Many had already passed the first trial—Calamity Fire burning away their Dao.
They had entered the second trial, the baptism of Primordial Chaos, and were about to undergo their final transformation.
But some had failed their Tribulation Crossing. Their Dao collapsed halfway through, and in the blink of an eye, only thirty-five remained.
The death rate had reached fifty percent. That was what happened when they crossed the tribulation on their own—and this was only the beginning.
Even so, the tribulation-crossers under the cataclysm's influence kept charging forward, one after another, in a frenzy.
The Supreme Cataclysm was showing its savage side.
A thousand divine abilities and a Dao that reached the heavens could not protect anyone from the calamity's blinding influence.
Li Qing watched in silence, shaken to his core.
They went despite knowing they would die. He felt, more deeply than ever, how terrifying the calamity was.
Yet Li Qing found that he seemed completely unaffected.
A thought stirred in his mind. It had to be the Jade Tablet shielding him from the calamity's influence.
Soon, only twenty tribulation-crossers remained. All had a chance of breaking through, and their Dao was gradually stabilizing.
In the Ultimate Universe, more and more Dao-proclaiming experts converged on those twenty positions.
Wave after wave of torrents of Dao battered them.
The Seven Supremes redirected ever more power to support those twenty locations.
More Heavenly Sovereigns descended upon the twenty coordinates as well, resisting the power coming through the Supreme Mechanism Network.
The Ultimate Mechanism did not sit idle this time. It extended a small portion of its power, linking the strength of every Heavenly Sovereign and the Divine Kingdoms of the Sacred Domain against the Supreme Mechanism Network.
The two sides were evenly matched. It seemed the people of the Ultimate Universe