The group's flight through the dark forest lasted until nearly dawn. It seemed like no matter how careful or cautious the group was, a single misstep was all it would take to bring down a new threat that would attempt to prey on the young cultivators.
At one point, Hou inadvertently ignited the web of a Giant Armored Spider as he attempted to light their way forward. At another, Yu Jinqi slipped at the edge of a steep gully, plunging into a stream filled with scaly reptiles that snapped at him with long snouts full of pointed teeth. If not for the alchemist's quick thinking to release a pungent toxin into the water he might have been swarmed by the vicious reptiles before the others could pull him back out of the stream.
