After the Great Dao Sect's high-level meeting concluded that day, the unknown illness continued to spread through the sect at a terrifying pace.

Edicts had been issued in advance ordering disciples to take extra precautions, isolate themselves, and avoid unnecessary contact with others. Medicinal pills had been distributed according to need.

None of it made any difference.

The speed of contagion and the lethality of the disease among lower-realm cultivators far exceeded what the sect's leadership had anticipated. In less than a month, nearly every disciple of the Great Dao Sect had contracted it. Creation Violet-Gold Pills were not something every disciple was fortunate enough to receive, and common pills offered little...