Chapter 254

The grassland returned to calm once more.

Zhang Xingyu glanced at the solemn-faced old demon He Teyao.

"I say, Alex, with your dignified status as a Demon King, are you also afraid of that hulking giant?"

"What do you know, kid? Giants are descendants of ancient gods and demons; they are born with Demon King-level strength. And they live in groups..."

"Tch, isn't it just that you don't dare to provoke them! Why make up so many excuses!"

After bickering for a bit, the originally oppressive atmosphere actually eased up quite a bit.

To avoid encountering the giant, they walked another seventy or eighty li downstream along the small river.

By here, the small river gradually branched into dozens of tributaries, as if blood vessels merging into the boundless plateau.

The wide, flat grassland became a pitted swamp here.

Clusters of light green reeds grew around the swamp, and unknown water plants floated on the clear water surface.

Beneath the water surface, strings of bubbles would emerge from time to time, looking as brilliant and colorful as crystals under the sunlight.

The old demon He Teyao stood at the edge of the swamp and pointed forward.

"This is the Crystal Swamp! On the other side of this Crystal Swamp, there is a secret path that can bypass the Giant Canyon."

"Alex, have you been here before?"

He Teyao nodded.

"Follow me closely!"

He Teyao said, and was the first to step into the swamp.

This He Teyao was like an old horse that knew the way.

Under his lead, the one person and two demons wove and dodged, arriving at the center of the swamp without any danger.

Ahead was a boundless gray-black mud pool.

Around the mud pool, not a blade of grass grew.

In the mud pool, gray-black mud surged, and leeches as thick as thighs rolled and jumped on top of the mud.

He Teyao's expression became very solemn.

He took a scroll out of his magic ring and then silently chanted an incantation.

Silver light flashed, and a canoe appeared in front of him.

This canoe was only three feet wide and two meters long, barely able to squeeze in two or three people.

"My canoe can only carry two people at a time. Demon King Hali, you'll have to find your own way across this Abyss Mud Pool."

After speaking, He Teyao pulled Zhang Xingyu and jumped into the canoe.

Strangely enough, even with his fat added, the canoe did not sink even a fraction.

He Teyao picked up a wooden oar and paddled hard through the mud, and the canoe slowly headed into the mud pool.

"Alex, I think this little boat could squeeze in three people. Alex, why didn't you let that Demon King Hali come up too?"

"I'm old, and my strength isn't what it used to be. If too many people sit on the boat, I won't be able to row."

A trace of smugness flashed in He Teyao's eyes.

This Crystal Swamp looks beautiful and harmless, but it is actually full of danger at every step; its level of peril is no less than the Giant Canyon.

If one is not familiar with the situation of this Crystal Swamp, and if one does not have powerful magic items, even if your magic power is heaven-reaching, you will still end up here.

The reason He Teyao chose to pass through the Crystal Swamp was, on one hand, to bypass those giants, and on the other, to do in Demon King Hali.

He was determined to obtain the Holy Fire.

He smugly turned his head to look at Demon King Hali.

He saw Demon King Hali take out a white handkerchief to wipe her hands, then take a bright green lotus leaf out of her magic ring.

This lotus leaf was as large as a room, and a dark green frog was squatting in the middle of it.

Demon King Hali jumped onto the lotus leaf lightly, then took out a lounge chair and sat down on it.

"Go!"

Demon King Hali whispered.

The dark green frog then extended its long tongue.

The tongue swept through the mud, and the lotus leaf shot out like an arrow from a bowstring.

The moment she passed the canoe, Demon King Hali waved at the old demon He Teyao: "I'll go first and wait for you on the other side."

He Teyao had black lines on his forehead.

Zhang Xingyu waved and shouted to Demon King Hali: "Buddy, you should have given me a lift."

Demon King Hali's back faded into the distance.

Zhang Xingyu sat down and said to the old demon He Teyao with dissatisfaction: "I say, Alex, do you have any other powerful treasures? Hurry up and use them all. At your speed, I'm afraid that demon-beast's child will be born by the time we reach the shore."

He Teyao's face turned even darker.

"Kid, shut up! When riding a boat, safety comes first. If you keep rocking the boat, be careful of falling into the mud pool. Let me tell you, the leeches in this mud pool aren't ordinary leeches; they are super blood-sucking leeches. As long as they touch flesh and blood, they can suck you into a pile of bones in a moment."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xingyu hurriedly grabbed the gunwale.

The little boat moved slowly forward, and before long, the hull was already covered in leeches.

These leeches had large suckers on their heads, three dark green lines on their backs, and emitted a stench like rotting meat.

Zhang Xingyu pulled his hands back from the gunwale.

"Alex, these leeches won't crawl in, will they?"

"Rest assured!"

Half an hour later, the little boat reached the very center of the mud pool.

Here was a small island several dozen zhang in circumference.

The island was covered in lush green grass and flowers everywhere.

A freak with a face full of fat and a bloody mouth stood on the shore, shouting at He Teyao and Zhang Xingyu.

"Stop the boat, travelers?"

He Teyao stopped the wooden oar in his hand.

"Maister, an old friend is visiting!"

"So it's you, old boy He Teyao. Since you've come, come up to the island and sit for a while."

The old man waved his hand, and the leeches that had been clinging to the boat jumped into the mud pool one after another, splashing up gray mud.

Seeing this, He Teyao brought the canoe to the shore.

The one person and one demon went ashore and walked over to Maister's side.

After He Teyao met with the freak Maister, they sat together and started chatting.

Zhang Xingyu was left aside by them, so he wandered around the island alone.

This small island was oval-shaped, and there were several deep pits of various shapes on it.

One of them was crescent-shaped and ran across the island.

There were two others, growing under high rocks, filled with black vines.

There was another one, incomparably deep, emitting green light from within.

After finishing a lap, Zhang Xingyu returned to the original spot.

He Teyao was still sitting knee-to-knee in deep conversation with the freak.

Zhang Xingyu thought for a moment, then sat down to close his eyes and rest.

Just as he was drifting off to sleep, He Teyao's voice came to his ear.

"Kid, wake up! Time to work!"

What?

Zhang Xingyu opened his eyes and found that He Teyao and the freak were standing in front of him.

"Time to work! This is the territory of the Divine Ant clan. If you want to pass, you must offer them two Divine Stones."

He Teyao explained.

"Divine Stones? I don't have any. Do you?"

A few minutes later, He Teyao and the freak led Zhang Xingyu to a pitch-black cave entrance.

"Go down from here and fish up two Divine Stones."

"This hole looks very deep! Is it very dangerous?"

Before he could finish speaking.

A great force came from his back, and Zhang Xingyu had already fallen into the pitch-black cave entrance.

Damn it!

"Plop!"

A few seconds later, a ghostly light rushed toward his face.

Above the black hole, He Teyao clapped his hands and pulled the freak away.

"Maister, let's go, let's go have a few drinks! My magic ring has hundreds of jars of Eva's Heart, let's not stop until we're drunk today!"