Fate's Tribulation

Within the Kunpeng Secret Realm, Liang Zhaohuang sat cross-legged atop a lotus platform. Behind him, a Dharma Aspect flickered in and out of view, sometimes transforming into a whale, sometimes into a peng. It was closely linked to the Giant Whale Demon above, which was undergoing its tribulation and breaking through to the fourth rank.

Through the connection between the Dharma Aspect and its original body, Liang Zhaohuang experienced from the side the hardship and terror of breaking from the third rank into the fourth.

The unceasing impacts and assimilation of heaven-and-earth power and laws were like surging floods capable of swallowing everything whole. Fire seared, wind assailed, and every bolt of lightning seemed intent on tearing the tribulation-taker to pieces.

Even though the Giant Whale Demon had already stood at the peak of the third rank for decades, and its comprehension and mastery of the Dao rhythms of wind and water had even formed a "domain," leaving it only a hair's breadth from the laws of wind and water—

Even so, Liang Zhaohuang could still clearly sense the Giant Whale Demon's agony and its perilous, eggs-piled-high situation!

Each time, the power of heaven, earth, and laws rose like a flooding tide, already swallowing the Giant Whale Demon, that "reef" by the shore.

Each time, fire, wind, and lightning left the Giant Whale Demon battered and scarred from within and without.

Every time, it seemed as though the Giant Whale Demon could no longer hold on and would perish in the tribulation.

Yet the Giant Whale Demon had an immense source of aid in its breakthrough and tribulation this time, allowing it to endure these terrifying calamities again and again.

That aid was the nourishment returned by the Kunpeng Secret Realm's origin.

Whenever the Giant Whale Demon was about to