In their sight, Jade Wave Lake, spanning dozens of li, gradually shrank until it vanished entirely, leaving not a trace.
Ahead, towering spirit mountains rose and fell, gradually growing larger and clearer.
Liu Yu and the others continued toward the next obstacle.
The route devised by the Alliance was not perfectly straight. Sometimes it took sharp turns to throw demon cultivators off their trail.
This way, even if someone discovered a thread of evidence, they could buy a little time without having their intentions easily exposed.
Sludge, filth, poisonous weeds.
Three more days later, Liu Yu and his four companions arrived at a marshland: Redblood Marsh.
As far as the eye could see, black marsh stretched out, with patches of poisonous weeds growing in many places.
Anyone careless enough to sink into it would be mercilessly swallowed by the black sludge!
Redblood Marsh owed its name not to the color of the marsh, but to the demon beast species that lived within it-the Redblood Crocodiles.
These demonic crocodiles had scarlet pupils, the color of human blood, and could spit venom, which was why cultivators called them Redblood Crocodiles.
The five hovered in the air. Rather than rashly entering the marsh, they prepared to observe it first.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Liu Yu discovered that the marsh was so vast that even his sensing range could not reach its boundaries.
Heaven only knew how many third-tier demon cultivators lurked within.
The detailed information provided by the Alliance was most comprehensive for the first three barriers, though few people had passed even those.
The number who had passed Skyhawk Ridge reached double digits, but those who had passed Jade Wave Lake numbered only in the single digits.
As for Redblood Marsh, the combined records of all five sects