Soon after Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao left, the examination room returned to order.

The assessor after Tang Yunqing had the same idea as the assessor behind Ye Luyao: controlling the sand seahorse, but he was thrown off by her and embarrassed.

Second place, third place, fourth place—everyone.

Gradually, everyone finally regained their composure. Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao's assessment situation was just an example. To succeed in the assessment, they still needed to improve their strength and train hard.

About half an hour after the imperial envoy card assessment returned to normal, a group of ten men in black robes suddenly entered. They were all tall, around two meters tall, with wide waists and stout bodies, as if entangled with something. They walked neatly and uniformly, exuding an indescribable imposingness and temperament that silenced the surrounding assessors. These ten men in black didn't speak, simply lining up quietly, and when it was their turn, they went to participate in the assessment one by one.

After that, a scene that shocked everyone occurred. When these ten men in black approached Sha Haima, it was very similar to when Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao approached Sha Haima, each of which caused Sha Haima to show fear or apprehension.

With the powerful Sha Haima subduing him, it wasn't difficult to control him.

"What happened today..."

The head examiner found the qualification forms for one man in black after another, and his heart was shocked beyond words.

He didn't understand why. This wasn't Sha Haima's problem at all. As early as shortly after Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao left, he had switched to another Sha Hai Horse. During the assessment of the ten men in black, due to Sha Hai Ma's abnormal behavior, he changed three more times, and four different Sha Hai Horses all appeared in nearly identical circumstances when facing these men. This was by no means a coincidence, but had a deeper reason.

After the ten men in black succeeded in the assessment, they immediately sparked a frenzy of public opinion in Quicksand City.

Some people thought that these twelve foreigners had mastered the Sha Hai Horse taming method for some reason, and some thought that there was a problem with the Sha Hai Horse in the city today, so they all rushed to try to obtain the imperial envoy certificate, but there was no doubt that most of them failed.

Only a small number of people, relying on their own strength, passed the final assessment. A few, whose strength wasn't up to standard, passed the assessment by luck. Their example directly stimulated the crowd who had come to claim the imperial envoy certificate recently, which was quite unexpected.

Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao didn't know that half an hour after they left, ten men in black also completed the imperial envoy card assessment in a very strange manner. After receiving their imperial envoy cards, they immediately went to the rental and sales office, filled out the form, paid the deposit and rent, and then each rode a sand seahorse to the quicksand sea.

Speaking of renting a Sha Hai Horse, it was truly not cheap, and the deposit was very high.

The reason was simple: adventurers rented sand seahorses, mostly to delve deep into the quicksand sea. The quicksand sea wasn't just about flowing sand, but also about the sacred power of law enforcers, and there were many other dangers. The number of adventurers who had died in the quicksand sea over the years was countless. With the death of an adventurer, the imperial envoy's sand seahorse also had a ninety-nine percent chance of being unable to recover.

Therefore, depositing a sand seahorse was equivalent to buying a sand seahorse. Fortunately, the funds for Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao to go out to train were provided by the City Lord of Truth, so they weren't distressed.

Quicksand City was built on the quicksand sea, and it took less than half an hour to ride a sand seahorse from the south of the city to the edge of the quicksand sea.

Since they had traveled through the quicksand sea for an entire circle, Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao probably knew the extent of its reach, so they could estimate the time it would take to reach the center from the outside.

If there is no major accident, it can be reached in up to four hours at the swimming speed of the sand seahorse, but it can be seen from books and documents that the quicksand sea is not calm, but there is a considerable risk.

These risks had already been discovered by the adventurers. Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao simply needed to be cautious; nothing major would happen. However, the deeper unmanned areas were unpredictable.

After the two reached the edge of the Quicksand Sea, they didn't pause much, and they drove the sand seahorses deeper into it.

As soon as the sand seahorses entered the quicksand sea, they felt like fish entering the sea, feeling uncontrollable. Before they could control them, they swam lightly and nimbly towards the quicksand sea.

The quicksand sea was very similar to the ocean, especially similar.

Except for the water being sand, the creatures within were similar. Along the way, Tang Yunqing had seen many sea creatures that could only be found in the endless blue ocean. Their structural appearance was exactly the same as the marine life in the endless blue sea. But strangely, they lived in the quicksand sea. If one were to say that there was no strong external influence, Tang Yunqing would be a hundred times more skeptical.

Compared to the Sea of ​​Skeletons, Tang Yunqing believed the Dragon Court was in the Quicksand Sea. However, since there were so many clues on the side of the Quicksand Sea, the Sea Dragon Emperor told Ye Lu that Yao Longting's relics were in the Wanshui City area?

Could it be that the Hidden Dragon Guard hadn't gathered any information about the desert city at all?

This wasn't surprising. Who would have thought there would be such a strange place in the desert? Moreover, the humans in the Law Domain didn't know that the Dragon Court was abandoned here, and there hadn't been much contact with the Sea Dragon Clan from ancient times to the present day. It was reasonable that news of the Quicksand Sea wouldn't spread too far.

These sea creatures that had adapted to the Quicksand Sea were originally a major threat to adventurers. However, due to the coercive aura of the Sea Dragon Clan on Ye Luyao's body, as well as the Sea Dragon Orb inlaid with Tang Yunqing's code, the quicksand sea creatures didn't dare get too close to the two of them. Therefore, this should have been a major crisis, so they quietly disappeared without being noticed.

Besides the creatures of the quicksand sea, there were sandstorms that would occasionally occur. The sandstorms obscured the sky and the sun, completely blocking the vision of Tang Yunqing, Ye Luyao, and Sha Haima. They had to stop in place, using their divine power and dragon power to resist the invasion of the sandstorms, which was extremely costly. Fortunately, after Tang Yunqing's strength had increased, he had made great progress in recovering his own divine power and Ye Luyao's dragon power.

The problem was that even if they remained where they were, the sand seahorses would be blown away by the sandstorm, and by the time the sandstorm dissipated, they would already be in another area. If it were anyone else, they definitely wouldn't be able to tell the direction, but Tang Yunqing had his sense of calling as a guide, so he wouldn't get lost.

However, this also caused their movement to be much slower.

Sandstorms in the quicksand sea were very frequent, and after the two of them encountered the third sandstorm, they suddenly saw ten black shadows galloping towards the intersection of heaven and earth in the distance.

"Adventurers?"

Tang Yunqing frowned slightly.

Don't look at him and Ye Luyao going deep into the quicksand sea easily, but according to the news he saw from books and documents, it can be known that if Ye Luyao is not a sea dragon, if he does not have the sea dragon ball, I am afraid he will not even reach one-twentieth of the current distance, so he can judge the difficulty of going deep into the quicksand sea, but now there are ten black shadows in his field of vision.

After a moment of doubt, Tang Yunqing's slightly frowned brows suddenly knitted together tightly. He sensed a familiar aura from the ten black shadows, one that was very similar to the aura he often smelled in the Meteor Forest, in the Thousand Rivers and Mountains, and in the Sea of ​​Skeletons.

That was the aura of a demon!

"A demon!"

Just as Tang Yunqing made his judgment, Ye Luyao, beside him, exclaimed.

"Why are they here? How could it be so coincidental..." Tang Yunqing frowned.

He didn't believe in coincidences. He believed that the demon in front of him had followed them from the Sea of ​​Skulls and Bones. His aura should have been left behind when they arrived at the Sea of ​​Skulls the second time. It was absolutely impossible the first time, because they had been to the temple, and if they were truly contaminated with demonic energy, they would have been purified by the Sacred Courtyard when they were in the temple. It was possible to track them, and it was also possible for the demon to spontaneously search the cities around the City of Ten Thousand Waters, but no matter which one, it didn't really matter anymore, because the most important thing now was to save their lives.

The ten demons were clearly coming for them!

As these ten demons approached, Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao's bodies tensed, and the next moment they could charge out with all their might. Affected by the momentum of the two, the sand seahorse under their seat couldn't help but tremble.

"Are you also here to explore the sea of ​​quicksand?"

While Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao were cautious, one of the ten demons approaching from a distance suddenly made a sound from afar. He didn't seem to know that Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao had already seen through their identities.

"Why are there so many of you?"

Tang Yunqing didn't answer the rhetorical question, appearing quite surprised, pretending not to see their identities.

"We..."

The ten demons quickly approached, and just as they were about to use the explanation time to lower Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao's guard, the two of them suddenly exploded and attacked with all their might.

The Code of Truth appeared, flipping the pages with a "wow," and the path of truth was laid beneath their feet. An exploratory eye hung between Tang Yunqing's brows, and the whip of error was held in his hand, spinning and pumping towards the quicksand in front of the ten demons.

The Whip of Error whipped the quicksand, and with a gentle roll, it lifted the quicksand skyward, obscuring the vision of the ten demons. At the same time, the quicksand sucked in external forces, forcing the ten demons to resist.

It was also when they were resisting the quicksand that Tang Yunqing judged that their strength was all at the fifth rank, or even above the fifth rank. Considering the demon race itself, A powerful human, any demon on the opposing side could defeat him and Ye Luyao head-on.

Although he and Ye Luyao's combined strength was comparable to a seventh-order demon, and he had a record of defeating the demon dragon condensed by Bai Zeyan before, in reality, their victory in that battle was largely due to luck.

Firstly, Bai Zeyan's control over the demon dragon was insufficient. Secondly, they had the assistance of law enforcement and sages at the time, and they knew the demon dragon's weakness, and there was only one opponent. But now, they encountered ten fifth-order demon dragons who didn't know their weaknesses, and they simply couldn't confront the enemy head-on.

Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao's sudden attack caught the ten demons off guard, and they then realized that their identities had been exposed. Although they didn't know the reason, the moment their identities were revealed, they decided to stay with Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao.