Twelve Tribulation Lamps: Who Was Using the Interception Sect's Lives to Dispel Tribulation?

Twelve points of lamplight hung behind the Kunlun line.

Their light did not illuminate Golden Turtle Island.

Instead, it revealed the Ashen Qi edging the names of the Interception Sect's immortals.

The gray Wealth Department mark on Zhao Gongming's cuff grew faintly cold.

The starlight behind Holy Mother Jinling dimmed a little, too.

Yun Xiao looked at Zhao Gongming, her fingertips tightening.

This was not a matter of one lamp.

Behind all twelve lamps, they were waiting for the Jie Sect to sacrifice life.

Zhao Xuan raised his brush.

[Why do the Twelve Tribulation Lamps remain lit for now?]

The Vermilion Brush descended.

The twelve points of lamplight swayed together.

Several lines of cold text emerged on the Clear Gate Register.

[Twelve Jade Emptiness Tribulation Lamps.]

[The Killing Tribulation has not been dispelled.]

[The Investiture of the Gods may be used to apportion and offset it.]

[When the Interception Sect enters the field, the Jade Emptiness lamps burn bright.] ```

As the final line emerged, the shadows of twelve lamps within Kunlun Mountain shuddered together.

The Antarctic Immortal could no longer stand by with his hands tucked in his sleeves.

He raised a hand and pressed down on the Jade Slip.

Yet fine threads of lamplight seeped out beneath it.

He could hold down the Jade Slip.

He could not hold down the lamp shadows.

The twelve lamps were not bright.

But beneath each lamp, a wisp of calamity qi churned.

The steadier the flame, the thinner the calamity qi became.

And on Golden Turtle Island, the Ashen Qi edging the names that the list's qi had seen grew heavier.

This was not a projection.

It was an offset happening in real time.

The Antarctic Immortal kept his hand pressed against the Jade Slip, the lamplight