Shi Ding'an looked ahead curiously. The moment he arrived, he sensed a kind of filth.
It tainted not only the world vital energy, but the soul as well. That entire sea in the distance felt every bit as foul to Shi Ding'an as the Heart Anomaly Realm.
Perhaps the contamination in most parts of the Heart Anomaly Realm was not even as severe as that of the Yuanlin Sea before him.
Yet upon carefully sensing the Heart Anomaly Realm and the Yuanlin Sea, he could still discern many differences between them.
The Heart Anomaly Realm was the dark side of the Void Return Realm. All negative emotions accumulated there, which was why it contained such extreme powers as the Eight Sufferings of All Beings.
Those negative emotions caused the world vital energy within the Heart Anomaly Realm to become inverted.
In the Yuanlin Sea, however, the world vital energy had not reached such an extreme state. Instead, something indescribable within it made the sea exceptionally filthy.
"It's the incomplete Heavenly Dao. Or rather, a plane's instinctive unwillingness before its destruction."
Seemingly noticing the confusion in Shi Ding'an's eyes, Chen Fei spoke.
Planes normally possessed no spiritual wisdom. Neither the Void Return Realm nor small planes like the Endless Sea possessed it.
The saying that the Heavenly Dao was unfeeling meant that planes did not have thoughts of their own as sentient beings did.
A plane essentially possessed only instinct. For example, when the Void Return Realm received nourishment from the plane origins of other planes, it instinctively bestowed rewards from the Heavenly Dao.
The Yuanlin Sea had been tainted by a broken plane's resentment and unwillingness just before its destruction, turning it into its current state. The evil creatures within likely lacked spiritual wisdom because they, too, had been contaminated