"It really is a heavenly tribulation."
Su Ming confirmed one of his suspicions.
This tribulation, born from being targeted by the Universe's Will, was almost identical to the Fierce Beast heavenly tribulation.
If there was any difference, it was in intensity.
The intensity of the Fierce Beast tribulation increases every hundred thousand years. It grants no benefits to the Fierce Beasts, only brings them harm.
It's a form of screening. A four hundred thousand year Fierce Beast is generally stronger than a three hundred thousand year Fierce Beast, not because they gained benefits from the fourth tribulation, but because they survived.
The lower limit is the four hundred thousand year tribulation. A Fierce Beast that has survived that is naturally generally stronger than one whose lower limit is the three hundred thousand year tribulation.
The mechanism is the same. That is to say, the Fierce Beast tribulation was differentiated from the universe's heavenly tribulation.
At At this moment, Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena shared the same thought as Su Ming.
She was also drawn by the tribulation Su Ming had attracted.
She didn't care about the apocalyptic scene.
What concerned her was the aura.
A heavenly tribulation!
"How could Su Ming attract a heavenly tribulation?"
Furthermore, this tribulation was different from the Fierce Beast tribulation. The Fierce Beast tribulation increases every hundred thousand years, its intensity somewhat fixed.
The tribulation Su Ming attracted seemed to be the same as the divine tribulation for Spirit Beasts.
Certain death.
Its intensity increases based on the strength of the one facing the tribulation. It is a disaster specifically designed to kill you.
"Could it be from his forging just now? At first, he was clearly favored by the Universe's Will. Then he turned around and was targeted like this by it. Su Ming angered it."
Gu Yuena looked at Su Ming's eighth Spirit Ring, which was still evolving.
Many others were also looking at that eighth Spirit Ring, as if seeing all things within it, falling into an illusion, seeing their own past, seeing their infinite futures.
When they came to, they only remembered seeing those concepts, but couldn't recall exactly what they saw.
What a peculiar Spirit Ring.
An eighth Spirit Ring, able to be this special.
Just what level had Su Ming's realm reached?
Gu Yuena's heart felt heavy.
Mu Ye, Zhen Hua, and others wore worried expressions.
The Abyssal Sage King's expression drastically changed.
Because the malice of the universe he had felt earlier wasn't just a indiscriminate sweep from an angry Universe's Will.
He had been locked on.
Why?
The Abyssal Sage King looked at Su Ming and cursed loudly.
"Bastard! What have you done?"
The Abyssal Sage King was both shocked and furious. He didn't know how he had been targeted by the heavenly tribulation drawn by the Universe's Will.
Now, looking again at the rolling tribulation clouds, they covered not only Douluo Star, but energy inside the Abyss had also begun to unconsciously converge.
Even he, the Lord of the Plane who controlled all the Abyss's power, couldn't stop this energy from gathering.
The universe's authority was even higher than his own as Lord of the Plane.
Su Ming, however, seemed not to hear the Abyssal Sage King's curses.
It was only to be expected.
He had now entered the Trinity state. The eighth Spirit Skill just obtained by the Douluo 1 Su Ming was being utilized in a different way.
"Eighth Spirit Skill, Heavenly Tribulation Descends Upon the World!"
He merely allocated a portion of the tribulation's target to the Abyssal Sage King.
Under normal circumstances, this Spirit Skill's effect is to have the enemy locked onto by the tribulation's mechanism, then the universe gathers the tribulation and sends it down upon them.
Su Ming couldn't be sure of the tribulation's intensity, since the other party hadn't exactly offended the Universe's Will.
It would simply change according to the hatred Su Ming had drawn.
Simply put, there is no such thing as getting big results with small effort in this world. There is only value for money.
If your own strength is insufficient, even if you can divert the tribulation, you can only divert a portion of its power.
Perhaps the reason the intensity of the Fierce Beast tribulation differs according to the beast's cultivation involves this factor.
Su Ming didn't condense a new tribulation for the Abyssal Sage King.
He merely transferred a portion of the hatred from the tribulation he was currently facing to the other party.
That meant that part of the current tribulation's power would be diverted to strike the Abyssal Sage King.
The tribulation descended because Su Ming had violated the Universe's Will. The formation of the tribulation also determined Su Ming's strength, and its intensity would be adjusted accordingly.
However, if someone was constantly tributing it, the tribulation would no longer be certain death.
Even if the tribulation grew even angrier and stronger because it couldn't kill Su Ming, the added power would be drawn toward the Abyssal Sage King. The power that actually remained for Su Ming would still be insufficient to kill him.
By playing this back-and-forth, Su Ming would have a chance at survival.
After all, the universe doesn't truly have consciousness.
Even if a person gets bitten by a mosquito, they'll only itch it for a while, not their whole life.
This kind of instinctive resistance from a non-conscious universe naturally wouldn't have the goal of killing Su Ming.
It's just that the power of the tribulation it sends down is certain death for the one crossing it, hence the saying that the tribulation exists to kill the person crossing it.
Of course, there's also a premise to all this.
Su Ming transfers a portion of the hatred to the Abyssal Sage King. According to the Fierce Beast tribulation's logic, the tribulation would become stronger. But in Su Ming's case, it seemed not to notice that the Abyssal Sage King was Su Ming's 'helper'.
Another point: if the tribulation can't kill Su Ming, its power will increase. It won't precisely calibrate itself to Su Ming's strength limit to kill him. The tribulation isn't that economical. There's also the possibility that even with the Abyssal Sage King shunting a portion, the remaining power would still be enough to kill Su Ming.
These two points were the key.
And just Su Ming had a solution.
"After all, I have stolen a portion of the universe's status."
Su Ming chuckled lightly.
He knew all about status.
Under his Trinity talent, what he played with most was the mutual borrowing of statuses.
If a mosquito bites you and there are other mosquitoes around, when you get angry, you might go after all of them.
But if you restrain yourself, you'll only swat the mosquito that bit you, ignoring the ones that didn't touch you.
In reality, the latter is very common.
Su Ming was a thread of will within the universe.
At the same time, solving the issue of the tribulation's upper limit wasn't difficult.
The tribulation's mechanism is to mobilize enough power to kill Su Ming, based on his strength.
What Su Ming needed to worry about was excess power.
If too much power overflowed, his secret transfer of hatred would be pointless, and he wouldn't be able to withstand the remaining tribulation.
However, Su Ming's status had increased.
When the Douluo 1 Su Ming stole the power of the universe's origin, he didn't become the Lord of the Universe, but at least he became a part of the universe's origin.
At that point, he only needed to lever the universe's self-protection mechanism to compress this overflow.
Why go all out to kill yourself?
Of course, I respect you too. The killing intent is still there. The tribulation's mechanism remains in place; I won't touch it. But there's no need to use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
This was Su Ming's strategy for facing the tribulation.
Now, the tribulation had finally brewed into shape.
Su Ming judged its intensity, estimated his own strength, and for the time being, did not intend to transfer the tribulation to the Abyssal Sage King.
This tribulation wouldn't test Su Ming's upper limit.
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