Chapter 1414: The Exhaustion of the Spirit World (1/2)

In the southeast part of the Domain of Heaven Span.

Many realms had been reduced to dead realms that were bereft of any life and light. The starry river was filled with pieces of shattered realms, debris from ancient starships, and numerous dead human cultivators.

Those cultivators’ domains had perished, their power joining the mixed energies that filled the starry river.

A battle had broken out here not long ago. The Phantasms, led by Froste, had emerged victorious.

The other side of the battle had consisted of disciples of the Heavenly Thunder Sect from the Domain of Endless Thunder, Qi warriors from the Domain of Green Woods, and a few experts from the Ancient Law Sect.

As Grand Monarch Nether River’s son, Froste had entered the eighth grade. The prismatic crystal between his eyebrows shone with icy light as he asked with a heavy tone, “What are our casualties?”

Standing behind him and bowing, a Phantasm gave him the numbers. “We lost nine eighth grade clansmen, fifty-three seventh grade clansmen, and three starships. One of our ninth grade grand patriarch sustained heavy injuries...”

WHOOSH!

A ninth grade Phantasm grand patriarch operated a Soul-devouring Lake on an ancient starship.

A dark lake that was built into the Phantasm starship suddenly gave rise to a strong gravitational force similar to that of the Spirit Pearl, causing the discarnate souls of the dead humans that hadn’t dissipated into the starry river to fly towards it from all directions.

“Who is it?”

Froste asked, mysterious patterns flowing on the surface of his Soul Ferry Battle Armor.

A flying carpet woven by vines flew swiftly over with a Floragrim standing on it.

Upon seeing the arrival, Froste frowned with surprise and said, “Fata! What are you doing here? Is your battle going well?”

Fata shook his head. “Not so much.”

Froste let out a snort. “We’ve been on the same boat for a long time now, yet your people thought of yourselves as high and pure, and refused to associate with us evil races. But didn’t you march into the human world with us and kill humans this time?”

“That’s because we don’t have a choice now,” Fata said coldly.

He sighed as he glanced around at the wrecked ancient starships and humans and Phantasms that had died miserable deaths. “This isn’t exactly a victory for you in the long run.”

Froste’s expression grew grim.

The humans had a large population. The speed at which they grew into Qi warriors and made advances in their cultivation was much faster than any other race.

It took humans less time to produce fighters that could join battles.

Neither the Ancientspirits nor the outsiders had this advantage. As they grew older, it took them increasingly more time to become stronger.

More importantly, the Ancientspirits and outsiders’ procreation was far less efficient than humans.

Battles like this one inflicted heavy casualties on the Phantasms as well as the humans. However, it would take them a much longer time to cultivate new fighters to fill the void left by those that had died in battle.

For humans, however, a whole new generation of capable Qi warriors would rise in merely a few hundred years to make up for their lost forces.

Froste took a deep breath. “But we don’t have time to wait anymore. Fata, your people’s realms are usually full of life force. Are they experiencing the same thing as ours? Have your father and the wise elders of your clan figured out why?”

Fata shook his head. “Not just our people, but the entire Spirit World hasn’t found an explanation for what’s happening.”

Images of the changes that had recently taken place in the Floragrim domains entered his mind.

Realms that were enveloped in rich life and covered in exuberant vegetation were losing their vital power at an increasingly fast speed.

He and many Floragrim grand monarchs had traveled to numerous realms, but all failed to find the reason for such changes. All they knew was that those realms were rapidly turning into dead realms in a very strange manner.

The Floragrim realms weren’t the only ones that were experiencing this.

Titans, Ancientbeasts, dragons, Phantasms, Fiends, Demons, and many other races that lived in the Spirit World were experiencing the same thing, their realms gradually changing.