It was a deep, secluded valley, carpeted with vast stretches of fungal plants adapted to life in darkness. Each of those fungi stood over two meters tall, like enormous opened umbrellas. A few even reached three or four meters, looking entirely like pavilions. At a glance, the whole valley resembled a bizarre children's playground...
Water flowed from the cliff faces on both sides of the valley. In the Earth Element Realm, wherever underground plants grew, life flourished.
This was an ideal place for the various squads to settle down and rest.
The knights in the team led by the white-browed elder were all knights of the Zhang Family of Great Xia's Heavenly Fortune Hall. The white-browed elder was named Zhang Anguo, a Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Fortune Hall's Council of Elders. The character "An" was naturally reserved for the grand names of Heavenly Fortune Hall Zhang Family knights, just as "Mu" was for Huaiyuan Hall.
For a single operation in the Earth Element Realm, Heavenly Fortune Hall could dispatch one Supreme Elder and nine knights of its main family. From this alone, one could see Heavenly Fortune Hall's strength and the gap between it and Huaiyuan Hall. That gap made Zhang Tie sigh inwardly—when would Huaiyuan Hall ever reach such a level?
The knights led by Qi the Old Freak also came from Lion Fortress. Apart from Qi the Old Freak, the remaining Black Iron Knights were unfamiliar faces even in Lion Fortress. There were too many knights in Lion Fortress, and its turnover was high. Black Iron Knights in particular found it difficult to make a name for themselves in the fortress unless they were truly outstanding ace knights.
The three teams of knights gathered and made camp within a radius of less than ten kilometers.
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