Within the core of the Three Realms.
Su Changsheng dispersed his world mythical body and slowly opened his eyes, then shook his head and sighed.
Although a single inhalation drew countless streams of vital essence from ten thousand li around him, darkening the heavens and earth along the Black Tortoise Yao Realm's frontier and channeling the radiance of the sun, moon, and stars into the Three Realms.
It was still of no use!
Compared with the Three Realms' consumption, this energy was little more than a cup of water thrown onto a burning cartload of firewood.
Still, that was not much of a problem.
Although the Three Realms needed him to replenish some energy and matter from time to time, having incorporated a trace of the True World's power, it had now essentially become self-sustaining. Like those other worlds, it could draw everything it needed from the chaotic void.
As long as its expenditures were not too great, it hardly mattered.
Besides continually undermining the Black Tortoise Yao Realm and scooping up a haul before leaving, his more important reason for absorbing so much of its energy was to further alleviate the madness factor within him.
The power he had drawn from the True World was bizarre beyond imagination. Even the Three Realms could not fully digest it and could only dilute and assimilate it little by little.
The energy entering his body could be seen instantly transforming into brilliant radiance. Portions of his scales that had mutated under the madness factor abruptly shattered, and his blood qi subsided.
But signs of contamination soon reappeared on the new scales, accompanied by great quantities of vitality spilling out.
This contamination was extremely strange, producing age spots resembling those on human skin.
"Vitality draining away, lifespan failing!"
"This isn't ordinary loss of