From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

The slightly scorching sunlight shone on Li Yi's black scales, making the healed wound on its back itch.

As his body temperature gradually rose, Li Yi felt everything around him come alive, and his exceptionally strong muscles surged beneath the scales like a tangled swarm of snakes.

After a few light movements, Li Yi let out a breath.

Two or three months have passed in the blink of an eye, and I have finally gotten rid of the torment of the injury on my back.

However, the other injury on his back is still very stubborn and needs to be suppressed regularly, otherwise it will cause increasingly intense burning pain.

However, the frequent use of the willow tree sap has made Li Yi's body exceptionally strong. Now, Li Yi looks a size larger than the previous green crocodile, majestic and imposing, with his entire body covered in black.

It could already use its strong and resilient body, brimming with vitality, to resist the pain caused by the purple fragments, and tried to squeeze them out of the wound little by little with its constantly regenerating muscles.

Although the process is extremely painful and slow, Li Yi still spends some time doing it every day.

It figured that if it encountered that old red-furred fox again, and the fox activated the fragments within its body, those fragments would probably burn through its bones.

By then, one's limbs will likely be permanently disabled, or even one's internal organs may be burned and one may die.

This is something we must guard against.

While basking in the sun, Li Yi stared at the surroundings of the big willow tree and couldn't help but ponder again.

Since the battle two or three months ago, both the fox pack and the baboon pack have been severely damaged. The old baboon was even more seriously injured, losing an arm and eventually being burned to ashes.

For beast cultivators, the physical body is absolutely crucial during the Qi Refining stage. If it is damaged at this time, their hope of Foundation Establishment will be greatly diminished.

Unless they obtain some extraordinary rare treasure that can make that arm grow back.

Previously, the old baboon should have roughly sensed the vague location of the citrine sword, after all, it was an artifact it had used for countless years, and it probably even held special significance within the baboon troop.

But Li Yi never saw a single baboon near the big willow tree.

It's highly likely that it was too badly injured to look for it.

As for the red-faced monkey troop... they've probably been wiped out.

Just as Li Yi was half-closing his eyes in thought, a smooth body covered with delicate scales slowly wrapped around him, carrying a slight chill.

Li Yi was already used to this scene. He slightly propped up his limbs so that the white python's body could pass under his belly and circle around him.

The white python's head appeared around Li Yi, flicking its tongue and revealing a lazy look in its pupils.

It likes to wrap itself around Li Yi after he's been sunbathing for a while, enjoying the warmth and firmness of his body while basking in the sun.

After a while, the sun began to move visibly, and the intense midday sunlight began to weaken. The white python seemed to know what Li Yi was going to do, and slowly loosened its body, moving and crawling into the tree hole to cultivate.

Li Yi swayed his limbs, letting his body sink into the mud outside the shelter of the big willow tree, leaving only a slightly raised back exposed, and his mind began to sink.

The path from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level is undoubtedly full of unknowns for Li Yi.

It had already absorbed the moonlight and come into contact with a power that the Blackscale Crocodile clan should not have been exposed to, achieving a delicate balance within its body with the swamp energy.

Before the sixth black scale grew, everything was still blurry and chaotic.

But if Li Yi wants to grow the seventh ink scale, he must find a way out of the chaos ahead.

The instincts and bloodline tendencies of the Black Scale Crocodile clan have no effect anymore. The clear and turbid energies within Li Yi's body are now intertwined, and some strange phenomena have begun to appear.

After a period of exploration, Li Yi had gained some insights into the murky swampy air and was ready to explore further.

But not within the sheltered area of ​​the big willow tree.

It only recently realized this.

With most of his body submerged in the mud, Li Yi's mind gradually calmed down, and he began to feel the pulse, breath, and spiritual energy of the surrounding swamp.

Li Yi adjusted his breathing and heartbeat, gradually becoming one with the surrounding environment, as if he had transformed into this vast swamp, slowly and rhythmically undulating...

The pitch-black area soon began to change.

First, the poisonous haze in the vicinity became increasingly dense, transforming from being indistinguishable from its surroundings to appearing as if it were shrouded in layers of thick yellow gauze, even blocking out the sunlight.

The omnipresent poisonous barrier was gathering above Li Yi. At first, it was only slightly hazy, but after about an hour, it had become a small area of ​​extremely dense poison, so dense that one could not see their own hand in front of their face.

The dense, thick, yellow, toxic liquid flowed slowly, seemingly attracted by something, gathering together and churning up and down.

At one edge of the poisonous cloud, a transparent outline now clearly appears, with a dense poisonous cloud outside the outline and a clear expanse inside, which is the protected area of ​​the big willow tree.

After a long time, as the poisonous barrier gathered to a certain extent, Li Yi slowly emerged from the silt, his head rising first, followed by most of his body.

His brownish-yellow pupils snapped open, and Li Yi suddenly opened his blood-red maw and inhaled sharply.

The almost stagnant poison barrier around him suddenly began to spin, forming a vortex. Rolling yellow mist surged into Li Yi's mouth and was almost instantly swallowed by him.

A silence descended.

Li Yi slowly closed its eyes, and from the gaps between its two eyelids, the gaps in its scales all over its body, and the gaps in its closed mouth, all began to emanate wisps of poisonous impurities.

After a surge of turbid energy within his body, Li Yi felt himself becoming stronger, breaking through his previous bottleneck and taking a small step forward.

This is a valid attempt.

Li Yi had thought about this idea long ago. The energy of the swamp was mixed and impure, unlike the pure moonlight. He only needed to continue cultivating to become stronger.

If you want to make further progress, you need both the pure and impure energies in your body to improve and intertwine. Simply improving the pure energy is useless.

How can we enhance the energy of the swamp?

The answer is to break down the chaotic swamp energy into individual parts, cultivate each part separately, and then merge them together.

The gathering and exhalation of the dark yellow swampy poison barrier is an attempt. It is an important part of the swampy energy and also the part that is easiest to separate. The form of the poison barrier is only an external manifestation.

And clearly, Li Yi's attempt was effective.

Just as Li Yi was gathering his strength, a sharp sound suddenly came from afar, and something silently wrapped around Li Yi's neck!