Immortal Pivot, a mortal kingdom in Jiangbei.
The battles of the Divine Immortals above the Vault Sky had not affected them. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea—even if the sky fell, life still had to go on as usual.
At this moment, within a rural village.
A bare-chested young man yawned as he walked out of his thatched hut, intending to sweep the yard and feed the chickens he kept.
However, when he reached the chicken coop, he froze.
Inside, the plump roosters and hens he had raised had all become skeletons. Chicken feathers littered the ground.
"What the hell?"
The young man opened his mouth. Suddenly, he felt a faint pain between his brows and instinctively scratched at it. Then he grew even more bewildered, because there on his fingertip—
Was a scrap of flesh.
There was no blood, only that scrap of flesh. As time passed, it rapidly began to rot, even gradually giving off an intense stench.
"What's going on?"
A bad feeling rose in the young man's heart. Then his entire body suddenly began to itch. He simply gave himself a shake, shaking all the flesh and blood off his body.
"Whew, much better."
Having done all that, the young man hurried back into the house. "Dad! Mom! Something ain't right! The chickens at home have all turned into bones!"
A moment later, terrified screams came from inside the house.
The same thing was happening throughout the mortal lands of Immortal Pivot. Countless mortals shed their flesh and blood for no reason, leaving behind nothing but skeletons, yet their consciousnesses remained perfectly clear.
As time passed, this change rapidly spread to Qi Refining cultivators, unstoppable. Only Foundation Establishment True Persons could barely suppress it. They merely felt as though they had fallen gravely ill, discovering