In the days that followed, Mu Guyue and her companion carefully ambushed and killed some low-level Soul Cultivators.
Only then did the full picture of the Dizhen Domain slowly unfold before the two women. To their shock, they discovered that this place was a land of death—they could not get out!
Yet, like Li Yan, neither woman was willing to resign herself to fate. They did not wish to grow old and die here, so while cultivating at a slow pace, they continued searching everywhere for an exit.
They hoped that the information they had obtained only meant that the Soul Suppression Palace had failed to find an exit, nothing more.
As the days passed, the spirit stones they carried were gradually exhausted after repeatedly draining nearly all of their Divine Sense during their search.
The places where they spent most of their time hiding had only fairly decent spiritual energy, while other cultivation resources were terribly scarce—almost nonexistent.
As a result, the cultivation progress of the two women crawled forward at a tortoise's pace. Mu Guyue in particular had already reached the peak of late Nascent Soul, precisely when she needed vast quantities of cultivation resources.
This firmly trapped her at the bottleneck. She could no longer advance even an inch, and her cultivation was delayed, leaving her unable to break through.
While they hid from east to west and secretly searched for an exit, they also encountered other foreign cultivators. These people had likewise escaped the pursuit of Soul Cultivators by sheer luck, and while hiding, were also trying to find a path to survival.
After meeting, they were all birds of a feather. By huddling together for warmth, they actually managed to kill quite a few Soul Cultivators sent to capture them and survived.
The two women