From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

All around was quiet, except for the green crocodile, which was seriously injured but still occasionally flicked its tail, causing mud to splash everywhere with a thud.

The toad rolled its pale blue eyes, its body motionless, but suddenly looked in a certain direction and opened its mouth to spit out a thin stream of pale golden water.

With a hiss, the stream of water condensed into a sharp ice needle in mid-air, shooting out with an elegant pale golden hue and embedding itself in a patch of silt.

Before long, Li Yi slowly emerged from the mud and stared coldly at the toad.

That attack was incredibly fast; it could have hit me and pierced through the black scales, but instead it struck the third black scale on my back, shattering it without harming it.

This also made Li Yi realize that the toad with its incredibly high cultivation level seemed to be able to see through his hiding methods, so he couldn't just run away rashly.

If it follows us to the vicinity of the big willow tree, we'll be in trouble.

While staring at the toad, Li Yi pondered how to kill it.

The pale golden water and the toad's golden skin both contained some kind of terrifying poison. If he were to swallow them whole, there might be bad consequences.

As a cautious predator, Li Yi would naturally not rashly attempt to hunt unknown, highly poisonous creatures.

"Croak!"

"Little Crocodile, you're quite strong. How about joining my Blue-Eyed Golden Toad clan? If you're not willing..."

The toad spoke with a threatening look, and even grunted twice.

Li Yi continued to stare at it quietly.

After a long pause, the toad realized something. "You can't talk? Nodding will do."

The next moment, without any indication, Li Yi sank into the mud and disappeared without a trace.

Just kidding, it wouldn't rashly join a group of beasts. This so-called Blue-Eyed Golden Toad clan seems to be quite powerful, otherwise it wouldn't have members at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Judging from its tone, it's probably not the strongest in the clan.

If Li Yi chooses to submit, he may lose his territory and then be at its beck and call. Even if Li Yi could speak, he would not agree to that.

"Don't run away!"

The toad's eyes darted around, and it immediately hopped behind it, grabbing onto Li Yi's escape route once more, rising and falling with each movement.

The only thing left behind were the haphazardly laid-out carcasses of green-scaled crocodiles, most of them mutilated and reeking of blood.

After a long while, the green crocodile finally moved, using all its strength to flip itself over, and struggled to use its remaining three legs to head towards the direction of the big willow tree in its memory.

Its obsession lies there.

laugh!

Two more pale golden ice needles shot into the mud, and the toad jumped around arrogantly, croaking loudly.

"You can't escape! Once you're taken down by my Blue-Eyed Golden Toad clan, in this swamp, you either submit or die!"

Li Yi swayed his body in the mud, narrowly dodging two ice needles that slowed down after entering the mud, and began to ponder.

Up until now, it hasn't dared to directly test the extent of the toxins in the toad's body, which has left it hesitant and restrained.

Based on the toad's cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining and its current attack methods, the essence of its entire body should be in its deadly poison.

Li Yi can be considered a creature who uses poison, but as a member of the Black Scale Crocodile clan, he primarily relies on physical combat, with poison being secondary.

Until he could determine the extent of the threat posed by the poison in the other party, Li Yi had no choice but to flee.

It's actually hard to tell how potent poison is just by looking at it; you can only truly understand it by experiencing it firsthand.

The two chased and fled, and after Li Yi narrowly avoided the opponent's ice needles several times, a cave that looked like a spider's web appeared ahead.

The entrance to the nest was incredibly deep, its edges covered with white silk threads, and it didn't have any special aura.

Li Yi suddenly emerged from the mud, then quickly swept past the nest, hiding on the spot and remaining motionless.

In that instant, it sensed that something inside had been touched.

The creature inside had occupied its lair from the beginning and was naturally very sensitive to its scent, but now, it could only take a gamble.

"Haha, little crocodile, you think I can't see you just because you stay still like a turtle?"

The toad hopped over here, croaking loudly as it looked at the slowly flowing mud in the center of its field of vision, its forelimbs cradling its belly, looking quite comical.

But the next moment, it was immediately horrified, its skin breaking out in goosebumps, and it turned to stare at the white cave.

"A...ancient strange insect!?"

The entrance to the nest, covered with white silk netting, trembled violently, and then a millstone-sized insect beast darted out of it.

In an instant, Li Yi felt a tremor run through his heart upon sensing the insect-like beast's appearance.

It lived in the swamp and had seen many poisonous insects that depended on the swamp for survival, including blue centipedes and all sorts of poisonous insects whose species it couldn't name... but none of them could compare to the hideous and grotesque thing in front of it.

The most distinctive feature of this creature, which the toad calls an ancient worm, is its asymmetrical body.

Its body twisted and spiraled to the right, its torso covered with several completely different types of carapaces, some resembling the segmented carapaces of a millipede, some resembling a certain beetle, and some resembling the scales on its own body.

The right half of this ancient, strange insect's body is covered with clusters of anemone-like tentacles, interspersed with several crab-like pincers, while the left half, like spider legs, is covered with a layer of long hair, densely packed together.

These bizarre creatures, unimaginable even in the deepest nightmares, now appeared under the moonlight, utterly terrifying.

Li Yi clearly felt that a narrow slit suddenly opened up in the body of the ancient strange insect, revealing a liquid-like structure that emitted a fluorescent green light.

Within this crevice, dozens of spheres of varying sizes and colors, all in a dark hue, flowed within, then suddenly stopped and locked onto the toad.

Those are its eyes.

The toad's legs trembled as if the sky had collapsed. Just as it was about to turn and run away, dozens of fine beams of light suddenly shot out from the distant, strange insect's flowing eyes, striking the toad in an instant.

The toad froze on the spot, falling straight down like a puppet.

At this moment, only its pair of large eyeballs could move slightly, and it could do nothing else.

It could only watch as the hideous, bizarre ancient insect slowly approached it in a twisted manner, overwhelmed by boundless fear.

Li Yi's heart pounded. Sensing this scene, he immediately prepared to sneak away. Unexpectedly, the strange insect suddenly reversed its body structure, and the fluorescent green liquid flowed down to its body. Dozens of eyes were also staring at Li Yi in the mud.

Li Yi felt a chill run down his spine and his body stiffen, like an ordinary person seeing a fierce tiger, terrified by its ancient and natural ferocity.