"There are currently two main sources for Spirit Fruits and other such heavenly and earthly treasures," Liu Yuheng explained patiently to Pei Shaoqing as they walked. "The first is, naturally, the legacies left behind by Ancient Cultivators. The second is things that have accumulated power over vast amounts of time, like thousand-year-old ginseng and so on."
Pei Shaoqing had a sudden realization. General Li must have encountered the second type, which just went to show how lucky he was.
Beasts that roamed the mountains often discovered heavenly and earthly treasures and the legacies of Cultivators long before humans did.
This was likely how the now-rare, almost-extinct demons gained their Spiritual Wisdom and formed their Inner Cores.
A crowd had gathered around a particularly thick stalk of bamboo, all of them looking up at a man in black wearing a ghost-faced mask who stood atop it.
