High in the distant sky, a streak of light hurtled past as though chasing stars and overtaking the moon.
That astonishing speed drew the attention of many powerful figures along the way, but once they sensed the formidable aura emanating from it, they hastily abandoned any thought of investigating.
The Chu Yun Empire was not far from the Black-Corner Region, yet even at the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor's speed, it took three months before the Black-Corner Region Great Plains came into view.
The group did more than travel along the way. Whenever Jiang Yun and the others passed mountain ranges rich in energy, they would land to rest and search the mountains for medicinal ingredients.
Jiang Yun had practically exhausted the medicinal ingredients he had plundered. Besides, he was now an eighth-tier alchemist and had pill formulas as well; all he lacked was practice.
The others' strength had also reached a certain level, and low-grade pills could no longer help them, so Jiang Yun was still short of high-grade medicinal ingredients.
They fought their way through, inevitably clashing with some powerful magical beasts. With Medusa and Zi Yan both delivering beatings, their passage was unhindered, and they gathered quite a few rare medicinal ingredients.
Although this took some time, Qing Lin captured several more sixth-rank serpent magical beasts with Jiang Yun and the others' help during the process, successfully breaking through to Dou Emperor. Xiao Yi Xian also successfully advanced to Four-Star Dou Emperor.
Naturally, everyone celebrated!
At last, an expanse of pitch-black plains stretching to the end of their vision appeared before them, like a vast black curtain spread across the ground.
"The Black-Corner Region. We're back!" Jiang Yun could not help smiling at the familiar distant scenery.
"Hehe, I wonder what expression Old Man Su will make when