Eugari and the others followed the group of dwarf humanoids to an unusually lush wood. This forest, like the other trees in the forest, had a faint layer of black energy attached to it, but it was obviously thicker and taller. The foliage is also more lush, even if it is not too much to describe it as obscuring the sky. The tree was so tall that they could only see the trunk that had disappeared into the mist, and they could not see the crown of the tree. There were many hollows in each of the towering trees, and occasionally a few humanoid creatures that looked exactly like the ones around them leaned out and looked at them.

"This should be their home." Yugari guessed.

"I guess so. However, being able to live in such a tall tree shows that the body is quite flexible and very good at rock climbing. Miria chimed in.

When they approached one of the thickest trees, the humanoids that followed them suddenly stopped. A figure fell rapidly from the height of the tree and landed silently in front of Yujari and the others. It was a slightly larger humanoid creature, and it didn't seem to make much difference other than the markings on its face that were lighter than the other humanoids.

The slightly larger humanoid creature came up to Eugari and circled them around them unhurriedly, seemingly looking them up and down. Suddenly, it stopped. At this time, Yugari could clearly see that a stripe on its face gradually disappeared. Immediately, a faint layer of black smoke rose from under the feet of Yugari and the others, and the pungent smell made Yujiali unconsciously cover her nose.

"Ahem. What a weird smell it is, it's just choking. Miria couldn't help but complain.

However, it only took a moment for the black smoke to disperse quickly. As the black smoke disappeared, Yugari noticed that the suffocating and oppressive sensations that had existed since entering the forest had also disappeared, and even the anomalous effect of the continuous loss of mana had been greatly reduced.

"Do you feel it......" Yugari looked at Miria.

"Hmm...... It's amazing. Miria nodded, "The previous negative effects are basically gone, and it seems that they are not ordinary monsters." It should be regarded as a kind of intelligent subhuman race. ”

Just as they were rejoicing, suddenly there was a commotion in the forest in the distance, and the sound of footsteps and howls was getting closer and closer.

"What's the situation?" Yugari and Miria immediately became nervous. They immediately turned in the direction of the riot. By this time, most of the surrounding humanoids had scattered and fled, climbed into the trees, and hid in their holes.

As the riot approached, Yugari saw that about dozens of creatures identical to the big-mouthed monsters she had encountered earlier appeared in her field of vision. One by one, they opened their mouths of blood, some of them still had black rotten liquid flowing from their mouths, and they spun six long tentacles, rushing towards this place.

"It's not good, get ready to fight!" Yugari whispered to Miria.

Miria only nodded slightly, and immediately picked up her long-handled scythe and rushed forward. Just as she was about to bring the Bigmouth into range, she cast a Frost Crystal and began her stormy attack. Yugari stood behind, shielding Miria from being hurt with a barrier, alternating between divine and shadow spells attacking the monsters that rushed to the front.

At the same time, behind Yugari, the humanoids who climbed the trees also continued to release black and white energy waves, attacking the big-mouthed monsters that rushed towards them.

However, neither Miria's Frost Attack, nor Eugari's Divine and Shadow Spells, nor the humanoids' energy waves had little effect, and it was difficult to deal substantial damage to the Largemouths, and at most they could only knock them into the air slightly, slowing them down for a moment.

"Damn. What are their attributes, my spells don't seem to work very well against them.'" Yugari secretly exclaimed in her heart.

As the effect of Miria's frost crystal has waned, the battle line has been pushed to the borders of the humanoid home. Unable to think of a good idea for a while, Yugari saw that the Bigmouth had rushed closer, so she had to put on a shield, hold a staff, and rush forward, and join Miria in hand-to-hand combat with the Bigmouths.

Despite her lack of attacking skills, Yugari used her various protective skills to guard the door of the humanoid creatures' home, temporarily blocking the progress of the big-mouthed monsters.

While fighting hand-to-hand with the big-mouthed monster next to her, Yugari is also constantly dodging the long-tongued attacks from the big-mouthed monster behind, and if you are not careful, you will be knocked to the ground and stuck with a layer of putrid liquid.

As more and more Bigmouth monsters flocked to the front, Yugari gradually began to be unable to resist their onslaught. One of them was swept to the ground by the long tongue in the back row, and she didn't care about the spilled objects, and immediately retreated, dodging the rotten liquid that seeped through. The long tongue rolled up the object that Yugari had dropped and swallowed it into her mouth.

However, what Yujali didn't expect was that the item she dropped was the same dragon candy that Lu Qisai gave her earlier. The big-mouthed monster swallowed Yugari's fire dragon candy, and immediately turned red all over. It opened its huge mouth and roared loudly into the sky, spewing out a puff of reddish dust. Then he turned around and ran desperately into the distance, knocking over many of his kind who were rushing towards him along the way.

Seeing this, Yugari immediately reacted to what was going on. Immediately shouted to Miria, "Fire Dragon Candy, these monsters can't eat Sister Luqi's strange fruit!" ”

"What?" Miria couldn't believe her ears, she didn't expect this unpalatable fruit to come in handy. So, she immediately took out a fire dragon candy from her body and stuffed it into the mouth of a big-mouthed monster beside her. The monster's reaction was the same as the one beside Eugari before.

"It's so much fun!" Miria shouted excitedly. So, the two of them immediately mustered up their energy and stuffed more fire dragon candy into the mouth of the big-mouthed monster.

At this time, the humanoid creatures behind Yugari also seemed to be full of doubts about this. A curious humanoid creature slowly climbed down from the tree, picked up a fire dragon candy that Yujali had just dropped, and was about to take a look, but as soon as it touched the dragon candy, its arm was immediately infected into a faint red, and it was still spreading all over the body. The humanoid creature immediately threw the dragon candy and turned in horror and ran backwards.

"Don't touch it! This is dangerous for you! When Ugari saw this, she immediately shouted loudly to the humanoids in the tree.

As more and more Bigmouth Monsters were swallowed by the Dragon Candy, by this time, they were already in a mess. They stumbled aimlessly, trampling on each other like headless flies. The eruption of red dust also makes the surrounding air more and more turbid and spreads.

"Don't let that powder blow here." Eugari shouted to Miria.

"Huh?" Miria didn't react to what Eugari meant for a moment.

"That powder is bad for these little guys. Don't you still have that headband on? Eugari shouted as she looked at Miria in a single ponytail that was combed high.

"This ......," Miria shouted in embarrassment, "I haven't learned it yet!" ”

By this time, the red dust had quickly spread to the homes of the humanoids, and they were about to begin to devour them.

"It's too late!" Yugari shouted.

"Know, know!" Miria was forced to give it a go.

The moment Miria cast her spell, a huge gust of wind suddenly lifted up, sweeping away into the distance along with the dust of Eugari, Miria, the Big-Mouthed Monster, and the Fire Dragon Candy.

"Don't blow us away!"

"I can't help it!" Miria clutched her long skirt and shouted with a red face.

As the wind subsided, Yugari and Miria fell to the ground with shaggy hair and disheveled clothes. Thankfully, the group of big-mouthed monsters were also frightened and fled without a trace.

"I'll give it back to you!" After Miria tidied up her clothes, the first thing she did was to return the orange headband to Eugari, who also felt a little embarrassed.

When they returned to their humanoid home, they were greeted with a warm welcome. Although these dwarfed humanoids do not speak, and many times Yujari and Miria cannot guess what they want to do, their friendly behavior and enthusiastic attitude make Yujali and Miria know that they must be very happy at this time.

Just as they were singing and dancing with the humanoids, the slightly larger humanoid suddenly held a scroll and handed it to them.

"Huh? What is it? For me? Yugari asked curiously, then took the scroll and slowly opened it.

It was a strange scroll, with marks of varying shades attached to it on a gray background, and in some places a faint shimmer of light. Yujali didn't understand what was going on after watching them for a long time, and they didn't speak when they asked them, but just blindly did some actions that Yujali couldn't understand.

"It's supposed to be a map or something." Miria guessed, "Look, this light gray mark should be where these guys live, and then this flickering light should be the location of this scroll." ”

As soon as Miria said this, Yugari immediately confirmed it carefully, "What you said seems to have some truth." If so...... The black scars in the distance......"

"It should be the Demon Slayer Valley we are looking for." Miria replied, "Only this place is the darkest." ”

"It's so far away." Yujiali said with some frustration, "I didn't expect us to walk for so long, and only walked this distance." ”

"I can't say that. Didn't the cheeky guy say when he was in the manor that the time and space in this forest are very chaotic, and the distance should not be measured by common sense. Maybe we've been in the same area for so long. ”

"What then?" Yujiali said with some embarrassment. "You know what?" Eugari may just be saying to herself, "We want to go here, do you know what to do?" Eugari pointed to the darkest area of the scroll and said to the humanoid creatures that had gathered around.

At Eugli's words, the humanoids looked at each other, twisting their bodies from time to time to express their thoughts.

"I guess they don't understand it, but I really am, I actually talk to myself like that." Yugari thought to herself a little self-deprecatingly.

At that moment, Yugari noticed that the markings on the faces of the humanoids around her had gradually disappeared. Beneath their feet, a spreading white area gradually seeped into themselves and Miria. With a flash of white light under her feet, when Yugari raised her head again, she could no longer see the humanoids around her. In front of her, only charcoal-black trees stood tall, as if a fire had just burned.

"Huh? What about them? Is it gone? Eurori stood up in amazement and looked around.

"Calm down." Miria reminded from the sidelines, "It's us who got teleported." ”

"Is that so?" It dawned on Yujali that she said, "That's right. Just take a look at the scrolls they give. So, she hurriedly took out the scroll and checked her position, "Look! Yugari exclaimed excitedly, "We're near the Valley of the Demons." ”

"Really?" Miria hurried over.

"I'm so thankful to those little guys, it's all here all at once." Yugari said happily.

Just as they were rejoicing at this, a charcoal-black branch suddenly burst out of the ground from under Miria's feet, wrapped around her ankle, and pulled her hard, instantly pulling Miria upside down into the air. As soon as Yugari was about to draw her staff and chant a spell, more than a dozen of the same branches immediately stretched out from the ground around her, entangled her like a cage, and continued to shrink with force, as if intending to hang her inside. Yugari hurriedly cast a space spell and teleported herself. However, before she could gain a foothold, she immediately noticed an anomaly under her feet. She leaped high before the branches burst out of the ground, then half-turned and cast a few divine spells on the newly exposed branches before destroying them.

At this time, Miria had already cut off the branches wrapped around her ankles with a long-handled scythe and fell from the sky. Yugari immediately braved the wind, caught Miria, and then immediately cast the Divine Barrier the moment she landed, blocking dozens of branches from the outside.

"What is this, it's all over the place." Yugari exclaimed as she looked at the barrier that had been entangled in water.

"It's like a kind of dead wood, and it's said that you can swim around the ground at will, and it's elusive." Miria explained.

"Judging from the attack effect just now, it should be a creature with a dark constitution, and I think it should be able to handle it. But......" Looking at the branches that were still entwined outside the barrier, Yugari said in embarrassment, "If there are all over the place, it will be difficult to do." ”

"How far is it from Demon Slayer Valley?" Miria asked.

"Judging from the distance you just moved, it should be only a few minutes away."

"When the barriers were gone, we rushed through them. If there's no best one on the other side of Demon Slayer Valley, if there is one, you can use the galaxy to clear a safe area first. ”

"Hmm. No problem. Yugari nodded in response.

As the effect of the barrier wears off, Yugari and Miria are ready to sprint. The moment the barrier disappeared, the divine light emitted by Yugari and the icy cold air shot out by Miria collided, instantly shattering the vines that rushed up around her. Then they took this opportunity to jump all the way forward, overcoming obstacles, and soon rushed into the mountain pass of the Demon Slayer Valley.

As soon as he walked into the Demon Slayer Valley, a thick miasma rushed to his face. The powerful paralyzing effect caused Yugari and Miria to collapse to the ground in an instant, barely able to move.

"Luckily, I'm here with the potion." With the help of Yugari, Miria reluctantly took out the potion, and the two drank the potion, and finally reluctantly stood up.

"I didn't expect this miasma to be so powerful." Miria struggled, "This is already the best potion on the market, but it's still so difficult to act." ”

"Wait. Let me check if there are any other effects that don't. Yugari said as she checked the status of the two of them. Slows down, reduces healing effects, and decreases attack and defense effects. Well...... The most terrifying thing is that there is another state of accelerated loss of mana and energy. Jugari said with a frown.

"Looks like the effect of the old group of little guys helping to get rid of it has returned."

"It doesn't seem like that. The resistance they helped to apply before is still there, and it should still have some effect. Yujali said seriously.

"That seems to be the reason why the miasma here is too strong." As they spoke, the two cautiously walked in the direction of the swamp in the distance.

When they reached the edge of the swamp, they were stunned by what they saw.

Around them were hills made of black rocks. From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, there are wriggling dark green plants of unknown shapes. In the middle of the valley was a purple-black swamp shrouded in thick mist, so deep that it could not be seen as far as the eye could see. The thick mud was constantly tumbling outward, and from time to time purple powder was sprayed from inside, and no breath of life was felt around it.

"If the herb was growing in a swamp, there should be an outcrop." Yugari guessed.

"Let's take a walk around the area, and if it's best if it's around, we can see where there is a way to get in even if we're not there."

At that moment, a tentacle suddenly emerged from the tumbling mud, whistling towards Yujari and the others. The anomalous effect prevented them from dodging in time, and Yugari had to unleash a barrier to block the mud's attack. Then he hurriedly withdrew with Miria to the foot of the mountain, far from the swamp.

"It seems hard to get close. However, it should be better to get used to this environment, at least not as bad as it was when I first came in. Miria grumbled.

Suddenly, Miria felt something entangled in her left foot and looked down. A dark green wriggling plant was firmly wrapping around the top of her feet, and it was still climbing upward.

"Disgusting guy!" Miria screamed as she tried to pull her foot out.

"Divine Dispelling Technique." With the help of Eugari, Miria managed to escape, but the effect of the dispel technique was very weak, and only a small area was dissipated, and the dark green plant immediately wriggled back.

"What the hell is it? It's disgusting. Miria grumbled.

"Now that mana has been draining, let's try to avoid some useless battles. Just follow the places that these plants can't reach, avoid the tentacles of the swamp, and go forward. Eugari suggested.

"That's it."

I don't know how far she had gone, but she suddenly pointed to a piece of land floating up in the middle of the swamp and excitedly shouted, "Look, there it is! Take a look. ”

Looking at Eugari's direction, in the thick fog in the middle of the swamp, a tall and straight ancient tree could be faintly seen reaching into the sky. And at the foot of the ancient tree, there seemed to be a piece of grass and trees more than half a person high. A path that is not wide, with a zigzag path from the foot of an ancient tree.

"Whether it's or not, let's go over and take a look." Yujiali urged anxiously.

Just as Yugari was about to rush out, Miria next to her grabbed her wrist, "Wait, someone looks like there!" ”