Compared to cultivators gradually absorbing Spiritual Energy from heaven and earth and comprehending the laws of the Great Dao to raise their realms,
the speed at which those living corpses grew stronger by devouring one another was simply unimaginable. They could practically advance by a minor realm every day.
As long as they kept devouring their own kind, they seemed to grow endlessly stronger. Their strength, speed, and defense—every aspect of them rose at a frenzied rate.
The moment this mutation occurred, the cultivators in those starfields had already noticed it.
But at first, they did not take it seriously, merely treating it as some strange phenomenon similar to corpse transformation.
They directly disposed of the infected mortals and animals in large numbers, found some uninfected survivors, and prepared to let those mortals reproduce. In a few decades or centuries, the population would recover.
Some evil sects even noticed those who were becoming stronger at such a bizarre speed. Believing it to be the awakening of some special constitution, they kept them alive and tried to refine them into Corpse Puppets like Flying Yakshas.
However, after they began slaughtering the weak living corpses in large numbers, the cultivators who had initially seemed uninfected also rapidly mutated.
They began attacking fellow disciples at the slightest provocation, becoming increasingly violent and irritable, greedy and hungry. The negative emotions in their hearts seemed to have been endlessly stirred up.
Then, they all went mad...
Their former Primordial Spirits had vanished without a trace, while new Primordial Spirits were born within their infected bodies.
Primordial Spirits filled with darkness...
Once cultivators were infected, they too began devouring one another, growing stronger at a monstrous and utterly absurd rate.
In just a few months,
by the time Taiyin and the others sensed something was wrong