"No problem!"
Yuanshi Tianzun nodded, then said solemnly, "Ten thousand years will be enough!"
"Elder brother, I'll take my leave, then."
As he spoke, Yuanshi Tianzun turned to Li Yun. "Li Yun, come with me!"
"Yes, Martial Uncle!"
Coming back to his senses, Li Yun bowed to Laozi, then turned and followed Yuanshi Tianzun out of the Palace of Supreme Purity.
After the two left, Laozi gazed solemnly toward Buzhou Mountain. Clenching his fists, he murmured, "The Twelve Ancestor Witches!"
"My disciple's rise will be my opportunity to reclaim the creation heavenly fortune and merit you possess. Just wait. In ten thousand years, I will personally take back everything that rightfully belongs to my Taiqing Lineage!"
Elsewhere, Li Yun followed Yuanshi Tianzun and soon left the bounds of Kunlun Mountain.
As they sped through the air, Li Yun clearly felt the slaughter qi in the Primordial World growing steadily stronger. In particular, around Buzhou Mountain at the world's center, baleful qi surged to the heavens, and tribulation clouds as black as ink were rapidly gathering and condensing.
"Is this a heaven and earth tribulation?"
Li Yun's lips parted, shock stirring in his heart.
In the Primordial World, heaven and earth tribulations were the most terrifying of all. Once a tribulation erupted, countless cultivators and living beings would be swept into it, liable at any moment to perish, their cultivation extinguished with them.
The Fierce Beast Tribulation of the earliest age, the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation of the Ancient Era, and the current Witch-Demon Tribulation were all incomparably terrifying. One careless step into their grasp could leave someone unable to escape, or even...
"You sensed it?"
Seemingly noticing Li Yun's reaction, Yuanshi Tianzun spoke quietly. "Before a heaven and earth tribulation, all living beings are equally fragile. Unless you become a saint, you