With Ouyang's departure, the living beings already unsettled by the inverted world grew even more chaotic.
Every faction was stirring restlessly.
Faced with this new world that had suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes, no one knew what awaited them!
The great sects had Great Cultivators holding the fort, so they remained relatively calm.
But the ordinary creatures of the Mortal World, along with the small sects and rogue cultivators, all scurried about like headless flies.
Rumors sprang up everywhere. Amid the widespread panic, even the Nine Great Sacred Lands seemed to have fallen silent. No one stepped forward to explain what was going on!
When authority remained silent, everyone became an authority.
Everyone's guesses became sources of rumors.
Some said that the day these two worlds overlapped would be the day the apocalypse arrived, and every living being would die!
Some said that the world hanging inverted overhead was actually the grand handiwork of a supreme powerhouse seeking to rule heaven and earth!
Some said this was a conspiracy hatched by the Nine Great Sects to gather all the cultivators in the world under their control!
Some said that just a few days ago, an enormous python had been slain beside a great river!
The rumors grew more and more absurd as they spread, yet the more they spread, the more people believed them.
Apocalypse theories, conspiracy theories, natural disaster theories, human interference theories...
Every rumor was dark, every whispered tale an arrow that sowed chaos.
The creatures of the world panicked like horses shot in the rump, racing east and looking west without knowing what they could do!
Some wanted to keep themselves out of harm's way but did not know how to protect themselves.
Some wanted to change the situation but did not know where to begin.
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