The ripples on the azure sea calmed, and the Deep-Sea Barrier Bo Saixi had built at the cost of her origin quietly sealed off the Evil God's Venomous Blood.
The contamination of the sea was temporarily cut off by force, and the spread of filth across the continent's surface noticeably slowed.
Everyone had assumed the poison crisis was about to enter a calmer phase.
The frenzied civilians in human villages and towns were suppressed by powerful figures, the Sea Clan gradually settled down, and the chaos of the world visibly lessened.
Yet no one had expected the contamination to erupt with a delay, shifting the disaster toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
The primeval forest sea with the densest spiritual energy, the richest earth veins, and the greatest number of living beings in the entire Douluo World suddenly descended into madness overnight.
Miserable beast roars tore through the tranquil mountain forest, while violent shockwaves swept across thousands of miles of green wilderness.
The once-docile, communal plant-type soul beasts twisted their branches and lashed wildly at their surroundings;
The neutral, harmless reptilian soul beasts bared their fangs, their eyes glowing scarlet;
High-level ten-thousand-year soul beasts broke free of their clans, charging about without purpose and wantonly destroying the forest.
The earth trembled, trees snapped, and dust filled the sky.
The once-vibrant Star Dou Great Forest became a bloody purgatory of slaughter and chaos in an instant.
Deep within the sea of flowers, Xiao Yu's face turned deathly pale as she staggered backward.
The gentle flower and grass soul beasts around her suddenly mutated. Their vines twisted grotesquely and slammed madly against the ground, while eerie dark-red bloodlight seeped from their petals.
That was not the bloodthirsty madness caused by Divine Blood Contamination.
This was a far older, more primal, more brutal