A Glimmer of Hope

Everyone's worries were not without reason.

Ever since news of the disaster in Ancient Saint City had spread, the entire Eastern Region of Central State had fallen into unprecedented chaos.

As the Demonic Qi from the direction of the Eastern Continent gradually invaded the Eastern Region of Central State, many people felt an unprecedented heat and irritation surge into their hearts.

Most people paid it no mind and suffered cultivation deviation.

Even the small number who keenly sensed something was wrong and immediately stopped cultivating would be stunned to discover that a force that did not belong to them was invading their meridians and polluting their Dou Qi.

For a time, everyone felt endangered. Even when some consciously tried to prevent such things from happening, they still could not stop those who had begun to suffer cultivation deviation from launching indiscriminate attacks.

Former close friends crossed blades, brothers fought each other, sect leaders went on killing sprees and slaughtered their entire sects, and reclusive experts, in their frenzy, turned cities into scorched earth for a thousand miles.

For factions like the Gu Clan, which already possessed Dou Sheng experts, things were somewhat better; at least they had the strength to suppress it. But sects with only Low-level Dou Zun were often the worst hit.

Once this Demonic Qi entered the body, a moment's carelessness could make even a Low-level Dou Zun fall victim. And once such a Dou Zun suffered cultivation deviation, everything within a thousand miles would suffer disaster.

Three days passed, and the air across the Eastern Region of Central State had already gained a faint reek of blood.

The first wave of cultivation deviation was finally suppressed for the moment by the various factions of the Eastern Region of Central State at any cost. Many people died.