Qin Tian said calmly, "This isn't a backlash of cause and effect, but of Great Cause and Effect!"
"Besides, did you think I hadn't anticipated this?!"
Naturally, he could think of anything Emperor Venerable could.
Borrowing the strength of predecessors across the ages went against the rules. The only thing Qin Tian had not anticipated was that he would face punishment from Great Cause and Effect Power rather than a backlash of ordinary cause and effect power.
Cause and effect and Great Cause and Effect were entirely different things.
The former involved only an individual's karmic entanglements and minor obstacles, which Heavenly Emperor Power was enough to suppress.
The latter, however, was a mighty power shared by the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, involving the karmic entanglements of trillions upon trillions of beings. Its quality and quantity were enough to strip away an Immortal Dao Fruit and erase sacred existences.
Moreover, usually only those above Immortal Kings could stir up Great Cause and Effect Power.
For Qin Tian, a mere human dao cultivator, to bring forth Great Cause and Effect Power could be considered an extraordinary talent.
Was it because the Desolate Heaven Emperor was involved... that I suffered a backlash of Great Cause and Effect Power?! Qin Tian pondered.
In the past, to flaunt his might as an Immortal Emperor before the Desolate Heaven Emperor, the Corpse Immortal Emperor had struck across the ages, seeking to crush the Desolate Heaven Emperor of that time to death before the Imperial Pass.
This drew down the punishment of Great Cause and Effect Power, yet he had flaunted his Immortal Emperor might, disregarding its punishment as he tried to forcibly erase Shi Hao from the past timeline.
Thus, the backlash of Great Cause and Effect Power arrived. In the blink of an eye,