Night had closed in on all sides, stars hanging low over the wilderness.
A dazzling golden rainbow brutally bored through the night sky ten thousand feet above.
Jiang Yuechu's expression was calm, but her mind was not idle in the slightest.
The Red Flood Dragon's corpse within her belly was being frantically ground down by the Ten Thousand Demon Heaven-Swallowing Technique.
Surging essence rushed straight into her Qi Sea like rivers flowing backward.
The Red Flood Dragon had been a Great Demon of the Mountain-Viewing Realm. The essence of its flesh and blood was immensely vast.
The black mountain rose higher, then higher still.
Its contours grew ever more savage, its baleful aura nearly overflowing from her Dantian.
Yet.
Just as it was about to touch that invisible vault of heaven.
It stopped.
Like a climber only half a step from the summit, able to pluck the moon once he reached it, yet forced to collapse from exhaustion at this very point.
Jiang Yuechu's brows drew together slightly.
She was short by a thread.
Only one thread.
This had been an entire Demon Venerable of the Mountain-Viewing Realm, along with that earlier heap of Ink-Dotting and Lotus-Planting small fry, plus one-third of Silver Bone Demon Venerable's corpse...
And she still had not broken through?
Jiang Yuechu slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.
Still, she was not annoyed.
What this world lacked least were demons and monsters.
As long as she killed enough.
A breakthrough was merely a matter of sooner or later.
Besides.
Right before her eyes, there were still four waiting for her to eat over in Luling.
At that thought, the faint gloom in her heart scattered with the wind.
Jiang Yuechu steadied her escaping light, split off a thread of consciousness, and sank it into her