Qin Fengming and the two others were currently in a barbaric wilderness known as the Dark Spirit Wasteland.
This name had a certain origin. Within this barbaric wilderness lived a peculiar creature—a strange demon beast with no eyes—which cultivators called the "Dark Spirit Demon Beast."
Dark Spirit Demon Beasts did not truly lack eyes. Their eyes had merely degenerated into blind orbs without pupils. Their bodies were not particularly large, resembling oversized wildcats, with sharp teeth and razor claws.
Dark Spirit Demon Beasts had jet-black fur and moved with incomparable speed, like flashes of black lightning darting through the deep underground tunnels.
Beneath this vast land lay countless enormous interconnected holes, each one linked to another, as though the ground beneath this entire region had been riddled through with tunnels.
As for why there were so many holes underground, cultivators had investigated and eventually discovered the reason: the underground region had been gnawed away by Dark Spirit Demon Beasts.
When Dark Spirit Demon Beasts devoured the mineral deposits underground, they produced a substance known as Dark Spirit Crystal. Dark Spirit Crystal was an exceedingly precious material for artifact refinement. It could increase a magic treasure's resistance and ward off corrosive negative energy.
Moreover, Dark Spirit Crystals were divided by quality. Those produced by Mahayana Realm and Immortal Realm Dark Spirit Demon Beasts were considered high-grade, while those produced by Golden Realm Dark Spirit Demon Beasts were top-grade. Dark Spirit Crystals produced by True Immortal-level Dark Spirit Demon Beasts were beyond-grade treasures.
Yet Black Ocean City had not seen a beyond-grade Dark Spirit Crystal for over a million years.
That did not mean there were no True Immortal-level Dark Spirit Demon Beasts beneath the Dark Spirit Wasteland. It merely meant that no one dared enter the underground depths to search for