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The poster was an official Level 6 Saint with the ID "Fallen Flowers Without Feeling." He wrote that he had heard the Spirit Realm prompt and chosen to join the Slaughter Dungeon, only for the prompt to get stuck on: "Ding, Spirit Realm map opening. Entering the Spirit Realm in 30 seconds."

And it remained stuck for a full five minutes.

Walkers and Saints below Level 6 didn't believe him and replied in the comments:

[Executive Fallen Flowers, is this for experience points or clicks? I admit, your title got my attention.]

[Haha, sure, we complain in private that the Spirit Realm is a server, but don't kid around. Anything in this world can malfunction, except the Spirit Realm.]

[You'll get me to believe the Spirit Realm malfunctioned when the sun rises in the west.]

No one believed it. The comments were filled with laughing, joking replies.

Until Huang Taiji replied:

[The Spirit Realm really has malfunctioned.]

Jiang Ju:

[Damn, so I wasn't the only one.]

The lower- and mid-level Walkers realized in horror that it was true.

The Spirit Realm, a supernatural artifact that had operated for more than a century, had actually malfunctioned.

The phenomenon left the official Walkers both terrified and excited—when faced with phenomena or disasters that broke convention and natural laws, people instinctively felt a thrill.

Like when heavy snow sealed off the mountains, people got excited; when a school suffered a widespread power outage, the students got excited.

But Zhang Yuanqing couldn't feel happy at all. The Spirit Realm's malfunction made him realize two things: first, someone could now affect the Spirit Realm's operation, setting a precedent unseen in a century.

Second, the Spirit Realm's malfunction meant the Slaughter Dungeon had not opened.

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