Daily Intelligence, Starting Out I Obtain the Heaven-devouring Demonic Art

157: The Rotting Swamp Frog King!At this moment, the Xuan Nv Sect members had dispersed, in groups of two or three, each going to search for Opportunity.

Lu Xingyao and Junior Sister Zhao Hanyue, who had a mole on the tip of her nose, were rapidly advancing in one direction.

Along the way, they also discovered some ordinary Heaven And Earth Treasure.

However, they didn’t even spare them a glance.

As a Sect second only to Jiangshan Pavilion, and Lu Xingyao being the Saintess of the Sect, she was incredibly arrogant. She truly didn’t care for common Heaven And Earth Treasure, not even bothering to bend down and pick them up.

Zhao Hanyue, on the other hand, wanted to collect those readily available Heaven And Earth Treasure.

But since Lu Xingyao didn’t stop, she didn’t dare to either, only able to watch as she missed out on those Heaven And Earth Treasure.

”Senior Sister! Where exactly are we going?”

Zhao Hanyue saw that they had been traveling for half a day, and Lu Xingyao still had no intention of stopping, so she couldn’t help but ask.

Now that the qilin fruit had appeared, shouldn’t they go and acquire it first? What if someone else got there first?

”You’ll know when we get there!”

Lu Xingyao said, continuing to move forward.

Later, after the two women continued for a while, they arrived at a grotto, the Lingyun Grotto, where a Qilin once lived.

The entrance to the cave was deep and dark, never seeing the light of day.

Inside, craggy rocks hung like the fangs of giant beasts, with only an occasional sliver of sunlight slanting in, illuminating the bottomless cracks in the rock walls.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of damp mildew mixed with old blood, and the crunch of loose stones underfoot was particularly jarring in the dead silence.

From the depths of the cave, a faint growl could be heard, sometimes like a howling wind, sometimes like a giant beast grinding its teeth.

The rock walls were covered with claw marks and scorched black imprints, and the ground was littered with the white bones of unknown exotic beasts; some bones were as huge as chariot wheels, while others were as thin as hair but glowed with an eerie blue phosphorescence.

And in the center of the deepest part of the cave, a pool of dark green water bubbled, with broken scales floating on its surface. Getting closer, one felt a bone-chilling coldness wash over them, and in the shadows at the bottom of the pool, a massive creature seemed to be slowly stirring.

And in the very center of the pool, an altar stood.

The altar was carved from a single piece of grayish-green rock, with deep green moss crawling over its square base. The steps at the edges were worn smooth by time, and faint beast patterns, resembling neither Dragon nor deer, could vaguely be seen carved on their surface, their lines almost eroded away by the years.

The altar was not tall, only about a zhang (3.3 meters), with a flat top. In a central groove, a section of a qilin horn was obliquely inserted.

The qilin horn was about half a person’s height, thick as an arm at its base, gradually tapering upwards, but ending abruptly in a sharp point, as if it could pierce the clouds of the Nine Heavens.

The surface of the qilin horn was covered with spiral-shaped dark brown patterns, like the annual rings of an old tree, or some ancient Talismanic Incantation, with faint dark golden streams of light subtly emanating from within the patterns.

At the same time, an indescribable pressure emanated from the qilin horn, heavy and violent, making one’s body turn cold.

”Senior Sister! Is that the legendary qilin horn?”

Zhao Hanyue looked at the qilin horn on the altar, her eyes filled with shock, but the powerful pressure from the qilin horn made her face somewhat pale.

Both the environment of Lingyun Grotto and the pressure from the qilin horn on the altar gave her a strong sense of discomfort.

”That’s right! That is the qilin horn! It can rival an ancient saint weapon, and can even become a precious Materials for forging an ultimate dao emperor weapon!”

Lu Xingyao looked at the qilin horn on the altar, her demeanor no longer as cold and arrogant as before, her beautiful eyes filled with longing.

However, she then frowned.

This was because there were things in this pool, and they were extremely ferocious creatures.

To obtain the qilin horn, she would definitely have to face these ferocious creatures.

Suddenly... Splish, splash...!

The surface of the pool suddenly rippled strangely, and dozens of heads the size of millstones were the first to break through the water.

These monsters resembled giant frogs, but had vertical pupils like reptiles, and wrinkled grayish-green skin interspersed with rotten dark brown spots.

Where their eyes should have been, two pigeon-egg-sized blood beads were embedded, and viscous pus slowly dripped from their eyelids, staining the water with streaks of crimson.

Immediately after, more monsters of the same form emerged, densely crowding the surface of the pool.

They stood half-submerged in the water, their thick hind legs stirring beneath the surface, and their forelegs like scythes.

When the last monster surfaced, the entire pool had transformed into a surging, living Hell, hundreds of crimson eyes simultaneously locking onto the two women, Lu Xingyao, on the shore, and guttural croaks like broken bellows emanated from their throats.

Foul-smelling saliva mixed with dark green pool water accumulated on the jagged stone banks, forming bubbling poisonous swamps, and highly toxic miasma permeated the air.

Thousands of blood-red eyes glittered in the pool, causing a chilling unease.

”Rotten Swamp Toads... they’re Rotten Swamp Toads...!”

Zhao Hanyue’s hairs stood on end from being watched by these Rotten Swamp Toads.

These Rotten Swamp Toads were extremely disgusting in appearance, but their strength was incredibly powerful.

”Don’t panic! These Rotten Swamp Toads are easy to deal with!”

Lu Xingyao’s beautiful eyes, as she looked at the Rotten Swamp Toads, were filled with disdain and disgust.

Lu Xingyao made a grasping motion in the Void Realm, and a long sword appeared in her hand.

”Ugly, disgusting things, all of you go to Hell!”

Lu Xingyao, in her snow-white robes, stood at the edge of the pool, her long sword humming.

Her eyes were cold as she looked at the massive, foul-smelling Rotten Swamp Toads before her, utterly fearless.

With a flick of her wrist, a brilliant white Sword Qi flew out like a bolt of silk, tearing through the air with a sharp whistling sound.

The Sword Qi was extremely powerful; wherever it passed, the poisonous miasma within several zhang (about 10 meters) retreated as if purified, and the bubbling in the poisonous swamp instantly froze.

Before the sword’s full force arrived, the sharp Sword Qi had already plowed several deep furrows across the surface of the poisonous swamp.

Feeling the deadly threat, the Rotten Swamp Toads immediately let out a chorus of ear-piercing croaks, deafeningly loud.

Their massive bodies abruptly recoiled, and they spewed out clumps of viscous dark green venom, attempting to block the Sword Qi.

However, the power of that Sword Qi was extremely strong; it directly annihilated and cut through the venom, continuing its relentless advance towards the Rotten Swamp Toads.

Puff, puff, puff...!

Foul-smelling dark green blood splattered, and the massive bodies of many Rotten Swamp Toads were split open by the Sword Qi.

This was Lu Xingyao’s first strike, but it was certainly not her last.

”As expected of Senior Sister...! She’s too strong!”

Zhao Hanyue’s eyes were filled with admiration.

But at that very moment... from the depths of the rotten swamp, dark green sludge bubbled, and amidst the putrid stench, the massive form of the Rotten Swamp Toad King loomed in and out of sight.

The next moment, a sticky, dark purple tongue suddenly shot out from its giant mouth!

The tongue was not ordinary soft tissue, but like a sharp sword forged from quenched steel, carrying a piercing whistle as it cut through the air, its tip even glowing with an eerie blue phosphorescence from the high-speed friction.

”Senior Sister, be careful!”

Zhao Hanyue urgently warned...