Demon Plague

The Source Plane!!

The concentration of elemental energy continued to decline.

This was partly due to flameburning fire, and partly because Yin Ming had drawn away some elemental energy to build his world model on the Gourd Continent.

Although the concentration of elemental energy had only dropped by 2% so far, the impact on wizards without the Golden Pass Jade Lock Method was severe.

Previously, wizards only needed to meditate to raise their mental power ceiling, and their Mental Runes would accumulate mana on their own. Now, mana spent on spells recovered thirty to fifty percent more slowly, requiring active cultivation to replenish it quickly.

Essence, energy, and spirit—the three essences—were interconnected. Being in poor condition reduced meditation efficiency, to say nothing of the dwindling supernatural resources caused by the decline in elemental energy.

The higher a plane's concentration of elemental energy, the greater the positive changes it brought. Even a slight difference often meant a world of difference.

Every supernatural being who could leave the Source Plane had departed through planar teleportation arrays, paying for the privilege of selling themselves into service.

Those who remained slaughtered one another and plundered resources, hoping to scrape together the fee to sell themselves before the End of Dharma arrived and catch the last ride out of the Source Plane.

With Demons invading from the Abyss to collect souls and all manner of monsters and fiends stirring up trouble, order collapsed, and the supernatural world descended into utter chaos.

Only the territories ruled by the Dark Dragon had regained some semblance of order, even if Demons had not been completely eradicated.

Fekri Region, Erji City.

A Fourth Ring wizard shrouded in black robes had sealed a large number of low-ranking wizards and warlocks inside crystals.

Some had half their stark-white skeletons exposed,