Phoenix Town, Greencloaks Tower

On this day, tribulation lightning rained across the skies above Moon City.

Who knew how many cultivators broke through their realms and weathered tribulations that day?

And who knew how many cultivators wailed to the heavens, pounding their chests and crying out in regret?

That day, countless cultivators snatched heaven-sent lotus seeds by Moon Lake, but couldn't bear to swallow them on the spot. Instead, they planned to return home and savor them at their leisure.

Some who thought themselves clever swallowed one seed, then pocketed the rest and left, hoping to sell them for a good price someday.

Or share them with their friends and family.

Little did they know that every lotus seed lost its spiritual energy once it left Moon Lake.

They were no different from the lotus seeds that grew there year after year, month after month.

As a result, of the thousands who seized a heaven-sent opportunity by Moon Lake, fewer than a dozen gained enlightenment and weathered their tribulations that day.

Feng Yanran and Murong Wan'er were among them.

The imperial guards from the capital and the Greencloaks Tower assassins had it even worse.

They had clearly swallowed the lotus seeds, and clearly had the chance to break through.

Yet, of all the rotten luck, they went after Hu Keke. In the end, they were reduced to ashes without even getting to feed the fish in Moon Lake.

The blind man had it worse still. He fell straight from the Spirit Transformation Realm to the Nascent Soul Early Stage, aging by decades in a single day.

That was only because Wang Xian had spared his life.

Only Sima Jue slipped away unnoticed. He ate two lotus seeds by the lake, then quietly vanished the moment fighting broke out and raced toward the capital.

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