Predicament howled, clutching the wounds on its body in pain.
The massive hole blasted open by the Youdu Li Tiger Totem caused its condition to plummet sharply.
Its body continuously shrank like a deflating balloon, shrinking to roughly half its original size before the edges of the gaping hole finally drew together and healed.
Predicament stabilized its condition, but it no longer dared fight Hei Lou Lan. With a startled cry, it turned and fled.
Hei Lou Lan did not pursue it. She picked up the Rank 6 Immortal Gu from the ground and continued onward with Lu Tong Lan.
The two of them pushed themselves to climb the slope, and their gains grew greater and greater.
Before long, they had obtained two Rank 6 Immortal Gu and one Rank 7 Immortal Gu.
Their experience soon made the others realize what was happening, and they too began climbing the slope with all their strength.
Gradually, some people exhausted all their strength and fell from the Heavenly Road, crashing onto the yellow earth of Tianyue High Slope.
Some encountered Predicament but failed to break through, dying within its belly. Others defeated Predicament, yet their strength was severely depleted, their faces full of worry.
Predicament was essentially a peculiar beast. So long as one's battle strength exceeded the limit it could bear, it would be defeated. Strength path methods merely worked somewhat better against it.
Hei Lou Lan found every step more difficult than the last.
After she defeated two more Predicaments, she discovered that of the original eighty-eight people, only a little over thirty remained.
"I can barely walk anymore. More than half my strength has been spent, while the Predicaments appearing afterward keep getting stronger. My remaining battle strength can probably only defeat one more Predicament." Hei Lou Lan gritted