After arriving in the Blue Zone, Demonic Beasts with the Combat Strength of Three-Star Asuras were much more sparsely distributed.
After discussing it, Gu Ding, Melissa, and Robert decided to split up for the time being and search this area for Demonic Beasts.
Each of them chose a direction and sped away.
Gu Ding chose the north. He searched all the way forward, and only after more than half an hour did he spot a shadow-like creature below.
Gu Ding shot toward it at top speed.
The shadow-like creature did not flee. Instead, she stood where she was and silently watched Gu Ding descend.
Gu Ding steadied himself and looked toward the shadow creature, while she sized him up from head to toe as well.
The shadow creature resembled a human woman in a dress, except she had no human flesh and blood. Her body was like black mist, yet also like a shadow. Layers upon layers of black phantoms overlapped in space, making her impossible to see clearly.
What Gu Ding did not know was that this shadow creature was actually a powerful demon from the Purgatory Plane known as Mist Shadow, and assassination was her greatest specialty.
Seeing that she did not attack immediately and was instead studying him, Gu Ding began to wonder whether this shadow-like creature was even hostile.
Gu Ding could usually tell an opponent's Combat Strength at a glance, but this time, the shadow-like creature before him emitted no aura fluctuations whatsoever, as if she were a dead object.
Yet this only made Gu Ding more vigilant, because this was not a place where just anything could survive.
Suddenly, Mist Shadow moved.
She seemed to have inspected him enough and judged him to be an extremely dangerous threat. Her figure shot forward as she