Xu Baiyan crossed the Ning Beast Jungle, hacking through thorns and thickets, sprinting toward the direction of the Fifth Battlefield.

Of course, she wasn't running around blindly.

On the way, she indeed found traces of the Ning Beast cub's charge. After all, a rampaging Ning Beast, with its massive size plus the relatively intact trees in the Ning Beast Jungle, made abnormalities easy to spot.

She followed the traces, continuing her advance.

Hard work pays off.

Xu Baiyan even found the spot where the cub was discovered by the tribe, and she saw signs of a human Grandmaster being beaten.

After that, the trail went cold.

Xu Baiyan began to search the surroundings.

The life paper is still there, Su Yue is still alive.

She absolutely cannot give up.

What a pity.

After a long search, she found nothing.

She couldn't find any more traces, the muddy ground of the wetland covered any signs if not for the large expanse of broken trees, traces of an ordinary person's movements would easily be covered.

She even thought of finding Su Yue's urine or feces.

Unfortunately.

This was also wishful thinking; this was not Earth, many things simply cannot be preserved here.

However.

Before Xu Baiyan could find Su Yue's whereabouts, something worse happened.

She accidentally angered a Fifth-Grade Ning Beast.

Yes.

Although the Ning Beast Emperor led the main forces on an expedition, there were still plenty of guardian Ning Beasts in the Ning Beast Forest, and although they didn't have Grandmaster-level strength, dealing with a Third-Grade Xu Baiyan was a piece of cake.

Xu Baiyan was lucky.

She only encountered one Ning Beast, and although she was severely chased, relying on her speed, she eventually shook it off.

The Ning Beast couldn't be bothered to chase her, as long as it could drive out the Wuwen Race, that was enough.

But Xu Baiyan got lost, and she could only walk toward the Fifth Battlefield based on her intuition.

"Damn it, I'm poisoned!"

Suddenly, Xu Baiyan felt increasingly dizzy.

She suddenly realized that during her escape, she seemed to have been scratched by a blackened branch.

The plowhide armor could withstand blades, but some plants in the wetland were sharper than swords.

Xu Baiyan sat down against the tree root.

Sure enough.

Her calf had a ten-centimeter bloody gash. Since she discovered it late and kept running, the toxin should be spreading; her entire calf had turned blue and purple, looking like an eggplant in a market.

"When it rains, it pours—utterly unlucky."

Xu Baiyan cursed angrily, then took out a vial of serum from the Beast Selection Waist Bag.

This is the universal serum developed by the Divine Land's Science Division; although it may not match the current poison, it largely could inhibit the further spread of the toxin.

This wretched place, the wetland.

Countless poisonous insects, pestilence, toxic mushrooms, and herbs abound.

The Research Institute kept updating the serum library, but among the vast toxins in the wetland, it's really like finding a needle in a haystack.

A sharp sting made Xu Baiyan's entire body ache to exhaustion.

After injecting the serum, the circulation of Qi Blood would stagnate.

She had to rest for a while before she could continue her journey; if she encountered a Ning Beast in her current state, she would honestly become a corpse.

Su Yue hasn't been found, and her own life paper shattered first; this truly is a tragedy.

...

She didn't know how much time had passed, probably about an hour or so.

Xu Baiyan had mostly rested, although her calf was still blackened, she could barely deploy her combat technique, at least regaining some self-preservation capability.

"Damn it, who did I offend to be this cursed for eight generations... damn it!"

Xu Baiyan cursed angrily.

Right above her head, a pitch-black snake had been disguising itself as a branch all this time.

As soon as she stood up, the snake bit her other leg from an awkward angle.

Xu Baiyan was infuriated.

The integrity blade swung out a dazzling silver glow, cleaving the venomous snake in two halves.

Unfortunately.

Her other leg was wasted too.

And the snake's venom was clearly more potent than the previous plant's.

Xu Baiyan injected two more vials of serum in succession, and although the venom's spread was inhibited, the effect was limited; she found it exceedingly hard to stand up.

She only brought three vials of serum.

They're all used up.

The snake venom was only temporarily suppressed, it would spread again over time.

Leaning against the tree, Xu Baiyan's situation was very dangerous.

This is the wetland for you!

A martial artist faces hazards not only from foreign race martial artists and demon beasts.

The overall natural environment of the wetlands is also the fundamental cause of many martial artists' deaths.

For someone like Xu Baiyan, perishing unjustly in the wetland is something that can't even be quantified. Except for safe zones like the First Battlefield, the wetland is hell everywhere.

Xu Baiyan circulated her Qi ring, slowly expelling the toxins, though a bit slow, it was better than waiting for death.

In extreme situations, martial artists need even more tenacity and survival instinct.

Self-rescue!

It's an essential skill that martial artists must master in extreme situations!

...

Yang Lezhi was frantic!

The alien beast with its eye shot out was running rapidly; while he kept striking the alien body, it was hard to kill it in one go.

Just like that!

Yang Lezhi was grabbed onto the alien's shoulder, slashing at it chaotically with his blade, struggling.

He didn't know how long it had been, Yang Lezhi felt completely lost.

A Fifth-Grade alien, how hard it is to kill.

When the alien's aura grew weak and it could no longer hold on, Yang Lezhi was utterly lost.

Before, he could barely remember some paths.

But due to walking too far, it was no use now.

"I, Yang Lezhi, only a Third-Grade, although I crossed two levels, killed a Fifth-Grade Demon Race with great effort, yet I find myself in dire straits... for the sake of the human race, I might as well die without regrets.

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