Chapter 818: Abnormal Transformation Erupts

Li Xuantian, Tianjizi, and Nie Duxiu join forces against the Black Heaven Emperor; the golden Dao sword, stellar river, and scarlet flame rainbow intertwine into a net, yet they are still blown back by a single punch of the thousand‑zhang giant ape. The azure phoenix flaps its wings and cries long, wind blades like rain, and wherever they pass, all vitality is cut off!

However, just as the battle reached white‑hot intensity!

The Black Heaven Emperor holding Yunqing suddenly sensed something was off.

"Boom!!!"

At Yunqing's position, a blue‑red pillar of light piercing heaven and earth suddenly erupted!

"What the hell?!" Its scarlet pupils snapped shut, it lowered its gaze to its palm, only to see the supreme wind‑cavern power coiled around its arms being siphoned away like water by some invisible force, rushing toward Yunqing.

"Not good!" The azure phoenix also sensed the anomaly; its prideful gale wind divine ability was rapidly weakening, as if some existence was forcibly devouring it.

Li Xuantian's face changed drastically; his internal spiritual power began to leak uncontrollably, and the manifestation of the Mystic Heaven Dao Venerable actually started to collapse!

"It's the Primordial Child!" Tianjizi exclaimed in shock, "It's absorbing our power!"

The Primordial Child resonated with the Primordial Star Chart, beginning to indiscriminately devour the spiritual power of all cultivators within its range!

Cultivators at the Unity and Void Refinement stages suffered even worse; they had no chance to resist, their cultivation bursting like a breached dam, wildly surging toward Yunqing. Some tried to flee, only to find their bodies already bound by an invisible force, forced to watch their years of hard training turn to nothing.

"No… no!!!" A Unity Stage cultivator collapsed to his knees, his face visibly aging at a rapid pace, eventually turning into a desiccated corpse.

Just as the powerhouses struggled, the earth suddenly shuddered violently!

"Rumble!!!"

The land of Luohuang Zhou began to collapse, countless cracks spreading like a spiderweb, seawater poured backward, mountains crumbled. Beneath Yunqing's feet, a bottomless abyss suddenly split open, as if some ancient existence were awakening!

"The Primordial Star Chart… it's the Primordial Star Chart resonating!" Tianjizi shouted joyfully, "It's about to trigger the Dao Realm entrance!"

However, the expected Dao Realm did not open; instead, a strange mist gushed up from underground!

Everyone's faces changed drastically as they recalled some legends.

Legends say the Primordial Child originated from the original abnormal region, i. e., the Dao Realm; its power is so great that everyone knows it. Yet precisely because of that, many overlook that the Primordial Child is not merely capable of letting tribulation‑crossing cultivators ascend....

The seven‑colored rosy mist drifting up from the abyss beneath Yunqing turned that legend into reality!

Abnormal Transformation Mist!

Wherever the mist passed, plants twisted, rocks softened, living beings emitted inhuman screams, and their bodies began to mutate! An ordinary mountain rabbit rolled in the mist, its fur fell off, bones misaligned, eventually becoming a monster covered head‑to‑toe in tumors, its scarlet eyes rolling as it let out a piercing shriek.

"It's the abnormal zone! Retreat!" Li Xuantian roared, but it was already too late.

Half of Luohuang Zhou was instantly shrouded in the mist, countless living things mutating into terrifying abnormal beasts. They had no intellect, only the instincts to devour and evolve; some abnormal beasts even began to tear at each other and fuse, birthing even more horrifying existences!

Yan Buji had already strained to retreat to a safe distance before the Primordial Child erupted, yet he was still caught in the aftermath. The heavy armor he had painstakingly forged was ruined again, shattering inch by inch under a single kick from the Blood Slaughter Holy Lord!

"Damn it!" He spat a mouthful of blood, watching helplessly as his life‑saving trump card turned into scrap iron.

Worse still, a newly mutated wolf‑shaped monster fixed its gaze on him, its fangs dripping corrosive slime as it lunged!

Yan Buji gritted his teeth, crushed a talisman, and shot backward, but the monster was faster—its claws already reached his face!

"It's over...."

Even if Yan Buji fought with all his might, that blow was merely a casual strike from a Great Vehicle Stage cultivator; surviving was already a tremendous fortune, and even if his perfectly crafted Immortal Accumulation Artifacts all shattered, it wouldn't matter.

But he never expected Yunqing to suddenly erupt, bringing forth the abnormal zone's "transformation"!

At that moment, the gravely injured Yan Buji, still untreated, had virtually no strength left; blood streamed down his head, and a wave of dizziness washed over him.

"Pfft!"

A flash of blood light swept by, and the wolf‑shaped monster's head flew up!

Qiu Xing stepped out from the shadows, gripping a scarlet short blade, and said coldly, "Yan Buji, you really know how to stir up trouble."

Yan Buji grinned: "Elder Qiu, if you'd been any later, I'd really have died."

After saying that, Yan Buji passed out.

Qiu Xing snorted, flicked his sleeve to sweep up Yan Buji, and turned into a blood‑shadow fleeing far away.

And at the battlefield's center.

At the thickest heart of the mist, Yunqing hovered in midair, silver hair flying, her eyes completely occupied by blue‑red light. Her body was undergoing some kind of metamorphosis!

Ancient patterns surfaced on her skin, her aura alternating between immortal and demonic.

"Damned abnormal zone, under the Primordial Child's influence will I too mutate?!" The Great Vehicle Stage cultivators present felt a massive threat.

If ordinary abnormal mist had little effect on them, now seeing flesh tumors and tendrils continually sprouting on their bodies, even if Li Xuantian and the others wanted to clarify the situation, they realized they probably had to retreat first!

Li Xuantian and the others were forced to retreat; the Black Heaven Emperor and the azure phoenix also warily kept their distance. They could sense that Yunqing was no longer a cultivator, but something closer to a "rule" existence!

"Primordial Child… indeed terrifying." The Black Heaven Emperor growled low, "We must leave first!"

However, as the powerhouses withdrew, no one noticed.

Deep within the mist, a blurry figure slowly walked toward Yunqing...

Qiu Xing brought Yan Buji into a hastily opened cave dwelling, casually laying down a restriction.

"Did you already know the Primordial Child would trigger the abnormal transformation?" Qiu Xing narrowed his eyes and questioned.

Yan Buji wiped the blood from his mouth corner and smiled: "I just took a gamble… I didn't expect to win."

Yan Buji's original plan was not like this; rather, before this, Qiu Xing found him and said something very big!

That was the Blood Daoist, who was about to become a saint!

The Blood Daoist wanted Yan Buji to by any means provoke the Primordial Child's power; although this wasn't in Yan Buji's expectations, he knew the Blood Daoist also had his own schemes, so he conveyed this through Qiu Xing.

One can infer that since the Blood Daoist entrusted this matter to a mere Nascent Soul cultivator like Yan Buji, the Blood Daoist must certainly know Yunqing's relationship with him.

"In other words, the Blood Daoist knows how to provoke the Primordial Child, so whether I agree or not, his plan will absolutely succeed."

Yan Buji thought of that, but didn't explicitly tell Qiu Xing.

After all, many things can be understood tacitly.

"Madman!" Qiu Xing cursed, yet still tossed him a bottle of pills: "Hurry up and recover; the Sect Master and Patriarch won't allow you to die in a place like this."

Yan Buji swallowed the pill, feeling the medicinal power mend his wounds, but his gaze pierced the cave's restriction, looking toward the distant abnormal mist that shrouded half of Luohuang Zhou.

"Yunqing… my good daughter, don't let your father down…"