Primal Essence Heaven.
The Blazing Sun hung high in the sky when a speck of blue spiritual light suddenly tore through the air, flashing past like a meteor as it shot into the boundless void.
Standing upon the wind, dark golden light gleamed in the depths of Gao Xian's left eye, catching sight of that blue spiritual light several million li away.
The blue spiritual light was a World Essence, a crystallization of spiritual qi formed from the convergence and mingling of Primal Essence Heaven's dense heaven-and-earth spiritual qi. One World Essence was worth one hundred million Top-grade Spirit Stones.
Under normal circumstances, one World Essence was enough to sustain a seventh-rank cultivator for a hundred years.
The consumption spoken of here meant satisfying one's daily needs for drawing in and circulating spiritual qi. In combat, artifact refinement, pill refinement, and the like, spiritual qi consumption was a hundred or even a thousand times greater than normal.
Heaven and earth were undergoing a strange transformation. Spiritual qi was fluctuating with abnormal violence and rapidly declining.
The void laws of the myriad heavens and worlds were all founded upon spiritual qi. As spiritual qi declined, all void laws would collapse as well, and the myriad heavens and worlds would return to the human realm.
As Gao Xian understood it, this was like a building fallen into disrepair over the years. Its framework could no longer bear the strain, and the building would inevitably collapse into ruins.
Throughout this process, whether they lived in the building or on the ground below, everyone would have to endure enormous risks.
Once fifth-rank cultivators condensed a Primordial Spirit, they gained some ability to withstand such risks. At the seventh rank, if they accumulated enough World Essences, they could theoretically find a stable, secluded place and