Tribulations (Part Two)

"Mm, you have a point, Pang Heng. Then I'll give you a brief explanation of minor and intermediate tribulations before moving on to major tribulations..."

Yuan Tian felt that Pang Heng's words really did make sense. Just because he knew something didn't mean everyone else ought to know it too. Perhaps they knew nothing about it. Something he considered worthless might become a treasure worth ten thousand gold pieces in someone else's eyes. No one could say for certain about such things. After all, everyone measured value differently.

"Mm, mm." Pang Heng kept nodding, clearly delighted and thoroughly satisfied that Yuan Tian agreed with him. Of course, even if he were dissatisfied, there was nothing he could do about Yuan Tian. Who told him to be weaker than Yuan Tian? If he couldn't beat him, he could only put up with it and obediently remain his underling. An underling ought to act like one, after all.

"Put simply, minor and intermediate tribulations are small-scale and medium-scale calamities. Neither covers the entire Primordial Wilderness. They're localized calamities. To give you the simplest example, suppose Heaven sent down a minor or intermediate tribulation right now. It might 'descend' upon the Eastern Sea while the Primordial Continent remained untouched. Or it might appear in the northern part of the Primordial Continent while the west remained unaffected. Minor or intermediate tribulations might also descend upon several places at once. All of those are possible. Do you understand?"

"Mm, I think I'm starting to understand. Then, Boss, going by what you said, wouldn't a major tribulation encompass the entire Primordial Wilderness? That would be far too terrifying," Pang Heng said, looking as though something had dawned on him.

"Exactly. You show promise—you catch on quickly. If a major tribulation weren't terrifying, how could even Quasi-Sages