After Yu Sheng told the young woman everything he currently knew, she remained silent for a long time.
"I know this isn't easy to accept. It really is rather unbelievable." Yu Sheng sighed helplessly and gestured around them. "But that's the truth. Look around you. This is the anomaly 'squeezed' out of the boundary of humanity's collective subconscious when reality and unreality collided. I still don't know how you suddenly 'woke up,' but if you carefully recall the past, you should be able to notice those incongruous details that have always lingered around you yet could never be seen clearly."
Mo Ran said nothing for a while. Only after pondering for a long time did she speak softly.
"For many years, there has been a kind of 'strange illness' on Shouji. Very few people contract it, but its symptoms are bizarre and inexplicable. Those afflicted would suffer sudden outbreaks of inner demons for no apparent reason, or suddenly descend into madness in broad daylight, claiming to have seen strange and terrifying sights. Yet within an extremely short time, they would suddenly recover, sometimes not even remembering that they had gone mad. They would only be left severely weakened, their Cultivation Level never advancing again...
"Besides that, cultivators living on Shouji were also more likely than other cultivators to suffer cultivation deviation... The proportion wasn't high, only slightly higher, but no matter how people investigated or tried to resolve it, that proportion remained just a little higher.
"For a long time, everyone believed it was related to Shouji's earth veins, or to the spirit-mineral mining and Refining Tower facilities spread across the entire planet... As time passed and no one found anything, it gradually became something people took for granted. 'Shouji is a little strange. The energy veins in remote regions