It was a huge space.

Ahead lay a forest, filled with extremely tall trees, each exceeding a hundred meters in height.

These trees were entirely black, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be black sap.

Black sap secreted from the trees slowly dripped onto the ground.

The ground was also covered with black slime, as if black water was flowing.

Lu Ning and Ya En exchanged a glance, and Lu Ning calmly said, "I'll go down and take a look."

Ya'en nodded slightly. This black water looked extremely evil and probably posed a great danger. Unlike Lu Ning, he didn't dare to try it lightly.

The black water reached about ankle height. As soon as he stepped into it, he felt as if the black water had a life of its own, penetrating his skin and entering his body.

Lu Ning raised an eyebrow slightly, his flesh wriggling, trapping the black water that wanted to burrow into his body between his skin and muscles.

Lu Ning carefully sensed it and discovered that it was not black water at all, but densely packed black insects.

These insects are hideous in appearance, completely black, and extremely small in size.

They burrowed into Lu Ning's body, their first instinct being to devour his flesh and blood.

Lu Ning tried to loosen the restraints and let them gnaw on him.

Lu Ning then discovered that these insects had an extremely strong bite force; even with his powerful physical strength, they could still gnaw off a bit of him.

Even a saint would probably be unable to stop these insects from gnawing at him.

Lu Ning seemed to be deep in thought. Then, he channeled his power of flesh and blood, crushing the insects that had entered his body. He turned to Arn and said, "There's nothing particularly dangerous. This black water is made up of insects. Their bite force is decent, but you can use your abilities to resist it."

Yaen nodded slightly, enveloped himself in the power of light, and then stepped into the black water.

As expected, the black water rushed towards the Light Shield immediately, but was quickly purified.

"Let's go and see what's in this forest."

Lu Ning strode into the depths of the forest, with Ya En following closely behind.