The Heavens Warning

It had been a few hours since Daedalus had spoken with Ceridwen. He was currently sat in a room she had had prepared for him so that he could practice his cultivation without distraction. The same had been done for Danforth and Rudra as well seeing as they came with Daedalus.

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Within his room Daedalus could be seen looking around. He was quite curious how the room had been built. It was as if nature had formed a room on its own. The room was a spherical shape with a grass floor, the furniture even seemed to be alive.

After satisfying his curiosity for the time being Daedalus sat on the cultivation pillow. As usual it didn't take him long to send his senses inward. After hearing what his aunt had to say about the spiritual tethers Daedalus had had a thought about how he might be able to form more.

Years ago when he was in the Sword God Realm he had trained his energy control to the limit of what it was currently at. His energy was of course far stronger at the time so his current level of control should allow him to create tens of spiritual tethers. However Daedalus had a feeling that the more spiritual tethers you had the harder it would be to advance.

Luckily Daedalus now knew that he could in fact live for millions of years without much worry of age. He would however have to make sure his family stayed alive throughout that time.

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With his decisions made Daedalus returned his senses inward and began to form his second spiritual tether. Compared to his previous spiritual tether his second one was actually formed in about a quarter of the time. This was because he was now more certain on his path and had learned how to do it already. Previously it was his first time doing it so it had taken longer.

And so Daedalus continued to make spiritual tether after spiritual tether, each time becoming slightly faster until he reached the tenth. The moment he began to surpass the ninth spiritual tether and form a tenth Daedalus felt as though, if he continued he could be killed. Quickly Daedalus understood this as a tribulation.

Daedalus had read about tribulations a long time ago, they where trials sent by the heavens to see if you where worthy of surpassing it. A description of how it felt was, a sense of impending doom and utter dread. It also always spoke of the difficulty of the path you would be persuing, in other words a warning.

And Daedalus ignored the warning and continued to form his tenth and eventually eleventh and twelfth spiritual tethers. So the heavens revolted. Daedalus hadn't seen the clouds of pure black malice forming in the sky but he felt it when the first bolt smashed against his body.

With a resounding boom his room splintered and exploded leaving him in the air supported by the domineering energy flowing through him. Soon ten more bolts of lightning fell dashing away the night and smiting Daedalus again and again.