Everyone watched as a young man slowly descended from the Ascension Platform and looked toward the Great Cauldron.
Facing pressure like a heavenly tribulation, the young man showed no fear. "What? Do you want to fight me too?"
The Great Cauldron surged, and black clouds instantly blanketed the realm.
The blue waters of the Four Seas turned pitch-black in an instant, heaving into waves ten thousand fathoms high. The Sea Clan within trembled in terror.
Across the Central Lands' Yu Province, the Southern Border, the Eastern Azure Continent, and the Four Great Continents, every living creature panicked.
The young man folded his arms. "You're truly not afraid I'll slaughter the living beings of your realm right now?"
The Great Cauldron surged harder still. The flowers, birds, fish, and insects depicted upon it seemed about to come alive.
East Sea, Taihua Sect.
The Moon Venerable drew down lightning as she underwent the Third Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
Ordinarily, the killing calamity should have drawn members of the Sea Clan who had passed the Second Nine Heavenly Tribulation to her through the Heavenly Way. But although the Heavenly Way sought to stir up that calamity,
the karma of every Supreme Grandmaster had gathered at the ascension site in Sunbright Valley, Yu Province, in the Central Lands.
Even several sect masters of the Outer Dao had gone there.
For the moment, even the Heavenly Way was a clever cook with no rice to make a meal.
The Moon Venerable's Third Nine Heavenly Tribulation was easy by comparison.
Its dangers were far less severe than those the Dao Venerable had faced during his tribulation.
The Moon Venerable killed two Sea Clan members who had passed the Second Nine Heavenly Tribulation—an eight-armed octopus and a whale shark—without breaking a sweat.
Using the foundations of the