338: Chapter 339 Strange Phenomena Caused by Energy Absorption

The consequences of excessively drawing from, or even completely draining, the energy of a world's plane core...

Just like the shocking example in Feng Ling's bloodline memories: her hometown, the once glorious Phoenix Heavenly Maiden World, was led to the collapse of its world rules, the breaking of its energy cycle, and the rapid decline of its vitality because the origin energy of the plane core was plundered by some existence using an evil secret method, eventually heading toward irreversible annihilation and dead silence.

That was not just the sinking of a continent, but the ultimate tragedy of an entire plane, along with its billions of living beings and long civilization, being forcibly erased from the tapestry of the multiverse.

Lin Muyang naturally would not commit such a short-sighted and cruel act.

Obtaining god-level advancement for his young ladies was so they could accompany him all the way, not to destroy the world.

But a hint of vigilance and curiosity also arose in his heart: what kind of existence was responsible for the tragedy of Feng Ling's hometown? To be able to forcibly extract or even squeeze dry a world's origin, the power level and control over rules of such an existence must have reached an unimaginably terrifying state.

Such an enemy might be one in a million in the endless myriad worlds, with a probability so slim it could be ignored, but for Lin Muyang, who had already stepped into the heavens and was destined to go higher, this tiny probability was a potential threat that could not be overlooked.

"Strength is the ultimate foundation after all," Lin Muyang warned himself inwardly. Even with many God-Tier Auras, and even if he could be called invincible in the worlds he currently experienced, the universe was vast, and there were always stronger masters. He could not slack off in the slightest; he had to constantly upgrade, increase his attributes, and dig deeper into the potential of his Auras to deal with future challenges that might exceed his imagination.

Beside him, Lilia's advancement ceremony had reached a critical moment.

The Elf Maiden's eyes were tightly closed, her expression peaceful and solemn. When she completely let go of her body and mind, attempting to establish a link with the pulsating pure white sphere ahead—the plane core—a sudden change occurred.

The world origin energy, which had been slowly spreading like a warm tide, suddenly seemed to find a perfectly fitting outlet and home, abruptly becoming active and surging! Centered on Lilia, the pure white energy, refined to the extreme, was pulled by an invisible vortex, peeling away from the surface of the plane core sphere and turning into clearly visible streams of milky-white energy, roaring and racing to pour into Lilia's body!

The scale of the energy influx far exceeded imagination, and its surging momentum even triggered a visible energy tide within this stable origin space!

Lilia's entire body was completely wrapped in a thick, inseparable white halo. That light was not static but flowed and permeated her body surface like a liquid. The massive and pure world origin power surged, washed, and merged within her, triggering bursts of violent energy fluctuations.

Under the infusion of energy, her skin became increasingly translucent, as if carved from the finest white jade or condensed from moonlight, faintly revealing a holy radiance that did not seem to belong to the mortal world. What flowed in her veins no longer seemed to be blood, but meridians of light. Her exquisite face, illuminated by the energy, appeared more ethereal and otherworldly, like a Goddess of the Nine Heavens who could ride the wind at any moment, breathtakingly beautiful yet carrying a prototype of divinity that made one not dare to desecrate her.

Lin Muyang, Gui Wanwan, and Feng Ling watched this shocking scene quietly under the protection of the Absolute Stillness Domain. They could feel the majesty and purity of that energy, and they could also sense the bone-deep, transformative changes Lilia's body and soul were undergoing.

However, neither Lilia, who was immersed in the absorption process, nor the three of Lin Muyang, who were fully focused on protecting her, noticed at this moment what a violent chain reaction this energy extraction occurring in the world's most fundamental place had caused to the external real world!

Absorbing the origin energy of a plane core is not silent. This is the mobilization and transfer of a world's most core power, and the ripples it triggers are enough to shake the stable foundation of the entire world.

This point might have been overlooked in Feng Ling's bloodline memories, or perhaps there were few successful precedents over the long years, so the records were vague. After all, for an existence capable of reaching this step and about to touch the god-level, the world-shaking movements outside might really just be insignificant background noise.

But this time, in the world where Velos Continent was located, the situation was somewhat special.

Lilia's extraction of the plane core energy was like throwing a huge rock into the center of a calm lake. The violent fluctuations of energy radiated and conducted outward through the connection between the plane core and the entire planet's rule network.

The first to sense the anomaly were the living beings of the entire Velos Continent.

Whether it was Elandir and Laigong, who were handling government affairs, or the dragons resting in their dragon nests, or the farmers tilling the fields, the merchants hawking in the markets, the small beasts playing in the forest...

At a certain moment, an indescribable palpitation involuntarily flashed through the hearts of all living beings. It was as if the ground beneath their feet trembled slightly, or as if the curtain of the sky was plucked by an invisible hand. Mages found that the elements around them became unusually active and difficult to control during meditation; druids felt a restless tremor mixed into the whispers of nature; even ordinary people felt a surge of inexplicable panic and shortness of breath, as if something monumental was about to happen.

Following that, more obvious signs began to appear.

Throughout the continent, those usually stable magic nodes experienced subtle disturbances in energy output. The light of some ancient magic barriers that relied on earth vein energy flickered unsteadily. In coastal areas, the tides became abnormal, and the calm sea surface rose in waves without wind. In the sky, the flow trajectories of the clouds became chaotic, and occasionally strange halos flashed through the gaps in the clouds.

This was only the beginning.

The true disaster area of the energy fluctuations was not inside Velos Continent, but on the barrier that isolated it from the outside world.