After Liu Changxu secured his footing in the Azure Cloud Sect's Elder Council, he began making plans to develop his prospects in the Southern Sea.
For Liu Changxu, remaining at the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters would make it difficult to obtain enough cultivation resources.
Without sufficient cultivation resources, his cultivation would struggle to advance quickly, let alone reach Spirit Transformation.
Moreover, Liu Changxu also had four third-tier spirit beasts.
Before leaving for the Southern Sea, however, he had to make proper arrangements for his lineage and the spiritual peak manors on Violet Glow Mountain and Azure Cloud Mountain. Only then could he leave without worry.
One day in September of year 3142 of the Great Tang Calendar, they were once again on Black Tiger Mountain, where his father, Liu Shihao, and his wife, Li Zhenxin, had gone into seclusion for Tribulation Transcendence.
His mother, Lin Yulian, and his wife, Wu Yunyue, had entered seclusion here more than a year earlier to break through to the Golden Core stage.
Liu Changxu brought Yang Qingxue, Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, Li Zhenxin, Lian'er, Zhang Wenjun, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue to safeguard their breakthroughs.
That afternoon, the skies above an unnamed peak suddenly changed dramatically. The surrounding spiritual energy rapidly gathered there, and dark clouds soon filled the previously clear sky.
Liu Changxu had been drawing talismans inside the Ruyi Lotus Palace above Tiger King Peak. Sensing the change in the heavens, he immediately put down his brush and hurried outside.
He looked up and saw that the peak beneath the changing skies was precisely the one where his wife, Wu Yunyue, was staying.
Just then, Yang Qingxue and the other women came to his side, their eyes full of worry as they gazed into the distance.
Soon, terrifying silver tribulation lightning descended