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Chapter 421 Swamp
Monk Shijie paused and said,

"...Legend has it that during the prehistoric times, some demons who didn't have time to withdraw stayed in this world and later gave birth to offspring with humans. The offspring were once very prosperous, but were later driven by humans to live in the sea. It's possible... these people are the descendants of the mixed-race people..."

When the monk heard that they were now at sea, he remembered the rumors he had heard in the past!

what!
Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan both widened their eyes. This statement was quite explosive!

"What can a demon do? Can it give birth to a child?"

The monk replied,

"Why not? Humans are afraid of demonic energy invading their bodies, causing them to lose their nature and become violent and insane. But if a high-level cultivator has a way to suppress demonic energy, then to him, what difference is there between the demons and humans?"

Gee!

Gu Shiyi smacked his lips when he heard this.

"What a good appetite!"

This demon leader doesn't look normal at all. It's hard for that great monk to suppress his demonic energy and do that. It can only be said that he has a good appetite!

Monk Shijie smiled slightly when he heard this.

"You two benefactors, you may not know that although the demons are very different from us humans in appearance, there are also some species of demons that are very similar to humans. It is said that one of them even produces demon girls whose beauty can rival that of the gods!"

Oh! That makes sense!

Love-brain can ignore age, gender and race!
The monk looked up at the Chi zombie on his shoulder. He didn't know how he communicated with the monster. The monster seemed to understand what the monk meant. It bent its knees and knelt on the monk's shoulders. It respectfully took the small white horn with both hands. It didn't know how it did it, but the small white horn emitted a black light. Pu Yanlan followed the example of those people and touched it. Lao Ma also touched it. The two of them began to emit the same light...

Monk Shijie looked at it and nodded.
"Amitabha, it works... But I think this method has a time limit. If the three of you want to enter the valley, I'm afraid you won't be able to stay for too long!"

Gu Shiyi sighed,
"Do you think we want to go in..."

She raised her hand and pointed around.
"Didn't you see... the demonic energy here is getting stronger?"

This place will soon be filled with demonic energy like the valley. It will be the same whether they go in or not. And didn’t they hear what those people said? This is a one-way street and they can’t turn back. If they don’t go in, how can they follow these people out? Will they be trapped in this place full of demonic energy forever?
The three of them had just come out of a place where they couldn't speak a word. The trauma in their hearts had not yet passed, and they really didn't want to be trapped anymore!

When the old monk and the reluctant Chi Zu turned into a black light and disappeared in the demon-subduing pestle, the three of them began to walk into the valley. They didn't feel anything outside the valley, but after they passed the stone tablet at the entrance of the valley, they felt like they had suddenly entered a strange planet.

Everything before one's eyes can be said to be desolate yet not desolate. What is desolate is that all one can see are yellow, red, brown or black rocks and soil, with no green at all. What is not desolate is that this place is full of plants, but the plants here have no flowers or leaves, all of them are strange in shape, with branches twisted into weird shapes, bare trees, these trees have no bark, and the whole body is gray-brown. Some are like countless snakes entangled together, some are several feet high, with five thick branches shaped like human hands, some are gathered at both ends, bulging outwards in the middle, with a hole in the middle, shaped like an eye, and some have limbs and heads like humans. Anyway, there are all kinds of shapes, indescribably strange, but without exception, they are full of evil spirits.

The three of them walked in, and Lao Ma looked around curiously. Gu Shiyi said to Pu Yanlan,
"The demonic energy here is so strong that it must have demonized all the rocks and plants nearby. I guess it should be similar in the Demon Realm, right?"

Pu Yanlan nodded,
"Maybe, I'll know when I have the chance to visit the demon tribe's territory..."

As they talked, they walked deeper into the valley, but they never met the group of people who had gone in before. Pu Yanlan frowned and said,

"Why can't I hear any human voice? Are we taking the wrong path?"

Gu Shi said,
"There is only one path along this road, how can we go wrong?"

Pu Yanlan didn't say anything, her brows furrowed, and she walked a little further before she couldn't help but say,
"I still feel like I've taken the wrong path. There's always a feeling that something is wrong!"

Gu Shiyi also noticed it and looked around.
"Something is wrong. We have been walking for so long but have not encountered them. There are so many of them, young and old, and we didn't use any escape lights. We are fast, so why haven't we caught up with them?"

The two looked at each other, stopped immediately, and looked around. The surroundings were still desolate and eerie, but there was no sign of life. So many people entered this valley, and died so quickly?
Impossible!

Judging from the looks of those people, this isn't the first time they've entered this valley. If there really was any danger, they wouldn't have made no noise at all and just been wiped out like that, right?
Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other and both felt something was wrong.

"Did we take the wrong path?"

The three of them discussed it and decided to go back a little further to see what was going on. So they walked back for another incense stick of time, and the more they walked, the more frightened they became.
"Yan'er, something's wrong. I thought we should have seen the valley entrance, but after walking for so long, we still haven't seen it. This is bad... I'm afraid we've been tricked!" Pu Yanlan also realized something was wrong. She frowned and thought for a while.
"That's definitely not right. Didn't the Right Pillar in front of us tell everyone that they wouldn't look for the way if they got lost? It seems... there must be a maze in this valley that could lead people astray without them realizing it!"

The two of them released their spiritual sense and demon sense respectively, and they felt that this place was terribly huge. They explored the area within a radius of ten miles and did not find any life. Not to mention people, there was not even a single insect or mosquito.

They were also careless. They didn't expect that they would be trapped in the formation not far into the valley. The two of them frowned, but Lao Ma raised his head and twitched his nose into the air.

"what happened?"

Pu Yanlan asked Lao Ma, and Lao Ma replied,

"Although I can't see those people, I can smell them. They should not be too far away!"

The two of them were overjoyed when they heard this.

"Old Ma, I didn't expect your nose to be so sharp?"

Old Ma became proud and replied,
"That's nothing. If the wind is favorable, I can smell it a hundred miles away..."

He turned around and led Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi to the left. The valley was empty and flat, and there was no direction in the fog. Relying solely on Lao Ma's nose, they walked all the way. After passing through a thick purple fog rising from the flat ground, the three of them suddenly saw an endless swamp in front of them.

The swamp was full of strange-looking trees without flowers or leaves. Between the trees, there were many grasshopper boats sailing back and forth. On the boats, there were two people in a group. They were the people walking in front of them.

“So they are here!”

The three hid behind a huge tree that looked like a monster on the shore, and saw two people on the small boat. The one at the bow was holding a small silver knife and scraping something growing on the tree trunk, and the one at the stern was rowing with full concentration. The three watched for a while and found that each small boat would not stay in front of those strange trees for more than three minutes. When the time was up, the rower would immediately row the boat away, and the person at the bow would quickly retract the small silver knife and no longer touch the tree trunk!

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other, not quite understanding what was going on.

"What do you mean?"

Pu Yanlan shook her head. The three of them watched quietly for a while, and finally saw that a small boat had an accident. The rower was a little slow, and when the time was up, he didn't have time to row the boat away. The man with the silver knife withdrew his hand, but the strange tree in front of him suddenly shook twice and came alive. The originally stiff tree trunk turned into a soft python, and in the blink of an eye it entangled the man at the bow. The man at the bow had obviously been through this kind of scene, and while struggling hard, he shouted at the man at the stern,

"Come on!"

The man at the stern seemed to be experiencing this for the first time. He was stunned and wanted to help, but he saw the man at the bow throwing the silver knife in his hand over.

"Go quickly! If you don't leave, we will all die here!"

At this moment, the people nearby also noticed something was wrong. Another boat came over, and the person on the bow of the boat reached out and pulled the man who was still in a daze over.
"go!"

With a low shout, the boat quickly rowed away, leaving the person entangled by the strange tree still struggling hard.

However, it was obvious that his companions had a reason for not saving him. The python that the strange tree transformed into suddenly lit up, and the originally dim patterns suddenly appeared. One by one, black and yellow ovals, like human eyes, the patterns appeared and turned into countless wriggling suction cups, firmly sucking on the man's body.

"what……"

The man let out a heart-wrenching scream, and his entire body shriveled up quickly. All the blood and flesh in his body had been sucked dry. The most terrifying thing was that even though his blood and flesh were sucked dry, he was not dead yet. A pair of bloodshot eyes bulged out of their sockets, staring fixedly in the direction of the shore. His mouth opened and closed, as if he was about to say something, but with a click, the upper and lower rows of teeth along with the gums fell out of his mouth, and his head quickly collapsed. Within another two breaths, even the skin and bones disappeared!

When the man disappeared, the python transformed from the strange tree began to swim slowly and returned to its original shape, but the trunk of the tree became thicker than before. The three people looked at it and sighed. Gu Shiyi said,
"Even the trees here are so overbearing, the monsters hidden inside must be extraordinary!"

Pu Yanlan was concerned about another point.

"What on earth are they scraping off these trees? Is it the clover or something like that that we talked about earlier?"

"Clover God Flower... If you scrape something off a tree like this, how can you still call it Clover God Flower? I think it should be called Clover Demon Flower!"

Old Ma stretched his head and looked for a long time, then asked,
"They took such a big risk to get flowers from that tree. What do they do with the flowers? Do they eat them?"