Dark swamp.
A creature resembling a giant mole cricket, over ten meters in length, attacked Yi Chen and others before it painfully fell into the soft mud, its body exuding a dark green blood. When this blood came into contact with the mud, it emitted a piercing hissing noise and produced a wisp of white smoke.
"Everyone be careful, don't engage in close combat with this creature. Its blood has extremely strong corrosive properties." With a beckoning gesture, He Gongzi retracted the golden net covering the corpse of the insect and cautiously warned the crowd.
The group, seeing this, had a lingering fear and nodded in agreement.
By then, a light rain had started to fall from the sky.
After nearly a day of arduous trekking, under the leadership of He Gongzi, the group finally made it past the swamp and came to a dark black tree.