The heavenly tribulation would lock onto anyone undergoing it. This was a tribulation exclusive to soul beasts, and no one else could help them.
Anyone who helped another survive a tribulation would also trigger their own.
Fortunately, as long as Xue Linglong did not continuously pour soul power into it, the Ice God Cave Heaven could count as a soul tool and was exempt from that restriction.
It was precisely because of this that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had glimpsed a thread of hope, prompting them to leave the well at all costs and face the heavenly tribulation.
Without the cave heaven, their chances of surviving the tribulation would have been one in ten.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was sheltered by the divine might of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, keeping heavenly tribulations at bay. The moment the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass left the well, the tribulation had already locked onto it.
Boom!
Thunderclouds churned, and a silver serpent plunged from the heavens. The blazing majesty of heaven left every soul beast in the Sunset Forest cowering in fear.
In a quiet courtyard in Heaven Dou City, a white-haired old man abruptly turned his gaze toward the Sunset Forest. Intense surprise flashed through his eyes as he murmured, "This is the heavenly tribulation of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Is a hundred-thousand-year soul beast undergoing its tribulation in the Sunset Forest?"
The old man was none other than Jing Hongchen, who had been ordered to remain hidden in Heaven Dou City. In less than half a month, he seemed to have aged several decades, transforming from a spirited middle-aged man into a decrepit elder.
In the distance, powerful auras soared into the sky throughout