There were mainly water elemental saint beasts located in the swamp. The team planned to mainly hunt groups of low-rank saint beasts or the stronger saint beast that were alone. Their secondary goal was to find poisonous medicines to help Jiang Mang.
The team had just entered the swamp when they encountered a group of five early saint beasts, which looked like crocodiles. They were instantly killed by Hua Ye through a barrage of water bullets. This situation continuously repeated itself for an hour before encountering a strong high-rank saint beast. It was a poisonous toad known for its corrosive saliva and sharp tongue. The group of four started by forming the defensive qi shield. The toad attacked with its tongue, but it was stopped by the qi shield. Hua Ye used his whip to constrict the tongue, while the girls attacked the toad's main body. Chu Lingxin was able to pierce its skin, while Feng Xue's fire attack kept the wound open.
Jiang Mang used Vine Storm, to hold the main body in place during the attack. The toad managed to break its tongue and body free after enduring three attacks, and it was only lightly injured. It attacked back by using ranged corrosive attacks. The shield managed to block them easily, but it was slowly being eroded. The group attacked again, with Hua Ye being the main damage dealer after repeated attacks while being supported by Jiang Mang's Vine Storm, to hinder the toad's movements.
After ten minutes was the toad finally slain, at the cost after having depleted half of their qi reserve. The team restored their qi reserves before continuing their hunt for saint beasts. The toad had provided Jiang Mang with many poisonous ingrediëts with which he could create corrosive poisons capable of injuring saint ranked cultivators.
The team hunted the entire day around the swamp and managed to earn a good amount of points, which would allow them to earn 5000 points if they continued like this for the rest of the three months. They had encountered many more poisonous saint beasts when they headed towards the direction the toad had come from, which indicates the high probability of a precious poisonous herb in that direction.
The team returned towards their cave, after having decided to return the next day to start searching for that poisonous herb as it could enable Jiang Mang to learn the poison intent. The next day, they reformed their formation and started heading towards the direction the toad had come from, after reaching the furthest point they had reached the day before, they encountered a group of poisonous saint beasts. They made swift work of them but while heading deeper, they started encountering either bigger groups of poisonous saint beasts or high-ranked poisonous saint beasts like toads, vipers, and massive insects.
When the daytime was ending, they decided to camp in the wilds as they felt that they would reach their destination the next day. Jiang Mang was the happiest of the group, as he was now concocting and testing poisons capable of killing saint realm cultivators if struck by a coated poisonous dagger. The team had earned double the amount of points as the day before, which gratified them for their hard work.
The next day, after journeying for another four hours, did they finally reach their destination. They had arrived at a valley filled with poisonous herbs and strong saint beasts. There were a total of ten high ranking viper saint beasts and one peak ranking saint beast which resembled a viper but ten times bigger than the high ranking ones. It was the king of the vipers that surrounded and inhabited the valley. The viper king laid next to a black flower that was surrounded by a faint miasma, which was poisonous.
The group of four was first shocked by the sight before they planned how to beat the group of vipers and its king. They eventually decided to have Jiang Mang put the whole group of vipers under an illusion while the other three would deal with the king, with Hua Ye being the main and the two girls as support.
Jiang Mang took his flute and performed Illusion song with a low tier qi-song that targeted vipers and snakes. This allowed him to put every viper except for the king under an illusion, which he could sustain for an entire day.
The other three immediately attracted the king's attention by attacking its body. Hua Ye entangled it with an enormous water figure of a giant sea serpent while Chu Lingxin slashed sword waves towards the king. Feng Xue used her fire to attack the opened wounds, that were created by the sword waves or the sea serpent, to slowly cook the king's insides.
The viper king was initially calm while it entangled with the sea serpent, but as time went on it started going into a frenzy from the pain of being bitten, slashed, and cooked. It eventually managed to defeat the sea serpent, but while it closed in on the trio, another sea serpent reappeared and started entangling it.
This situation repeated itself until the viper king was exhausted to death. The trio then restored their qi before killing the other vipers and collecting their bodies for points. Jiang Mang could then stop his performance before he helped with dissecting the vipers' carcasses.
They had now accumulated 783 points in total and needed another 9000 and a bit more.
The team then started harvesting all the herbs in the valley and left the black flower for last to Jiang Mang to collect as he had the strongest and most resistant body against poisons. After closing in while playing a tune on a leaf, he recognized the black flower to be a nether flower which is capable of producing hallucinating miasma. This miasma can make even king realm cultivators hallucinate for a short time.
Jiang Mang was extremely excited as he was certain, that he would certainly grasp poison intent if he acquired that flower. He slowly approached the miasma that surrounded the nether flower, before halting. He first tested the potency of the miasma and concluded that he would certainly hallucinate, but should be able to endure the hallucinations with his heart intent at great accomplishment.
He eventually entered the miasma and slowly made his way towards the nether flower. He was first fifty meters away, but he slowly neared under the watchful eye of the other three. They felt nervous but were ready to act if something went wrong during the acquisition of the nether flower. Jiang Mang eventually reached within ten meters of the flower, when he suddenly stopped moving.