From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

Li Yi instantly felt his massive, heavy body become light and airy, as if he were being blown away like a fallen leaf, followed by excruciating pain all over his body.

After leaving a long mark on the ground, Li Yi tensed up and immediately turned over to look at the other side.

After the explosion, tiny specks of almost liquid, pale white phosphorescent light rained down from the sky, splashing onto the muddy ground and burning steadily.

Ignoring the pain all over his body, Li Yi burst forth with incredible speed, rushing to the front of the hill, causing another wave of poisonous mist to disperse, thus avoiding the specks of phosphorescent fire on the ground.

Seeing that no further out-of-control scenes occurred, Li Yi briefly diverted his attention to approach a small point of phosphorescent fire on the ground and examined it closely.

Even without anything to burn, the pale white flame remained remarkably stable, radiating a destructive power.

Li Yi dared not make physical contact, so he first exhaled a small wisp of green wind to envelop the phosphorescent fire.

Almost instantly, the phosphorescent flames expanded into a ball, burning away Green Wind and Li Yi's magical power completely, and even fueling the flames.

Upon seeing this, Li Yi spat out a ball of poison, which exploded on the phosphorescent flame, making a sizzling sound.

The black venom was slowly ignited, and phosphorescent flames spread in all directions. Li Yi retreated continuously, his eyes revealing extreme fear.

That's terrifying.

In another direction, a third blazing white line pierced through the almost flattened hill. With a wave of his hand, the old toad sent a column of water rising from the ground to collide with it.

The yellow crocodile exerted all its strength to dispel the surrounding poisonous barrier, and then charged in one direction without looking back.

The next moment, the shockwave of the explosion spread out, and the yellow crocodile was thrown away, followed by a sparse but deadly rain of white fire.

As the small hill was completely flattened, the old toad showed signs of exhaustion, sensed the severe depletion of its magical power, and its eyes dimmed slightly.

It glanced around, and the pale golden water flow covered the surrounding land, completely extinguishing all the splashed, pale white phosphorescent flames.

Then it continued to carry Li Yi and the yellow crocodile into the sky, heading towards the next place.

Enveloped by the escaping light, Li Yi closed his eyes, lost in deep shock.

Nature is so mysterious and unpredictable. The moment Li Yi saw the eerie white phosphorescent light, he knew something.

The swamp also has a fire element, but it is extremely rare, occurring only once every hundred years. It is so explosive and terrifying that the other three elements ignite upon contact and cannot coexist.

The road ahead suddenly became clear.

Cultivate the Fire element, and build the foundation of the Four Elements.

However, Li Yi thought this path was almost impossible. The phosphorescent fire was so ferocious that he didn't even dare to touch it, let alone cultivate it.

As he was thinking, the light suddenly veered downwards, and a wave of heat swept over him. Li Yi immediately opened his eyes, knowing that the next area where the heatwave was about to erupt had arrived.

Another small hill rose up, its grayish-white, cracked mud splitting open. It looked about 30% larger than the previous one, and a deathly, pale white light shone from the cracks.

Just as its top was about to erupt like a volcano, the old toad suddenly increased its speed by three points, tossing Li Yi and the yellow crocodile to its sides in mid-air, and then fell directly onto the hill like a meteor.

The pale golden water formed a huge vortex, instantly enveloping the surroundings, and then was mostly evaporated in the next moment.

An extremely foul-smelling mist exploded outwards, flowing rapidly over Li Yi's black scales and nearly knocking him over completely.

Li Yi's limbs trembled, and he stood firmly in place, his body swirling with green wind, barely managing to stay upright.

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Within a bursting white cloud of mist, blazing white lines burst forth, piercing straight into the sky, too fast for even the old toad to stop.

"No!!!"

The old toad's roar came from the thick fog.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi was utterly horrified.

Once this fire line touches the poison barrier in mid-air, it will instantly ignite a range of thousands of miles, burning the entire area to ashes in an instant.

Instinctively, Li Yi spat out a series of poison bullets, but they evaporated into a wisp of black smoke a few feet away from the white line of fire.

The yellow crocodile was closer and tried its best to clear away the poisonous barriers around it, but it was only a hair's breadth away.

Just as the fire line was about to touch the poison barrier, a colorful cloud broke through the sky and cut off the fire line.

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The clouds exploded, ninety percent of which was instantly burned away, while the remaining ten percent transformed into a colorful, poisonous rain that fell down.

The poisonous rain, falling mid-air, suddenly turned and gathered around an old man who was rapidly walking through the air.

The old man was dressed in brightly colored, multicolored clothes, but wore an ordinary straw hat, and his face looked extremely unpleasant.

"The disaster of phosphorus!"

Li Yi recognized him at a glance; this was the same Toad Senior who had left after reaching Foundation Establishment.

The old toad breathed a sigh of relief; a junior in the early stages of Foundation Establishment had resolved this life-threatening crisis for it.

The old man arrived in mid-air and, without saying a word, transformed into his original form: a huge, highly poisonous toad, its body oozing multicolored venom. Together with the old toad, he suppressed the vast hill.

Both of these forces are water-based and highly poisonous. They do not repel each other but instead merge, accelerating the smoothing of the hill.

Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief and quietly waited for its next outburst.

Having reached this point, it had a general understanding of the nature of the phosphorescent disaster.

This flame, which is being nurtured deep within the swamp, is bound to break through the ground and burn everything in its path, but this is not entirely unstoppable.

These small hills are the areas where it concentrated and erupted.

As long as we suppress them one by one and completely disperse the momentum of the underground phosphorescent eruption across this vast area, it will not break through the soil.

There is still hope!

With the combined efforts of the old toad and the toad, two Foundation Establishment stage experts, and Li Yi and the yellow crocodile dispelling the poisonous barrier from all sides, the small mountain was thus narrowly flattened.

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The weaker toad wiped the sweat from its face, looking at the rapidly drying land with lingering fear, and squatted on the ground.

"Fellow Daoist, we must continue. The Ancient Vine Clan has come to assist us in suppressing them. If even one point gets out of control, everything will be over."

Despite the severe depletion of his magical power, the old toad still spoke in this manner.

Without a word, the toad used its escape light to carry Li Yi and the yellow crocodile, and followed the old toad as they continued to roam the high sky, searching for the next place.

Soon after, they landed in an area littered with corpses, which was also rising up and had become quite large, with the carcass of a black-scaled crocodile arched high.

"Suppress this area!"

Old Toad said.

As the water waves spread outwards, the two Foundation Establishment stage toads cooperated, using their remaining magical power to continue suppressing the attack.

Li Yi glanced at the dozens of crocodiles densely distributed here, some with black scales and some with green scales. The black-scaled crocodile that was arched high had a cultivation level of six levels of Qi Refining, but it still died.

Then, it shook its head, putting all distracting thoughts behind it, and focused intently on what was ahead.