The Gray Sand Lord had mentioned that the blood demon crystals produced by these Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers had some blood-clotting effects when ground into powder.
Depending on the meat they devoured, the crystals would also contain some of the consumed creature's magic.
Beyond that, they were useless.
Otherwise, he would not have been so troubled by the rampant spread of these Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers that he had asked the other lords to help him figure out how to use them up.
To him, they were of little value. They could not even be used to make magic potions.
He had never mentioned that the blood demon crystals produced by the Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers were alive. Kroya did not know whether he had deliberately withheld that fact or genuinely had no idea.
"You haven't even figured out what your own territory produces?"
Kroya beckoned.
A blood demon crystal immediately flew before him. After examining it closely with the Astral Body Inscription Technique, he discovered something.
Inside these crystals were tiny, insect-like life-forms. They looked almost exactly like Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers, only countless times smaller.
They were probably the Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers' "seeds."
The moment they were born, they opened their mouths wide and devoured the surrounding blood demon crystal to fuel their growth.
Their Astral Spirit Bodies were unusually stable, like paintings whose outlines were already complete and only needed coloring in.
Devouring magic was how they filled themselves in.
But there were simply too many of them, packed together and competing for the nutrients inside. In the end, they would probably all starve to death.
Unless they received an external supply of magic.
Moreover, from Kroya's observations, their structures seemed to change with the properties of the blood demon crystals.
For instance, because the Big-Mouthed Demon Flowers had eaten blue-ringed