Emperor Tai let out a soft sigh.
In theory, any Innate Divine Saint who stepped onto the Path to Hunyuan could initiate a tribulation.
But in reality, that was not the case.
The one who initiated a tribulation was not necessarily the one who benefited from it. No one knew how many had started a tribulation only to make a wedding dress for someone else.
Because the first sacred being to initiate a tribulation had to bear the greatest pressure head-on.
Under the crushing assaults of countless Great Luo, the possibility of being reduced to ashes was all too high.
At present, among those known to have stepped onto the Path to Hunyuan in Cang Continent, there were only a scant dozen or so qualified to initiate a tribulation. All of them were venerable elders of their respective races, colossal figures who had suppressed their clans for countless years.
To make them initiate a tribulation?
Naturally, that was highly unlikely.
Thus, whenever tribulation qi evolved close to its peak, a person destined to answer the tribulation would inevitably emerge.
A person who initiated a tribulation might not necessarily be a peerless genius, and even their fortune might be no more than ordinary. Yet once tribulation qi accumulated to its limit, they would leap through the Dragon Gate like a fish and ascend to Great Luo.
To initiate a great tribulation.
In theory, for an ordinary great world to nurture a true initiator of tribulation required 1,296 chaos cycles—more than seven trillion years!
Even for a great world like Cang Continent, filled with sacred beings and heavy with tribulation qi, the interval between great tribulations was measured in hundreds of millions of years.
Yet from the end of the Middle Antiquity, when Taiyi forcibly swept the world with his own Calamity