"What's going on?"
Just as Wei Suo and the Green Robe Old Man were wavering in alarm, all the countless points of light on the crystal sphere vanished.
"These people weren't killed. This thing just happened to run out of power."
Wei Suo immediately saw that all the radiance on the crystal sphere in his hand had also faded away. Cracks had appeared within it, just like a spirit stone after all its spiritual energy had been drained.
"This thing actually only had this tiny bit of power left. If it hadn't at least revealed the traces of these cultivators, wouldn't it have been no different from junk?"
Fortunately, he already knew the cultivators' precise locations. After saying this in frustration, Wei Suo casually stuffed the crystal sphere into the Treasure Pouch where he kept discarded magic artifacts, then continued flying at full speed toward the location where at least a thousand cultivators had gathered.
He could now tell that once the crystal sphere's power had been completely exhausted, the tiny refined-gold insects it had released could no longer be retrieved. This magic treasure was effectively ruined beyond repair.
But Wei Suo did not know that this ancient treasure had originally retained considerable power. It was only because Cave Master Ancient Crocodile had kept it activated to search for him that, by the time it fell into Wei Suo's hands, it had only this last sliver of power remaining.
"This is Fanying Mountain."
About an hour later, a vast and ancient mountain appeared before Wei Suo.
The trees covering this mountain were all enormous. Moreover, perhaps because of some unique Earth Qi, thick rain clouds floated in clusters throughout many parts of the mountain.
Torrential rain fell from time to time in many places. Even those places where it was