Huo Hai quickly dug out some records on unusual creatures. He had only skimmed them before, so he knew little about the Void Ray beyond its immense value.
Only after reading carefully did Huo Hai gradually understand the Void Ray's true worth. Void Rays were exceedingly rare. They were mutated ferocious beasts and therefore could not form a population. Most of the time, only a single one ever appeared.
Void Rays were enormous, yet they fed on ordinary small fish and shrimp. They were not particularly aggressive and would not attack others without cause. They were even extremely lazy by nature, simply drifting through the air and rarely moving of their own accord except to eat. They also possessed an innate ability to grow or shrink.
A Void Ray's outstretched wings could span over a hundred meters. If it activated its innate ability to enlarge itself fully, it could reach dozens of kilometers across-a truly living skyborne island. These were some of the details recorded about Void Rays.
The more Huo Hai read, the more he understood where the Void Ray's value lay. Its true worth was not in its crystal core, but in its skin, which could withstand tremendous amounts of spiritual power.
This skin barely needed processing to become excellent material for making scrolls. Scrolls made from Void Ray skin could easily contain the power of Spirit Venerables at the ninth heaven or above, making them extremely valuable.
Moreover, a Void Ray's body was enormous, far beyond that of ordinary ferocious beasts, so it provided a vast amount of skin. Hunting down a single Void Ray would yield enough hide to make at least ten thousand scrolls.
For precisely this reason, whenever a Void Ray was spotted, many people would usually head out to hunt it. Some had