In those days tribulations had only been triggered upon reaching the very peak of the sixth tier, but after the fighting and carnage stirred up by that age, Cregar had needed to change its rules.
As a form of recompense for the rebellion, Cregar initiated something the immortals called a 'world-wide tribulation.'
It had happened right after Cregar's strongest cultivators had killed off the remaining summoned creatures. An effort that had laid waste to entire kingdoms and had taken over a century of effort to deal with.
Only a small fraction of Cregar's strongest survived, and it was during this moment of weakness that the human leader of the 'rebels' had resurfaced from hiding to conduct a time alteration ritual on the whole planet.
"Cosmic rules," Noah muttered, getting a gist of things now. Slowly, he could sense weight begin to rest on his shoulders; Ersha's memories were surfacing… and so were the images of what happened whenever planets or races broke such rules.
