Some Won, Some Lost

—Making up Monday's missed update. As I wrote, I started plotting out the details of a later Magic Combat scene. It ended up taking a godforsaken five and a half hours. Sigh. I went to bed late, so tomorrow's twelve o'clock update will be a little delayed—around one, probably.

As Shi Xuan observed the Magic Combat, he discussed with Jian Tonghui, Meng Nishang, and Kong Ran his experiences with the many Tribulation Fate Immortal Techniques of the Myriad Tribulations Undying Dao Treasure Scripture from his recent battle against Shen Chenxi. Quite a few True Lords were distracted into listening, nodding repeatedly. In the previous two matches, Shen Chenxi had defeated his opponents with a single Decay Tribulation attack, never displaying the other mysteries of the Tribulation Fate Great Dao. Now, someone who had personally experienced it, defeated it, and was sharing his insights had appeared. It was truly rare.

"Just now, when you fell into the Heavenly Human Second Decay, what did you feel, Shi Xuan?" During their exchange, Meng Nishang, who had been quietly listening and only occasionally interjecting with remarks that struck directly at the heart of the matter, suddenly spoke in an indifferent tone. The many Heavenly Sovereigns who had been paying attention to this conversation grew somewhat solemn.

Shi Xuan recalled, "My Dharma Power was separated from my Primordial Spirit by the Great Dao backlash and began to decay. I could only exercise slight control over it, making it resist the backlash, but it could no longer sustain me. My Primordial Spirit became weak and powerless, gradually aged, and felt unable to do what I wished. Even circulating my Primordial Spirit became extremely difficult, much less resisting the Decay Tribulation according to a cultivation art."

"According to the records in cultivation arts and ancient texts,