But they must have had encountered an accident midway, or had been attacked by desolate beasts like the Blackwater Ancient Crocodiles, resulting in the ship being destroyed, killing all life on board.
Such a small boat had no defensive powers. Besides, the Blackwater Swamp did not have much water. It was mostly toxic sludge, so the speed of a boat through the mud was obvious. It was definitely incomparable to Yi Yun’s Blackwater Ancient Crocodile.
With an example before him, Yi Yun wanted to prevent the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile from causing destruction of good and bad alike. His Thousand Army Saber stabbed deeper making the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile shiver. Its four limbs began paddling even harder as it swam forward.
The journey proceeded till the crescent moon appeared. Finally, Yi Yun saw land in the distance.
Yi Yun only heaved a sigh of relief when he saw land ahead. He finally relaxed his tensed nerves.
He dislodged the Thousand Army Saber from the Blackwater Ancient Crocodile’s snout and leaped ashore.
The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile stared at Yi Yun with a worried look within its amber eyes.
Yi Yun smiled, “Thanks!”
Saying that, Yi Yun turned around and ran off. The Blackwater Ancient Crocodile felt as if a huge weight had been lifted of its shoulders and it quickly wagged its tail to enter the mud before fleeing far away.
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After passing the Blackwater Swamp, the Meteorite Abyss was already getting closer.
Yi Yun could feel the pure Yang Qi in the air getting richer. He found a safe spot and meditated there for hours, adjusting himself to an optimal state.
The next day was when the real battle began.
The night was calm. No desolate beasts, that did not fear the king-ranked desolate beast feces like the Thousand Feet Black Silkworm, appeared.
The next morning when the Sun rose, Yi Yun stood at the top of a cliff and looked far ahead. Ahead of him was an endless barren Desolate Lands. The ground was filled with reddish rock fragments and fine gravel.
Along the edge of the Desolate Lands, where the horizon was, there was a deep canyon that seemed to cut up a mountain ridge. The jagged cliffs were staggered as if something had cut through the earth.
If one were to look down from an airship, one would think that the deep abyss was a huge scar dug up by a god with his divine sword.
In the middle of the Meteorite Abyss, there was a faint Yang fire shining. The heat turned everything in a few kilometers radius red, evaporating even the clouds in the sky!
The closer it was to the Meteorite Abyss, the drier the land became. There were no clouds, let alone rain.