Chapter 1085: Thanatophobia

"Iluna, how did you get here? I remember the team you were in entered from the northeast of the Pantanal Great Swamp."

Xia De also hugged Iluna, feeling relieved in his heart. No matter what, it was really great to be able to meet Iluna in this situation.

The position where he entered the Great Swamp with Miss Galina's group was the southeast of the Great Swamp. Even if they deviated from the direction when encountering the Child of the Invisible a few hours ago, it shouldn't be that far off.

Iluna blushed slightly, let go of Xia De, looked up at him, and there was an irrepressible joy on her face:

"We were attacked, and I accidentally got separated from the main force, so I summoned this horse and wanted to catch up."

That thick fog just now was clearly used to separate the team.

"But I probably chose the wrong direction and didn't meet anyone along the way. Later, I met an old woman who lived alone in the Great Swamp and made a living by planting herbs. I helped her and even helped her cook, and she pointed out the direction to me, saying that I could find the person I was looking for in this direction."

Iluna's face became even redder, and she hurriedly explained:

"It's strange to say, when I met that old woman, I didn't think about anything wrong with her at all. It wasn't until after saying goodbye that I thought that it was impossible for an old woman living alone to exist in such a deep area of the Great Swamp. Moreover, I didn't want her herbs as a reward, but she gave me this."

Iluna took out a blue teardrop-shaped crystal. Although Xia De was surprised, he remained calm about anything that happened to Iluna:

"There are many strange things inside this swamp. After I went deep into here with Miss Galina's group, I also encountered many inexplicable things."

Xia De brushed the snow off the seventeen-year-old girl's shoulders, and the latter tilted her head and looked at his hand, even a bit uneasy.

"I also got separated from the witches, but don't worry about them. Those ladies are much more powerful than us."

He showed Iluna the witch's golden ring on his finger:

"They can sense the position of the witch jewelry and should be able to find us soon. However, there is not much time left. Fortunately, I met you. Let's continue forward."

Xia De pointed to the glowing orb above his head again:

"You have a mount but don't know the way. I have a helper who knows the way, but relying on two legs is still too slow."

"Okay, let's go together."

Iluna looked at the horse and realized that they would ride the horse together in a while, and immediately bit her lip to keep herself from laughing out loud.

Although she had complained in a small corner of her heart about such an action when going deep into the Great Swamp in blizzard weather. But at this moment, she was reluctant to let this journey come to an end.

After "getting lost in the blizzard" and "invisible enemies," the "snowy night illusion" encountered had not appeared again since Xia De and Iluna met. Although I don't know what that kind of mirror person is, they seem to only attack lone travelers.

And with this skeletal horse of Iluna that ignores any terrain obstacles and is immune to most attacks, the subsequent movement became much faster. This horse wrapped in blue ghost fire was extremely fast, and could even make some slower attackers in the Great Swamp unable to catch up with them.

The Pantanal Voodoo Society uses the "Pantanal Great Swamp" as its main activity base. They have planted and cultivated many dangerous plants and animals in the depths of the swamp that are not even in the illustrated books of the Sect and the Academy. And with this horse of Iluna, whether it was bloodthirsty vines or terrifying worms, they could not attack them, which saved a considerable amount of time for the subsequent journey.

The whistling wind became more and more weird, and the thick dark night seemed to be completely frozen by the extreme cold of deep winter. The power of the Pantanal Xiewu was further eroding reality. Iluna sat in front holding the reins, and Xia De was behind her, exchanging what they encountered after entering the Great Swamp.

Iluna knew the information of most of the Ringed Shushi sent by the Sect to the depths of the swamp. Because this battlefield was really far and dangerous, there were not as many participants this time as in Mibao. Except for Iluna, almost all the participants were high-ranking Shushi.

The Sect also knew that the time for the stars to reach the correct position was around 1:30 AM on Thursday. Their original plan was to arrive at the central lake of the Great Swamp before midnight. But from the current situation, probably only half of the teams could do this.

At 10:57 PM on Wednesday, the sword light Xia De slashed defeated a giant bear with two heads that rushed out from the darkness in the snowy night. They did not stop and continued to move forward. Xia De took back the 【Night Watcher】 and looked around vigilantly. The bumpy horse body made it very difficult for him to control the direction of the sword as if standing on the ground.

Iluna controlled the forward direction according to the guidance of the Yellow Moon, and asked with some worry:

"Do you need to rest for a while? You have been fighting for the past half hour."

"It doesn't matter. After we approach that great lake, I will use the time key to rest for a while. It should be almost there."

He said behind Iluna, and Iluna felt the hot air in her ear, nodded with a blushing face:

"Okay... This Chosen One ritual is not only important for the ritual itself, but the Sect is also very concerned about the enlightenment that the observers around can obtain when the ritual is held. Although the location this time is very remote, it is possible that the organizations involved this time will be more than in Mibao."

"This is normal. The influence of the Chosen One will become greater and greater. Maybe in the end, all the Ringed Shushi in the entire material world will be forced to be involved."

Iluna pursed her lips. She originally wanted to ask Xia De what preparations he had for defeating Reijin Puxia after the ritual, but her left eye caught a weird figure at this moment. Iluna immediately made her mount stop, and Xia De also frowned and looked around.

The wind and snow were swaying, the biting cold wind was blowing on her cheeks, and the voice in her ear reminded her softly:

【Outsider, you have come into contact with whisper elements.】

And it was not whisper elements in the general sense. Such obvious traces and strong malice, the Relic peeping at them in the snowy night at this time, would not be lower than Sage-level.

"Relic."

Xia De reminded Iluna, and the two jumped off the horse together and stood back to back. Two life rings appeared from behind them together. Because the two were close together, two life rings appeared above their heads together. Xia De's life ring was much larger than Iluna's, so Iluna's life ring was inside Xia De's life ring. The two were rotating, one clockwise and one counter-clockwise, and the spirit runes flowed on the two ring bodies, while the core spirit runes were almost completely stuck together, making the two life rings look as if they were originally one.

Of course, they did not notice this strange phenomenon at this time, but looked at the swamp in the blizzard. As they approached the destination, the withered forest had long since disappeared, and what was around them now was a relatively flat swamp. The swamp was covered by snow. If there was no skeletal horse that could walk on any terrain, this section of the road would be very difficult to walk.

"I don't know if 【Water Walking】 is effective for swamp land."

Xia De thought in his heart, and his peripheral vision caught a black shadow appearing on the right side. The silver moonlight slashed out by his right hand swept away, but it just passed through the black shadow and flew toward the further distance of the swamp in the flying snow.

"Xia De, I saw an enemy on my side, a black shadow, I can't see the appearance clearly."

Iluna said at this time. Xia De heard the sound of her throwing the sunlight spear, but clearly, the sunlight spear also failed to defeat the enemy:

"Be careful."

Xia De said softly, silver moonlight jumping on his fingertips:

"Iluna, close your eyes—Silver Moon!"

The silver moonlight that erupted from the index finger of his raised right hand was like the moon really falling to the ground in this blizzard night. Even the circular orb floating was stained with a faint silver moonlight because of this.

This move was indeed useful. The black shadows that Xia De and Iluna witnessed respectively stopped their forward momentum in this moonlight. But they were still not injured, just standing in the swamp in the blizzard looking at the two:

"Iluna, let's change positions."

The two turned back to back. Xia De and Iluna therefore confirmed that the black shadows they witnessed were not the same one. This was not an enemy generated because of witnessing.

The brilliance of the silver moon lingered on the snow surface for a long time. After the moonlight on the snow surface gradually became low, those two black shadows approached again, forcing Xia De to have to use the light spell again.

He really didn't want to do this. Exposing his position in the dark Great Swamp would attract more dangerous guys.

The black shadows were indeed not hurt by the light of the silver moon, just stopped because of it. While Xia De confirmed this point, Iluna narrowed her left eye slightly, looked at the black shadow she was facing, and then frowned fiercely:

"Xia De, I think I know what this is."

She said softly:

"Remember? After the Mibao incident, because I also held a Chosen One ritual, I have a little power of the Chosen One of Death. This eye you gave me can see the 'fatal weakness' of entities or non-entities to a certain extent."

"Yes, of course I remember. You see their weakness?"

"No, I saw a heavy breath of death."

Iluna, who was back to back with Xia De, held Xia De's left hand with her right hand:

"I saw their essence. This is indeed a Relic, a Relic without a main body, and it is a Relic close to a natural phenomenon..."

Her body trembled slightly, and her voice was also unstable, which was extremely rare for Iluna:

"There is no record in the Sect on how to defeat them, but as long as they are not touched by them within a few hours, they will leave by themselves. Although they will follow up later, these things will not appear in occasions greater than or equal to four people. They will absorb happiness and positive emotions, and we must endure this point."