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In the utmost darkness.
Pang Jian adjusted his emotions, ignoring the pain in his body, and first sensed the condition of his Spiritual Sea.
After two successive attacks on Qi Qingsong in the courtyard and the arduous breakout from Dong Tianze's ambush, only a meager one or two tenths of his spiritual power remained from his original full capacity.
The urgent task at hand was to quickly replenish his depleted spiritual power.
Feeling his physical injuries were bearable, Pang Jian took out several Spirit Stones from his storage bag, planning to draw the pure Spiritual Energy from them.
A sudden and strange change occurred!
Once the pure, untainted Spirit Stones left the storage bag, the Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm, as if finding a vessel to inhabit, madly surged towards the Spirit Stones in his hand.
In an extremely short time, the pure Spiritual Energy within the Spirit Stones was contaminated by the Filth Alien Power in the darkness.
