Chapter 776: Outside the Tower of Heavenly Sin

Li Yuan gazed down at the Shadow Demon Lake, his heart shaken not a little.

This stretch of Shadow Demon Lake gathered the yin-shrouding filth that the Shadow Demon Body had swallowed from countless cursed lands and cursed beasts; every drop was viscous to the extreme, capable of corrupting spirit treasures, and far heavier than it appeared on the surface.

Yet that wisp of grey qi had already affected this stretch of lake!

"This wisp of Five Decay qi…"

At a thought from Li Yuan, drops of Shadow Demon water rose into the air, converging and flowing before him: "The corruption of the Shadow Demon water is even more dreadful…"

"Moreover…"

Various thoughts turning in his mind, Li Yuan then fetched a damaged spirit treasure and tossed it into the water flow before him.

Only two 'sizzle, sizzle' sounds were heard, and the fragment of that top-grade spirit treasure had already vaporized and vanished.

"Heavenly Five Decay!"

Li Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

As the master of Ying Mo Fa Jie, he could clearly perceive the most minute changes within this world.

The vaporization of that spirit treasure fragment was not simply a matter of being corrupted; rather, the very essence that constituted the spirit treasure was collapsing and disintegrating.

Just like the end of a lifespan!

Li Yuan focused his perception.

In a daze, he seemed to see all manner of scenes flowing within that wisp of qi.

It was as if countless Heavenly Demons wailed as they transformed into ghastly piles of white bones, rolling blood-rain poured from the heavens like a downpour…

It was as if mountains and rivers crumbled, the earth split open, the sky rotted away…

Those scenes flashed by in an instant, and Li Yuan felt a chill in his heart; even as the master of Ying Mo Fa Jie, he did not dare touch the Shadow Demon water before him.

"According to what Senior Brother Master Fufa said, the great divine ability of Daoist Five Decay, the Heavenly Five Decay, can be subdivided into the Decay of Spiritual Power, the Decay of Garments and Appearance, the Decay of Wisdom, the Decay of Comprehension, and the Decay of Dharma-Flowers…"

Various thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Yuan fetched several more damaged spirit treasures and a few White Bone Dao Soldiers to experiment with.

The results were somewhat horrifying to him.

Whether living beings or dead objects, Dao Soldiers or spirit treasures, the instant they touched that wisp of grey qi, they would crumble apart—far more dreadful than the corrupting power of the Shadow Demon water!

"So savage; no wonder this Daoist Five Decay dared to curse a Bodhisattva in secret at Qi Jing. The effect of this Five Decay qi on cultivators whose yang-lifespan has already ended is surely immensely great."

Li Yuan felt somewhat enlightened.

Having joined Mount Mount Dongxuan for so many years, his foundations were deep and his understanding of the cultivation world profound; after a round of experimentation, he had already come to realize the dreadfulness of Daoist Five Decay.

"Unfortunately, a single wisp of Five Decay qi is not enough to analyze further…"

Casually tossing that clump of Shadow Demon water back into the lake, Li Yuan felt a pang of regret in his heart; he was still very interested in this great divine ability of Tian Mo Fa Jie.

But this wisp of Five Decay qi was used by Daoist Five Decay to control the Shadow Demon Body; to analyze the great divine ability of the Heavenly Five Decay from it was naturally impossible.

"If I could obtain enough Five Decay qi, I could give it a try."

After a moment, Li Yuan suppressed his distracting thoughts and instead began to analyze the message transmitted by Daoist Five Decay.

The message transmitted through this wisp of Five Decay qi was not few; it not only mentioned the essence of the Sin World—that is, that Tower of Heavenly Sin—but also contained quite a bit of intelligence he had not known before.

"The Tower of Heavenly Sin, a Mu Xiantian treasure, bears the Sin World within it, and is immensely vast inside; not only does it imprison countless cultivators of the Xuanhuang and the Beyond, it also accommodates large stretches of star domains seized from the Present World…"

Li Yuan's heart grew quite Solemn.

That the Great Xuanhuang World contains star domains seized from the Present World is no secret at all.

In fact, among the myriad worlds of Opening Gui Xu, from the nine top-grade Wei heavens above down to the countless Ci Yuan Shi Fa Jie below, which one has not invaded the Present World, which one has not seized life-bearing stars and star-domain interfaces?

What shocked him was that the star domains contained within that Tower of Heavenly Sin seemed different from what the intelligence said…

"According to the records of the Yizhudao Sect, the incense generated by descendants of Present World beings who were plundered into Opening Gui Xu and bred there is extremely low; therefore the myriad worlds of Opening Gui Xu have invaded the Present World time and again…"