Though they were not very close, Qin Fengming and Li Shan still heard Old Ancestor Echen's whisper.
Li Shan's expression suddenly changed, and a flash of horror appeared in his eyes. From Old Ancestor Echen's words, he abruptly recalled an ancient rumor.
The reason the Ghost Domain plane contained Fiend Cave spaces was tied to an extremely ancient legend. It was said that a vast, floating Sumeru Space Rift existed above the Ghost Domain plane. That Rift Space was immense and boundless, and had once been an ancient Immortal-Demonic Battlefield.
Countless armies of immortals and demons had fallen on that battlefield, leaving behind boundless Killing Intent within the space.
That Rift Space drifted through the Ghost Domain. At times, it would collide with the continent of the Ghost Domain. When the two came into contact, the rift would slice through the earth and enter the continental landmass, only to be expelled by the power of the plane. Even so, fragments of Rift Space would remain behind, forming individual Fiend Cave spaces.
Ordinary Fiend Cave spaces contained very few Baleful Intent corpses. When the Sumeru Space Rift collided with the continent of the Ghost Domain, only its edge struck the Ghost Domain continent, shaking loose tiny patches of spatial ground. Thus, the resulting Fiend Cave spaces held only a small number of Baleful Intent corpses.
But there was one circumstance in which a large number of Baleful Intent corpses would exist: after the Sumeru Space Rift touched the Ghost Domain continent, it would not immediately be expelled by the power of the plane, but would instead remain temporarily connected to it.
Once this happened, countless Baleful Intent corpses would surge from the depths of the Sumeru Rift Space toward the Ghost Domain plane. Among them, there might even be powerful Intelligent