Several months later, one morning in the Ji Lin Kong Jing.
Three strange birds suddenly shot out from above the black mist at the edge of the land and landed on a reddish-brown Gobi wasteland, startling a jackal-like demonic beast feeding on carrion into fleeing in panic.
Three figures then leaped down from the birds. They were Luo Hong and two others!
"We've finally left the Gray Scale Archipelago and reached the Brown Valley Continent."
Looking out at the boundless land ahead, Zi Ling could not help but let out a sigh of relief. The past few months had not been easy for her.
Although Luo Hong and Zhu Yan had protected her, most of the demonic beasts in the Ji Lin Kong Jing possessed little intelligence and often traveled in packs. Their cultivation was low, and they did not even have worthwhile beast cores.
Thus, Luo Hong generally did not waste time stopping to clear them out. As a result, the three of them had spent half their journey being pursued and killed by all manner of beast hordes.
Luo Hong and Zhu Yan were powerful, so naturally they felt nothing, but Zi Ling always sensed danger. By now, she was utterly exhausted in both body and mind.
Compared to the Gray Scale Archipelago, the spatial pressure on the Brown Valley Continent was ten times stronger. If Zi Ling had not refined the bottle of Greater Dragon Scale Pills Luo Hong had given her over the past few months, she would likely have been unable to move by now.
Luo Hong and Zhu Yan, meanwhile, had adapted for only a moment before their physical bodies grew accustomed to the drastically increased pressure. There was no longer any sign of abnormality in their movements.
"Here. We owe you for this