From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

The poison bullets came flying in a barrage, their movements obscured by the yellow mist and accelerated by the green wind, even slightly changing direction and scattering precisely towards all the blue-eyed golden toads in front of them.

Bang bang bang!

Black venom exploded, splattering everywhere. The four blue-eyed toads in front were almost completely unprepared, letting out distorted, sharp cries.

However, they were all late-stage Qi Refining beings and creatures with potent poison, so they couldn't be instantly defeated. They all became alert and launched a counterattack in Li Yi's direction.

Li Yi bit off the Ganoderma lucidum, burrowed into the mud, dodged all the incoming water arrows, water blades, and water bullets, and quickly broke through the encirclement.

They can't accurately find themselves; they can only rely on experience to roughly counterattack in one direction.

If it were a yellow crocodile, it might actually be discovered by them, but the black crocodile is very good at hiding, which is its instinct.

A few breaths later, Li Yi swept past the corpses that were gradually sinking in the swamp, sensed the two blue-eyed golden toads that were not far away, and quickly surfaced.

It couldn't just slip away from the other's feet like that; a blue-eyed toad in the late stages of cultivation isn't so easily fooled.

A blue-eyed toad was painfully shaking off the black venom on its body when it suddenly heard a faint whistling sound.

It looked up in horror and saw the dense poisonous barrier in front of it suddenly split open to the top and bottom, and a thick black shadow swept across like a whip.

By the time it noticed the movement, the dark shadow was already in front of it, stretching across the limits of its left and right vision.

Snapped!

Li Yi turned and swung his tail, unleashing his full power in bursts, instantly sweeping away the two blue-eyed golden toads in front of him. He flew straight out like a meteor from the poisonous barrier covering the entire battlefield, exploding in mid-air with a series of bursts of blood.

"Croak!!"

Just moments later, the cry, imbued with spiritual power, scraped across the surface of his scales.

Knowing that his brief appearance had exposed him, Li Yi immediately put a lingzhi mushroom in his mouth and plunged back into the mud towards the edge of the battlefield.

Although the blue-eyed toads had ways to deal with the poison barrier, they couldn't stop Li Yi from leaving.

After a few breaths, the yellow mist that covered the vast area dispersed in two directions, with the location of the Ganoderma lucidum as the dividing point, and each flowed in one direction.

One ball moved extremely fast, while the other moved much slower.

After traveling a distance, the two clouds of yellow mist quickly dissipated, revealing an unremarkable surface of black silt, without leaving any trace.

As the poisonous barrier dissipated, the blue-eyed toads simultaneously spotted each other, and their expressions turned grim.

In the direction Li Yi broke through, his four companions were injured, corroded by some kind of black venom, their pale golden skin corroded with bloody holes, and they cried out in pain.

Two of their companions simply vanished without a trace, seemingly swallowed whole.

In the direction the yellow crocodile escaped, two of its companions also went missing, but a huge, gradually healing bite mark was left behind, as if a colossal creature had swallowed up the two companions and a large area of ​​land beneath them in an instant.

"Damn it, croak! It's that persistent yellow crocodile!"

A blue-eyed golden toad stood inside the bite mark and said angrily.

"Didn't it already escape from here? How come it's still in my territory?" The other blue-eyed toad seemed to recall something, and its expression turned sour.

"This is a big problem. It was already at the ninth level of Qi Refining ten years ago, but it has been slow to attempt Foundation Establishment. It wanders around like a ghost, and has devoured countless of our companions."

On the other side, several blue-eyed toads stood in the direction Li Yi had left, their expressions solemn.

"That looks like a... black-scaled crocodile?"

It grasped the broken black scale and examined it closely, eventually arriving at this conclusion.

"Is there such a powerful being among the Black Scale Crocodile clan? And it can even use poison, which can even harm us."

A blue-eyed golden toad said with a gloomy expression.

"This is also a big problem, even more troublesome than that yellow female crocodile."

"And... the Ganoderma lucidum is gone too."

It turned its head and looked at the empty center of the battlefield, where a dense spiritual energy still lingered.

Without a doubt, their hunt was a complete failure. Although they obtained four late-stage Qi Refining prey to satisfy their mission, they also suffered considerable losses.

The four companions who died were all in the late stage of Qi Refining. In addition to the loss of the Ganoderma lucidum, their losses were heavy.

"Forget it, once Ancestor breaks through his cultivation level, everything can be resolved. At worst, we can personally report to Ancestor and completely eliminate these two troublesome individuals."

"It is a blue-eyed golden toad," a voice said coldly.

They didn't stay long; after cleaning up the battlefield, they left.

An hour later.

The cautious Li Yi took many detours, fearing that the blue-eyed toads would find him and affect his territory, and returned very late.

Once it finally crossed the boundary of its own territory, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Feeling the rich spiritual energy in its mouth, it quickly headed towards the big willow tree.

As night deepened, the moonlight shone on the nine dark scales on Li Yi's back, reflecting a dazzling light.

With the large willow tree close at hand, Li Yi slowly stepped onto solid ground. The white python happily greeted him, circling around him and flicking its tongue.

Even from a distance, it could already sense the intense, alluring aura emanating from Li Yi.

The approach of this vitality caused the large willow tree to sway its branches slightly.

Li Yi crawled into the tree hole, arrived at the place where the mother crocodile was, and planted the Ganoderma lucidum on its body.

A moment later, the Ganoderma lucidum visibly shrank, and a rich vitality wafted through the cave, while the mother crocodile's aura grew much stronger.

A gentle breeze reignited the nearly extinguished candle flame.

The mother crocodile has weathered that critical juncture and is now completely stable.

After staying in the tree hollow for a whole night, Li Yi finally felt at ease and wriggled his body to come out into the outside world.

It communicated with the white python and learned that the white python could use the moonlight water to silently absorb the black mist around the strange tree, which excited it.

This is indeed a good method to slow down the changes caused by the strange tree.

If the black mist inside the strange tree's protective shield condenses to a certain degree, it instinctively senses that something very bad is about to happen.

The white python was still cultivating, trying to comprehend the incomplete magic manual it had grasped.

However, ever since it was hit by the black beam of light shot from the strange tree, the purple fragment seems to have been damaged, its power greatly reduced, and it is even unable to recover.

Li Yi arrived in front of the insect nest and released his senses. The spirit insects inside buzzed out, their numbers doubling from before.

It seems that the spirit insects struggling on the brink of life and death still have a chance to transform. Sure enough, dozens of spirit insects have grown black lines on their backs and completed their transformation.

After glancing expectantly at the insect nest, Li Yi returned to the tree hole and lay down on the fine yellow wax stone, enjoying a brief moment of peace in the dark.