Inside Li Yao's spiritual sea, the Empress was panicking. As Li Yao attempted her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm, their connection had been suddenly severed. This had occurred once before when Li Yao was showing signs of qi deviation after the fight with the cult leader. The Empress wondered if the same thing was happening now.
As she thought of this, the entire spiritual sea suddenly started trembling violently. Extending her divine sense to investigate the disturbance, the Empress noticed something deeply disturbing—a dark, murky aura was slowly creeping across the edges of the spiritual sea. The malevolent energy seemed intent on consuming everything in its path.
Without hesitation, the Empress instantly teleported to the very edge of the spiritual sea. Before her stretched an endless murky void that definitely hadn't been there before.
