Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

......

Night Song and White Blood Spirit walked together in the outer area of ​​the Corpse Swamp.

Ye Ge, with a carefree demeanor, strode forward through the rotten mud without any hesitation.

Bai Xueling remained vigilant at all times, taking each step with extreme caution.

The Bone-Rotting Swamp seemed to be breathing with thousands of rotting mouths, with highly toxic bubbles rising and falling on the surface of the dark green mud. Each time a bubble burst, a wisp of eerie blue phosphorescent fire would rise up, like the tongue of a hydra licking the night sky.

Under the pale moonlight, the gnarled, withered trees twisted into ghostly claws, and the vines hanging from their branches were covered with sticky poisonous dew. When the cold wind swept through Bai Xueling's silver hair, it left a damp, cold sting on the back of her neck.

A chilling, eerie wind blew, causing the shadows of the trees to sway. The catgirl felt as if some indescribable thing was watching them from the darkness, giving her a creepy feeling.

“Hey, Night Song…” Bai Xueling’s cat ears suddenly folded into an airplane shape, and the fluffy tips of her tails moved without wind. She couldn’t help but reach out and tug at Night Song’s clothes in front of her.

“In this place, you have to call me Master,” Night Song reminded him seriously. “I’m currently in the form of a Star Dragon. If the people from the Gene Company hear us, we’ll be exposed.”

"..." Bai Xueling pouted and reluctantly called out, "Master."

"Mmm-hmm." Ye Ge nodded and smiled happily, her eyes narrowed. "What is it?"

"...Stop joking!" Bai Xueling said angrily, "The Nine-Headed Serpent Xiangliu is a ferocious beast from ancient times! Even though it's in an undead state now, it's still a ghost-god level undead! Can't you be a little more serious?"

"Don't worry." Ye Ge remained relaxed, not taking it seriously at all. "This is just the outer area of ​​the Bone Swamp. The habitat of the Hydra is still far away. In this area, there are only some ordinary undead and rotting creatures attracted by its power."

Bai Xueling asked in confusion, "How do you know so much? Isn't this your first time here too?"

Night Song: "I guessed."

Bai Xueling: "...I already told you to stop joking!"

Bai Xueling looked around cautiously, a strange expression on her face, feeling uneasy all over: "Don't you feel like something's been watching us since just now? I feel a chill all over my body..."

Night Song smiled and said, "Countless undead and rotting creatures live here, so it's normal to feel cold."

Just as the two were talking, the cracked, withered tree hollows in the swamp suddenly emitted a cold, eerie light, like two glowing eyes.

Hundreds of dead trees stuck in the swamp seemed to grin eerily, silently smirking at them.

These dead tree spirits possess extremely strong stealth abilities because they can switch back and forth between ordinary plants and living supernatural beings. When they maintain their plant form, even those with the strongest senses cannot detect that they are alive!

In the eyes of these tree spirits, Night Song and White Blood Spirit are already their food!

A mere Saint Realm Level 2 transcendent being dares to come to the Corpse Swamp? It's simply...

However, the tree spirits' smiles didn't last long before they froze on their faces!

"Sorcery - Demonic Spirit Fire!"

Night Song cast his spell without warning, releasing a ball of deep red flame as soon as he raised his hand.

The flames rushed toward the nearest tree spirits, transforming into the shape of a nine-tailed fox spirit as they ran!

"boom!"

“Aa ...

The nine-tailed fox, formed from demonic fire, charged towards the sea of ​​trees, its flames causing the withered trees in its wake to emit screams as if they were alive.

The flame-licked bark quickly shed its grayish-brown disguise, revealing the dark purple flesh and veins beneath. A dozen tree spirits writhed wildly in the foxfire, their burning branches lashing at their companions and scattering the plague-like flames deeper into the forest.

The entire swamp echoed with the shrill cries of ten thousand ghosts. The tree demons, set ablaze, twisted their branches wildly, and crimson sap seeped from the cracks in their bark, which then solidified into nine pained human faces in the flames.

The most horrifying thing was the unburnt dead wood; when its roots were pulled from the swamp, they brought with them countless skulls covered in rotting flesh.

Soon, the dozen or so withered tree demons were completely reduced to ashes by the demonic spirit fire!

"Heh, what a pity. If you had just let us pass, you might have survived."

"Night Song said with amusement."

The other withered tree spirits were enraged upon seeing this.

"Ah~~!" They finally revealed their true forms, shaking their long, withered branches and baring their teeth as they surrounded Night Song.

Thousands of cracked tree bark simultaneously burst open with scarlet vertical pupils, and rotting roots tore through the mud and rose from the ground. Those hunched dead trees stretched out into twisted human shapes, and the vines hanging from the branches dripped dark green poisonous saliva, corroding the mud and producing wisps of blue smoke.

The most terrifying thing is the hole in the tree trunk, where jagged wood splinters wriggle and piece together human facial features, and can even emit a shrill scream like a baby crying.

At the same time, mud beasts and rotting corpse monsters crawled out of the swamp and rushed towards Ye Ge and his companions!

"Fourth-tier magic—Ink Oil Rain!"

The night song is sung rapidly, with incantations recited.

Soon a torrential downpour of black rain fell from the sky, drenching the tree spirits and rotting monsters, but completely avoiding Night Song and White Blood Spirit.

Ye Ge crouched down.

He quickly formed a hand seal and then pressed his palm down on the swampy ground.

"Sorcery - Demonic Spirit Fire!"

call!

The flames spread rapidly outwards from where Night Song pressed down, igniting all the monsters tainted by the inky oil rain.

The swamp began to boil.

The wails and screams were even more horrific than before, and hundreds of monsters were burned alive!

"nailed it."

Ye Ge clapped his hands, looking relaxed and at ease.

Bai Xueling was stunned for a long time, then blinked twice.

In less than a minute, Yege had managed to defeat all the monsters without taking any damage?

Bai Xueling looked at him in confusion: "How do you know that those withered trees were originally tree spirits?"

She initially thought that Ye Ge's attitude after arriving here was far too arrogant and careless.

So he knew it all along?

"When has your master ever been unreliable?" Ye Ge said. "Alright, let's keep going." With that, she continued walking forward.

Bai Xueling pouted and followed behind him.

......

Nightsong was very familiar with this Bone Swamp dungeon map.

Based on his experience from his previous life, he knew exactly where monsters would spawn, where there would be traps, and where there would be hidden treasures on the map.

Night Song and White Blood Spirit passed through several monster rooms with ease, and he was in no hurry at all. He took his time along the way and collected quite a few rare and precious materials.

"Holy Law - Eclipse Holy Thunder!"

Rumble, rumble—! ! !

After a golden lightning bolt struck and killed an elite mini-boss, Rotten Monster, Night Song walked over and found a demon bone covered in foul-smelling mud in its melting corpse.

"What is this?" Bai Xueling asked curiously.

“It’s the monster’s demon bone,” Ye Ge said. “There’s only a chance of it dropping when you kill this kind of elite monster. If we want to enter the room of the Nine-Headed Serpent Xiang Liu, we need to collect three of these demon bones as keys to enter its habitat, the Weeping Blood Demon Pool.”

"We've collected three pieces now, and we're still missing one."

Yege stood up and put the demon bone into her inventory.

At that moment, he suddenly sensed a sound coming from ahead.

Ye Ge's ears twitched.

'This voice is...'

'Senior sister?'