In the third month of the Cosmic Origin Ecological Network's stable operation, an alarm suddenly sounded from the Spirit Vine Monitoring Tower in the Wood Spirit Space—the core spirit vines responsible for sustaining the ecological network were withering at an alarming speed. When the Wood Spirit Clan chief arrived with his Wood Spirit Staff in hand, he discovered a layer of transparent "origin parasites" clinging to the roots of the withered vines. Like invisible suckers, they greedily fed on the Wood Spirit origin within the vines, even spreading through the ecological network's veins toward other spaces.
"This is bad! These parasites can travel along origin veins. If they reach core spaces like the Mortal Realm and Spirit Charm, the entire ecological network will collapse!" The Wood Spirit Clan chief immediately contacted Chen Fan through the Myriad Domains Interconnection Core. In the image projected by his Wood Spirit Staff, transparent parasites writhed within the spirit vines. Wherever they passed, emerald vines instantly turned gray and lifeless. "They have no physical means of attack, yet they can directly erode origin cores. Ordinary purification arts cannot remove them at all."
At that moment, Chen Fan was leading a patrol team in the Thunder Evolution Space, inspecting origin nodes. Upon receiving the news, he immediately brought Su Muxue, Lin Xiaohu, and Ling Xi to the Wood Spirit Space. The instant they stepped into the Spirit Vine Monitoring Tower, a faint aura of disrupted origin slipped into their nostrils. The space, once filled with the fresh Wood Spirit origin, was now mixed with a trace of icy "parasitic origin," stirring unease in their hearts.
"These parasites' origin fluctuations are highly unusual. They belong neither to chaos nor to void. They are more like mutated forms of a 'predatory origin.'" Su Muxue pressed a Spirit Charm