Surrounded by sharp-eyed and alert people, the team leader’s voice, though not loud, was still heard by many.
"Old Song, what nonsense are you talking about? Soul power is not constant to begin with; there’s no such thing as having too much or too little of it."
"Yes, don’t disturb the head instructor over so illusion."
"You’re also stuck at the Ninth Layer Peak’s bottleneck. You can’t absorb much soul power to begin with. It’s normal if your feeling is wrong."
Teammates nearby repeatedly tried to persuade him.
Soul power had existed since the outbreak of the apocalypse, and after more than a year, it had beco deeply ingrained in the hearts of every Awakener.
Just like water flows downhill and cultivation makes one stronger... This was an existing rule.
To say soul power had diminished was even less plausible than claiming the sun had been devoured!
The team leader was anxious, "I’m not, I didn’t talk nonsense!"
He did not dare to pause, and quickly said, "Captain, this is what happened."
"When this desert first appeared, I was one of the mbers exploring it. Although I didn’t encounter that Transcendent Tier Digging Sand Worm, I did slaughter a few ordinary ones."
"Later, the missions I carried out were also in this desert, slaying different levels of Digging Sand Worms at close range. I clearly rember how much soul power I could absorb.
The previous tis, the amount of soul power absorbed didn’t vary much. This ti, if it had been a slight fluctuation, it might have been fine, but I felt that the quantity absorbed was nearly twenty percent less than before."
Twenty percent was a very noticeable discrepancy.
But the mbers of the Investigation Corps were high tier in their Awakening, with a significant gap from the Mutant Beasts. After each kill, the soul power they scattered and absorbed wasn’t much. At their high stages of Awakening, their improvent in strength relied more on Cultivation Skills, and the effect of refining soul power was not as prominent as in the middle or low tier.
What’s more important, in each of their encounters with either Mutant Beasts or Demonized Beasts, wasn’t every mber of the Investigation Corps cutting through them effortlessly?
Apart from having obsessive-compulsive disorder, who could clearly calculate the soul power absorbed during combat?
The others fell into deep thought, silently recalling their previous battles and comparing the soul power they absorbed to the number of Mutant Beasts they had slain, and then realized... they hadn’t kept track of these details at all.
...
Green Shadow, Lord’s castle.
Tang Yu pinched the earthen yellow orb between two fingers.
In his perception, the orb radiated a strong earthen yellow glow, even drawing the surrounding Earth Series Elents to converge. Soon after, the Elental concentration of Earth Series Source Qi in the hall was clearly higher than that of other elents.
"It’s a treasure."
Luo Zhe had noticed it too, but he couldn’t fathom the orb’s essence.
Tang Yu propped his chin with one hand, data streams flowing through his eyes for nearly half a minute before slowly fading away.
There was a trace of surprise.
"It’s actually a physical manifestation of a Law fragnt."
"Law fragnt?"
"That desert was originally sandwiched between space layers. When that space truly rged with Earth, it might’ve caused subtle Law fluctuations."
"Of course," Tang Yu said with a smile, "it’s a very weak fluctuation, almost negligible in effect on the outside world. However, due to the convergence of Laws, treasures like ’Law fragnts’ might form, albeit rarely."
"Pity that the Power of Laws contained within it is too faint, not even worth a whisper."
Let alone his lack of proficiency in Earth Series, the Glazed Fla imprint in his mind alone contained Laws that were thousands and thousands of tis stronger than those in this Earth Series orb.
However, the value of the Earth Series orb could not be denied; it was simply that his sights were set higher.
Tang Yu swiftly tossed the earthen yellow orb back, "If you don’t want it, put it in the Corps’ treasury. Set a price, give those Earth Series Ability Users a motivation to advance."
This Earth Series orb, if placed in the Corps’ treasury, would easily rank among the top three treasures.
Since attunent was impossible, Luo Zhe decided to mark it with a high price as soon as he returned.
He imdiately ntioned the issue regarding the anomaly in soul power.
Tang Yu pondered for a mont, then lightly tapped a few tis on his tactical wristband.
Shortly after,
accompanied by the sound of footsteps, Lan Qingya and several high-ranking mbers of the Intelligence Departnt arrived.
All were in charge of the area surrounding Green Shadow.
"Has there been anything unusual in the city lately? Especially concerning soul power."
Lan Qingya furrowed her brows in thought for a mont, "There’s been nothing special in the city recently, wait, there seem to be so rumors in the bars, saying that so are complaining that the demonized beasts they’ve slain lately have less soul power escaping."
Not many believed this, and Lan Qingya had not concerned herself with it initially, but with the City Lord summoning them, she realized the issue was not ordinary. The pieces of intelligence she had glanced over in recent days flashed through her mind.
Another high-level Intelligence Departnt official also suddenly rembered, "A few days ago, I went to Yang City. Along the way, I killed so demonized beasts. The soul power I absorbed did seem a little less, but I thought it was just my imagination."
The group exchanged glances, and combining various clues, it was almost certain that the decline in soul power was genuine.
The seriousness of the situation was clear to everyone.
"Keep a close watch on this matter and report at any ti."
In the following several days, reports arrived at his desk every day.
The Intelligence Departnt, in cooperation with the Investigation Corps, accurately asured the rate of soul power decline.
The first day, the decrease was between ten to twenty percent.
The second day, it had fallen by twenty to thirty percent.
The third day, thirty to fifty percent...
In just under five days, the phenonon of soul power decline had beco very obvious. Even Awakeners who had not gone out during this ti had learned of the matter.
Everyone was abuzz with discussion, filled with panic!
Soul power was equivalent to the experience gained for leveling up. Having enjoyed the rapid leveling from refining soul power, when the escaping soul power decreased by seventy, eighty, ninety percent, it also ant that their speed of strength improvent had slowed down by several tis!
In tis of chaos, without strength, one cannot control one’s own fate.
For several consecutive days, the atmosphere in Green Shadow City was sowhat oppressive.
This was still Green Shadow, the safest place on Earth. Information from all over made it clear to Tang Yu that the decline in soul power was global, causing even many large sanctuaries to fall into chaos.
Until the eighth day, when soul power completely disappeared. Slaying demonized or mutant beasts no longer released any soul power, and humanity lost the ans to rapidly increase their strength.
People were in a state of panic!
Especially the low-tier Awakeners, and the teenagers who had just awakened and thought they could reach the pinnacle of life from then on.
Officials from the Municipal Departnt imdiately used newspapers, internet forums, and other platforms to guide all Awakeners, proposing the motto "In the era of cultivation, everyone can be as mighty as a dragon," emphasizing the importance of Cultivation Skills, saying the dissipation of soul power didn’t matter much.
To high-level practitioners, it indeed didn’t matter much.
After reaching high-tier Awakening, cultivation beca the main way to improve strength. Upon reaching the Transcendent Tier, soul power was of no concern at all.
In Green Shadow City, with the Extre Martial Arts Hall and the Adventurer Guild, obtaining a Cultivation Skill wasn’t difficult... With a clear path to improvent, the low-tier Awakeners, though initially disheartened, soon recovered.
On the contrary, the enrollnt at the Extre Martial Arts Hall welcod a peak.
In gathering places and sanctuaries around the world, so chaos ensued, and many conflicts broke out. Among the nurous reports, Tang Yu noticed a curious situation.
In sanctuaries with branches of the Extre Martial Arts Hall, the level of chaos seed to be lower. Many low-tier Awakeners, who had only believed in "kill monsters to level up," saw the hall as their only lifeline in their desperation. They quickly engaged in the Hall’s training, eliminating a large number of troublemakers from the conflicts.
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