Luckily, Ying Xiong would not be regaining even a bit of his memory for a while.

At the very least, Ying Xiong was gone for the time being. He was the one who posed the greatest threat to Ye Li besides Yhwh.

Ye Li let the four beasts go back to where they came from as he cleared the battlefield of any remnant traces of this battle. The three Bad Karma's returned through a teleportation array to the Fog Qi domain.

With Ying Xiong out of the way, the next steps were much easier.

First, Ye LI needed more Karma, and the best way to do that was to strip sages of it. However, especially after Ying Xiong's death, the sages of the alliance against him would probably stay together. In that case, it was best to go after the group of sages that weren't part of the alliance. It was hard to find out, but Ye Li discovered the location of the organization known as the caretakers.

They were in the Zhou Supercluster, the same Supercluster that the Cosmic Sect resided in.

Although it was a little dangerous to enter that area, he didn't even fear the entire Cosmic Sect at this point. At worst, he would simply leave.

He had the ability to hide with his Karma, so this would not be necessary unless something else happened.

Ye Li spent a few thousand years recovering before setting off. It would be best to do as much as he could before Ying Xiong recovered some memories.

Hiding his Karma, he quickly traveled through the universe and reached the Zhou Supercluster. This was the most ancient existence known to all. 

The Zhou Supercluster was the first place to ever have life, as far as everyone knew.

Ye Li would love to strip the Karma of this entire place, but he did not have the ability, nor did he dare. He had learned his lesson about doing such things the last time he came here and tried to strip the Karma of a manor.

Ye Li was able to smoothly enter, as expected, and reach his target location. The center of the Zhou galaxy cluster, where a Great Attractor resided. The Cosmic Sect was at the top of the Supercluster, while the Zhou galaxy cluster was almost on the other side. 

The Zhou Galaxy itself, where the origins of life had been traced back to, was near the cosmic sect, and within it was Earth, where all life began.

Ye Li moved past the clustered black holes that absorbed all light that came from within. It was not even slightly difficult for him, someone with the same power as a sage.

As he slipped past a black hole after many before it, he saw light. Within, no longer that dark and dangerous space of the past, a milky white color filled the entire space.

In the distance, a city of white, green, and gold floated around a giant being that was seemingly human.

The being stood tall with her eyes closed.

Around her were three platforms, each of them with one being on them. These were the three sages of the caretakers, and what they guarded was unknown. 

Even Ye Li, through reading Karma, was unable to learn what it truly was.

Perhaps Ying Xiong had known, but he was unable to ever strip or read his Karma. However, it appeared to be a human shaped Great Attractor.

Ye Li stepped forward, three Karma Spirals shooting out, one each at a sage.

They sat peacefully until the three Karma Spirals hit.

The three opened their eyes, feeling something enter them.

At the same time, Karmic Shackles appeared on their wrists.

"The unknown." One said.

Clearly, they had at least been informed of his existence by Ying Xiong.

"This isn't something we can handle." Two of them said. They looked towards the third one.

The third one looked deeply at the Great Attractor.

"Ying Xiong also died recently. This is at least an enemy capable of killing Ying Xiong." One of the two said.

The third human turned his gaze away from the Great Attractor. "Return to Origin."

The two looked at him silently for a moment before solemnly nodding.

Ye Li, still hidden by Karma, watched curiously as the two turned into green specks of light that flowed into the giant human.

The eyes of the giant human opened. 

"Mother, please take action to expel the intruder." As he said this, he stood on the shoulder of the Human.

Ye Li watched, but as the eyes of the Giant human locked onto him, his eyes widened in shock.

"Human? Does he have bad intentions?"

The man on her shoulders spoke. "So he is human. However, Mother, he has killed countless humans, and has come to harm you and us three."

The giant human's eyes looked at Ye Li again, now angry.

"Audacious. Harming your brothers and sisters. I'll teach you a lesson."

A Karmic Shackles appeared on her wrist and Ye Li activated the Karmic Dao.

Her ancient arms moved for the first time in countless years. Her power combined with the power of the sage on her shoulder and the two that had turned into specks of light and entered her body.

In addition to this, there was something else, something hard to discern. Anything was possible in the universe. Path creators only represented one of the most well known near impossibilities.

However, they were not the only near impossibility that could become possible. 

As the giant human swung her arm at Ye Li in a slapping motion, he directly shot out a giant Karma Spiral.

The hand and the Karma spiral collided, and the Karma spiral was knocked back, as well as the giant hand.

Ye Li's jaw nearly dropped. Two fights in a row, two fights where his Karma spiral seemed to be some common housefly that could be pushed back however his enemy pleased.