The desert at sunset was exquisitely beautiful, but none of them had the leisure to appreciate it now.
They all looked around stubbornly with despair in their eyes, unwilling to accept such a reality.
"It can't be, it can't be," Tang Yuan repeated endlessly, gesturing anxiously. "So many clues pointed here. The Heaven Rain Clan must be here, they must be. Let's keep looking, keep looking..."
Jiang Ruoyun said uneasily, "Feng Gege, should we go a little farther ahead? Those murals and maps have been around for so many years. There may have been some discrepancies."
Ye Fan let out a heavy sigh. "The terrain here is flat. One look is enough to see there is nowhere a mountain could possibly be. Let alone walking a little farther—even if we walked for several more days, it would probably be the same."
Lu Feng forced a smile onto his stiff face, wanting to offer everyone a few words of comfort, but when he opened his mouth, he did not know what to say.
He could still wait. He could continue searching for the Northern Essence Water. But Ruo Shui clearly could not wait any longer.
If the Northern Essence Water was not here, then the only thing awaiting Ruo Shui was death when the poison erupted.
Miao Qiuyun suddenly spoke suspiciously. "Do you smell a strange, fishy stench?"
Jiang Ruoyun nodded. "A little, I think. Maybe it's the smell of some beasts that died here and rotted away."
"No!" Lu Feng and Tang Yuan suddenly spoke in unison, their faces grave. "It's the Su Snake's scent!"
At their words, Jiang Ruoyun and the others went pale at once. No wonder that stench had felt vaguely familiar.
Miao Qiuyun asked in a trembling voice, "Wasn't the Su Snake teleported away? How could