The aura of the Karmic Tribulation spread quickly.
At first, only people like Lin Yuan and Tongtian, who were exceptionally sensitive to the workings of heaven, could detect it.
Several days later,
many Daluo Realm and Primordial Unity Golden Immortal cultivators began to sense that something was wrong.
The Tribulation Aura of the Investiture of the Gods had always covered the Primordial World.
But its densest concentrations had remained around Great Shang, West Qi, and the central conflicts between the Chan and Jie Sects.
Now that hazy gray aura was visibly spreading outward.
A Rogue Cultivator who had spent years in seclusion at West Kunlun suddenly discovered that a favor he owed a lord of West Qi had become a karmic tie to the Karmic Tribulation.
A Qi Practitioner who had once forged weapons for Great Shang found the faint Tribulation Aura around him suddenly growing heavier.
Several disciples of the Western Sect who had been traveling through the east, hoping to convert those with whom they shared a connection, also felt the workings of heaven above them growing more chaotic.
Even some peripheral lineages of the Elucidation Sect began receiving warnings from their elders.
Stay away from the lands of Shang and Zhou for now.
Avoid entangling yourselves in karmic ties.
This change finally received its clearest explanation at Biyou Palace.
Tongtian manifested a vision of the workings of heaven before his disciples.
Countless threads of karma crossed one another.
Before, many of those threads had led in clear directions.
Now the calamity released by more and more vacant Divine Positions was reaching outward again, searching for new bearers.
"The Investiture of the Gods is missing too many people."
Tongtian spoke slowly.
"The Karmic Tribulation itself is widening the pool of Tribulation Candidates."
Duobao frowned. "Even people who were