Faced with reality unfolding before him, Qin Fengming suddenly froze on the spot. The joy in his heart from moments before vanished in an instant.
Earlier, when he heard Immortal Yun Ling say that this place contained Nether Qi, he had assumed he could draw it into his body and then circulate a spell formula to refine it into his own internal magical energy.
But excitement had clouded his mind, and he had completely overlooked the fact that he could not sense that Nether Qi at all.
If he could not sense the energy, how could he possibly refine it?
Qin Fengming stood there for the time it took an incense stick to burn. His thoughts churned, and he suddenly felt as though he had lost all momentum.
To other cultivators, the Ghost Qi energy here was absolutely dense and vast. Even a Mahayana Existence—even one who cultivated Ghost Dao techniques—would surely feel some pressure while immersed in such energy.
The reason was that the dense Ghost Qi here could enter a cultivator's body and flow into their Pill Sea almost without refinement. Naturally, unrefined Heaven and Earth energy entering the body would cause a cultivator some trouble. It was impure and could not merge with the magical energy refined by the cultivator.
True Ghost Qi was the highest-grade form of Heaven and Earth energy among the three realms of the Spirit Realm.
Actually, the Heaven and Earth energy in the Spirit Realm, True Ghost Realm, and True Demon Realm was known as spirit qi, True Ghost Qi, and True Demon Qi. But their essences were the same: all were Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.
It was only that the source stones which formed these energies differed between the three realms. Thus, the auras of the three realms also differed