"Heavenly Punishment!"
"It's actually Heavenly Punishment!"
"What did she do to provoke Heaven's wrath?"
The eight Half-Step Mighty Ones were all stunned.
This was too terrifying.
Heavenly Punishment was Heaven's chastisement. Over the past million years, it had scarcely ever appeared.
Only a few exceedingly ancient texts contained records of it.
Heavenly Punishment, Heaven's chastisement-certain death, with no hope of survival.
At the end of the Mythological Era, Heaven and Earth had undergone a great upheaval.
For everyone cultivating the ancient single-Secret-Realm method, a Heavenly Tribulation descended whenever they broke through a minor stage.
Each tribulation grew stronger than the last, eventually becoming Heavenly Punishment that annihilated everything.
Cultivation through the Ancient Method had been cut off from then on. Even ordinary paper could no longer bear the secrets of that method.
Only then had later generations, seeking eternal life, begun continuously opening Secret Realms within their bodies.
The Sea of Bitterness nurtured boundless life essence, while the Dao Palace produced innate essence to nourish the Great Dao.
The Four Extremes connected with Heaven and Earth, becoming one with them.
Dragon Transformation threaded together the mighty power of the four great Secret Realms, breaking through the barrier to the Immortal Platform and advancing step by step toward eternal life.
Thus, the ancient Way of Longevity through cultivating a single Secret Realm had lost its lineage, becoming a taboo of Heaven and Earth.
All of this was because the ancient single-Secret-Realm method consumed too much.
Using Heaven and Earth to replenish oneself, evolving each Secret Realm to its utmost limit until it stood shoulder to shoulder with Heaven and Earth-this was far too terrifying.
As Heaven and Earth gradually declined, a great upheaval and the descent of Heavenly Punishment had become almost inevitable.
Although Heaven and Earth possessed no consciousness, a