This area was already close to the forest's core. Fourth-ranked monsters possessed strength comparable to Exalts and were no longer easy prey. However, Ryan was now a five-star Exalt.
With advanced martial arts, powerful equipment, and a body strengthened by countless pills, killing these monsters was demanding but far from impossible.
As for the rumors of eighth-ranked monsters lurking within the Forest of Death, Ryan found them increasingly unreliable.
Judging from the gradual escalation of monster strength, the forest's center should at most house fifth-rank beasts. Sixth-rank monsters, if they existed at all, would be rare anomalies. As for eighth-rank monsters, that was pure fantasy.
If such creatures existed anywhere, it would be in the Desolate Valley near Jiuyi City, not here.
Three days passed in relentless combat.
