Calamity Diverted, Tides Rise and Fall

At this moment.

Around Liu Dongqing.

With the death of the aged Daoist, his body and soul were utterly extinguished.

Those protectors and killers answering the tribulation, summoned by the calamity of his proving the Dao and attaining Spirit Transformation, scattered like birds and beasts in that instant.

It was not that none of them had already fought with true fury just now.

But.

No matter how intense their killing intent was.

When Liu Dongqing raised his sword and slew the aged Daoist; when even the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect's old methods, even the Dao Fruit Resonance of the sixty-cycle Dao complete within himself, could not withstand that Sword of Time's Passage.

What surged within everyone's hearts was no longer blazing killing intent.

It was empathy akin to rabbits dying and foxes grieving, instinctive terror before death!

And with the aged Daoist's death.

At that same instant.

The power of tribulation that had enclosed the surrounding small space, turning it into a boundless yet bounded battlefield of the human path's killing tribulation, abruptly vanished like smoke.

The cultivators all heaved sighs of relief.

However.

Though their hearts had undergone tremendous upheaval, as if directly facing the great terror between life and death.

In truth, from beginning to end, not the slightest portion of Liu Dongqing's attention had ever fallen upon them.

At that moment.

A small half of Liu Dongqing's mental strength rested upon his Heavenly Celebration Canopy Diagram of All Virtues.

For with the aged Daoist's death, the power of tribulation that had brewed into the human path's killing tribulation battlefield had not, in fact, all vanished into nothingness.

A particularly refined portion of it seemed to have undergone some transformation, anchored to the aged Daoist and changing along with the life and death of his existence.

That tribulation