On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

The pride of being an "old man" lasted only a few seconds before being completely forgotten by Irene.

Such unbelievable skills? Strength? Whatever it is, only a fool wouldn't want to learn it!

So

"miss you!"

Without hesitation, Irene surrendered to the Dragon Mother and quickly approached her in a hurried tone, asking:

"How did you do that?! Using a tree branch as a weapon? That's just too outrageous!"

The Dragon Girl shook her head and said calmly, "If you follow my training methods, you will be able to do it soon too."

"Really!? And it'll work very quickly? Let's get started! Sister Xiaoyou, I'm ready!"

It has to be said that Irene's ability to change her expression is truly exceptional. Upon hearing that the Dragon Girl really wasn't lying to her and even had training methods, seemingly intending to teach her, she immediately added the word "sister" to her address.

“There are three steps in the training. First, you must fight them without using any weapons.” The Dragon Girl pointed to the filthy monsters that roamed the desolate swamp.

"What?! Isn't that just getting beaten up?!"

"That's right, it's about getting beaten up."

Seeing Xiao You nod seriously across from her, without any hint of joking, Yilin moved her lips several times as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she just gritted her teeth and got to work.

Fight!

In fact, as Liao Ji has more and more people around him, Yi Lin has also felt a lot of pressure. This is why she made such a clean and decisive change of heart after seeing the power of the Dragon Girl.

She wants to improve herself!

Irene rolled up her sleeves and charged bare-handed at a mutated, two-headed wolf-like filthy monster not far away.

Even without using the "Great Annihilation" skill, if she only summoned the ordinary version of the Blood Sword, Irene was confident that she could kill the two-headed wolf within three moves. However, because of Jiu You's requirement to fight bare-handed, that is, without using the power of the Turbid Calamity, the girl's offensive power was greatly reduced, and she ended up in a stalemate with the two-headed wolf.

On the other hand, although Irene had lost her weapon, her reflexes were still intact, so it was easy for her to dodge each of the two-headed wolf's attacks. However, "dodge" was not her goal. Helpless, Irene made a ruthless decision. She deliberately created an opening and, at the cost of taking a claw from the two-headed wolf, successfully punched the monster in the chest.

A burning pain shot through her back, causing Irene to wince slightly, but she didn't stop moving. Taking advantage of the monster being knocked down by her punch, she quickly pressed her advantage, mounted the wolf's back, and began to hammer the still-recovering monster.

Two or three minutes later, the monster beneath her was completely dead. Only then did Irene breathe a sigh of relief and wipe the sweat from her forehead. She now truly realized how difficult it was to step out of her comfort zone and use an unfamiliar attack method.

Before Irene, who was covered in dust and dirt, could even rest, a roar came from behind her, startling the girl.

When Irene hurriedly turned around, she found that it was a monster similar to the bear monster from the beginning, more than three meters tall. The dragon girl had lured it over, and judging from the way she looked, she was practically saying that this was her next opponent.

"I**--!"

She struggled so much against a two-headed wolf; is it really necessary for her to deal with such a behemoth?

"Sister Xiaoyou, let me rest! Sister Xiaoyou, Sister Xiaoyou, please don't go!!"

After luring the monster over, the dragon girl quickly disappeared to a distance and watched the battle with an expressionless face. Once the monster lost its target, it quickly regarded Irene as its new enemy.

Seeing the dragon girl's expression, it was as if she wouldn't come to help even if the monster ate her. Driven by the will to survive, the girl felt her adrenaline surge and gritted her teeth to unleash her full potential to fight the monster.

Ten minutes later

boom--

The monster's massive body finally collapsed, while Irene was in an even more disheveled state, lying on the ground panting heavily, her jacket and leather pants now ripped and torn.

"Sister Xiaoyou!?"

After struggling to her feet, the girl looked around for the dragon girl, only to find a velociraptor being ridden by her, charging straight at her.

"**!"

Fifteen minutes later

The raging velociraptor also fell, and the girl fell with it. Irene was whipped twelve times by its tail, slapped away seven times by its claws, headbutted and thrown into the air three times, leaned on the "Iron Mountain" five times, and kicked away seven times by its leaping claws.

The girl was lying on the ground, looking like her body was about to fall apart; every muscle in her body ached.

"No, no, I can't take it anymore. Please spare me, Sister Xiaoyou, someone's really going to die if this keeps up!"

"Let's eat this first, that's the second step."

The dragon girl half-squatted in front of the girl lying dead, and then took out a very fresh mutated plant from her bosom, which looked like it had just been picked from the wild swamp.

Its leaves were a chilling, ghastly purple, shaped like insects. What disgusted Irene the most was that when the Dragon Girl held them in her hand, these leaves actually swayed consciously, just like insect legs.

"No! Take this thing away from me right now! I'd rather die than eat this! This isn't training at all! I can see it now, Xiao You! You're just reporting... Waaaaah... Ugh... Ugh!"

Clearly, Irene's resistance was futile; in her current state, the girl was no match for the dragon girl.

Jiu You remained calm, ignoring Yi Lin's refusal, and directly enforced the order. She easily pried open the girl's mouth and forced the purple insect-shaped herb in her hand into Yi Lin's mouth.

Irene had initially tried to resist fiercely and spit it out, but the other person pressed something on her and made her swallow it down on her own.

By the time I felt like vomiting again, it was too late; all I could do was gag and retch.

Dead! Dead! Dead! He's doomed!

She had actually eaten that bizarre thing growing in filthy black mud! The thought drove Irene to madness, and soon, as if confirming her bad premonition, her stomach began to rumble, quickly turning from discomfort into waves of cramping pain.

Meanwhile, Irene, who was clutching her stomach and sweating profusely, never expected that the dragon girl who had forcibly fed her poison before would return, followed by seven or eight swamp monsters that had been lured there.

"The first two steps are over, now it's the last step. If you can get past it, you'll succeed."

"I***!"

These seven or eight swamp monsters are all high-level species. Even under normal circumstances, I would have to be careful and spend some effort to deal with them. In my current poor condition, wouldn't that be fatal?

But Irene had figured out the dragon woman's personality; she really didn't care about her. So, despite the excruciating pain in her stomach, she could only face the oncoming horde of monsters.

There was no way she could fight bare-handed now, so in a flash, Irene summoned her blood-red greatsword. Strangely, whether it was just her imagination or not, Irene felt that her severe abdominal pain lessened considerably after entering battle.

This feeling intensified when she actually began to eliminate the monsters. It was as if the initial abdominal cramps were weakening as she channeled her power, and instead transformed into a force that gradually permeated her entire body, making her exhausted body increasingly energetic.

Changes within the body are one aspect, but in reality...

hum!

As the sword rang out, Irene looked on in disbelief as she watched herself instantly kill two filthy monsters with a single strike. Despite no increase in her strength, she felt a greater mastery and control over her body than before, as if her skills had truly reached a new level.

With this feeling of surprise, Irene fought even more vigorously. These seven or eight high-level swamp monsters couldn't even last two minutes against her before turning into corpses.

"Holy crap! Sister Xiaoyou, I think I've really mastered it! I never thought being beaten would be so effective! And that thing you gave me to eat, uh, although the taste and shape weren't great, it was really effective. I feel like all my fatigue has vanished!"

"Now that I've completed these three steps, can I also..." Irene couldn't wait to try turning tree branches into swords; it was just too cool!

"Okay, go ahead and give it a try." The Dragon Girl nodded.

Overjoyed, Irene quickly broke off a branch and confidently set off to find the unlucky monster next to her for an exciting experiment.

And the result was swift; all we heard was a "snap."

Irene was swatted away by the monster's claw. As for the tree branch, it wouldn't even be able to hurt the monster; it would be snapped in two by the strong wind before it could even touch it.

"Damn it! Why?"

"Because a simple tree branch is simply impossible."

"Clam!?"

"But you clearly..."

Is that what you mean?

With a flick of her wrist, Jiu You conjured up another "tree branch" in front of Yi Lin. But when the girl who was closer examined it closely, she realized that this was not a tree branch at all, but an illusion created by condensing the power of the Chaos!

"You! You!" Irene's eyes widened in anger as she pointed at the dragon girl, speechless. The thought of all the suffering she had endured, only to be met with such a deception, made the girl's chest heave violently.

Especially since the dragon girl on the other side calmly added a comment.

"It's something you chose to learn yourself."

"Xiao You! I'll fight you to the death!"

Jiu You: "..."

"Yes, actually I've been waiting for you to say that for a long time."

Having activated her "Great Annihilation" mode, Irene's eyes blazed with fury. Wielding her peak-form blood-red greatsword, she charged at the dragon girl without a word. Having endured the hardships she had suffered before, Irene was now incredibly confident in her strength. She was determined to teach this perverse dragon girl a lesson! She would knock the dragon girl to the ground and force-feed her those grotesque and disgusting plants!

With this determination.

Three minutes later

The disarmed girl was on all fours, head down, half her face pressed against the ground, and her buttocks sticking up high.

The blood-red greatsword beside him was also half buried in the ground, the red light of the blade trembling, just like its mistress, it had lost its former arrogance and power. Especially when the dragon girl came closer, it was so frightened that it shuddered and went straight back into Irene's body.

On the fourth day, the sheep still needed fever-reducing medication to stay alive. Everyone says the fever should have subsided after the peak on the third day, so why?

Chapter 118 Shamanic Heritage

At the border between the Wild Swamp and the Forest of Tribes, six Watchers clans, including the centaur "Thousand Bows," unusually left their respective territories and gathered in front of this vast open space.

Now, all the demi-humans of all the clans are looking in unison at the enormous creature in the open space.

It can be seen that its original form should be a flying dragon species, but after mutation, its wings degenerated and turned into bat-like talons, which firmly gripped the ground and crawled on all fours. Its body length reached a terrifying twenty meters or more. It had no hair and was covered with a thick skin and tough scales. Through the huge gap between its upper and lower jaws, you could see rows of sharp, cone-shaped teeth.

Surrounded by numerous clans, it appeared somewhat agitated. It pushed off the ground with its feet, supported its upper body with its forelimbs, and raised its long neck, reaching a height of over seven meters. Its two orange-yellow vertical dragon eyes, as large as copper bells, swept contemptuously and disdainfully over the subhuman races below, filled with the oppressive and fearful aura of a top predator.

That's right, there's no mistake.

The centaur Tago's four hooves pounded back and forth restlessly. No matter which Watcher clan was unfamiliar with this mutated dragon, they were very familiar with it.

The Calamity Dragon exists only in the deepest part of the Wild Swamp. It is at the very top of the monster chain, the absolute king of the swamp, and the monster leader they have always wanted to defeat the most. They believe that the source of the series of anomalies in the Wild Swamp, including the filthy black mud, is this monster that polluted the swamp.

But now

Just as the calamity dragon was about to roar at the demi-humans below, it stopped halfway after raising its neck.

boom!

A figure emerged from its back and stomped on its head.

The calamity dragon, which had been radiating fierce power just moments before, immediately lost all its aura, quickly retracted its neck, lay flat on the ground, and pressed its head against the ground.

After the figure on his back—no, the two figures—jumped down, Tago realized that they were the two revolutionaries who had gone to "end" the Savage Swamp.

How long has it been? They really...?