The so-called Heavenly Tribulation had always existed in various forms. Transformation lightning tribulations and the like, strictly speaking, did not count as tribulations at all. They were more like power from heaven and earth that helped demonic creatures undergo metamorphosis.
A demonic creature transformed from its original demon body into a human form naturally born with nine apertures. This was merely to make cultivation more convenient. Such a change was not an illusion, but a transformation from the very root of its being.
If it succeeded in transforming, it naturally lived. If it failed, it died.
This was merely the most straightforward kind of Heavenly Tribulation.
In cultivators' eyes, Heavenly Tribulation never allowed anyone to be fully prepared, nor was perfect preparation possible. Its changes were myriad, its mysteries uncanny and unfathomable—this was Heavenly Tribulation.
The world itself had no distinction between good and evil. It would only ensure its own existence and operation, following its predetermined rules.
Whenever something that attempted to alter the rules of heaven and earth appeared, the rules of heaven and earth themselves would twist those rules back into place.
What manifested from that was the ever-changing, unpredictable Heavenly Tribulation.
Before Qin Yang returned, he had already considered countless possibilities and carried out extensive forecasts and deductions.
The incarnation in the Blood Sea, the obsession incarnation in the Yellow Springs, and the memory incarnation in the River of Forgetfulness—once any of them left their respective waterways, the power they could wield would immediately plummet, and their ability to respond to changes would become almost nonexistent.
Take the memory incarnation, for example. Only within the River of Forgetfulness could it condense a physical form. Yet once it left the River of Forgetfulness, the memories themselves required a vessel, and that vessel could only be Qin Yang