The Plan to Break Through to Void Refinement

Just as Lei Dong felt that his overall strength was improving by leaps and bounds, and that he was nearly ready to take down the Emperor of the Night, the unexpected happened. First, some teams searching for Chaos Crystals had been acting too recklessly, clashing with the Emperor of the Night's patrols several times. They had probably already incurred his displeasure, making it hard to wait another year.

An even greater surprise for Lei Dong came from another group of mysterious powerhouses. Lei Dong had not been the first to discover them. The Emperor of the Night's patrols had.

Faced with such a formidable enemy as the Emperor of the Night, even though Lei Dong had adopted a strategy of holding his forces in place for the time being, he had absolutely no intention of slowing his efforts to probe and observe them. The Shadow Demon Clan, the Nether Phoenix Clan, and some of the Fierce Ghost Soldiers under Lei Dong who excelled at stealth had formed a scout corps, actively investigating the Emperor of the Night's forces.

As his strength continued to grow, Lei Dong had gradually begun considering that they might not need to carry out a decapitation strike after all. Perhaps they could simply face the Emperor of the Night in a proper head-on battle. In terms of their combined strength, Lei Dong's side had already edged ahead of the Emperor of the Night's.

And, as everyone knew, powerhouses controlled by Mind Devourers could display impressive strength on the battlefield, but in a full-scale war, they were far inferior to those who remained clear-minded. Meanwhile, the rapid advancement of Lei Dong's forces, fueled by Chaos Spirit Qi, meant they needed whetstones to properly temper themselves.

However good Chaos Spirit Qi was, it was still an Outer Dao.