"My power... How can this be... My power..."
The vital essence throughout his body was dissipating, and his three souls and seven spirits were returning to their rightful places.
His heavenly soul returned to Heaven, his earthly soul to earth, and his human soul remained in his body.
Boundless despair engulfed his heart!
More than ninety-nine percent of his power vanished from his body, leaving only a wisp of vital essence!
That wisp circulated through him. He had become a cultivator who had only just stepped onto the path of cultivation.
And it was not just him. Every mountain god, land god, and water god lost their power at that moment.
Only those in the Dragon Palace who drew their power entirely from their bloodlines escaped this fate.
The Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals all regressed, turning back into river creatures and seafood in no time.
The faces of the Dragon Palace's many dragon princes changed drastically as they watched their subordinates regress one after another.
Only those with a trace of dragon blood still retained their power!
In that brief span, roughly a hundred thousand powerful cultivators across the land became things of the past.
Even the strongest among them had only reached the peak of Essence Refining!
The world's logic seemed to grow stricter at that moment, all but sealing away every supernatural power.
Before long, edicts from the Heavenly Court and the Underworld arrived at the ley-line nodes.
The cultivators of the various Dao Lineages stationed at those nodes could only look helpless when they received the edicts.
At last, they knew what had happened!
If they wanted to advance in the future, they would have to diligently study the essentials of their Dao Lineages and become mountain gods, land gods, or water gods!
They would have