I followed the route where I had killed those Crystal Dominion cultivators earlier. Their corpses still lay there, half dissolved from supplying the crystals, blood pooling across the ground. I pried open their clothes, took their storage bags, and casually grabbed their crystals, stuffing them into the bags.
These crystals were actually no different from spirit beast crystals. After all, the Crystal Dominion was merely the stage where energy began to condense into a crystal core. The body was still governed by spirit meridians, and thoughts still remained within the mind. Even after reaching the Pill Dao Dominion, there was not much change. Only after entering the Spirit-Bearing Realm, when one possessed a spirit embryo within the body, could thoughts be transferred into it.
As I collected the crystals, the little palace mistress and her bodyguard followed behind me. They happened to witness the cruel scene before them, and the little palace mistress immediately cried out, "I never imagined you'd be this powerful! A mere early-stage Crystal Dominion cultivator actually killed five Crystal Dominion immortals!" She wore an expression of delight at discovering a talent. When she saw me look over, she immediately said, "Would you like to join our Wrathful Spirit Palace?"
"Wrathful Spirit Palace? The Wrathful Spirit Palace that became as famous as Falling Wood Valley over a hundred years ago? You're the little palace mistress of the Wrathful Spirit Palace?" I looked her up and down. The map the fatty had given me was centered broadly around Falling Wood Valley. Of course, on the outskirts there was also a great evil sect called the Wrathful Spirit Palace. This territory was so vast that it was no smaller than Falling Wood Valley—in fact, it was even larger!
If this place had not been a buffer zone between the