Fang Xuan, not far away, was also astonished. He had never expected Wood Daoist to be capable of wielding Turbid Fate at this moment.
All Buddhas emerged from the Five Turbid Evils of the world. They were known as Kalpa Turbidity, Affliction Turbidity, Sentient Being Turbidity, View Turbidity, and Turbid Fate.
Your perceptions and knowledge originally possess no differing nature. Yet the multitude of dusts separate and transcend them, producing formless distinctions. Within one's nature, there is mutual awareness; in function, there is mutual opposition. Sameness and difference lose their measure, weaving delusions together. This was the fifth layer, called Turbid Fate.
Turbid Fate referred to how, in the final age, sentient beings became consumed by accumulated afflictions, their bodies and minds exhausted, causing their lifespans to shorten.
Simply put, the power of Turbid Fate could make a person's lifespan rapidly drain away. In an instant, a thousand years could pass.
"Ah..."
Miserable screams rang out one after another. All the dragons enveloped by Turbid Fate visibly aged at a rapid pace. These dragons were Eternal Giants who had cultivated to the Eternal Life Realm, and dragons possessed far longer lifespans than humans. Yet before Turbid Fate, their lifespans still drained away at an alarming speed.
Some dragons of the Heaven Cave Realm saw their hair turn gray, wrinkles spread across their faces, and their bodies grow old. They became older and older, utterly powerless to resist.
"Th-this... what kind of power is this? It can actually consume lifespan?" the Yuhua Three Sages cried in terror.
Feng Baiyu's expression also turned grave as he watched Wood Daoist with deep apprehension.
Although one's lifespan increased along with one's cultivation, lifespan remained the greatest shackle for ordinary cultivators. Every breakthrough in realm was a struggle against heaven for one's life.
Yet this