For every additional Dao Integration Realm Expert in the Immortal Realm, a portion of the Immortal Realm's origin was divided away.
And the fatal part was that as this Dao Integration Realm Expert grew stronger and their realm rose higher—
That expert required even more Origin Power, occupying an even greater portion of the Immortal Realm's origin.
Although they were fused together, the origin they occupied no longer truly belonged to the Immortal Realm.
Thus, the origin that belonged solely to the Immortal Realm began to dwindle without end.
This caused the Immortal Realm to fall into many extremely unfavorable circumstances.
The most obvious of them was the Barren Land of the Immortal Realm.
Not only did not a blade of grass grow in the Barren Land, but it had also formed an extremely peculiar environment. It could devour not only the Immortal Realm's spiritual energy, but even vitality itself.
The Barren Land was a place that had completely died.
If it had merely been so, the Immortal Realm's experts would not have acted to seal the place away.
This was the price after the Immortal Realm's origin had been carved up.
However, plundering Spirit Realm Secret Realms and absorbing their vitality could somewhat alleviate such a crisis.
More importantly, devouring the vitality of living beings from the outside world was equivalent to injecting fresh external power into the Immortal Realm. It could strengthen its origin.
Yet it was not true that the higher a person's realm, the stronger the external power they brought.
On the contrary, those with special bloodlines, talents, or other such powers could strengthen the Immortal Realm's origin after being sacrificed to it.
Although such strengthening might not have been particularly obvious, it was still better than nothing.
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