The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python sped across the sky above the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, riding a churning black cloud. Like a moving curtain of darkness, it cast an unsettling shadow over the ground.
Lin Ming and the others were still a considerable distance from the Ancient Domain Platform. At the pace most experts traveled, even a Peak Dou Venerate would need at least three days to reach it.
And that did not account for delays caused by fierce beasts, natural restrictions, or clashes between factions along the way.
The Vast Desolate Ancient Region was known as one of the continent's most dangerous Forbidden Areas not merely because countless Ancient Fierce Beasts lived there. The land itself held ancient, chaotic laws. Space was fragile and unstable: Spatial Rifts sometimes appeared and swallowed anyone careless enough to step into them; strange gravitational fields could suddenly descend, trapping flying experts as though they had plunged into a swamp. In some places, even time flowed differently. An expert had once wandered into such a place and emerged thirty years older, though only three days had passed outside.
Being able to travel through the Ancient Region at full speed was, in itself, a testament to one's strength.
Fortunately, Lin Ming and his companions had the Heavenly Demon Python to carry them.
This enormous beast had a fearsome reputation even in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region. As an Ancient Fierce Beast at the Peak Dou Venerate level, it stood near the top of the food chain here. Ordinary fierce beasts would not dare show themselves to block its path, even if they sensed its aura.
That would be no different from seeking death.
Lin Ming stood behind the python's head with his hands clasped behind his back, surveying the landscape as it raced past below.