Severing Fate to Glimpse Heaven's Secrets, a Heaven-Cutting Sword to Sever Karma

Tribulation Thunder took dragon form and descended upon the mortal world in all its might.

From the ink-dark sea of clouds emerged a colossal dragon head a thousand li across, both savage and majestic, like calamity incarnate. The instant it appeared, True Lord Qiyu, Qixia True Lord, old Daoist Yunzhen, and even True Lord Lan Zhou and True Lord Lan Guang within the Lanshan Sect's mountain-protecting formation felt every hair stand on end.

Silently, Bixi Wind and Tribulation Thunder seemed to find them. The Three Calamities they had always tried to evade now hovered over their heads, ready to descend at any moment!

If even True Lord Qiyu and True Lord Lan Zhou felt this way, how much worse was it for True Lord Qiyuan, who faced the baleful ink dragon head-on?

Wind and clouds churned through True Lord Qiyuan's sea of consciousness. Bixi Wind pressed in from every side, slipping through every crack, while Tribulation Thunder gathered force above his head. The moment the baleful ink dragon appeared, it stirred up anew the Bixi Wind and Tribulation Thunder calamities he had already survived.

Even True Lord Qiyuan, whose late Void Refinement cultivation had long since carried him through the Three Calamities and earned him the three flowers, cursed inwardly. His mind had plainly been affected.

The baleful ink dragon fixed its gaze on True Lord Qiyuan. Its enormous, thousand-li head twisted with ferocity, eager to choose someone to devour.

With his aura locked by the dragon, True Lord Qiyuan could hardly claim to be unaffected.

But he had survived the Three Calamities. He might not want to face them again, but that did not mean he truly feared them.

If he had survived once, he was confident he could survive a second time!

Without that much confidence and pride,