This was just an interlude.
At least, everyone except Shi Jin Jia thought that one person's death was merely an interlude.
However.
After this incident.
The group became much more cautious.
A curse.
A curse capable of killing an Eighth Tier Expert.
This was a signal.
Even though they had all climbed the Divinity Staircase, they still needed to take it seriously. If it could kill an Eighth Tier Expert now, would it soon be able to kill a Ninth Rank expert, or even someone on the Divinity Staircase?
But no one showed it.
Apart from slowing their pace slightly, they acted no differently from before.
Even Shi Jin Jia put away his anger.
He traveled on expressionlessly.
Of course.
He had barely any expression to begin with.
He was just a corpse. It was unreasonable to expect him to have a wide range of facial expressions.
They crossed the desert.
Then entered the forest once more.
The moment they entered.
The light around them suddenly dimmed, as if they had walked from an ordinary living room into a bedroom with its curtains drawn and its lights off.
And the farther they went.
The darker it became.
"We've reached the Black Domain."
"Things have gone fairly smoothly. Once we cross the Black Domain, we'll reach the border of Hungry Ghost Valley."
Yun Zhou explained it to Jiang Qiao.
"The Black Domain?"
"Yes."
"The Black Domain is an extremely vast dark region within Hungry Ghost Valley. No light is permitted to exist here."
As he spoke.
Yun Zhou lit a small flame.
The instant it appeared.
It went out.
He repeated this several times, with the same result every time.
"The Black Domain isn't completely dark. Visibility is extremely low, but it isn't so low that you can't see your own