The Only One Left After Everyone Else Had Gone

Deep beneath the lake in Yin Corpse Mound, west of the Black Flag Mountain Range.

The people sent out by the four families gradually returned through the passage.

But the number who returned was shockingly small.

"Ten..."

Seeing that only ten people had returned, many of them injured, Xiu Jie and the other three frowned almost as deeply as Xiao Ling.

The other thirty had probably met with trouble, too.

When they asked, they learned that all sorts of things had gone wrong.

The forty people's first stop had been the Endless Underworld.

Although Yin Corpse Mound had provided them with a route, danger was unavoidable; some had been sucked into the surrounding Exotic Spaces.

After leaving the Endless Underworld, their second stop was the Boundless Sea, where it was relatively safe and nothing went wrong.

Their third stop was the Pillar Forest, where they encountered no major threats either.

At their fourth stop, they arrived at the Bloody Battlefield.

That was when things went wrong.

Perhaps because everything before then, apart from the Endless Underworld, had gone so smoothly, the group had grown careless about the Ancient Battlefield.

After entering the Bloody Battlefield, they swaggered about, only to realize before long that they were surrounded by a huge number of fallen soldiers.

Then the group split up again.

Some went to Gold and Silver Mountain, while others left the Bloody Battlefield and headed to places like the Storm Domain and the Strange Rock Wilderness.

Not long after, the group that had gone to the Strange Rock Wilderness encountered twenty people from the Great Qi Dynasty. The two sides fought a battle there, and a small number of people died.

Unable to defeat the people from the Great Qi Dynasty, some retreated into the Sword Mound in the Lake, an