Above the sea, a fleet of more than two hundred steel ships sailed onward as usual.
Ever since they had encountered the attack of a Ninth-Grade Exotic Beast, they had faced nothing too troublesome along the way.
Only more than a hundred soldiers had become noncombat casualties due to illness or accidents.
Three ships had suffered irreparable mechanical failures and had to be abandoned, with their personnel and supplies transferred to other ships.
After several dozen days, some of the supplies had already been consumed, leaving extra space.
After sailing for more than forty days, the Western Expedition army was only two or three days away from the Western Continent.
There was now one more Ninth-Grade Exotic Beast among the fleet.
Li Fei ultimately killed Wan Lin and kept Zhong Mou alive.
Although Wan Lin had been the first to choose surrender, when Li Fei demanded that it use its Origin Blood to sign an oath, it refused.
It placed its last hope in Zhong Mou, who had already reached the Tenth Grade. After Zhong Mou was also defeated by Li Fei, it chose death.
Li Fei granted its wish.
As for Zhong Mou, it likewise could not accept signing an oath with Li Fei and betraying the Desolate God.
But Li Fei did not kill it. He worried that after killing all these Ninth-Grade beings, he might lose his memories again.
Keeping Zhong Mou, which had directly come into contact with the Desolate God, was tantamount to leaving himself a memory anchor.
During this period, Li Fei handed the heavily wounded Zhong Mou over to Gu Li for supervision.
Gu Li coveted Zhong Mou's Dao law to the point of drooling over it, so Li Fei was not worried that Gu Li would secretly release Zhong Mou.
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