Xie Jiang told Lu Yin exactly what he had seen. The more Lu Yin heard, the grimmer his expression grew. The Spirit Seeds had left their hosts' bodies, and the hosts had died. How could anyone die that way? Everyone in an entire domain had met the same fate.
Xie Jiang himself was terrified. The scene had been so horrifying that he felt he had witnessed the greatest secret of the Spiritualized Universe. He had joined the journey to the Boundless not only because he wanted to cultivate there, but also because he feared he would end up in a desperate situation himself. Only the Boundless could save him.
Even at the level of the Spirit Ancestor, he had no idea what he had witnessed.
Xie Jiang hadn't said much. Once he finished, he was escorted away. Lu Yin allowed him to join the Boundless.
Lu Yin remained where he was, a Spirit Seed in his hand.
No wonder Wu Huang had been forced into such desperate measures. He feared that the Ten Thousand Beast Territory would suffer the same fate as the Wei Domain, with every cultivator's Spirit Seed leaving their body and killing them. If that happened, it would spell the end for Beast-form Spiritual Molting. The Spiritualized Universe's Beast-form Spiritual Molting would never have a chance to recover.
Had that Star Fan done this? Star Fan had used this threat to coerce Wu Huang. Did Star Fan have the power to make every cultivator in the Spiritualized Universe's Spirit Seed leave their body?
If so, could cultivating with Spirit Seeds even be called cultivation? It felt more like a scam.
The Spirit Seeds certainly hadn't left their hosts' bodies for no reason. Either the Nine Heavens Universe was using this to threaten the Spiritualized Universe, or the