The Battle Begins

"Praise to Heavenly Emperor Indra!"

"You are the Lord of Heaven..."

"You are the King of Gods..."

Countless songs and melodies rang out, praising the name of one god, their echoes rolling across the heavens.

Amid those praises came the sound of thunder, as Calamity Clouds stretched endlessly toward them.

It was precisely...

"Rumble, rumble, rumble!"

Karma entwined, merit and sin stirred; the might of Heaven and Earth's tribulation reappeared, shrouding the high vault of heaven and bombarding that immortal realm and divine domain returning to the mortal world.

"This is..."

"A heavenly tribulation?"

"The Worldly Tribulation!"

"A terrestrial immortal?!"

"Who is it?!"

The might of Heaven and Earth's tribulation startled the surrounding region. Countless cultivators, even immortals and gods, leaped into the high sky, staring uncertainly at the wild thunder filling the heavens and at the immortal realm and divine domain being relentlessly bombarded within it, yet still determined to return to Heaven and Earth.

The cultivators at the scene were like this; inside the livestream, things were even more chaotic.

"Holy crap?"

"What's going on?"

"Such a huge spectacle—is a Heavenly Demon attacking?"

"Youngster, what do you know? That's no Heavenly Demon."

"This is a Worldly Tribulation, triggered by the unsealing of a Blessed Land."

"No, a heavenly tribulation of this intensity has already surpassed the scope of a Blessed Land."

"Cultivators enter Blessed Lands, true immortals dwell in grotto-heavens, and above grotto-heavens and Blessed Lands... are immortal realms and divine domains!"

"A celestial immortal, or a terrestrial immortal?"

"Which divine system?"

"Indra—it's the Heavenly Emperor of the Brahma Sect!"

"Lord of Heaven, King of Gods. So big a boast!"

"That's how boasting bullshit works..."

"The Brahma Sect reveres the Trimurti as its supreme masters. This so-called Heavenly Emperor... is nothing more than a mascot!"

"You can't put