After being jilted by the saintess at the beginning, why is she crying?

He wailed inwardly, almost wanting to smash his head against the carriage wall. Ancient records clearly stated that the Sealed Spirit Land was said to be "beyond salvation for even gods and demons once entered."

It is the most dangerous and perilous place in the entire Xuan Tian Continent, said to be even more sinister than those ancient ruins and secret realms.

What's even more disheartening is that, although this place is nominally still part of the Xuan Tian Continent,

But nobody knows its exact location, not even its coordinates, let alone how to get in from the outside.

But Lin Fengmian did not have the habit of accepting his fate.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and focused his mind to sense the aura of the Boundary-Breaking Pearl deep within his dantian.

Om-!

Sure enough, a faint but persistent connection was reached!

Although the Boundary-Breaking Pearl became dim and lifeless in this strange world,

Yet it stubbornly pointed in one direction, like a spark in the dark night.

"This is the weakest point in this space! Let's go!"

Lin Fengmian's eyes lit up, and he called out to Xiao Ling'er behind him.

The two quickly determined their direction and hurried toward the location indicated by the Boundary-Breaking Bead.

But before he could even take a few steps—

"Boy! Hand over the treasure!"

A rough and vicious shout suddenly rang out!

Lin Fengmian suddenly turned his head and saw several extremely disheveled figures stumbling out from a distorted spatial ripple at the end of that barren wasteland.

The leader had bloodshot eyes and a ferocious face; he was none other than Situ Xiong, the eldest elder of the Situ family!

Behind him were two Nascent Soul stage monsters, their auras weakened and equally disheveled!

"Damn it! Why is this old bastard haunting me?!"

Lin Fengmian's expression changed drastically, and he instantly understood.

The Situ family indeed possesses a hidden spatial treasure; otherwise, they could never have escaped the void turbulence so easily and chased all the way to this godforsaken place!

Without even hesitating, he abruptly waved his hand, putting Xiao Ling'er into his jade tube space, and then turned and ran wildly in one direction!

Despite being outnumbered and facing three Nascent Soul stage monsters, even though their spiritual power was suppressed to the point of being almost unusable in this desolate place, it was still difficult to fight against overwhelming odds!

"Chase him! All of you, chase him! Damn it! We ruined our Situ family's ancient spatial treasure just to chase him! If we don't get the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, we're all going to die here!"

Situ Xiong's roar echoed across the wilderness, and the three men pursued him relentlessly like wolves and tigers.

Lin Fengmian gritted his teeth and ran as fast as he could.

While frantically recalling the terrifying aura he had felt at the edge of the swamp...

That was a sense of crisis that even the jade tube space within his body instinctively trembled with.

He wanted to take a gamble.

Lin Fengmian stopped taking detours and instead rushed straight towards the direction where the aura was the strongest and most oppressive.

Situ Xiong and his men behind him were clearly in a bloodthirsty frenzy, completely oblivious to the increasingly strong stench of blood and the increasingly sticky black mud beneath their feet.

Just as the group stepped into the core area of ​​the swamp—

"Roar—!!!"

A deafening roar suddenly exploded from the ground!

The voice carried a vast, ancient, and primordial aura, as if it had traversed countless ages, sending chills down one's spine!

The entire swamp surged violently as if it were boiling, with black mud shooting into the sky and spraying dozens of feet high!

The moment the mud exploded, a giant black water viper, its body as large as a mountain range and its scales shimmering with a cold, eerie light, suddenly raised its ferocious head from the depths of the swamp!

The snake's head was as big as a small mountain, and its two vertical pupils, the size of lanterns, burned with a cold, fierce light. Two fleshy bulges had already appeared on the top of its head—a sign that it was about to transform into a dragon!

This behemoth has an extremely strong sense of territory and shows no mercy to any creature that dares to trespass into its territory.

Although it did not use any spiritual power or supernatural abilities, its enormous and resilient body, as tough as a mountain, was still impressive.

Its speed, as fast as black lightning, is itself the most terrifying weapon!

"Bang! Bang!"

The snake's tail swept across like a steel whip, creating two visible shockwaves in the void!

The two Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Situ family had no time to dodge and were flung away like kites with broken strings.

Blood gushed from his mouth, his sternum collapsed, and he flew dozens of feet away before crashing heavily to the ground, creating two deep craters in the cracked earth!

Situ Yanran barely managed to block the attack using the faint remaining light from an ancient treasure in her hand, but her face turned deathly pale.

Half of his body was numb from the shock, and he tumbled away in a disheveled state.

Lin Fengmian hid behind a large rock in the distance, watching with a pounding heart. These old fogies, though devoid of spiritual power...

But after all, he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his physical body was still intact. However, he was completely powerless against that giant snake!

The sheer physical strength of the body was overwhelming, utterly brutal!

Finally, amidst desperate screams and struggles, Situ Yanran and the two Nascent Soul stage monsters were all swallowed whole by the Black Water Viper's gaping maw.

The giant snake snorted, its satisfied hiss echoing softly.

Then, those huge, cold, vertical pupils, like lanterns, slowly turned and instantly locked onto Lin Fengmian, who was hiding behind the boulder.

Om-!

A terrifying pressure, like a towering mountain pressing down from the sky, suddenly descended! Lin Fengmian felt as if the air around him had solidified into an iron plate.

He couldn't move a single finger, and cold sweat instantly soaked his entire body.

That feeling was even more despairing than facing the divine sense lock of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Even the connection to the Spirit Spring space was completely severed at this moment!

"Damn it! We just escaped one wolf's den only to fall into another! Am I really going to die here today?!"

Lin Fengmian felt a chill run through him. But in that life-or-death moment, deep within his spiritual spring space…

The black water viper egg, which he had carefully nurtured with his own blood essence for months, cracked open with a "crack".

A small snake, only as thick as a finger and entirely jet black and glossy, hatched from its shell. It seemed to sense the same energy emanating from the outside world.

It seemed unusually excited, calling out to Lin Fengmian affectionately, its little head poking against the spatial barrier, wanting to come out.

"It's the little black water viper! It's what allowed me to sense the spiritual spring space again!"

Lin Fengmian was so excited he almost roared, as if he had caught a ray of dawn in endless darkness.

On a whim, clinging to the last glimmer of hope, he took the newly hatched little creature out.

As soon as the little black snake appeared, it happily coiled around Lin Fengmian's wrist, its little head affectionately rubbing against his skin, making soft hissing sounds.

The giant black water viper, which had been menacing and ready to swallow Lin Fengmian whole, suddenly stopped in its tracks the moment it saw the small black snake.

In those cold, vertical pupils, a hint of doubt, scrutiny, and... a barely perceptible gentleness flashed in an extremely human-like way.