A Change in the Fundamental Great Law

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"True Person Jiang, you still have roughly a thousand years before the fourth Heavenly Tribulation descends beyond all delay. Why are you planning to reincarnate now?" Shi Xuan advised tactfully. He did not explicitly mention that he would secretly protect True Person Jiang through the fourth Heavenly Tribulation. Even should he fail, Shi Xuan could still snatch out a fragment of his core True Spirit and send him into reincarnation. Compared to reincarnating now, that would spare him the Dao Heart obstacle of fear and retreat, while also allowing him to experience the fourth Heavenly Tribulation firsthand—a tremendously substantial accumulation, just as Granny Yu had done for True Lord Xu back then.

Yet such matters could be done but not spoken of. Nor would True Person Jiang place any expectations upon them. Otherwise, if the two had such an unspoken understanding while facing the tribulation and thus had a way out, not only would there be no hope of successfully overcoming the tribulation, but even reincarnation would carry a Dao Heart obstacle just as it did now. Whether he could achieve Primordial Spirit would still be uncertain.

Thus, Shi Xuan merely reminded True Person Jiang that there were still a thousand years before the fourth Heavenly Tribulation became unavoidable. A thousand years was an exceedingly long time—more than a dozen lifetimes for ordinary people—and within Yuyu Heaven, nearly twenty Primordial Spirit True Persons could be born in that span. It was not impossible that he might touch upon a trace of the divine marrow of the Thunder and Lightning Great Dao.

True Person Jiang chuckled. "This old daoist once hesitated and feared when facing the second