From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

The phosphorescent flames burned fiercely and endlessly, with no end in sight. Everything around them suddenly changed, and Mu'e and the toad, who had been struggling to hold on, were both stunned. Then, their magical power surged out violently.

"withstand!!!"

Mu'e roared, its green scales showing signs of burning, and the ends of its black hair bursting into flames.

She reached out and a gust of green wind swept by, shrinking the white python's enormous body before stuffing it into her chest.

The toad opened its mouth and swallowed the yellow crocodile whole. Then, the two Foundation Establishment stage demonic beasts made their final struggle amidst the surrounding phosphorescent fire.

No one wants to be burned alive in the phosphorescent fire disaster. Even if they can't escape, they can't just sit and wait to die.

The next moment, a large ball of phosphorescent fire crashed down, striking the black mist on the ground, whose surface was burning with phosphorescent fire.

boom!

A large amount of pale white light exploded out, but was blocked by the black mist and mixed into the burning world around it, becoming one with it.

The black mist surrounding the strange tree was already stretched thin, and after such an attack, it immediately thinned out.

Mu'e and the toad felt a jolt, and suddenly felt a cool sensation all over their bodies. They had fallen into a place shrouded in black mist.

The moment Li Yi and the others crashed into this place, the highly infectious black mist around them was burned away, providing a brief moment of safety.

The white python's voice suddenly rang out urgently from Mu'e's chest, "Don't touch the surrounding black mist, follow it!"

Upon hearing this, Mu'e and the toad instinctively formed a faint magical shield around themselves, isolating themselves from everything, while staring in horror at the strange tree.

At this moment, the strange tree rose from the ground and ran across the phosphorescent land. All the leaves had fallen, leaving only bare branches.

Its trunk is covered with strange patterns, and in some places there are cracks that reveal complex and chaotic arthropod tentacles inside.

The roots of the strange tree were completely detached from the earth, with each root end connected to the shells of various swamp creatures, which served as its feet as it crawled forward rapidly.

The toad opened its mouth in shock, then quickly closed it again.

It watched as roots grew from the back of a blue-eyed toad, like one of the hundreds of legs of a strange tree, completely unconscious, with a pair of blue eyeballs dangling from their sockets and swinging back and forth.

"If we keep up with it, we still have hope!"

Mu'e shouted sharply, then bent and stretched her long legs, causing the cracked ground to explode, and she followed around the strange tree.

Looking up, it saw Li Yi, half of his body tucked into the canopy of the strange tree, and its face showed worry and fear.

Despite suffering such a blow, the strange tree still had the strength to move forward, and the pale white phosphorescent flames burning around Li Yi did not immediately burn it, but instead burned slowly.

The bizarre, twisted tree ran along, trying to push away the burning Li Yi with its various limbs, but as soon as it came into contact with the pale white phosphorescent fire, all of its limbs turned to ashes.

As the surrounding black mist thinned, and looking at the boundless white sky and earth ahead, Mu'e suddenly felt somewhat tired.

Li Yi's aura continued to decline, and the balance of pure and turbid energy within his inner world was completely disrupted, turning into a chaotic mass that seemed poised to revert to its initial state of chaos.

Li Yi's soul was like a candle flickering in the wind, unable to muster any power, and could only watch helplessly as everything happened.

Its upper body was already embedded inside the strange tree, and its pair of pale white eyes stared at the terrifying, twisting, and complex structure inside the tree, powerless to do anything about it.

At this moment, Li Yi had only one thought in his mind: to extinguish his own phosphorescent fire and reduce the pressure on the strange tree.

In this way, it might be able to go further, and even lead Mu'e and his companions away from this land of natural disasters.

As for myself? I'm afraid there's no hope.

Having exhausted all means, Li Yi now only hopes to give the other demonic beasts a sliver of a chance to survive.

Despite its best efforts, it could not rouse the phosphorescent flames burning all around it and could only watch as the strange tree was consumed by fire.

Although the strange tree's true form was an ancient, strange insect, and it had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, it could not withstand such prolonged internal and external attacks and gradually became unsustainable.

Suddenly, a large section of its branches was ignited by phosphorescent fire, and the eerie white light illuminated the interior of the black mist.

The toad suddenly jumped up, exhaling a thick cloud of colorful mist that forcefully extinguished the phosphorescent flames on the tree branches.

At times like these, it has no choice but to lend a helping hand.

With the ancient monster dead, this place probably truly has no hope left.

But things didn't end there. After running through this pale white world for another quarter of an hour, the black mist suddenly broke open in several places, and a large amount of phosphorescent fire poured in.

Mu'e and the toad tried their best to help the strange tree extinguish the phosphorescent fire, but the tree's canopy still caught fire.

A droplet of phosphorescent light was flung from the burning treetop, narrowly missing the toad's back and leaving a charred mark.

Numerous burning branches broke off directly from the roots, revealing the disgusting structures inside the branches that resembled dark red millipedes, covered in yellow slime.

The wood monster and the toad under the tree avoided the fire rain, and saw that the strange tree had abandoned a small portion of the swamp creatures connected to its roots.

They had already caught fire, even turned into charcoal, and were completely eroded by the phosphorescent fire on the ground, leaving them no choice but to be discarded.

The bare trunk of the strange tree split open in the next moment, with four thin cracks appearing like four narrow, vertical eyes in the four directions of east, west, south, and north.

laugh!

Black light shot out from the crack, and the strange tree spun its trunk as it ran. When Mu'e and the toad saw this, they both lowered their heads.

The black light swirled and swept across the surroundings, extinguishing a large portion of the blazing phosphorescent flames, which caused the toads who witnessed this to burst into maniacal laughter.

"As expected of an ancient strange insect, it's incredibly powerful!"

Between life and death, it had no more scruples; it would live for as long as it could.

Hope seemed to have returned; perhaps by following these ancient and strange insects, they could actually escape from this white inferno.

Li Yi stared wide-eyed at the ancient strange insect's true form inside the tree trunk. Suddenly, a semi-transparent liquid emerged, revealing a large number of eyeballs, big and small, all staring at it with their pupils.

This was the first time it had ever been so close to an ancient, strange insect. It could only marvel at how such a creature was capable of surviving from ancient times to the present.

It couldn't even be considered a living being; Li Yi didn't even know what it was.

Suddenly, the liquid began to churn, and a tetrahedral eyeball floated to the top, staring at Li Yi with its swirling, deep green pupil.

Li Yi didn't care, nor could he care. It was completely immobile and had entered the final stage of its life. The collapse of the Pure and Turbid Immortal Foundation plunged everything into the abyss.