Before they reached the abyss, Edie took out a drop of blood. It did not look like blood essence, but it
had tremendous power. The power that filled the air was infinitely stronger than the rule.
"Is this the blood essence of saints?" Ricky asked.
"Humph! What would you know about the blood essence of saints?" Flint said snidely.
Hearing this, Ricky just smiled slightly. The best way to deal with Flint's jealousy was to ignore it, and
since Edie was there, Ricky was confident that Flint would not make a move against him. For that
moment, he was all bark and no bite.
"This place is a place of essence. To open it, we will need a powerful blood sacrifice," said Edie.
Under the blood essence of saints, Edie formed an array with his hands, and a dark passage instantly
appeared below him.
"Let's go!" Edie shouted before he jumped into the passage first, the other three following closely
behind.
They went through the dark passage and came upon a plain that was so vast that it stretched on and
on and on. The ground beneath this whole world seemed to be made up of flowers and plants, and the
space was extremely humid and wet.
Flop! As soon as they came in, an invisible force blocked them from moving forward, and they
inadvertently slammed against the ground and were immediately thrown back. When they tried to stand
up, they realized that they couldn't! Their bodies were sinking rapidly into the ground.
It seemed like the ground was about to swallow them whole at that moment.
Without any hesitation, they hastened to gather all their strength to stop themselves from sinking, and
they had to keep activating their power. At the same time, Ricky felt that he couldn't fly in the air, let
alone tear space.
He felt as if he had returned to the Demi-immortal Level.
And all this was caused by this invisible pressure in the air, which was coming from above the ground.
"This feeling makes you realize what Emperor Beast Swamp is like, right?" Edie said with a meaningful
smile. He seemed calm and composed as if he was not about to be swallowed by the ground.
"I can relate. I feel like I am just a demi-immortal here," Ricky replied, chuckling.
"You can't fly or tear space, so it's normal for you to feel like you are only a weak demi-immortal. We
are in the Emperor Beast Swamp, after all. The ground here is marshy everywhere, with a majestic
gravitational pull in it. Its strong gravitational pull makes spiritual emperors like us incapable of flying in
the air or tearing space. On top of that, we have to activate our power all the time, or we will sink,"
said Edie.
"Ah, I see. Then, the other warriors would undoubtedly suffer the same too," Ricky consoled with a
smile. "Besides, I fully expected such a harsh environment, and it's actually better because we could
speed up our practice here."
"No wonder you were once an incredible demi-spiritual emperor. No matter what environment it is, you
take it as a practice place," Winifred suddenly chimed in, looking admiringly at Ricky.
It seemed like, despite the situation, they were all having a good time, except, of course, for one man.
"Humph! I have never seen any incredible demi-spiritual emperor that is so cowardly that he hides his
real name. That's so humiliating," Flint snidely remarked again.
"Hey! If you have nothing good to say, you can just shut your mouth!" Edie retorted immediately,
looking annoyed and short on patience already.
"All right! Let's cut the crap. Use your blood essence and start sensing the surroundings, Flint. We only
have one month. Within this month, we must find the emperor beast's ruins or the opening of this place
will be wasted on us," Winifred chimed in, coming between the two before they could seriously fight.
Thankfully, Flint decided to let it go and threw a small nod in Winifred's direction. "Okay, I'll start now."
Although he was not happy with Ricky, he knew what was more important. Thus, he immediately took
out the saints' blood essence to look for the ruins.
Each time they entered the Emperor Beast Swamp, they must prepare three drops of such blood
essence, one drop for opening the swamp, so that they could enter it, one for sensing and finding the
emperor beast's ruins, and one for opening the exit so that they could leave.
Of course, they could choose not to use the blood essence. But it would be almost impossible to find
their targets.
Soon, the four people started to move forward under the guidance of the blood essence. They moved
slowly because they couldn't fly in the air, and they could only jump short-distances because of the
intense gravitational pull.
"Another danger is that there are many hidden dark marshes here. And some of them have an
extremely strong gravitational pull. If we step into them, we will have a hard time getting out," reminded
Edie.
"Can't we see the dark marshes?" Ricky asked.
"If they can be seen, would they be called dark marshes? I really don't understand how such a simple
guy dared to come to this place without even knowing much about it," Flint taunted again.
Plop!
While Flint was taunting Ricky, there was a sudden burst of water bubbles beneath Ricky's feet. In a
flash, Rick had sunk knee-deep into the marsh.
And Ricky knew that at the rate his body was sinking, he would probably disappear in an hour.
"I can't believe my luck sometimes. We were just talking about it, and I already found a dark marsh,"
Ricky joked after a moment of silence.
"Well... It seems so." Edie and Winifred were a little stunned, slack-jawed.
They had sensed that it was not only a dark marsh, but it was one with a strong pull. They both
retreated a little, just to make sure that they wouldn't be sucked into it as well.
"Ha-ha," Flint chuckled, celebrating Ricky's ill-luck.
Plop!
But suddenly, another plop came out from beneath his feet.
Undoubtedly, there was also a dark marsh under the ground where he was standing.
"No way!" Flint immediately began to panic, as his whole body started sinking little by little.
"Well, it seems that you are not so lucky either," Ricky addressed Flint for the first time.
This time Flint ignored Ricky. As a member of the Wind-Mountain Alliance, he clearly understood how
powerful the dark marsh was, and he knew that it was highly likely that he wouldn't make it out this
time.
Edie and Winifred were deeply shocked, and a grave expression took over both their faces.
Were they going to lose two partners before the battle started?
"Do you have any idea?" Ricky asked. "In all these years, have you ever thought of a way to deal with
this dark marsh?"
"I have thought of it, but I can't find any effective way," Edie replied. "Besides, the dark marsh is very
special. The greater the strength unleashed, the greater it tries to pull you in.
So... All who were trapped in the dark marsh died," said Edie in a low voice.
Who would have thought that the four of them would be so unlucky to sink into the dark marsh as soon
as they entered?
"Really?" Ricky murmured.
The next moment, he gathered all his strength, trying to rush out by slapping the marsh with his hands.
However, just as Edie said earlier, the greater the strength he unleashed, the greater the pulling force
from the dark marsh became. And because he had unleashed so much strength, he inevitably buried
almost half of his body into the dark marsh, worsening his situation.
He unleashed his Massacring Mutant to form the massacring light, but he still could not escape from
the marsh.
Obviously, the second he was trapped in the dark marsh, his body was restrained immediately.
Ricky's unleashing of strength also made Flint sink faster, so Flint cursed Ricky brutally, "Idiot! Why did
you activate your strength? If you want to die early, it's none of my business. But don't get me into
trouble!"
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