With an unobstructed journey, they could have reached Longevity Daoist's Cultivation Grounds in just over twenty days. But the four of them had to fight and compete along the way, which cost them a few extra days. It was nearly a month before they reached the vicinity of their destination.
They had killed quite a few people along the way. Huang Xiao and Ke Zhenyi now had five keys each, while Liu Wangtai and Mu Fucheng each had four.
Most of the credit for obtaining these actually belonged to Huang Xiao.
Had he not been able to sense keys within a thirty-li radius, they would hardly have been able to obtain so many.
Spread throughout the Central Desert, a thousand or so keys did not amount to much.
Under normal circumstances, without relying on Huang Xiao, they could have obtained at most half as many as they now had.
Most of those the four encountered along the way were experts at the Ancient Realm early stage, in groups of two or three of varying sizes. The largest group they encountered had seven people.
But with the four of them joining forces, they ultimately killed five, while two escaped.
They had also encountered experts at the Ancient Realm middle stage. Most of the time, when they encountered such experts, the four did not want any conflict with them and avoided them whenever they could.
However, if these middle-stage experts had early-stage experts with them, they were unlikely to let Huang Xiao and the others leave.
As a result, Huang Xiao killed another two middle-stage experts along the way.
Of course, these two middle-stage experts were actually about as strong as that Brother Chen from the Slaughter Domain whom they had encountered at the beginning.
This also made Ke Zhenyi and Liu