Heavenly Tribulation.
Thunderclouds shifted, silver serpents raced, and this Spirit Mountain, after all its upheavals, had taken on a new appearance. It towered higher now, with the Five-Element Mountain concealed within the thunderclouds overhead, veiled by water and fire.
The sect now called the thunderclouds and Tribulation Pool above the Spirit Mountain the [Cloud-Mountain Splendor Sea]. Its name came from the piled clouds rolling like mountains and the radiance of lightning spreading like a sea.
Within it, the Thunder Pool nurtured four kinds of altar thunder, all at the Foundation Establishment grade. Each corresponded to a different mysterious elephant and served a different purpose, and their grades could still rise alongside this manifestation.
Above the thunderclouds, Xu Xuan stood in black robes, his figure concealed within the great void. Centered on where he stood, every change in the lightning throughout Red Cloud lay within a single thought of his.
Wherever the lightning reached, his divine ability operated, revealing the Sinful Karma of many mortals and cultivators. Heavenly tribulation could descend upon them at any moment.
This was the overbearing nature of the Thunder Palace's lineage: acting on behalf of heaven's will, commanding tribulation and delivering punishment with a single thought. Now that [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation] had become a divine ability, he could truly draw upon the conditions of heaven to summon lightning tribulations according to changes in Sinful Karma and merit, without even consuming much magical power.
At a glance, he saw that the deeper a person's cultivation, the heavier their Sinful Karma appeared beneath this heavenly tribulation's reach. By the Thunder Palace's moral standards of old, few Purple Mansion cultivators today would escape condemnation.
Withdrawing his divine ability, he descended to the small thunder marsh atop Hanging Thunder Peak and looked down. After all these days, the sect's reconstruction was