"Fellow Daoist, your calculations truly are masterful. I can only admit my inferiority."
Within the Jade Void Palace on Golden Turtle Island, Tongtian's eyes were half closed, boundless Dao resonance flowing through his gaze.
He was clearly divining something.
"Alas."
After a long while, a drawn-out sigh echoed through the Jade Void Palace.
All the Jade Void Sect disciples present paused, looking in slight surprise at Tongtian, who remained seated cross-legged on the Dao Platform.
What had happened?
Why had their master's emotions fluctuated so frequently today?
"So be it, so be it. For Zhao Gongming and his three sisters to become your disciples is a fortuitous encounter for them. Had they entered my tutelage instead, I fear they would have faced an unavoidable tribulation in the future."
After divining the chain of cause and effect, Tongtian's tightly knitted brows gradually relaxed. There was not a trace of blame in his eyes; instead, a measure of relief appeared.
He had just divined the karma of Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters.
Yet he discovered that a great tribulation should have awaited all four of them.
As for what that great tribulation would be,
Tongtian could not determine it.
There was only one possible explanation for something that even a Sage like him could not divine.
A kalpa.
Something tied to the overarching course of heaven and earth.
Yet with them following Daochen, those threads of karma had changed.
Daochen himself was an anomaly.
He was not bound by this world's restrictions.
The karmic threads of those who drew close to an anomaly would also change.
This was true of Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Dijun, and even the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
Even Nüwa was among them.
Whether such changes were good or bad,
Tongtian did not know.
But there was one