Translator: Silavin & Ashish
Editor and Proofreader: Leo of Zion Mountain &Dhael Ligerkeys
“Originally, the World Energy in this place was even thinner.” Yang Kai smiled slightly. But just as he started meticulously checking the surroundings, he furrowed his brow slightly.
“What’s wrong!?” Gui Zu asked immediately after noticing the strange look on his face.
“It should not be like this.” A suspicious look took over Yang Kai’s face. “The World Energy of this continent should not be this thin. So much time has already passed, so it should have been much denser.”
The reason for Tong Xuan Realm’s thin World Energy was the Great Demon God Seal isolating this Cultivation Star from the Star Field, preventing the supplement of World Energy from outside. The other reason was that the Star Source of this Cultivation Star was nearing its end.
[But after Little Senior Sister refined the power of the Star Source and became the Star Master of Tong Xuan Realm, it should have brought changes.]
[The World Energy of Tong Xuan Realm should have grown denser with the increase in Little Senior Sister’s strength.]
[Tong Xuan Realm should not have just this little bit of World Energy after such a long time.]
“If there were no mountains and rivers here, this place would have no World Energy,” Gui Zu immediately concluded after just taking a glance at the surrounding terrain.
Yang Kai nodded gently, agreeing with this.
“Come on, let’s return to my previous sect,” proposed Yang Kai. Then, he assessed the directions and shot towards the Nine Heavens Holy Land with Gui Zu.
He had decided to lay the Cross-Cultivation Star Space Array in Nine Heavens Holy Land, where a natural Spirit Array had formed by the nine peaks. It was a rare cultivation paradise in Tong Xuan Realm.
It was now quite easy for him to lay a barrier to hide the existence of the Space Array. And presumably, the cultivators of Tong Xuan Realm could not break it even if they were given ten thousand years.
Three to five days went by in a flash.
While flying, both Yang Kai and Gui Zu frowned as they looked down from time to time.
“Elder, did you notice something?” Yang Kai asked in a deep voice.
“The World Energy of your homeland is declining very quickly, like the air leaking through a punctured balloon.”
“You felt it too.” Yang Kai’s face turned ashen.
Previously, Yang Kai felt that something wasn’t right when he noticed the thin World Energy of Tong Xuan Realm. However, the place where he landed wasn’t the World-Energy-rich place he used to live. Therefore, Yang Kai hadn’t paid great attention to it.
But after having been flying for three to five days, he hadn’t found any place rich in World Energy; whether it was towering mountains or the gushing rivers, they all seemed to be filled with Death Qi.
This discovery had bogged him down with some worries.
There were only two possibilities for this kind of situation to arise. Either Tong Xuan Realm was in some kind of trouble, or Star Master Xia Ning Chang had met with an accident.
[Either way, it’s extremely detrimental to Little Senior Sister.]
Yang Kai suddenly regretted coming here. He couldn’t wait to return to Shadowed Star to check if there was anything wrong with Little Senior Sister.
[On second thought, Little Senior Sister should be perfectly safe in the High Heaven Sect. She should not have encountered any problem. So what is happening to this world?]
[What’s making the world have such a dense Death Qi while the World Energy is growing thinner and thinner.]
“Huh!? What the hell are these guys doing?” Gui Zu pointed in a direction and exclaimed after noticing something.
Yang Kai’s flying figure immediately came to a halt as he looked down from the sky.
Below him was a huge valley with a resplendent Array in the shape of a hexagram rotating. What’s more, a dense crowd of cultivators were standing around it. Every cultivator had formed hand seals; they were trying to maintain the operation of the Array with great difficulty. From time to time, a cultivator would be unable to hold on and fall down but another cultivator beside him would immediately take his place.
There were some cultivators in black around it as well, looking at this with a cold look in their eyes. Occasionally, they would even lash out and beat the people.
Each of these men in black had a surging aura, but they didn’t participate in maintaining the Array. They seemed to be monitoring it.
“Origin Returning Realm Master!?” Yang Kai furrowed his brow as he exclaimed, “How is this possible? How can Origin Returning Realm masters appear here!?”
Since ancient times, the strongest cultivator born in Tong Xuan Realm was the Great Demon God. But even the Great Demon God had only touched the mystery of the Saint King Realm. Since then, the strongest cultivators in Tong Xuan Realm could only reach the Saint Realm!
[Maybe Little Senior Sister’s act of refining the Star Source has given them a chance to become Origin Returning Realm masters.]
But right then, Yang Kai sensed the aura of two Origin Returning Realm cultivators passing by in the mountain valley.
Although they were only in the First-Order, they were indeed Origin Returning Realm masters nonetheless.
“Your homeland didn’t have an Origin Returning Realm master before?” asked Gui Zu.
“In the past, the strongest level anyone has reached was the Third-Order Saint Realm!”
“If that’s the case, they are all outsiders!” Gui Zu pointed below and said, “And judging by the Spirit Array below, it seems to be swallowing the surrounding world energy. They seem to be using this Spirit Array to refine something!”
“Outsiders…” Yang Kai’s eyes flickered with an ominous gleam. “Courting death!?”
Only now was he struck with a realization.
Tong Xuan Realm was safe and sound until now and was not disturbed by Star Field master because of the barrier arranged by Great Demon God. The Great Demon God was really amazing. He had laid a barrier using Tong Xuan Realm as the base, shielding the entire Cultivation Star from the Star Field.
But in the end, his barrier had been broken by Yang Kai, allowing Tong Xuan Realm to reintegrate with the Star Field.
And finally, Tong Xuan Realm was discovered by the Star Field masters after a few decades. And thus, the Tong Xuan Realm was invaded.
Back then, when Yang Kai left Tong Xuan Realm, he did so first to find Su Yan, and second to pursue higher Martial Dao, lest his homeland encounter some stronger enemy that they couldn’t resist. The Skeleton Race invasion back then was the best example. Had it not been for the Great Demon God’s amazing insight and means, this continent would have been enslaved a long time ago.
But today, the very same thing he feared was happening again!
The Spirit Array laid by those people below was extracting the World Energy of Tong Xuan Realm which was tantamount to destroying Xia Ning Chang’s path of cultivation.
Yang Kai immediately blew his top. His figure went crashing down like a meteor, surrounded by an endless chill.
At least a thousand people were gathered in the valley below.