Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

"A corpse? What corpse?" Jiang Yingying asked doubtfully.

Qi Xiaohao looked around and indeed did not see the four human corpses that should have been there, nor the flesh and blood that had been removed from the Azure Jade Tiger. So he speculated, "That's normal, after all, several days have passed. Maybe a passing magical beast ate them all."

"It doesn't seem like it. Look at these places; there are no traces left now." Relying on his memory, Wang pointed out five locations one by one, which were the places where Bo Ge, the four men, and Qing Yu Hu finally fell.

Because of the previous battle, the nearby grass was either broken or flattened, making it easy to observe.

"Look, there are no pieces of flesh or bones left behind, no signs of dragging a corpse, and even the remaining bloodstains have vanished without a trace along with the grass. What kind of magical beast could have licked it so clean?"

The king's words immediately enlightened the group.

If the corpse were eaten directly by a passing magical beast, it would at least be left with its heart and lungs ripped out. Even a magical beast that is particularly fond of food would not be able to gnaw it so cleanly, chewing up even the bones.

If it were towed away, it would leave behind some traces of blood, flesh, and broken bones along the way.

"If we're talking about the area within the Takegawa Hara Bridge, there really is a kind of magical beast capable of creating something like this." Jiang Yue squatted down, placed his hands on the ground, and carefully sensed the situation. "If it finishes eating all of this and doesn't leave, we'll be in trouble."

"Underground?" Seeing Jiang Yue's strange movements, Wang Yi immediately thought of a magical beast Jiang Yue had mentioned before: "Earth Dragon Earthworm?"

"Don't wander off," Jiang Yue warned the group. "Earthworms mainly sense living things through vibrations. If it's still resting underground, we've probably already been discovered."

"If we had already been discovered, and we suddenly stop now, wouldn't that completely expose our position..." Before Qi Xiaohao could finish speaking, he suddenly swayed and almost fell to the ground.

Before that, Wang Jiang had already noticed something was wrong. He quickly reached out and grabbed Jiang Yue's shoulder, who was closest to him, and with a flick of his wrist, threw Jiang Yue diagonally upwards.

The solid, grassy ground suddenly turned into a thick, muddy slurry. The people present immediately sank in and were quickly submerged up to their calves.

Because Wang Yi was carrying the heavy tiger bones, he sank even faster, and his lower body disappeared into the mud in an instant.

"mud!"

As Jiang Yue watched from mid-air, the ground began to change, and he immediately recognized it as one of the divine-grade spells belonging to the Earth Dragon and Earthworm.

The swamp was over sixty meters in circumference, and the group was in the very center.

Although Jiang Yue was thrown away by the king in time, avoiding the predicament of being trapped in the swamp, the swamp was very large. After flying twenty meters, Jiang Yue was already showing signs of falling.

Just as Jiang Yue was about to fall back into the quagmire, Wang Jiang decisively threw his halberd at Jiang Yue, and Jiang Yue also released an ice shard shield in front of him in perfect unison.

Clang!

The king's halberd struck Jiang Yue's icy shield, the force of which sent Jiang Yue flying, finally clearing the area of ​​the swamp.

After landing, Jiang Yue rolled twice to dissipate the force, then quickly stood up. Ignoring the pain, he immediately released a thick rock spike, which drove deep into the solid ground.

Then, four icy chains wrapped one end around the rock spikes, using them as a base, while the other end rapidly extended towards the four people in the swamp.

While Wang Jiang was helping Jiang Yue escape his predicament, Wang Yi was also busy.

Because he was carrying tiger bones, he sank the fastest.

So Wang Yi decisively untied the tiger bones, letting the million-dollar tiger bones fall into the mud and slowly sink to the depths.

Wang Yi originally wanted to release the light cage directly and then use the green vines to entwine himself and hang himself up, but the light cage could not take root in the swamp at all, and if he wanted to encompass the entire swamp, the range of the light cage was not that large.

Left with no other choice, Wang Yi had to release the earth shield that he hadn't used in a long time, extending it to its maximum extent and spreading it on the surface of the mud to increase the contact area. Then he pressed his left hand directly onto the earth shield, trying to use it as a leverage point to pull himself out of the mud.

Unexpectedly, because it couldn't reach the center point, the earthen shield capsized like a small boat.

Splash...

Wang Yi, who had failed in his attempt to save himself, heard the crisp sound of chains. Looking up, he saw that one of Jiang Yue's icy chains was already extending towards him.

Wang Yi immediately released the Green Vine Entanglement, wrapping it around Jiang Yingying's waist, and then quickly connected with Jiang Yue's Frost Chains.

Jiang Yue is now further away from Wang Yi, but because Wang Yi's vines have been extended, the four chains anchored the four of them almost simultaneously.

Jiang Yue then carefully controlled his strength, and the icy chains slowly contracted, gently pulling the four people out of the mud.

The swamp was, after all, a divine-grade magic, and its suction power was much greater than that of a naturally formed swamp. If the chains were too strong or powerful, Jiang Yue feared that the bodies of the group would be torn apart.

However, since the earthworm had already released its magic and launched an attack, it was impossible for it to remain indifferent to the group's escape efforts.

The mud churned and surged, as if a giant creature was swimming in the depths.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Yue immediately accelerated the contraction speed of the icy chains.

Wang Yi quickly used his healing beam to connect everyone in the swamp.

Hang it up first, just in case it's too late.

Just as the group was being pulled to the surface of the swamp, a jet of dark mud, like a high-speed stream of water, shot out from the swamp, severing the icy chains connecting Jiang Yingying and Wang Yi.

This is the rare-grade attack magic of the Earthworm Dragon, Mud Flow.

"Is this the target?" Wang Yi's eyes narrowed slightly. At this moment, his calves were still stuck in the mud, while Jiang Yingying was lying on her side next to him.

Now that the icy chains have broken, the two of them immediately show signs of continuing to sink.

At this moment, Wang Jiang and Qi Xiaohao were already rapidly sliding across the surface of the swamp towards Jiang Yue's location, pulled by the icy chains.

Once the icy chains break, they will dissipate completely. Jiang Yue had no choice but to reassemble two chains and extend them toward the two of them again.

Unfortunately, the earthworms didn't give Jiang Yue any more time to save people.

As the mud surged, Wang Yi, with half his leg tucked into the swamp, clearly felt a pushing force rising from the bottom up, layer upon layer.

"They're here."

Wang Yi's heart sank. Clearly, apart from earthworms and worms, there couldn't be any other creatures surviving deep in this swamp.

Wang Yi's golden body suddenly opened, and she forcibly lifted her leg.

With Wang Yi's outburst, his left leg sliced ​​through the sticky mud and kicked Jiang Yingying in the buttocks.

The kick was quite powerful; even though it targeted a fleshy part of her body, it still caused Jiang Yingying to cry out in pain.

Jiang Yingying's body then slid and rolled uncontrollably toward Jiang Yue, skipping across the muddy surface, before being bound by Jiang Yue's newly extended icy chains and pulled back abruptly.

This kick moved Wang Yi's body slightly away, but also caused him to sink even deeper.

Boo!

Like a bubble bursting, a gigantic maw, large enough to swallow two people, slid past Wang Yi's body and burst out of the swamp, revealing dark skin covered with huge segments.

The layers of pink muscles inside the mouth kept twitching as it swallowed countless amounts of mud.

If Wang Yi hadn't kicked so decisively, he and Jiang Yingying would have already slid into the earthworm's esophagus along with the mud.

"Damn, is this a worm?" Wang Yi cursed inwardly, continuing to kick the earthworm's body.

The soft, smooth sensation traveled from the soles of his feet, allowing Wang Yi to use it to move further away from the monster.