Chenling's Ambition
Seeing this scene, Jin Chengliang knew that this was likely a trap Chenling, the Heavenly King, had set before the Boundless Jade Wall using some kind of magical power.
Outsiders could not see through its mysteries, but he could tell that the things lurking in the depths of this darkness had been formed from the poisonous taint of the Dao, gathered and refined in great quantities; after absorbing countless book spirits within the Great Library, swallowing void space, and expelling it, what remained was a stream of waste gas.
This waste gas could contaminate the entire main repository. From one perspective, the Boundless Jade Wall existed to suppress and seal away this intense waste gas.
Yet within that waste gas, all kinds of resentment, baleful energy, and turbid miasma had also proliferated. These strange beasts, along with the many things lying in wait within the darkness, had all been born from that mass of waste gas!
"This phenomenon isn't hard to understand," Jin Chengliang murmured, fully familiar with all of it. "One purpose of the void currents is to absorb every kind of foul, turbid waste gas in the world.
"And the reason the void currents have become so perilous is precisely because they are a massive garbage bin, filled with violent heaven-and-earth vital energy and contaminated waste gas."
To cultivators, the power of Dao taint was a virulent poison, a powerful source of contamination. Though some methods could gather the power of Dao taint, at the end of the day, it was not used for cultivation, but merely to create certain techniques by exploiting its contaminating nature.
The pollution produced by Dao taint did no cultivator any good. Anyone attempting to cultivate had to overcome this harm, refining their vital energy and magical power to filter out