Golden Core's three calamities—the most perilous was the Longevity Calamity.
The Heavenly Calamity and Human Calamity could still be met head-on with strength, but the Longevity Calamity was formless and traceless. What one had to contend with was a certain rule.
Under this rule, Han Yi shuddered from head to toe. When he came back to himself, he was standing beside a road. Pedestrians streamed past before and behind him in a lively bustle, while cars raced endlessly along the street.
"I'm back?"
Han Yi frowned. His memories had stopped at the final step of forming his core, when he sensed that mysterious and unfathomable rule descending. Then he had returned to Earth.
"Strange."
"This is the same as the Mortal World Tribulation I faced during Foundation Establishment."
"But the jade disc Zhuge Wuyou gave me never mentioned this. It only said that when cultivators underwent the Longevity Calamity, they would be pulled into a mysterious space and face a trial. If they passed, when they came back to their senses, only an instant would have passed in the real world. If they failed, they would die and their Dao would vanish."
"So the scene before me must be the world conjured by the Longevity Calamity—the trial itself?"
"But what exactly is being tested?"
Han Yi stood on the roadside with his brows tightly furrowed, his gaze shifting uncertainly.
There were quite a few pedestrians on the road, so Han Yi retreated farther inward, found a step, and sat down.
Now, he had returned to an ordinary mortal body. The more than forty years of memories from the Jade Balance Realm began to feel unreal after barely a dozen minutes, as though those four decades had been someone else's experiences. He had merely received the "memories" without ever having lived