From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

Looking through the increasing gaps appearing in the protective shield, all around was a sea of ​​white fire, spreading to an endless distance. How to break this deadlock?

There's no way to get out.

Mu'e clearly realized this, but stubbornly refused to give up.

Outside, a flash of purple flames passed by, suppressed by phosphorescent fire. The white python opened its mouth and unleashed a second intact purple fragment.

This purple fragment was significantly better, igniting a steady purple flame and hovering above the already burned-out crown of the large willow tree, continuously devouring the intruding white phosphorescent fire.

The ground was cracking, and the wooden crocodiles were getting closer and closer to the tree trunks, as were the yellow crocodiles. The space they could stand on was getting smaller and smaller.

The roots of the big willow tree had already been almost completely burned.

Only Li Yi remained suspended in mid-air, engulfed in flames, appearing to be completely dead.

"It's over..."

The toad let out a deep sigh, and the power belonging to it within the protective barrier was rapidly dissipating.

Its magical power was almost completely depleted again.

Mu'e's swampy wood element was completely countered by phosphorescent fire. She could only try her best to wear down her opponent with her magic, but in the end, she was also completely annihilated.

"It seems... this is the end..."

She said it calmly.

The shield collapsed rapidly in the next instant.

The white python had not given up. She borrowed some pure magic power from Mu'e and detonated the second purple fragment.

The next moment, the purple fragments shattered into several pieces, flying in all directions and instantly forming a purple shield to resist the omnipresent phosphorescent fire.

I can hold on for a few more breaths.

Li Yi felt his soul being disintegrated by a white flame, turning into countless fragments that drifted in the dark void.

After drifting for an unknown amount of time, it felt itself being drawn to that chaotic mass of swampy energy, and people from all around it began to fall towards it.

Its fragments fell faster and faster, and a shrill sound, coming from who-knows-where, startled Li Yi awake.

"The final time, Four Phases Foundation Establishment!!"

Li Yi burned his last bit of strength and roared with all his might with unwavering willpower.

This time, its countless soul fragments ignited with phosphorescent flames, just like those outside, during its high-speed descent.

It didn't sense any destructive force; instead, it felt as gentle as if it were in a comfortable swamp.

The phosphorescent light that envelops the soul no longer destroys everything; instead, it can merge with it.

This feeling was like Li Yi lying on the ground basking in the sun on a leisurely afternoon, feeling warm currents emanating from his scales and coolness emanating from the swampy mud beneath him—it was extremely comfortable.

Countless white meteors fell into the chaotic swampy air, just like what was happening in the outside world.

It was instantly ignited; the outermost layer of earth-phase yellow mist, the middle layer of wandering wood-phase green wind, and the innermost layer of settled water-phase black poison were all burning fiercely.

A white light tore through the surrounding darkness, and Li Yi's soul reassembled in the core of the swampy energy.

It was reborn from the ashes and truly came to understand what the swamp fire phase was.

Outside, the protective shield created by the second purple fragment was reduced to a thin layer, and the surging white phosphorescent flames were causing it to dent and shatter.

The white python was helpless; it felt a splitting headache and fainted the moment the protective shield shattered.

Li Yi, who was burning, suddenly opened his eyes.

Its brownish-yellow eyes had long been burned away, leaving only two black holes. Much of its flesh and blood was gone, leaving only a huge, empty shell covered with black scales.

But the next moment, a chilling white flame condensed in its empty eye sockets, forming two eyeballs that seemed to be the embodiment of a calamity, coldly surveying its surroundings.

The surging phosphorescent flames instantly reversed, forming a completely new protective shield.

"This... I'm alive! I'm alive!!!"

The toad jumped very high, looking at everything with ecstatic joy, and almost jumped into the sea of ​​fire that surrounded it.

Li Yi hovered in mid-air, closed his eyes again, and maintained the phosphorescent shield, becoming one with the surrounding sea of ​​fire.

Inside, the once towering willow tree is now just a stump and some sparse roots, with a small patch of scorched, cracked earth, like a lonely island in a white ocean, moving forward in solitude.

Mu'e opened her eyes wide, looking ahead, trying to find a way out, but she was wrong.

The speed at which phosphorescent fire spreads is ten or even a hundred times faster than the escape light of the Foundation Establishment stage. Faced with such a disaster, once it erupts, one can only endure it.

There is no place for them in the world.

At this moment, a layer of cool moonlight suddenly flowed across Li Yi's black scales, making them dazzling and keeping the white phosphorescent flames out.

Within its body, the wood, water, and earth elements all surged, gathered, and transformed, reshaping Li Yi's body in an incredible way.

Flesh and blood regenerated, bones and muscles resonated, and the heart erupted with a thunderous drumbeat, causing the surrounding phosphorescent flames to ripple, even more violently than when Mu E was building his foundation.

Within its body, the fire phase gradually condensed and merged with the other three phases, devouring each other and gradually being suppressed by the other three phases inside.

Only then did Li Yi understand what the impurities born from those mixed swampy gases were.

They are the ashes formed after the fire phase burns. The fire phase in the swamp is extremely explosive, and its appearance is destructive. It is impossible to perceive it in ordinary times.

Those ashes are proof that it truly existed.

The pale white phosphorescent flames were contained deep within, only erupting when needed.

Li Yi felt his soul was sublimating, the four elements were gathering and gradually adapting to each other. Once fully balanced, the turbid energy within his body would expand to a terrifying degree.

The gate to foundation building will open before it.

"It seems we're safe for now."

Mu'e breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Li Yi who was floating above in a strange state, a feeling of relief welled up in his heart.

"Hahaha, as expected of the Black Scale Crocodile that even I can't see through, it really saved my life this time."

The toad was in high spirits, but then looked around worriedly, "Can we keep escaping the area burned by the phosphorescent flames like this?"

"have no idea."

Mu'e was also filled with confusion, muttering to himself.

And so, after an unknown amount of time had passed in the sea of ​​fire, the stable phosphorescent shield around them suddenly showed signs of violent collapse, and the phosphorescent fire once again displayed its frenzied side, threatening to devour everything.

"Make your move!"

Mu'e and the toad regained some of their magical power and attacked together to defend against the surging phosphorescent fire.

"What's going on?" the toad exclaimed.

Mu'e stood silently in his way, looking worriedly at Li Yi who was suspended in mid-air, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

"Lost balance... I guess we weren't prepared enough after all."

Li Yi realized something: the turbid energy within its body was too powerful. With the four elements gathered together, it had already overwhelmed the pure energy and moonlight, and it was once again facing a life-or-death crisis.