With an increased urgency they increased the speed at which they scaled up the mountain. However, they quickly found out they couldn't rush through their way as they did the first half of it. There were way more insidious traps than Yu Mei could detect, the spirit beasts were cunning and more powerful. He Shan's poison came in handy in those moments but they were quickly burning through their resources.
A day and a half passed before they reached the 50-kilometer mark which they had managed to cover within a few hours in the first half of the mountain.
Their expressions became grimmer with every rise up the mountain. It felt like the difficulty doubled every kilometer and the variations were a lot. One place was swarming with spirit beasts of different kinds, another was filled with miasma, trap formations were almost everywhere and there were occasional inexplicable occurrences.