Daoist Lingguan asked, "You mean Master intentionally used this world to test us?
"To see whether we have the ability to deal with a calamity of heaven and earth like this?"
"Then which way should we respond?" Tian Ying asked. "Just as Senior Brother Dao Li and Senior Brother Dao Guang were thinking.
"Should we press forward without hesitation, or should we wisely protect ourselves?
"By extension, if we become involved in the Investiture of the Gods calamity in the future—
"Should we defy our progenitor's command and leave the mountain to aid our senior brothers and uncles in facing the great calamity together?
"Or should we persuade them to seal their mountain gates tight and quietly recite the Yellow Court, thus escaping the tribulation?"
Sun Yuling shook her head. "Judging from the outcome, once a tribulation arrives, there is no escaping it.
"From what we know alone, we can tell that such tribulations cannot be avoided."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent once more.
There was no fixed method for dealing with tribulations; it all depended on which choice best suited the circumstances.
Sometimes, seeing a tribulation did not mean one ought to charge headlong into hardship.
Although avoiding a present tribulation would make the next one even graver, sometimes the current tribulation was certain death. If one could evade it, then even if the next tribulation was deeper and heavier, there would still be a sliver of life.
Just like the Investiture of the Gods calamity—if those martial uncles and senior brothers had followed their ancestor's instructions, sealed their cave abodes, and quietly recited the Yellow Court, they naturally could have escaped the tribulation.
Yet when tribulation loomed overhead, avoiding it was not so easy.
After all, if it had been easy, the Investiture of the Gods calamity would