The third stage of the End of the Epoch, the stage when strange phenomena emerged one after another, would bury thirty percent of all cultivators in the entire epoch.
Though the proportion did not seem particularly high, there were simply too many cultivators in an entire epoch. Thirty percent of them was still a terrifying number.
The fourth stage of the End of the Epoch was also the final stage—the Era of Spirit Deprivation.
During this stage, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth would vanish completely, leaving not even a trace behind. If cultivators wanted to live longer, they could only rely on the spiritual energy within their bodies to cling desperately to life.
At the same time, this stage was the darkest period of the entire epoch. Some peak experts would go mad in their pursuit of surviving into the next epoch. In order to stay alive, there was nothing they would not do.
Even when the End of the Epoch first began, some top experts had already started making preparations.
And their preparation was—Blood Food.
They captured vast numbers of cultivators and sealed everything about them away. Once the Era of Spirit Deprivation arrived, those captured cultivators would become the guarantee that those experts could survive into the next epoch.
Cultivators suffered miserably, but mortals suffered even more. Compared to the number of cultivators, the number of mortals was greater by an unknowable margin.
Once all the cultivators kept as Blood Food were exhausted, the apocalypse of mortals would arrive. Those experts would begin sweeping through the worlds of mortals, extracting the faint traces of life force from their bodies to sustain their own lifespans.
Especially during the period between the End of the Epoch and the beginning of the next epoch, the world would be filled