Jin Shuang Forbidden Area.
A place chosen by the Divine Owl Demon Ancestor as a refuge.
It lay within a stretch of violently surging waters, where lightning storms raged year-round. Within a radius of thirty thousand li, there was scarcely any living creature.
The Jin Shuang Forbidden Area consisted of nine gigantic islands standing within the River of Destiny, their combined area vast beyond measure.
Those nine islands were filled with bizarre calamity power, which transformed into black mists that shrouded the surrounding lands.
Even Demon Ancestors had to circulate their cultivation at full strength to resist the black mist's corrosion of their bodies.
Moreover, the nine islands were dotted with countless caves, like honeycombs. Within them dwelled a strange kind of creature called Evil Spirit Dragon Scorpions.
These creatures were incomparably brutal. They could easily tear apart an Demon Emperor's Dao body and sustained themselves by devouring souls.
They moved in vast swarms. Wherever they passed, it was as though a storm of black baleful mist had been raised, a truly hair-raising sight.
When Su Yi and his group arrived, merely clearing out the Evil Spirit Dragon Scorpions scattered throughout the Jin Shuang Forbidden Area took nearly half a month.
Yet only at the very end did Su Yi and the others discover that the true danger of the Jin Shuang Forbidden Area lay neither in those Evil Spirit Dragon Scorpions nor in the black mist blanketing the surroundings.
It lay in an exceedingly strange spring eye at the center of the nine islands.
Every midnight, tiny blood-colored worms, no larger than tadpoles, would gush forth from the spring eye in swarms—sometimes hundreds, sometimes over a thousand.
These worms were extraordinarily fast and ignored space itself. In an instant, they could burrow into a cultivator's state of mind and