The Great Dao, Pollution

Blades of grass?

Caught off guard and kicked flying, the Pure Immortal Maiden had to admit Li Tianqi was right!

The Immortal Realm she had cultivated over countless years was vast beyond measure. Bone fragments flew from her body as she felt something strange where Li Tianming's foot had struck her ribs. It was just like the eerie power she had sensed when he invaded the Immortal Realm, like the power of "Pollution" infecting all things in the world. Veinlike patterns began spreading from where he had kicked her.

This body of white bone had been with her for untold years, yet now she could not expel that power. In mere moments, the wicked force was already eating into her!

As she hurtled backward, she had no choice but to draw on her immortal power. Cracks spread across the tainted ribs, and they broke away from her body.

That ominous power was even polluting the air of the Immortal Realm.

Even the immortal art she prided herself on, capable of devouring any Heavenly Immortal's life, faced the threat of pollution. How was she supposed to devour Li Tianming when he appeared for only an instant?

And then threads began appearing throughout the Immortal Realm!

The Pure Immortal Maiden had no heart left to answer Li Tianqi's taunt. Still flying backward, she fixed the sockets of her skull on Li Tianyi.

Li Tianyi, who had been playing his zither from the very beginning.

The threads came from the ancient cultivators summoned by the Seventy-Two Profound Dharma Divine Resonance Talismans. They stood throughout the Immortal Realm, their bodies breaking down into those threads, their souls clinging to them as well. No matter what living creatures' remains had been used to fashion their bodies, the Soul-Refining Threads had been their true forms from