Emerging From the Cocoon

Nineteen hundred years. That was how long it had taken for Daniel, a cultivator with a vague attachment to the power of Karma, to become the aspect of Karma. The reason for that wasn't related to the amount of power he had accumulated, but to the understanding he possessed regarding the meaning of karma itself, a barrier which none of the other aspects of existence had ever been forced to overcome.

To the other aspects of existence, the meaning of the aspect they represented was the very cradle inside which their consciousness developed. An unconscious mind that grew while being kept safe, and protected by the immense power they possessed-a distinction which made the aspects of existence closer in nature to elementals, rather than humans.