His soul was draining away somewhat faster than Li Shun had imagined.
Even from ten thousand miles away, that eerie mass of cloud and mist seemed able to draw endlessly upon his essential power.
His original body remained dormant, its strength level still holding at thirty.
Li Shun watched the number above his head slowly decrease, a sense of unease stirring within him.
He tried to still his mind and focus his spirit, to stop thinking about that cloud.
But its flickering light and shadow seemed to have taken root in his mind.
Instead of disappearing, it grew clearer with every passing moment.
Even murmurs began to rise around his ears, and in his daze, Li Shun seemed to have returned to the interior of the Outer God's magnificent statue.
"This power... does it really belong to an Outer God?"
The cloud's corrosive influence had already exceeded Li Shun's expectations. He made a swift decision and stopped resisting.
His consciousness immediately returned to Square Inch.
His original body had already altered this strand of divine consciousness's fundamental understanding, so when he arrived in Square Inch and saw his surroundings, he froze for an instant.
But the strange phenomena around him soon drew his attention.
The once-calm Mystic Yellow Qi suddenly began churning without pause. At first, it had merely formed a ring of seals outside the transit doorway, but now it seemed to have received some powerful stimulus. Boundless clouds of qi surged forth like raging waves.
In an instant, they formed a sea of clouds that encircled the transit doorway.
The disturbance in the Mystic Yellow Qi sent faint tremors through the entire world.
The sky suddenly darkened.
Shadows like flowing water gradually clung to the world's exterior.
The sight was exactly like the upheaval Li Shun had previously