Because the world's rules had changed, Taiki failed to open a space passage despite repeated attempts. Then Yin Yin remembered the incantation Dorbickmon had used before and finally opened one.
Huanglongmon had not anticipated this minor complication. He did not need an incantation, so the issue had never occurred to him. Zheng Fan did not need one either, but he lacked the coordinates. Besides, seeing how enthusiastic Taiki and the others were, he did not want to interrupt. After examining the world's laws, Zheng Fan knew whether Taiki's incantation would work from its very first word.
The space passage was filled with a gray gas that radiated an evil aura. Zheng Fan frowned at the sight. It was resentful qi, but something about it was different. In many situations, resentful qi was a versatile material, even more versatile than spiritual qi-assuming it had no side effects.
On a larger scale, resentful qi would eventually become a world's barrier. The more resentful qi a world contained, the stronger its barrier became, and the harder cultivation grew. Once, two cultivation worlds had gone to war. The stronger side exhausted its heavenly treasures without managing to invade the weaker world's territory. But the weaker world entered an age of spiritual decline afterward. Seventy thousand years later, the resentful qi dispersed, revealing a world transformed into a ghost domain. Fifteen Calamity Beasts crawled out, shaking every major power.
Yes, resentful qi had one truly terrifying use: raising Calamity Beasts. And fortune was their favorite food. The strong could shrug it off, but the weak could never endure the changes they brought. Once, no Dragon Race egg hatched for ten thousand years, and every attempt at nirvana rebirth among the feathered races across the Worlds of the Heavens failed. The Immortal Realm went thirty thousand