At the same time, Chen Jingxi's cultivation spread outward.
With a thunderous rumble, his aura suddenly erupted. The Star Constellation was completed, and magic was released.
The constellation radiated endless evil qi and bloody savagery, as if a tomb had been torn open. Rotten stench, foul decay, and dark odors spread through the battlefield from within that grave!
Right beside him, a gigantic shadow directly appeared.
Cracked skin, a cyan body, a spiraled horn, and blood-red frenzied pupils, this undead creature, the moment it appeared, let out a vicious roar toward the Crocodile Turtle.
Almost at the same instant, astonishing baleful energy spread violently outward.
That aura made the Crocodile Turtle beneath the sea grow restless. Its body slowly moved backward, though only slightly, it was clearly still unwilling to give up.
Chen Jingxi's gaze locked onto the Crocodile Turtle. After using Undead Magic, dazzling radiance burst forth again as his Water Element Magic began operating at full force without hesitation.
The sea surface around the Crocodile Turtle twisted, and the water boiled. In an instant, the seawater transformed into more than three thousand water blades, each carrying chilling force, surging forward like a tide.
The Crocodile Turtle showed no fear. Its limbs slammed forward, stirring monstrous waves that rolled ahead. Crisp cracking sounds rang out as the water blades shattered and were destroyed.
"So troublesome!"
Chen Jingxi's eyes turned even colder. In an instant, brilliant glow surged and magic roared forth.
"Heavenly Waterfall Crash!"
He swung both hands, and the sea rose again, violent and furious, carrying overwhelming suppressive force as it engulfed the Crocodile Turtle.
Boom!
As though heaven and earth had flipped over, the Crocodile Turtle's entire body trembled. Amid the rumbling blasts, it was sent flying dozens of meters away.
The crocodile turtle stabilized itself. The rows of spikes on its shell shook rapidly, clearly sensing intense danger.
Realizing the people on the ship were not easy targets, the Crocodile Turtle slowly retreated. In the end, with a sway of its body, it gave up hunting and disappeared into the distance.
Seeing this, Mu Hou did not relax his vigilance. Maintaining that spatial power, he slowly controlled the ship forward. Only after the vessel had completely left this sea region by a great distance did he finally let out a deep breath.
The crisis was resolved, and all the students sighed in relief.
Fang Yu raised his head and looked at the sea ahead. The image of the Crocodile Turtle from earlier slowly surfaced in his mind, and a thoughtful gleam appeared in his eyes.
"So it really is like that."
"Because of its nature, cowardly and afraid of death, it retreated the moment it met a strong enemy. That avoided a battle."
Time slowly passed like this.
Over the next few days, the sea remained calm. The group encountered no real danger, and the ship gradually drew closer and closer to White Crocodile Island.
At the same time, as they went deeper into these waters, the winds across the sea became noticeably more violent.
A short while later.
Standing on the deck, Fang Yu saw an island appear ahead.
The island was entirely black, as though shrouded in gloom, seeming to hide man-eating demons within.
Moreover, two large ships floated on the surrounding sea, it seemed others had already arrived.
There were also some human skeletons scattered across the beach, giving off a chilling atmosphere.
Looking farther upward, dark forests wound through the island, mountain ranges overlapping layer upon layer, carrying a suffocating pressure. Like black clouds at dusk, they pressed heavily downward and filled all directions.
As the ship approached, gazes hidden within the jungle seemed to open in an instant, coldly locking onto the vessel.
"Hm?"
Within the forest, the hidden people's hostile gazes were clearly sensed by Mu Hou, Chen Jingxi, and the other leaders. The four of them raised their heads, slowly narrowing their eyes. Their expressions remained calm, but sharp auras like blades spread from their bodies.
Those gazes immediately froze.
The hidden figures were horrified. The strength displayed by the two on the ship was something they simply could not contend against.
After sensing this, they all restrained themselves one by one and hid deeper into the jungle.
Once the ship docked at the shore, Chen Jingxi gave his final warning.
"Next, the other leaders and I will be searching for traces of the Dragon Crocodile. It will be difficult for us to make a move, so this time you'll have to rely entirely on yourselves."
"Eliminate the White Crocodiles, collect Crocodile Molts, and once your training is complete, wait in this area!"
"You must all be careful!"
As soon as Chen Jingxi finished speaking, Fang Yu decisively left to act alone. With a flash of movement, he stepped onto the beach and headed toward the jungle. As he passed a corpse nearby, he lowered his head and glanced at it.
Gray-brown bones were scattered across the black sand. It seemed they had not been there long, and bits of rotting flesh still hung from them.
The sea breeze blew over, lifting grains of sand from the ground and swirling them into the hollow of a human skull.
The entirety of White Crocodile Island, reflected in Fang Yu's eyes, was filled with gloom and cruelty.
Fang Yu withdrew his gaze from the remains. As the world around him gradually darkened, he calmly walked toward the jungle. As he drew near, his figure disappeared within.
Night descended the moment he stepped into the forest, like a giant hand covering the sky. Darkness took over, and daylight yielded.
Inside the jungle, Fang Yu advanced while calmly observing his surroundings.
As he continued deeper, he gradually noticed some unusual details.
Many trees in the forest had fallen, and most of those collapsed areas had streams flowing through them.
Fang Yu narrowed his eyes. At this moment, he arrived at one such area of fallen trees and lowered his gaze over the nearby water surface and the damaged trunks.
"Scales…"
From a tree, Fang Yu picked up a gray-white thin flake the size of a palm, carrying a faint fishy smell.
"It's White Crocodile skin, and it's been here for some time already." Fang Yu had already reached a conclusion. Clearly, the White Crocodile had swum up through the stream, all the way toward higher ground, colliding with trees along the route.
"There are multiple streams, which means every White Crocodile that comes here to shed its skin takes a different path."
"The question is whether the final place the White Crocodiles choose to molt is random, or if there's a general area they all head toward." Fang Yu pondered, then decided to follow the stream before him, the one a White Crocodile had passed through some time ago and see for himself.
Once Fang Yu made his decision, his speed abruptly increased. Following the direction the stream flowed, he strode forward quickly.
At the same time, the sense of vigilance in his heart grew even stronger.
Half an hour later, as the sky became even darker, a dim gleam appeared in Fang Yu's eyes as he stared ahead.
By the riverbank in front of him lay a torn White Crocodile hide. It was entirely gray and extremely dried out, clearly having been there for a long time.
Before coming here, Fang Yu had checked the information. He knew that White Crocodile skin only had value if preserved by special methods immediately after being shed. Otherwise, once too much time passed, the elemental energy would dissipate, leaving it worthless.
That was also why the fight over White Crocodile skin was bound to be bloody.
Because everyone who came to this island, like Fang Yu, needed to wait and then seize the skin the moment it was shed.
Fang Yu pondered for a moment, then expanded the scope of his search around the area.
After investigating around the stream and continuing farther along it for some distance, he found several more discarded White Crocodile skins like this.
At the same time, he discovered that the places where White Crocodiles shed their skin were mostly near the stream banks. And clearly, the higher up into the mountains he went, the larger and more numerous these leftover skins became.
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