Souls.

The three old men were visibly shaken by the speed at which Sect Master Lin and Alex had appeared in front of them. Their surprise was evident as they looked down at the destruction left in the wake of the silvery mannequin beings' attacks.

"Let's talk somewhere else," the old men suggested, noticing that their conversation was being monitored by numerous presences.

Sect Master Lin and Alex agreed, and they swiftly departed the area, carrying Chang Li's unconscious body with them.

In the secret room of Sect Master Lin, a place once used for studying the Space Element, the most powerful individuals on the planet now gathered. The three old men began to recount their story, detailing the events that had transpired in their world.

"Tell us what you said before." Sect Master Lin looked at these people and said this, he would not even consider talking to these people if not for the fact they said something about Silver Manequiim Beings as he didn't care anything beyond that, he wished they would get weakened enough to stop fucking around in their world and concentrating on just defending themselves and leave them alone.

In Reality, this person always tried to sabotage many different important missions that were created in Wujin, the world they lived in, most of the time they didn't succeed but the times they did caused immeasurable loss of information, no matter what they could not catch and fight any of them before they somehow crossed the barrier.

Inhabitants of Wujin Evil Or Not tried to find out how they crossed the barrier without being affected for thousands of years but the thing that could do that was lost in the Period of Ancestor Carnage, they hated this Old Man because there was a theory in the period of absolute chaos they took their chance and broke the artifact that could do that.

But this wasn't the time to tell about that, Sect Master Lin just needed to listen to these people and find out what happened in their world because he didn't want more of these Silvery Mannequin Beings to come to his world.

The old men started to explain that the attacks on their world had begun approximately thirty years ago. Villages, cities, and even entire sects had been disappearing without warning. At first, they had attributed it to internal conflicts or the wrath of powerful sect leaders. However, as more and more sects vanished, they grew suspicious.

Alex nodded in understanding.

"After that our representative detected... well... nothing, just one day he was looking at the sect and in one blink of the eye, and this is not extravagating, he just blinked and... Sect was gone, with no sound at all, this made him think he was getting crazy and after he came back we checked his memories time after time, we saw the same thing, one blink and everything was gone, Years passed and all the representatives of our Sects found out similar things even if they didn't blink, Sects just disappeared out of nowhere." Old Man sighed.

Sect Master Lin and Alex listened in stunned silence, realizing the gravity of the situation.

"Years passed," the old man continued, "and our representatives began experiencing similar phenomena. Sects would vanish, leaving no trace."

"Wait a moment," Alex interjected. "How did your representatives know which sects were about to disappear?"

"We noticed that every sect about to be destroyed experienced a series of natural disasters," one of the old men explained. "Earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados – it was as if nature itself had turned against them. But no matter how hard we looked, we couldn't understand the cause. Not many can oppose the forces of nature."

Alex and Sect Master Lin exchanged a knowing glance, understanding the significance of the pattern.

"Finally," the old man said, "one of our strongest members, Tian Long, the God of Might, discovered the truth." He displayed images of Tian Long confronting a massive tornado.

"This was the largest tornado we've ever witnessed, larger than several cities combined," the old man described. They watched as Tian Long fought against the relentless wind and discovered attacks hidden within the tornado.

"It was within that tornado that we found them," the old man continued, showing images of the silvery mannequin beings absorbing energy at the tornado's center.

The images shifted to a battle between Tian Long and one of the creatures. Tian Long was severely injured, but he managed to defeat the creature.

"Tian Long defeated the creature," the old man said, "but he was gravely wounded. It took him years to recover fully."

Alex looked at this dumbfounded, this Silvery Mannequin Being was much more powerful than the one he clambered down in his building, he didn't know if he would die against it but he knew the fight would not be as easy as it was when he fought the other one, looks like this beings could absorb the energy from the...

"Spirit Energy, directly from the Souls of the people." Sect Master Lin said this.

"WHAT!!!" 3  Old Man stood up.

"This is impossible, we thought the energy was just refined Qi---" They got interrupted.

"You are wrong then, This is the soul essence, more like the core of the souls that manage the life of everyone." Sect Master Lin snapped his fingers and soul was extracted from the nearby fly.

The soul was blue flame flickering very small in his hand but little by little it was unpealed before fully blue flame was left.

"This is the Origin soul that we call it." He stood up and sighed.

"Why have we never heard of this before." Old Man asked, they knew about Soul abilities that could be used to manage souls but they never heard of these Origins... they could not... even guess what the thing these beings were absorbing was, they were completely clueless about what this meant.

"Because you have never gotten the technique we had and... this means a lot of trouble coming towards our world..."