For a curse to make even Ancestor Xumi fall ill, it seemed it had already grown extraordinarily powerful.
This Death Swamp truly was no simple place.
Xu Zimo asked again, "Go on. What exactly is inside the Death Swamp?"
"The curse of life and death," Ancestor Xumi said, narrowing his eyes slightly as he spoke a term unfamiliar to Xu Zimo.
"Curses are divided into life and death?" Xu Zimo asked.
"I do not know whether my guess is correct. In truth, it is only a guess," Ancestor Xumi said.
"Actually, it is not just the Death Swamp.
The entire vast Immortal Island is a land of curses."
The moment those words were spoken, even Xu Zimo was somewhat shocked.
Immortal Island was a land of curses.
He had never heard anyone mention this news before. Most likely, even the people of Immortal Island themselves did not know.
Only someone at Ancestor Xumi's level probably understood a thing or two.
"That's right. The entirety of Immortal Island is cursed.
It is simply that, long ago, the curses here were all life curses.
They did not affect anything."
"Until one day later on, for some unknown reason, the curses changed.
The life curses began evolving toward death curses, and that was how the Death Swamp came into being."
"Rather than saying the Death Swamp is gradually devouring Immortal Island, it would be more accurate to say this is Immortal Island undergoing a transformation of its own.
There is no question of one devouring the other."
Ancestor Xumi replied.
"When the Death Swamp blankets all of Immortal Island, that will also be when the transformation is complete.
Immortal Island will have completely changed from a life curse into a death curse."
"Is there no way to stop it?" Xu Zimo asked.
"It