Ye Han had read quite a few accounts of heavenly tribulations in books, including these unusual circumstances...
For example, if a pill alchemist refined some heaven-defying pill, it might also encounter a heavenly tribulation. This kind of heavenly tribulation was called a pill tribulation, and the pill might be destroyed by the heavens.
Or if a master treasure refiner forged a heaven-defying treasure, it would also suffer the bombardment of a heavenly tribulation. If it could not withstand it, the heavenly tribulation would destroy it.
Demon beasts also encountered heavenly tribulations when they sought to take human form...
One could say that once cultivators reached higher levels of cultivation, heavenly tribulations were everywhere. Like a stick stirring up shit, they forbade this and disallowed that.
Was this not what so many cultivators meant when they said cultivation was a struggle against other people and against heaven and earth?
After all, cultivation itself was an act of defying the heavens, something that exceeded what heaven and earth permitted. Once someone violated the heaven and earth laws, the heavens would send down a heavenly tribulation to punish them...
Especially after cultivators reached the golden core stage, a minor heavenly tribulation came every five hundred years, and a major one every thousand years. This was practically an ironclad rule of the heaven and earth laws, specifically intended to destroy cultivators whose existence challenged those laws...
Ye Han had suffered this heavenly tribulation because he had consumed a metal-attribute spirit fruit and completed the metal spirit root among his five elements spirit roots, achieving a balance between all five elements.
One could say that by completing his spirit roots this time, Ye Han had turned himself into an existence that challenged the heaven and earth laws.
In theory, treasures, heavenly treasures, and indeed anything