Mortal Mirror

Standing on the city wall, he saw a layer of mist rising beyond the pass, enveloping the entire area. The city guard told him that the mists never dispersed throughout the year. If the mist dissipated, it would indicate that a great demon was trying to break through, but they would ultimately fall beneath the city walls, turning into a pile of white bones.

The next day, the Human King summoned everyone and announced the method for this trial: entering the area beyond the pass for one month.

Whoever persisted the longest, traveled the farthest, and obtained the most and most precious items would be key to their ranking in the World's First Martial Arts Tournament.

Subsequently, the Human King had people distribute jade plates to everyone. Once activated, the jade plate would record all the paths you traveled and the items you found. Upon returning, your score would be judged based on the information displayed on the jade plate.

Everyone was forbidden from forming groups within a hundred miles beyond the pass. Beyond that, you were free to do as you pleased, but only if you had the chance to meet each other.

After all, the outside was a dense forest, and finding someone was like searching for a needle in a haystack. The chances of meeting were low, so ultimately, you had to rely on yourself.

He also told everyone a very sad thing: you couldn't casually fly on your sword outside the pass, because there were many powerful flying monsters in the sky. Once they saw you, they would attack you without hesitation.

Outside the pass, the sky was often more dangerous than the land, because the strength of those large birds was suffocating.

Li Ergou sighed inwardly. He found Zhu Zhu, Si Ning, Bai Su, and others, telling them to be careful. If it was really dangerous, don't worry about face; staying alive was the most important thing.

Then, at the Human King's command, everyone leaped off the city wall, beginning their journey beyond the pass.

Li Ergou had no particular goal, just to go as far as possible. He didn't care much about his ranking in the Martial Arts Tournament, but he coveted the rewards.

He heard that if you could get first place, you could get a magic treasure, and he was very envious of that.

Landing on the ground, he didn't hesitate and quickly rushed forward. He was as fast as lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he entered the mist.

These mists were no ordinary mists, but a kind of poisonous miasma. The more vivid the color, the more potent the poison. Li Ergou immediately summoned a spiritual energy shield to resist the poisonous miasma.

To his surprise, the poisonous miasma stretched for several miles. It wasn't until noon, when the strong sunlight shone down, that the poisonous miasma slowly dissipated.

Before him was a dense forest, filled with giant trees and ancient trees that were over ten zhang tall and could only be encircled by dozens of people.

The creatures here were all enormous, such as mosquitoes as tall as a person and centipedes a zhang long. He seemed to have arrived in an ancient world. In this vast forest, he became insignificant.

Even the ants were as long as arms. He marveled in his heart that if he hadn't experienced the demonic disaster, he would have been terrified by the giant creatures here.

In the forest, there was a constant sound of insects chirping and birds singing. Relying on his high level of cultivation, he was naturally unafraid.

This place was very close to the Mountain and Sea Giant, and there weren't many nearby demon beasts. At least, most of what he saw along the way were insects and things like that. It was difficult to see real demon beasts.

He moved quickly through the forest. At this moment, he took out the jade plate and glanced at it. The distance he had traveled on the jade plate was not far, only about ten miles.

He couldn't walk fast just now because of the poisonous miasma. Now that the poisonous miasma had dissipated, he had to try to go as far as possible. The people at the pass said that daytime wasn't the most dangerous time; the most dangerous time was at night, when many demon beasts would come out to hunt for food.

Without time to think, he moved forward quickly, constantly observing both sides. The people at the pass had said that there were many old spiritual medicines on the demon race's side, each of which was worth a lot.

To Li Ergou's delight, he soon saw a white mushroom on an ancient tree. The mushroom was emerald green in color, like jade.

Growing on a dead tree, it emitted a faint fragrance. It was actually a jade mushroom, which had the effect of refreshing and strengthening the body. It was very valuable, and Li Ergou didn't hesitate to take it into his possession.

Subsequently, he had extremely good luck along the way, constantly discovering some spiritual herbs and medicines. Before long, he heard a roar in front of him.

Li Ergou rushed forward without any hesitation. Bypassing several ancient trees, he saw a depression in front of him. Below the depression was a pool no more than a zhang in size.

Beside the pool, a giant snake, three zhang long and covered in colorful stripes, was wrapping around a giant rabbit. The rabbit was more than two meters tall, fat and chubby, and was chirping, "Stinky snake, let me go quickly, don't force me to go crazy."

The rabbit could speak. Li Ergou couldn't help but be shocked. He was surprised that if a monster wanted to speak, wouldn't it have to be at least at the second realm of the Demon King realm?

Look, the Dog Strong and the other fellows, although they have all become demon beasts in the Demon King realm, none of them can speak. This rabbit doesn't even look like a Demon King, so how can it speak? How strange.

Could it be that the demon beasts of this demon race are just different?

The rabbit struggled hard, but the giant python wrapped tighter and tighter, its huge mouth opening, constantly dripping thick, crystalline saliva from the corners of its mouth.

It was about to bite down on the rabbit.

The rabbit was immediately frightened. It pleaded, "Okay, okay, Snake Grandfather, I was wrong, I was wrong, don't eat me."

The giant snake didn't care about these things. Its huge mouth had already bitten down hard on it. Just as the rabbit was about to lose its life to the snake's mouth, it suddenly pulled out its two front paws, firmly resisting the snake's mouth.

At the same time, it seemed to sense something and suddenly looked in Li Ergou's direction. Then, its eyes met Li Ergou's.

At this moment, it was actually overjoyed and said, "Human, human, help me, quickly kill this guy, I can recognize you as my big brother, and I can take you to find treasures."

Li Ergou was completely speechless. This guy, in order to survive, had absolutely no bottom line as a demon. But, hehe, I like it.

Li Ergou still took action. With a thought, the treasured sword instantly unsheathed, turning into a stream of light and slashing towards the giant snake.

The giant snake didn't see Li Ergou, and even more didn't know the power of the flying sword. It only felt a sword light flash, and its neck was cold. Its head flew directly up.

The snake head looked down at the headless body in the high sky, its eyes full of doubt. But soon, it lost consciousness and died completely. It probably didn't know how it died until it died.

The giant snake died, and the rabbit let out an "ouch" and lay down on its back, relaxing.

Li Ergou came to the rabbit and kicked it. "How did you know I would save you?"

Who knew that the rabbit would laugh and say, "Because I'm smart. I'm familiar with this area. With me, I can help you find anything you want. However, you're so powerful. From now on, I'm your brother.

By the way, I have another brother. I'll introduce him to you later."

This rabbit loved to talk, but Li Ergou was calculating in his heart.