If it were merely a matter of entering Black Mist Island for spirit herbs and materials, Qin Fengming felt it would be optional. Even if something extremely valuable were found there, as long as he was willing to spend an astronomical number of spirit stones or other treasures, he should be able to place a bounty for it in the Marketplace.
As for the few rare materials and spirit herbs he most urgently needed, whether they even existed in the Dark Sea Region was difficult to say.
Spending ten years there just to obtain some other rare spirit herbs would be a losing proposition for Qin Fengming. However, with the matter of the Dragon Soul Beast involved, he could not help hesitating deeply.
Qin Fengming had never considered directly going to He Yang Island to seize the Dragon Soul Beast.
Faced with such a colossal force—with two Spirit Severing realm cultivators, more than a dozen Integration stage cultivators, and countless Nascent Soul cultivators—trying to scheme for their treasures would be no different from a fool dreaming.
The treasure hunt convention on Black Mist Island, however, could be considered an extremely suitable opportunity to seize it.
If there were no benefits involved, none of the five great forces would be so bored as to serve others for nothing.
"Fellow Daoist, there is something you do not know. Any cultivator who enters Black Mist Island, regardless of what treasures they find inside, must hand half of them over to the five great forces after coming out. Furthermore, the cultivators who enter will be monitored by cultivators outside the island. No one inside can possibly evade their investigation. Thus, no one dares to hide any treasures."
The female cultivator continued speaking, explaining everything to Qin Fengming in detail.
Although the female cultivator was