The giant python let out a shrill, miserable scream.
Its enormous body thrashed through the mud, flinging sludge in every direction.
Blade Fanatic did not hesitate. He stepped forward, his long blade blazing with roaring flames, and viciously drove it into the wound Sword Demon had made. Blazing blade-light erupted within the giant python's body.
Then came one final deafening boom.
The giant python struggled a few last times before finally going limp in the swamp, more than half its body swiftly swallowed by the murky mudwater.
"I could have handled it."
Blade Fanatic sheathed his long blade and snorted coldly as he glanced at Sword Demon in the distance.
"Heh. I just didn't want to waste time for no reason."
"You couldn't even finish off a first-level Quasi-Saint beast. Your blade has gone dull."
The grating mockery reached Blade Fanatic's ears.
It stirred a flash of anger in him.
"You're not much better yourself."
Blade Fanatic shot back without the slightest mercy.
The two exchanged a glance, then turned their faces away.
Ye Lin watched with great interest.
These two had a history.
"Be careful. If something like that exists in this swamp, then there must be others like it."
"That commotion just now was huge, and the pungent scent of blood could very well draw other terrifying creatures over."
Ye Lin spoke up in warning while warily scanning their surroundings.
Sure enough, more rustling sounds came from the depths of the swamp, as though something was rapidly approaching.
The four did not linger. Together, they accelerated toward the altar.
The rest of the journey was far from peaceful.
They encountered schools of leaping piranhas with razor-sharp teeth, capable of living unscathed within the mud.
They came across enormous demonic flowers that released hallucinogenic spores.
They stepped into quicksand