Several years passed like this, and one after another, cultivators found the remaining Mystic Iron Tokens.
Yet the appearance of the tokens not only failed to ease the Heavenly Origin Realm's plight, it made the water qi grow ever thinner. The moisture in the air had nearly vanished completely.
The first to bear the brunt were cultivators with Water Spirit Roots. Their cultivation stagnated, the spiritual power within them gradually dried up, and even sustaining their own vitality became difficult.
The Five-Element Spiritual Roots followed close behind.
The five elements generated and restrained one another. Once water qi was lost, the metal, wood, fire, and earth qi all fell into disorder as well. Everyone encountered mishaps time and again while cultivating, and quite a few even regressed in realm.
To survive, to continue cultivating.
Water Spirit Root cultivators from every region began madly fighting over rivers, lakes, and Secret Realm territories that still contained substantial water qi.
Every source of water became a battlefield of slaughter.
Countless cultivators died in the struggle, and the entire Heavenly Origin Realm descended into chaos.
Relying on Xu Changqing's arrangements and its advantage in cultivating spiritual plants, the Azurewood Sect barely managed to protect Fengrao Commandery as a patch of pure land. The sect's disciples might not have had an abundance of resources for their daily cultivation, but they could still live in peace.
But the Spirit Melody Sect, another force in the Eastern Domain, had grown increasingly destitute over the years.
The Spirit Melody Sect had originally established itself by relying on the water qi of Clearbrook Valley. As the water qi gradually dried up, the valley's streams slowly ran dry, and even its vegetation began to wither. The sect plummeted from its former heights.
Seeing that the sect could no longer endure,