Upon hearing Lan Hua speak, Huang Yulang asked, "Who is this Venerable One? Why does he look so young?"
Lan Hua clasped his hands in greeting and said, "Greetings, Venerable Huang. I am Lan Hua, and the gentleman beside me is the Dragon Prince Baxia!"
Huang Yulang was taken aback. "You are Lan Hua, the one who has been making waves in the Heavenly Domain recently, the new Venerable who has a thing with Tantai Ziyue, who has the strength of a Quasi-Emperor?"
Lan Hua was speechless. What do you mean by "having an affair"? They're clearly Daoist partners!
Why is Wong Yuk-long talking so unreliably? Is he some kind of venerable master?
Huang Yulang said, "Venerable Lan, I heard that you and Venerable Tantai plundered the Li family's immortal fruits. I admire you."
Baxia gave an "oh" and asked, "Did the Li family file a complaint with the Heavenly Domain Management Committee?"
Wong Yuk-long shook his head, "No!"
"The Li family is quite sensible!" Lan Hua said.
Huang Yulang smiled and agreed, "How could the Li family dare? Now that Tantai Ziyue has become the quasi-emperor, what if she gets upset and wipes out the Li family?"
Baxia said, "Stop with the nonsense, Old Dragon Head, tell me quickly, how did you descend to the mortal realm?"
The Blood Demon Dragon let out a mournful sigh.
"At that time, I was wanted by the Tianyu Management Committee. Although I wandered around Tianyu, I was still quite carefree and happy."
But one day, the Heavenly Realm suddenly changed drastically!
"How has it changed?"
Lan Hua's curiosity was piqued.
"It has become extremely terrifying!"
Unbeknownst to him, the Blood Demon Dragon began to use both hands and feet to vividly depict the scene.
"The celestial realm is filled with radiance, which is extremely terrifying. Ordinary celestial beings cannot withstand it at all. Those who are struck by the radiance will have their physical bodies and primordial spirits disappear together."
Even true celestial beings, after struggling for only a few breaths, could not hold on and vanished without a trace.
Lan Hua and Ba Xia were both taken aback upon hearing this.
Huang Yulang, on the other hand, although his eyes showed something unusual, was clearly much calmer than Lan Hua and the other two.
However, this person trembled slightly, as if he was afraid of what the Blood Demon Dragon had said, or perhaps he was looking back on a certain memory that he couldn't bear to recall.
“Even True Celestials couldn’t withstand that radiance, so what about the Venerable Ones?” Lan Hua asked.
Blood Demon Dragon continued, "At that time, I was a Venerable of the mid-to-late stage of the Profound Rank. After being struck by the light, I felt as if my soul was being torn apart. My Yuan Power was also damaged, and my body barely withstood the attack of the light."
"After I realized something was wrong, I knew that the Heavenly Calamity had arrived, and I cursed myself for being so forgetful."
So they flew towards the Heavenly Gate, only to find it closed, and even a Venerable-level expert couldn't open it.
Baxia exclaimed in surprise, "Then how did you manage to withstand it?"
Blood Demon Dragon recalled: "In desperation, I used my dragon body to withstand the celestial radiance and charged towards the Heavenly Nether Sea."
The Heavenly Sea, located in the far north, is a passage connecting the Underworld and the Celestial Realm. I used the Underworld as a route to reach the Half-Celestial Realm.
The Blood Demon Dragon shrank its neck. "Although I escaped the Heavenly Domain, I was severely injured by those rays of light, and my cultivation was greatly reduced. I had no choice but to occupy this barren pit and hide in the darkness."
From then on, they used the creatures in the barren pit as nourishment to slowly recover their strength.
More than seven thousand years have passed, and only now have I fully recovered!
Lan Hua and Ba Xia exchanged a glance and said in unison, "The Great Calamity of the Heavenly Realm?"
Why did the Heavenly Calamity occur?
Blood Demon Dragon shook his head. "I don't know. I've heard the elders of the dragon clan say that this Heavenly Tribulation is unique to the Heavenly Domain and occurs once every eight thousand years!"
"I was too carefree in the Heavenly Realm at that time, and for a moment I forgot about the Heavenly Realm's great calamity, which is why I suffered such a severe injury."
Otherwise, I would rather die than stay in the Heavenly Realm!
"But it's strange, that radiance that descended from the sky, which seemed harmless and even righteous, was the very thing that swallowed up the celestial beings!"
"I really don't understand!" the Blood Demon Dragon sighed.
Lan Hua frowned and asked, "Why have I never heard of this Heavenly Tribulation?"
Baxia also asked, "Why are those aristocratic families and sects in the Heavenly Domain completely unaffected?"
Blood Demon Dragon said, "Perhaps it's because these forces have emperors in charge!"
The abilities of an emperor are beyond the comprehension of a venerable one. The great calamity of the heavens may not be able to harm an emperor, for an emperor protects the safety of aristocratic families or sects!
Moreover, what will the newly arrived celestial beings think when they learn of the great calamity?
All who survived kept silent, otherwise, if word got back to the mortal realm, who would dare ascend to the heavens?
Lan Hua looked at Huang Yulang and saw that his expression was strange, his hands were clenched into fists, and his veins were bulging.
"Venerable Huang, what's wrong?"
"Could it be that you also experienced the last calamity in the Heavenly Realm?"
Upon hearing this, Huang Yulang finally came to his senses and slowly nodded.
Lan Hua and the others showed expressions of certainty, after all, most of those who could become Venerables had lived for more than ten thousand years.
Wong Yuk-long was no exception.
"During the last great calamity, I was merely a minor True Celestial Being!"
Huang Yulang closed his eyes slightly and began to recount that painful past.
"That day, I happened to find a cave to cultivate in on Yunbo Mountain, and my Daoist partner, Yunhua, was also cultivating with me!"
"Just as the two of us were meditating, we suddenly felt uneasy all over, as if our souls were being ripped away, and our vital energy was leaking out of our bodies, completely out of our control!"
"We hurriedly went out, and while we were still in the cave passage, we saw the radiance outside."
Yunhua, wanting to find out what was going on, rushed out without thinking much.
"But the moment she rushed out, the celestial light took her away, leaving only her scream!"
Wong Yuk-long clenched his fist again.
"That scream pierced my heart, and I knew then that the brilliance outside was untouchable."
"Even though I was reluctant, I still turned around and rushed into the depths of the cave, and set up a barrier at the deepest part."
"However, the feeling of spiritual pain is still there, but it has lessened considerably."
Lan Hua frowned and asked, "What happened after that? When did the great calamity end?"
Huang Yulang swallowed hard and said, "I don't know when it ended, I only know it was a long, long time ago!"
"When I went out, the outside world was still beautiful, everything was the same, the spiritual energy was still so abundant, as if nothing had happened!"
"But my Yunhua is gone, and my familiar companions are all gone too."
Huang Yulang gave a wry smile. "The area I was in at the time was mainly inhabited by independent cultivators, and it was called the Unfettered Realm."
"The celestial beings of the Unbound Realm have almost all disappeared; less than half of them have survived!"
Lan Hua and Ba Xia were both startled.
"Less than half completed? This calamity is terrifying!"
Huang Yulang nodded. "After making some inquiries, I learned that almost all of those super powers were intact, and no one disappeared during the great calamity!"
"That's because the Emperor used extraordinary means to protect the entire sect!"
"Only we rogue cultivators and some unorthodox sects almost all perished in that great calamity!"
Blood Demon Dragon added, "To be precise, it should be 'fallen,' or 'died'!"
"Eight thousand years! That's so many years. How many celestial beings must have ascended to the heavens?"
How many celestial beings will perish in such a great calamity? It's unimaginable!
The Blood Demon Dragon looked up at the sky and sighed.
Lan Hua felt a chill run down her spine, wondering what Tianyu was up to.
This place, which is clearly the place where celestial beings live and cultivate, and the celestial realm that many cultivators in the lower realms dream of, is the place where celestial beings live forever, is actually experiencing a great calamity.
What would the celestial beings who ascended to heaven think of this? In the end, immortality is a joke.
Lan Hua asked, "What exactly caused this great calamity in the Heavenly Realm?"
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