After Yang Qing and the others dealt with the giant snake, they set off again.
Fortunately, the rain had stopped, and the sun had come out again.
They had each dried their clothes.
Still, the clothes had been soaked through, and wearing them remained terribly uncomfortable.
After they dealt with the giant snake, however, no other monsters appeared in the swamp.
It was as though that giant snake had been stationed there specifically as a gate guardian.
Ordinary people could never have bested it and would have ended up in its belly.
Yang Qing and the others, however, had made it through.
Although they were still in the swamp, they had found a narrow path.
After several days of traveling in fits and starts, they finally emerged from the swamp.
Because of their unexpected encounter with the giant snake, their progress through the swamp had been slower than originally planned.
By the time they emerged, they were a day behind schedule.
Under ordinary circumstances, a single day would hardly have mattered.
But they were trying to catch up with the Lin Family convoy.
That delay had left them a considerable distance behind.
"It looks like we won't be able to reach the Imperial Capital before the Lin Family," Jiang Zhizhou said.
Yang Qing glanced at him. "Getting there before them would be useless now anyway. We might as well first find out exactly what the Lin Family intends to do."
A false master taking a false Holy Maiden into the Imperial Capital was surely plotting something substantial.
"Once we pass through the next two cities, we'll be within the Imperial Capital's territory."
Ouyang Lin had already taken out the Terrain Map and tapped the spot marking the Imperial Capital.
But they did not know anyone in the Imperial Capital at