The palace lords stared at the Sunset Realm Lord with bafflement. One of them asked, "What's wrong?"
The Sunset Realm Lord's eyes were fixed tightly on the Golden Snake. He spat out four words: "Fate-Extinguishing Bamboo Snakes!"
"Bamboo Snakes? How could such a thing possibly appear?"
"Now that you mention it, they really do look somewhat like the ones in the legends!"
"The Fate-Extinguishing Bamboo Snakes Tribulation... How could a legendary tribulation like this descend upon a Life and Death Realm martial artist...?"
The palace lords had not recognized the Bamboo Snakes' origins, but after the Sunset Realm Lord's reminder, they instantly understood.
Within the Ten Thousand Great Realms, people had a far clearer understanding of fate than those in the Lower Realm.
Martial artists defied Heaven in their cultivation and ascended the divine path—hence the saying that they could defy Heaven and alter their fate.
Defying Heaven naturally meant cultivating against Heaven. Beginning from the Life and Death Realm, every step they took carved a footprint into the path against Heaven and brought down a heavenly tribulation!
Altering fate meant changing one's own destiny! Though destiny was ordained in the unseen, every martial artist exhausted every possible means to leap beyond that fixed number!
In truth, everyone was constantly trying to leap beyond what was ordained...
What ordinary people faced might be a bucket of water too heavy to lift, a city that could not be breached, or a cup of poisoned wine bestowed by a monarch that could not be refused.
What martial artists faced might be a mountain that could not be leveled, an opponent they could not defeat, or a heavenly tribulation that they could not withstand even after exhausting all their strength...
This was also why martial artists in the Upper Realm valued the lotus