Elsewhere, after Chen Daolin passed through the vortex passage, he appeared in a black swamp.
As far as the eye could see, the landscape was filled with swamp water as black as ink, stretching all the way to the horizon. There was no telling how vast it was.
Above him hung a gloomy gray sky, where gray clouds shifted unpredictably.
Across the swamp, enormous, thick, grotesquely twisted thorny vines jutted out one after another. Like black pythons, they covered the entire marshland. As far as the eye could see, they stretched on without end, crisscrossing over the black swamp like a forest made up of countless black serpents. The sight was eerie and terrifying.
Gurgle...
Suddenly, bubbles rose from the swamp beneath Chen Daolin's feet.
Bang!
A black shadow burst out and shot toward Chen Daolin in the sky.
Whoosh! Chen Daolin instantly shifted hundreds of kilometers away like a phantom. The black shadow missed and withdrew back into the mire. The entire exchange had been as fast as lightning, leaving only a black swamp churning like the sea and mud-water falling like raindrops.
Taking advantage of that brief moment, Chen Daolin got a clear look at his attacker. It had a body and tail like a snake's, its smooth body covered in dense, pitch-black, hard scales. The portion that had extended from the swamp had been nearly ten kilometers long.
For a ninth-rank universe-level expert, their force detection range here was only a few hundred meters. Domain Lords might fare somewhat better, but it would still be difficult for them to detect monsters that had lived and hunted here for generations. If an ordinary ninth-rank universe-level expert had faced that sudden attack from the swamp, they would probably have been hit already.
But Chen Daolin was different. Under Biqi's