1097: 284_3 1097: 284_3 “Interesting, someone dares to target our Cloud Reaching Sect?”
The Cloud Reaching Sect, among the Great Teachings of the Eastern Province, was also a very ancient and extremely powerful existence, yet the Five Sounds Sect was different.
A million years after the establishment of an Immortal Sect, a Heavenly Tribulation known as Sect Tribulation would descend upon it.
Sect Tribulation was different from the individual Heavenly Tribulation that targeted a single person; Sect Tribulation was the Heavenly Dao’s catastrophe aimed at the entire Immortal Sect!
If the Sect could successfully pass through the Sect Tribulation, the Immortal Qi of the entire sect would become purer and more abundant.
Moreover, the Heavenly Dao would bestow various treasures, resources, and magical Treasures, even the pathways to Immortal Cultivation.
For an Immortal Sect, there were tremendous benefits to overcoming the Sect Tribulation.
And after passing through the Sect Tribulation, an Immortal Sect could also be referred to as a Great Teaching.
After becoming a Great Teaching, every hundred thousand years, the Heavenly Dao would still bring about a Sect Tribulation.
Of course, these Sect Tribulations would be relatively simpler than the million-year Sect Tribulation.
Simpler, only because an Immortal Sect, after becoming a Great Teaching, received various Heavenly Dao rewards and experienced a surge in power, making the subsequent Tribulations relatively easier.
Later, on the two hundred thousandth year, the three hundred thousandth year, every ten thousand years, the strength of the Sect Tribulation would increase, and by the tenth time, another million years later, the power of the Sect Tribulation would intensify again!
Similarly, whether it was the ten-thousand-year Sect Tribulation or the million-year Sect Tribulation, as long as one survived to the end of each Tribulation, the Heavenly Dao would bestow rewards.
After receiving the rewards, each Great Teaching would hold a celebration to commemorate surviving the Sect Tribulation.
Of course, generally speaking, the Great Teachings wouldn’t immediately hold a celebration at the end of the Sect Tribulation; after all, even if they could survive through it, the disciples within the sect would still suffer losses, and moreover, they needed to assimilate the gained rewards.
Thus, after the end of the Sect Tribulation, each Great Teaching needed time to assimilate the rewards and to recover and replenish their vitality.
As for how long the recovery would take, that was not certain.
Some Great Teachings might take decades to recover, others a hundred years, and some may only need ten years to suffice.
The Cloud Reaching Sect was lucky; their Sect Tribulation arrived before the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth had come, none of their experts were asleep yet, the sect had not been affected by the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, and their experts were present, so they successfully passed through the Sect Tribulation.
Afterward, as the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth arrived, because of the particularity of this period, many years passed before they finally held a celebration.
If not for the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, they would have already held their celebration.
In fact, the unlucky ones were those Great Teachings that needed to undergo the Sect Tribulation during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth.
Although, it is said that during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, the Sect Tribulation would not be as potent as usual.
The way of Immortal Cultivation is perilous, but the Heavenly Dao always leaves a sliver of hope for Cultivators.
If the Sect Tribulation of the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth were as terrifying as usual, it would leave no hope at all, resulting in the entire sect’s annihilation.
Even so, the Sect Tribulation during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth is still more dangerous, because, in a normal period, a Great Teaching could use various treasures and the resources accumulated over a million years.
But during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, those treasures could either only be used above the Earth Immortal Realm, which they could not use, or would only unleash the power of the Golden Core Stage, greatly diminishing their strength.
And their strongest could only reach the Golden Core Period Limit, but how many can actually reach the Golden Core Period Limit?
Thus, for a Great Teaching, if the Sect Tribulation coincidentally occurred during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, that was extremely, extremely unfortunate, even presenting a risk of sect annihilation, and more unfortunate were those where the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth had not yet come but was imminent.
Because at that time, it was not yet the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, the Sect Tribulation’s power wouldn’t just be at the Golden Core Period Limit.
However, by then, many experts had already begun to fall into deep slumber.
Yet, the Sect Tribulation wouldn’t take so much into consideration and would still descend; even as some experts were combating the Tribulation, they couldn’t hold on and were forced to enter a deep sleep in their burial mounds.
Especially, in those cases where the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth was only a few days away, but then the Sect Tribulation descended—that was the most unlucky of all.
In their Eastern Province, there was a Great Teaching that, on the three days before the arrival of the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, faced the Sect Tribulation and ultimately failed to survive it.
The entire Great Teaching was destroyed in one fell swoop, with only a portion of the disciples escaping.
What was once a Great Teaching, now became an ordinary Immortal Sect.
And for the Five Sounds Sect, it belonged to that second kind of misfortune; they had to undergo the Sect Tribulation during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, and it was also their first Sect Tribulation since becoming a Great Teaching.
Even those long-established Great Teachings were extremely cautious about undergoing the Sect Tribulation during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, and some would even invite experts from other Great Teachings to help.
Naturally, the Five Sounds Sect had to be all the more careful.
After all, their initial rise to a Great Teaching was due to their incredibly strong Sect Hierarch, but compared to other Great Teachings, they lacked a vast amount of foundational strength.
Furthermore, their Sect Hierarch was still in slumber, so now they had to rely solely on themselves.
It was for this reason that they agreed to participate in the Cloud Reaching Sect’s grand celebration, to help play music at the celebration, and even to accompany Immortal Bi Yue of the Dragon Chant Sect with their performance.