Black Mountain District

"You all appeared from this direction. From now on, you will work on Third Devouring Island." Sacred Spirit pointed at the island below, then vanished.

"Should we go?"

Quite a few people hesitated.

"What else can we do if we don't? Do you have a way to leave?"

"Let's go! We'll check things out first!"

And so, everyone arrived at Third Devouring Island.

Third Devouring Island was not very large, only a small island. There were more people on it than Ye Chen had imagined—tens of thousands. A small portion sat cross-legged cultivating in the valley at the island's center. The rest were either making True Essence Crystals in their own cave dwellings, chatting outside, or sparring in Martial Arts.

"Look, another bunch of unlucky fools."

"I bet they were tricked here by the Blackwater Alliance too!"

"With so many of them, they were definitely duped."

The chatting people on the island looked toward Ye Chen and the others, their voices carrying malicious delight and a trace of numbness.

"The Blackwater Alliance really has deceived quite a lot of people!" Seeing tens of thousands of people on one island, Murong Qingcheng was somewhat astonished. There were six islands on Devouring Island. Combined, they held more than a hundred thousand people. Among those hundred thousand, the weakest were in the Star Extremity Realm, while the strongest were Half-Step Kings. If they could all be subdued, it would be an utterly terrifying force.

"With time accumulating day by day and month by month, it's not strange for there to be so many."

Ye Chen's eyes shifted as he added, "It seems some people here have already stayed on Devouring Island for many years. Though they aren't dead, they are no different from walking corpses."

Hearing this, Murong Qingcheng glanced over the people