Besides the Dao Calamities that pounced on me, I also encountered some that ambushed me along the way. They seemed to know exactly where I was. I suspected that back when I was in the Proving Dao Heaven, the Nine Heavens Extinction Dao had marked me with karmic fortune, allowing him to send Dao Calamities after me whenever and wherever he pleased!
The Bloodborne Lotus was an innate treasure, and its speed could be called astonishingly fast, yet the Dao Calamities were far faster than I had imagined. If I had not continuously attacked them from atop the Bloodborne Lotus, they would probably have surrounded me by now!
Yet as we tore through the air at lightning speed, those Dao Calamities actually climbed onto the Bloodborne Lotus. Their tendrils even intended to burrow into it and seize the aura of the Pure Lotus. What disappointed them was that the Bloodborne Lotus was stronger than they were. It instead began plundering the karmic fortune in their tendrils.
The Bloodborne Lotus and the Profound Heaven Gourd were both treasures of karmic fortune. For them to grow to this level had cost me no small amount of effort.
While dealing with the Dao Calamities, I was also trying to send messages and investigate their movements. Yet along the way, aside from a few scattered immortals setting up formations, I could not find any large force capable of stopping seventy or eighty Dao Calamities. After all, most of the Nine Great Sects now had fewer than a hundred people left. Since my arrival, they had indeed suffered heavy losses. Take this latest mass descent of Dao Calamities, for example. If there had not been so many of them, the Black Sun Immortal Sect would never have fled.
Still, once I found people, we could