When Qin Fengming and Venerable Feng Ji stepped into the cold pool, a vast ocean shrouded in yin energy stretched across the Desert Shore Ghost Domain. Gales of yin wind howled as tremendous energy swept over the boundless sea, forming terrifying tornadoes that tore through earth and sky. The sight was truly dreadful.
This was a perilous region of the Desert Shore Ghost Domain. Normally, only cultivators above the Ghost Lord level dared to enter.
It was said that in the core region of this vast ocean dwelled yin beasts formed by Heaven and Earth. They were terrifying fiends condensed from Heaven and Earth yin energy—not souls, nor beings possessing intelligence, but strange ghostly creatures that could attack. Any cultivator who approached would become entangled with them.
Those fiends were generally enormous, often spanning dozens or even hundreds of miles. Some appeared as huge, dense spheres of yin energy, spinning and drifting through the air. Some were massive and elongated, resembling giant dragons as vast as mountain ranges, roaming across the sea. Others were like surging waves, rippling across broad regions. Their forms differed, but all were exceedingly terrifying. As long as a cultivator drew near, they would be enveloped within.
Once someone fell inside, even a Mahayana cultivator could not say for certain that they could easily escape.
That was because the interior was incredibly viscous, like falling into a muddy swamp. Moreover, the yin mist was extraordinarily corrosive to cultivators, capable of scorching away their own magical power and soul energy. It could not be dispersed easily.
Only cultivators dared enter the outer regions of this sea. They searched for opportunities on some of the islands along its edge, but after delving more than a hundred thousand miles, human traces became exceedingly rare.
At that moment, several cultivators