At first, no one thought this was a disaster. It was just that three unusual schools had appeared among the Daoist sects: Gu cultivators, soul cultivators, and machine cultivators.
Like most people on Blue Star, Jiang Han signed up enthusiastically, treating it all as a game and assuming it was a spiritual qi revival. Before he could even join a sect, he saw the news: hordes of Gu cultivators, grotesque figures covered in insect limbs, and soul cultivators with hideous faces like evil spirits, were pouring out of the sects and frantically spreading their powers.
Only then did humanity understand: this wasn't a spiritual qi revival, but an apocalyptic crisis.
Gu cultivators didn't cultivate Gu. Instead, the insects inside them drained their bodies dry until the Gu burst out and fully matured.
Soul cultivators didn't cultivate souls. They were parasitized by evil spirits that drained their vital essence, until they became evil spirits themselves.
Just as the nations looked on in despair, the gates of the Machine Sect opened. A message was transmitted to the Systems of nations that had not yet completely collapsed.
“Destruction-level power detected. Rectification, elimination, and civilization-protection directives initiated. Technology transmission to primitive civilizations commencing.”
“Psychoenergy cultivation method successfully transmitted!”
“Gene-limit-breaking method successfully transmitted!”
“Cyborg warrior method successfully transmitted!”
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