As expected, raised spirit-mark patterns had appeared on the Earth Immortal Fruit. Although it still looked more or less like the original fruit, no one would have noticed the spirit marks unless they looked closely.
After recognizing those strangely familiar spirit marks, my expression turned grim as well. I hurriedly issued a deathly serious order—the most severe one of all: from that moment onward, all the disciples of Sky City were forbidden from picking or eating Earth Immortal Fruits!
There was only one reason: this Earth Immortal Tree had been infected with the Shared Spirit Song!
This was an utterly catastrophic discovery. Naturally, I also ordered the execution of any disciples whose bodies showed the spirit marks of the Shared Spirit Song!
Yet events still spiraled beyond my control. I knew this outbreak of the Shared Spirit Song would be unimaginably severe, so after giving the order to the Grand Supreme Assembly, I said to Xue Qingcheng, "I'm afraid Sky City won't hold."
"Huh? What did you say?" Xue Qingcheng froze for a moment, but her face soon turned deathly pale as well, because she could easily grasp where things were headed.
Once the Earth Immortal Tree was infected by the Shared Spirit Song, its fruits would carry the contagion too. If someone touched or ate an Earth Immortal Fruit infected with the Shared Spirit Song, the outcome was self-evident. Once one person ate it, anyone else they came into contact with would be at risk. Without proper protective isolation, the infection would spread with the terrifying speed of a plague!
Sky City would soon become a complete den of the Shared Spirit Song!
Thus, I made the decision to abandon the city without the slightest hesitation. "There's no helping it. If you hesitate when you should act, you'll invite