The convoy's advance speed increased by a great deal.
Chu Qing joined the many Heaven-Reaching Experts in striking out, slaughtering the beasts lurking in the darkness.
These Third Limit beasts were easy prey for them.
As batch after batch of beasts were slain,
the guards cheered without cease.
At first,
Ying Honghua and the others wore indifferent expressions.
But as time passed, and the guards kept cheering,
Ying Honghua and the others found their spirits lifting.
"Who would have thought that merely clearing out some beasts from the restricted area would make this bunch so excited?"
Watching the countless common soldiers leap and cheer, they were in rather good moods.
They had never experienced this feeling before.
Gulp!
Gulp!
The convoy's speed increased by more than two-thirds.
Before long, they came upon a Fire Pit.
The flames in this Fire Pit were weak. A one-eyed martial artist was tossing white bones into it.
The white bones burned, giving off a faint glow.
The darkness pressed in, and the Fire Pit's light could only cover a few meters around it.
At that moment,
the one-eyed martial artist caught a strong scent of blood.
He glanced sideways, his heart on guard.
"It sounds like wagon wheels!"
"Is it a large convoy from some empire?"
"But why are they carrying such a thick stench of blood?"
"The smell of blood is far too strong!"
"Could they have been ambushed?"
Worried, the one-eyed martial artist searched for secret medicines and prepared supplies and food, ready to aid the newcomers.
However,
when the convoy arrived, he froze.
One guard after another came past, carrying enormous beast carcasses on their shoulders.
The huge wagons were also hung with beast corpses.
That dense smell of blood was coming from them.
Gulp!
The one-eyed martial artist swallowed.
He