Heaven and earth hung upside down; the sun and moon hid their light.
Within Six Desires Heaven, the accumulated Water Transformation rose into the air, only to be burned away by thunderbolts halfway up. Fine, dense white ash rained down, pattering onto Xu Dai's pitch-black robe.
An odd expression crossed his face as he murmured blankly:
"Divine edict..."
Boom!
A drumlike peal of thunder rang through Six Desires Heaven.
Xu Xuan had yet to unleash the divine edict in his hand, but heaven and earth had already responded. Calamities emerged from nothingness, impossible to evade or escape, enveloping everyone present in an instant.
Cause and effect guaranteed the strike.
With [Dao-Venerating Palace] and the Heavenly Heart state empowering him, no spell he unleashed could miss. Every strike would land-even taking effect an instant before its activation.
Thunderbolts gathered into an endless vault of tribulation clouds. Countless calamities studded it like stars before suddenly pouring down with terrifying might.
The convergence of these calamities split a crack in Six Desires Heaven's once-perfect shell, revealing the boundless Great Void.
The flickering white light of Water Transformation went out, glimmer by glimmer. Darkness flowed through the Grotto-Heaven's fissure and spilled beneath Xu Xuan's feet, making his blazing thunderlight all the more brilliant, like a god descending upon the world.
These were calamities and tribulations: the ordeals of fate.
Disasters descending from heaven were calamities; ordeals ordained by human affairs were tribulations. Only those that could bring a Dao to its limit, arts to exhaustion, and fortune to its end deserved that name. They were things the Immortal Dao shunned at all costs.
Northern Yin's lingering Demonic Nature reacted fastest. The instant the calamities descended, it turned into a dim light and burrowed into the [Colorless World Gate] below, using this relic of a