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Does this count as a "leading question"? The novel skips the Mid, Late, and Grand Perfection tribulations, but the author confirmed they exist and that each sub-stage tribulation is stronger than the last (consistent with the lightning tribulations in previous realms).
Q: It is possible to advance to the next realm from the late stage instead of Grand Perfection, so does one get hit by late -> Grand Perfection heavenly tribulation simultaneously if they do that?
A: Grand Perfection Heavenly Tribulation is not needed! However, it is nearly impossible to withstand the advancement Heavenly Tribulation at the late stage…
Q: There was no narration of Heavenly Tribulations within Integration, Star Shattering, and Sacred Vessel other than Heart Demon Tribulation at the Grand Perfection Integration stage, is there a decided number?
A: I just skipped all the depictions…
In the early stage, it is a spinning nebula.
In the mid stage, a fixed star.
In the late stage, a red giant.
In Grand Perfection, becoming a white dwarf is the typical cultivation path of the Sacred Vessel stage.
Normally, the Heavenly Tribulation for the Sacred Vessel advancement ritual arrives from the Four Realms.
Underworld, Interdimensional Void, Source River, and Eastern Heaven Flower Field.
Heavenly Tribulation converges from these realms of four and forces the Sacred Vessel-becoming Esteemed One to 'perceive' all Four Realms. That is the purpose of the Sacred Vessel advancement tribulation.
Just as the purpose of the Star Shattering Star Tribulation is to connect the star and the Esteemed One, the Sacred Vessel advancement tribulation aims to link 'existence' and 'the state after death.'
From the Source River, star veins writhe, and a Heavenly Tribulation that erases spacetime itself pierces me.
From the Underworld, a Heavenly Tribulation composed of the same 'death energy' accumulated within my soul strikes me.
From the Eastern Heaven Flower Field, a Heavenly Tribulation that instantly transforms my body to the fates of the Eastern Heaven Flower Field and scatters me to death penetrates me.
Then, finally.
From the Interdimensional Void, something terrifying and utterly unknowable stabs me.
The one certainty is that if I lose my focus while enduring these Heavenly Tribulations, I will be immediately
pulled into the corresponding realm and die.
The number of Sacred Vessel stage Heavenly Tribulations that come from each world is four.
That means I am supposed to endure a total of sixteen Heavenly Tribulations.