Kunwu Continent.
Over the past dozen or so years, strange things had often happened in this vast world.
Namely, Spirit Stone veins had been going missing.
It all traced back to fourteen years ago, when a cultivation sect called the Yan Feng Sect decided to mine one of its reserve veins.
A vein that should have held more than thirty million Spirit Stones had already been completely depleted.
The whole Yan Feng Sect was shaken to its core.
The Sect Master of the Yan Feng Sect, a mighty figure in the Guiyi Realm, personally supervised an inspection of all the sect's current reserve veins.
The results were even harder to believe.
The Yan Feng Sect had a total of seven Spirit Stone veins with reserves exceeding ten million.
Four of those veins had been completely depleted.
The fifteen veins with reserves in the millions, as well as dozens of veins with reserves in the hundreds of thousands, were all untouched.
Four Spirit Stone veins with reserves in the tens of millions had vanished without a sound or trace.
It was truly baffling.
After all, these were four Spirit Stone veins with reserves in the tens of millions.
Even if all one hundred and sixty thousand Inner Disciples and one million two hundred thousand Servant Disciples of the Yan Feng Sect worked day and night, it would take at least fifteen years to mine the combined reserves of over a hundred million Spirit Stones in those four veins.
How could they simply vanish into thin air?
News of the Yan Feng Sect's misfortune soon spread, reaching every sect within hundreds of thousands of li.
At first, they treated the Yan Feng Sect's plight as a spectacle.
But soon, those cultivation sects came to their senses.
If the Yan Feng Sect's reserve