If someone had been inside the cave dwelling at that moment, they would have seen yin energy spilling through the entire place, with what seemed like remnant souls twisting and snarling within it.
Yet that was not even the most terrifying part. The dense grudge intent shot straight into the heavens, and under its stain, the cave dwelling seemed to transform into a living hell.
As for Li Tianwei, there was even less need to say anything. From the instant he drew the Heaven and Earth Grudge Power into his body, countless figures seemed to emerge behind him, endlessly screaming and wailing.
In such a scene, Li Tianwei seemed to have become a vessel gathering all the resentment in the mortal world.
Amid the violent commotion, the Book Spirit inside Li Tianwei's storage ring nervously flipped through its pages at high speed.
"What is going on? What is Master doing?! Such dense evil intent, such Resentment Force! Even those Evil Demons might not be this terrifying."
Compared to it, the system, bound to Li Tianwei in a life-for-life bond, was even closer to collapse.
Host, Host, stop messing around! This is Heaven and Earth Grudge Power! If you draw it into your body, you'll be crippled.
The system screamed desperately. Since Li Tianwei had blocked it, he could not hear its voice at all.
But even if he had heard it, Li Tianwei would still have gone his own way. In his eyes, danger was someone else's business—it would never befall the protagonist.
Damn it, doing this will really kill you! No matter how powerful the Sacrificial Dao Undying Body is, it only protects your body and life force. If your Divine Soul is completely corrupted and you lose control of your emotions, reason, and consciousness, the Sacrificial Dao Undying Body won't be able to protect you either.
Aside from when Li Tianwei used the Fission Qi Gathering Method before, the system had never been this nervous. No matter how dangerous things had been at other times, it still had the power to shelter Li Tianwei.
But this time was different. Li Tianwei was using his body as a fulcrum, using the grudge intent within himself to connect with the resentment of heaven and earth. This was already beyond what it could save him from.
The reason Evil Demons had invaded this world, and the reason it had brought Li Tianwei across worlds, was because something had gone wrong with this world. It was filled with corruption, resentment, and all kinds of Evil Nature.
When someone had drawn Corrupting Grudge Qi into Li Tianwei's body before, his thoughts had indeed been correct. The entire world had developed a massive problem.
Yet after discovering that problem, Li Tianwei charged straight toward it and even connected himself to it. That was simply courting death.
Absorbing Heaven and Earth Grudge Power to strengthen himself? If resentment could be absorbed so easily, the world would not have collapsed.
That was why the system reacted as it did when Li Tianwei caused such a mess.
It's over, it's over! No matter how lucky you were before, you're now facing the source of the world's filth head-on!
As the system watched the countless shadows behind Li Tianwei—shadows that snarled, grinned, and crazily surged toward him—it felt as though its heart had plunged into an icy abyss.
It was over.
At that moment, Li Tianwei's eyes turned scarlet as well. Evil intent radiated from his entire body, and dense Killing Intent burst forth, adding a trace of Blood Fiend Qi to the cave dwelling.
Within the cave dwelling now was the terrifying resentment linked to heaven and earth through the Vengeful Curse, along with Li Tianwei's dense Killing Intent. Evil Nature was also beginning to grow.
The current situation spoke for itself.
As for Li Tianwei, he too felt his consciousness being pulled away.
The resentment of heaven and earth was nothing like the Corrupting Grudge Qi wielded by Liu Muyu's Wuhun Banner before. The two were not on the same level at all.
The Wuhun Banner possessed one hundred thousand units of Resentment Force, but how vast was the resentment of heaven and earth?
Whenever even one person in the world died because of resentment, a trace of it would spill into heaven and earth. Beyond that, cultivators and living people alike could breed resentment, which would naturally merge into heaven and earth.
For that very reason, coupled with the invasion of Evil Demons, it could be said that the whole world had already turned half-black.
After his consciousness was pulled away, Li Tianwei arrived in a new world once more.
Even now, he had not realized that something was wrong.
Because what he was thinking at that moment was not anything else, but—
"Was I having another epiphany?"
That familiar feeling—wasn't this the state of cultivation epiphany he had desperately sought without success a few days ago?
Sensing Li Tianwei's approach, the resentment of heaven and earth surged toward him and invaded.
The very existence of resentment was meant to corrupt, to thoroughly erode a person's mind and reason, transforming them completely into Grudge Spirits filled with resentment.
Standing within it, Li Tianwei had no idea what the surrounding resentment of heaven and earth was doing. He did not avoid it in the slightest, allowing it to invade him freely.
Nor had the resentment expected Li Tianwei to differ from the living beings it usually encountered. Those beings would be terrified and continuously wield their power to resist such erosion. Who would be like this, offering no resistance at all, even welcoming it?
Seeing this, the resentment naturally could not let the fat morsel before it escape. It immediately began its erosion.
If resentment wished to make someone fall, it would naturally target the weaknesses of human nature.
Thus, all kinds of heart-invading scenes appeared before Li Tianwei. Yet unlike before, the scenes here struck far deeper into the heart.
Li Tianwei sensed the ever-changing visions before him: a lifetime spent seeking something he could never obtain; everything he pursued and cherished being discarded like worn-out shoes in the eyes of others.
There was him loving all people, yet dying because of hatred. There was him being cold and ruthless, yet dying because a flicker of compassion suddenly arose within him.
All manner of scenes sufficient to drive someone into collapse played out endlessly through Li Tianwei's consciousness.
To the resentment, such an utterly realistic state should have made dealing with a living being like Li Tianwei child's play.
Yet as time passed second by second, Li Tianwei's consciousness remained standing firm. It seemed that all the hardships of the human heart could not invade his will.
The person before it was unbelievably steadfast. Stranger still, there was even a hint of enjoyment on his face.
If the resentment possessed consciousness and emotions, it would probably have been dumbfounded already.
And Li Tianwei truly was enjoying this familiar "epiphany."
Of course, it was only an "epiphany" for Li Tianwei. For anyone else, whoever had such an epiphany would die.
Because of Li Tianwei's unwavering confidence, because of what he believed to be an epiphany, it seemed to become reality.
He could feel that he was thoroughly grasping this resentment.
He did not care in the slightest what he himself was experiencing. In Li Tianwei's heart, nothing was impossible. And he truly saw an answer within this dense resentment—he could obtain something from it.
Relying on that thought, Li Tianwei charged toward that answer.
He could feel it: he was getting closer and closer to that answer.
Yet at the same time, the onslaught of resentment began changing without end, turning toward another side.
"What exactly is that?"
Holding that thought, Li Tianwei did not care what lay before him.
"Come! Take it all in."
In an instant, the three-sided fan-shaped Dao foundation between Li Tianwei's brows emerged. The Sacrificial Dao Undying Body was unleashed, and the intents of death, resentment, and killing fused together...
They surged toward that answer.