In the days that followed, aside from occasionally messaging Gu Qingxuan to tell her he was in no danger,
Gu Chenfeng almost never returned to the outpost, staying on the Borderlands Battlefield instead.
Gu Chenfeng guessed that with a Grandmaster-level Great Demon dead, the Demon Race would send more, stronger demons.
To his disappointment, however, the situation was the exact opposite.
Seemingly sensing something strange about this area, the Demon Race only occasionally sent individual demonic beasts on probing reconnaissance missions.
They actually stopped sending reconnaissance teams led by Great Demons.
After all, the battlefield was still in its preliminary preparation stage, and the Demon Race had yet to assemble all its forces. There was no need to commit too much strength to the battlefield's fringes, which held little strategic significance.
They only needed to designate this area as dangerous, then send powerful experts to investigate once the rest of their forces arrived.
But while the Demon Race could wait, Gu Chenfeng could not.
Without demonic beasts to hunt, his progress in the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique slowed drastically, leaving Gu Chenfeng utterly frustrated after his taste of its rewards.
In the end, Gu Chenfeng could only choose to move laterally across the Borderlands Battlefield.
He took the hunt to areas closer to the battlefield's center, where Demon Race squads were more active.
Although this was somewhat more troublesome,
Gu Chenfeng did encounter more demons, and when luck favored him, he could even run into Grandmaster-level Great Demons.
Great Demons of this level were more likely to possess ancient bloodlines. Among every few Grandmaster-level Great Demons, he could always find one or two.
But that was all there was to it.
As though the Human Race and Demon Race shared a tacit understanding about the war, neither side had taken