[Next, they explained how the Lord of Beyond Heaven, [Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable], and the Lord of the Heavenly Court, [Nine Heavens], dealt with this boundless karmic sin.]
[The two had been in the Supreme True Realm at the time. First, they cleaned up the aftermath—as for how they did so, even the speaker could not explain clearly.]
[In any case, the final outcome was that Beyond Heaven suffered the fewest casualties, followed by the Heavenly Court.]
[After them came the other First-Rate Sacred Lands that had joined voluntarily or under duress.]
[Further down the line were the lesser sects and some rogue cultivators.]
[It truly left you speechless.]
[Clearly, the two transcendent powers, [Beyond Heaven] and the [Heavenly Court], were the chief culprits responsible for all of this.]
[Even that towering tide of karma and karmic sin had been guided out of the Northern Land of Sin by Heaven and Earth to punish the two powers.]
[Yet in reality, the punishment claimed fewer than five experts from the two transcendent powers combined, and all of them were merely [Golden Core Powerhouses]...]
[All those underhanded blows had landed on the "vulnerable groups."]
[You could not help picturing the miserable state those minor powers must have been in.]
[However, one thing worth mentioning was that this boundless karmic sin and karma only affected those who possessed a rank. In other words, its reach extended no lower than [Qi Refining Realm] cultivators, and the higher their rank, the more heavily the karmic sin and karma affected them.]
[Those in the Embryonic Breath Realm and ordinary mortals, by contrast, remained completely unharmed...]
[Afterward, the two beings even briefly ceased hostilities and joined forces to seal that towering tide of karmic sin and karma back inside the [Northern Land of Sin].]
[Some of it