Rampant Pillaging of Resources

"The Jade Fountain is just up ahead!" a cultivator shouted as he led a group over, rushing through the woods before arriving at a lake, or at least, that was what it should have been. 

At present, the lake had gone missing. As for the Jade Fountain that had existed in its center, it had been plundered. Judging by the perfect means as to how the laws in the surroundings remained unaffected, the thief was an expert in stealing. 

They then arrived beside a man who gazed at the empty lake with an ashen face, asking, "Brother, what happened here?"

"I'm…still unsure," the ashen-faced man said after a while, still failing to return to reality. "I was the first to come here. I thought I would use the Jade Fountain to gain some strength. But suddenly, a shadow rushed past me. By the time I managed to react, it had turned out like this."