Divine Court, Divine Punishment Department.
Inside the great hall, which was blanketed year-round in a faint holy radiance, silence reigned so completely that a falling needle could be heard. Above the towering jade platform floated an ancient bronze mirror, its surface as clear as autumn water, spanning the entire hall.
This was the Tribulation Heaven Mirror, a Pseudo-Divine Artifact that governed the auras of all spirit lightning tribulations in the Lower Realm. No disturbance from any Tribulation Transcendence across the entire mortal Lower Realm could escape its detection.
Two duty clerks in silver-white official robes embroidered with Divine Runes leaned against jade pillars, their expressions languid and weary.
Watching the same unchanging scenes in the mirror day after day had long since worn away their interest.
Specks of faint light flickered across the mirror's surface like scattered remnants of stars in the night sky—densely packed, yet utterly without ripples.
Grain-sized points of light spread across most of the mirror, scattered and intermittent, brightening and dimming at random.
These were the most ordinary signs of lightning tribulations in the Lower Realm, all belonging to cultivators below the Divine Bridge Realm.
When cultivators of this kind underwent Tribulation Transcendence, the heavenly and earthly aura they stirred was negligible. They could not even brush against true laws of heaven and earth. In the eyes of the Divine Punishment Department, it was merely the petty life-or-death scuffling of mortals.
Occasionally, a few halos the size of soybeans drifted across the surface, slightly brighter and possessing somewhat steadier auras.
Those were the tribulation phenomena of Other Shore Realm cultivators undergoing Tribulation Transcendence. Within a single region of the Lower Realm, they would already count as transformation opportunities for peak prodigies.
Yet across the vast Lower Realm, spanning billions upon billions of miles, lightning tribulations of