A glance at the Primordial World at that moment made it clear that the sense of mortal danger they felt must have arisen because of Lin Tian.
"What exactly is this radiance? Why does it give us such a terrifying premonition?"
Taishang's gaze pierced the void as he watched Golden Turtle Island. Shocked, he also pondered in silence.
At the same time, a stray thought arose in his mind.
Perhaps he should simply give up opposing Lin Tian now, return to the Eight Sceneries Palace, and remain in seclusion!
After all, he had never posed much of a threat to Lin Tian before. Instead, Lin Tian had reaped a handsome profit from him. If he ignored everything else now and returned to the Eight Sceneries Palace to shut himself away, then even if Lin Tian's might bore down upon the entire Primordial World and the Spirit Vine Sect destroyed the Chan Sect, the Western Religion, and the others, he would not necessarily come to harm.
The other three Saints, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti, reacted just as Taishang did, with the same shock and uncertainty.
Unlike Taishang, however, they had no opportunity to simply return to their own sanctuaries and remain in seclusion.
This was not merely because Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti had far deeper grudges with Lin Tian, grudges that were almost impossible to resolve.
More importantly, neither the Chan Sect nor the Western Religion was like Taishang's Human Teaching, which had only a single disciple, Xuandu. Their interests clashed with Lin Tian's so severely that even if there had been no conflict between them at the outset, peaceful coexistence would still have been utterly impossible.
The outbreak of the karmic calamity had merely ignited those conflicts ahead of time. It did not mean that without a karmic calamity, the