Everything that had passed was an old affair of bygone dust; only upon starting anew did one realize that karmic cause and effect were never empty.
This was a Zen saying of the Buddhist School, yet it was also the most fitting description of the present moment.
At this very moment, Su Che had gained a deeper understanding of tribulations.
The so-called Heaven-and-Earth Calamity, Human Tribulation, and Demonic Tribulation were all the accumulated results of a cultivator's past along the path of cultivation.
Thus, there were different ways to solve them.
One could shatter the tribulation and emerge, ascending to a higher floor; one could also evade the tribulation and speak of it another day.
With profound and mysterious divine thought bolstering him, Su Che immediately gained many insights. Their wondrous transformations touched upon the fundamental essence of the Nine Heavenly Human Arts—things unheard of and unseen before.
At this moment, thoughts surged through Su Che's mind, while the Heavenly Demons gathering around him grew ever more numerous.
The Heavenly Demons transformed into piled clouds, and lightning arose because of them.
Countless Heavenly Demons appeared between heaven and earth, immediately dying without end under the workings of heaven-and-earth principles, like moths rushing into flame.
Yet the Heavenly Demons from the Earth Book had been accumulated by the Earth Official Great Emperor over many years, their numbers nearly limitless. Though Heavenly Demons outside were constantly dissolved by the Nine Heavenly Human Arts and transformed into pure vital energy, even more came one after another, pressing forward without fear of death.
Meanwhile, strange phenomena erupted throughout heaven and earth.
Besides the lightning, a mass of red clouds had gathered in the sky at some unknown time. Within them, countless ghosts and gods flickered in and out of sight. The red clouds expanded