146 The darkening sky. (1/2)
Li Yang and Fang Ying entered the clearing and saw Tian Zheng and Zhao Feng standing around the fire they had made up, their eyes occasionally darting around the area to make sure that nothing snuck up on them. Tian Zheng's pupils shrank slightly when he saw that Li Yang had jumped directly to the Immortal Rebirth realm, but Li Yang couldn't really be bothered with his shock, jumping directly onto the main topic.
”So what sort of plan have you worked out with Xiong Xieren and the others? I can't imagine that you intend for us to just continue searching around blindly like this.”
Zhao Feng nodded his head in response to Li Yang's statement, removing a waterskin from his interspatial ring and dousing the flames, the smoke quickly dying down. After putting out the fire, he gestured towards Tian Zheng using his thumb.
”Kiddo here's been diligently keeping in contact with the others and got them to agree to form a net of groups covering the surrounding ten islands, that's the largest area we can cover while still maintaining acceptable co-operation should it be needed. The others got into position about a day and a half ago, but we were waiting for you guys to meet up with us, so they've been on standby for now. Oh, our start point is about 30 or so kilometers to the north, here's a map of the route we're gonna follow.”
Zhao Feng removed a jade slip from his interspatial ring and tossed it to Li Yang, who caught it and sank his mind into it, giving the map and route a quick look over before handing it to Fang Ying. Tian Zheng cringed slightly at being referred to as a kiddo, but he chose to remain silent, this wasn't exactly the first time he had been treated like this since he met up with Li Yang and the others.
After going over the map and the route they were supposed to take, the four people and one wolf set off for their starting point, a triangular lake with somewhat rounded edges and light green water. Once they were in position, Tian Zheng sent a message to Xiong Xieren and the others, notifying them that they could start, the various groups heading down their respective routes.
Most groups were spaced in such a manner that there was only about 20 kilometers between them, making it easy for at least one group to rush to another group's aid at any time. The various clans and sects had gathered all the disciples within the Ocean God's Graveyard to these ten islands, showing how seriously Tian Zheng and the others viewed the situation.
There was only one group that did not have any other groups within 20 kilometers of them, and that was Li Yang's group. The reasoning behind this was simple, their group was by far the strongest one here, there were very few groups that could actually be of help to them even if they rushed there. As such, the group closest to them was about 70 kilometers away, forcing Li Yang and the others to cover an area larger than the other groups.
But strangely enough, even after the first two days passed, they hadn't discovered a single Void Born, not even the tracks of one. And it wasn't just Li Yang's group that failed to find anything, only a single group found something that could be considered strange. They found a ruined location within the forest that seemed to have been the location of a battle recently. And while it carried the tell-tale bone-like areas that the Void Born left behind, there were no drops of slime or dried up corpses in the area, making it hard to figure out exactly what had happened there.
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After four days of searching with no results, Li Yang's group decided to take a short rest during the night, setting up a small camp and making up a fire they could use to heat up food. The fire would also serve as a beacon that might attract any Void Born that might be foolish enough to be drawn towards it. They put up logs around the fire to sit on, and while Fang Ying was reheating a pot of soup and Zhao Feng went a bit away from the camp to answer the call of nature, Li Yang turned his head to look at Tian Zheng.
”Tell me, why are you so afraid?”
Tian Zheng's fingers twitched slightly in response to Li Yang's question, tapping against the log that he was sitting on. He turned his head and gave Li Yang a casual look, tilting his head slightly in perplexion.
”Sorry? I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean.”