Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

If a Refining Void Cultivator interferes with another’s Heavenly Tribulation, the energy resonance would likely trigger a Harmonization Thunder Tribulation!

This was by no means a trivial matter.

If a Thunder Tribulation is not self-initiated, it is purely a calamity, offering no benefit. This essentially means facing the Thunder Tribulation while already in a Refining Void state, plunging immediately into the survival crisis of life and death—lucky to escape alive, though typically leading to inevitable demise.

Aside from Xi Yuan, no one has ever survived a Harmonization-level Thunder Tribulation.

Moreover, even if one survived such external Thunder Tribulations, they yielded no advantages to one’s cultivation base.

Thus, within the cultivation world, aside from the intent of mutual destruction, it was exceedingly rare to find cultivators interfering in the midst of another’s Heavenly Tribulation. Revenge was most often sought after the tribulation when the cultivator had been weakened by injury.

“Fellow Daoists, how long until you reach Harmonization yourselves?”

A Great Expert of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace asked with a laugh.

“One thousand years will suffice.”

A Great Expert of Shadow Demon Abyss replied.

“My abilities pale compared to Shadow Sister’s—I need thirteen hundred years.”

A Great Expert from the Green Wood Immortal Sect answered.

“I fare far worse than all of you—I will need two thousand years.”

A Five Elements Heavenly Sect Great Expert chuckled bitterly.

“Two thousand five hundred years.”

“Three thousand years…”

“…”

One Great Expert after another sighed, seemingly resigned.

Suddenly, the air grew still.

The eight looked eye-to-eye, silent for a time.

“Pfft!”

“Fellow brothers and sisters, you are far too honest!”

The Green Wood Immortal Sect’s Great Expert covered her mouth with a light laugh.

Though none knew what she found amusing, her joy was evident—her lively demeanor and bright laughter seemed to mirror youthful vitality once more. She no longer carried the cold detachment of a divine being who overlooked the human world, but instead resembled a mortal maiden.

“Hahaha…”

The surrounding Immortal Sect Great Experts also joined in joyful laughter.

“What’s the point of pretense!”

“This old man needs merely three hundred fifty-seven years before triggering the Harmonization Thunder Tribulation!”

The Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Great Expert laughed boldly and said with grandeur, “Fellow Daoists, if fortune allows me to advance first, do lend me one or two protections.”

“Naturally.”

“Brother Xuanwu truly has profound Dao achievements…”

The surrounding Great Experts all offered heartfelt congratulations.

Yet, some of the more perceptive Great Experts detected subtle changes in the atmosphere. A sense of dread and worry slowly surfaced among many present.

The Eastern Devil School harbors wild ambitions—this was known.

But could Xuanwu Heavenly Palace truly be called virtuous?

Recalling past events, especially the period three thousand to six thousand years before now, many Great Experts of different sects could not help contemplating anew. That stretch of time marked the zenith of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, as it launched offensives on strategic directions across southeast, southwest, and northwest, devouring forty-two Minor Thousand Worlds in its march toward dominance once held by the Great Sun Sword Pavilion in its heyday.

If such power prevailed, would it not just be another Great Sun Sword Pavilion?

Perishing under the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, or under the Eastern Devil School, or under Xuanwu Heavenly Palace—what difference did it make?

The emergence of a Harmonization-level cultivator, after all, would profoundly shake the Domain’s balance.

While faces displayed smiles of congratulations, inner turmoil stirred relentlessly.

“Sigh!”

“It seems mutual trust among us remains out of reach,”

The Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Great Expert, fully aware of the brewing unease among the group, laughed lightly and said, “Yet this is merely typical. When all of you advance equally, the state of the Domain shall naturally return to its former equilibrium—unchanged.”

“Indeed so.”

The surrounding Great Experts nodded.

…

Years later, the Heavenly Tribulation in the starry sky gradually dissipated.

A towering, radiant machine giant, spreading data with light-speed precision, stood in the starry void. His body was covered with fiber-optic data threads.