You had no intention of meeting Empress Yingzhao, so after hearing the useful information, you kept a safe distance from her and, though setting off later, arrived ahead of her. After racing onward for more than three hours, you finally passed from the original ice plains into another region characterized as "woodland."
Based on the many terrains you had crossed while flying nonstop since entering the inner region, the woodland should have been the last of them. At the end of the woodland, heading in the direction you had deduced, lay the core region of this Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
Yet having arrived here, not only would the native creatures you encountered be among the strongest, but the chance of running into other powerful outsiders would also be greatest. Judging by the terrain, the closer one came to the core region, the smaller the total area became. By the time you had reached the ice plains, people had already been divided among seven to nine locations, rather than the original more than ten regions.
And at this point, according to the layouts of large Immortal-Demon Battlefields in the past, there would be no more than three terrains, woodland included, leading to the core region. Thus, the likelihood of encountering people was nearly three times what it had been in the ice plains!
Very soon, an occurrence that had previously been rare appeared only minutes after you entered the woodland: considerable commotion came from the direction you intended to fly. Based on your extensive treasure-hunting experience, someone was surely fighting, and the sounds suggested a three-way standoff. That likely meant it was not merely a clash between immortals and demons.
Faced with such a complicated situation, you did not act rashly. Instead, you activated the Twin Dragon Pendant and had the Twin Dragon