The problem is, this thing won't give them any time to prepare—it hits them out of nowhere.
"So according to the Shop Assistant, if we travel by night, we should be able to reach the Eternal Night Sect in about seven or eight days," An Jiuyue estimated. It was within this time frame that they could travel to the Eternal Night Sect, obtain the Qe Mingmu, and then move on to the next plane.
Of course, that was under the assumption that they didn't encounter any other incidents that would delay their journey.
But reality was that they did indeed run into trouble.
...
After they resumed their journey, whether by chance or not, on the fourth day, they ran into a group of people who were also traveling at Eternal Night Time.
However, this group of people was much less fortunate.
They had been targeted by man-eating demonic beasts, and with a few roars, what had been a large group dwindled in the blink of an eye, losing a few, then another blink, and two or three more were gone.
