Outer Realm.
In a stretch of wilderness some distance from the human defensive zone, four humans were huddled inside a spacious cave.
The cave was deep. It was unknown what Magic Beast's nest it had once been, but it looked as though it had been abandoned for quite some time. The interior was dimly lit and visibility was poor. Only a bonfire in the center of the cave cast flickering firelight.
Beside the bonfire, the four humans had each claimed a spot, eating and chatting as they did so.
The group consisted of one man and three women. The man was handsome, with sharply defined features and an aloof, icy air about him. The three women were young girls in fitted outfits of different colors, each brimming with youthful vitality and beautiful in her own distinctive way.
These four were naturally Immortal Palace disciple Zhang Huaibing, along with the trio of Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, and Lan Wan'er, who had dragged him along.
"I thought it would be dangerous out here. Who knew the journey would go so smoothly?" Zhang Huaibing remarked as he gathered firewood and fed it into the flames.
"The Outer Realm is certainly dangerous, but look at who's leading the way." Wang Yingxuan looked as if it were only natural. "If you observe carefully, you'll find that both the Immortal Dynasty's defensive zones and the Devil Race's fortresses are built in strategic locations. To put it bluntly, those are places every military force must fight over, so of course they're fraught with danger. But not everywhere in the Outer Realm is like that."
"I carefully calculated our entire route, avoiding all possible marching routes and strategic positions. And with Aunt Lici, our humanoid Magic Beast detector, along with us, what danger could we possibly run into?"