Chapter 1193 - 1293: Setting Out on the Journey

This left everyone feeling extremely puzzled.

Could it be that someone had messed with this place after the last time they came?

But earlier this place had already been clearly designated as an area that needed to be abandoned, so no one would come here at all.

Yet now such a situation has appeared again, which made everyone seriously confused as to what kind of cause could have led to this slight disorder here.

This is not some trivial matter; if it were inside the Wall, people might think it's nothing, not worth paying attention to.

But outside the Wall it's different, because if this place has been rummaged through while everyone was inside the Wall, then if it was disturbed, it must have been those creatures from outside the Wall that came and overturned it.

If it really was the wall‑outside creatures that rummaged through this place, then it's very possible those wall‑outside creatures are still here.

If those wall‑outside creatures are still here, then everyone has to be doubly cautious, because the Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura on wall‑outside creatures is extremely dense; even the ones that have only just turned into wall‑outside creatures, the Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura on their bodies is already fatal to Cultivators from inside the Wall.

Therefore, no one dared treat this as some ordinary incident; they all insisted that this matter must be resolved as quickly as possible. Whether or not those wall‑outside creatures are ultimately still here, they're going to turn this entire wall‑outside base upside down.

Otherwise, if while they're resting, a wall‑outside creature suddenly bursts out from some corner, then with everyone completely unprepared, it would cause extremely heavy casualties.

And almost no one would be able to escape those casualties.

Unless it's someone who has stayed on constant alert; otherwise, even the lowest‑level wall‑outside creature would be enough to contaminate a Taichu Sect cultivator, because the Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura on wall‑outside creatures is frighteningly strong in its polluting power.

Aside from pure Spiritual Power, ordinary Spiritual Power simply isn't a match for it, so even an unprepared Taichu Sect cultivator would very quickly be contaminated by that Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura.

Moreover, once a Taichu Sect cultivator is contaminated, it will be extremely difficult to cleanse their body of that Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura, because that kind of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura has an extremely strong adhesion; to clear it away, the Spiritual Power that must be discarded would be on a massive scale.

After all, if the body is contaminated by these Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura, there are only two paths left to walk. The first is to wait until you suffer qi deviation and fall, becoming a wall‑outside creature.

The second is to abandon all the Spiritual Power that has already been contaminated. Since these Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura spread with terrifying speed, if you want to give up the Spiritual Power that has already been contaminated, then you can't just abandon what's already contaminated, you also have to abandon the Spiritual Power that is on the verge of being contaminated.

Or, you can use an enormous amount of Spiritual Power to envelop the Spiritual Power that has already been contaminated, and then, while that contaminated Spiritual Power still hasn't yet infected the enveloping Spiritual Power, force all of it out of the body.

And the whole process must be extremely fast, because a mass of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura only the size of a pinky fingertip can, in a single second, infect at least ten Ye Tianfan‑units worth of Spiritual Power. And expelling this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura from the body is not something that can be solved in just a few seconds; sometimes it even becomes a tug‑of‑war that takes at least ten minutes.

From this alone one can see that expelling this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura from the body requires a long period of time, and during all that time, this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura will continue eroding the Spiritual Power within you.

And if you want to keep this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura confined to a single location, then you can only use an enormous amount of Spiritual Power—no, it should be said a sea of Spiritual Power—to wrap it, preventing it from scattering.

Because once this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura scatters, then every single clump of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura will require the same sea‑like quantity of Spiritual Power to envelop it, and this "same" refers to the amount of Spiritual Power required for a single clump of Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura as mentioned just now.

So if you can keep this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura gathered together and not let it disperse, then the person may still have hope and be able to save themselves; but once this Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura completely scatters, then basically that person has no hope of salvation at all.

Thus, if a Taichu Sect cultivator is caught off guard and a wall‑outside creature succeeds in a sneak attack, it's highly likely that before they can even block off the Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and other negative aura inside their body, that Demonic Qi, Evil Qi and negative aura will already have scattered, and the Taichu Sect cultivator will then fall and become a wall‑outside creature.

Once a Taichu Sect cultivator falls and becomes a wall‑outside creature, then even without the other wall‑outside creatures making a move, everyone will be wiped out by that fallen Taichu Sect cultivator—including Ye Tianfan.

Unless Ye Tianfan can, in a very short span of time, enter the Chaos Divine Pearl; only then can Ye Tianfan escape this calamity.

And even then, Ye Tianfan won't necessarily be able to save many people, because at this moment everyone is scattered, each in their own tent; and if Ye Tianfan tries to collect everyone into the Chaos Divine Pearl together, then the Taichu Sect cultivator will be taken in as well, and the people he contaminates during this period will also be taken in.

Therefore, at that time Ye Tianfan would not collect too many people, only a portion, and that portion would be those whose surroundings had no Taichu Sect cultivator, nor anyone contaminated by a Taichu Sect cultivator, because only in that way can Ye Tianfan guarantee his own safety and also assure the safety of those he manages to rescue.

That is exactly why everyone is placing such weight on this matter. Once this situation contains factors they are unaware of, the outcome could easily be radically altered, because everyone's reliance is on the Taichu Sect cultivator; if something happens to the Taichu Sect cultivator, then they all have no choice but to retreat back inside the Wall, and they will also lay heavy blame on the Taichu Sect.

Although they wouldn't be overly harsh on the Taichu Sect, verbal condemnation would still be there, because it was the Taichu Sect that gathered them together and then discussed going beyond the Wall.

As a result, they would not only lose a large number of people, but even the Sect Leader of the Taichu Sect would be contaminated into a wall‑outside creature; at that point, they would basically lose all desire to explore beyond the Wall. It would truly be like drawing water with a bamboo basket, coming up empty, and even smashing the basket itself in the process.

Though the whole affair wouldn't really be the Taichu Sect's fault, everyone still needs a focal point for their anger, and that focal point can only be borne by the Taichu Sect.