The chaos in the rules began blooming on multiple fronts all at once. Some of the junior cultivators on both sides died outright under the rules' backlash, while the luckier ones got to enjoy the experience of having their souls dragged off.
Chen Xixi, for instance, was currently chasing after a soul with boundless enthusiasm.
She felt that her luck couldn't possibly be better. She'd just entered the Central Continent and was wandering around aimlessly, without really searching for anything, when she spotted a soul being dragged along by some unknown force.
Nowadays, it seemed the rules were the only things left in the Central Continent.
Naturally, brimming with curiosity, she chased after the soul.
She had no idea whether that unlucky soul belonged to the Heavenly Dao Sect or Yanluo Hall, or how long the rules had been dragging it around. In any case, it was already showing signs of dissipating.
After chasing it for several hundred miles, the light of the rules abruptly stopped, because the soul had finally given out and shattered.
Chen Xixi was eager to seize the opportunity and reached out to touch it, but the light flashed and vanished into the void. She gritted her teeth in frustration.
In the end, she could only obediently land, sit cross-legged like Muzi Li, and close her eyes to calm her mind.
When the Heart-Questioning Illusion opened, a soul bounced about inside it. Her peerless beauty could no longer be concealed here. The soul was beautiful beyond compare, but her hyperactive nature was just as bizarre to the extreme.
She soon found the place where the light was emanating from. Her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurried over, greeting the ball of light.
"Hello there, rules!"
As soon as she waved, a force rushed toward