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Chapter 1103 - 823: Karma Fire? Nuclear Power?_3

Chapter 1103: Chapter 823: Karma Fire? Nuclear Power?_3

The entire lake, at this moment, had not only lost its pollution but also every spark of spirit mechanism.

The surroundings were akin to a place at the End of Dharma, turned into a desert devoid of spiritual energy.

Even the corpses underfoot and the body of the lake, due to the lingering Karma Fire, continued to maintain a faint pulse, emanating radiation from Karma Fire, cutting off all spirit mechanisms and pollution.

Wang Zijia realized something and, subconsciously putting his fingers together to form a sword, gently swiped at the body of the Demon Blood below.

"Poof!"

The demon, seemingly unscathed and unburnt, collapsed into dust with such disruption, vanishing as if eroded by wind, swiftly disappearing without a trace.

Being originally composed of extremely dense pollution, it had been cleansed of all sin pollution and spirit mechanisms by the Karma Fire. Had it been a real creature of flesh and blood below the Tribulation Stage, perhaps there would have been a mundane body left behind.

But as a special entity at the limit of a Celestial being’s level, it left nothing behind completely.

Wang Zijia stared bewilderedly as everything crumbled to dust, the muddy lake transformed into a foul-smelling swamp, leaving nothing behind. The area was unlikely to be infiltrated by any spiritual energy for countless years due to the Karma Fire’s lingering aura.

He stood in a daze for a long while.

"Damn!"

In the end, a myriad of thoughts condensed into this quip.

At this moment, Wang Zijia thought of something: a Nuclear Bomb!

The Karma Fire, to the Cultivation World, was akin to a nuclear strike!

Following the attack, though the pollution was resolved, no good came of it. After all, while the Karma Fire burned sins, it also incinerated all spiritual energy and left behind radiation, rendering a lasting spiritless void.

If this method were to be widely disseminated, would it cleanse the world, or would it destroy the Cultivation World, bringing about a complete End of Dharma?

It’s truly hard to say!

Especially since the residue after such a strike was akin to nuclear contamination, making Wang Zijia quite vexed.

You see, pollution, to him, was a resource.

Other cultivators merely feared the burning of spiritual mechanism, but Wang Zijia had double the concern.

’This broken stuff cannot possibly be a conventional method of attack. No wonder despite its obvious repressive powers, Shen Hong hardly shows any signs of using it.’

’Moreover, the Karma Fire is presumably hard to handle even for golden immortals, given its extreme propensity to harm both friend and foe.’

’Considering the number of high-level cultivators Shen Hong has to date, it likely won’t be widely adopted.’

Having understood the pros and cons of Karma Fire, Wang Zijia’s face was filled with vexation.

’Additionally, wasn’t the effect of Karma Fire said to be the burning of sins? Why did it also destroy all spiritual energy? The ancient texts didn’t mention this!’

’It can’t possibly be that spiritual energy itself is a sin!’

With his thoughts in a jumble, he looked around at the ’barren’ spiritless swamp that the lake had become and shook his head, deciding to leave this wretched place behind.

Given the current situation, there was no need for him to inspect the lake anymore.

Nor was there any concern about leaving anything behind for some demon to acquire after his departure and rapidly rise in place of the previous one.

This was even cleaner than if he had cleansed the area himself!

However, Wang Zijia still proceeded with the routine, floating away from the swamp, patrolling the area briefly, and slaughtering some potential fierce beasts and demons, before he considered the task complete.

Then, he reopened the mission map and headed off in a certain direction.

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Wang Zijia did not immediately rush towards the next target.

Instead, as he neared his destination, he chose a place to sit and meditate to restore his mana.

Though he had only used a powerful move earlier, the consumption had not been inconsequential.

Fortunately for him, recovery was convenient.

Other cultivators, at this depth, would not dare to absorb the erratic spiritual energy from the air for recovery, after all, the entire world was filled with pollution, as was the spiritual energy.

This was also the reason why so few low-level cultivators ventured to such depths.

Even Celestial and Profound Immortals needed to bring sufficient elixirs or a Portable Cave as a supply to make the journey.

Otherwise, sustaining themselves was a big issue!

Yet, Wang Zijia welcomed all comers. If he had been an honest cultivator, diligently practicing day by day, this entire world would virtually be an ultimate Cave Heaven Blessed Land to him!

Too bad his Cultivation up to now relied on ’personal effort’ and not much power was earned through hard graft.

To achieve Profound Immortal status in sixteen years, if he really practiced... it’s doubtful he would even complete the basic stages of the Perfected realm, possibly still struggling at the child or Sacrificial Wine stage.

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Half a day later, after Wang Zijia had fully recovered, he took out the mission map again, checked the target, and set off towards the next destination.

Since he was not too far from the target, it wasn’t long before Wang Zijia arrived at the location.

It was a hilly mountain range.

Looking around, he saw a dense expanse of mountains, though none were particularly tall.

In the forest of the mountains, there was a dense cover of vegetation, yet it was not lush.

For they were all a kind of tree: the Ghost Locust Tree!

The entire area was populated with these trees, their wood pitch black, devoid of any leaves, with only bizarre branches growing all over, even emitting a faint Black Mist Ghost Qi.

This enveloped the entire hilly area with a special ghostly aura.

Inside the forest, not a single living creature existed. There were only the Dead Souls and Dry Bones of various fierce beasts.

What was horrifying was that regardless of whether they were dead souls or dry bones, their speed was extremely terrifying. Seemingly low-level entities possessed shadow-like speed and formidable attacking power.

This was his second destination: the Ghostly Forest of the Netherworld!

Although not a Time Sin area, all living things here resembled the Ghost Skeletons from a Time Sin region, possessing unreasonable super-level speed and attack capabilities.

Of course, correspondingly, they had an absurdly weak defense.

Since the entire Night Star Netherworld Realm leaned towards Time Sin rule pollution, such beings were more abundant.

It wasn’t like the typical areas where inexplicable lifeforms tainted by Fate Sin like those in Lake of Ten Thousand Insects were less common.

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