The five of them pressed onward.
After crossing a vast expanse of red desert, they came upon a red swamp ahead. Lu Yang could not help frowning as he asked, "Why is there a swamp here?"
In the middle of a desert, even a single spring would be considered a miracle, let alone a swamp filled with water everywhere. Even under the laws of another world, this made no sense.
"This is the territory of the Blood Spirit Serpent Clan. They are a branch of the Water God among the God-Affiliated Races and possess the Spirit Water Pearl bestowed by the Water God. It can assimilate other substances into Water Elementals. Even a desert can be turned into a vast ocean by the Spirit Water Pearl," Duree said.
Lu Yang smiled. "That really is quite a treasure."
"More than a treasure," Duree said. "It is a fragment of an ancient divine artifact. In its original state, it could kill an expert at the level of a chief god. Unfortunately, only this final tiny fragment remains, so it can only be used to assimilate other substances."
Lu Yang nodded and asked, "What do we do next? Do I just go in?"
"There is no need to enter. The teleportation array was not built inside the Blood Spirit Serpent Clan's city, but not far from here. Follow me."
Once a teleportation array was detonated, the resulting spatial-temporal collapse would drag everything within several kilometers into the void. Only experts at the Demigod Tier or above could escape such a collapse; everyone else would die. Therefore, all races generally built such teleportation arrays far from their cities.
Lu Yang followed Duree eastward along the Blood Spirit Swamp. Before long, he saw a massive spatial-temporal rift forming between two red beast bones.
There were