Before they reached the abyss, Edie took out a drop of blood. It did not look like blood essence, but it had tremendous power. The power that filled the air was infinitely stronger than the rule.
"Is this the blood essence of saints?" Ricky asked.
"Humph! What would you know about the blood essence of saints?" Flint said snidely.
Hearing this, Ricky just smiled slightly. The best way to deal with Flint's jealousy was to ignore it, and since Edie was there, Ricky was confident that Flint would not make a move against him. For that moment, he was all bark and no bite.
"This place is a place of essence. To open it, we will need a powerful blood sacrifice," said Edie.
Under the blood essence of saints, Edie formed an array with his hands, and a dark passage instantly appeared below him.
"Let's go!" Edie shouted before he jumped into the passage first, the other three following closely behind.
They went through the dark passage and came upon a plain that was so vast that it stretched on and on and on. The ground beneath this whole world seemed to be made up of flowers and plants, and the space was extremely humid and wet.
Flop! As soon as they came in, an invisible force blocked them from moving forward, and they inadvertently slammed against the ground and were immediately thrown back. When they tried to stand up, they realized that they couldn't! Their bodies were sinking rapidly into the ground.
It seemed like the ground was about to swallow them whole at that moment.
Without any hesitation, they hastened to gather all their strength to stop themselves from sinking, and they had to keep activating their power. At the same time, Ricky felt that he couldn't fly in the air, let alone tear space.
He felt as if he had returned to the Demi-immortal Level.
And all this was caused by this invisible pressure in the air, which was coming from above the ground.
"This feeling makes you realize what Emperor Beast Swamp is like, right?" Edie said with a meaningful smile. He seemed calm and composed as if he was not about to be swallowed by the ground.
"I can relate. I feel like I am just a demi-immortal here," Ricky replied, chuckling.
"You can't fly or tear space, so it's normal for you to feel like you are only a weak demi-immortal. We are in the Emperor Beast Swamp, after all. The ground here is marshy everywhere, with a majestic gravitational pull in it. Its strong gravitational pull makes spiritual emperors like us incapable of flying in the air or tearing space. On top of that, we have to activate our power all the time, or we will sink,"
said Edie.
"Ah, I see. Then, the other warriors would undoubtedly suffer the same too," Ricky consoled with a smile. "Besides, I fully expected such a harsh environment, and it's actually better because we could speed up our practice here."
"No wonder you were once an incredible demi-spiritual emperor. No matter what environment it is, you take it as a practice place," Winifred suddenly chimed in, looking admiringly at Ricky.
It seemed like, despite the situation, they were all having a good time, except, of course, for one man. "Humph! I have never seen any incredible demi-spiritual emperor that is so cowardly that he hides his real name. That's so humiliating," Flint snidely remarked again.
"Hey! If you have nothing good to say, you can just shut your mouth!" Edie retorted immediately, looking annoyed and short on patience already.
"All right! Let's cut the crap. Use your blood essence and start sensing the surroundings, Flint. We only have one month. Within this month, we must find the emperor beast's ruins or the opening of this place will be wasted on us," Winifred chimed in, coming between the two before they could seriously fight.
Thankfully, Flint decided to let it go and threw a small nod in Winifred's direction. "Okay, I'll start now."
Although he was not happy with Ricky, he knew what was more important. Thus, he immediately took out the saints' blood essence to look for the ruins.
Each time they entered the Emperor Beast Swamp, they must prepare three drops of such blood essence, one drop for opening the swamp, so that they could enter it, one for sensing and finding the emperor beast's ruins, and one for opening the exit so that they could leave.
Of course, they could choose not to use the blood essence. But it would be almost impossible to find their targets.
Soon, the four people started to move forward under the guidance of the blood essence. They moved slowly because they couldn't fly in the air, and they could only jump short-distances because of the intense gravitational pull.
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