The people and sea beasts here hated Spirit Bats because the bats here were very unusual. Water Spirit Grass was not actually their food, but it was the best means for them to improve their cultivation.
By eating large quantities of water spirit grass, Water Spirit Bats could rapidly improve their cultivation. If not for all the people and sea beasts here, the Spirit Bats would probably devour every stalk of water spirit grass on the island as soon as it matured.
Water Spirit Bats did have considerable innate talent, but after so many years of being hunted, it was practically impossible for one to reach the spirit king realm through its own efforts alone. Whenever a Spirit King appeared among the Spirit Bats, it must have secretly eaten enormous quantities of very old water spirit grass. How could that not infuriate everyone?
Who knew how much of the water spirit grass they needed this Water Spirit Bat had eaten to break through to the spirit king realm? And the fact that it had remained hidden for so long was proof enough of just how cunning and dangerous it was.
Water spirit grass was indeed of little use to ordinary people. But for Spirit Masters below the spirit king realm whose origin essence was related to water, it was a priceless treasure. Particularly old specimens could greatly enhance their potential.
Those gnashing their teeth here, determined to kill the Spirit Bat, either possessed the water attribute themselves or had many water-attribute cultivators among their younger generations. There were even more sea beasts among them. Compared with humans, the sea beasts, which were fellow Spirit Beasts, hated the Spirit Bats here even more. Huo Hai wondered whether this was a manifestation of Spirit Beasts' innate territorial instincts.
Soon, Huo Hai joined