Not long after his daughter Liu Fujing's birthday banquet ended, Liu Changxu entered the cultivation chamber in the Ruyi Lotus Palace for secluded cultivation.
Having gone more than a decade without entering seclusion, Liu Changxu had accumulated many insights. In particular, personally guiding his children's cultivation and developing cultivation methods for them had deepened his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Laws.
During this seclusion, Liu Changxu intended to fully integrate these precious insights into his divine abilities and spell arts, further strengthening himself.
On a sunny, breezy afternoon in August of year 4696 of the Great Tang Calendar, winds and clouds suddenly surged across the clear, pristine sky above Little Penglai Island, as though a massive boulder had been cast into a tranquil lake, stirring up towering waves.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within billions of miles seemed to be drawn by some mysterious, powerful force, surging wildly toward this place. That vast, mighty torrent of spiritual energy resembled ten thousand galloping horses and crashing waves pounding the shore, its sheer grandeur leaving onlookers speechless.
Before long, the sapphire-blue sky, once pure and flawless, was swiftly shrouded in layer upon layer of leaden clouds. Like an immense, boundless black curtain, they mercilessly obscured the expansive heavens, as though intent on dragging the entire world into an abyss of darkness.
This sudden change in the heavens instantly drew the attention of the island's many cultivators. They stopped their work and gazed into the distance, each wondering which powerhouse of the Liu Household was about to break through and undergo tribulation transcendence.
For a time, streaks of light flashed across the sky above Penglai Island as countless cultivators rode their magical treasures, stood upon flying swords, or mounted spirit beasts, racing like the wind toward the tribulation site where