Among the twelve prefectures of the Tortoise Spirit Immortal Region, the Purple Leaf Mountain Region of Qingzhou was covered in Purpleflame Fruit. The fruit could serve as an auxiliary ingredient in several immortal pills or be brewed into immortal wine, and it was in great demand throughout the region. But Purpleflame Fruit tasted sweet and carried a trace of fire power, making it a favorite of Demon Bee Ants.
The Tortoise Spirit Immortal Region's twelve prefectures had lost too many people in the Misty Marsh. Now, large numbers of immortal troops were needed to guard important passages throughout the region and eliminate potential threats, leaving its once ample forces stretched thin.
So the Immortal Region began assigning some troublesome but manageable tasks to the people it had gathered from outside: members of various immortal sects and schools, Rogue Cultivators, and others. Among the region's vast population of natives, only a relative few could cultivate to the immortal realm. Their lives naturally mattered more than those of outsiders. Besides, some of the immortal sects and schools that had come from outside still had true immortals who could be put to use. Even if they were far weaker than true immortals of the same rank from the Immortal Region, they were still a great deal stronger than ordinary immortals.
Purpleflame Fruit from the Purple Leaf Mountain Region was one of the Demon Bee Ants' favorite foods. They were not especially strong compared with the Immortal Region's immortals and true immortals. Immortal soldiers fighting in formation, directed by the region's true immortals, could easily drive back swarms of them.
But what was relatively easy for the Immortal Region's troops was no simple matter for the immortal sects and schools from beyond its borders.
No matter how formidable the troops were, they could not