After the Evil Swamp Time-Space Dimension Lord retreated back into slumber, the first to be clearly affected was not Wuzhuo, nor Lian Mo or the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord.
It was Yanxian.
This Level-12 lord of the Drowning Soul Temple had long since fallen into an extremely deep state of Evil Swamp assimilation.
When the Lord of Evil Swamp's activity had surged, Yanxian had appeared utterly terrifying.
He did not possess a complete, clear will like ordinary Level-12 Strong Practitioners. Most of the time, he was more like an echo of the Evil Swamp Origin draped in the identity of a Temple Lord.
It was precisely because of this that when the Lord of Evil Swamp's Rule Will kept surging, the enhancement Yanxian received was far more direct than that of temple lords like Wuzhuo, who still retained a strong independent consciousness.
But now, the situation had reversed.
The Lord of Evil Swamp retreated back into slumber, and the activity of his deep-layer rules fell along with it.
The origin radiance on Yanxian's body also rapidly dimmed, as if its fuel had been drained away.
His enormous Drowning Soul Rule true body had originally been covered in great quantities of black-green pus-light and dark-purple soul patterns.
At this moment, those soul patterns went dark one after another.
There were also many assimilated shells that had once helped him withstand the Mechanical Civilization's attacks, now starting to peel off his body like rotten mud skin.
Saine had been staring at Yanxian the entire time.
He was a special case who, after long-term exposure to the rule contamination of the Evil Swamp Time-Space Dimension Lord, had gradually lost himself and been assimilated into a half-rule lifeform.
If he could be captured whole, Saine might be able to reverse-deduce from him many pathways