Had the wounded Transcendent Master not risked his life to save them at the last moment and had his only relatively unscathed companion flee with the unconscious Long Yun, all four Transcendent Masters would likely have been wiped out there.
Wuji City's fall had been expected, but Jiang Hao had not thought it would happen so soon. His feelings toward his eldest brother, Long Yun, were complicated. Back then, Long Yun had insisted on rescuing Yue Qingqing, causing the deaths of their father and Prince Han Mo and saddling Jiang Hao with undeserved infamy. Long Yun had caused all of this. Now Wuji City had fallen, and his eldest brother and another Transcendent Master were missing.
Next, he alone would have to face Xiao Lin and two Transcendent Masters. The pressure was anything but small.
Because of this, Jiang Hao had no choice but to slow his advance on Ghost Gate City. Before Xiao Lin's army came looking for him, he needed to raise Big Hen's level and grind attribute points as much as possible. But after level 68, reaching the Transcendence Realm was hardly easy.
Big Hen had eaten two of his five treasured Top-Grade Beast Crystals without gaining another level. He had entered the Simulation Game, found Spider Queen Ada, and killed her, but even that had not produced a level-up. He was out of ideas.
His only hope now was to grind attribute points by having Big Hen eat Army Ants like mad. He had dragged out the journey of just over three hundred li from Shenzhou City to Ghost Gate City for more than half a month. This ran completely counter to his usual approach of valuing speed above all in war. Wu Fan, Infantry Regiment Deputy Commander, had wanted to ask several times, but his