Outside Mount Qi Yun.
Because it bordered Great Qiu Marsh, there were no permanent human settlements for tens of thousands of miles in every direction.
Lady Rain certainly wasn't joking with you.
If you dared to settle nearby,
you had to be mentally prepared to be treated as her snack.
However.
Although there were no villages, Awakened would occasionally come here to harvest supernatural fruits or complete adventure missions in exchange for money.
At this moment.
More than fifty kilometers from Mount Qi Yun.
A group of Awakened had just killed several Evil Spirits known as "Mud Children." They were relatively common Evil Spirits in the southern region of the Supernatural World, with appearances resembling small children.
They were not particularly strong.
Only Fourth Order.
But they could merge with the earth, making them completely indistinguishable from their surroundings.
This ability to appear and disappear unpredictably often caused weaker Awakened to suffer greatly. When they were killed by a sneak attack, they often didn't even know where it had come from.
However.
Although "Mud Children" were dangerous,
killing them yielded a dark-gold soft mud.
This Supernatural Item could be used as a building material to increase a house's resistance to the supernatural.
Though "Mud Children" themselves were only Fourth Order,
this dark-gold soft mud could achieve defensive power beyond Fourth Order through accumulation and special processing. With enough of it and sufficiently advanced craftsmanship, it could even defend against Sixth Tier attacks!
Thus, this material had always been in short supply.
The Awakened team before them were adventurers who specialized in hunting "Mud Children."
Or rather,
they were not exactly adventurers.
They were the Weird Second Generation of a supernatural faction called "Black Skull," brought out under the guidance of an expert to hunt Evil Spirits and temper their experience