"Master Ancestor, have mercy!"
At that moment, Nascent Soul True Person Jiang Yehe dropped to his knees before Li Yu with a thud. "Master Ancestor, my tribulation is imminent, yet I have no confidence in surviving it. I beg you to guide me."
"Guide you?"
Li Yu frowned, his expression turning cold. "You want me to intervene and help you survive the heavenly tribulation, don't you? You're a Nascent Soul True Person, yet you still harbor such thoughts? With such an unsteady heart, how will you cross your tribulation?"
The scolding left Jiang Yehe sweating all over.
"Since everyone is here, I'll explain exactly what heavenly tribulations are!"
Li Yu swept his gaze across the crowd and took a seat in Jie Tian Hall.
"We respectfully await Master Ancestor's teachings!"
Everyone bowed, then sat cross-legged on the ground with solemn expressions, listening attentively to Li Yu's instruction.
"I've noticed that over the years, cultivators have come to regard heavenly tribulations as savage beasts. They either rack their brains to evade or delay their tribulations, or seek out all manner of treasures to withstand them."
Seated atop the high platform, Li Yu spoke at length. "Yet all these methods are wrong."
"What is a heavenly tribulation? Does Heaven send down tribulations to kill cultivators? No! Heavenly tribulations are not meant to destroy cultivators. On the contrary, they are meant to fulfill them."
After extracting tribulation power from Xu Zhifei and analyzing it, Li Yu had already comprehended the true nature of this world's heavenly tribulations.
To the "Heavenly Dao," the rules of Heaven and Earth, cultivators merging with the Dao would only make the Heavenly Dao more stable, more complete, and more powerful.
Thus, heavenly tribulations were merely tests. Those who emerged from repeated trials were naturally Golden Immortals qualified to