What was a Tribulation?
The Void Darkness Light Sea was a self-cleansing mechanism used to purge cultivators. Yet this mechanism was not something one could sense simply by killing more cultivators.
Otherwise, would one not be able to sense a Tribulation merely by killing people?
If that were truly the case, no one would have failed to prove the existence of Tribulations for so many years, or even to develop a perception of them. This path was, in truth, exceedingly demanding.
What it targeted was not a single cultivator, nor a single sect.
It was the entire community of cultivators.
How many cultivators could kill each other? Besides, no matter how many died, they would only be cultivators of the same realm. It would have no effect whatsoever on cultivators of higher realms.
To sense a Tribulation, the best method is to push the great tide of events. Use a small matter to drive a great one, then use that great matter to bring about the deaths of cultivators in higher realms. Like dominoes, pull one hair and the whole body moves—only then can it be called a Tribulation!
Enlightenment dawned in Lu Yang's heart.
Under a Tribulation, no matter how towering one's cultivation, there is no escaping disaster. The best way to sense this Great Dao is to prove this Image.
So I must kill a Golden Core!
Golden Core True Lords stand high above all else, transcending the Red Dust and grasping Karma. They cannot be swayed by fortune alone, which is why Tribulations find it difficult to reach Golden Core True Lords.
Of course, only "difficult."
After all, there was still the Millennial Calamity. Golden Core True Lords could battle one another, and they too could fall like rain. Those who truly sat secure upon the fishing