Chapter 1104 - 1204: Tracing the Source

After Ye Tianfan transformed all the negative energies such as demonic qi and evil qi within himself into ordinary spiritual power, he refocused his attention on observing the surroundings.

Meanwhile, Taichu Zhenren, whom Ye Tianfan had always overlooked, had a faint trace of invisible red light flash in his eyes but was quickly suppressed again.

"Nephew Tianfan, quickly transform the spiritual power within me. Those negative energies like demonic and evil qi are about to corrode into my Sea of Consciousness. If you don't transform them now, once these negative energies completely invade my Sea of Consciousness, it will be very troublesome, and the cost will be high when you try to transform them later," Taichu Zhenren transmitted his voice to Ye Tianfan after suppressing the negative energies inside him.

Taichu Zhenren couldn't directly tell Ye Tianfan, as nobody else was affected by these negative energies.

Only Ye Tianfan and the others were affected, likely because of the vine-like external creature that had attacked Ye Tianfan earlier. Although Ye Tianfan had evaded it, Taichu Zhenren and the others were nearby.

Perhaps the attack carried some special ability? Taichu Zhenren didn't care about these; he only cared that he couldn't directly speak to Ye Tianfan about this, or it would severely dampen their spirits. After all, if even Taichu Zhenren, the world's number one, couldn't escape the poison of negative energies, it was even more impossible for them to avoid it.

Thus, Taichu Zhenren simply transmitted his voice to Ye Tianfan, asking him to silently transform the negative energies within him. Actually, Taichu Zhenren was very efficient, as Ye Tianfan had cleared the negative energies from Yun Tian and others three times before clearing Taichu Zhenren's once.

Because Taichu Zhenren could no longer suppress them, he transmitted his voice to Ye Tianfan. Initially, Ye Tianfan had seen no red light in Taichu Zhenren's eyes, so he didn't scan him further, clearly believing Taichu Zhenren could suppress these energies himself.

But who would have thought Taichu Zhenren would send a voice transmission asking for help to remove the negative energies? Clearly, Taichu Zhenren could no longer hold on; the toxins were too potent, making it impossible for him to suppress them any longer.

After Ye Tianfan transformed the negative energies within Taichu Zhenren, he transmitted his voice to Taichu Zhenren, "Sect Leader, should we change locations? I believe the place we're standing is related to the reason we were poisoned. Otherwise, why is there a hole here, and we're the only ones poisoned while others aren't? Even when I transform these toxins into ordinary spiritual power, they still spontaneously generate within us, and other locations don't have this issue. So, I think we only need to change our position to avoid further poisoning."

Upon hearing Ye Tianfan's words, Taichu Zhenren nodded subtly, then took a few steps forward, seemingly observing the condition of the external creature beyond the wall.

Although Yun Tian didn't know why Taichu Zhenren took a few steps forward, as a disciple of the Taichu Sect, he still followed. After all, they were united; no matter what Taichu Zhenren planned to do, Yun Tian and others had to follow, or in the event of a real battle, they wouldn't even have the ability to protect themselves.

Once Taichu Zhenren and others had moved a significant distance forward, Ye Tianfan quickly activated the Chaos Treasure Lotus to check if new negative energies would arise within them.

Ye Tianfan discovered that no new negative energies were forming within them.

This meant that their poisoning was indeed related to the earlier hole.

Though the exact mechanism of the hole was unknown, Ye Tianfan realized that people shouldn't stand near it, and once the vine-like external creature launched another attack, no one should stand near the resulting hole, or their bodies would continually produce negative energies.

Ye Tianfan didn't want to keep transforming energies either since transforming energy within a living body causes significant consumption for Ye Tianfan.

Having already transformed several times earlier, Ye Tianfan's spiritual power was nearly depleted. He secretly consumed special pills to replenish his spiritual power and maintain it.

However, what puzzled Ye Tianfan the most was how the hole managed to cause them to produce those negative energies.

Ye Tianfan was meticulously sensing both spatially and in terms of energy transmission.

Yet, despite his efforts, Ye Tianfan couldn't sense anything spatially or in terms of energy transmission, suggesting the black-purple hole might be releasing toxins through channels unknown to Ye Tianfan.

While contemplating the mechanics of the black-purple hole, suddenly, he heard a scream from behind.

Ye Tianfan quickly turned his head and saw that the vine-like external creature that had attacked him earlier was now skewering several people like a string of candied fruit in the air.

Ye Tianfan sensed that the spiritual power within these skewered individuals had completely transformed into negative energies, meaning they were entirely infected by the external creature.

Ye Tianfan's eyes widened in shock, not expecting the vine-like external creature to have such potent infectious power.

It even gave Ye Tianfan no time to rapidly transform energy, but upon reflection, it made sense since Ye Tianfan had nearly lost consciousness in a brief moment earlier, and that was only near the hole. The skewered individuals were directly penetrated by the vine-like creature, allowing it to rapidly inject negative energies into their bodies, far surpassing Ye Tianfan's speed.

Therefore, Ye Tianfan had no chance to save them.

Squinting his eyes, Ye Tianfan realized that since he couldn't save them, he would see if he could eliminate the vine-like external creature. With this thought, Ye Tianfan directly manipulated the Chaos Treasure Lotus, utilizing its energy transformation function to convert the energies within the vine-like external creature.