Spirit Realm, Thousand Machine City.
After handing the cultivation technique over to his true body for cultivation, Qin Ming's Demonic Nascent Soul left the cave abode on Obsidian Peak.
Afterward.
He first recalled the matter, then headed for the Shantytown address left behind by the Immortal City broker, Bai Li Hui.
That old fellow certainly knew how to do business. On the maps he sold, he had even prominently marked his own address, all to cultivate returning customers.
Before long.
After winding through the main roads, Qin Ming arrived at the Shantytown on the eastern outskirts of the Immortal City.
The environment here was fairly decent. It had the conditions of a Tier 2 Spirit Vein and was laid out in neat order.
Most of the cultivators living here were low-level independent cultivators from all corners of the world, who had come to the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp to dig for rare toxic minerals and gamble for opportunities.
Qin Ming had once heard Manager Chen of the Hidden Immortal Pavilion mention that the rare toxic mineral Nether Crystal Stone found within the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp was an exceedingly rare resource of the demonic path.
The major sects and factions in the surrounding regions could use it to refine demonic artifacts, concoct pills, set up formations, and even cultivate Spirit Plants. This type of ore had an extraordinarily broad range of uses.
Here, it was even harder currency than Spirit Stones.
Nether Crystal Stones bore unique bluish-green ridge patterns. The more patterns they had, the higher their grade. The most common one-pattern Nether Crystal Stone was a Tier 2 toxic mineral.
According to Manager Chen, over the tens of thousands of years of history of the Thousand Machine Poisonous Swamp, five-pattern toxic minerals had been unearthed several times. They were