“They all used the stones from the corpses before!” People caught on.

“Damn, the black stones were bait!” One ancestor regained his wits and said: “It’s that black octopus doing this! It released the corpses so people would consume the stones!”

He then took out his black stone and threw it away.

It didn’t take long before people realized that the monster was using cultivators to gestate the black stones. Those with the black stones on them felt worse...