Shang Xia replaced the position once occupied by the shattered tower, using the Crimson Soul Tablet to draw in the foreign origin qi gathering from the surrounding void.0

During the process, he gradually realized that the tower he had destroyed was only one node within a vast network of interconnected origin qi flows.0

As the Crimson Soul Tablet’s absorption surpassed what the tower could once contain, the void around him began to develop widening gaps where energy had been drained away. The nearby towers, which had been absorbing origin qi on their own, started to funnel their flow toward his position to compensate for the missing origin qi.0

If it had lasted only a short while, it might not have mattered. But as he continued to draw more origin qi, and more energy was pulled to fill the growing void, the disturbance would inevitably...0