NOVPUBThe Blind Old Taoist’s body completely collapsed, transforming into clumps of dull yellow fog that quickly dissipated into the incense offering magic domain, and swiftly disappeared within it.
However, Shen Yuan’s face did not show the slightest hint of joy, but instead, he stared solemnly at the dull yellow fog that remained after the body’s collapse.
He could feel that the dull yellow fog was not dispersing but was actively integrating into the incense offering magic domain.
In this process, the creepy aura from the Blind Old Taoist’s body did not disappear with his death; rather, it began to grow rapidly after merging with the incense offering magic domain.
Within the incense offering magic domain, the dull yellow Great Sun turned increasingly dim. What was originally just a phantom began to take on a solid form with the spreading of the creepy aura, resembling a real sun.
As the scene before him changed, Shen Yuan finally realized why the Dusk Realm had helped Emperor Xia establish the incense offering magic domain, even at the great cost of crossing realms to assist.
Because there was something inherently wrong with this entire incense offering magic domain!
More accurately, the Incense Offering Deity Method that the Dusk Realm taught Emperor Xia seemed to be based on Divinity Path, but its core had long been corrupted by something sinister, thus transforming into this dusky incense offering magic domain.
Shen Yuan’s gaze swept over the dusk fog that seemed to have merged with the incense offering magic domain, where the creepy aura was now using the incense offering willpower as a medium to spread across the barrier of space into the incense offering magic domain enveloping the whole of Great Xia.
In nearly an instant, the speed at which the creepy aura spread had engulfed the majority of the area corresponding to the Imperial Capital, and it was still spreading outwards.
At the center of the incense offering magic domain, the Capital City God seemed to sense a primal threat and voluntarily retreated back into the shrine hall.
The fate of humanity flowed on the surface of the shrine hall, temporarily sheltering the Capital City God from the influence of the creepy aura.
Shen Yuan’s brow furrowed deeply, the speed at which the creepy aura corroded the incense offering willpower was far beyond a normal state.
This reminded him of how the Blind Old Taoist had corrupted the Incense Magic Sword with just a glance, causing the incense offering willpower within it to completely collapse.
The two situations were enough to show that the creepy aura had an unusually strong restraining effect on the incense offering willpower.
"This is not good news," he thought to himself, trying to mobilize the Qi of heaven and earth to attempt to stop the spreading creepy aura.
And just at this moment, as the creepy aura had just exceeded the range of the Imperial Capital, its spreading speed rapidly declined.
Shen Yuan looked puzzled, observing the changes before and after, and then immediately discovered the problem.
Inside the Imperial Capital, there was a significant accumulation of incense offering willpower, all from the offerings to the Capital City God.
But outside the Imperial Capital, Shen Yuan could hardly see any traces of incense offering willpower.
After some thought, Shen Yuan had a sudden realization.
"The willpower from the incense offerings comes from the faith of the people and is itself somewhat regional."
"Although the incense offering magic domain connects different cities, there is a certain void in the wilderness between cities."
"Unless there is an excess of incense offering willpower that spreads into the wilderness, or the local deities actively transport it, the willpower doesn’t spread to the wilderness in-between."
"The incense offering magic domain has just been established, though it spans the entire Great Xia, the incense offering willpower within it hasn’t accumulated over time and is sparse."
"Moreover, with many City Gods having just taken their positions and not yet completed the shaping of their law bodies, nor ascended into the incense offering magic domain, the entire incense offering magic domain hasn’t truly been connected."
"When the creepy aura reached the edge of the incense offering willpower, lacking a medium for corruption, it could no longer spread to the outside world."
Having clarified the cause, Shen Yuan could not help but let out a slight sigh of relief, and the Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Elemental Qi he was mobilizing slowly receded.
"Fortunately, the incense offering magic domain has just been established and everything is still imperfect, which has impeded the spread of the creepy aura."
"If the incense offering magic domain were given a few years to grow, with the incense offering willpower and deities filling the entire domain, a bit of the creepy aura would be enough to rapidly corrupt the whole domain."
"At that point, with the incense offering magic domain fallen, the Dusk Realm could use it as a medium to invade the mortal world."
Not until this moment did Shen Yuan truly understand the schemes of the Dusk Realm.
"However, since the spread of the creepy aura was triggered prematurely, does the Dusk Realm really only have this one trick up its sleeve?"
As the medium for the creepy aura’s spread was lost and it was confined within the range of the Imperial Capital, the light from the dull yellow Great Sun in the sky grew dimmer and dimmer.
Bathed in sunlight but with no warmth, instead, there was a chilling coldness that penetrated deep into the bones.
The incense offering willpower that was corrupted by the creepy aura began to converge toward the dull yellow Great Sun, which seemed like an invisible gaping maw swallowing these tainted offerings.
Shen Yuan instinctively felt that something was wrong and his Primordial Spirit commanded the magic sword, turning into a sword light that soared heavenward towards the dull yellow Great Sun.
However, this sword strike empowered with the Earthly Destroyer Sword Technique Divine Skills had no effect whatsoever. Regardless of where the sword light slashed, it could never capture the presence of the dull yellow Great Sun, as if it wasn’t located in this space at all.
Shen Yuan spread open the fingers of his right hand, the congealed space began collapsing inward, but he still could not capture the dull yellow Great Sun.
It seemed as if it did not exist within the incense offering magic domain at all, and what appeared here was only a phantom projection.
As a substantial amount of contaminated incense offering willpower was devoured, the dull yellow Great Sun finally began to change.
On the background of that cold dusky twilight, a twisted shadowy silhouette suddenly appeared.
This twisted shadow was immense, almost occupying the entire dull yellow Great Sun, hanging high in the firmament as if it was the center of all realms.
