In the Origin Void Dao-world, atop a rocky platform beneath a verdant pine and cypress, Ling Lingzi's body trembled slightly as he abruptly awoke. His expression sank.
This clearly meant that the avatar he had sent into Celestial Xia had perished.
And not just him—every Origin Xia cultivator who had taken part in this campaign had met the same fate.
He followed the thread of his thoughts, seeking to learn what had happened in the end. Yet the moment he pursued it, he felt himself sink into a patch of murky darkness, accompanied by countless scalp-prickling chewing sounds.
Alarmed, he immediately erased that consciousness. Yet even so, those sounds still lingered within his senses.
At that moment, he suddenly sensed something wrong. Pulling back his sleeve and focusing his gaze, he saw dense scales of varying sizes appearing across his arm, with clumps of fuzz sprouting from the gaps between them.
That filth had actually traveled along with his thoughts.
He immediately formed a hand seal and connected to the Origin Xia Heavenly Order. After a short while, the strange sounds in his perception and the abnormalities upon his body gradually receded and vanished.
But through that brief entanglement, he also learned that his avatar had not been slain by the power of that upper-realm mighty being. Thinking on it, that made sense. With so many Dao-Suppressing Treasures supporting them, unless an upper-realm mighty being personally entered the fray, they could never have been so easily defeated.
The true reason all their avatars had been destroyed this time was that the calamity had fallen upon them and triggered another Dao-Suppressing Treasure they carried with them—the Soul-Seeking Chart.
To ensure the success of this assault, and to avoid methods that could kill their true bodies by tracing the connection through their