Likewise, after the Soul Cultivators cast their arts on those they had captured, they also learned how these people had entered this place.
After entering the outskirts of the Heavenly Demon Grassland, these people had been drawn in from a marshy patch of reeds and water grass.
This made them even more certain that their secret realm was still located within the Heavenly Demon Grassland.
After some deliberation, that sect ordered the cultivation of all male cultivators sealed, then sent them to perform labor.
No one knew how many ages this secret realm had existed for. Since it possessed the rules of the five elements of heaven and earth, as well as spiritual energy, some spirit stone veins had also formed here.
It was simply that they had yet to find any of the highest grade; they could only be considered fairly good.
In the past, such matters had required their own people to mine them. Now that they had foreign cultivators, killing them would be a pity, so they might as well be put to this work.
The Soul-Quelling Palace held not the slightest favorable impression of these cultivators. In the outside world, they had been driven into a corner by such people, like rats living in darkness, hiding east and dodging west every day.
Even when they went out to purchase materials necessary for cultivation, they had to tremble with fear, terrified of bringing disaster upon themselves.
Their sect's last exposure had been caused by someone going to a market to buy a Pill. Later, someone had coveted what he carried and followed him. Left with no choice, he struck in the wilderness and killed that person.
Yet the abnormalities revealed when that disciple acted were noticed by other passing cultivators, who caught a whiff of something amiss.