BOOM—!!!
The entire Myriad Source Valley shook violently. The ground throughout the valley split apart, and a dense, nauseating "resentment of fallen Gods and Devils," accumulated over countless epochs, erupted from beneath the earth like a volcanic eruption!
This black resentment instantly engulfed all of Myriad Source Valley, blotting out the sky and sun and devouring every last ray of light.
"Not good! My spiritual power isn't circulating properly!" a Human Emperor Guard warrior cried out.
Wherever the black mist spread, the Human Race army's spiritual power immediately became incomparably sluggish, as though they had sunk into a deep-sea mire. Worse still, the resentment was frantically corroding their souls, filling their hearts with despair.
But that was not even the most terrifying part.
"Ah—!"
Huang and Zhan Yuan suddenly let out pained roars at the same time. Clutching their chests, they dropped to one knee, their expressions twisted to the extreme.
"What's going on?!" Chu Tian's expression changed.
"It's... it's the Ancient Road marks!" Huang said through gritted teeth, cold sweat pouring down his body. "This array... is drawing out the Ancient Road marks inside us... It's causing them to backlash against us!"
Ancient Epoch powerhouses such as Huang and Zhan Yuan had awakened after slumbering within the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and the rule marks of that road had been branded into their bodies. Yuan Shenji's "Myriad Source Spirit-Devouring Array" was using the pollution of the ancestral land's origin to forcibly reverse the rules of those marks!
Under the backlash of the marks, Huang, Zhan Yuan, and the others were left with less than one-tenth of their combat strength. They were in unbearable agony and could no longer continue fighting.
"Hahaha! Chu Tian, do you see it now? This is the price of defying my Supreme Heaven!" Yuan Shenji