Chapter 386: The Pathological Heavens and Earth

At first glance, this glowing stone did not seem particularly special, barely qualifying as a spiritual object, yet it brought Du En a sense of heartfelt repulsion and danger!

His own spiritual body, that Undying Radiant Brilliance Body, was repelling it, sensing a hidden threat within it!

"Fluorspar, precipitated from the endless Qi of living beings, has already spread to every corner of this world; even the Sacred Mausoleums where countless dead rest in peace have been invaded by it."

"It is a sickness. The heavens and earth have fallen ill, causing people to be infected with a disease called Fluorspar..."

Hehehe! The Sacred God's voice was interrupted by a sudden hissing gasp.

At the far end of the corridor leading here, something sensed the changes on this side and was swarming over, bringing with it waves of the stench of rotting flesh.

"Apologies, there were originally layers of barriers, but because the time taken to summon you was unexpectedly long, they have already been broken by them. So, prepare yourself, my strongest child, my final apostle."

Amidst the God's soliloquy, Du En responded in silence, crushing the Fluorspar crystal cluster in his hand. As flames ignited, he refined and stretched the Fluorspar fragments, carving in layers of restrictions, and casually forged a fourth-tier Dharma sword to judge some basic conditions.

The loss of Dharma power was somewhat abnormal, and his divine sense was completely confined within his body; it appeared that True Monarch Bu Yi intended for the cultivators who arrived here to fight relying solely on their physical bodies.

That made sense; after all, this was the other party's testing ground for the grand plan of the Immortal Body, so naturally, all sorts of interference factors had to be excluded. Of course, due to Meng Changqing's efforts, it was clearly relaxed somewhat.

Otherwise, wanting to use spells normally right now should have incurred a heavier burden, rather than just a doubling of the Dharma power cost.

For someone like Du En, whose Dharma power was ceaseless, this was basically useless, merely symbolic... but was it really that simple?

He calmly weighed the situation and did not feel it was that simple.

Thus, he stepped forward, taking the initiative to attack.

Step! One foot left the musty mausoleum cave and landed in the corridor, and he immediately felt an extremely intense abnormality.

The spiritual Qi was sick; the spiritual Qi had undergone a pathological change. This point was immediately and clearly felt and understood by him.

From the inside to the outside of this world, the pathological spiritual Qi was filled to the brim at every moment, eroding all living things, including those hiding in the inner spatial layers! Du En's Dharma power boiled instantly, spontaneously resisting it. Even though it was ceaseless, it actually required a continuous consumption of seventy percent of his volume to completely isolate the harm of this pathological spiritual Qi.

If he had not made a breakthrough, he feared that even if he used all his Dharma power, it would not be enough; he would be eroded bit by bit and undergo various pathological changes, especially regarding his spiritual body! After all, this was a testing ground for spiritual bodies. After the spiritual Qi became pathological, while it extremely targeted extra items like Dharma power and divine sense, the origin of his own physical body was stimulated to be very active. Amidst the instinctive repulsion and sense of danger, he couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation, a restless stirring! Du En could naturally clear away this interference of bodily instinct, but Jiang Ying, who had not come to the same place as him and whose origin had been tampered with, made it hard to imagine what her situation was like now.

Furthermore, Jiang Ying, Fluorspar—could it be that this pathological change in spiritual Qi was actually directly correlated with her, or rather, with the Supreme Physical Body? Did True Monarch Bu Yi manage to replicate her origin, turn it into a pathogen, and then spread it to this Source-Life Star Realm?

It felt very straightforward and direct, but it was indeed the style of that True Monarch—clear-cut and distinct. It should be this way, and the fact that it could rage and mature to this extent likely had a lot to do with this star named Source-Life! Source-Life, Source-Life, the source of life, the source that gives rise to life...

In short, Du En was now facing a very bad situation. He stopped his footsteps, but he did not seem to pay much attention to the noise accelerating in front of the corridor.

The Sacred God's Radiant Fire, floating at his side, did not mean to urge him either; it just quietly released light there, doing its best to help him purify the pathological spiritual Qi.

It was only to a very limited extent.

Du En chose to take in this portion of spiritual Qi, and then take in a small portion of the original pathological Qi, as a reference for comparison.

He possessed divine abilities and also True Flame; if there were any pathological changes, he could quickly clear them away, so he was not afraid of any accidents. His pupils glowed, his Golden Eyes discerning all.

His divine sense scanned his body, perceiving everything.

And then he saw it: these two types of spiritual Qi only differed in the degree of pathological harm they caused.

What the Sacred God purified was a mild case, while the original pathological Qi was a severe case.

The difference in severity between the two lay in the stimulation of the spiritual body.

In a mild case, it would cause the spiritual body to accelerate its gestation, as if the organism had encountered a threatening situation it could handle and adapt to, thus rapidly awakening and strengthening the origin, optimizing and adjusting various loopholes, and accelerating the maturation of the spiritual body to a perfect, flawless state.

Whereas in a severe case, the origin would become restless and agitated, both fearful and yearning. If it took root in the body, it would be like a tumor, rapidly polluting and deforming it. The spiritual body itself would be unable to correct its errors and could only be gradually drained dry, then mixed together to form a twisted posture—the evil fruit of origin collapse and frenzied growth.

That Du En would arrive at this current positioning—as the Son of the Sacred God, the final apostle, receiving the destiny bestowed upon him—was the arrangement of that True Monarch.

He was even more concerned and urgent than the person here, wanting to see the limit of Du En's new spiritual body, that perfect posture of the new spiritual body! And the Undying Radiant Brilliance Body was directly and strongly correlated with Du En's cultivation technique; it could be said that the perfection of the technique represented the perfection of the spiritual body. Naturally, an unexpected situation arose.

—As long as he continued to carry this state of mild pathological change to stimulate and accelerate the growth of his spiritual body, then the proficiency of his cultivation technique would also increase along with it, with very high efficiency! Du En naturally chose to swallow this sugar-coated pill.

He temporarily accepted the so-called apostolic destiny bestowed by the Sacred God, thereby causing that hanging lamp to shine at his side, purifying the pathological spiritual Qi, and then taking it into his body to transform it into nourishment for the growth of his spiritual body!

Brilliance radiated from within his body, glowing and faint, with five wheel-like layers overlapping, dreamlike and illusory.

"They are coming."

The Sacred God's soft voice sounded.

Noisy roars also emerged.

A hand suddenly reached out from the corner of the corridor. It was the hand of a dead person, covered in corpse spots, with deep purple tumors large and small, emitting the texture of Fluorspar, and even more faint light rising and falling, as if breathing.

"Hehehe!"

"Hiss hiss hiss!"

"Ugh ugh ugh!"

Following the hand, a swarm of active corpses surged forth.

"The pathological change of the Qi of living beings infects almost all living things. Even those who should have rested in peace are disturbed from death, thus becoming carriers of the Fluorspar disease."

Amidst the Sacred God's mournful murmurs, the corpse swarm piled up aggressively. For Du En, who had not deformed or been tainted and was perfectly normal, they had an instinctive, extreme yearning within that Fluorspar pathological change.

A fresh spiritual body, a pure origin—they wanted to eat it, they wanted to offer it up, they wanted to obtain it!

(End of chapter)