Oang Xi drank the Amber Natal Milk, she felt a wave of gentle energy slide dowhroat, filling her with f warmth before spreading through her body like a calm river. With her eyes closed aed in a lotus position, she focused on the sensation, striving to absorb the energy without letting a single fragment escape.
'This time, the energy won't disappear again,'— she thought with determination.
At first, the experience seemed to align with what the records described: a mild, gentle energy gathering iomach, where her dantian was supposed to be. But then, everything ged.
A searing paied, like a burning bde pierg her body. Her face quickly turned pale, cold sweat dripping from her forehead as she struggled to remain calm.'This is the gentle energy they talked about in the records? They've got to be joking!' — Tang Xi thought, grittieeth to avoid screaming. Her body trembled as if every cell was g out in agony.
Still, she steadied her posture. The pain was terrible, but it was not unknown to her. In her inal world, she had faced far worse trials, and that gave her the strength to endure.
Fog on the energy c through her body, she noticed something absent from the records: the amber energy was fiercely attag the outer wall of her dantian, which seemed iructible. Each impact was like thunder eg in her mind.Bam! Bam! Bam! Each blow reverberated in her sciousness, and Tang Xi fought to stay scious.
The records mentioned nothing about such resistan the dantian, and uainty haunted her. If she fainted, what would happen to the untrolled energy within her? She didn't know, but she wasn't willing to find out.
Time seemed to stretto endless agony. The world around her vanished, repced only by the ing pain. When she was on the verge of succumbing, she felt something different. The amber energy, once violent and insistent, began to be absorbed by something within her body, as if drawn in by an invisible force.
Suddenly, the pain ceased, leaving her in a state of stupor ainess. Slowly, she opened her eyes, feeling hope slip away. Once again, it seemed her attempt had failed.
Tang Xi was about to rise when a new wave of overwhelming pain struck her. This time, it was far worse than before. It felt as if every cell in her body was being torn apart and reassembled simultaneously.
The pain was so intehat she didn't notice what was happening around her. Her body, still ius position, began to emit a soft, vibrant light. If anyone had bee, they would have been shocked to see the immense amount of spiritual energy verging from all dires.
Tang Xi appeared to be a bottomless vortex, abs spiritual energy from the area at an arming rate. The air around her shimmered, as if on the verge of being torn apart by the mounting spiritual pressure.
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Moments earlier...In the surroundings of the Eternal Mist Region, cultivators, spiritual animals, ahereal beings abruptly halted their activities. The tration of spiritual energy in the air was slowly diminishing, an occurrehat could not go unnoticed by those with heightened sensitivity.
Initially, they suspected a high-level cultivator was cultivating or a high-tier resource was about to emerge—a rare but not impossible event. However, the rate of energy depletion increased expoially, causing panid arm throughout the region.—"Something like this isn't normal. Could a high-tier treasure be about to appear?"— an elder murmured.
The rumor spread like wildfire, and soon, powerful faobilized to locate the source of the phenomenon. However, no matter how much they searched, the energy seemed to vanish directly into the ground, leaving no trace.
While some acted out of greed, others were armed. The energy ption was frightening, surpassing the pace of even a high-level cultivator.
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In the depths of a cave, a sinister, shrill voice ughed in the darkness.—"Fear, chaos, pain, and greed... This is what I like. Keep going... keep going... this is delicious."
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As time went on, the otion iernal Mist Region only grew. Cultivators from various fas tried to maintain order, but the task was moal. The suddeion in spiritual energy had thrown not only the region but also neighb areas into a state of alert. Leaders of major sects called emergency meetings, while the most powerful spiritual beasts, sensing the imbance, left their irs, howling in distent.
Rumors spread like wildfire. Specutied from a celestial cultivator attempting to trao an immortal realm, to the birth of a legendary treasure ing spiritual energy on an unpreted scale. However, the truth remained hidden.
unicatiowees was quickly activated, but the more information they shared, the more fusing the situation became. Reports indicated that the energy loss wasn't fio the Eternal Mist Region. ioed the same decrease, at the same iy and quantity, as if an invisible pattern was draining the spiritual world.
This peculiar characteristic made it nearly impossible to pinpoint the phenomenon's in. Even the great masters of spiritual trag, who could usually find the source of any disturbance, were frustrated.—"This doesn't make sense! Nothing es energy this uniformly,"— said a gray-haired elder, gazing at the energy map with a grim expression.
Just when it seemed chaos would reach a breaking point, something ued happehe flow of energy stopped decreasing. The ensuing calm was almost more uling than the disturbaself.
In the vast night sky, where once a single mned, something spectacur occurred. No one knew who noticed it first, but a cry of shock pierced the silence of the night:—"The sky... look at the sky!"
What had once been familiar had drastically ged. To everyone's astonishment, five full moons now shoh surreal brilliance. Each appeared rger and more radiant than the moon they were aced to seeing. Their surfaces gleamed like polished pearls, emitting a light that seemed to touch the souls of all who gazed upon them.
