The Green Lotus Nurtured the Dao and Broke the Heart Demon; the Myriad Worlds Mirror Revealed the Past

The Chaos Sea, the Green Lotus Sanctuary. Time had lost all meaning here. Only the gentle azure light radiating from the remnant root at the center remained, like an unchanging beacon from time immemorial, holding a pocket of tranquility within this violent chaos.

Tongtian sat cross-legged where the azure light was brightest, his eyes tightly shut and his aura withdrawn to the utmost, as though he had become a lifeless stone of chaos. The terrible wounds left by his battle with the Realm Demon God had vanished from his body. His Saint Body had recovered completely and even seemed more lustrous, with a faint treasure-light flowing over it.

Yet the true test was not the restoration of his physical body. It lay deep within his Dao Heart and Nascent Soul.

The aura of the Chaos Sea constantly eroded and assimilated him. Even with the Green Lotus protecting him, the confusion and disorder originating from the source of all things still seeped in, thread by thread, stirring the most primal desires, fears, and obsessions in the depths of his heart.

At that moment, a struggle far more perilous than the chaos outside was unfolding in his sea of consciousness!

The Heart Demon Tribulation! This was no ordinary heavenly tribulation or thunder punishment. It was the eruption of one's own karma, obsessions, and karmic burdens, inevitably triggered when one's cultivation reached a certain height! This was especially true of the Hunyuan Dao Tongtian cultivated. It encompassed all things, and the karma it bore was so vast as to be unimaginable! Abandoning his Saint Position, the fall of the Interception Sect, the deaths of countless immortals, his disciples' suffering, his defiance of the Saints, even the devouring of power from another world... At that moment, the Chaos Aura stirred all of it, turning