"Besides, do you know what sort of circumstances could produce an effect like this?"
The junior disciple shook his head, his face full of eager curiosity.
The demonic cultivator who was his senior brother smiled. "Do you remember what happened when the Dustless Continent returned? The spiritual qi kept increasing year after year..."
The junior disciple frowned slightly. How could he not remember? During that period, all demonic cultivators had suffered. They had needed to readjust to the Azure Realm's increasing concentration of spiritual qi and quell the restless demonic energy within them, or face something even more terrifying than cultivation deviation.
After all, cultivation deviation could easily turn a Dao cultivator demonic, but for a demonic cultivator, it could be fatal.
"This increase in demonic qi is no less dramatic than the increase in spiritual qi when the Dustless Continent returned. You think it's the ancient ruins of some mighty demonic cultivator? Then those ruins would probably have to rival the Dustless Continent in size."
As the junior disciple listened to his senior brother's explanation, his pupils widened slightly. Everyone knew what the Dustless Continent was like now. It was a continent with an entire spirit vein...
"Could there be a demon vein hidden somewhere in the Azure Realm that we haven't discovered yet?"
His senior brother nodded. "That guess is reasonably plausible. An elder proposed the same theory at the meeting two days ago, but it was soon rejected.
"Demonic cultivators are even more sensitive to demonic qi than Dao cultivators. Many high-ranking demonic cultivators can sense that this sudden influx of demonic qi is distributed very evenly, as though it simply appeared out of nowhere, with no source whatsoever."
"No source whatsoever!?" the junior disciple murmured, seemingly struggling to work something out.
"Yes. Unlike the spirit vein