The starry sky was calm, without a ripple.
The heavenly tribulation seemed to have vanished for good.
"Can a heavenly tribulation be stopped by human intervention?"
Jiang Ding looked up at the sky.
In the cultivation world, some held that heavenly tribulations were the will of the Heavenly Dao, which tested all things. Others held that they followed natural laws: when an individual's power suddenly leaped forward, it clashed violently with the surrounding world and drew a tribulation. There were many such theories.
But under any of them, forcibly interrupting a heavenly tribulation would inevitably provoke a fiercer counterattack.
It was like shoving a pendulum: the harder the push, the greater the force when it swung back.
Rumble!
Just then, the dark clouds of tribulation stirred to life again.
This resurgence was profoundly strange.
One moment, a mere ink-dark speck had appeared in the starry sky. The next, roiling clouds covered the entire expanse, blotting out every star and plunging heaven and earth into darkness.
An even more terrifying pressure bore down from the heavenly tribulation.
That crushing pressure suppressed the manifestation of the Law Annihilation rule. Even the dreadful vision of a collapsing mortal-ending tribulation, all spiritual essence lost and the stars of the heavens destroyed, could not withstand it.
The tribulation's pressure compressed the manifestation again and again until it collapsed, becoming a dim yellow halo behind the azure-clad youth's head.
Something within this heavenly tribulation could resist the Law Annihilation rule!
"Excellent."
"The immortal dao holds such endless wonders. It never disappoints..."
Jiang Ding smiled with heartfelt delight.
Within the tribulation around him, he saw something akin to his Law Annihilation rule. It, too, could manifest a rule that annihilated laws, though its workings differed from his.
This must be the native Law Annihilation rule of the