Two weeks had passed since the binding activated.
Cang Yutian was now at level 246.
Lin Yi had moved through the expanse in the, the volcanic basin on its respawning cycle providing the high-volume clearing events, the mid-atmospheric cluster zones filling the intervals between respawning with the sustained lower-volume accumulation that kept the EXP transfer rate above the threshold consumption rate. Six levels in two weeks. Four remaining. Approximately two weeks left in the event's duration.
The pace was sufficient if it held.
He was crossing between cluster zones in the upper mid-atmospheric layer when his passive perception registered a cave.
An energy signature that did not match any monster he had faced, and did not match any terrain feature he had encountered in weeks of traversal through the expanse. Unusual in the specific way that things are unusual when they exist in a space that is otherwise well-characterized and they do not fit any established category.
