Darkmist Shadow Domain

Spirit Talisman Immortal City, marketplace.

Li Yuan spent two days wandering the city.

The Spirit Talisman Domain's methods of combining arrays and talismans truly surpassed those of other domains. The marketplace was full of finished products made through array-assisted talisman crafting, from First-Order to Fourth-Order. They cost thirty percent less than handmade talismans and were poorer in quality, but available in far greater quantities.

By the evening of the second day, Li Yuan had stopped at a tea stall to rest when he overheard two cultivators chatting nearby.

"Another group of explorers died in the Darkmist Mountains down south."

"Who'd go there? Spiritual qi and demonic qi are all churned together. Even spirit beasts won't venture in."

"That dead land stretches for hundreds of miles. The outskirts aren't too bad, but the deeper you go, the thicker the demonic qi gets. I hear it's condensed into liquid at the core. Nine out of ten who go in never come back."

"What's worth going in for?"

"Ore. Deep in the Darkmist Mountains, there are mineral veins with both spiritual and demonic properties. Top-quality stuff."

"How much can ore be worth?"

"You sect disciples don't understand how hard life is for us rogue cultivators. Besides, we're at the Nascent Soul stage, while they're only Golden Core. Mining can earn them plenty."

Li Yuan set down his teacup.

Spiritual and demonic qi intertwined. Dead land for hundreds of miles. Demonic qi condensed into liquid at the core.

He paid for his tea and asked the stall owner where the Darkmist Mountains lay. Then he turned into a streak of light, left the city, and flew south.

The Darkmist Mountains.

The mountain range stretched for thousands of miles across the southern Spirit Talisman Domain.

When Li Yuan's streak of light descended at the outskirts,