"This is bad!"
Those who had just approached cried out in unison, looking around in terror.
At that moment, the invisible devouring force erupted once more.
It was terrifying beyond measure.
They felt their vitality, divine power, and even their primordial spirits beginning to dissipate and collapse.
"What in the world is this thing?"
"Is this place going to turn into a forbidden land because of it?"
Countless people roared and summoned their treasures, unleashing endless divine radiance in an attempt to anchor their vitality.
Yet even then, they could still feel the vitality and divine power within them draining away.
Some of the weaker cultivators instantly crumpled to the ground, powerless to resist.
All their vitality turned into luminous motes that danced through the sky.
"Save me!"
Cries for help rose continually from the crowd.
Figure after figure trembled, their hair white as snow and their bodies skeletal, as though every trace of divine power and vital essence had been stripped away.
Even their voices were feeble beyond belief.
More terrifying still, quite a few of them turned into withered bones in an instant, never to make another sound.
That invisible devouring force had become even more terrifying than before.
The sight made everyone's scalp prickle.
They had not even seen an enemy, yet a third of the hundreds who had approached had already died.
That invisible devouring force was far too dreadful.
It was as though it had altered the laws of this stretch of heaven and earth in an instant, turning the place into a Life Forbidden Zone.
The vitality of everyone who set foot within it was devoured.
"Humm..."
Vital essence filled the sky like mist, its luminous wisps glittering like immortal rain as they all streamed toward Li Qingyue.
Then they condensed into drops of