Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239: Corruption

Inside Li Yao’s spiritual sea, the Empress was panicking. As Li Yao attempted her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm, their connection had been suddenly severed. This had occurred once before when Li Yao was showing signs of qi deviation after the fight with the cult leader. The Empress wondered if the same thing was happening now.

As she thought of this, the entire spiritual sea suddenly started trembling violently. Extending her divine sense to investigate the disturbance, the Empress noticed something deeply disturbing—a dark, murky aura was slowly creeping across the edges of the spiritual sea. The malevolent energy seemed intent on consuming everything in its path.

Without hesitation, the Empress instantly teleported to the very edge of the spiritual sea. Before her stretched an endless murky void that definitely hadn’t been there before.

The Empress placed her hand against the void. The moment her flesh made contact, her hand was immediately swallowed into the darkness. Her expression turned serious as she quickly yanked her hand back. The arm was now covered in dark cracks that spread across her skin like spider webs.

"Corruption?" she wondered aloud.

She exerted her energy, shattering the spreading cracks and making them disappear completely.

The empress thought that Li Yao was quite a strange girl. When she had first appeared in Li Yao’s life, the girl had just lost everything dear to her. Back then, Li Yao had been an incredibly violent child, filled with such deep resentment and desire for violence that was absolutely not normal for a single child to harbor.

The Empress had felt deeply concerned that Li Yao would end up walking a completely different path if nothing was done to help her. Using her power, she had sealed away some of the most traumatic memories from that time. Although Li Yao somewhat understood what had happened back then, the overwhelming amount of resentment she carried had been locked away.

But now, as Li Yao was in the process of forming her nascent soul, it seemed that seal had finally broken loose. Even more shocking was that the sealed resentment had multiplied many times over during its imprisonment.

The Empress quickly made a series of complex hand signs before spreading her hands in opposite directions. Instantly, a powerful pulse of energy erupted from her position, rushing toward the edges of the spiritual sea like a tidal wave. The energy formed a barrier, blocking the corruption from advancing any deeper into Li Yao’s consciousness.

"This should be able to hold out for a while," she thought aloud.

Almost immediately, she heard an ominous crack echo through the barrier.

"Or maybe not," she spoke as she frantically reinforced the barrier with additional layers of protection.

As she poured more energy into maintaining the barrier, the Empress’s mind raced. It seemed her previous suspicions had been correct—there was absolutely no way a child could naturally harbor that much resentment, even when seeking revenge for her family. The sheer volume of hatred was beyond what any mortal soul could contain. Now that it had multiplied exponentially, she was one hundred percent certain that something else was manipulating the situation from behind the scenes.

Something big and powerful.

Li Yao was a rare genius that might not appear once in an entire generation, which made perfect sense why certain entities might target her exceptional destiny. But why would they use such a vile, destructive method? With this level of resentment consuming her, Li Yao would inevitably end up destroying the world around her, eventually losing the favor of the heavenly dao. There would be no benefits to be gained from such an outcome. _{f|ree(w)ebn\o.vel.com}

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