Once Heavenly Secrets fell into chaos, a great calamity was near.
Li Changshou, who held several "wind vanes" for the Great Cataclysm of the Investiture of the Gods in his hand, was truly caught off guard.
The bolt of lightning that had struck before Bai Ze had not only scared Bai Ze into breaking out in a cold—cough—sweat, but had also shaken Li Changshou's Dao heart.
That lightning had not appeared to "kill the spoiler dog." It had been a warning from genuine Purple Firmament Divine Thunder!
The Heavenly Dao was warning Bai Ze to tread carefully when deducing Heavenly Secrets and calculating auspiciousness and inauspiciousness. If he interfered with the operation of the great calamity, genuine Purple Firmament Divine Thunder would truly fall upon his head.
Li Changshou folded his arms and pondered for a while, but a rather strange thought surfaced in his heart.
Why now?
Wasn't the Great Cataclysm of the Investiture of the Gods brought about after the Jade Emperor was insulted by disciples of the Three Teachings, went to the Purple Cloud Palace to lodge a complaint, and the Dao Ancestor descended it?
Looking at it from this angle—
The power of living beings between Heaven and Earth had reached some critical threshold, triggering the Heavenly Dao to send down a great calamity. Yet the calamity was still brewing, and its "form" and "content" had not yet been decided?
The room for maneuver here...
Crack!
Another thumb-thick bolt of lightning appeared from nowhere, illuminating Black Pool Peak as bright as day before smashing directly into the ground before Li Changshou's toes!
This?!
He could not even think about it?
Li Changshou immediately dismissed that bold notion in his heart. He bowed from afar toward the sky, likewise breaking out in a cold sweat.
Shortly afterward,