Ever since the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Realm of Split Void had been tainted, most of the spirit beasts that had dwelt in different parts of the realm had begun to die by the hundreds.

The fittest survive. That rule applied to spirit beasts too. The ones that were old and young couldn’t resist the erosion of the poisonous spiritual Qi and died.

However, a minority of the strongest ones survived and developed the ability to cultivate using the tainted spiritual ...