Calamity is not just the Way of Destruction; the End of Tribulation and Fate is also New Life

The main hall of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion.

Seated behind the desk, Jiang Sheng was leafing through a Daoist canon. This canon recorded many descriptions concerning calamities and the decline of the age.

Among them, the one mentioned most often was none other than the ten-thousand-year meeting calamity, the most frequent within a single cosmic cycle.

One cosmic cycle lasted 129,600 years and was divided into twelve meetings. Each meeting was 10,800 years, and each meeting had one ten-thousand-year meeting calamity, intended to wash away many of the upper three realms among the myriad heavens and worlds.

Among the myriad heavens and worlds, the number of upper three realms was as numerous as the stars. Among these upper three realms, there were naturally prodigies and heroes who pressed forward with keen ambition, but there were also figures who had muddled their way up by relying on fortune or other means. Though fortune was also part of strength, fortune would not always remain.

The Great Dao was the fairest of all. Whether one relied on talent and comprehension or fortune and opportunity, as long as one ascended to the upper three realms, the Great Dao would grant them ten thousand years. Within those ten thousand years, so long as their strength improved even slightly or they did not become tainted with too much karma, they would not fall in the meeting calamity that came once every ten thousand years.

The so-called ten-thousand-year meeting calamity had its key point in the concealment of heavenly secrets and eruption of karma brought about by calamity qi. Its focus lay in stirring up waves.

The owner of the Daoist canon described these waves with great precision: that feeling was like throwing a loach into a pool of muddy water. The school of fish that