When Qin Feng's black shadow face approached the crystal ball, everything inside it instantly descended into chaos.
Dozens of fingernail-sized merfolk darted around the palace.
But soon, the crystal ball's shell seemed to give them courage, allowing them to slowly calm down. They hid behind the palace pillars, peeking out with their delicate little heads, their aqua-blue eyes fixed on Qin Feng's black shadow face outside...
"They really are NPCs?"
"An NPC group, at that?"
Qin Feng moved closer to observe them face-to-face and was immediately a little shocked.
Inside this crystal ball, a total of thirty-three tiny merfolk formed a Merfolk Tribe, together constituting a single NPC group!
An NPC group consisted of multiple NPCs. If a guild recruited them, the entire NPC group would occupy only one NPC slot, but the various NPCs within the group would offer a variety of functions.
They were exceptionally cost-effective NPCs!
Not to mention that there were actually thirty-three of them in here!
"I just wonder what functions these NPCs have?"
"What conditions do I need to meet to bring them back?"
Qin Feng planned to try on his own first.
If that failed, he would have no choice but to spend 400 Divinity from the White Bud Blade (6,000 years of lifespan) to examine one of the merfolk's memories.
So Qin Feng first withdrew from the coral reef.
He dispelled his Shadow Incarnation.
He carefully began dismantling the coral reef.
The crystal ball containing the merfolk palace was surrounded by layer upon layer of coral. Without dismantling the reef, Qin Feng couldn't even touch the crystal ball...
However, just as Qin Feng began dismantling the coral reef...
His Shadow Perception told him that an undercurrent had begun stirring across the surrounding deep seabed. Groups of underwater demons seemed to be gathering,