434: Abnormal situation, pain

"It looks like I really came to the right place."

You chuckle softly and immediately continue to venture deeper.

During the soul search just now, you discovered that this place, rich in Chaos Qi, truly contained a treasure.

However, it was not some special Chaos Spiritual Energy, but a stone.

Although the Cultivator you soul-searched didn't know what this stone was, it had attracted a large number of Cultivators to come and fight for it.

This immediately made you realize that the stone was not simple.

Although you were not clear about its purpose, getting your hands on it first could do no harm.

As you continued to venture deeper, bursts of noisy commotion reached your ears.

"You're courting death! This item was discovered by our Void Heaven Palace first; do you lot still intend to muscle in on it?!"

"You are the one courting death!"

"This area is all Great Wilderness territory. Since you Void Heaven Palace dare to come to our Great Wilderness territory to snatch things, I will open your eyes today!"

"..."

As intense sounds of fighting erupted, the Cultivators who were competing instantly clashed together.

You first moved forward slowly, and once your Divine Sense could clearly see the situation there, you immediately activated Celestial Travel.

With the sound of a crisp cicada chirp, you instantly appeared beside the stone and stowed it away.

However...

Just at the moment you were about to leave, you suddenly felt the stone vibrate.

Its vibration was extremely intense.

It made you instantly feel that something was terribly wrong, and you threw the stone away immediately.

"Bang!!!"

With a violent explosion, the stone instantly shattered, turning into a cloud of dust.

You and the Cultivators who were still fighting all felt a piercing pain.

"Damn it, what is this?!"

A trace of surprise flashed in your eyes.

This stone was actually able to ignore Overcoming to Subdue and God of One-on-One Battles to inflict damage on you; the person behind it is certainly not simple.

You immediately grabbed a few random Cultivators and launched a soul search on them directly.

What you didn't expect was that these Cultivators also had no idea what the stone's function was.

They had gathered here because they had learned of the stone's extraordinary nature through various channels.

This immediately made you realize that something was wrong with the situation.

You immediately activated Celestial Travel and left the area.

But what you didn't expect was that after you left, the pain brought to you by that dust still remained.

And it was intensifying, quickly reaching a point where it could threaten your life.

You began searching for a way to alleviate this condition you were suffering from.

But when you stepped into a Cultivator gathering place, you discovered that many Cultivators had similar symptoms to yours.

Although the severity varied among them, this all proved that there was a huge conspiracy hidden behind this matter.

A hint of gloom emerged in your heart.

However, since your Crisis Awareness did not send you any warnings, you ultimately decided to wait and see, to see what would happen after some time.

One year later.

The pain in your body had reached an unimaginable level.

But for some reason, your life was not threatened.

You remained in this state of intense pain.

And it was still constantly increasing...

Three years later.

The immense pain caused your Divine Sense to begin to dissipate somewhat.

At the same time, you discovered that all the Cultivators in the Outer Universe had developed a condition similar to yours.

Moreover, most of them had not come into contact with the stone, but had suddenly developed this anomaly.

There were even some Cultivators who had been in seclusion and had never left their Immortal Cave even once.

Yet even so, their bodies still developed the exact same condition as yours.

You knew that this time, it was likely that all Cultivators had been afflicted.

Although no Cultivators had fallen so far, this was certainly not a good thing.

Carrying a heart full of doubt, you began to wait once more.

Ten years later.

The condition of all the Cultivators was becoming increasingly severe.

Now, every time you entered a Cultivator gathering place, you could hear constant, painful roars.

But even so, still no Cultivators had died.

This was like a torturous virus, crazily sweeping across the entire world.

Fifty years later.

Due to the constant intensification of the pain, you were now mostly in a dazed, lethargic state.

However, in this year, you encountered two Heavenly Slaves.

They did not have the same anomaly as the Outer Universe Cultivators.

This made you overjoyed, and you immediately attacked them.

"Who?!"

"Who is it?!"

Seeing you, the two Heavenly Slaves were terrified and wanted to resist, but how could they be your match? In the blink of an eye, you had already captured them and conducted a soul search.

But who would have thought.

The Heavenly Slaves did not understand the anomaly that had appeared in the Outer Universe.

In fact, in their memories, some of their own kind had also developed this anomaly.

It was just that compared to the Outer Universe Cultivators, the number of Heavenly Slaves with the anomaly was not high.

Therefore, you still felt in your heart that this anomaly was inseparable from the Inner Universe Cultivators.

You began to continue searching for Inner Universe Cultivators.

You felt that since you couldn't find the cause in the Heavenly Slaves, you would certainly be able to find the source of the problem in Cultivators at the level of an Envoy.

One hundred years later.

The dazed, lethargic state on your body was becoming increasingly severe.

Under the constant influence of the intense pain, your limbs were even becoming somewhat unresponsive.

But fortunately, even in this state, you still managed to find an Inner Universe Cultivator at the same level as an Envoy—Mo E.

As a higher-level existence, you believed he must know the reason for this anomaly.

You endured the pain, summoned Extraordinary Power and Taiyin Power respectively, and attacked in the direction of Mo E.

You had originally thought there would be a bitter battle.

But who would have thought.

Although Mo E was able to defend at first, before a few moves had passed, he was completely defeated.

You endured the pain and walked forward, discovering that his body was also trembling constantly.

This immediately made you realize that Mo E had also been afflicted!

In the face of this upheaval, no one could be spared.

"Strange, what exactly are these things?"

"Why did some Heavenly Slaves not get afflicted, but instead, existences even stronger than them did?"