Lu Yun saw everything clearly. The enormous shadow shrouding their region wasn’t a heavenly tribulation or any other kind of tribulation, but some sort of living entity. It was a life form so powerful that it boggled the mind.

It seemed to reside in another plane, but could also entangle with the Hongmeng great dao to create the misconception of a tribulation.

There was a legend in the third realm that ascending to titled kinghood as a ninth step king was forbidden. Anyone who violated that rule would die.

Qing Yu had run afoul of it when she became a titled king and had had to destroy one of her dao rules before the entity would depart. If it wasn’t for Lu Yun’s Pills of Creation and the Alchemist King’s...