Whether in ancient texts or passed down by cultivators from mouth to mouth, it was said that anyone who entered Black Mist Island would be monitored by the cultivators of the Five Great Sects. Whatever was obtained on the island had to be handed over as agreed; otherwise, one would surely be slain by the Five Great Sects.
Qin Fengming was greatly puzzled by this as well.
Black Mist Island was vast, stretching for tens or even hundreds of thousands of miles in every direction. The cultivators who entered numbered in the tens of thousands.
Even if there were monitoring formations, it was truly difficult to keep watch over such a huge area and so many cultivators.
If it was because of the contracts everyone had signed that they willingly handed over what they obtained, Qin Fengming could still accept that. But to rely on surveillance alone was truly baffling.
However, the death contract was where the main power of the agreement lay. Handing over one's gains was not its focus. That was precisely why the great sects had sent cultivators into Ice Valley to search extensively for Profound Soul Crystals.
After passing through that formation, everyone became even more cautious.
As they advanced, Ji Zelang even released a spirit beast at the early Integration stage and had it scout the way several hundred zhang ahead.
Everyone understood that the formation they had encountered earlier could only be considered a relatively mild ancient restriction. It had merely trapped them; there had been no killing formation. If it had been a formation with powerful offensive might, their danger would have increased sharply. It was not impossible that they might have been wiped out within the formation.
Black Mist Island was a place brimming with yin energy, and some yin beasts also