This White-robed Daoist—if Lu Qing had been here, he would certainly have recognized who he was.
Yet although the White-robed Daoist now sat here, he still differed somewhat from that gaze Lu Qing had seen spanning across the years.
"Karmic affinity has always been this mysterious."
The Daoist friend beside him nodded at those words, not taking it too seriously.
After all, having cultivated to their realm, they had already deeply comprehended the wonders of karmic affinity.
"But today, I received a thunderous revelation of the Heavenly Secrets and happened to gain a trace of inspiration for cultivation. How is that not a karmic affinity left for the future?"
Divine light flickered in his friend's eyes. The Heavenly Secrets lightning sent down as a warning by Heaven happened to align with a strand of Divine Firmament Qi.
In the exceedingly distant future.
Lu Qing was still undergoing his tribulation.
The Lightning Tribulation arrived first.
It spread through countless worlds and countless Dao Shadows.
Every Shadow of the Great Dao left behind in those worlds received a vast baptism of Heavenly Tribulation.
"Heavenly Tribulation."
On the Dao Seal Path, figures had been hesitating before moving forward when a deafening clap of thunder suddenly erupted, shaking their very lungs and viscera.
They could only feel the Great Dao around them faintly trembling.
"Someone is undergoing tribulation?"
"Wasn't Heavenly Tribulation only supposed to descend upon heaven and earth, the Mortal Realm? How could it arrive above the river of time, upon the Dao path?"
Th-this made no sense.
Although they could not divine the Heavenly Secrets, when a Heavenly Tribulation suddenly appeared, no matter how they looked at it, apart from someone undergoing tribulation—whether a cultivator breaking through or a magic treasure tempering itself through tribulation and transforming into a supreme treasure—it could