At the edge of the Immortal Fall Sea.
As Li Yun activated the Divine Ability Life and Death Tribulation, a hazy glow immediately surfaced over his body—white on the left, black on the right—slowly twisting like a Taiji yin-yang diagram.
"Huh..."
In that instant, a startled sound suddenly came from Li Yun's nose.
The expression on his face was one of utter surprise.
"Truly, if you don't investigate, you never know; once you do, it scares you half to death."
Only when Life and Death Tribulation stirred did he discover that, without him noticing, a faint wisp of calamity qi had already enveloped his Divine Soul.
"No wonder I felt danger and crisis."
"So it turns out that, without realizing it, I've already been tainted by calamity qi. This calamity qi really is strange. My Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo is so profound, yet it didn't react in the slightest."
"That really was far too close!"
Toward calamity qi, Li Yun could not help but develop a trace of curiosity as well.
He immediately began to sense it carefully.
With that sensing, he was startled again.
Only then did he learn that this calamity qi was unlike other evil forces, which would directly harm his body, Divine Soul, or cultivation.
Instead, in tiny, subtle ways, it would silently entangle itself with his Divine Soul and wordlessly influence his spiritual intelligence.
Not only would it affect his own cultivation, it would also affect his reaction and judgment toward crises, while leaving him completely unaware—even making him still believe that the judgment he made was the correct one.
It could be called the twisting of cognition.
"Hiss... This calamity qi really is terrifying. This kind of power simply kills people without paying for their lives. No wonder Ye Shenfeng showed such dread and