Xiaoruan launched a water ball at the head of the Ambush Crocodile, and by the time it hit the ground, the Ambush Crocodile was already unconscious.

Li Cunxu said, "Xiaoruan, hit it until it's on the brink of death, then let the Extreme Crystal Dragon finish it off."

Xiaoruan carefully controlled the power of the technique, leaving the Ambush Crocodile with just its last breath.

Li Cunxu said, "Extreme Crystal Dragon, use Destructive Dark Extreme Wave on the Ambush Crocodile."

The Extreme Crystal Dragon gently pointed with its little hand, and a dark red wave of light shot into the Ambush Crocodile's body, killing it instantly.

Li Cunxu asked, "How many merit points did we gain?"

"Awooo~ (0.6)"

After letting the Extreme Crystal Dragon deliver the final blow and kill a few more Ambush Crocodiles, Li Cunxu figured out the pattern.

Killing a bronze-level Ambush Crocodile earns 0.2.

Killing a silver-level Ambush Crocodile earns 0.3.

If the Extreme Crystal Dragon kills them personally, the merit points are doubled for Li Cunxu and Xiaoruan.

For Bronze, it's 0.4; for Silver, it's 0.6.

Li Cunxu walked through a forest filled with Ambush Crocodiles and saw a few silhouettes in the distance.

However, the silhouettes seemed a bit strange; all of them held long spears, and their gait was too orderly, like a neat marching troop.

It didn't align at all with the behavior of people escaping danger.

Li Cunxu took a closer look.

"Not humans."

Who would have a tail?

Li Cunxu moved in a bit closer and finally saw their appearance clearly.

Marsh lizardmen walking upright, training in teams of five.

A saying goes about the marsh lizardmen: when you see one, there's at least five hundred nearby.

The marsh lizardmen have a terrifying reproduction ability; given a month, eighteen can give rise to a family of five hundred.

"Dark Crow, go kill them and let one get away."

The one that flees will definitely return to the lair with reinforcements, and Li Cunxu can seize the opportunity to find the lizard lair.

There's a chance that Dr. Cang might be inside the lizard lair.

Marsh lizardmen have a habit of capturing and storing humans; when they encounter people, they imprison them in the lair, not to eat them, but to offer them to the Evil God.

Before Dark Crow flew off, Li Cunxu reminded again.

"Use a Slowing Curse; the marsh lizardmen are incredibly fast in the swamp."

The Dark Crow shot out cursed feathers, falling like raindrops. The sound of the feathers cutting through the air alerted the marsh lizardmen, who picked up their spears to block swiftly, deflecting feather after feather.

Still, the marsh lizardmen got hit; Dark Crow took advantage of the ambush to catch them off guard. Although the spear defense was fast, it was late; some feathers slipped through the gaps and hit the marsh lizardmen.

When the feathers pierced their bodies, the marsh lizardmen were a bit bewildered.

It wasn't that the feathers had high damage, but rather, it was so low that there seemed to be no problem even without spear defense.

This time, Dark Crow focused only on speed, not damage, naturally resulting in low damage, but it gave the marsh lizardmen the illusion of insufficient ability coming in for an ambush.

"Hiss~ (Kill it)"

The leading marsh lizardman pointed its spear straight at Dark Crow.

The marsh lizardmen charged toward Dark Crow like lightning, but soon, halfway there, the slowing curse took effect, their speed drastically reduced.

Discomforted by the sudden drop in speed they were accustomed to, the marsh lizardmen faltered slightly.

Before they could adapt, Dark Crow's Cursed Feathers arrived.

Blindness, deafness, weak legs, kidney deficiency... various tormenting curses followed one after another.

Layered with curses, the marsh lizardmen aged drastically and were then killed by a single feather from Dark Crow through their foreheads.

It deliberately let the fifth marsh lizardman escape.

Li Cunxu tightly followed behind, but the fleeing marsh lizardman seemed to have sensed Li Cunxu's pursuit, perhaps due to not being very good at tracking.

Nevertheless, being noticed didn't matter.

Now, he was powerful enough to boldly enter rather than sneak in stealthily.

The marsh lizardman ran for thirteen minutes and finally reached its lair.

A small hill, with mysteries inside.

The marsh lizardman opened its grotesque mouth with three rows of teeth and screamed loudly at the lair's entrance.

This was the sound of marsh lizardman summoning companions.

Inside the lair, the marsh lizardmen dropped their tasks and grabbed their spears to rush out.

Within a few breaths, a dense crowd of marsh lizardmen emerged.

Li Cunxu was delighted; so many beasts would surely yield a great number of merit points if slain, and their blood could be used to fuel the Burning Lotus Blood Fire, converting it to sacred blood.

"Little White Spider, Blood Lotus Carp, Dark Crow, you are responsible for protecting me."

"Xiaoruan, upfront on the battlefield."

Xiaoruan threw out a Fire Pearl, and the explosion of flames engulfed the surroundings, though not a single marsh lizardman was burned.

They had a significant advantage in the swamps, moving at high speed, so when the Fire Pearl exploded, all the marsh lizardmen had already scattered.

Li Cunxu commanded, "Xiaoruan, use Cold Breath to freeze the swamp here."

Xiaoruan exhaled an icy breath, spreading like smog, freezing everything it touched into ice.

The captain of the marsh lizardmen lifted its spear, shooting it like a javelin.

The other marsh lizardmen followed suit, raining spears down into the Cold Breath fog, aiming at Xiaoruan... and its Golden Shield.

The Golden Shield blocked everything, leaving Xiaoruan unscathed, but soon the marsh lizardmen's spears froze in the Cold Breath fog.

The marsh lizardmen had a 'Recall Spear' skill, but it was useless when the spears were frozen unless the ice was broken.

The Cold Breath fog continued to spread, freezing the swamp and the marsh lizardmen.

After two or three minutes, all the marsh lizardmen from the lair were frozen.

In theory, the marsh lizardmen could have escaped from the Cold Breath fog, as its expansion is slow compared to their speed in the swamp, like a supercar versus a snail.

But their lair was behind them, and they couldn't retreat.

A retreat would mean being eaten by the brutal War Lizard King.

In the marsh lizardmen's racial concept, death wasn't terrifying; being eaten by the War Lizard King was truly terrifying, for one wouldn't reincarnate as a marsh lizardman in the next life.

In simpler terms, from a human perspective, being eaten by the War Lizard King means you won't be human in the next life, only reincarnating as the second junior brother.

"If Xiaoruan continues releasing Cold Breath, it can freeze all the marsh lizardmen inside the lair."

Unfortunately, it can't be done, since Li Cunxu is here to save, not to kill.

What if there are people in the lizard lair, and using the earlier plan freezes them all to death?

Li Cunxu stepped into the lair entrance and saw more marsh lizardmen rushing in from the other end.

The marsh lizardmen let out more harsh screams, summoning even more companions before being frozen by the Cold Breath fog.

"How wonderful the Luck Blessing spell is; knowing I lack merit points, more and more keep delivering themselves for merit points."

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