Ninth Miss's words startled Chen Lin.
He truly had never heard of this.
Cultivators already had low birth rates, and immortal cultivators cared only about spiritual roots, not whether a child was male or female, so the change would not be easy to notice.
"Did Master Wuyin deduce the cause?"
An enlightened monk would not lie about something like this, so it had to be happening. Since he had specifically sent a warning, the problem was probably serious.
"Master Wuyin suspects that the laws within the Boundary River have been disrupted, and the yang attribute laws are weakening."
Ninth Miss explained the cause.
Then she added, "My father and the others investigated too. Similar situations are indeed occurring everywhere. Even Oddity Island's golden wheat is no longer growing as well as its fluorescent rice."
"Even Oddity Island has been affected?"
Chen Lin's expression grew grave.
He immediately summoned Yuan Tiancheng and ordered him to send people to investigate the mortal kingdoms.
He also took out his Communication Treasure and contacted cultivators in other planes to verify the situation in different places.
It did not take long.
Yuan Tiancheng reported back. Just as Ninth Miss had said, eight out of every ten children born in the mortal kingdoms over the past two years were girls. Boys were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
The reports from other planes were the same.
Among the offspring of ordinary living beings, females outnumbered males.
Ninth Miss had remained in the room waiting. When the reports confirmed the news, her expression also grew grave.
After some thought, Chen Lin said, "It seems the entire Boundary River has been affected. With the timing lining up so precisely, there's no need to guess. It must be caused by the energy leaking from the Void Rift."