"Profound Lord Danyang, it seems you've failed to obtain what you wanted yet again. But..." Li Hunsheng paused deliberately. "But I've obtained what I was waiting for."
As soon as he finished speaking, wisps of black vapor began curling up through the cracks in the soil.
The moment those wisps drifted into the air, they scattered and vanished without a trace.
Yet the spiritual energy and immortal spiritual qi in the air diminished ever so slightly.
"Origin qi!"
Profound Lord Danyang stared at the black vapor through the array barrier, his teeth clenched.
Origin qi was already seeping out from underground, which meant the earth beneath their feet was nearly saturated with it.
Fortunately, the array kept the origin qi outside. None had emerged within the Radiant Light Hall's compound.
But Profound Lord Danyang's brow furrowed ever deeper.
As origin qi continued to escape, the spiritual energy and immortal spiritual qi between heaven and earth would gradually be worn away until nothing remained. When that happened, the defensive array's power would plummet, and it would have to rely solely on immortal spirit stones to function.
Elsewhere.
Bai Jinge clenched both fists, her expression fierce.
"Those damned evil spirit cultivators! How dare they contaminate the earth veins? From now on, the earth veins will no longer release spiritual energy or immortal spiritual qi, and all living things will wither. Worse still, they'll continuously spew origin qi, turning this place into a new Source-Qi Death Domain that will keep expanding. Those vile evil spirits aren't worthy of belonging to the human race!"
"They're hateful indeed!" Song Wen remarked beside her.
What the evil spirit cultivators had done severed the very roots of all life.
By comparison, the fiends and heretics who roamed about slaughtering rogue cultivators and mortals could almost be called