As soon as the burly man with the alcohol doubled up in pain, his four companions rushed over and made a defensive barrier around him.

“What’s wrong?!”

“I don’t know what’s going on!” the burly man said in a quavering voice. “My five phases true energy just went into chaos and won't flow smoothly. It’s almost like I'm experiencing cultivation deviation. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.”

He was trembling so hard he could hardly move, and if it weren’t for his companions helping him, he would likely have been ripped to shreds by the spatial tempests.

“Cultivation deviation? How could any of us experience cultivation deviation? We all cultivate the same five phases godly-class energy arts. Once you reach a high level, you can essentially live forever with them.”

“Maybe he’s been rushing his cultivation, and that destabilized his vital energy,” one of his companions said. “Come on, let’s pour some power into him.”

They immediately began feeding true energy into him, yet it did nothing. It...