Boundless calamity, endless desolation, limitless undead!
As the icy aura spread, the chaotic, bloody battlefield gradually became a hell of annihilation, a lifeless domain of the dead. It delivered the overwhelming impression that even heaven and earth had died.
Corpses strewn across the ground became skeletons, blood-soaked earth became scorched soil, and even the sparse vegetation withered into dry branches.
Boom...
Suspended in midair, Calamity God Emperor Arthas suddenly erupted with power, stirring howling winds and clouds. His cultivation soared straight from mid-stage True God to peak True God, seemingly poised to enter the Spirit God realm at any moment.
What he lacked was not the insight that was hardest to attain in cultivation, but the simplest thing: accumulated power. Once his cultivation reached the necessary level, his breakthrough would follow as naturally as water flowing into a channel!
"Hahaha..."
Feeling the changes within himself, Arthas froze, then threw back his head and laughed wildly, beside himself with joy.
"Calamity... this is calamity... so this is true calamity! I understand! I've attained enlightenment... hahaha..."
His excited, exuberant laughter echoed across the clamorous battlefield, drawing countless startled looks.
Only now had Arthas formally stepped onto the Calamity Dao, gaining his first glimpse of the way. Before this, he had clearly taken a wrong turn.
The Calamity Dao was one of the countless branches of the Destruction Dao, but it was not merely about creating undead or combining methods involving wind, clouds, heaven, and earth to destroy mountains and rivers. Those were inferior methods, neither fish nor fowl, and as superfluous as adding legs to a snake!
True calamity naturally tended toward devastation, destruction, and annihilation, but its core was draining vitality to strengthen oneself, not simply destroying things. Once a target's vitality was severed, it would perish on its own without