The steward glanced at Li Yan and Mu Guyue. Seeing that their expressions remained normal, he knew Elder Zhou must have already explained things to them, so there was no need for him to say more.
"Time waits for no one. I have already gone over the main points with you two. When you take over the defense, just follow the rules we discussed.
"Now I will take you to the barracks. There is a group of cultivators who arrived only recently. Then, you will have three days to familiarize yourselves with them.
"After that, your squad will be directly teleported out of here.
"Once you arrive at the other end of the teleportation array, the soldiers guarding it will tell you how to reach your destination."
This was a place of overlapping black mountains, where even the rocks had turned blackish gray. Li Yan and Mu Guyue were currently leading a squad of cultivators forward through the air.
They had just emerged from beneath a mountain peak. After the guarding cultivators inspected the jade slip they had brought, they pointed them in a direction and urged them to leave quickly.
Li Yan and Mu Guyue flew at the front. Behind them was a squad of solemn-faced guards in green armor. Perhaps because the Mojis Dao Sect had fought wars year-round, these people understood the situation here well.
Thus, they did not harbor much rejection toward Li Yan and Mu Guyue. They recognized only military orders. Moreover, the cultivation of these two truly surpassed their own.
Yet the four Nascent Soul cultivators still inadvertently revealed traces of worry.
Although they too were among the newly arrived cultivators rotating into duty, they had carefully gathered information about this place. The conditions for survival were far from encouraging—indeed, they were exceedingly