Golden Body, Third Layer-At Last, Cultivators

"Finally, I broke through. The speed of my breakthroughs has slowed somewhat. This time, breaking from the second layer to the third took forty-seven days—two days longer than before.

"The higher one's cultivation, the more time a breakthrough requires."

Song Zhong stood outside the valley of the Thunderous Beasts and glanced up at the sky. Dawn was near.

"Set out. Continue searching."

Song Zhong rose and flew forward. All around him, the Thunderous Beasts did not even try to stop him.

These past days, whenever he had nothing to do, he would come here to mooch off their lightning.

Not a single Thunderous Beast failed to recognize him, and they knew they had no way of dealing with him.

By now, whenever he came here, the Thunderous Beasts would not even attack him.

Whenever he wanted to mooch off their lightning, he had to take the initiative to attack them and provoke their anger.

On the desolate land, more than ten cultivators watched their surroundings vigilantly as they advanced with great caution.

"This region is far too barren."

Among the ten cultivators, a Human Race cultivator dressed in black looked over the empty world before him and sighed softly. "We've been here for so long. Forget Strange Beasts—we haven't even seen another cultivator."

Beside him, a cultivator with a humanoid body but a jackal-like face sighed. "The Ruins are too unusual.

"Strange Beasts are everywhere. So many cultivators entered this place, yet we are being hunted down by these Strange Beasts."

The other cultivators nearby, though they came from different races, all nodded in agreement.

Originally, after entering this place, they should have fought cultivators of other races for resources.

But here, they could only join forces to barely survive.

They even had to take care not to be discovered