"Mad, utterly mad! These are a hundred thousand lives, countless karmic ties! Are you truly not afraid of heavenly retribution?
Even if you succeed by some stroke of luck and refine your great pill, how will you survive the heavenly tribulation?
And those disciples from before-they all called you Old Ancestor! They were all your disciples and their descendants! How could you bear to kill them?"
Han Kang's voice trembled. His whole body felt icy, as though he had fallen into a frozen cavern.
Shi Jizi looked at him and said quietly, "Heavenly tribulation?
Do you still not understand? Heavenly tribulations exist precisely so that people can overcome them!
This is an opportunity the Heavenly Dao grants us cultivators from beyond the veil!"
"An opportunity?" Han Kang and Ji Feng were stunned speechless.
"Indeed. An opportunity to bear the price and wash away karma!"
Shi Jizi delivered his verdict on heavenly tribulation without hesitation.
"It is my fault for teaching you too much about righteousness and justice in the past. You have become so hidebound... Yet you yourselves are powerful figures in the mortal world, standing above its laws. Can you still not see that mortal laws are established to keep a nation running?
Fairness and justice are merely tools. People yearn for fairness and justice, and so they lend their support, but these are by no means the ultimate goal.
The Heavenly Dao is no different. Heaven and earth are without benevolence; they treat all things as straw dogs. Why would they distinguish between good and evil and condemn me for taking these people's lives? It is people who truly condemn me!
Heavenly tribulations destroy evil? These are merely lies high-level cultivators tell to hoodwink low-level cultivators. True karmic retribution is determined by people, and heavenly tribulations, too, are