I'll Mess Up
Spirits began appearing closer, wondering what was going to happen to the tribulation-taker as they didn't see the ascendance rift.
However, the moment they neared a certain radius, they began dropping dead. Some didn't notice at first and ended up drying in droves! But the moment they noticed, everyone began to both scream and scram for their lives!
At the same time, the powerful spirits of the Spirit Ancestral Ground and Inferno Spirit Chamber, who were waiting to see the results and probably try to recruit the spirit that had possibly passed, also became horrified.
They were initially gathered en masse to wreck the situation if the opportunity presented itself. They were outraged but then when they saw even the Ninth Stage Spirits hidden fall like puppets cut off from strings; they didn't dare to cross the line as they were painfully reminded of the human's feat that killed one of their apex spirits!