His physical abilities were gone, but his basic skills remained. Someone climbed a towering tree and scaled up to the crown, looking into the distance. Beyond layer upon layer of dense forest, roughly twenty li away, lay a brilliantly lit place. It bustled with voices and blazed with light, looking like the true trading center.
Under the night sky, that settlement was immensely alluring. But to reach it, they first had to cross twenty li of forest in the dark.
"Looks like they're testing what we're made of."
Their cultivation was gone, but their judgment, knowledge, temperament, and methods remained. They all had confidence in their hearts. On level ground, a mere ten kilometers would have taken Shi Tiexin only twenty-six minutes to run when he had still been the Iron Overlord.
But in a dense forest at night, twenty li was no small matter.
Someone called out, "Though our cultivation is gone, twenty li of dense forest is nothing much. But who knows whether there are other arrangements within the forest? Shall we travel together?"
People immediately responded, and many formed groups before entering the woods.
Dark Abyss swept up his robes and shot over the treetops with a whoosh. As he flew, he looked down. Sure enough, the forest held hidden mysteries. Not only did the undulating terrain make passage difficult, but some parts of the woods also contained crude arcane formations.
Before he had flown even halfway, he saw quite a few people trapped in place. Some had lost their way, while others were entangled by vines and pierced by thorns, all of them in a sorry state.
In such an embarrassing predicament, some people revealed portions of their true information, raising their Avatars' cultivation. Their auras visibly surged higher and higher. They tore apart vines, snapped