Seven days before the heavenly tribulation, Jiang Yu chose to leave Shen Han’s side. He returned, as expected, to the sect where Shen Han resided, intending to hide out there during the tribulation and then focus on his cultivation when the next opportunity arose.
Through his recent interactions with Shen Han, Jiang Yu felt that his own path ahead had become far more resolute. Looking back, he found such a man truly astonishing; the terrifying strength Shen Han possessed had long since surpassed the imagination of most. Just what kind of fearsome existence was he?
Shen Han, however, had originally planned to remain quietly in this small village. For him, there was no need to return to the sect. The reason lay in the very nature of the heavenly tribulation. Most people in this world did not understand what the tribulation truly was; they only knew that the stronger one’s individual strength, the greater the damage the tribulation would inflict. They knew the "what," but not the "why."
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