"Twenty li north of here, there's a cave that conforms to the mountain terrain. Fellow Daoist Wang Luo previously set up a Formation there. We can go rest for a while and recover."
Captain Changkun's voice rang out in Ji Yuan's sea of consciousness.
Then the ground-hugging group sharply turned north and vanished into the ravine.
It had been nearly ten days since they set out. Ji Yuan was still mixed in with the team, gathering information about the surroundings. During that time, they had encountered two groups of Demonic Cultivators. One group had only three Foundation Establishment Cultivators, with the strongest merely at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. Their group naturally swallowed them with ease.
The other group had more than ten Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Ji Yuan's group watched them for a while, then could only avoid them from afar.
For one thing, the other side was too strong. Once a battle began, they might sink into a mud pit and be unable to pull themselves free, drawing even more Demonic Cultivators over.
For another, they were not the target of the Demon-Hunting Squad's mission.
Back when they were still at the Alchemy Workshop, Ji Yuan had already heard Changkun and the others introduce the target of this operation.
There had originally been a town nearby called Hundred-Year Town, where many cultivators lived. But after the Demonic Dao invaded, the place was occupied by the Demonic Dao.
That group of Demonic Cultivators was neither too strong nor too weak. A False Core Cultivator led them, accompanied by eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators ranging from the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to Peak Foundation Establishment. They were exactly the sort of target the Demon-Hunting Squad had their eyes on.
Changkun and the others had indeed targeted them at the time, but somehow