Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

The moment he crossed the boundary, it felt as if he had passed through an invisible membrane. The birdsong and fragrance of flowers from the outside world vanished instantly, replaced by a deathly silence. Those low whispers became clearer, as if countless people were murmuring in his ear, yet the specific content remained indistinguishable, only causing a sense of mental agitation.

Even more apparent was that the circulation of spiritual power throughout his body suddenly became sluggish, as if he had fallen into a swamp, and it was being slowly extracted and dissolved by an invisible force! Even his Physical Body’s blood and Qi felt a trace of imperceptible loss.

”It really can corrode power!” Su Muxue’s beautiful face changed slightly. She immediately channeled her Taiyin Star Power, and a cold moonlight diffused from her body to form a protective shield. That feeling of being drained instantly weakened by more than half.

Zi Linger also immediately deployed an emerald-green life light shield. Her power, full of vitality, was incompatible with the surrounding aura of decay, producing a faint ”sizzling” sound of confrontation.

Nangong Xuan did not immediately use his Nirvana Sword Essence; instead, he carefully sensed his surroundings. The four star keys within his Dantian trembled slightly, especially the water star key—did the unpurified stain on it produce some extremely faint resonance with the surrounding decay? Meanwhile, the chaos star core remained silent, but it revealed an instinctive ”appetite” for this erosive force.

He attempted to circulate the balanced power of the four keys. A characteristic power that fused Nirvana, Void Realm, Sharp Metal, and Water Spirit flowed through his body. The erosive force was instantly offset by a large margin, and there was even a faint, extremely subtle sign of it being converted and absorbed.

”The erosive force here seems ’gentler’ than the evil Qi of the North Nether Sea, but it is more hidden and difficult to guard against, mainly targeting spiritual power and the life Origin,” Nangong Xuan quickly made a judgment. ”Follow me closely, save your spiritual power, we will head straight for the Core.”

The three of them pushed deeper into the woodland with caution. The further they went, the more bizarre the scenery became. The soil on the ground took on an unhealthy gray-black color, and the vegetation was withered and dying. Huge, rotting sores oozing black slime appeared on the trunks of many ancient trees, and those whispers were faintly emanating from these very sores.

They could even see the carcasses of some small animals; they hadn’t been eaten, but rather looked as if all their life essence had been drained, leaving behind shriveled husks.

Zi Linger was terrified by the sight. As a Wood Spirit, she felt this scene of life destruction most profoundly and painfully.

Suddenly, a massive ancient tree nearby, nearly half-rotten, gave a violent shudder. Several thick, black tentacles shot out from the pitch-black sores on its trunk, lunging at the three like venomous snakes! The tentacles were permeated with a thick aura of decay and resentment!

”Watch out!” Nangong Xuan barked. He pointed his fingers like a sword, and a razor-thin wisp of gray Nirvana Sword Gang flashed by, precisely severing those black tentacles.

The severed tentacles fell to the ground, writhing like living things for a moment before dissipating into black Qi. However, the shrieks of pain and malice coming from the sores of the ancient tree became even more piercing.

”These ancient trees... they’ve been contaminated, they’re in pain...” Zi Linger’s voice carried a hint of sorrow.

”It’s more than just contamination,” Su Muxue said with a grave expression, pointing to the sores that continued to leak black fluid even after the tentacles were severed. ”Their power and life are being forcibly extracted and gathered toward a single direction!”

Nangong Xuan looked in the direction she pointed, which was toward the very center of the woodland. The darkness there far exceeded the surroundings, as if all light had been swallowed up.

”The Core is right there.” Nangong Xuan’s eyes were sharp. ”Speed up!”