The sky was blanketed in dark clouds. It was already evening, and the weather had grown even gloomier. A torrential downpour was coming.
After bypassing 'Dapu Fortress,' Su Xiao had been heading south for around seven hours. Along the way, he crossed a mountainous region. In a world this sparsely populated, most areas were wastelands and forests.
This environment should have been teeming with wild animals, but Su Xiao had seen only a handful of beasts along the way. The beasts had nearly been hunted to extinction by the alien races. There were quite a few birds, though. After all, they were too small to provide much meat and were very nimble.
Baja had been scouting from above the entire time, searching for any possible human forces. Unfortunately, after traveling this far, they had not even seen a single person.
Several crooked trees grew abruptly in the wasteland. Using whatever was available, A' Mu built a simple thatched shelter from them, preparing to take refuge from the rain there for the night.
Half an hour later, Su Xiao sat inside the shelter, watching the curtain of rain falling several meters away as he pondered the situation on Sias Star.
He had no idea how Toad's progress was going. The Crawling Spirit was the key to obtaining the World Core, but Su Xiao still did not know exactly what this thing did. He had only a rough guess.
The Holy Light Paradise and Death Paradise had been completely driven out, and the Cult had also been wiped out. However, Su Xiao had always remained wary of those zealots.
Even if those zealots summoned a god or an evil god before dying, it would not be surprising. If they summoned an Ancient God, that would be even better—provided it was not a