While the other group had gone ahead to the Scarlet city, Alex's group had made their way to the southern regions of the Southern Forest.
They flew by themselves for a while, going toward the teleportation platform that was outside of the Beast realm.
Pearl had started out with them, but soon enough everyone realized that he couldn't keep up at all. With how weak his current cultivation was as compared to everyone else, Alex took Pearl back into his beast space so they delayed no longer.
"How long do you think it will take?" Alex asked. "Will we be done in a month?"
"It's hard to tell. It could be faster or slower," Hao Ya said. "The thing is, because we do not know the exact distance between the two formations as the records have already been lost for millennia now, we will have to go through a lot of trial and error to figure it out."