Though he had escaped one crisis, Li Yun did not congratulate himself.
On the contrary, the dangers of the Beast-Grazing Land made him warier than ever.
He continued harvesting Myriad Wonders Points, but he moved with even greater caution.
Before every move, he checked all around him for danger. Only then did he act.
His efficiency inevitably fell.
Another ten-odd days passed.
Once Li Yun had scraped together fifty thousand Myriad Wonders Points, he left the Beast-Grazing Land. He entered the Purple Moon Continent through the same Demon Cave as before.
He arrived once more in Green Mountain City.
The first thing he did was not release Sun Yifei and the others from the Myriad Wonders World, but investigate the situation.
Things were much as he had expected.
The Demon Cave outside Green Mountain City had drawn the Great Yan Kingdom's attention. The imperial court had dispatched large numbers of Acquired Realm Martial Artists to enter the cave and fight the Weird Demons.
Innate Realm experts and those above them still could not enter the Demon Cave.
That had turned the fighting into a bitter stalemate.
In a sense, though, it was good news.
It meant no larger Demon Cave had appeared yet. The Beast-Grazing Land's invasion of the Purple Moon Continent was still in its early stages, perhaps because the continent was stronger than Blue Star and its Martial Dao more developed.
Still, Li Yun heard another piece of troubling news.
A Demon Cave was said to have appeared in the Southern Xuan Dynasty, which bordered the Great Yan Kingdom to the south, about a month ago.
That meant that although the invasion remained in its early stages, the Purple Moon Continent's resistance was still losing ground. The situation kept worsening as time passed.
The course ahead was plain.