Within the Five Phases Hall.
Endless ethereal light surged and shifted, with Thunderbolt darting through it. The Five Phases transformed and the various qi arose, while the two Heavenly Registers grew ever more profound, resonating with heaven and earth and bestowing might and authority.
Xu Xuan stood silently amid these phenomena, looking at the three Spirit Artifacts before him. As the Heavenly Registers resonated with the Black Laws, the long-dormant [Secret Principles of the Three Calamities' Manifestation] finally yielded a breakthrough.
This spell could command calamities and tribulations, destroy realms, raze mountains and shatter temples, and subdue primordial qi. It was the Dharma Method the ancient Thunder Palace had truly used to suppress and annihilate entire paths, wiping out their lineages.
Whether a deity governed the mountains and rivers of a region, a Buddhist cultivator presided over a Pure Land, or an immortal established a secret realm, once calamity struck, heaven and earth would often reject them, their realm would collapse, and they would ultimately perish, their Dao extinguished.
The ancient Thunder Palace had often used this to eradicate a path. Even after its people departed, that stretch of heaven and earth would still refuse to accommodate those it had punished, with calamities poised to descend at any moment.
And if this art were cultivated to full mastery, any realm that had suffered its calamities would inevitably become a place that rejected whatever defied the Thunder Palace's moral order. In other words, it would fall under the Thunder Palace's jurisdiction.
Used against a Buddhist cultivator's Pure Land, it could even destroy it utterly, reducing it to ashes of tribulation. Immortal Dao formations would fare little better; the very world around them would often begin to reject them.
"Tribulations are used to judge and punish cultivators, whereas calamities are tools for