The Rise of the Black Plain
chapter-1816

After a few moments in this green area, Isabella and Harold finished their meditation and made important progress.

The red-haired young woman did not advance like her father, for she had suppressed the medicinal effects of the herb she had ingested, just like Minos.

Unlike her old man, she was still in the prime years of cultivation and could not take things lightly. If she increased her cultivation and destabilized her foundation, her future progress at the 10th stage would be greatly hindered.

But she had gotten a good return from taking the Saint herb, which greatly improved her understanding of flames.

If someone asked her how much she had gained, Isabella would answer without hesitation that she had saved 5 years of hard work in the minutes she had meditated in this green area!

She was only at the beginning of the 9th level, but her understanding of flames had jumped from the low level to the middle level of this stage.

Now, she could reach the peak of its understanding before reaching level 86, which, before, she was supposed to reach on the eve of level 90!

As for Harold, by stabilizing his cultivation at level 82, he was more than satisfied with his progress, even though it would certainly make things difficult for him in the future.

For someone like him, progressing now was more important than progressing in the future!

When he saw Minos at level 83, he quickly congratulated him, feeling that the whole group was stronger with their improvements.

"Shall we continue?" Minos asked before seeing everyone there return to their formation and head back to the tunnel they had passed through earlier.

Leaving this camera behind, they would spend the next few hours traveling through this underground place, facing new traps but also passing other cameras like the one before.

However, the places they passed didn't have much to offer them and had either already been visited by visitors of the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom in other events like this, or they didn't have anything special.

Not all places in this area would have valuable things, medicine, etc. Just like in a house, there would be places to store valuable things, places for plants, etc., so was a Spatial Kingdom.

The Dragon Ceremony area was very important to these beings, but not every corner of this area would have significant possibilities.

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After the first day since the Minos group entered the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom, they traveled halfway underground from the space they had entered.

They were still in this underground area, now standing at a camera they had just finished fighting several giant insects.

The underground of this area was filled with spiritual beasts, from snakes to scorpions and even giant worms.

Most of them were high-level Sages, but Minos' group had faced half a dozen low-level Demigods after a whole day there.

Their strongest opponent had been a level 92 spider, which lay dead at Forrest's feet.

While the entire group sighed in relief at the death of the group's strongest enemy, Minos wiped the sweat from his face as he held the corpse of a level 90 creature in front of him. He said. "Let's collect these corpses. Insects have excellent properties, and their parts are valuable not only to alchemists but also to blacksmiths."

"With these paws, blacksmiths can make many grade-4 weapons." Forrest agreed, knowing how valuable it was to any cultivator.

Ordinary cultivators would use it to get new weapons, armor, or even potions. Still, they would also sell a portion of such a harvest, which could bring them a great return.

But their group wouldn't do that. They all had enough people to feed and arm, so the remains of these creatures would serve to feed their forces.

Forrest soon had his men collect several of these insect corpses, while Minos' women did the same with their share of the battle.

Meanwhile, Minos took a closer look at the chamber they were in, a place that appeared to be a sacrificial altar.

But as he surveyed the area, he suddenly realized that there was a portal there.

Forrest had already seen this and said, "This place must lead to another pocket of space. Do you want to continue your journey to another space pocket? This wooden dragon certainly has other body parts in 2 of the other 5 pockets. So our chances of finding the parts that go elsewhere are not small."

What prevented them from checking the surface of that pocket of space was that wooden dragon, which they could not defeat by fighting alone.

Minos could even use his weapon up his sleeve to destroy it, but he didn't think it was worth sacrificing some of his cultivation to form the Divine Sword.

As for his black hole, as much as it had the potential to swallow that thing, it would be too risky for him to create something that powerful in this place.

What he was willing to do there was to create a low-level black hole that he could destroy. But the black hole that would evolve after swallowing a level 93 creature would be so powerful that it would be beyond his control!

In a limited space like that, which had several flaws and could collapse if something terrible happened there, Minos didn't want to risk it like that.

So either they would have to move slowly in this area not to alert the creature, or they would have to leave from there to another pocket of space, hoping not to run into another part of the wooden dragon.

Minos then said, "Let's stay longer in this pocket. I think there are things here that might be of interest to us, and as far as we know, we are one of the few who have entered this place.

But we will mark this place. If we collect more resources and feel that things are getting riskier, we'll come back here to try our luck in another area."

"All right." Forrest saw no problem with that. "Worst-case scenario, Kaleb and I will fight the wooden dragon while you gather resources for the group. I think that can work for at least a few minutes."

"Hmm." Minos nodded, watching his group cultivate as they regained their energy.

With that taken care of, some more time passed, and soon, they were ready to continue.

This underground area was large but not endless, so they would soon find the ends of the area where the last cameras were.