Pingyin County.
The party of several dozen, which had been advancing layer by layer, had now come to a halt. The anomalies that had once been easily slain had undergone unusual changes. Many of them had fused together, their abilities soaring.
At the same time, many martial artists' attacks produced little effect when they struck the anomalies, as though something were absorbing the damage for them.
The most immediate consequence of these changes was that the lower-cultivated martial artists began to suffer casualties. In particular, the Marrow Refinement Realm martial artists had been all but wiped out in this wave of changes.
Even the Organ Refinement Realm martial artists were mostly wounded now. Moreover, the frigid power carried by these anomalies was far stronger than that of anomalies encountered elsewhere.
Even with the blood and vitality of Organ Refinement Realm martial artists burning like furnaces, resisting this frigid energy was extremely taxing. If they continued to be injured, the situation would only grow more severe.
"Elder Fang, what is going on? Do we need to intervene?" an Aperture Refining Realm martial artist asked in a low voice. If this continued, the Organ Refinement Realm martial artists they had brought would likely all perish here.
Although Organ Refinement Realm martial artists held nowhere near the same status as Aperture Refining Realm martial artists, recruiting such people was not easy for Aperture Refining Realm martial artists either.
In small cities, Organ Refinement Realm Rogue Cultivators could practically be uncrowned kings. Very few were willing to venture out and explore Anomaly Domains.
Thus, many of these Organ Refinement Realm subordinates had been painstakingly nurtured by the Aperture Refining Realm experts themselves. To have them die here so easily pained even those Aperture Refining Realm martial artists.
"No rush. This is the Anomaly Domain