Black Mist was first sighted around twenty years ago. Exactly when was hard to pin down. The labyrinth was vast, after all, and the state of the dependents inside it was so dreamlike and bizarre that specific times were basically impossible to clarify.
At first, the dependents merely recorded it as a rather interesting phenomenon.
But at some unknown point, records of "Black Mist attacking people" began to appear.
Although every year there were dependents who vanished deep within the labyrinth, neither seen alive nor found dead, "getting lost" and "being swallowed by Black Mist" were different concepts.
As time went on, the existence of this Black Mist became increasingly obvious.
And the records of its attacks grew clearer and clearer.
For explorers entering the place, it had actually become the greatest danger.
Because the Celestial Favored Clan wished to control the risks, they would deliberately prevent dependents who had mastered too much knowledge from entering. They did not want one to leap skyward and advance to great heights, becoming a formidable opponent even they found difficult to suppress.
Though there were cases like Black Star, who had parted amicably from the Ant Clan, one should not forget that among those powerhouses whose strength had surged, some had simply undergone a drastic change in temperament.
This setting of "drastic change in temperament" meant that all efforts spent cultivating goodwill could prove futile.
After all, no matter how high the favorability, it could all be ruined in one stroke by some "drastic change in temperament."
This was entirely a matter of luck and probability. Cultivation level had nothing to do with it.
After all, even the Ant Queen at the Limit of Dao Integration had died because of a "drastic change in temperament."
This also caused the Celestial Favored Clan to