Chapter 151 - 136: The Eve of the Storm (1 more update)
The Eighth Pass, Desolate Beast Valley. This was a ferocious place within the eighth pass, discovered by continuous trialists challenging the path, inhabited by numerous fierce Demon Beasts of the Trial Road.
Originally, this place was scarcely populated, and even trialists would take a wide detour upon encountering it.
However, on this day, Desolate Beast Valley appeared unusually bustling; silhouettes of trialists quickly gathered from all directions into this quiet valley, because Yangg Jun, the Eighth Prince of Tianqi Empire, was leading the trialists from several kingdoms to besiege trialists from Xiafeng Country.
Xiafeng Country was just a small kingdom in the lower middle ranks among the 108 Countries and would generally go unnoticed. But due to the emergence of Xia Yang, the Crown Prince who dominated the Trial Road and claimed qualifications of a king among Super Experts—these factors drew attention to this ordinary kingdom in the Western Regions of the continent.
Later, added by various high bounties issued by the Eighth Prince of Tianqi Empire in pursuit of killing trialists from Xiafeng Country, it garnered even more attention.
Within the depths of the valley, there lay a pond about thirty feet wide—simply a pond, yet the water was bone chilling, emitting billows of cold mist that shrouded the entire valley, making everything appear hazy, like a mystical valley.
Yet according to some trialists who had previously ventured through Desolate Beast Valley, a terrifying Water Demon resided within the cold pond; these trialists tried to enter the cold pond in search of treasures but had to activate their Spirit Talismans and opt for elimination to protect themselves after encountering the mysterious Water Demon.
Still, no one was quite sure what the Water Demon in the pond actually looked like because it was too quick and too terrifying; everything happened in an instant.
This was also the reason why the Eighth Prince had yet to succeed in capturing the Thirteenth Prince and the others by surrounding this area, using the threat of unleashing the Water Demon from the cold pond in the mutually destructive attacks, hence maintaining caution.
However, today they intended to truly launch an attack on the valley because the Eighth Prince, Yangg Jun, had borrowed a Heavy Weapon, aiming to overtake the cold pond.