The Jade Void Palace was quiet.
Several of the Twelve Golden Immortals remained in seclusion, recovering the cultivation they had lost in the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation.
The other Core Disciples had also become far more restrained.
The battle in the Nine-Twist Yellow River Formation had shaken the Elucidation Sect from top to bottom.
All Twelve Golden Immortals had entered a single formation.
Their Three Flowers and Five Qi had been damaged.
Later, Yuanshi had arrived in person, and Tongtian had come too.
Though the clash had stopped short of a battle between Saints, the Elucidation Sect had hardly emerged with its dignity intact.
Yuanshi had been watching the Karmic Tribulation unfold.
But what had prompted him to examine Lin Yuan alone today was the Investiture of the Gods Fate.
A faint thread of tribulation.
It had begun to reach into the Elucidation Sect.
Yuanshi studied it for a long time.
He raised a hand and pointed.
Scenes of karmic entanglements involving Lin Yuan appeared.
Chentang Pass.
Shiji had been drawn into a fatal trap by the affair involving Nezha and Taiyi, but Lin Yuan had called Jin Ling over in advance, severing that chain of cause and effect on the spot.
The Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island.
The four of them had been easy to pick off one by one, but Lin Yuan had made sure they stuck together.
The Ten Ultimate Formation had been even more telling.
He had turned ten formations that each fought alone into the Ten Ultimate Linked Formation, where they lent one another strength, shifted Formation Eyes, and moved people between formations.
At this point, even Yuanshi's gaze grew a little complicated.
Breaking those formations had indeed put the Twelve Golden Immortals through the wringer.
And after that.
Zhao Gongming.
The Treasure-Dropping Coin had