Standing once more atop Woodcutter's Peak, Zhang Yang looked down at the disciples below, their faces taut with anxiety.
They had every reason to be anxious. Zhang Yang was anxious too.
As cultivators, even sword cultivators, whose need for Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was not especially great, could not go without it in their daily lives.
Now, because of the earlier suppression of the Sword Valley, the core disciples led by Guan Shan, along with all the outer disciples, had found themselves in the awkward position of possessing cultivation but being unable to release it.
The Age of Dharma Decline was truly terrifying.
Zhang Yang said nothing. He simply waited quietly with the disciples until midnight passed. The moment his personal spiritual vein produced one unit of Nascent Soul-grade Spiritual Qi, he immediately took out half of it, decomposed it into Golden Core-grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and injected it into the Sword Valley. Only then did he slowly issue the order for the disciples to take turns entering the Sword Valley to cultivate from that moment onward.
Their cultivation required Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi as well as sword-qi radiation, but it also produced even purer sword-qi radiation. It was a virtuous metabolic cycle.
Therefore, Zhang Yang could not say, "There's only this much Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, so everyone should stop cultivating and go be farmers." That would have been short-sighted.
For now, however, they could only make do with this half-supply.
Cultivation absolutely could not be allowed to stop.
After arranging the rotation, Zhang Yang once again saw that shadow among the disciples. It was the fifth transformation produced by the anomaly, though it had yet to fully take shape.
"What do you want?"
The shadow stepped forward and bowed. It could not speak,