"Not good, I got careless..."
Xing Feng could hardly describe what he felt.
All he knew was that he had never smelled anything so foul and nauseating in his entire life.
This impure stench was far more than the simple smell of rot.
If it were merely the odor of decay, even fermented, rotting herring innards would never have been enough to make a cultivator find it unbearable.
Its true horror lay in the fact that it was a strange substance imbued with Spirit Resonance. The instant he smelled it, he inhaled toxins that continually eroded and infected his Dao Body.
Large quantities of microbial strains from Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui multiplied, rapidly establishing breeding grounds in his skin, mucous membranes, and nasal passages, producing an even stronger smell from the inside out.
This was actually the smell of his own body rotting, as well as a sign that his mind and Dao Body were being corroded.
It could affect his mental faculties, swiftly and fiercely, yet insidiously.
Xing Feng had never encountered anything like it. For a moment, he assumed it had drifted in from outside and held his breath.
Holding his breath would have been enough to deal with an ordinary smell.
What he never expected was that the impure stench could also spread through Heaven-and-Earth Origin Energy.
As long as a cultivator continued exchanging energy with Heaven-and-Earth Origin Energy, he would inevitably inhale Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui's spores. Inside the mouth and nose, which connected to the windpipe and esophagus, they could reproduce even more easily.
Had a mortal been struck by a breath of this foul vapor, their skin and flesh would have split open, and their entire body would have rotted away.
Li Ling had once turned an attacking mortal assassin into a