Rumors spread that the Celestial Master had long carried old injuries.
For all these years, his seclusion had been meant to suppress those injuries, yet they had never fully healed. Recently, they had flared up again.
What troubled people even more was that this malignant turn had not only fallen upon the Celestial Master himself, but had even implicated his many Personal Disciples.
Aside from Xu Yuanzhen, who was traveling abroad and whose condition was unknown, all the Celestial Master's true disciples still on the mountain had been caught in the crossfire, including his own son, Li Zhengxuan.
"How could this happen?"
The Azure Void Sect was shocked.
"I heard it was some jiangtou or gu technique from the Southern Wilderness Witch Clan, like maggots clinging to the bone—not only vicious, but especially strange." Someone lowered his voice. "Under the pull of their aura, all Personal Disciples with a direct master-disciple lineage tied to the Celestial Master were implicated. Even..."
There were even rumors that disciples who had sought to enter under the Celestial Master for years but had failed to do so were affected as well. Though their symptoms were less severe than those of the Personal Disciples, large numbers had still been struck. It was strange and terrifying, profound beyond comprehension.
"With the Celestial Master's cultivation, how could he possibly fall victim to Southern Wilderness Voodoo Curse?"
"People who never even came into contact with him were affected? Mere aura resonance could do that? It's that powerful?"
"I heard that among the Southern Wilderness Witch Sect's jiangtou lineage, there is a curse named Samsara, passed down through generation after generation without end. It is extraordinarily formidable..."
Though they were not at Dragon Tiger Mountain, everyone in the Azure Void Sect was gripped by panic for a time.
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