They had undergone a cycle of life and death, completing a transformation.
The medicinal properties of ordinary precious herbs surged wildly through this alternation of life and death, breaking toward the realm of Medicine Kings. More importantly, their medicinal properties naturally contained a trace of the profound mysteries of life and death—unique, precious, and rarely seen in the world.
Wang Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, a brilliant light blazing within them.
"Just as I thought! When things reach an extreme, they reverse. That is the supreme truth of the Great Dao!"
Breaking through the boundary between life and death brought obvious benefits to the inner world.
Death qi transformed into life force, while life force nourished all things in return, forming a perfect cycle.
The foundations of the inner world became even more stable and profound because of it.
He immediately increased the rate at which he drew from the Styx River.
The vortex on the river's surface rapidly expanded, spreading from several yards to dozens, then to a hundred.
The entire Styx River shook violently as vast stretches of black dead water were swallowed into the inner world.
Even the death qi permeating the air was pulled in by that terrifying suction.
As for the ancient corpses in the river, the Dao Principles lingering within their remains were equally beneficial to the inner world and were taken in as well.
However, this change triggered a chain reaction.
Fairy Guye was the first to notice the anomaly.
At the end of the Styx River, beneath the distant horizon, a massive Frozen Corpse Mountain towered into view.
That corpse mountain was piled from the bodies of countless ancient experts, sealed beneath a thick layer of ice that had remained unchanged since time immemorial.
But now, as Wang Xuan drew away vast