The entrance to Stone Forest Canyon was narrow, but as they went deeper, it gradually widened. At its widest point, it was already around ten meters across.
Black Mist curled through the canyon, and visibility was much lower than outside.
Zhao Ruizheng's group of four did not run. Instead, they carefully proceeded forward.
After a quarter of an hour, the four had gone more than four li into the canyon, yet they had not seen a single monster. It was as though every monster in the canyon had already been wiped out.
Zhao Ruizheng frowned slightly. Normally, quite a few people came to Stone Forest Canyon, and the monsters within were regularly cleared out.
But while Mountain Sea Realm cultivators cleared them quickly, monsters appeared just as fast.
Moreover, everyone had recently discovered that they could no longer encounter monsters below the fourth rank.
Naturally, this was not because the monsters appearing within the barrier all began at the fourth rank. Rather, all newly born monsters had gathered in the depths of the barrier.
Only after monsters grew to the fourth rank would they venture outward.
This response from the Black God Barrier had made it increasingly difficult for all Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and Demon Kings to clear out monsters, yet there was no good solution.
In the past, monsters had been everywhere within the Black God Barrier.
Now, however, the deeper one went, the more monsters there were—and the stronger they became.
The few monsters the four had killed earlier amounted to nothing for all of Stone Forest Canyon. They should not have gone more than two li into the canyon without seeing another monster.
"Stop. We're heading back!"
After walking another li and still encountering no monsters, Zhao Ruizheng suddenly raised his hand and stopped Chen Fei