Ye Xiwen sat cross-legged within the Nirvana Pool, his entire body already shrouded in death energy. At this point, the death energy had penetrated deep into his bones; it could even be said that he was beyond all cure.
This was why the female official had been so astonished when she saw Ye Xiwen's condition. The longer one cultivated in the Nirvana Pool, the deeper the death energy invaded. With King Tier strength, after remaining in the Nirvana Pool for so long, he was practically in a certain-death situation.
The death energy had seeped into his marrow and could not be removed even by scraping away the bone. The only option was to abandon his fleshly body and become a Ghost cultivator with his Primordial Spirit. Even if he could enter the Life Mystic Realm that way, the cost was simply too great.
The loss outweighed the gain!
And if it went a step further, the death energy would invade his Primordial Spirit. By then, there would truly be no saving him; even abandoning his body would be too late.
The fact that he had endured until now had already greatly surprised the female official. An ordinary King Tier expert could not last even one day before the death energy invaded their marrow, and by the second day, it might enter their Primordial Spirit.
There had never been another outsider who could endure to this extent.
"Crash, crash, crash!"
Countless bolts of lightning struck directly against the surface of the Nirvana Pool, blasting out a massive hole. The enormous storm tide formed by that terrifying power actually shoved away all the magma within a thousand meters around Ye Xiwen, creating a vast hollow.
Terrifying lightning ran rampant. Even the Undead Phoenixes dwelling in the Nirvana Pool did not dare approach;