"Would this count as an offensive divine ability too?"
Chu Mo mused inwardly, though this approach did not quite suit his usual open and dignified style. He gathered his thoughts and quietly observed his inner landscape.
At the center of the Golden Vault, the divine mountain towered majestically.
The surrounding villages where the Ghostfolk gathered now had nine homes empty out of ten, leaving them especially desolate. During his desperate flight earlier, the low-tier Ghostfolk had been all but exhausted.
"I still need to replenish my other-selves aspects."
As Chu Mo considered this, he unfurled All Beings Aspect. Countless karmic connections tied to him reflected in the sea of his mind, some bright, some dim, some thick, some thin.
Following a thread of karma, he looked toward a Foundation Establishment disciple tending a medicinal garden on the island. The disciple's fate immediately appeared, laid bare without concealment.
Born into a mortal family of officials, he had found success in his youth, taking first place in the imperial examinations. A Tribulation Deliverance Disciple happened to pass by and bundled up both the scholars reading the results and the servants waiting beneath the rankings to snatch prospective sons-in-law, bringing them all back to the sect. After enduring many trials, he had finally reached Foundation Establishment...
Chu Mo sensed that, at this moment, he needed only to give the disciple a light tap with Determine Life and Death to trigger an internal or external tribulation.
An internal tribulation might be a sudden eruption of heart demons, shattering his Dao Mansion; an external one might be an old grudge flaring up, bringing an assassin to his door.
"Indeed, the clearer I see and the firmer I anchor, the easier it becomes to draw down a tribulation." Understanding dawned within him. This divine ability required