Xu Ying did not lend a hand, nor did he know how to help. He could only watch helplessly as this Primordial Beginning was burned to ashes.
The sight was both horrifying and faintly tragic.
Even an existence in the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm could not escape the pursuit of tribulation—he had finally fulfilled the Human Tribulation.
Xu Ying glanced at Venerable Shi De, who was still yelling, corrected himself, and thought, He fulfilled the donkey tribulation. This senior must have been awakened by Venerable Lost Virtue, only to be slain by the tribulation.
Apparently, Venerable Shi De had entered to steal something. Unexpectedly, everything here had already decayed. Upon seeing treasures on this Primordial Beginning Stone Statue, he had reached out to grab them, only to awaken it.
When he saw the Primordial Beginning Stone Statue awaken, he had been so frightened that he could not stop yelling. But that existence from the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm had transformed into a stone statue precisely because tribulation had arrived, buying himself time. Perhaps he had slept here for far too long. The instant he awoke, tribulation caught up with him, transforming into supreme tribulation fire that burned his lifelong cultivation and Dao mastery to dust.
That was why Xu Ying said the man had fulfilled the donkey tribulation and been killed by Venerable Shi De.
"You've committed a grave offense," Master Zhong whispered.
Xu Ying shook his head. "Don't blame him. Even without Venerable Lost Virtue waking him, he would have suffered this tribulation upon awakening."
This Primordial Beginning had transformed into a stone statue and entered a lifeless state, but that could not free him from tribulation. It merely allowed him to evade it. On the contrary, the longer he delayed, the more powerful the tribulation became. He had