Five days later.
At the foot of the Heavenly Fortune Plateau.
After sixteen days of training and travel, they finally reached their destination.
With all their accumulated training and these past ten-odd days of actual combat, each of them had advanced by one star.
Their current ranks were:
Xiao Tianhao: two-star Black Gold Demon Spirit Master. Xiao Ning'er: four-star Gold Demon Spirit Master. Huyan Lanruo: five-star Gold Demon Spirit Master. Yang Xin: two-star Black Gold Demon Spirit Master.
Elsewhere.
Just as in the original story, Nie Li had entered the Heavenly Illusion Sacred Realm, successfully obtained the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword, and brought Ancestor Ye Yan out with him.
Afterward, without stopping to rest, he entered the Black Prison World.
At that moment, inside the Black Prison World.
Everything was dim and gray.
Cold rain pattered down. In the distance stretched an endless, gray wasteland, with the shadowy outlines of faraway mountains looming indistinctly. Overhead lay a boundless void.
Nie Li and his companions walked through the silent wasteland.
"Gooji, gooji!" One monster after another sprang from the grass beside them and lunged at Nie Li and the others.
These monsters resembled monkeys, but their bodies were hairless and their skin was scarlet. Their ears were pointed, and although their arms were extremely short, they had sharp, slender claws. Their bulging eyes shone with an eerie light, like blue gemstones.
"Whoa!! What are these things?" Lu Piao jumped in fright at the sudden appearance of the red monsters, his legs trembling uncontrollably.
"Could you show a little backbone?!" His fiancée, Xiao Xue, gritted her teeth, reached over, and twisted his ear.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!"
"Xiao Xue, Xiao Xue, I was wrong!" Having been put in his place, Lu Piao dared not say another word and