Of course, that did not mean the other regions were entirely free of danger. Perils like the tide of Cold Shadow Insects were also abundant outside the Ao Teng regions.
Aside from demon insects, there were various other dangerous entities capable of threatening Profound Spirit cultivators. Any of them could cause patrolling cultivators to perish.
Thus, every time they left the protection of the region's defensive restrictions to carry out a mission, a massive bounty had to be offered before a Patrol Envoy team would willingly accept it.
However, as long as they accepted such a mission and completed it successfully, those who participated would receive enormous material rewards as well as rewards in the form of free time. These were precisely the things Aoteng Interface cultivators most wished to obtain.
The seven had been surrounded by a tide of Cold Shadow Insects this time. It could be said that they had thrown themselves into the trap.
Originally, the seven had not chosen this route to return. They had merely learned that there was a precious material in this desert, and only after obtaining sufficient information had they detoured to this desert region.
This desert region contained several dangerous entities, and the Cold Shadow Insects were one of them.
However, all Aoteng Interface cultivators knew that whenever large numbers of Ao Beast Vine Demons gathered toward the Aoteng Mountain Range, the demon insects on the Aoteng Interface would take advantage of the chaos and plunder regions without powerful Ao Beasts or Vine Demons.
The seven had assumed that the large number of demon insects would inevitably advance deep into the Ao Teng region, so this desert should not have contained any powerful demon-insect swarms.
Who could have expected that they would still run into an innumerable swarm of Cold Shadow