Shi Hao and the others listened quietly as Meng Chuan spoke. Only after he had told them everything did they respond.
"So this is dangerous, but not terribly dangerous?" Shi Hao asked.
Meng Chuan nodded. "Judging by past examples, yes."
"This tribulation is a struggle against the Dao, not against people. Though it's on a higher level, in some ways it's actually much safer."
Facing the Chaos Sea and the Great Dao Matrix meant an endless succession of terrifying trials, but at least they came straight at you.
A tribulation like the Primordial Heaven Minor Tribulation, on the other hand, required you to struggle against the Dao, Heaven, earth, and people alike.
It was more dangerous, and more exhausting.
The trials sent by the Great Dao Matrix and the Chaos Sea would not play tricks or lead you through twists and turns. They simply overwhelmed you with force.
Endure, and you lived. Fail, and you died. Simple as that.
As for other Chaos Ones deliberately interfering to increase the tribulation's power...
It was virtually impossible that any Chaos One would do such a thing.
If you interfered with someone else's tribulation and succeeded, the power of your own endless Dao tribulation would surge too. It worked both ways, simultaneously. The person you interfered with would not be the only one in trouble while you walked away unscathed.
Choosing to interfere with someone else was essentially choosing mutual destruction. It hurt others without benefiting yourself.
Who would be living perfectly well and insist on courting death?
Returning after death in a Great Dao Tribulation was harder even for a Chaos One than returning after being killed by someone else.
They were all Chaos Ones. There was no need to do such a thing. If you wanted to die, you could charge