An island located in the Outer Sea, where countless lives multiplied and cultivated.
After all, it was a Source World that had never shattered. Though called an island, it could in some sense be considered a small continent, fully capable of supporting countless lives and even cultivators.
Yet at this moment, this immensely prosperous island had also fallen into a hellish disaster.
A Universe God sat cross-legged high in the sky, holding a Soul Bottle as he gazed down at the island with satisfaction.
A team of demons was massacring the island's inhabitants with mad abandon. Under such extreme slaughter, the lives struggling to survive had no choice but to unleash their Life Instincts to the utmost.
Yet what was even more despairing was that the radiance of souls erupting amid despair was precisely what the demons truly desired.
If they merely wanted to kill, the Universe God above could have slaughtered the entire island with a few large-scale attacks, leaving them no ability to resist at all.
But that was not what they wanted. They preferred to see each life push its soul to the limit.
That was why they had gathered weaker subordinates to slaughter these lives bit by bit, all to drive them into desperate straits.
The souls of living beings were miracles of the world, possessing unimaginable power.
Even those who had embarked upon the Soul Origin Dao, or even comprehended the soul lineage completely, had merely set foot upon the Dao. They likewise could not fully understand the entirety of the soul.
But all cultivators understood that every soul occupied a portion of a Source World's origin. Though it had been diluted by an unknowable number of times, that occupation was undeniably real.
That was also why so many demons appeared throughout the world. One