From Swamp Dog to Crocodile Ancestor

The fox took out a small wooden tube from its bosom, which was covered with strange inscriptions and sealed at one end with a layer of thick red fur.

After taking it out, the fox poked its head out in the night, observing the baboons' movements while tightly gripping the wooden tube, as if waiting for something.

At night, most of the baboons have fallen asleep, but a few baboons with cultivation take turns keeping watch, monitoring the surroundings to prevent predators from intruding.

After observing for a while, the red fox slowly sank its entire body into the mud, blending into the night and covering its bright fur completely, before slowly heading towards the red banyan tree.

Five zhang, four zhang, three zhang...

As the distance drew closer, the baboons still showed no reaction. This red-haired fox was indeed quite powerful and possessed the ability to conceal its aura, which was why it remained undetected.

However, for Li Yi, its tricks were nothing to mention. In the darkness, only Li Yi's eyes were fixed on it and the wooden tube in its hand.

The red fox was clearly not used to moving in the mud, and moved very slowly in order not to make any noise.

In the end, it safely approached the edge of the banyan tree.

call!

A flash of purple light disappeared in an instant, and the red fur at the end of the wooden tube in the fox's hand was ignited, which it then covered with its body in the next moment.

Then, the fox emerged from its upper body, built a small cover out of the mud, and scorched it with a wisp of flame from inside until it was hard, then placed the burning wooden tube inside.

Just like making a lampshade.

The wooden tube was burning, and no one knew what was inside.

Having done everything, the fox finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and disappeared into the mud, heading towards the edge of the red-leafed banyan tree.

No baboons noticed that a small bump had appeared in the swamp at the edge of the banyan tree.

As the night deepened, Li Yi swam through the mud, watching the red-haired fox quicken its pace, eventually emerging from the mud and racing towards the cedar tree. He knew he couldn't afford to miss this opportunity any longer.

It placed a large piece of citrine ore down and it slowly sank into the silt.

Whoosh!

In the darkness, a whooshing sound suddenly came from behind the fox. The fox had a strong sense of perception, and in an instant, the fur on its back stood up, and it leaped to the side.

boom!

A deep black shadow flashed by, then exploded in front of it, revealing a foul odor and the hissing sound of the swamp being corroded.

The fox turned around angrily, spat a fist-sized ball of purple foxfire into the darkness behind it, and flew away with a whoosh.

Foxfire illuminated the path, exploding in the swamp to form a bright, rapidly extinguishing purple fireball.

Using that fleeting glimpse of the sky, the fox saw no enemy, only swarms of mud and a large pit.

This did not make it lower its guard; without hesitation, it sped away from there.

The night is not its domain, and Li Yi, hiding in the shadows, is clearly very skilled at hunting and has already set his sights on it.

It's best to leave now!

Thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. The red-haired fox moved with incredible speed, covering a distance of over ten zhang in just a short time. If you looked closely, you could see a faint, eerie wind rising from beneath its four paws, completely inconspicuous in the darkness.

After twenty breaths, the red-haired fox felt that it had escaped the lock of the unknown opponent, bared its teeth, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief.

I wonder if the baboons heard the noise or if they discovered what it left behind.

After some thought, the fox decided to ignore everything else and just focus on heading towards the cedar tree.

But as the fox walked, it suddenly realized that it could no longer see the sparse moon overhead, and the surroundings had unknowingly become completely dark.

The red fox suddenly stopped, instinctively sensing something was wrong. It sniffed its surroundings carefully, its white whiskers twitching.

Before long, the fox's face darkened, and disregarding whether the firelight would give him away, he unleashed a ball of foxfire right in front of him.

call!

The purple light illuminated the surroundings, but the result horrified the red fox.

He had unknowingly stepped into a dense poisonous barrier. All around him was an extremely thick yellow mist, which flowed slowly under the illumination of purple flames, condensing into vortexes, which was quite terrifying.

Unknowingly stepping into this eerie place in the darkness, it quickly became terrified.

After a while, the somewhat irritated fox shattered a vortex of yellow mist in front of it with a paw, and then groped its way forward in this area, feeling a bit lost.

Before long, it found itself lost, unable to see or hear, its senses completely bound, like a blind and deaf person.

Heavy, flowing yellow mist surrounded the fox, causing it to feel waves of emotion washing over it and its mindset to gradually become unstable.

Whoosh!

A moment later, it threw out a ball of foxfire as if to vent its anger. The purple flames shot out and exploded after passing several feet ahead.

A fleeting purple fireball expanded and rose, and in that instant, the fox's fur stood on end as it stared intently in that direction.

The area illuminated by the purple fireball revealed an unknown, hideous black shadow, with only two heads and a tail covered in spikes.

"die!"

The red fox spoke in human language, then spat out a large ball of foxfire, which transformed into a fiery net in mid-air, shimmering with vibrant colors, and swept down upon the shadow.

However, when the fire net fell, it only dispersed a large cloud of thick yellow fog; it caught nothing.

The dark figure simply vanished without leaving a trace.

After a while, the fox's chest rose and fell slightly as it walked step by step in that direction. When it got there, it only felt a burning sensation and found nothing else.

"who!?"

The next moment, the fox suddenly turned its head and saw that not far behind it, the hideous black shadow stood up and looked down at it.

Even at such close range, the dark figure remained a blur, its details obscured by the thick fog.

boom!

The fox was horrified. Its magical power surged wildly, and then its fur flickered with purple flames. A ring of fire exploded from its body, instantly sweeping away everything around it.

As the thick fog briefly dissipated and the ring of fire expanded past the shadowy figure, the figure twisted and vanished along with the fog, leaving nothing behind.

This attack greatly depleted its magical power, which it could not recover from for a while. The terrifying mental pressure also relentlessly suppressed it.

The thick fog slowly flowed back, filling the surrounding space as if it were alive, and along with it came a huge, crawling black shadow.