Divine Beast Adventures

by Srtyi

The world experienced a cataclysmic change, and countless spatial gateways appeared out of thin air. Exotic beasts of all shapes and sizes swarmed out of those aforementioned spatial gateways, forcing the humans to face the crucial moment for their survival. In order to search for a chance at survival, brave warriors from the army and scientific researchers risked their lives and

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Chapter 193: There's No Way I'd Disguise Myself as a Woman

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Since the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' quality wouldn't rise from consuming the spiritual herb, even if his other subdued beast or pets were to break through to legendary quality, there wouldn't be much increase in Zhang Che's overall strength.

As such, it was better to think from another perspective.

Take the Rock Tortoise, for example. It just so happened that Zhang Che was finding the Rock Tortoise's spatial pocket a little too small for his liking. It wasn't able to store enough of his possible belongings. If he could make use of these three spiritual fruits to increase its quality, wouldn't it increase the size of its spatial pocket?

After all, the size of the spatial pocket was directly related to the strength of the Rock Tortoise's skill. It was impossible for it to remain unchanged.

"In that case, I choose you!"

The Rock Tortoise revealed a trace of excitement after hearing Zhang Che's decision. After all, this fellow was only a subdued beast; there wouldn't be any prominent emotional fluctuations.

The Gluttony Monkey and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, on the other hand, showed lifeless expressions on their faces and laid down flat on the platform on top of the withered tree, as if their master daddy had abandoned them.

Zhang Che didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Alright, alright, stop acting dead. I'll consider you guys first if I get my hands on good stuff in the future!"

The frisky monkey and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon quickly stood back up, looking at Zhang Che with burning gazes. They seemed to be saying, "Remember what you just said!"

Zhang Che couldn't be bothered with them anymore and shifted his gaze onto the three purple spiritual fruits.

It was obvious that they had yet to fully mature. Otherwise, the Titan Python would have swallowed them long ago. Why would it leave the fruits here for others to snatch?

Once he thought of his perfect set-up, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel satisfied with himself.

-Why not I change my name to Zhang Yuyong?-

{TLN: Yu Yong means fisherman.}

Mmm, mmm, this kind of spirit needed to be encouraged. As long as there were scraps, you'd have to go pick them without hesitation!

If there weren't any scraps, you'd also have to pick them, even if it meant creating one!

Wasn't using the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus to take out the Titan Python the perfect example?

"Tsk, tsk. If this continues, would I become the beast world's public enemy?" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. He took the platform as his home, not going anywhere else, guarding this place wholeheartedly.

Food wise, there were still some dry rations. In addition, the frisky monkey could go pick fruits in the forest. Zhang Che wouldn't starve.

Getting potable water was even easier. When he woke up every morning, there was an inexhaustible supply of morning dew on the tree leaves. He just had to gather a little and that would be enough for his consumption. Not only that, the dew was sweet. It was simply the best drink available!

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Just like that, Zhang Che waited for three whole days.

Three days later, the three spiritual fruits were a much purer purple. They were like three purple crystals, giving off a mesmerizing luster.

However, it wasn't fully matured yet.

The spiritual fruit wasn't matured, but there was another change in Zhang Che's spiritual sea. It was finally time for the Myriad Transformation Lizard card to advance.

Zhang Che's appearance immediately transformed from his previous life's loser-like appearance back to his current life's handsome appearance, which left him feeling a little narcissistic.

The Myriad Transformation Lizard card directly flew back into his spiritual sea and morphed into a tiny black hole, madly devouring the surrounding rainbow energy.

After being slightly startled, Zhang Che began looking forward in his heart.

He wondered what changes there would be to the Myriad Transformation Lizard's shape-shifting ability after it rose to gold-quality. Would it allow him to transform his appearance into anyone he wished?

It'd truly be awesome if that was true!

Zhang Che even had evil thoughts in his head. -If that is the case, wouldn't I be able to transform into women as I wish?

-Hehehehe…-

———–

Half an hour felt incredibly long. Zhang Che felt as if he had waited until the flowers had withered away a few times before the phenomenon in his spiritual sea came to an end. After that, a rainbow light pupae shattered, and a two-star gold-quality beast card emerged.

{TLN: Flower withering away is a reference to a famous song by Jacky Cheung, a Hong Kong singer.}

[Myriad Transformation Lizard]

Level: Two Star (Level 18)

Quality: Gold

Type: Fusion Transformation Type

Characteristics: When Using This Beast Card, One Can Freely Transform Their Physical Features (Limited to User's Race), Alter Their Vocal Features, and Perfectly Disguise Themselves as Others.

Skill: Invisibility. Grants User the Ability of Invisibility for a Period of Time After Activation, Effects Halved While Moving. Lasts 10 Minutes, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes

Potential: C Rank

"Wahahaha, I love this ability!"

The changes to the Myriad Transformation this time truly surprised Zhang Che.

Not only could he alter his appearance at will within his racial features, he could also alter his vocal features, imitating others' voices. With that, wouldn't he be able to disguise himself as anyone he wanted to a T, including their voices?

Mmm, unless it was someone extremely close to that person, other people definitely wouldn't be able to notice anything wrong!

Even disguising himself as a woman would be no problem at all…

Of course, Zhang Che didn't have such fetishes. Unless there was no other choice, he would never transform into a woman. Never.

-Mmm, there's no way I'd disguise myself as a woman. Not once in my life!

-I'm as normal as man as can be. My tool is big and energetic; why would I choose to disguise myself as a woman?-

Shaking his head, Zhang Che resolutely kicked this strange thought that suddenly came to mind, and sent it flying out of the beast world, never letting it enter his brain again.

Lastly, the invisibility skill left Zhang Che feeling incredibly gratified. Even though it was limited to a ten minute duration, and its effects would be halved while he moved, he still considered it a heaven-defying skill!

"Strange… why doesn't this beast card have an innate attribute?"

Aside from his excitement, Zhang Che also felt a hint of doubt in his heart. Previously, it was understandable that there was no innate attribute when the Myriad Transformation Lizard card rose to silver-quality. After all, not all silver-quality cards had an innate attribute.

However, there still wasn't the sign of an innate attribute after rising to gold-quality. This left him baffled.

Zhang Che couldn't understand why, despite thinking for some time. In the end, he could only chalk it up to the fact that the Myriad Transformation Lizard was a rare beast card type. Perhaps its innate attribute was to grant the ability of transformation, and wasn't limited to the quality of the card?

-Why bother thinking so much? I'd better test out the effects of the invisibility skill!-

With a thought, Zhang Che felt a strange energy enveloping his body. Afterwards, his entire body, along with his clothing and armor, disappeared from sight.

This was an all-new, unique visual experience.

He could still see his surroundings very clearly, except for his body. This aroused his childish innocence. He moved stealthily and came up to the frisky monkey, who was guarding at the side, and smacked at the back of his head.

Alas, the frisky monkey's body swayed slightly and easily dodged the hit. Not only that, he even looked at Zhang Che with a curious gaze, as if he was asking,-Master daddy, what are you playing at?-

Zhang Che immediately lost all enthusiasm. It turned out that his subdued beasts and pets were still able to sense his presence…

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Chapter 194: Left With Only The Essence

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It was no fun; it turned out that his subdued beasts and pets could "see" him.

Zhang Che shook his head, his interest waning.

The frisky monkey looked in Zhang Che's direction, his ugly face still showing the helpless expression from before. -I really don't know what you're playing at; it's not fun at all!-

"Come, come, you tell me, what's this look on your face? Do you think I'm being very silly?" Zhang Che's temper immediately flared up!

The frisky monkey blinked his eyes, shaking his head like a rattle drum, indicating that he definitely didn't mean it that way!

He mustn't admit to that no matter what; he might not get to eat any delicacies in the future if he did!

"Tch, just look at your monkey face. I'll let you off this time!" Zhang Che pursed his lips. Although it was truly a huge wet blanket, this invisibility skill was still very useful. Perhaps it might come into great use in some situations in the future.

Seeing as the day was about to be over, Zhang Che looked to his food storage at the side, his complexion turning a little ugly. Over the past three days, despite him eating more exotic fruits and less compressed biscuits, his supply of dry rations was still rapidly declining. There was only less than twenty-five kilograms of it left.

It seemed like he had to ration his food from now on. Otherwise, if he finished them and he had yet to leave this dangerous area, he'd really have to rely on eating only fruits to fill his stomach.

However, with his current digestive system, it'd be a torture to only be eating fruits. To use a old saying to describe it, it truly would be so dull that he could hatch a bird from it!

{TLN: A phrase quoted from Water Margin. Dull is a homonym to egg in Chinese. Doesn't really have a meaning to it.}

"Go, bring more fruits back," Zhang Che instructed the frisky monkey. Afterwards, he sat cross-legged on the platform above the withered tree, looking at three spiritual fruits growing on the purple plant. He didn't know when would they finally mature. He could only hope that it wouldn't take too long.

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The sky gradually darkened. Zhang Che sat opposite the frisky monkey, facing one another, with a pile of fruits between them. They were originally very delicious, but now tasted bland. They were stuffing the fruits down their mouths mechanically, taking much effort before they finally felt full.

"This isn't working… I'll feel hungry again soon. How pitiful of me… there's so much Titan Python meat in storage, but I can't roast any of it to eat…"

He stayed on this withered tree for three whole days. Other than practicing his swordsmanship and archery a little, there wasn't anything else he could do.

There were powerful exotic beasts everywhere in this area. Zhang Che didn't dare to go around hunting thoughtlessly. If he encountered a strong one that he couldn't beat, it would be a one way trip.

A curtain of darkness gradually covered the lands…

————-

Suddenly, Zhang Che, who was sitting down and staring blankly, noticed a faint purple glow at his side. He turned his head to look, and saw that the purple stalk of plant was rapidly withering. The three spiritual fruits on it were like little purple lamps, emitting a purple glow.

The spiritual herb was matured, showing an unusual phenomenon!

Immediately after, before Zhang Che could react to any of this, a thick fragrance suddenly spread out from the three spiritual fruits.

-Not good!- Zhang Che's face sank. He recalled all his subdued beasts and pets into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand. Afterwards, he summoned the Rock Tortoise and ordered it to swallow the spiritual fruits, along with the entire withered purple plant.

After doing this, Zhang Che hurriedly recalled the Rock Tortoise again, then brought out the Rotten Ent Prowler whip and coiled it around the trunk below him, quickly sliding down.

A tiger's roar rang out in the forest in the distance.

Immediately after, it was like a medley started playing in the forest. Various ferocious beasts cried out in succession, echoing in the forest, and quickly closing in on Zhang Che's location.

The fragrance from the purple spiritual fruits actually spread out that quickly!

Zhang Che's expression grew even uglier. He moved his legs as fast as he could, hoping to run out of this forest as soon as possible, and escape being surrounded by all the ferocious beasts who were attracted by the scent.

However, a sharp cry suddenly rang out from the sky above. Despite the darkness, Zhang Che could clearly see a large black silhouette swooping down towards him.

He didn't dare to run anymore. He looked up and set his gaze on a large tree with many leaves. The Rotten Ent Prowler whip quickly shot forth, and at the same time, Zhang Che activated the Myriad Transformation Lizard's invisibility skill, fading into the darkness with no trace to be found.

In the next moment, a huge, strange-looking bird swooped down to the platform on the withered tree. It searched for something for a brief moment, before letting out an extremely displeased cry and taking to the skies once more.

Afterwards, a bunch of black silhouettes came to this area one after another, and left just as unwillingly. The auras on these black silhouettes left Zhang Che not daring to be careless at all. He suppressed his breathing to the softest he could manage.

Just like that, about a quarter of an hour passed in a flash. The Myriad Transformation Lizard's invisibility skill duration ran out for some time before Zhang Che finally sensed that peace had returned to his surroundings.

"Hoo… it should be fine now, right?" Zhang Che slid down the tree stealthily and perked up his ears, listening. There were no more unusual sounds. A huge burden was finally lifted from his chest.

Luckily his reactions were fast and he immediately recalled the Rock Tortoise into his spiritual sea after making it consume the spiritual herb. Otherwise, not even his bones would be left after facing off against those terrifying beasts.

Thinking of the Rock Tortoise, he realized he was too nervous earlier and didn't pay any attention to its situation at all. He wondered if it had completed its advancement.

Zhang Che immediately focused on his inner self. There was now another beast card emitting five-colored rays of light in his spiritual sea. Taking a closer look at it, there were four hexagrams on the card.

-This is the Rock Tortoise? Well, it can't be any subdued beast other than the Rock Tortoise.

-But why would it directly advance from gold to legend-quality!?-

Zhang Che really felt as if he was dreaming, "looking" at the five-colored light above his spiritual sea, corresponding to the beast card beneath it.

He had originally thought that the Rock Tortoise would definitely advance to dark gold-quality smoothly after consuming the three spiritual fruits, but the possibility of it directly breaking through dark gold was miniscule.

He had never expected to be given a huge surprise out of nowhere!

"Great. With another legend-quality subdued beast, together with the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, my chances of leaving this area have increased by a lot!" Zhang Che smiled brightly. With a wave of his hand, the five-colored beast card immediately shot out of his spiritual sea and materialized into a five-colored streak of light, landing on the grass before him.

The light faded. Zhang Che's eyes narrowed slightly.

-Why did the Rock Tortoise became so much smaller after advancing? Could it be that it's left with only the essence?-

Regrettably, the forest was covered in darkness. Zhang Che was unable to see the Rock Tortoise's appearance clearly. With another wave of his hand, he summoned the Scarlet Flame Drake.

The scarlet flame dancing around this fellow was the best source of light.

Making use of the scarlet flames dancing around the Scarlet Flame Drake, Zhang Che finally got a good look at the Rock Tortoise's appearance. He saw a one-meter-plus huge tortoise laying on the grass before him, its shell resembling a purple-colored crystal.

The hue of purple on its shell was pure and translucent; under the illumination of the scarlet flames, it reflected a layer of faint purple light.

"Is this for real? The three spiritual fruits actually had such effects… let alone raising the Rock Tortoise's quality, it even altered the color of its shell?" Zhang Che was immediately fascinated.

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"Tsk, tsk. I didn't expect those purple spiritual fruits to have such an effect. The Rock Tortoise looks much prettier than before!" After praising it a little, Zhang Che couldn't help but rejoice. Luckily he wasn't greedy enough to eat the three spiritual fruits himself during the intense situation earlier. Otherwise, if he became like the Rock Tortoise, wouldn't Miss Tienan kill him?

Thinking of her, Zhang Che felt slightly down.

-Ai, I've already gone missing for some time. Who knows if she got the news already? If she did, who knows how worried she'd be…

-Luckily, I already have two legend-quality babies. As long as I walk out of this dangerous area, I'll probably encounter other beastmasters very quickly, and I can then ask about where the safety zone is. It shouldn't be long before I can return to Jin City.-

-Heh, I wonder if I can still take part in the test when I get back? Also, after I return, how should I explain my disappearance?

-That's simple; I'll just say I don't know anything. I fainted and found myself extremely deep in the beast world when I woke up. Who cares if they don't believe me? Even if they don't, they have no way of proving it.-

"Mmm, I'll say just that. I really can't explain it otherwise!"

After getting his story straight for when he returned, Zhang Che peered into the Rock Tortoise's spatial pocket via their spiritual link. He wondered if this fellow's spatial pocket expanded, and if yes, by how much?

However, in the next moment, Zhang Che froze on the spot, his eyes filled with shock.

"My money…!"

The Rock Tortoise's spatial pocket had indeed expanded by quite a bit, and far exceeded Zhang Che's expectations. It increased from the original twenty cubic meters or so to a small-sized warehouse about ten meters in dimension all around, or a thousand cubic meters.

There was now a thousand cubic meters worth of space; Zhang Che didn't have to worry about running out of space in the future.

However, this space was currently empty…

Close to ten cubic meters worth of purple-gold crystal vanished; the huge pile of Titan Python meat was gone. His two strong bows, and the complementary arrows were also missing; a few dozen kilograms worth of compressed biscuits and some miscellaneous items were all lost…

Zhang Che felt his vision turning black and he nearly collapsed on the ground.

The other stuff didn't matter as much. What was important was the ten-cubic-meters, a few dozen tons worth of purple-gold crystal. There wasn't even a speck of it remaining! It truly was like having toiled for decades and reduced to square one again.

-Bloody hell, what exactly is going on…

-Could it be that when the Rock Tortoise was advancing, the items stored in its spatial pocket would disappear following its expansion?

-If I knew that earlier, I would have poured out everything first!-

Now, the joy brought about by the Rock Tortoise's advancement was washed away. Zhang Che even felt so sorrowful, as if life no longer had any meaning.

Looking at the severely compressed Rock Tortoise before him, Zhang Che mumbled sorrowfully, "Say, why did I choose to let you advance in the first place? Why didn't I think that there would be an accident when the spatial pocket expanded and poured out my items beforehand? I'm so silly, really…"

The Rock Tortoise stuck out its small purple head, looking at Zhang Che with its rounded eyes, not expressing any opinions.

"Forget it; whatever happened, happened. There's no way to fix it. Let's see what your attributes are like after reaching legend-quality."

[Purple Crystal Tortoise]

Level: Four Star (Level 40)

Quality: Legend

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Purple Crystal Tortoise's Shell Possesses Unparalleled Defenses. Non-Divine-Tier Physical Attacks Are Unable to Penetrate its Defenses. Able to Absorb and Nullify 50% of Energy Attacks

Weakness: Lacking Defenses in Areas Not Shielded By Its Shell

Innate Attribute: Rock Assimilation. Able to Traverse Freely Within Bodies of Rocks, Has a Pocket of Space of Within Its Body to Store Rocks. When Met with Enemies, Able to Accelerate the Rocks from Inside the Secondary Dimension and Launch Rock Spears at Over The Sound of Speed.

Skill: Rock Spear Gatling, Able to Turn All The Rocks Stored Within Its Body Into Rock Spears and Shoot Them in One Go, Raining Down a Destructive Sustained Attack. Cooldown Time: 5 Minutes

Skill: Purple Crystal Armor. Able to Transform into a Purple Crystal Armor, Enveloping The Beastmaster. (Not Applicable When Other Armor-Type Tools Are Equipped.) Provides Absolute Physical Defense, and Similarly Has The Effect of Absorbing and Nullifying a Certain Fraction of Energy Attacks. Lasts 1 Hour, Cooldown Time: 1 Day

Halo: Strengthened Defense

Potential: D Rank (2 Chances to Upgrade Level Remaining)

Cultivating Directions: …

Zhang Che's mouth slowly widened, and widened some more. His jaw nearly dislocated!

-It's strong. Super strong. Super super super…

-Purple Crystal Tortoise… Purple Crystal Tortoise!-

Zhang Che finally understood what happened. It turned out that the invaluable mountain of purple-gold crystals didn't vanish from the secondary dimension out of nowhere. Instead, they were mixed into the Rock Tortoise for some unknown reason when it advanced in quality, turning it into what it was now.

From now on, this fellow had simply become an unkillable cockroach!

Non-god-tier physical attacks wouldn't be able to penetrate its defense; what kind of supreme physical defense was this? Zhang Che simply couldn't imagine it.

Not only that, this fellow also provided very strong defenses against energy attacks. It was actually able to directly absorb and nullify energy attacks by half, in addition to its originally decent energy attack defenses. Perhaps all energy attacks below divine-tier wouldn't be able to deal much damage to it!

Although Zhang Che didn't know how many tier differences were there between divine and legend quality, they were definitely extremely rare existences. It was likely that he wouldn't come across such powerful exotic beast for a very long time.

Other than its untouchable supreme defenses, the Rock Tortoise's attack strength wasn't to be underestimated, either.

It could compress the rocks in its body, shaping them into spears, then accelerate them within the secondary dimension and shoot them at supersonic speed!

Although he didn't know exactly how much faster than the speed of sound could they reach, its might would surely be very satisfactory. Perhaps it was as destructive as a medium caliber cannon's armor-piercing shell.

What surprised Zhang Che most was the Rock Tortoise… no, it should be called Purple Crystal Tortoise now! The Purple Crystal Tortoise actually had a super strong skill that transformed it into an armor, providing the beastmaster with excellent defenses, lasting for a whole hour!

Of course, its cooldown time wasn't short, requiring a full day…

Even so, this was sufficient to leave Zhang Che overwhelmed with emotions.

Now that Zhang Che possessed impressive strength, he could display exceptional close combat prowess if he was equipped with a complementing weapon. The only thing he lacked was a good defense.

And now that he had the Purple Crystal Tortoise's Purple Crystal Armor skill, Zhang Che was confident that he could even fight against dark gold-quality exotic beasts, given that they weren't too big for him.

"In that case, although I lost the valuable purple-gold crystal, I gained even better defensive and attacking strength in exchange. In addition, my storage space also increased explosively… All in all, I still gained!"

As for why such a phenomenon occur when the Rock Tortoise was advancing, Zhang Che could realize the underlying reason why even if he was thinking with his toes. Other than the rainbow crystal, what else could be the cause?

Although Zhang Che was already used to all kinds of wonder made possible by the rainbow crystal, he still couldn't help but sigh repeatedly, -What exactly is this miraculous prism-shaped crystal?-

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Chapter 196: Cross Over the High Mountain

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It was daytime again.

Zhang Che packed his belongings… Uhm, there wasn't much to pack, actually. All of it had disappeared. Only the leftover skeleton of the Titan Python remained, giving him some small consolation.

Once he thought of that huge pile of purple-gold crystal, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel an ache in his heart.

-Right!

-Not only did the pile of purple-gold crystal disappear, even the purple crystal card Ding Feng Corporation gave me, with a balance of several tens of millions of dollars in it, has disappeared without a trace!

-And the bunch of four-star silver-quality beast cards I didn't sell were also gone…-

Zhang Che's eyelids drooped, his heart calm as water.

-A freaking mountain of gold was gone; what did that little bit of money count for…

-Mmm, when I bring back this pile of Titan Python bones and sell them, I can get at least a few million, or even a dozen million dollars or so. There's no way I will lack money.-

The only regrettable part was that without the purple-gold crystal, he wouldn't be able to set up a reward to request the help of others to cure his mother's illness.

However, Zhang Che wasn't too worried about this.

What kind of a place was he at now? There were terrifying exotic beasts everywhere around him. If he found an opportunity or two and killed some of those beasts, obtaining a few beast cards or a bunch of high quality materials, would he still be unable to hire those beastmasters with healing-type subdued beasts?

"It's time to leave this place. Hopefully after I cross that area of mountains, I'll find the traces of other beastmasters. I'll be able to ask for the directions to the safety zone then. Perhaps, if I'm fast enough, I could even make it back in time to take part in the examination."

Zhang Che didn't have any subdued beasts or pets summoned at his side. He only wore the Maneater Leech King soft armor and wielded the Mutated Puffersword in hand. He oriented himself and headed in the direction of the high mountains he saw yesterday, slowly walking forward.

After all, it was quieter when he moved alone. It would be easier to avoid attracting the surrounding huge beasts' attention.

Moreover, if a powerful exotic beast discovered him, he still had the time to summon the Purple Crystal Tortoise and the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus to fend it off.

———-

Zhang Che advanced cautiously, avoiding the nests of several huge beasts. He spent close to an hour before he finally arrived at the foot of the mountain range.

Looking at the tall and precipitous mountains before his eyes, Zhang Che finally let out a slight sigh of relief. Those huge exotic beasts shouldn't appear in such terrain. It should be much safer going forward.

However, Zhang Che would soon realize he was thinking too much.

Just as he started up the waist of the mountain, he felt an ominous wind blowing from the mountain forest ahead. A yellow and white striped exotic beast directly pounced at him from a dozen meters away.

"I hate being ambushed the most!" Zhang Che raised his head. A multi-colored ray of light shot out from between his brow and turned into a purple tortoise about a meter in width and height, blocking in the attack path of the exotic beast.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise landed on the ground safely with a loud bang. On the other hand, the white and yellow striped exotic beast let out a pained howl. It bounced back from the impact and fell on the grass, rolling a few times before it crawled back up on its feet.

At this moment, Zhang Che finally got a good look at this shameless fellow's appearance.

-What a big tiger!

-What long fangs!-

It was a huge, ferocious tiger over six meters long. Well, although there were some differences between it and tigers, it was still undoubtedly a tiger, because there was the word "tiger" in its name.

[Sword Fanged Tiger]

Level: Four Star (Level 39)

Quality: Silver

Characteristics: Excels in Ambushing Prey, Pounces at Shocking Speed. Its Fangs Are as Sharp as Swords, Able to Penetrate the Scales of Large, Powerful Prey.

Weakness: Lacking in Defense

Potential: D Rank

Zhang Che pursed his lips. -With only this level of strength and it actually dared to ambush me? Did this fellow really think it's that strong?-

Seemingly sensing Zhang Che's disdain for it, the Sword Fanged Tiger actually let out a low roar and intentionally went around the Purple Crystal Tortoise, pouncing towards Zhang Che once more in an arc.

Zhang Che stood calmly on the spot and gave an order to the Purple Crystal Tortoise, "Little Tortoise, get rid of it!"

In the next moment, the Purple Crystal Tortoise opened its mouth, and the Sword Fanged Tiger's large figure immediately flew backwards, as if it had suffered a heavy blow. A bowl-sized hole appeared at its throat, fresh blood gushing out of it.

Zhang Che didn't even see what the Purple Crystal Tortoise's rock spear looked like. He didn't even catch its shadow.

As expected, an attack at supersonic speed was extraordinary!

However, why wasn't there a sonic boom when it shot the rock spear?

Zhang Che couldn't understand why, but this kind of stuff couldn't be explained with science, anyway. So be it if there was no sonic boom; it only made the Purple Crystal Tortoise's attack more stealthy.

At least, it wouldn't draw the attention of the surrounding beasts.

Having its throat punctured by the rock spear, not even this Sword Fanged Tiger could withstand it, despite being a four-star silver-quality beast. It collapsed in its own pool of blood, struggling, and soon it slowly stopped moving from excessive blood loss.

"Not bad, not bad!"

Zhang Che looked at the Purple Crystal Tortoise at the side, the corners of his eyes revealing his joyful mood.

This fellow didn't take his invaluable purple-gold crystals in vain; just a normal rock spear attack contained such might. If it was using its Rock Spear Gatling, wouldn't this Sword Fanged Tiger disintegrate?

After a brief moment, the Sword Fanged Tiger finally turned into a streak of light and dissipated under Zhang Che's slightly disappointed gaze, only contributing some soul force points to him.

-Doesn't matter that it didn't drop a beast card. I don't care about such trash.-

Now that Zhang Che was spoiled by a bunch of powerful pets and subdued beasts, he truly didn't care much for a silver-quality beast card. It was fine if there was only soul force points.

Zhang Che had no idea how many more exotic beasts he had to hunt before he would rise to Tier Five. On his way back, he had to hunt as many exotic beasts as he could, since the exotic beasts here were of a higher level, and the amount of soul force points they gave were pretty considerable.

As he cautiously climbed towards the top of the mountain, Zhang Che didn't encounter any more exotic beasts. It seemed like there weren't many exotic beasts active around here.

After all, even that Sword Fanged Tiger from earlier was over six meters long!

After crossing this tall mountain, what laid beyond was the road home!

———-

As the mountain summit was getting within reach, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel agitated.

He hastened his steps and rushed up to the peak. Looking into the distance, his face instantly froze.

It turned out that after crossing this mountain, there were many more behind it…

A neverending spread of mountains extended as far as he could see, to the ends of the earth. Heavens knew how vast this mountain range was.

"Can I curse out loud?" Zhang Che sat on the ground weakly. It seemed like it was impossible for him to get home in the near future.

He had no other solution but to continue climbing the mountains.

Behind him was a huge lake, or even a sea, with no end in sight. All kinds of powerful and shocking water exotic beasts lived in there; there was no way Zhang Che could go in that direction.

"Let's get going, then. In the past, the Red Army went on a twelve hundred kilometer Long March; what do I have to fear?!"

{TLN: Reference to real life. The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China.}

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Chapter 197: Frisky Monkey, Your Wife Is Gone

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Although he lamented that it wouldn't be easy to cross the mountain range, Zhang Che still let out a light sigh of relief.

At the very least, those large, terrifying beasts wouldn't appear in this rough terrain.

As such, Zhang Che summoned the Scarlet Flame Drake and the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander with a wave of his hand.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was too big; he wouldn't be able to display his full potential here.

As for the Purple Jade Condor, Zhang Che didn't dare to guarantee no abnormally powerful flying beasts would appear. It was better to not let it take the risk.

With a legendary and two dark gold-quality beasts, if even they were unable to ensure his safety, there was no need for Zhang Che to continue making this journey. He should just find a rock and knock himself out.

Truthfully speaking, being equipped with that level of beasts was sufficient to shock anyone.

Leaving the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander aside, other than its Earth Elemental Armor halo which increased its party's defenses by a little, there was no other unique points to it. It was an existence that belonged in the bottom rung of dark gold-quality beasts.

The Scarlet Flame Drake, on the other hand, was different. With the Liquifying Scarlet Flame skill, it definitely warranted a spot as a top-tier beast within dark gold-quality. It could even contest against some legend-quality exotic beasts!

What made Zhang Che feel the most safe was the Purple Crystal Tortoise.

This fellow's attacking strength was simply off the charts. If it wasn't an exotic beast whose strength was absurdly high, they probably wouldn't be able to last a second under the Rock Spear Gatling skill before being turned into powder.

Most importantly, this fellow could also turn into a purple crystal armor during crucial moments, shielding him with unparalleled defensive strength!

—

In the mountains, the vegetation wasn't as rich as the area by the sea. It was probably due to the thinner layer of soil. The largest trees were only around two meters in diameter.

There were more bushes around here, however, covering most of the surface area.

This opened up his range of vision countless times. At least he could see dangers earlier and not walk into them unknowingly.

"Say, can I summon the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon later and roast an exotic beast or two to eat?"

It'd been a few days since he had any meat for food. Zhang Che was so hungry that his eyes were starting to turn green.

This was especially true in the most recent days, after he lost his compressed biscuits as well. Since yesterday night, all he had for food were the fruits picked by the frisky monkey. They were delicious, nonetheless, but they didn't fill his stomach.

However, for safety's sake, Zhang Che decided to wait until he was deeper into the mountains before considering the matter of eating meat.

He still remembered vividly his first day here, when he saw that huge winged dragon in the sky. It was simply a savage existence. It would not be fun if the fragrance of roasted meat attracted such ferocious beasts to him!

—

After descending the first mountain and climbing to the waist of the second, all kinds of fruits suddenly rained down upon Zhang Che from an extremely high place, aiming for his head.

Zhang Che fumed!

Without even having to think, he knew they must have ran into the weirdos of the animal kingdom: monkeys!

He hurriedly found a rock and hid behind it, then summoned the frisky monkey.

"Frisky monkey, are those guys up there your fellow townsman? Go tell them; if they continue to act so naughtily, watch out for their butts, because I'm coming for them!"

The frisky monkey was depressed! – Since when did those ordinary folks become my townsmen? I'm the one and only, who trampled upon the heavens…-

{TLN: Reference to Sun Wukong.}

-Ugh, okay, I'm slightly worse than that senior monkey master always talks about.-

Although Zhang Che was messing around with the frisky monkey with his words, he wasn't just idling around; he directly ordered the Purple Crystal Tortoise to launch a chain cannon attack above him!

Mmm, the might of the rock spears were definitely comparable to cannon fire!

In the next moment, the Purple Crystal Tortoise stuck out its head, aiming at where the countless fruits were coming from. Its mouth widened, countless blurry silhouettes shot out.

Bang bang bang bang!…

Of course, this wasn't the sound of the rock spears being shot, but the explosions that were produced after they were shot and struck the rocks above, ringing out continuously.

At the same time, there was also a wave of tragic cries.

It went without saying that the bunch of the frisky monkey's townsmen went through some bad times.

Zhang Che was ecstatic! -I'm no longer the greenhorn that I was. You want to mess me up with just a few fruits? No way!-

He turned his head to look at the frisky monkey, asking, "Say, would you blame me if I killed your fellow townsmen?"

Mmm, those monkeys were definitely the frisky monkey's townsmen. From the notifications ringing in his mind, Zhang Che learned of their names; they were actually called Mischievous Monkeys. They truly were like different tunes played by the same musician!

The frisky monkey turned his head away, ignoring this flippant master of his.

Zhang Che immediately lost all enthusiasm. Gods knew how long more to go before he walked out of this mountain range. There wasn't anyone to talk to; if he couldn't even tease his pet a little for fun, how boring would it be?

On the other front, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's attack finally stopped.

Speaking of which, after the space in this fellow's unique dimension expanded to a thousand cubic meters, the Rock Spear Gatling skill was like an overpowered, bugged skill. Although these rocks would be miraculously compressed and there was still a limit to the number of rock spears shot out, they were still terrifying, nonetheless.

It went without saying that the mountain ridge above was punched full of holes. You might not even find a complete blade of grass there.

"Come on, let's go take a look. Hopefully there's a female monkey or two remaining for you to take as your wife," Zhang Che patted the frisky monkey. He stood up from behind the rock and looked up, his face frozen.

The sight before him was in ruins… well, that wasn't even enough to describe the scene he saw.

On the mountain ridge, there truly weren't any healthy plants remaining in a circular area close to a thousand meters square. Even the protruding rocks were turned to powder, countless smashed bits of rocks covered the ground.

Not a perfect plant or rock remained, not to mention the detestable Mischievous Monkeys. It didn't have to be said that they were all reduced to streaks of light and dissipated, or turned into beast cards and were buried under the debris.

"Crap, now there's no hope of finding you a wife anymore…"

It took some time before Zhang Che could shut his widened mouth. He was so shocked by the Purple Crystal Tortoise's skill that he couldn't utter a word. The area was in such a tragic state that it looked like it was bombarded by highly concentrated cannon fire.

The frisky monkey continued ignoring this silly master.

"Hmm? I'm giving you face and you're rejecting it. Go, help me find all the beast cards. Although they are only four-star bronze-quality, they can be used to help me increase my fusion skill experience," Zhang Che said, sending the frisky monkey to find the beast cards as he slapped the back of the latter's head. Suddenly, Zhang Che noticed the flames on the Scarlet Flame Drake's body rising, its aura growing in intensity. The Scarlet Flame Drake raised its head, looking up the sky to the distance.

On the other side, the Purple Crystal Tortoise emerged from the ground, its "stomach" half-filled, similarly looking in that direction warily.

Afterwards, the weakest of them, the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander, raised its neck and look to the sky.

"There's danger!"

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Chapter 198: Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

"There's danger!" Zhang Che's first intuition was that danger was approaching.

Not only that, the incoming exotic beast was sure to be of a certain strength, since it was able to threaten all three of his capable subdued beasts. Perhaps it wasn't something they could deal with.

As he thought of this, a tiny black dot suddenly appeared in the distant sky, rapidly closing in on Zhang Che's direction.

"Hmm, since when did your abilities to sense danger became this strong?"

In the past, Zhang Che never realized his subdued beasts had such keen awareness, especially the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander. How did it realize the danger from the sky from such a long distance?

From the looks of it, that approaching black dot had probably emitted strong hostility in his direction, leading to his three subdued beasts sensing its ill intent one after another.

It was the only explanation.

"I'd better find a more defensive location."

Zhang Che recalled the frisky monkey with a wave of his hand. Now that this fellow no longer had a bow to work with, his combat strength had dropped to abyssmal levels. If Zhang Che let him remain out here, he still had to spare some attention to take care of him. As such, he could only cage him up for now.

As for escaping, Zhang Che didn't think he could run away successfully.

That thing was able to notice him from several kilometers away. Where could he run to?

It was better to find a location with better terrain and fight it on advantageous ground.

No place was a better arena than a valley between two mountains. You would be courting death if you chose to fight flying beasts in an open area.

Luckily, Zhang Che had only climbed a small part of this mountain. He had the choice to retreat to the valley below; he remembered that there were rocks and bushes aplenty down there. He could definitely make this trouble-finding fellow regret its time here.

With a slight push against the ground, Zhang Che directly leapt onto the back of the Scarlet Flame Drake. He held tightly onto the golden-scarlet mane behind its neck as the ferocious beast swiftly made its way down the mountain, as if it was riding the wind.

The Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander followed them closely.

As for the Purple Crystal Tortoise, this fellow had obviously inherited Zhang Che's strong points. Its body suddenly sank, disappearing into the ground.

As Zhang Che retreated to the valley below with his subdued beasts, the black dot in the sky quickly grew bigger, and turned into a large shadow, swooping down into the valley.

Zhang Che turned around to look and half his soul nearly dissipated from the shock.

"Shit, it's actually a twin-headed dragon! I didn't even provoke it, find trouble with it, nor did I steal its eggs; why did it come for me?"

When this twin-headed dragon's thin, membrane-like wings were spread open, it was about forty to fifty meters in length, intimidating enough to scare someone to death. It was definitely no pushover; how could Zhang Che not be frightened?

This fellow even had two brains; would it be weak?

This winged dragon had a savage appearance, like an enormous flying lizard. Its body was over ten meters long, the sharp claws at the ends of its limbs over a foot long. Its long, slim tail had a sharp hook at the end, giving it a strange look.

What was even more horrifying was that this fellow had two savage-looking heads splitting from its neck. The inside of its long, sharp mouths were filled with two rows of sharp teeth shaped like hooks.

All of this weren't important. What was important was that Zhang Che noticed this fellow's heads were different in color. The left head was red, while the right was black. It obviously meant something terrifying.

The Scarlet Flame Drake was obviously much slower than the flying twin-headed dragon.

In just a few breaths' time, that terrifying creature had closed in on them. Four sharp claws suddenly came reaching towards Zhang Che.

"Oh shit, you're looking down on me too much!"

Zhang Che was furious. The Scarlet Flame Drake under him bent its body, then jumped to the side and used a huge rock as cover, nimbly dodging the twin-headed dragon's swoop attack. Afterwards, it stopped in place and raised its head, breathing a column of scarlet flames at the twin-headed dragon.

Of course, to maintain its sustained combat strength, Zhang Che didn't order it to exhaust all its vital energy in one go. The column of flames lasted for barely a second.

The twenty-meters-long column of scarlet flames swept upwards, astonishing the twin-headed dragon. It hurriedly beat its wings, raising its altitude.

[Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon]

Level: Six Star (Level 57)

Quality: Dark Gold

Characteristics: A Poison and Fire Dual Elemental Beast. Its Two Heads Each Wield a Different Element, and Can Breathe Poison Mist and Flames Separately. Strong In Close Combat.

Weakness: Ice Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Poison and Fire Dual Element Augmentation. Able to Breathe Fire and Poison Mist For Long Periods of Time to Attack Its Foe.

Skill: Venomous Black Flames. When Skill Is Activated, Both Heads Breathe Out Strong Flames and Poison Mist Simultaneously, Combining Into a Black Poisonous Flame. It Can Both Burn and Poison the Affected Target. Attack Range: 50 Meters, Lasts 2 Seconds, Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes

Potential: D Rank

During the short exchange, Zhang Che finally saw this twin-headed dragon's attributes. He was so shocked that his heart nearly leaped out of his throat.

-What the heck!?

-A six-star dark gold-quality exotic beast, not to mention that it is dual elemental! In addition, it can also fly! Even if I summon the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, it wouldn't be able to do a thing to it!-

A cold shiver ran down Zhang Che's spine. He hurriedly ordered the Scarlet Flame Drake to continue running into the valley. "Run!"

At this moment, the red-scaled head on the left of the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon suddenly widened its mouth. A red fireball about the size of a human head shot towards Zhang Che.

"This is unfair!" Zhang Che cried out tragically. He had originally thought that this fellow's ordinary elemental attack would only be breathing a column of flames at the most, and the Scarlet Flame Drake would be able to dodge it just by moving a little. He didn't expect it to execute a great fireball technique directly!

{TLN: Likely a Naruto reference.}

Just as the Scarlet Flame Drake jumped away, the fireball smashed onto the grass a few meters away, and the area immediately burst into flames.

-Luckily the flames scattered; it didn't have any exploding attributes. Otherwise, it would most likely be game over,- Zhang Che thought.

Although the head-sized fireball set a few meters radius on fire, the Scarlet Flame Drake didn't let it burn its rider Zhang Che. Its limbs moved quickly and it jumped away in time.

As for the Scarlet Flame Drake itself, it wasn't afraid of such fire attacks at all. It was a flame specialist itself, after all. Despite the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon being two level tiers above it, its mastery of flames wasn't as good as the Scarlet Flame Drake.

It was just that Zhang Che wasn't immune to flames. Despite having the Scarlet Flame Drake's fire resistance aura in effect, allowing him to be resistant to fire to a certain degree, it was unable to guarantee that he would come out unscathed from such an attack.

The flames dissipated. The grass in that area was fully turned into ash.

Speaking of which, it was weird that the plants in the beast world would normally turn into ash directly despite not being dried up. There wouldn't be a process of it drying up before catching flames and burning. Also, the plants would fall after a certain period of time once they dried up, and quickly rot away, becoming part of the earth again.

This was probably one of the strange rules in this side of the world… preventing forest fires, perhaps?

The Scarlet Flame Drake continued dodging left and right, thwarting the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's attempts to shoot fireball attacks.

Meanwhile, Zhang Che's mind continued wandering, and he actually started being concerned about huge fires in the beast world.

"I'm really a strange guy!"

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Chapter 199: Thinking of Running Away After Provoking?

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Edited by Aelryinth

Voom! The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon shot out another fireball from its mouth.

This was an elemental attack, after all. It could only shoot once every three seconds or so. It was impossible for the twin-headed dragon to strike the nimble Scarlet Flame Drake accurately with such a delayed attack.

This time, the fireball struck a rock, directly burning the algae on it to ash. The rock on the surface cracked from the heat, and the shattered rocks sputtered. A few pieces of it struck Zhang Che, but its force was easily negated by the Maneater Leech King soft armor.

The Swamp Crocodile King armor was a hard armor, and would impede his movements at this time. Zhang Che wouldn't wear it under such circumstances. If he got careless and fell off the Scarlet Flame Drake, he would really be unable to do anything but let the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon do whatever it wanted to him.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was furious after failing to hurt Zhang Che with two fireballs. However, it was very wary of the Scarlet Flame Drake's Liquifying Scarlet Flames attack, and didn't dare to swoop down at them. The black head on the right suddenly widened its jaws, breathing out a mass of poisonous mist, aiming directly in front of the Scarlet Flame Drake.

Okay, it turned out that this fellow actually knew to calculate and lead a target…

Even so, how could the Scarlet Flame Drake possibly dive into the spreading poison mist ahead? It turned and ran off in another direction.

Zhang Che was astonished as he watched the plants shrouded in the poison mist rapidly withering away.

This was simply a biological weapon; one slight contact with it and you're done for! He had to be careful going forward. It would be really bad if he was struck even once…

He couldn't summon the Purple Jade Condor, who had the poison resistance halo attribute, either. It would be like sending it to its death. Zhang Che had no choice but to let the Scarlet Flame Drake try its best to maneuver around, avoiding the poison mist.

-We just need to hold on for two more minutes!- Zhang Che calculated inwardly. He ordered the Scarlet Flame Drake, "Shoot another mouthful of flames at it; it's fine even if you miss, just don't let it act as it wishes."

During the interval between poison mist attacks, the Scarlet Flame Drake raised its head, facing the sky, and breathed out another column of flames.

Although the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon knew for sure that the flames wouldn't burn it, it didn't dare to be careless. It beat its wings and raised its altitude by a few dozen meters again. With that, it was even more unlikely to be a deadly threat to Zhang Che.

This made it extremely furious. It wasn't easy for it to find fresh prey, and it thought it would try it for a change. In the end, it turned out this freaking little guy was filled with thorns!

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon flew up high, the Scarlet Flame Drake finally reached the rugged, rocky area in the valley.

"Now, we're finally safe. That fellow probably won't continue chasing us now, right?" Zhang Che let out a long sigh of relief. He turned around and looked to the sky, and saw that the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon had actually swooped down again!

"Hmm, this fellow is really strange. I didn't kidnap its children or anything; why is it hounding me like this? It must be sick in the head!"

In the next moment, Zhang Che's complexion changed greatly.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon, swooping down from the sky, widened both its mouths at the same time. A tongue of scarlet flames shot out from the crimson head on the left, while a mass of black poison mist shot out from the black head on the right.

The red flames and black mist fused into one, and immediately formed a black column of fire, shooting directly towards Zhang Che's position.

-Is there a need to use your skills!?- Zhang Che nearly cursed out loud. It was probably too late to try and dodge now. He could only order the Scarlet Flame Drake to open its mouth and use all its remaining vital energy and breathe out a scarlet column of flames, aiming at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's Venomous Black Flames.

The two different-colored flames clashed. They actually cancelled out one other mysteriously, leaving Zhang Che's scalp feeling numb watching them.

Two seconds later, both sides stopped breathing fire.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's skill lasted for only two seconds. Although the Scarlet Flame Drake's Liquifying Scarlet Flames could last for three seconds, it had used up a third or so of its vital energy earlier when it breathed flames on the two previous occasions. Therefore, it also stopped after two seconds.

Although the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's Venomous Black Flames contained deadly poison, it was burned away by the Scarlet Flame Drake's Liquifying Scarlet Flames. It was simply for naught; shooting the poison mist at them as harassment worked better.

Zhang Che breathed out a long sigh of relief. He continued looking at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon in the sky nervously, praying in his heart, -You better not run…-

Alas, it was like the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon overheard Zhang Che's prayers. Seeing as it was unable to do a thing to Zhang Che despite using all its means and methods, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon decided to beat its wings and rose higher in the sky.

-Is it really running away?- Zhang Che was depressed! -Do I have to let it go just like that, after being chased like a dog?-

Alas, the Purple Jade Condor was no match for the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon. Although the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's attributes was a counter to it, its level and quality was a little too low, and would only be cannon fodder.

-What should I do?- Zhang Che truly couldn't swallow it down like that without getting back at it.

Luckily, after ascending to a few hundred meters in the sky, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon seemed to be really intent on duking it out with Zhang Che. It actually started circling in the sky, roaring at him from time to time, as if it was saying, "Brat, I'm definitely eating you today. Just you wait!"

Zhang Che was assured. He let out a faint, strange smile on his face, and stuck out his middle finger at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon, not caring whether it understood the meaning of it.

Although the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's intelligence wasn't high, it seemed to know Zhang Che was taunting it. It immediately spat out another fireball and poison mist at him.

Zhang Che naturally didn't care about it, since they were so far apart. All it took was the Scarlet Flame Drake making a jump, and hiding behind a large rock. The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's attacks missed entirely.

The two entered a standstill, forming a delicate situation.

-Less than a minute left!- Zhang Che continued counting down silently in his heart.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon realized such harassing attacks wouldn't be able to threaten Zhang Che at all. It decided to keep circling in the sky, keeping an eye on him to ensure he wouldn't run away.

It had already made up its mind. When its skill could be used again, it would definitely swoop down again, leaving its prey below unable to dodge or defend.

-Less than half a minute left!-

-Ten, nine, eight… three, two, one, do it!- A glint of light flashed in Zhang Che's eyes as he shouted inwardly.

… nothing happened…

"Damn, I knew it; just counting by myself is really inaccurate…" Zhang Che was depressed. Luckily, he was only acting cool to himself silently. It would be too embarrassing if he had really shouted out loud earlier.

In the next moment, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's small head suddenly peeked out from the rocks and opened its mouth, aiming at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon.

An invisible storm of rocks suddenly formed. Rock spears invisible to the naked eye thoroughly shrouded the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon a few hundred meters up in the sky.

In the instant the Purple Crystal Tortoise opened its mouth, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon suddenly sensed a great danger approaching. It wanted to spread its wings and fly away, but it was already too late.

Countless rock spears, each as thick as an arm, struck every part of its body at supersonic speed, directly blowing it higher up into the sky.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was extremely perceptive. During the most crucial moment, it retracted its wings and allowed the countless rock spears to hit its abdomen. Although the rock spears covered it in injuries, it managed to stay in the air.

Big pieces of scales mixed with fresh blood fell from the sky. The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon let out a roar filled with sorrow and anger, its relatively uninjured wings spreading wide once more as it started to fly away.

However, although its wings weren't heavily injured, the area where its wings connected to its body was, greatly affecting its flying speed. The difference was like heaven and earth compared to its original lightning-fast flying speed.

"Thinking of running away after provoking me? No such thing!"

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Chapter 200: Sword Wielding Insect

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

"Thinking of running away after provoking me? No such thing!"

Earlier when Zhang Che wanted to run, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't let up at all. Now that it was heavily injured and wanted to make its exit, naturally Zhang Che wouldn't let it go so easily, either!

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Che recalled all his subdued beasts into his spiritual sea and summoned the Purple Jade Condor. He hopped onto the beast, and they immediately took to the skies in pursuit of the exotic beast.

Previously, Zhang Che was worried that the Purple Jade Condor was no match for the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon, and didn't dare summon it to aid him in battle. Now that the base of the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's wings was wounded, its agility and flight speed was much worse than before. Zhang Che naturally wasn't as worried.

Seeing Zhang Che actually summoning a flying beast, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon grew even more alarmed. – What kind of a freak is this guy? Why does he have so many powerful companions?-

If it were any other time, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon would naturally not put a shrimp like the Purple Jade Condor to mind. Well, of course, it still wouldn't care about the Purple Jade Condor now.

However, the injuries caused by the Purple Crystal Tortoise earlier were truly too deep. The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was afraid that the round little purple tortoise head would pop out of nowhere again and shoot another wave of spears at it. It could only let out a roar furiously and continue flying into the distance.

Regrettably, its current flying speed was a little slow in the Purple Jade Condor's eyes.

Zhang Che's hands were holding tightly onto the purple plume on the Purple Jade Condor's back, his eyes staring dead ahead at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon. He said, grinding his teeth, "Just keep following it like this. Let's see how much longer it can fly!"

As the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon flew, the countless wounds on its body were still bleeding constantly. If this continued on, it wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.

That was also why it didn't even dare to look back and return fire at Zhang Che. It could only continue flying in its nest's direction, in hopes of quickly returning home and letting its partner deal with him.

Zhang Che naturally realized this possibility as well, but he wasn't afraid.

An exotic beast at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's level and quality wouldn't have many companions, if they had any in the first place. It would only be their other half or something; there wouldn't be any substantial threat to him.

Once they were on the ground, it would be Zhang Che's home ground. What was there to be afraid of?

As they pursued, they flew past tall mountain after tall mountain. A huge mountain peak suddenly appeared on the skyline ahead.

However, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't fly in that direction. Instead, it made a swerve and flew towards another peak at the side, which resembled a sharp sword piercing through the clouds.

Zhang Che was slightly taken aback. The majestic mountain was obviously more suitable to be used as a nest. Could it be that a stronger exotic beast occupied it, and thus the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't choose that place?

No, that wasn't something he should be concerned about now. Watching the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon flying towards the other peak, Zhang Che started smiling in his heart.

Once he found that fellow's nest, did he have to worry about not being able to deal with it in the future?

Zhang Che wasn't afraid even if there were another Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon there.

-Should I use guerilla warfare to understand the situation first?

-I'll retreat when they advance, and I'll advance when they retreat, feel out the situation?-

Unless these guys decided to abandon their nest here and migrate deeper into the beast world, Zhang Che had tons of ways of dealing with them.

Seeing the steep mountain peak getting closer and closer, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon, whose speed had obviously fell by a lot, suddenly let out a high-pitched cry.

In the next moment, another cry rang out in response from the mountain peak. Afterwards, a black dot quickly rose to the sky and flew in their direction at lightning speed.

"Heh, it has a companion as I expected!"

Zhang Che wasn't surprised. This was something expected. All he needed to do was locate their nest, anyway. He'd slowly think of ways to torment them later.

The Purple Jade Condor quickly drew an arc in the air and directly swooped down towards the deep valley at the base of the mountain.

The valley was shrouded in fog; the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon probably wouldn't chase them here.

As expected, following the Purple Jade Condor's descent into the valley below, the rapidly approaching Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon only roared out furiously before shooting a fireball and poison mist at him separately, then circling in the sky above unwillingly.

The fog was thick below; this fellow obviously didn't dare to enter casually.

Similarly, Zhang Che didn't dare to be careless, either. What if there was some exotic beast in the valley that even the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't dare to provoke?

Zhang Che jumped off the Purple Jade Condor's back and recalled it into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand. Afterwards, he summoned the Scarlet Flame Drake, Purple Crystal Tortoise, and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus.

With these three capable babies, he was confident of keeping a foothold in this valley.

After the Purple Crystal Tortoise appeared, the first thing it did was to dive into the cliff at the side, devouring the rocks. Although the cooldown time of its skill had already passed, without any rocks in storage, it wouldn't be able to exhibit its might.

The Scarlet Flame Drake had replenished its vital energy while it was in Zhang Che's spiritual sea; it could breathe out a column of fire at any moment. Meanwhile, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus had been kept in his spiritual sea for days. It couldn't stay still any longer. If it decided to go on a rampage, anyone who stood in his way would be decimated.

"Hehehehe…" Suddenly, a wave of sinister laughter entered Zhang Che's ears, causing the hairs on his back to stand on end.

-What the hell? Is there some kind of demon spirit in this valley?-

Zhang Che never heard of there being supernatural creatures in the beast world. Was his luck so bad that he had encountered those unheard of malicious spirits?

However, thinking about it carefully, the Scarlet Flame Drake's flames was so powerful; was there a need to be afraid of those creeping creatures?

No matter how powerful those ghosts and spirits were, they wouldn't be able to withstand the flames from the Scarlet Flame Drake!

"Hehehehe… Shashashasha…" The sinister laughter came closer and closer, accompanied by a wave of soft rustling sounds.

Zhang Che immediately let out a sigh of relief. They had actual bodies; they weren't some kind of ghosts or spirits…

Zhang Che turned his head and focused his gaze, looking in the direction where the sounds came from. He saw the silhouettes of a few dark greyish huge swords within the fog.

-Could it be other beastmasters?- Just as such a thought came to mind, Zhang Che's jaws nearly dropped from shock.

As the huge dark grey swords revealed their full appearances, it wasn't beastmasters behind them, but strange insects about two meters long each, with black carapaces covering their bodies.

Those huge dark grey huge swords were growing from one of their mutated, thick front limbs, looking rather imposing!

"This is, a sword wielding insect?" Zhang Che nearly burst out in laughter. He didn't expect there to be such strange exotic beasts. A two-meter or so body, swinging a huge sword over a meter long and about as wide as a palm. It looked really out of place.

"Hehehehe…"

After they discovered Zhang Che and his babies, these strange insects' mouthparts kept moving. That strange, sinister laughter-like sound was produced there…

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"What a cheap, lowly laugh!" Zhang Che frowned. He truly wasn't use to someone… Ah, no, some insect laughing like this in front of him.

Especially since they were swinging swords around!

However, this wasn't considered cheap; what's cheaper was their name!

[Huge Sword]

Level: Five Star (Level 46)

Quality: Silver

Characteristics: Likes Devouring Metallic Minerals. Its Front Right Limb is Mutated Into a Metallic Huge Sword, Possesses Shocking Attacking Strength

Weakness: Metallized Carapace, Vulnerable to High Temperatures

Potential: E Rank

"There truly isn't the cheapest, only cheaper. Its name is actually Huge Sword! I'm speechless!" Zhang Che might be cursing outwardly, but he was actually rejoicing inwardly.

This was a five-star exotic beast, not to mention it seemed pretty weak. He could kill them and accumulate soul force points, allowing him to advance to Tier Five as soon as possible.

"Right, these guys' characteristics are so clear-cut. Will the beast cards they drop be weapon-type?" Zhang Che immediately looked forward to finding out.

At present, the Mutated Puffersword could no longer keep up with Zhang Che's growth. Its ordinary attacks could hardly penetrate the scales of mid-tier exotic beasts who excelled in defense, not to mention its Sonic Wave skill being totally ineffective against mid-tier or higher exotic beasts.

Meanwhile, Zhang Che now possessed herculean strength, and had also learned a powerful sword art from his future father-in-law. Once he got his hands on a good beast card weapon, he'd be able to exhibit explosive combat strength!

"Let's hope my guess is right!"

Zhang Che waved his hand. The Scarlet Flame Drake rushed forward like a gust of wind, coming up in front of the group of Huge Swords. It opened its jaws and breathed out a column of flames, enshrouding all of them inside.

Those hot flames, capable of melting steel instantly, swept over these Huge Swords' bodies briefly and their metallic black carapaces immediately turned red. Their organs were instantly roasted and they collapsed, dead.

Masses of glowing lights erupted in this dimly-lit valley. It was like Zhang Che was watching a miniature fireworks show.

One second! In only one second, this group of over twenty Huge Swords was massacred by the Scarlet Flame Drake with its skill. In the end, the ground of the valley had cracks all over it from the high temperature, and over half a dozen silvery white beast cards lay on the ground.

"Tsk, tsk. I like these exotic beasts that are vulnerable to fire elemental attacks the most! Really, the more the better!" Zhang Che's eyes narrowed into slits from his smile. He strode forward and picked up the silvery-white beast cards. He swept his data eyes across them, his brows raised up high.

Without a doubt, these Huge Swords were weapon-type beast cards, as he expected!

"Then, I have to hurry up and hunt more four-star or higher exotic beasts, and rise to Tier Five as soon as possible!"

Zhang Che had no choice. He was still a pathetic Tier Four beastmaster. Even if these Huge Swords were nice to use, he couldn't use them now.

"Work hard, young man!" Zhang Che encouraged himself, then set his gaze deeper into the valley.

Since these Huge Swords were the rare kind of mid-tier exotic beasts that gathered in groups, then there was certainly a leader-class boss among them, right?

That's right; who was Zhang Che? How could he lower his status and use a silver-quality weapon?

At the very least, he should use a gold-quality one!

With a wave of his hand, the Scarlet Flame Drake led the way, the Purple Crystal Tortoise guarded him, and the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus watched their backs, the group exploring deeper into the valley.

The environment in this valley was very peculiar. Craggy rocks were everywhere. Even if there was a shallow layer of earth, large amounts of metallic substances could be found in them. It wasn't suitable for plants to grow at all.

Zhang Che looked into the distance. Other than some extremely tenacious lichen, there wasn't any grass at all, not to mention bushes.

Only such a peculiar environment would give birth to a unique exotic beast like the Huge Sword.

"Hehehehe…"

The Huge Sword insect's cheap laughter rang out from in front. Zhang Che's eyebrows lifted in happiness.

-I'm not worried that there aren't any, but there aren't enough of you!-

What happened afterwards was truly nothing to write home about.

Facing these insects vulnerable to high temperature, the Scarlet Flame Drake was simply their natural enemy. It directly swept through them without breaking a sweat.

The only thing that halted Zhang Che's progress was that after the Scarlet Flame Drake exhausted its vital energy, it needed to return to his spiritual sea to recover for a minute or so, replenishing its vital energy by absorbing the rainbow fog.

Although a minute wasn't long, as the minutes slowly accumulated, it made Zhang Che feel that his progress wasn't as fast as he wished.

Even so, as Zhang Che continued forward and walked about a few hundred meters deeper into the valley, a small pile of silvery beast cards had gathered in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket, amounting to close to forty of them!

———–

The top part of the valley was covered in a thick layer of fog.

Zhang Che couldn't help but find it strange. He had already explored so far in, and the number of Huge Swords he killed had exceeded two hundred; why hadn't he seen the boss yet?

Strange!

At this moment, a dark cave suddenly appeared on the side of the cliff.

"Tsk, I like caves the most!" Zhang Che smiled.

He seemed to recall good things happening every time he happened upon a cave. The Huge Sword boss he was searching for was probably in this cave.

After all, these guys' food was mainly all kinds of metallic minerals. What place would contain more of it than the inside of a mountain?

Zhang Che walked to the front of the cave and looked in. This cave was actually close to ten meters high. Even the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus could walk in there with his head up. Could it be that the Huge Sword boss was this enormous?

If that was truly the case, Zhang Che could forget about slaying it; it'd be better if he quickly turned away and left.

If there was really such a gigantic Huge Sword, what level and quality would it be?

Perhaps, with a single swing of its sword, only the unkillable cockroach, the Purple Crystal Tortoise, could defend against it. Even the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus might be cleaved in half.

"Mmm, I'll have you trouble you, little tortoise." Zhang Che turned to the Purple Crystal Tortoise at his side. He wouldn't enter the cave so casually to check things out, no matter what. If the boss inside was too strong, it'd really turn out to be a one-way trip.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise, after receiving its orders, quickly scuttled forward, disappearing from Zhang Che's sight in a flash.

Speaking of which… after it rose to legend-quality, its slow movement attribute disappeared. Now, when its four purple claws started moving, it could match the running speed of ordinary exotic beasts.

After waiting for a while, a concentrated wave of clanking noises suddenly rang out from deep in the cave, like a magazine of a machine gun was being emptied, shooting at a metallic wall.

"Did they break into a fight!?" A glint shone in Zhang Che's eyes. He hurriedly retreated about a hundred meters away into the valley.

From the looks of it, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's Rock Spear Gatling was unable to penetrate the Huge Sword boss's metallic carapace. He had to be more careful from here on…

The concentrated sounds of metal clashing stopped. Afterwards, a deafening sound resembling the ringings of a huge bronze bell reverberated in the cave. The terrifying sound wave burst out from the cave, leaving Zhang Che feeling his ears were going numb from the shockwave.

The Huge Sword boss in there actually had such great strength!

Fortunately, Zhang Che didn't sense the Purple Crystal Tortoise suffering any injuries via their spiritual link. It seemed the Huge Sword boss wasn't so strong that it was undefeatable.

Alas, it was a pity that the Purple Crystal Tortoise wasn't a scouting-type subdued beast. It couldn't describe the Huge Sword boss's appearance to Zhang Che in detail. If he wanted to see the boss's appearance for himself, he had no choice but to have the Purple Crystal Tortoise lure it out.

"Let me guess… what quality of an exotic beast is that guy? It's impossible for it to be gold-quality. It's at dark gold-quality, at least! Perhaps, it might even be at legend-quality?" Zhang Che felt his heart rate accelerating uncontrollably.

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Chapter 202: Scarlet Meteorite Metal

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Edited by Aelryinth

Zhang Che felt very conflicted.

He hoped that the Huge Sword boss was at legend-quality, or even higher, but was afraid that it would be too strong, and that his subdued beasts and pets wouldn't be able to take it down.

Now, he finally understood why the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't chase him into the valley. It was most likely because of this Huge Sword boss's existence, which left it trembling in fear.

A small purple figure suddenly ran out of the cave.

Immediately after, a wave of metal scraping sounds rang out from deep in the cave. A huge black shadow came chasing closely behind the tortoise.

When that black shadow came to the front of the cave, Zhang Che couldn't help but suck in a deep breath of cold air after seeing it.

The Huge Sword boss's body was over four meters long, the black carapace covering it giving off a faint red glow.

This didn't count for anything, however. Zhang Che's gaze was completely drawn to the huge sword on its mutated limb.

The huge sword was over two meters long, its widest part about twenty centimeters across. The black sword body was dotted with scarlet star patterns, giving off a faint scarlet luster. One look and you knew it was a dangerous weapon.

[Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword]

Level: Five Star (Level 49)

Quality: Legend

Characteristics: Devoured Large Amounts of Scarlet Meteorite Metal. Its Right Front Limb Has Mutated Into a Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword With Astonishing Sharpness.

Weakness: Its Carapace is Fully Metallic. Being Subjected to Alternating Ice and Fire Elemental Attacks Would Cause Its Carapace to Become Brittle.

Skill: Unparalleled Sharpness. Greatly Improves the Sharpness of the Huge Sword After Activation, Able to Penetrate All Non-Divine-Tier Defense. Lasts 10 Seconds, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes

Halo: Increased Sharpness

Potential: D Rank

"Scarlet Meteorite Metal!" Zhang Che's eyes nearly popped out from their sockets. He never expected this Huge Sword boss had devoured a large amount of scarlet meteorite metal.

It was a metal ore even rarer than purple-gold crystal, with only a single application. When mixed into weapons, their sharpness would increase greatly, improving its armor-breaking ability. As scarlet meteorite metal was too rare, its price was even higher than purple-gold crystals.

He didn't expect there to be scarlet meteorite metal in this cave!

In an instant, Zhang Che's eyes were shining with gold.

However, to obtain the scarlet meteorite metal in the cave, first he had to get rid of this Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword!

That fellow wasn't easy to deal with. It was a five-star legend-quality beast which excelled in attacking. Even the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was no match for it.

However, this fellow's weakness was actually the combined elemental attack of ice and fire?

-Hmm, I wonder if the Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could turn its carapace brittle? If yes, it'll be a piece of cake with deal with it.-

No matter if they could or could not, this was the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's only weakness. Zhang Che had to give it a try no matter what. Thus, he summoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon with a wave of his hand.

Of course, having the Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon rush forward directly was an act of suicide.

Zhang Che wouldn't be so silly.

As such, his brain worked at maximum capacity, and quickly cooked up an extremely detailed plan.

Zhang Che first gave an order to the Purple Crystal Tortoise, stopping it from running and face the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, "Stop running, little tortoise. Continue harassing it!"

In any case, this boss beast was successfully lured out of its cave. The Purple Crystal Tortoise no longer had to feign running away in fear.

Of course, it couldn't defeat its foe originally, but the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword was similarly unable to do a thing to it.

The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword was immediately filled with joy when it saw this little thing crawling back. The huge black sword on its mutated front limb was raised up high, drawing a black-scarlet arc and slashing down on the Purple Crystal Tortoise's shell.

Kuang! A loud sound rang out. The Purple Crystal Tortoise's body was smashed into the ground. Afterwards, it quickly crawled back up and continued swaying back and forth before the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword.

It truly was an unkillable cockroach!

Kuang! Kuang! Kuang!

It was an insect, after all. No matter how strong it was, it was still a simpleton. The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword was thoroughly intent on destroying the Purple Crystal Tortoise. It kept swinging the dreadful huge sword at the Purple Crystal Tortoise's shell, producing an unending wave of loud impacts.

A hint of smiling intent was revealed in Zhang Che's eyes. He looked towards the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus at the side, -You're up now!-

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, who couldn't hold himself back anymore, raised his head and let out a loud roar. In the next moment, Zhang Che's leg flew up, sending a kick to his butt.

"What are you crying out for! Enter the village silently and don't open fire. Understand?" {TLN: Reference to a classic line in a 1965 Chinese film, Tunnel War.}

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus showed a wronged expression. -You didn't say so earlier…-

Afterwards, this large fellow strode forward with small steps, running towards the battlefield, each step causing a loud thump.

Zhang Che almost covered his face, -With your weight, how do you enter the village silently, huh…-

As expected, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's attention was immediately drawn to the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus. It turned its head, facing him.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise was displeased. -I let you strike me for so long, you actually don't put me to mind at all?- It widened its mouth and shot out a rock spear, aiming at the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's mouth.

A crisp sound rang out. The rock spear exploded into countless bits, scattering in all directions. However, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's mouth was unwounded.

"Tsk, tsk. It seems like it's impossible to injure this fellow with physical attacks." Zhang Che was shocked inwardly after watching this. Logically speaking, shouldn't an insect's mouth be where its defense was extremely thin? The Purple Crystal Tortoise's supersonic rock spear attack was actually ineffective against it. It truly was even tougher than a tortoise's shell.

Fortunately, although the Purple Crystal Tortoise's attack didn't hurt the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, it managed to draw back its attention.

Kuang! Kuang! Kuang! Another round of smashing ensued…

On the other front, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus finally closed in on the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword. Following then order from Zhang Che, he picked up speed and charged at the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword at a hundred-meter-dash pace.

The big guy was so heavy that when he started running at full speed, and it seemed like the entire valley was trembling.

Seeing the Purple Crystal Tortoise continue running back and forth uninjured despite its attacks, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword finally stopped its meaningless beating, and turned its head to the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus.

The great dinosaur saw a massive black shadow arcing towards it.

A dark-scarlet sword light flashed in the air, like an opening was torn apart in space. The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword slashed at the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus without hesitation.

-Absolute Defense! – At Zhang Che's command, a deep black glow suddenly shone on the surface of the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' body.

A loud clang rang out. The dark-scarlet huge sword was deflected, bouncing high up into the air.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' momentum wasn't impeded at all. He opened his jaws, and bit down at the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's exposed right front limb.

A wave of ear-piercing creaking and grating sounds rang out, like metal grinding against metal. The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's limb-sword was held tightly in place by the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' sharp teeth. Although his terrifyingly strong biting strength was still unable to tear it apart, he could lock it in place, leaving it unable to budge.

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Chapter 203: It's Time For Revenge

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-Sure enough, it worked!-

A hint of joy showed in Zhang Che's eyes. He waved his hand at the Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon at his side, and they immediately ran a few dozen meters forward.

The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword seemed to sense an unknown danger and started struggling madly, trying to break its mutated limb free. It wanted to swing its dark-scarlet huge sword and cut the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus in half.

Alas, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was a huge beast with godly strength. It wasn't inferior to the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword in any way, be it level or quality. Its jaw strength was also frighteningly strong.

At this moment, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's mutated front limb was held tightly in place by his jaws. How could it possibly break free?

On the contrary, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus wanted to achieve some merits. He swung his head violently, flinging the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword around and smashed it on the hard ground.

A loud sound rang out, raising a dust cloud.

"Hehehehe…" The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword let out a sharp, cheap laugh. Although it was slammed violently on the ground, it wasn't hurt in the slightest. It continued struggling to break free.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' temper flared. He shook his head violently, flinging the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword about like a ragdoll, smashing it on the ground again and again.

"Stop playing!" Zhang Che shouted, stopping the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus.

-The Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon won't be able to get close if you keep playing like this. How am I supposed to kill that boss?-

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus could only stop reluctantly, thinking, -If I continue smashing it like this, even if it won't die from the impact, it should die from the shock, right?-

Even so, he couldn't defy his master daddy's orders.

The Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon hurriedly rushed up, and under Zhang Che's orders, the Scarlet Flame Drake directly aimed at the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's head and breathed fire at it. Afterwards, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon immediately followed up, breathing a breath of cold air at the same area.

"Hehehehe!…" The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword immediately panicked, emitting a wave of cheap laughter sounds.

The Scarlet Flame Drake and Cold Abyss Flood Dragon worked in tandem all the way until the former's vital energy was exhausted, completing over ten cycles of ice and fire elemental attacks on the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's head.

"Try smashing it!" Zhang Che ordered. The Scarlet Flame Drake reached for the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's head with its claws, and a crisp clang rang out.

Although the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's carapace didn't shatter from the impact, Zhang Che, who walked up close to it, saw clearly that there was a faint crack on its head!

-It's effective!-

"Continue smashing!"

As such, the Scarlet Flame Drake took up the job of a dismantler this time, smashing its claw at the place where the cracks formed, producing a string of metal striking sounds.

However, the results were negligible.

Zhang Che frowned. He had the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus continue locking the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's mutated limb in place, and recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake into his spiritual sea, letting it recover its exhausted vital energy.

A minute later, the Scarlet Flame Drake returned in its perfect state. Together with the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, they began another round of inhumane torture on the damaged carapace of the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword.

"Hehehehe…" The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword was flustered. It hurriedly twisted its body about, its thin legs moving around frantically. Alas, its mutated front limb was held in place by the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus with his jaws. How could it escape from the hot and cold treatment?

Another round of ice and fire attacks ended. The area of the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's carapace that was continuously subjected to the alternating temperatures was now obviously a different color from the other areas.

This time, without needing Zhang Che to give the order, the Scarlet Flame Drake smashed at it with its claw.

A crisp cracking rang out. Countless large cracks appeared on the carapace.

"Hehehehe…"

After one more smash, a face basin-sized area of the carapace cracked and shattered like glass.

Ferocity shone in the Scarlet Flame Drake's eyes. It directly stabbed its claw into the opening, stirring it up violently.

"Hehehehe… hehe, he…"

The cheap laughter sound stopped. Afterwards, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's body suddenly glowed, then condensed into a five-colored beast card with five hexagrams on it.

"Hah, a beast card really dropped!" Zhang Che went wild with joy. He almost lost control and roared out in laughter.

Such a troublesome exotic beast was actually slain by his subdued beasts and pets almost effortlessly with their teamwork. It truly was worth celebrating!

Zhang Che had also noticed that it seemed like exotic beasts were sure to drop a beast card once they were above a certain level and quality. Although he wasn't certain of it, he guessed that it was most likely the truth.

Otherwise, how would he explain all the dark gold-quality and above exotic beasts he killed dropping beast cards?

[Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword]

Level: Five Star (Level 49)

Quality: Legend

Type: Weapon Type

Characteristics: Contains Large Amount of Scarlet Meteorite Essence, Its Attacking Strength and Sharpness Shockingly High

Skill: Unparalleled Sharpness. Greatly Improves The Sharpness of The Huge Sword After Activation, Able to Penetrate All Non-Divine-Tier Defense. Lasts 10 Seconds, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes

Halo: Increased Sharpness

Potential: D Rank

However, a wave of sadness struck him after the initial happiness died down as he looked at the weapon-type beast card with shockingly great attributes in his hand.

He had no idea how many more exotic beasts he had to hunt before he rose to Tier Five. Gods knew how long he had to wait before he could wield the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword.

Shaking his head, he stuffed this beast card into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket regretfully. Zhang Che had his subdued beasts and pets open the way ahead, walking deeper into the dark cave with quick strides.

With the Scarlet Flame Drake around, he didn't even have to prepare anything for a light source. Although the flames dancing around this fellow weren't very obvious in open areas, it was like a bright lamp in such a narrow and dark cave.

Zhang Che explored about a hundred meters deeper into the cave after making a few twists and turns, before arriving at a cavern about the size of a mini warehouse. The surrounding marks were obviously dug out by the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, and not formed naturally.

"Go, see whether there is any remaining scarlet meteorite metal within the mountain body," Zhang Che ordered, waving his hand at the Purple Crystal Tortoise. This fellow immediately sank into the ground of the cave.

"Hopefully there'll be some gains. It would be impossible for the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword to eat up all of the scarlet meteorite. It only dug out this much space; could it have harvested all of it?"

Time slowly trickled away. A hint of an excited smile started to show on Zhang Che's face.

Since the Purple Crystal Tortoise had been gone for some time, there must be more scarlet meteorite metal in the mountain!

Zhang Che waited in the cavern for two whole hours before the Purple Crystal Tortoise's figure appeared silently from the wall of the cave. It came up to Zhang Che, grovelling, and opened its mouth, spitting out a pile of metal bits with scarlet spots.

"Heh, this fellow even comes with an ore purifying ability!" Zhang Che couldn't help but rejoice. If, in the future, they discovered those minerals that were hard to purify, having the Purple Crystal Tortoise was simply even better than the best ore purifier machines!

After lamenting, Zhang Che took a good look at this small pile of scarlet meteorite before him. He estimated the pile to be slightly more than a cubic meter.

According to the knowledge left in his previous self's memory, the density of scarlet meteorite was 14.794 gram per cubic centimeter. It was denser than lead, but less dense than gold.

This meant that this pile of scarlet meteorite weighed close to fifteen tons.

In the high-end market, the price of scarlet meteorite was valued at about sixteen to eighteen thousand Alliance dollars per gram. Averaging it out, we'd take it as seventeen thousand dollars per gram. How much was fifteen tons of it worth?

Zhang Che couldn't get an answer, but he knew there were countless zeroes in that number!

"I'm finally a rich man again! But why do I still feel that dull ache in my heart whenever I think of that pile of purple-gold crystals…"

It could be said that he had a huge harvest this time. Zhang Che couldn't help but shift his gaze upwards.

If his expectations were right, the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' nest would be on top of this mountain.

Then, it was time for revenge!

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Chapter 204: The Egg Pays For The Dragon's Debts

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Edited by Aelryinth

The combined strength of two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two. Zhang Che had to plan his moves deliberately if he wanted revenge.

However, he thought of a perfect solution as he looked upwards in the cave he was in right now.

That was to rely on the Purple Crystal Tortoise's strength and continue digging upwards, all the way to just below the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' nest. Then, he'd go with a "celestial troops descending from the heavens"… ugh, not right, it should be celestial troops rising from the earth…

At that time, how beautiful would the looks on those Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' faces be?

Zhang Che's lips curled up into a faint smile, almost shocking himself with his genius…

However, if he wanted to dig his way up, he had to investigate in detail where the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' nest was located. Otherwise, if he was too far off, he wouldn't be able to catch them by surprise.

Naturally, the Purple Crystal Tortoise was most suited for the job.

Of course, before he went ahead with this, Zhang Che had the Purple Crystal Tortoise spit out a large pile of exotic fruits. It was already noon. He was shaking from hunger!

Waving his hand, the Purple Crystal Tortoise melded into the wall, and Zhang Che began feasting on the large pile of fruits before him.

Less than half an hour later, the few dozen kilograms worth of fruits were all inside Zhang Che's stomach. His expression, however, was one of helplessness.

"I haven't had any freaking meat for days. There aren't even any compressed biscuits, either. How can I continue on with just fruits? They are so tasteless in my mouth that a bird could hatch from it!"

{TLN: Another pun similar to the dull/egg and bird hatching some chapters back. Tasteless is also pronounced dan.}

However, after thinking for a little, he surmised that there shouldn't be any more powerful exotic beasts in this area after he eliminated the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons above. At that time, naturally he could have the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus go hunt a few exotic beasts for food.

Mmm, there'd be milk, bread, and delicious exotic beast meat! Surely!

"I want to eat meat… Will anyone give me some meat… I'll even gift that pile of scarlet meteorite to them!" Thinking of some fragrant roasted exotic beast meat, Zhang Che felt even more anguish.

After wailing for a bit, Zhang Che laid down on the ground to rest, his eyes still open.

——

After a short while, the Purple Crystal Tortoise appeared from the ground at Zhang Che's side silently.

"How is it? Did you find out where they are?"

The Purple Crystal Tortoise nodded quickly.

Zhang Che immediately sat up, "Alright then, let's start to work immediately!"

The Purple Crystal Tortoise nodded again. It opened its jaws, facing a side of the wall. Afterwards, Zhang Che saw the rocks on the wall seemingly being cut by an invisible sharp blade, directly reduced to countless rock bits and flying into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's mouth.

A one-meter-wide tunnel was quickly formed just like that, the speed simply left him in disbelief.

"Were you a miner in your past life?" Zhang Che stared blankly, unable to speak a word for some time.

If they maintained this speed, a tunnel connecting to the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' nest at the top of the mountain would be dug out in less than an hour!

This was still because the space in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's dimension was a little too small, requiring that it exit the cave from time to time to spit out the rocks. Otherwise, the time needed would be at least halved!

Even so, this tunnel digging speed was sufficient to leave most machines crying!

——————–

An hour later, Zhang Che followed the Purple Crystal Tortoise up the spiraling tunnel, arriving less than a meter under where the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' nest was, still hidden underground.

Zhang Che took two deep breaths, then nodded at the Purple Crystal Tortoise at his side. It immediately widened its mouth and suddenly sucked in. The layer of rocks was directly turned into shattered rocks and swallowed into its stomach.

At the same time, two streaks of light, one dark gold, and the other five-colored, shot upwards from between his brow. The Scarlet Flame Drake and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus made their surprising entrance.

Following closely behind was the Purple Crystal Tortoise, quickly crawling its way up.

In the next second, a column of flames shot out from the Scarlet Flame Drake's mouth, shrouding towards the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons in their nest.

Alas, Zhang Che had underestimated the wariness of a six-star dark gold-quality beast.

In the instant the Scarlet Flame Drake made its attack, the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons sensed a great danger approaching, and they activated their skills at the same time. Two black columns of flames clashed against the Scarlet Flame Drake's Liquifying Scarlet Flames at the same time.

The two differently attributed flames cancelled out one another at the same time. However, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's Rock Spear Gatling attack made it in time, acting as a second wave of attack.

A violent storm of rocks swept over, swallowing the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons within.

Bam bam bam bam… A wave of concentrated smashing sounds rang out. The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, caught unprepared, were smacked senseless. Countless wounds appeared on their bodies, their black scales fell off, fresh blood flowing out.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' simple nest was also destroyed beyond recognition.

What confused Zhang Che was why didn't the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons dodge?

When the Scarlet Flame Drake launched its attack, they totally had time to escape into the sky. There was no need for them to take the attack head on at all.

"Hmm? What's that? Eggs!" Zhang Che, whose head was peeking out from the tunnel, suddenly noticed two large eggs behind the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, each over a meter tall, laying on the nest safely. They were protected by the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, and weren't damaged at all during the storm of rocks earlier.

"Oh, so they're protecting their young!"

Zhang Che's eyes rolled around, and he immediately ordered the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus to rush up.

-The eggs shall pay for the dragon's debt. Since I have no way of killing you, I'll destroy your eggs. Let's see if you'll feel the pain!-

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' large figure posed a huge threat to the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons. Although they tried their hardest to protect their young, the flames and poison mist they spat out were unable to cause any harm to the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus at all.

Seeing the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' open jaws was biting towards them, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons could only let out roars filled with sorrow and anger, spreading their wings and flying up in the sky, circling around and mourning.

"Hmm? Don't smash them yet!" Zhang Che suddenly thought of something. He hurriedly stopped the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' destructive actions. Afterwards, he ordered the Purple Crystal Tortoise to rush over and opened its mouth, facing the two large eggs over a meter tall.

However, nothing happened next.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise's storage ability were unable to absorb the two eggs into its unique dimension.

-Damn it, is it unable to absorb living creatures?- Zhang Che cursed inwardly. He didn't expect the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket to be unable to store the eggs. Left without a choice, he instructed the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, "Bring me those two eggs. Be careful not to break them."

The indignant Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons shot fireballs and poison mist at the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus continuously, but such ordinary elemental attacks weren't able to cause any substantial damage to him, and were directly ignored.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus opened its huge jaws, and holding the two eggs in its mouth carefully as instructed by Zhang Che, it immediately turned and walked back to him with long strides.

-Oh shit!- , Zhang Che cursed inwardly and ducked his head back into the tunnel.

Immediately after, two fireballs came flying and struck the tunnel's exit. A large area of fire splashed around. Luckily, Zhang Che had the Scarlet Flame Drake's fire resistance halo in effect. The fireball didn't strike him directly and didn't hurt him at all.

At this moment, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus finally came to the tunnel exit and sat on it, his huge body sealing the whole exit.

Two clouds of poison mist came crashing down from the sky and scattered on the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' back, with no chance of spreading into the tunnel.

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Chapter 205: To The Test Hall

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"Just block the hole for now. Don't move!" Zhang Che instructed the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus above him. He immediately recalled the Purple Crystal Tortoise and Scarlet Flame Drake, who were out in the open.

Afterwards, Zhang Che climbed up to the tunnel exit, spreading his arms wide and had the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus spit out the two eggs in his mouth, catching them. He directly slid down the smooth tunnel.

He slid down about a dozen meters. After confirming that the attacks from above wouldn't reach him through the spiraling tunnel, Zhang Che recalled the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, who had suffered only minor injuries, and he continued sliding down the tunnel, carrying the two large eggs in his arms.

Two roars filled with sorrow and anger rang out from above. Following that, two fireballs were shot into the tunnel, but detonated in the topmost area due to the spiralling nature of the tunnel.

Zhang Che slid all the way down to the other end of the tunnel, back into the cave. He looked at the two large eggs in hand, bursting out into laughter uncontrollably.

Although his plan didn't work as he envisioned, and he was unable to slay the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, he successfully obtained their eggs. Wasn't this a kind of success, too?

Regrettably, however, the eggs were considered living bodies, and so were unable to be stored in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket. Otherwise, if he brought them back to Mercury, they were definitely rare objects. Gods knew how many people would vie to buy them from him.

Zhang Che wasn't wrong; if he really could bring these two eggs of a six-star dark gold-quality exotic beast back, he would definitely cause a huge sensation.

He had no idea that although other beastmasters were unable to directly imitate him taming exotic beasts into becoming his pet via the mysterious powers of the rainbow crystal, they had managed to research a feasible method to do so, like how Miss Tienan tamed her little rainbow spider, using their nature of seeking their kin when they were just born to gain their acknowledgement.

However, the newly born, or about to be born, exotic beasts would be under heavy protection. How could others obtain them so easily?

Thus, the eggs, or newly born exotic beasts with decent quality, were worth more than twice of other exotic beasts of the same level and quality, but there was only demand and no supply!

Of course, there were huge differences between ordinary beastmasters and Zhang Che's pets.

The pets Zhang Che tamed via the rainbow crystal were absolutely obedient to his orders. There wouldn't be any possibility of them betraying him.

On the other hand, the pets ordinary beastmasters tamed might betray their masters if they were treated too badly, stirring the tyrannical nature buried in their genes.

As such, beastmasters who owned pets would treat them, especially those large pets, even more gently than their lovers. That was to deepen their relationship, reducing the chances of betrayal.

The most fundamental difference was that Zhang Che could recall his pets into his spiritual sea, allowing the rainbow crystal's energy to heal them up. They could also be disguised as subdued beasts, while ordinary beastmasters' pets couldn't do that.

Zhang Che naturally had no knowledge of any of this. At this moment, he was looking at the two dragon eggs, fretting.

They were indeed good stuff, but they wouldn't be easy to bring back.

Putting the matter of their large size being inconvenient to lug them around aside, these were eggs. They might break if he was ever so slightly careless. Even if he was very careful about it, there were always chances of accidents occurring. It truly was too difficult to bring them out of the beast world undamaged.

-Right, I wonder if a beast card would drop if I smashed the egg?- Zhang Che's eyes instantly lit up. The more he thought about it, the more he felt it likely. He immediately put his thoughts into practice, punching one of the eggs.

A crisp sound rang out. The egg shell cracked; Zhang Che smashed open a fist-sized hole in the egg. Following which, sticky egg white started flowing out from the hole.

"What's going on? Shouldn't it turn into a glow of light and dissipate, or a beast card?" Zhang Che was taken aback, unable to understand this phenomenon.

However, he could no longer bother to think about this question in the next moment. As the egg white flowed out, Zhang Che suddenly caught a whiff of an unusual fragrance, and an extreme sense of hunger surfaced, turning his eyes green.

"Chicken egg is an egg, and poison dragon's egg is also an egg. It's probably edible, right?" Zhang Che licked his lips and swallowed a large mouthful of saliva. He quickly brought his head closer, his mouth opened wide, and started gulping down large mouthfuls of the flowing sticky egg white.

An inexplicable deliciousness seeped into Zhang Che's clamoring tastebuds. He almost moaned out loud from satisfaction, and hastened his swallowing speed.

As the egg white entered his stomach, a mass of vigorous energy suddenly burst forth and turned into a warm flow, spreading throughout Zhang Che's body.

"There's actually such an effect!" Zhang Che widened his eyes, revealing a look of surprise and disbelief.

In the end, Zhang Che just raised the dragon egg up above his head and similarly bent his neck upwards, swallowing all the liquid…

This entire process lasted several minutes. Zhang Che's hands were left with only a mostly intact egg shell.

Inside his body, a warm current was surging about like the waves of a vast and mighty river, reaching every corner. It made Zhang Che feel as if he was soaking in a hot spring. It was truly inexplicably comfortable.

He tossed the empty egg shell away and lay on the ground, enjoying the sensation silently with his eyes closed.

It was unknown how long this feeling lasted, before Zhang Che opened his eyes. It seemed as if his eyes emitted a tangible glow of light. Afterwards, he walked up to the wall and took a stance, bending his knee and lowering his waist. His right hand formed a fist and punched at the wall.

A dull, loud bang reverberated throughout the entire cave. A light fist imprint was left on the rock wall where he hit it. A layer of rock was even directly reduced to powder, slowly falling off.

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The thirty-sixth year of the new age, twenty-eighth of June, morning…

Eastern Bei Du City, outside the Huang family's mansion…

Huang Tielan woke up early in the morning and did a round of weight loss workout, then she went to the front hall and had breakfast with her grandparents. Afterwards, she left the mansion with the face basin-sized little rainbow spider following behind her, boarding a luxurious yet low profile sedan.

The car was started up. It slowly accelerated, driving towards Bei Du University.

Today was the day when examinees for Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major took their written test.

Of course, the written test didn't require the examinees to come to Bei Du City to take it. They could take the test from whatever city they were from, in their school.

However, Huang Tielan wanted to experience the atmosphere of Bei Du University in advance. Moreover, she was already in Bei Du, so she filled in here as her test location.

The sedan drove on for over an hour through the enormous Bei Du City, and finally stopped at the front gates of Bei Du University. Huang Tielan alighted expressionlessly, the cute little rainbow spider following behind her.

Standing at the school gates, Huang Tielan looked at the tall and majestic school building, an unusually determined look on her face.

-Go for it, Huang Tielan. You can definitely enroll into this university's beast card cultivation m ajor!- she cheered for herself inwardly. Afterwards, Huang Tielan strode forward and entered the best university in the entire Hua Xia region…

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Chapter 206: Strength to Move Mountains and Unrivalled Spirit

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At the same time, in the beast world behind the Jin City spatial gateway…

In the hunting zone, Zheng Hongru, Xiao Yi and the others were hiding in a valley with complicated terrain, looking cautiously at a large brown-skinned lizard over three meters long ahead.

The official hunt started yesterday. All of them were equipped with the new beast cards Zhang Che left them, the strongest subdued beast being the two-star silver-quality Stinger Bee King and the two-star gold-quality Demonic Shadow Mantis.

After Zhang Che's incident, they considered directly withdrawing from the test.

However, when they thought of how Zhang Che encouraged them in the few days he had spent with them, Zheng Hongru and the others decided to stay behind and take the test in the end.

Paraphrasing Sun Zhi, "Although Brother Che is no longer around, he left us a bunch of decent beast cards. We have to make good use of these beast cards and strive for a decent ranking in this test, enter a university and further our studies.

"Moreover, Brother Che's mother is waiting for him back home in Qian Wei City. We have to get stronger and help Brother Che take good care of his mother."

The four of them carefully hid themselves from sight, and shifted their gazes to that brown lizard in the valley ahead, calculating whether they could kill it.

Previously, they used a useless two-star black iron-quality beast to test the water. This lizard didn't look the part, but its strength was indeed very strong. In just a few moves, it shredded the black iron-quality subdued beast apart and reduced it to dissipating light.

From their estimate, its strength shouldn't be lower than three-star silver-quality.

After a brief silence, Zheng Hongru turned his head and took a glance at Li Da, who was at the side, saying, "Li Da, send another trash beast over. Don't commit it to battle this time. Just try to lure that big lizard over here."

Li Da nodded. With a wave of his hand, a boar-like subdued beast rushed out, charging towards the big lizard.

Seeing more prey running its way, an excited glint immediately shone in its eyes. When it killed the previous beast earlier, its prey disappeared for some unknown reason. It couldn't get any better now that another meal came to its doorstep.

The boar charged into the valley, and suddenly a large lizard came pouncing at it, scaring it into turning tail and running immediately.

However, the lizard was extremely quick on its feet. It caught up to the boar in the blink of an eye.

Just as it pounced at its prey at opened its mouth wide, biting down at the boar's thigh, a black silhouette suddenly flashed out from the bushes at the side. Before it knew what happened, a deep cut had appeared on its neck, fresh blood spurting from it.

At the same time, a "biological nuke" rose from the bushes at the opposite side and shot out an extremely sharp needle from about a dozen meters away, aimed at the brown lizard's hind leg.

Strong poison instantly seeped in after the poisonous needle entered the brown lizard's hind leg, leaving the exotic beast rolling about on the ground violently.

The black silhouette flashed past again, and another cut appeared on the brown lizard's neck, connecting the two wounds together, slicing off its head.

As the exotic beast fell, it turned into a streak of light and condensed into a silvery beast card with three hexagrams on it in the end.

Zheng Hongru and the others cheered, and came running up to the spot.

At present, the four of them were no longer unable to make use of three-star beast cards.

During the past few days, after some discussions, they decided to allow Zheng Hongru to cross his final hurdles as much as possible, and he finally rose to Tier Three yesterday noon.

Now, with the addition of a three-star silver-quality subdued beasts in their ranks, the group's overall strength had received another significant boost!

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In the cave, Zhang Che was looking at an uneven rock in front of him, about a cubic meter in size. He took a deep breath, then walked forward, grabbing this huge rock with both arms, and exerted his herculean strength.

"Up!" Zhang Che yelled. The muscles on his entire body tightened. This large rock, about two tons in weight, was actually lifted from the ground!

With both arms carrying the huge rock in his embrace, Zhang Che paced around in the cavern until his arms were sore. His breathing grew heavy and frequent, before he finally threw the rock away.

"Strength to move mountains and unrivalled spirit! I wonder if the Conqueror of Western Chu, Xiang Yu, was as strong as me?"

{TLN: The part about moving mountains and spirit is the first line of the poem Xiang Yu recited in his final moments.}

After thinking a little, Zhang Che felt that he was stronger.

If his calculations were right, this huge rock weighed over two tons. Converted to market catties, it was over four thousand catties!

Let alone Xiang Yu, not a single fierce warrior in the ancient Chinese era of Earth would possess such great strength!

"Tsk, tsk. The effects of the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons' egg really came in fast, and are obvious!" Zhang Che praised. Afterwards, he turned to look at the other dragon egg, wondering how much would his strength increase if he ate that, too.

Why not act on it rather than just thinking about it? Not only did the dragon egg increase his strength, it was also unusually delicious! It was much more enjoyable than eating fruits; naturally Zhang Che wouldn't hesitate.

There was no way he could bring it out of the beast card anyway. It was better to eat it and increase his strength.

He thought about the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword; that thing was about two meters long, its widest part about twenty centimeters across, and the thickest part of the blade's spine close to five centimeters. Although it was a weapon-type beast card and its actual weight wouldn't be too heavy, naturally the greater his strength the better it was if he wanted to swing it as he wished.

A crisp sound rang out. A hole was smashed open by Zhang Che on the remaining dragon egg. After that, Zhang Che quickly opened his mouth and brought his head closer, catching all the flowing egg white down to the last drop, swallowing it.

After another indeterminate amount of time, Zhang Che felt that he had completely digested the energy contained within the dragon egg. His body was filled with a sense of explosive strength.

He walked to the huge rock again, lowering his waist, grabbing the rock with both arms. His strength burst forth, easily lifting up the rock.

This time, Zhang Che wasn't taking slow steps. He directly carried the rock and jumped about, although it was obvious it took great effort for him to do so. Despite not jumping high, both his feet were indeed off the ground at the same time.

"Very good. This dragon egg probably increased my strength by another five hundred kilograms or so. So, my strength should be over twenty five hundred kilograms!"

Zhang Che was overjoyed. He was truly someone who could move mountains with his strength now!

With his great strength, once he advanced to Tier Five and equipped himself with the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, on top of the Purple Crystal Tortoise's Purple Crystal Armor skill, he could totally transform into a human-sized gundam!

At that time, any exotic beast under divine tier without elemental attacks would probably be unable to stand against him, right?

It truly would be like slaying any gods or Buddhas who dared stand in his way!

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Darkness covered the lands. The valley was even darker.

Zhang Che stood outside the cave, a hint of surprise on his face. He remembered that when he first came to the valley, it was only around noon. Why was the sky dark so soon?

He remembered the sensation when he absorbed the essence of the two dragon eggs. It was simply like taking some substance he wasn't supposed to. His entire being, from his body to his spirit, was drowned in pleasure. It felt like he was about to ascend to nirvana!

Judging from the situation, time had passed by quickly during that course of events.

"Since it's already dark, I'll rest in this cave for a night. A safe space is already prepared, after all."

Zhang Che naturally didn't dare to continue on his way during the night.

Heavens knew if there were any more powerful exotic beasts in this area other than the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons. He might find himself in a desperate situation if he was careless.

You mustn't move around during night times in the beast world: this was a consensus among all beastmasters!

Moreover, there was still the adjacent majestic mountain, which even the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon didn't dare to go near. He could well imagine it was the territory of an unknown powerful beast.

After returning to the depths of the cave, Zhand Che directly went to sleep without changing his clothes.

Well, he didn't have a choice. The backpack he used to store his daily necessities was left in the hunting zone, and the items stored in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension had disappeared without a trace.

The clothes he had on now were close to becoming beggar's attire. If it wasn't for Zhang Che usually wearing the Maneater Leech King soft armor or the Swamp Crocodile King hard armor on the outside, they would have been discarded long ago.

Even so, Zhang Che could imagine the day when he walked out of the beast world, perhaps he could only appear in front of others in his beast card armor.

So why did both his beast card armors had to be so weird looking!?

Nothing had to be said about the soft armor; it was a skintight outfit. Just thinking about appearing in front of others wearing a weird-looking skin tight overall left him shivering.

As for the Swamp Crocodile King hard armor, it had to be classified as a bizarre outfit. After putting on the helmet, he totally looked like a human-shaped exotic beast. Even if he took the helmet off, it definitely didn't look good.

Zhang Che came to a decision. In the future, he definitely had to find a suit of armor that looked more normal!

Before he went to sleep, Zhang Che had the Purple Crystal Tortoise sneak to the top of the mountain silently to check on the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, but the dragons were gone, their nest empty.

Perhaps the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons knew that they couldn't do anything to Zhang Che, and in order to avoid him coming to harass them again, they migrated elsewhere. Thinking about it, it truly was hard on them. They had to endure the results of a feud snatching away their young.

"What a pity. If the two poison dragons continued staying above, surely a day would come when I cut them down!"

Zhang Che was confident that when he rose to Tier Five and was able to wield the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, it would be the day when the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons died.

Alas, they wouldn't give him the opportunity.

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Zhang Che had a night of peaceful sleep. After he woke up, he walked out of the cave, and saw that outside was already bright all around.

There wasn't any signs of other exotic beast's activities in the valley. Zhang Che's dream of having a meaty breakfast wouldn't come to fruition, and he could only eat a pile of assorted exotic fruits again.

He swore to himself, that when he returned to a safe area, he'd definitely not eat these tasteless fruits again!

Zhang Che climbed up the tunnel and arrived at the top of the mountain. He looked around, and saw the surrounding areas were still an endless range of mountain. Gods knew how many days he had to walk to get out of this area.

Afterwards, he looked at the majestic tall mountain next to them, thinking to himself, -It seems like the exotic beast living there shouldn't be able to fly. Otherwise, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons definitely wouldn't dare to build their nest so close…

-Then, should I ride the Purple Jade Condor and take a look at the mountain summit from the sky?-

This idea quickly occupied the entirety of Zhang Che's mind the moment it was born.

After weighing the risks in his heart, he finally concluded that there shouldn't be much danger in doing so. He only had to have the Purple Jade Condor fly a little higher. Even if the exotic beast on that mountain summit had long range attacks, it shouldn't threaten the Purple Jade Condor in the sky.

Moreover, due to the threat of the unknown powerful exotic beast, there wouldn't be other flying beasts around in the area. The Purple Jade Condor didn't have to worry about sneak attacks from the air, either.

Of course, to ensure their safety, Zhang Che decided to have the Purple Jade Condor fly to that mountain summit by itself first, to scout out the situation on that side. It was better to be safe than sorry.

When the Purple Jade Condor took to the skies and flew over to the adjacent mountain summit carefully, Zhang Che's expression suddenly turned into one of extreme shock.

According to the information sent to him by the Purple Jade Condor via their spiritual link, up on the mountain summit, an enormous exotic beast skeleton was lying there on a huge platform.

"What's going on? Are the nearby exotic beasts afraid of just the remains of an exotic beast?" Zhang Che was simply in disbelief.

He hurriedly ordered the Purple Jade Condor to lower its altitude, then closed in on the platform on the summit. In the end, nothing dangerous happened at all.

Zhang Che immediately grew curious. He didn't order the Purple Jade Condor to return. Instead, he summoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon and rode on his back, quickly flying over to the majestic mountain summit.

When Zhang Che saw the platform below him for himself, and that enormous skeleton several dozen meters long, his astonishment immediately reached its peak.

What shocked Zhang Che more was that even though it was only a skeleton, there was a thick, suffocating pressure emanating from it, leaving Zhang Che's hairs standing on end, as if some incredible ferocious beast was staring down at him.

Not only that, Zhang Che could even feel that the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon under him was trembling slightly.

It was no wonder that the surrounding exotic beasts didn't dare to come close. This was a kind of natural suppression born from the difference in their biological standing. For example, no mere creatures would ever dare to approach a dead tiger…

Zhang Che jumped off the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's back and looked at his shivering mount. In the end, he decided to recall him with a wave of his hand, saving him from the suffering of being out here.

Comparatively, the Purple Jade Condor, a subdued beast, didn't have such reactions. The soulless subdued beast only knew of battling mechanically, not caring about how strong its enemy was.

Zhang Che walked forward with heavy steps towards the enormous skeleton. Under the suppression assaulting him from the front, it felt as if his feet had become much heavier.

-What's there to be scared of? No matter how strong it was while it was still alive, it's only a skeleton now!,- Zhang Che reprimanded himself inwardly. He mustered his courage and continued walking forward.

When he got closer to this enormous skeleton, he got a clearer feel of the peerless ferocity of this exotic beast when it was still alive.

Judging from sight alone, this skeleton was about eighty meters long, fully extended out on the ground. Its spine was about a dozen meters above the ground.

The entire skeleton was as white as jade, with a faint hue of silvery light underneath.

Zhang Che's heart jumped. -If I brought this skeleton back, how much would it be worth?

-No, Alliance dollars is no longer sufficient to measure the worth of this skeleton. At the very least, rare minerals like purple-gold crystal would be used to measure its value.

-Then, if we're using purple-gold crystal to appraise it, how much is the skeleton worth?

-Perhaps the one-ton-plus worth of scarlet meteorite I obtained in the valley cave yesterday is not even worth as much as this skeleton…?-

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Thinking about that, Zhang Che's eyes shone with dazzling light.

As such, he no longer feared the suppression coming from the skeleton of the ferocious beast. He continued walking ahead quickly.

Judging from just the skeleton, Zhang Che was unable to tell what species of an exotic beast it was. However, he could tell that this ferocious beast was probably a four-legged, crawling type, just by looking at its long spine and tail.

Zhang Che first noticed the huge jaws of the ferocious beast. Two rows of sharp teeth, each over a meter long, lined up along the bones.

Without a doubt, these were probably the toughest bones of the skeleton. They were definitely the number one most valuable parts of the skeleton.

After getting closer, Zhang Che discovered, to his surprise, a faint golden hue emitting from the ferocious beast's teeth. If he hadn't walked closer to them, he wouldn't have noticed it.

"I suppose the armor penetrating ability of these teeth is at least comparable to the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword!"

Although Zhang Che really wanted to loot the entire skeleton, the remaining space in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension wasn't enough.

Before now, he was still rejoicing that the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket had expanded to a thousand cubic meters, and that he would be able to store everything he wanted. From the looks of it, he had only slapped himself in the face.

What lay before him wasn't as simple as just a skeleton. It was a mountain of dazzling gold!

Alas, he just couldn't bring it all away…

-Damn it, even if I can't take it all, I'll break you apart and take all the most valuable parts. Otherwise, God knows which lucky idiot will get to claim it for himself in the future!-

Thinking of this, Zhang Che summoned the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus with a wave of his hand and commanded him, "Come, see if you can pull out these two rows of teeth."

Naturally Zhang Che didn't think that he could pull out those sharp teeth by himself. Despite his great strength, it was impossible for him to move the skeleton.

Heavens knew how long this skeleton had laid here for, and yet there weren't any marks on it. How could Zhang Che, a mere mortal, dismantle it by himself?

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was different. This fellow's biting strength was measured in the tens of tons, that thick neck of his contained explosive strength. There shouldn't be any problem for it to pull out a few teeth, right?

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was unfortunately extremely afraid of this skeleton. However, under Zhang Che's orders, he stuck his head out and into the jaws of the ferocious beast, biting down on a meter-plus long tooth.

His bite didn't cause any damage to the tooth.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' head was already huge. However, there was still space for it to move around in the skeleton's mouth after sticking his head in. It truly was a sight to behold.

After biting down hard on the faint golden tooth, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus suddenly exerted his strength, his neck pulled back violently…

Crack! The tooth wasn't pulled out. Instead, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' neck had produced the sound.

-What do you know, this guy almost snapped his own neck…-

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus immediately loosened his bite and turned his head around, looking at Zhang Che innocently, -Master daddy, you saw it yourself. It's not that I'm not working hard, but I can't budge this thing at all.-

What more could Zhang Che say…

A mountain of gold was right in front of him, but he didn't have any tools to harvest it on hand. He couldn't even knock out a piece of the gold and bring it away.

"I wonder if the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword can cut the skeleton…" Zhang Che took a deep, long look at the enormous skeleton in front of him, showing a lost expression. He decided inwardly that he had to delay leaving the beast world.

How could Zhang Che leave willingly before he rose to Tier Five and tried to cut this with the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword?

"But if I just leave this here without any cover, what if other powerful beastmasters see it? Would it still be mine then?"

Although he couldn't bring it away, in Zhang Che's heart, this skeleton was already his personal property. How could he allow it to continue being exposed in the open?

Therefore, Zhang Che waved his hand, and the Purple Crystal Tortoise appeared on the platform.

"Little tortoise, get working now. Cover this thing with rocks."

As he commanded, the Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly sank into the ground.

Zhang Che slowly circled around the enormous skeleton, taking a good look at every part of it.

If, just if, some part of the skeleton was loose for some reason, wouldn't he have the chance to take it away? It was such a huge skeleton; it couldn't possibly be that every part was so immovable, right?

The skeleton had been here for God knew how many years. A thick layer of bone dust had already accumulated on the platform. Every step Zhang Che took would leave a deep print on the ground.

Suddenly, Zhang Che had a slight misstep. He seemed to have stepped on something.

He couldn't help but shift his foot away and looked down. Within the bone dust, a long, round, unknown object, about as thick as his wrist, was laying there on the ground.

Although a layer of bone dust covered it, Zhang Che noticed a faint golden hue on this long and round object.

-What's this?- Zhang Che wondered. He lowered his body and reached out, grabbing onto the object and exerted his strength slightly…

-Hmm? It's actually so heavy!- Zhang Che's eyes lit up. He exerted more strength in his arm and tried to lift it up. Dust clouds were immediately raised before his eyes. A metallic throwing spear-like object, over two meters long, was pulled out from the bone dust.

The throwing spear was like a long needle magnified countless times. The tail end of it was as thick as an arm, gradually thinning out to the other end.

What surprised Zhang Che even more was that this gigantic needle's quality was unlike ordinary conical objects. The closer it was to the sharper end, the heavier it was.

"This is strange!" Zhang Che wiped away the bone dust on the gigantic needle, revealing its true appearance.

Not only was the weight of the gigantic needle unequal, its color was also very different.

The thickest, tail end of it was white and translucent like jade, emitting only a very faint golden glow. The further it extended to the sharp end, the more pronounced the golden glow was.

At the tip, a section about a foot long was scarlet-gold in color, and was even emitting a faint purple glow, highlighting its sharpness. It seemed like it could even puncture space itself.

-Such a pity that I don't understand the art of the spear. Otherwise, I could use this as a long spear. It would definitely bring success in every endeavor!- Zhang Che couldn't help but lament, feeling the sinking weight in his hand.

Although this gigantic needle didn't take up much space, its weight was close to two hundred and fifty kilograms! Using it as a weapon could bring out the might of Zhang Che's godly strength.

"Hmm? This thing… doesn't seem to be metal. It's more like bone!"

The more Zhang Che looked at this gigantic needle in his hands, the more he felt that this thing wasn't metallic at all. It looked more like a… bone spike!

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"Right, this is a bone spike!" Zhang Che's eyes gradually lit up as he carefully examined the tip of the gigantic needle.

Although the exterior of the gigantic needle and its density was like a metal, and it even had the luster, the tip still had many unnoticeable tiny holes.

Wasn't this a characteristic unique to bones!?

Since this wasn't a metallic object, but a bone spike, its origin was self-explanatory.

Zhang Che turned to look at the enormous skeleton at the side. He dropped the bone spike in his hand and climbed up the back of the skeleton, using his hands and feet.

After climbing up to the spine of the ferocious beast's skeleton, Zhang Che looked over it for a short while before he burst out into laughter uncontrollably.

On the spine of the ferocious beast's skeleton were two neat rows of fist-sized holes, closely positioned together.

"One, two, three… ninety-five, ninety-six… a hundred and seven, a hundred and eight!" Zhang Che counted twice to make sure, and confirmed from the holes on the skeleton's back numbered a total of a hundred and eight!

"I'm rich, I'm rich, this time I've really struck it rich!"

Although he had yet to test the bone spike's attack strength, Zhang Che had no doubts that they were invaluable.

He wondered how many times more valuable the bone spike was compared to a pile of scarlet meteorite ore of the same weight.

To find that out, he'd immediately know the answer by going through some tests!

Zhang Che directly jumped off the skeleton's back. He picked up the two-meters-plus bone spike on the ground and held it in reverse grip. Afterwards, he ran a short distance and using the momentum, threw the bone spike with all his strength.

A golden afterimage shot through the air in an instant, flying several dozen meters out, penetrating deep into a cliff at the side of the platform. It left a deep, dark hole about the size of a bowl on the outside.

"What the heck!" Zhang Che's mouth opened wide in disbelief at the result.

Although that bone spike weighed close to two hundred and fifty kilograms, and Zhang Che's strength had reached an inhuman degree, would any ordinary metallic spear stab so deeply into a cliff that it disappeared?

That was absolutely impossible!

This went to show that the bone spikes on the ferocious beast's back simply had astonishing penetrating ability!

"It seems like I have to practice spear throwing now."

After seeing the bone spike's ridiculous attack strength, Zhang Che's thoughts immediately became active. If he could increase his spear throwing accuracy, he would have a powerful long distance attack!

"But my strength is still a little lacking. The bone spike weighed around two hundred and fifty kilograms, after all. The greatest range I could achieve with it is only around a hundred meters."

Of course, increasing his strength wasn't something he could be hasty about.

At this moment, the Purple Crystal Tortoise appeared at Zhang Che's side coincidentally. It opened his mouth, ready to spit out all the rocks in its "stomach" onto the enormous skeleton.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Zhang Che hurried stopped its action, waving his hands. Afterwards, he had the Purple Crystal Tortoise spit out the rocks to the side for now and pointed at the bone dust under the skeleton, instructing it, "Here, here, clean up the bone dust."

The Purple Crystal Tortoise nodded. It opened its mouth, and an invisible suction was born from within, like a whale sucking in water, quickly swallowing all the bone dust on the ground.

The bone dust disappeared entirely. The other bone spikes were revealed before Zhang Che. He hurriedly ran up and gathered the scattered bone spikes. Counting them, there were exactly a hundred and seven of them.

"One hundred and eight; what a good number!"

Looking at the pile of bone spikes placed neatly next to the skeleton, Zhang Che felt a sense of satisfaction welling up in him.

"Ugh, right, there's still one more in the cliff."

Zhang Che quickly waved his hand at the Purple Crystal Tortoise, instructing it to dig into the cliff from the hole he created. He wanted to see how far did the bone spike penetrate into the cliff, allowing him to have a better idea of its might.

It was simply the Purple Crystal Tortoise's natural talent when it came to mining, digging, and these sorts of things. It didn't even take a minute before Zhang Che saw the bone spike lodged deep in the cliff.

The small hole dug out by the Purple Crystal Tortoise was about a meter deep. It didn't seem much; its might was far from comparable to an armor-piercing round.

However, this was done by a man's throw!

Moreover, Zhang Che's strength was a little insufficient when he was using a two hundred and fifty kilogram bone spike. If his strength could reach the level of the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, the bone spike he threw out would definitely contain astonishingly high power.

"Right, I wonder what would it be like if the frisky monkey used this thing?" Zhang Che's eyes rolled about, suddenly thinking of the frisky monkey, who lost all his attacking capability after his bow.

"Zhizhizhizhi…" the frisky monkey cried out loudly the moment he was summoned. This fellow was really growing to dislike staying put in Zhang Che's spiritual sea, wanting to come out at every moment.

As expected, this was the nature of a monkey…

After hearing Zhang Che's instructions, the frisky monkey immediately bent his body and picked up a bone spike. Afterwards, he followed Zhang Che's pointers and held it in reverse grip, throwing it forward.

With a "chi" sound, a fist-sized hole appeared on the ground about a dozen meter in front of the frisky monkey…

Zhang Che covered his face with his palm. -Alright, looks like there are things the frisky monkey can't do.

-It doesn't matter. This guy excels at using a bow and arrow, anyway. I'll just get another one custom made for him after we get out of the beast world.

-According to the frisky monkey's current strength, getting a one thousand kilogram draw weight bow shouldn't be too much, right? The attack range and power would be unimaginable!-

Now, Zhang Che wasn't in a hurry to bury the ferocious beast's skeleton. With this thing here, this platform was simply the safest location on the mountain. By using this place as his base, he could sleep peacefully at night.

He wasn't rushing to get back home now; he still wanted to increase his beastmaster tier to Tier Five first, and practice his spear throwing skills. Without raising his accuracy to a certain degree, this skill was useless.

"It's been a long time since I had meat… Let's have a barbeque party on this platform tonight!"

The moment he thought about eating meat, two verdant glints immediately shone in Zhang Che's eyes. He didn't want to wait a moment longer; he brought his babies and headed for the nearby mountain summit.

Perhaps it was due to the ferocious beast's skeleton being on this majestic mountain summit, but there weren't any overly powerful exotic beasts in this area except for the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons from before.

Zhang Che easily hunted down a large, wild boar-like exotic beast that weighed over a ton.

Afterwards, he found a stream formed from a few mountain springs at the foot of this majestic mountain. Zhang Che cleaned up the corpse of this boar-like exotic beast, and finally started a bright bonfire in this beast world for the first time in a few days.

When the wild boar meat, cut into a few smaller pieces, was fully cooked, Zhang Che looked back and saw the frisky monkey, Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, and the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus sending him pitiful verdant gazes.

"Okay, looks like this wild boar isn't enough for all of us…" Zhang Che sighed. He had no choice but to have the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, whose appetite was the biggest, endure for now, while he, the frisky monkey, and the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon started to wolf down the meat.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was depressed! -I was the one who caught the prey. Why am I the one left out when it's time to eat? Is it because I joined the group later than those two guys?

-Unfair, this is too unfair!-

Seeing Zhang Che and the others eating until their mouths were covered with grease, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus couldn't resist opening its mouth in envy. Saliva flowed out of it like a spring, forming a big puddle on the ground.

Zhang Che was greatly amused at the sight. He picked up a piece of roasted meat and tossed it in the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus's direction, saying, "Eat, eat. There's only this one piece. You have to go hunt another exotic beast later."

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus quickly reached out, his mouth wide open, and caught the entire piece of roasted meat that weighed a few hundred kilograms in his mouth. He chewed it down into a mash with just a few bites and swallowed it down with a mouthful of saliva. Afterwards, his eyes turned completely green.

Unfortunately, the remaining roasted meat was only enough to fill up their stomachs, leaving none for him.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was in anguish. -I should have just endured it…-

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Chapter 210: The Correct Method to Utilize the Ferocious Beast's Bone Spike

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Seeing the bitter look on the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' face, Zhang Che couldn't resist bursting out in laughter. "I already told you, endure it for now. We'll go hunt a few more exotic beasts later. Too bad for you that you couldn't hold it in."

That was the thing with eating; you'd be better off if you didn't eat a scrap. If you only had a bite or two and felt the satisfaction, then found out that there was no more, that feeling was truly the worst.

Well, now the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was experiencing that terrible feeling to the fullest.

Alas, there was no other way. The remaining roasted meat was only enough to fill Zhang Che and the others. Instead of having everyone go on a half-filled stomach and still feel the pangs of hunger clawing at them, of course it was better to have the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, whose appetite was the biggest, endure it for now.

When they were finally done eating, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus felt as if his stomach was going on a rebellion.

Seeing Zhang Che stand up and waved his hand, this fellow immediately took the lead and went along the foot of the majestic mountain, raising loud thumps as he ran.

-Why are my pets all gluttons? Luckily, at least Hanxue doesn't eat meat. Otherwise, we'd really become an army of gluttons.-

Zhang Che couldn't help but feel deeply apologetic once he thought of Hanxue. This pitiful fellow had been locked up in his spiritual sea for close to half a month without getting any chances to take a breather outside. Gods knew how he was holding up.

However, what choices did Zhang Che have? He was also desperate.

Previously, he was either at home, or taking his entrance test. Now, he was stuck in this unknown beast world. It was too dangerous. Given Hanxue's strength, it was very easy for an accident to occur, so Zhang Che could only let him remain in his spiritual sea.

"However, when we're camping for the night on the mountain top, I can let him come out for a breather. After all, with the skeleton around, there wouldn't be any danger."

Zhang Che recalled the frisky monkey with a wave of his hand, then jumped onto the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's back and gave chase to the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus ahead.

When that fellow started running, the commotion he caused was too great. Even if there were any prey ahead, they would probably be alarmed by the sound; what prey could he hope to hunt?

It was no wonder such huge exotic beasts were only suitable to live in flat lands. When placed in such complicated mountain terrain, they would starve to death.

As expected, when the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon overtook the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, Zhang Che saw a silver-armored beetle-like exotic beast in the distance, under the mountain foot, crawling frantically towards the valley at the side.

The silver-armored beetle wasn't big; its body length was less than two meters… Okay, Zhang Che had basically been encountering huge exotic beasts during this period. A two-meter-long beetle was only considered not big in Zhang Che's eyes now.

Although it wasn't big, the silver armor on the beetle looked truly awe-inspiring. A sense of beauty oozed out from its entire body.

Zhang Che's eyes shone brightly at the sight of it.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon instantly accelerated, leaving the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus in the dust, and soon caught up to the beetle, only a few dozen meters behind it.

At that moment, Zhang Che finally saw this beetle's attributes.

[Seven Star Silver Beetle]

Level: Two Star (Level 18)

Quality: Dark Gold

Characteristics: Balanced Physical and Elemental Defenses, Naturally Timid, Almost Zero Attacking Capabilities

Weakness: Lightning Elemental Attack

Innate Attribute: Energy Reflection. Except Lightning Elemental Attacks, it's Able to Nullify 20% of Energy Attacks

Skill: Shield Form. Instantly Transforms into a Silver Large Shield After Activation, Greatly Effective Against Uni-Directional Physical Hits, Able to Nullify 50% of Energy Attacks

Potential: E Rank

Zhang Che's eyes immediately lit up!

It wasn't easy! After so long, he finally saw a low-tier dark gold-quality exotic beast! Although this Seven Star Silver Beetle's attributes wasn't too eye-catching, it was no doubt a mini treasure.

-What were we waiting for? Kill it!-

Compared to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, this Seven Star Silver Beetle was truly too slow.

Zhang Che decided to have some fun. He waved his hand, summoning the Purple Crystal Tortoise onto the back of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, and had it spit out a bone spike. He held it in reverse grip, throwing it at the Seven Star Silver Beetle with all his might.

A golden streak of light shot through the air. The two-meters-plus bone spike flew towards the Seven Star Silver Beetle… hitting the cliff about a dozen meters away and disappearing from Zhang Che's sight.

He was speechless. -It seems like getting my spear throwing skills up to par isn't something done overnight.-

After seeing Zhang Che's attack missing by such a large margin, the Seven Star Silver Beetle was no longer in such a hurry to escape. It actually even had the time to take a moment and look back, its tiny eyes filled with disdain.

Zhang Che couldn't take this!

He gritted his teeth and slapped the Purple Crystal Tortoise's shell, saying angrily, "You do it!"

He was actually mocked by an insect! How depressing was that? Was he also like the frisky monkey, with no talent as a spear thrower?

The Purple Crystal Tortoise opened its mouth obediently, and in the next moment, part of the Seven Star Silver Beetle a few dozen meters ahead suddenly exploded loudly, a hole about the size of a bowl punched directly through its body!

The astonished Zhang Che saw a golden streak of light fly out of the Seven Star Silver Beetle's body from the other side of the hole, its momentum not weakened one bit, and shoot deep into the cliff, leaving a circular hole of unknown depth behind.

"No, why did you…" Zhang Che turned to look at the Purple Crystal Tortoise in shock, not understanding why it would shoot out a bone spike. Wasn't this fellow's skill shooting rock spears?

However, looking back at the severely wounded Seven Star Silver Beetle laying on the ground, on the verge of dying, yellowish brown fluid flowing out of its wound, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Zhang Che.

-Right, they're all spears. Why wouldn't the Purple Crystal Tortoise be able shoot those bone spikes?-

"Hahahaha, good boy, truly a good boy!"

After understanding this, Zhang Che almost couldn't resist planting a kiss on the Purple Crystal Tortoise's head. It turned out that this was the correct method to utilize the ferocious beast's bone spikes!

With this, what need was there for him to go practice his throwing skills? Did he have too much time on his hands?

No matter how well he practiced, would it be as accurate and impactful as the Purple Crystal Tortoise's supersonic attack?

The Seven Star Silver Beetle was a dark gold-quality beast that focused on defense, after all. Despite it being only two-star, its defensive strength wouldn't be too shabby. However, the Purple Crystal Tortoise only needed to shoot a single spear to punch a hole in it, and the bone spike even penetrated deep into the cliff without slowing down at all!

This level of might would instantly kill every exotic beast, unless they were mid-tier legend-quality and above that excelled in defense!

With that, the Purple Crystal Tortoise finally had an attacking method that complemented its quality.

Although its original rock spear attack was also shot at supersonic speed, the rock spear's quality was too low; even the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon they encountered could withstand its Rock Spear Gatling attack without suffering a fatal wound.

What if the bone spikes were used instead?

Perhaps a single shot was all that was needed to repel the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon now!

However, Zhang Che still didn't really understand why the Purple Crystal Tortoise's attack could use anything other than rock spears. There wasn't anything like that recorded in its skill description at all.

Zhang Che couldn't think it through, and could only chalk it up to the rainbow crystal's interference during its advancement, causing some unknown changes.

Naturally, such changes were welcome!

From now on, the Purple Crystal Tortoise became Zhang Che's undisputed number one beast, no matter if it was his subdued beast or pet, or be it attack or defense.

It had to be mentioned that this fellow's level was still only at four-stars! If it could advance to six-stars in the future, its strength would definitely experience another huge increase!

Now, it was time to reap his harvest.

Zhang Che looked ahead once more, and to his shock, he discovered that the Seven Star Silver Beetle was actually struggling to crawl itself forward to the valley ahead, leaving a trail of yellowish brown fluid behind.

Its vitality was truly extraordinary!

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Zhang Che couldn't help but stare in awe as he saw the Seven Star Silver Beetle struggling to crawl forward.

This fellow's body was punctured with a hole as big as a bowl, and yet it could still move. Its vitality was truly something.

However, that was it.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus finally caught up from behind and walked up, stomping down at the Seven Star Silver Beetle's back. No matter how tough this insect's silver armored defense was, when several dozen tons of weight suddenly stomped down at it, its body could only snap and spatter.

"What the heck, this thing can't be eaten!" Zhang Che was aghast. Preys killed by the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus wouldn't drop a beast card; this fellow was truly doing bad deeds with a good heart!

Luckily, the Seven Star Silver Beetle's vitality was extremely strong. Despite its body bursting from the stomp, its remaining head was still wiggling around. It wasn't dead yet!

Zhang Che hurriedly had the Purple Crystal Tortoise shoot out another bone spike, rushing to puncture its head before its imminent death, directly turning it into a streak of light. Following which, the streak of light condensed under the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' feet.

"Hoo, that was close. I almost lost a dark gold-quality beast card!" Zhang Che let out a long sigh of relief. He gave a death stare to the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, then started praying in his heart, -Haa, I hope it's an armor-type beast card!"

After the beast card dropped, Zhang Che was greatly anticipating it.

It could be said that the Seven Star Silver Beetle had no unique characteristics at all, other than its defenses. As such, it was highly likely that it would be a defensive tool-type beast card.

What Zhang Che lacked the most right now was a better defensive-type beast card. No matter if it was the Maneater Leech King card or the Swamp Crocodile King card, the highest quality among them was only at gold-quality, and none of them were actually battle armor-type. Their defensive strength weren't as high as battle armor-type cards.

{TLN: Maneater Leech King and Swamp Crocodile King cards are both leather armor types. Zhang Che was talking about steel armor, although the Purple Crystal Tortoise has a skill to transform into one.}

If the Seven Star Silver Beetle card was a defensive equipment-type card, it would be better than the two aforementioned, no doubt. Despite it being a low-tier card as well, dark gold-quality was still dark gold-quality. It wasn't something silver or gold-quality could compare to.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon flew forward, riding the clouds, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus stepped aside embarrassedly, revealing the dark golden card with two hexagrams underneath.

Zhang Che directly jumped down from about a dozen meters in the air, dissipating some of the impact with a bend of his knees, then quickly ran forward, picking the beast card up and checking its attributes.

[Seven Star Silver Beetle]

Level: Two Star (Level 18)

Quality: Dark Gold

Type: Defensive Equipment Type

Characteristics: Balanced Physical and Elemental Defenses

Weakness: Ill-protected Against Lightning Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Energy Reflection. Except Lightning Elemental Attacks, is Able to Nullify 20% of Energy Attacks

Skill: Shield Form. Instantly Transforms into a Silver Large Shield After Activation, Greatly Effective Against Uni-Directional Physical Hits, and Able to Nullify 50% of Energy Attacks

Potential: E Rank

Zhang Che's guess was right. The Seven Star Silver Beetle card was a defensive equipment-type, as expected. Although there wasn't a halo attribute, its overall attributes were pretty good.

The only thing that worried Zhang Che was that this thing was actually unable to defend against lightning elemental attacks. Could it be because it had the properties of metal, and thus could conduct electricity?

Thinking of that, an image of himself appeared in his mind. Wearing a shimmering silver battle armor, slaughtering his way forward mightily, and suddenly a high voltage electrical cable fell on his head, and his entire body started emitting blue sparks…

"Tsk, tsk. That image is too beautiful…" Zhang Che couldn't help shivering. It seemed like when he faced enemies in the future wearing this armor, he had to be careful of exotic beasts with lightning attributes.

Zhang Che had no plans on employing this beast card for now. Many of the beast cards in his spiritual sea were close to rising to the next quality tier. It was better to wait until those unsuitable beast cards to advanced first before he swapped them.

After all, the value of a beast card would be very different with a difference in one quality tier!

Currently, Zhang Che wasn't lacking in defensive strength, either, and thus chose to equip this Seven Star Silver Beetle some time in the future.

After putting the beast card away, Zhang Che had the Purple Crystal Tortoise sink into the ground and retrieve the two bone spikes. Afterwards, he brought his subdued beasts and pets to look for larger exotic beasts.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus was still famished, and nearly made a huge mistake earlier. Zhang Che had no choice but to think of letting it have a full meal.

———

Over the next four days, Zhang Che swept through the surrounding exotic beasts with the majestic mountain as the center, obtaining a bunch of different beast cards. Although most of them were bronze and silver-quality, their levels were not low. Most of them were at mid-tier level.

Perhaps the pressure emanating from the ferocious beast's skeleton was too much. Zhang Che didn't obtain any more dark gold-quality or higher beast cards. Even gold-quality cards weren't common. He only obtained three over the next few days.

What troubled him more was that although he hunted over a hundred exotic beasts during these four days, he still felt as if rising to Tier Five wasn't something he could accomplish in the short-term.

"Looks like I still have to remain here for a long time. How worried must mom and Miss Tienan be…"

Although Zhang Che really wanted to leave the beast world immediately and return home, his gut told him that it wouldn't be easy for him to return here again.

Zhang Che really desired the ferocious beast's skeleton. He wanted to bring it back, even if only a small part of it.

-So, I'll remain here and work hard. I'll return home once I rise to Tier Five!- Zhang Che decided to himself.

Although there weren't any huge harvests during the last four days, two beast cards in his spiritual sea completed their advancements back to back, providing a tiny consolation to Zhang Che.

First was the three-star Maneater Leech King card. This silver-quality beast card had finally increased to gold-quality.

[Maneater Leech King]

Level: Three Star (Level 28)

Quality: Gold

Type: Defensive Equipment Type

Characteristics: Super Strong Overall Defense

Weakness: Lacking Resistance Towards Fire Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Auto Regeneration. It Can Self Regenerate After Receiving Damage, The Speed at Which it Regenerates Depends on the Severity of Damage

Potential: D Rank

Cultivating Directions: …

After advancing to gold-quality, the Maneater Leech King's attributes didn't change much. Other than its basic defenses rising an increment, there was only another auto regeneration innate attribute.

-No skill, bad!-

However, the auto regeneration attribute that was useless in Zhang Che's eyes would probably draw envy from the other beastmasters if they learned of it!

Other people didn't have Zhang Che's rainbow crystal. When their subdued beasts were hurt, if they didn't have any beast card restoration fluid, the time needed for them to recover to peak condition by just remaining in the beastmaster's spiritual sea would make anyone desperate. It would take at least half a day, and up to half a week. There was no way for them to continue fighting.

How could the beastmasters who were always out battling in the beast world possibly bring beast card restoration fluid around with them? Moreover, each and every beast card had different attributes. The restoration fluid they needed would require different ingredients in order to get the best possible restoration effects.

As such, Zhang Che could not sympathize with the harsh survival conditions of most beastmasters. If his subdued beasts or pets were injured, no matter how light or heavy, they only had to return to his spiritual sea for a few minutes and they would recover to their peak condition quickly from the nourishment of the rainbow energy. His sustained battle strength would be almost unaffected, if at all.

Other than the Maneater Leech King, the other card that advanced was the Rotten Ent Prowler.

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[Rotten Ent Prowler]

Level: Three Star (Level 28)

Quality: Gold

Type: Weapon Type

Characteristics: Tough, Not Easily Cut. Its Barbs Contains Deadly Poison.

Weakness: Vulnerable to High Temperature

Innate Attribute: Extends and Retracts at Will, Possesses Extremely High Ductility

Skill: Poison Drill. When Activated, Its Tip Section can Transform into a Spiral Shape, Spinning as it Stabs Out, Bringing Strong Penetrating Powers to its Attack. Lasts 5 Minutes, Cooldown Time: 25 Minutes

Potential: D Rank

Cultivating Directions: …

After seeing the newly-advanced gold-quality Rotten Ent Prowler whip's attribute, Zhang Che was speechless for a long while.

It seemed that this weapon-type beast card was developing straight towards the shameless path no matter what, and it was no longer possible to correct its way…

Thinking of the changes to the whip's tip after activating its skill, with countless barbs spinning violently at the end, Zhang Che felt deep sorrow for his future enemies.

Luckily, that thing should only be very useful against non-scaly enemies. After all, its composition was made up of metallic materials, and its range of use wasn't that high. Otherwise, when Zhang Che thought of when he had to brandish this whip as his weapon, he could feel his hair standing on end…

"Hoo, another day is about to be over. Let's get ready to sleep."

Zhang Che held a fruit in each hand, sitting on the platform at the mountain summit, taking large bites of the fruit, looking bored stiff.

As he had lost all his belongings previously, there weren't any spices, either. So, these few days Zhang Che had been feeling sick of eating the tasteless roasted meat and started eating fruit again.

Even the frisky monkey and the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was no longer eating roasted meat. They'd rather hide in Zhang Che's spiritual sea and absorb the rainbow crystal's energy.

Only the king of appetite, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, didn't care whether there was any taste. He'd eat any cooked exotic beast meat, even without any spices. It tasted much better than raw meat anyway, and he'd never get tired of it.

For that matter, the frisky monkey had a lot of opinions on it. Alas, he wasn't a match for the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, and had no choice but to be a roasting chef for him twice a day, spending his time working on piles upon piles of meat.

It truly was working non-stop; that appetite king had to eat two tons worth of meat at every meal!

———

In the morning of the thirty-sixth year of the new age, second of July…

A passenger plane landed on the Qian Wei City's army base airport under the escort of a convoy consisting of several fighter planes.

The cabin door opened. A young woman over a hundred and eighty centimeters tall, her body shape slightly chubby and her face an oval, walked out of the cabin expressionlessly.

After walking out of the airport, the young woman directly boarded an army vehicle and it drove off towards the city area under the escort of a few armored vehicles.

—

Sun Lan woke up early in the morning and had a short, slow jog in the district as per her doctor's instructions. After greeting a few middle to old-aged acquaintances with a smile and a thin layer of perspiration having gathered on her skin, she headed to the breakfast shop in the neighborhood, bought some simple breakfast goods and returned to her home.

Just as she exited the elevator, she saw a tall young woman standing in front of the doors to her home, her back facing Sun Lan, knocking lightly on the door.

-Hmm? Which Miss from which family is that? I haven't seen her before. Did she get the wrong door?- Sun Lan suspected inwardly. A short moment later, she thought that maybe this woman was her boy's girlfriend?

-Aiya, this is bad! What is this boy coming to? Isn't he going out with little Miss Huang already? Why is there another miss now?-

-This can't do. When he returns from Bei Du, I'll have to give him a good talking to!-

While her imagination ran wild, the tall miss ahead heard Sun Lan's footsteps and suddenly turned around. She bowed slightly with a faint smile, greeting, "You're back, Auntie Sun. I thought you were home."

-Crap, some other miss really came knocking on our door!- Sun Lan's heart thumped, cursing inwardly. Afterwards, she felt something amiss.

-Why does this miss' voice sound so familiar? Right, it's not just her voice; even her appearance looks somewhat familiar!-

"Auntie, you don't recognize me? I'm Tielan."

The miss smiled brightly, like the most beautiful flower, making Sun Lan feel the dark weather today had even turned a little brighter.

"You… you're Miss Tielan?" Sun Lan stared wide-eyed. She scanned Huang Tielan's body from head to toe and said in disbelief, "Aiya, it's only been a short while since we last met, why have you slimmed down so much? No, slimmer is better. It's better to be slimmer…"

Sun Lan was elated! -It turned out that Miss Tienan is actually this gorgeous after slimming down!-

Please forgive her for using the word "gorgeous". Although this little miss Huang before her wasn't too old, her facial features were sharply defined on her oval face, coming together perfectly. It truly showed an unconcealable sense of gorgeousness.

Her beauty wasn't like the cheap attractiveness those women found soliciting others on the street had, but the kind which oozes a sense of nobility from the inside, leaving one simply unable to look down on her.

It was like a newly-blossomed pink peony, at the peak of its beauty.

Facing Sun Lan's nonsensical words, Huang Tielan smiled faintly, not saying anything in return.

"Aiya, look how forgetful I am. Hurry, let's talk inside." Sun Lan finally reacted to the situation. She hurriedly fished out a card key and unlocked the anti-theft door, inviting Huang Tielan in. She even attended to her by bringing out some utensils and split her breakfast into two portions.

"Here, here, Xiaohuang, have you eaten your breakfast? If you haven't, come have some with auntie."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Huang Tielan didn't reject her. She picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started eating while they chatted.

"Right, Miss Tielan, are you here to look for Xiaoche? Aiya, what a bad coincidence. He went to Bei Du to take the entrance test. It's been a few days since he last contacted me. Who knows how he's doing now…"

As she spoke, Sun Lan suddenly fell silent.

Huang Tielan, sitting opposite her, was showing a sorrowful look. It was unknown when she put down her utensils, her eyes were already filled with tears.

Sun Lan's heart thumped heavily. Thinking that Zhang Che hadn't called her for a few days now, her face suddenly sank. She hurriedly asked, "Tielan, did something happen to Xiaoche?"

Huang Tielan forcibly held back her tears. She didn't conceal anything from Sun Lan… because she would learn about it all sooner or later. It was better to tell her the truth from the start. Thus, she told her all about what had happened to Zhang Che.

"You don't have to be too worried, Auntie. I believe Zhang Che will be fine. You have to take care of yourself. If not, he'd feel bad when he saw you looking haggard from worrying about him when he comes back some day."

As she spoke, Huang Tielan finally couldn't hold it in any more. Two hot trails of tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Xiao… Xiaoche…" Sun Lan mumbled. Her face was now ghostly pale, feeling as if the sky had collapsed on her, nearly fainting from the shock.

However, when she saw the resolute faint smile on Huang Tielan's thinned face, she felt that she needed to be strong, too.

-Miss Tienan is right. What if my Xiaoche is fine?

-If I don't stay strong, wouldn't he get worried when he sees my sickly appearance on his return?-

The two faced each other in silence. After a long while, Huang Tielan spoke up, "Auntie, I've returned here to bring you to Bei Du. I already passed my written test for Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major. When I pass the practical test in the near future and enroll into Bei Du University, I can ask Professor Sun Qilong to help cure your illness with his healing-type subdued beast.

"Auntie, we have to live on well and wait for Zhang Xiaoche to return. So, we both have to stay strong."

Sun Lan's tears kept flowing, and she nodded heavily after hearing Huang Tielan's words…

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Chapter 213: I Want to Eat It!

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It was another bright day.

Zhang Che laid on the platform on the mountain summit, sleeping without any shelter, and was woken up by the glaring light. He blinked his eyes, slowly sitting up, stretching himself.

Without a sleeping bag and a tent, the quality of his sleep was truly lacking.

Even though Zhang Che's physique far exceeded any normal man's, it wasn't like he could just sleep soundly anywhere. The basic requirements for a sleeping environment applied to him, too.

When his groggy mind slowly cleared up, Zhang Che summoned the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon with a wave of his hand, then mounted him and headed towards the stream at the mountain's foot. That area was almost as good as Zhang Che's private plot of land now. His daily washing up and cleaning of exotic beasts was all done along this stream.

However, it wasn't wrong to say that this area was indeed his private land, either.

Let alone the fact that there weren't any notable strong exotic beasts in this area due to the pressure emanating from the skeleton, the exotic beasts had gone through some terrible times during the last few days. Other than some trash beasts that Zhang Che couldn't care less about, the remaining exotic beasts he encountered were all wiped out.

Now, the difficulty of hunting exotic beasts around here had risen greatly!

After a simple wash up, Zhang Che took bites out of the fruits the Purple Crystal Tortoise spat out as he lamented to himself, "Looks like I have to go even further out to hunt now. God knows how many more exotic beasts I have to hunt to reach Tier Five. If I don't work harder, who knows when I can ever return to the real world?"

After filling his stomach, he dragged the Purple Crystal Tortoise along and mounted onto the back of the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, flying deeper into the mountain range.

If it was in the past, Zhang Che definitely wouldn't dare to ride on the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon so ostentatiously. If some powerful exotic beast set its eyes on them, they surely wouldn't be able to escape.

However, now that the Purple Crystal Tortoise housed that pile of a hundred and eight bone spikes with astonishingly high penetrative strength, which could even heavily injure a legend-quality exotic beast with just a single shot, Zhang Che no longer had anything to fear.

If his luck was truly bad and they encountered an even stronger exotic beast, the Purple Crystal Tortoise could still shoot all the bone spikes in one go. He didn't believe that he still wouldn't kill a strong enemy that way.

As for the divine-quality exotic beasts from the legends, Zhang Che didn't think his luck would be so terrible as to bump into one of them. Unless he was looking for death and ran to the ocean shore when he first arrived, the chances of running into one were even lower than striking the lottery.

As the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon flew along, the mist surrounding him gradually thinned out. Zhang Che had him stop and descend towards a valley ahead with a thin layer of fog in the skies above it.

Zhang Che didn't choose this valley at random.

When he was still high in the sky earlier, he vaguely saw silhouettes of a large group of exotic beasts moving around in the valley through the fog. It just so happened that the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could no longer continue flying, so Zhang Che decided that it was good to come down and gain some experience while they waited for the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon to recover.

As the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon drew closer to the valley, Zhang Che saw the the group of exotic beasts more clearly.

They were large crawling creatures that resembled Chinese giant salamanders. Their bodies were around six to seven meters long, their skin brownish-black in color, giving off a smooth luster. Seeing the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon descending from the sky, every one of them raised their heads warily, cautiously sizing up this creature.

"Hmm? There's actually water in this valley!"

It was only now that Zhang Che realized this wide valley covered in a layer of thin fog actually had an extended lake in its inner section, like several ponds of various sizes connected together.

It was no wonder these Chinese giant salamander-like fellows were gathered here in such large numbers. There weren't many water sources nearby; only a few mountain streams here and there, and they were pitifully small.

It was likely that they felt some kind of suppression coming from the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. Once the Chinese giant salamander-like exotic beasts saw him descending, they all let out waves of "guagua" crying sounds resembling that of an infant's and turned tail to run.

Zhang Che also finally saw these exotic beasts' attributes, and was a little stunned.

"Such huge bodies are wasted on the likes of you. You're actually only two-star bronze-quality! Really, I don't even have any interest in messing with you."

His plan to earn some experience fell through. Zhang Che could only jump off and watch as the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon continued flying towards the lake ahead, while he found somewhere to sit and rest.

After a while, Zhang Che suddenly heard a furious roar from the lake deep in the valley. It was the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's roar. Zhang Che was shocked and hurriedly stood up, running in that direction.

-Could there be some powerful exotic beast hiding here?-

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon wasn't actually very strong. As he ran, he summoned all his strong subdued beasts and pets. Every one of them rushed over in a group, thoroughly upsetting the silence in the valley.

Zhang Che could see the lake from afar. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was floating on the water's surface, in a stand-off against an eccentric, serpent-looking exotic beast.

The serpent-like exotic beast's entire body was icy blue in color. Its body was like a blue ice crystal sculpture. Although its appearance resembled a serpent, there was a translucent sharp horn on its head, like a blue icicle.

Zhang Che rejoiced inwardly. It went without saying that such a weird-looking exotic beast wouldn't be of a low level or quality.

In the next moment, he signalled his intent to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, ordering it to quickly retreat. He was Zhang Che's only pet with A-Rank potential. If he died here by accident, there really was nothing he could do to bring him back.

However, this time the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon actually defied his order. He remained on the lake, confronting that strange exotic beast.

-Hmm? What happened to this guy?- Zhang Che found it really strange. This was the first time his pet had ever defied his orders. Although he didn't gave the hard order for him to return, such a situation had never happened before.

Just as Zhang Che was wondering in his heart, ready to force the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon to return to his side, this fellow actually expressed his strong desire to eat to Zhang Che via their spiritual link. -I want to eat it. I want to eat it!-

-What the heck? You want to eat it?- Zhang Che widened his eyes, unable to understand what the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon meant at all.

-That thing looks so dazzlingly blue; won't it contain deadly poison? Are you sure your stomach will be fine after eating it?-

However, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's intense desire to eat it couldn't be wrong, making Zhang Che even more suspicious. -Could that peculiar exotic beast ahead actually be some kind of tonic?-

Right at this moment, the exotic beast noticed Zhang Che and his army of subdued beasts and pets rushing in its direction.

It couldn't be helped; it was mainly due to the fact that when the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus started running, the commotion it caused wasn't just a normal level of big. If it wasn't for that exotic beast having similarly set its eyes on the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, it would have noticed Zhang Che and his party's presence long ago.

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"Hmm? That exotic beast also wants to eat the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon?"

It was only now that Zhang Che realized something was amiss.

-Could it be that because these two guys are both of the cold attribute, and so they could raise their level or quality by eating one another?- Zhang Che immediately grew excited the moment he thought of this possibility.

If that was true, he only had to get his babies to wound that strange exotic beast badly and the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's wish could be realized. Perhaps his strength would increase greatly as a result!

When he thought of this, Zhang Che directly gave the Purple Crystal Tortoise the order to attack.

As it ran, the Purple Crystal Tortoise opened its mouth and aimed at the strange exotic beast about two hundred meters away, shooting a scarlet-gold bone spike invisible to the naked eye.

"Zi…!" An ear-piercing cry rang out. That exotic beast's sense for danger was actually unexpectedly strong. It managed to dodge the Purple Crystal Tortoise's supersonic bone spike attack at the crucial moment, receiving only a minor scratch from it, resulting in a few of its blue scales falling off. There basically wasn't any damage done to it.

"Damn, is this guy an exotic beast beyond legend-quality!?"

Zhang Che suddenly felt that he should let his subdued beasts kill it and get a beast card out of it.

However, he immediately thought that it was already enough to have one cold-attribute subdued beast or pet, which the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon already fulfilled. If the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could consume this exotic beast, his strength would definitely soar; there was no need to get another beast card.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was an A-Rank potential beast; there was a lot more room for it to grow. How could ordinary exotic beasts compare to it?

While Zhang Che made up his mind to kill this exotic beast to feed the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, the strange fellow on the other side also realized the Purple Crystal Tortoise was no pushover. It suddenly dove into the lake, disappearing from sight.

"It ran?" Zhang Che stared wide-eyed. Afterwards, he realized the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was also intent on diving into the water.

He hurriedly gave the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon the order to return to his side first.

That exotic beast's strength was obviously higher than the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon. Giving chase just like that, without any plan, was just asking to be killed.

Although the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was extremely unwilling, he didn't dare disobey Zhang Che's order, and could only emerge from the water and fly back to him.

When Zhang Che arrived at the lakeside with his babies and scouted around, the exotic beast was already nowhere to be found.

Zhang Che furrowed his brow. Since the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon wanted to eat that exotic beast so much, it was definitely greatly beneficial to him. How could he just let it go? The lake wasn't too big, either, though it was unknown how deep it was.

Zhang Che suddenly thought of a solution. He instructed the Purple Crystal Tortoise at his side, "Give it a try. See if you can suck away all the water here."

The Purple Crystal Tortoise immediately crawled up to the lake side and opened its mouth, sucking in fiercely. Afterwards, the water swirled up and flowed into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's little mouth.

In no time, the remaining space in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension was filled with water, and the water level of the lake in front of them was visibly lowered.

"Good, continue!"

Since the animal-drawn water pump could come in useful in this situation, Zhang Che waved his hand wide and ordered it to continue with renewed effort, drawing out the water from the lake as quickly as possible. -We'll see where that exotic beast could hide to now!-

In order to ensure the Purple Crystal Tortoise's efficiency, Zhang Che had the Purple Jade Condor hold the Purple Crystal Tortoise with its talons and fly away to dispose of the water and immediately fly back.

Just like that, they flew back and forth, and the water level quickly fell. Soon, some shallow areas started to reveal the mud and rocks underneath.

"Soon! We're getting close!" Zhang Che revealed a faint smile on his face. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon at the side couldn't hold himself back. He nearly dove right into the water.

"Why are you being so anxious for? This place will be sucked dry soon." Zhang Che turned his head and scolded him in jest.

It was likely that the exotic beast sensed danger approaching. As the Purple Crystal Tortoise brought itself closer to the lake side and opened its mouth, about to suck in the water again, a blue silhouette suddenly shot out from deep in the lake; a mass of dark blue vapor flew in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's direction.

However, Zhang Che had long been expecting this. The Scarlet Flame Drake, who had been standing by in silence at the side, suddenly opened its mouth and shot out a column of flames at the dark blue vapor.

The column of flames disappeared, and the dark blue vapor disintegrated, too.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly stopped its sucking actions and aimed at the blue silhouette, shooting another bone spike at it.

A soft "chi" rang out. The exotic beast was unable to dodge this attack. A bowl-sized hole was punched through its waist-thick body. Blue blood flowed out from the wound, dripping into the lake. It instantly froze the water it touched, forming a thin layer of ice.

"What the heck, really!?" Zhang Che was shocked at the sight. He couldn't help but take a few steps back, taking cover behind the Scarlet Flame Drake, afraid that the exotic beast would turn its head and breathe out a cloud of cold air his way.

During this short exchange, Zhang Che had finally seen this strange exotic beast's attributes.

[Darkice Horned Python] [Growing Phase]

Level: Three Star (Level 28)

Quality: Dark Gold

Characteristics: An Exotic Beast of the Darkice Element. Born From the Accumulation of the Earth's Fiendish Cold Aura. A Great Tonic For Cold Attributed Beasts

Weakness: Still In Its Growing Phase and is Weak

Innate Attribute: Cold Mastery. Born with the Natural Talent to Control Cold Aura. Stores it Within its Body, Able to Boost its Growth Rate and can Also be Breathed Out as an Attack

Potential: ?

After seeing the Darkice Horned Python's attributes, Zhang Che's eyes nearly popped out from their sockets.

Its attributes were totally different from his prior understanding.

Let alone the fact that this fellow had a growing phase caption behind its name, it actually didn't have a skill despite being a dark gold-quality exotic beast!

More importantly, this was the first time Zhang Che had ever seen a big question mark on an exotic beast's Potential Attribute!

What did that mean? Could it be that the Darkice Horned Python had yet to fully mature and thus its potential was still unknown?

Zhang Che simply couldn't make sense of it.

In order to understand what that actually meant, he probably had to wait until he encountered a second exotic beast in its growing phase.

For now, he'd better slay it as soon as possible and let the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon benefit from it. Didn't it have a characteristic that specified it as being "a great tonic for cold-attributed beasts"?

Once he let the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon consume it, he would truly own a powerful ice-attributed pet. When partnered with the Scarlet Flame Drake in the future, they could truly unleash the devastating might of ice and fire.

After being struck by the Purple Crystal Tortoise with a bone spike and getting a hole punched through its body, the Darkice Horned Python was astonished. It quickly tried to dive back into the lake.

Alas, under Zhang Che's orders, the Purple Crystal Tortoise was already aiming at the Darkice Horned Python's core and unleashed its skill without hesitation. Close to half of the remaining hundred and six bone spikes shot out.

Just as the Darkice Horned Python tried to make its way into the water, the entire core of its body directly ruptured with a loud explosion. Large amounts of blue blood spattered everywhere.

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Whoosh! Zhang Che saw a blur flash past. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon had never shown such speed before, pouncing towards the exotic beast. He opened his mouth, inhaling, and the spattered flesh and blood of the Darkice Horned Python were like metal dust attracted to a magnet, flooding into the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's mouth.

"You glutton, come back!" Zhang Che hurriedly yelled, his eyes glaring, afraid that danger would befall this guy.

The Darkice Horned Python was a three-star dark gold-quality exotic beast. Although it didn't have a skill, its strength wasn't something the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon could match up to. Despite its dismembered body, it wasn't to be underestimated.

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon didn't return.

After swallowing a large mouthful of the fallen pieces of the Darkice Horned Python's flesh and blood, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's demeanor suddenly changed. It widened its mouth and produced an irresistible, powerful suction force.

The following scene almost left Zhang Che's jaw dislocated from shock.

Under the effects of the powerful suction, endless blue blood gushed out of the two torn halves of the Darkice Horned Python, gathering and forming into a stream of blue blood, like a water pillar shot out of a high-pressured water tap. It all flowed quickly into the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's mouth.

"Where did that guy get so much blood from?" Zhang Che couldn't help but be curious. Although the Darkice Horned Python was as thick as a water pail, and slightly over ten meters long, there should be a limit to the amount of its blood, right?

However, it seemed like the blue blood wouldn't stop gushing out of the two halves of its body as the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon continued vacuuming it in. It truly left one in disbelief.

However, in the next moment, Zhang Che finally understood why.

It turned out that the blue fluid wasn't blood at all!

As the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon sucked in ferociously, the two halves of the Darkice Horned Python's body actually shrank at a degree visible to the naked eye. It was getting shorter!

That wasn't blood at all, but the essence of the Darkice Horned Python. It was no wonder the water froze after the fluid dripped onto the lake's surface!

Zhang Che finally understood why it had "great tonic for cold-attributed beasts" description in its characteristics. This thing wasn't made of flesh and blood, but formed by the accumulation of the essence of fiendish dark ice.

It also explained why the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon would ignore Zhang Che's commands and acted like he wouldn't give in until he ate this exotic beast up!

The Darkice Horned Python was quickly losing the essence of fiendish dark ice in its body, leaving it greatly alarmed. It twisted its upper body, trying to swim deeper into the water. However, under the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's terrifying vacuum, it was unable to move as it willed, and was even being dragged closer to the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

Greatly astonished and furious, the Darkice Horned Python couldn't care about its exhaustion and opened its mouth, breathing out a large mouthful of dark blue mist at the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

"Watch out, Hanming!" Zhang Che hurriedly shouted, alarmed.

However, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon paid no heed to this. When the mass of dark blue frosty mist came towards him, he actually devoured it!

"This fellow is on SEED mode today!"

Zhang Che was finally at ease. He stood by the lake shore, watching as the Darkice Horned Python's body grew smaller and smaller, struggling futilely.

—

Time slowly flowed by. The Darkice Horned Python's dismembered lower body became smaller and smaller. In the end, it turned into a mass of translucent, shimmering blue fluid, and was devoured by the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

The Darkice Horned Python let out a sorrowful, angry roar. Its body melted, turning into a deep blue ball of water, spinning as it shot towards the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

Everywhere the water ball passed, it was like the space itself was frozen. Countless tiny blue crystals of ice formed in its surroundings. It snowballed into a blue crystal ball with a diameter of over a meter, smashing towards the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, the wind whistling behind it.

Zhang Che didn't give any warnings. From what the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon had shown today, he seemed fully capable of handling this.

As expected, when he saw that ball of crystal shooting his way, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon wasn't shocked, but happy. His mouth suddenly opened twice as wide, taking it head on, and swallowed the icy sphere.

"No wonder this fellow dared to go against this Darkice Horned Python from the start. I thought he was really not afraid of death for the sake of food. It turns out that the Darkice Horned Python's attacks aren't threatening to him at all!" Zhang Che couldn't help but lament. It was only then he remembered that none of his pets were foolhardy creatures… well, except for the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus.

Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus: -I just took a ten thousand damage critical hit for master daddy. I'll die right away if I don't get ten tons of roasted meat as compensation…-

The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon, having swallowed the ball of crystal, suddenly let out a pained roar. He felt as if a turbulent river was running wild in his body, and he began to swell and shrink violently, like someone inhaling and exhaling from a balloon, over and over.

-This glutton must have had too much to eat!- Zhang Che's heart tightened. He hurriedly recalled the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon back into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand.

After returning to Zhang Che's spiritual sea, the mass of light that represented the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon was no longer silver, which reflected his quality. Instead, it was now deep blue, and seemed very unstable.

-Luckily I have the rainbow crystal…- Just as that thought entered his head, the rainbow crystal high up in his spiritual sea went into motion, as expected! It instantly radiated rainbow rays, directly forming a resplendent rainbow pillar, enveloping the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's deep blue mass of light.

Zhang Che let out a long sigh of relief. -We're good now. I wonder how much the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon will grow from this? Gold-quality is a given; perhaps it can even rise to dark gold?-

He decided to sit down by the lake shore, quietly waiting.

——

Time slowly ticked away. The rainbow crystal finally stopped emitting the rainbow pillar of light after about half an hour. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon within it had completely turned into a rainbow cocoon of light.

Zhang Che couldn't be bothered to wait any longer. He brought his subdued beasts and pets along and headed further into the valley, wanting to scout the area. He wanted to see whether there were any more powerful exotic beasts hiding in this valley.

However, other than the group of giant salamander-like trash exotic beasts that escaped to the end of the valley, Zhang Che didn't discover anything else.

"A man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. The Cold Abyss Flood Dragon already gained such huge benefits, and yet I'm still thinking of more. Really…" Zhang Che shook his head. He walked back out from the depths of the valley. Just as he was about to continue scouting further, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's rainbow cocoon of light quickly dimmed. Afterwards, it collapsed inward, revealing a five-colored mass of light.

"I thought it'd be dark gold at best!" Zhang Che was ecstatic. As expected, the results were surprising whenever the rainbow crystal made its move. It was like that for the Purple Crystal Tortoise last time, and this time, for the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

-So, what is this thing, exactly?- Zhang Che was no longer so naive to think that the rainbow crystal was simply some natural treasure with special powers he happened to dig out from a rock.

Translator's Note:

1: Gundam SEED reference. SEED mode represents the ability for an individual with the SEED factor to enter into a state of enhanced awareness and peak physical ability.

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Chapter 216: Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon

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What exactly was the rainbow crystal? Naturally it was impossible for Zhang Che to know.

However, the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon had evolved to legend-quality. This was something extremely worthy of celebration. Thus, he immediately Summoned him out from his spiritual sea.

A five-colored ray of light shot out between Zhang Che's brow, and instantly took form.

"My…" However, when he saw this totally unfamiliar beast before him, Zhang Che was so shaken that he couldn't say a word!

Was this still a flood dragon? It was clearly a full dragon!

A water pail-thick huge dragon was floating in the air before his eyes, his body over twenty meters long, his entire body deep blue in color…

Alright, it didn't seem qualified to be called a huge dragon. It was a small dragon at best.

In any case, a small dragon was also a dragon. "Horns like a deer, head like a bull, eyes like a prawn, mouth like a donkey, stomach like a snake, scales like a fish, legs like a phoenix, beard like a man, ears like an elephant." If all these features were combined, it was exactly like a Four-Clawed Dragon's appearance as described from the legends.

Not only that, whether it was due to him devouring the Darkice Horned Python or not, but the current Cold Abyss Flood Dragon's entire body was deep blue and translucent, unlike any ordinary flesh body. It was like a sculpture crafted from an ice blue crystal.

-Is this really my Hanming?- There were thousands of questions in Zhang Che's mind waiting to be voiced out. In the end, his gaze swept over the creature, and he realized this fellow was no longer the Cold Abyss Flood Dragon.

[Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon]

Level: Five Star (Level 50)

Quality: Legend

Characteristics: Born from the Absorption of the Essence of Fiendish Darkice. Able to Devour All Auras of Abyssal Cold in the World. Normal Attacks Carry an Air of Coldness, Able to Freeze Enemies' Bodies, Slowing Their Movements and Attack Speed.

Weakness: Lacking in Defense Against Innate Fire Elemental Attacks

Innate Attributes: Undying Body of Abyssal Cold. Non-Innate Fire Elemental Attacks are Unable to Damage its Foundation. Its Body Never Dies if its Aura of Abyssal Cold is not Extinguished.

Skill: Darkfiend Cold Energy Wave. Exhausts a Large Amount of Vital Energy and Breathes out Darkfiend Cold Air, Covering a Huge Area for a Short Period of Time. The Temperature of the Area Shrouded in Darkfiend Energy Will Fall Extremely Low, Capable of Large Scale Killing or Injuring of Enemies. Requires Five Days to Recover Vital Energy After Use.

Halo: Darkfiend Cold Resistance

Potential: ?

"Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon? Seriously? After this change, my Hanming is nothing like before!" Zhang Che was at a loss. He was stunned again after he finished looking through the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's attributes.

There was nothing to say about it, except that he was strong!

This fellow's potential had also changed into a question mark, leaving Zhang Che a little uncertain whether A-Rank potential was better, or worse?

"Right, this guy's characteristics said that he can devour the auras of all extreme coldness in the world. Does that mean that he's broken through the shackles of his potential and can keep getting stronger?" Other than that, Zhang Che truly couldn't think of any other possibilities.

-If that was truly the case, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's future achievements will be simply unimaginable! The legendary divine-quality exotic beasts were probably something like this, right?

-No, he'll definitely be stronger than divine-quality exotic beasts!-

"Tsk, tsk. Look at you, you're totally different now, and even your name has changed. I'm still a little not used to this. Should I continue calling you Hanming, or call you Xuanming now?"

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon nodded his head profusely, indicating that he could call him whatever he liked.

"Forget it. I'll just call you Hanming. The words Xuanming sounds like it's from a play."

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon looked confused. -Is there something wrong with the words Xuanming?-

Zhang Che naturally wouldn't explain that those two words touched upon a certain novel's two eccentric old men, one lecherous and the other an alcoholic. He only kept looking at the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's attributes, feeling even more impressed the more he looked at them.

Now, no matter whether it was his attack or defense, this guy was definitely a top-tier existence among legend-quality beasts. He might not necessarily be invincible against other same-tier beasts, but other than some exotic beasts whose attributes were even more prodigious, ordinary legend-quality beasts shouldn't be able to pose much of a threat to him, especially with this fellow's innate attribute, undying body of abyssal cold.

Just one look at it and you could tell that it was really strong. Other than innate fire elemental attacks or whatever it was, all other attacks were unable to damage its foundation. As long as a wisp of his abyssal cold aura still remained, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wouldn't truly die.

-However, what does innate fire elemental attack mean, exactly?

-I wonder if the Scarlet Flame Drake's skill counts.- Thinking of this, Zhang Che's eyes immediately lit up.

He'd know whether it counted after doing some tests. He only needed to avoid hitting the vitals and it'd be fine. Even if the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon would be hurt by the Scarlet Flame Drake's skill, Zhang Che could immediately recall him back into his spiritual sea to heal him up. There wouldn't be any loss.

After learning of Zhang Che's intentions, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon shivered uncontrollably. -I'm already a master of cold. Why do I still feel a shiver down my back?-

Alas, he couldn't disobey his master daddy's orders. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon could only remain still in the air obediently, allowing the Scarlet Flame Drake to breathe some fire onto his tail.

The scarlet flames fell upon his body. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon let out a loud, pained cry, his body swinging back and forth in the air.

Afterwards, Zhang Che saw a large cloud of deep blue mist evaporating from the tail of the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's translucent blue body. Despite him madly transferring the aura of abyssal cold from the other areas of his body to replenish it, it seemed like he couldn't recover fast enough.

Zhang Che raised his head and let out an audible sigh. He could only recall him back into his spiritual sea, before sighing inwardly, -Didn't water restraint fire? Why is it the other way around now?

-Ugh, not right. It seems like after consuming the Darkice Horned Python and being altered by the rainbow crystal, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon is no longer a pure water-attributed beast. He is now mainly composed of darkfiend aura.

-As such, the Scarlet Flame Drake's innate fire elemental attack was able to hurt him, and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon did not have an advantage over it.-

After all, the Scarlet Flame Drake's level and quality were both inferior to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon now. Although its skill could restrain him, it could only cause some minor damage. After recuperating in Zhang Che's spiritual sea for less than a minute, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was back at tip-top condition.

Zhang Che nodded in satisfaction. -Then… let's try some other form of attacks and see if it can cause any notable damage.-

Facing the Purple Crystal Tortoise, whose mouth was aimed in his direction, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon no longer displayed any signs of worry.

Dang! A crisp sound rang out. The bone spike spat out by the Purple Crystal Tortoise directly punched a bowl-sized hole through the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's body.

However, the abyssal cold aura in the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's body quickly circulated in the next moment. The extremely serious wound was repaired in an instant, leaving not a single scar behind.

"My Hanming is so strong now!" Zhang Che's eyes shone brightly. He decided to have the Purple Crystal Tortoise activate its skill, shooting all the remaining bone spikes at the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, blowing his body into several sections. Blue abyssal cold aura rapidly leaked out from every wound.

However, such sure-death injuries didn't amount to anything for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. His sapphire-like eyes emitted a deep blue glint of light. The leaking abyssal cold aura from his dismembered body sections gathered together, and in only a few breaths' time, he was as good as new.

Zhang Che couldn't help but sigh in praise. "It really is an undying body of abyssal cold! Other than innate fire elemental attacks, it's almost impossible to kill the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon!"

The reason why he used the word "almost" was because Zhang Che sensed that although the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had quickly regained his body, he had still exhausted much of his vital energy.

This also meant that the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wasn't truly unaffected by those ordinary attacks. It was just that he used his vital energy as the price to negate the damage he suffered.

Even so, it was definitely incredible.

How devastating was the Purple Crystal Tortoise's attacks after gaining the bone spikes?

Most legend-quality exotic beasts would be gravely injured after taking on that attack, and yet the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon could endure such attacks up to a hundred times by exhausting his vital energy!

With such an astonishing ability, it didn't seem inappropriate to claim that he had an undying body.

Translator's Note:

1: Reference to Louis Cha/Jin Yong's novel, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, and two villainous characters known as the Xuanming Elders. Also, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon is called Xuan Sha Ming Long in the raws.

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Chapter 217: Actual Combat is the Only Standard to Evaluate Strength

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"There's nothing to complaint about regarding his defense. So now, let's see exactly how good Hanming's combat strength is." Zhang Che was naturally especially satisfied with the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's defense.

As long as this guy didn't fight against exotic beasts like the Scarlet Flame Drake who possessed innate fire abilities, it was as good as having an immortal body. There was no need to worry about his safety at all.

He had the defense. However, if his attacking strength wasn't up to par, it didn't count for much, either.

If you wanted to have a good evaluation of a beast's combat strength, what else was more effective than having an actual battle?

Wasn't there a phrase that went something like "Actual combat is the only standard to evaluate strength"?

Of course, the Purple Crystal Tortoise still had to retrieve all the of bone spikes before they set off. After the previous battle and the test on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's defense, all hundred and eight bone spikes were shot out, scattered everywhere.

Fortunately the Purple Crystal Tortoise could assimilate into the rocks as it wished. Otherwise, Zhang Che really wouldn't dare to use the bone spikes as weapons. How much would he lose if he lost even one of them?

After spending close to half an hour, the Purple Crystal Tortoise finally found all the scattered bone spikes. Afterwards, Zhang Che recalled the Purple Crystal Tortoise into his spiritual sea, along with the Scarlet Flame Drake and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus.

"Let's move out," Zhang Che jumped onto the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, his hands holding onto the long mane growing out from the gaps between his scales, which was fascinating to touch.

Afterwards, Zhang Che reached out his hands and felt the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's crystal clear scales. They were cool and smooth to the touch; it truly felt like they were sculpted from a piece of ice.

"Tsk, tsk. I really don't understand. A fine guy made of flesh and blood was actually turned into this. Can you still eat meat in the future?"

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew quickly. Now, it no longer needed to ride on the clouds to fly, nor would it weaken after leaving water.

No matter if it was up in the sky, or into the earth, there were no restrictions!

After hearing what Zhang Che said, this dragon couldn't help but turn his head around and blink his sapphire-like eyes, seemingly asking him to take a guess.

Zhang Che immediately palmed his face. -Looks like no matter what changes are made to your lifeform, your gluttonous nature will never change.

-Although… this guy's entire body is already composed of energy. How can it digest the things he eats?

-How confusing…-

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew past a few mountain peaks, but they didn't find any suitable exotic beasts.

According to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's current strength, he had to find a mid-tier dark gold-quality beast to fight at the very least.

However, even within this vast mountain range, mid-tier dark gold-quality or higher exotic beasts weren't that easy to find, either. If his luck was good, perhaps he might encounter a few in a day. If not, perhaps he might not even find one in a few days.

Zhang Che felt that his current luck wasn't very good.

He had already searched through the surrounding area within a few dozen kilometers radius, and yet he didn't find a single one.

"I'm getting a little hungry. Let's go hunt two fat and tender exotic beasts and cook them."

With no spices available, Zhang Che became very picky when it came to the species of exotic beasts he hunted for food. Zhang Che couldn't even bear to eat ordinary beasts with tough meat. They had to be small herbivorous or omnivorous beasts for Zhang Che to be able to swallow them.

-Hmm, I really miss the Purple-Eyed Fox to the west of the beast world behind Qian Wei City's spatial gateway!-

Although that exotic beast was extremely small, the taste of its meat was the best Zhang Che ever had, for certain. Even without spices or salt, he could eat fifty kilograms of that meat in one go!

As he indulged in his fantasy, Zhang Che suddenly noticed a flying beast on the horizon.

"Hmm? It looks familiar…"

Although they were very far apart and Zhang Che couldn't make out the exotic beast's exact appearance, he felt a hint of familiarity on seeing it.

Curiosity grew in his heart. Zhang Che patted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, ordering him to change directions. "Let's give chase and take a look."

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's flying speed was now not inferior to the Purple Jade Condor. At his fastest, perhaps he could even reach a thousand kilometers per hour!

Most importantly, no matter how fast he flew, the wind would be warded off by the faint abyssal cold aura emitted from his body, not affecting his rider, Zhang Che, in the slightest.

During the flight, it was the best thing Zhang Che had discovered about the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

After all, his other powerful beasts and pets, like the Purple Crystal Tortoise, Scarlet Flame Drake, and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, could also do battle. Zhang Che could do with or without the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon on this front.

On the other hand, what Zhang Che lacked the most was the ability to travel quickly!

Despite his physique being far stronger than normal humans, when riding on the Purple Jade Condor's back, Zhang Che could only endure a flight speed of six to seven hundred kilometers per hour at the most. Although this was already very fast, who wouldn't want to go faster if they could?

The mountains underneath unrolled beneath his eyes, and soon the contours of the flying beast were clearer.

"Oh damn, destiny really does make enemies meet!"

When the flying beast ahead finally noticed the pursuing Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, Zhang Che finally made out its true appearance. It actually turned out to be one of the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons whose eggs were stolen by him!

Well, that was only if there weren't any other Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons in this area…

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon immediately let out an alarmed roar when it saw the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, who it could tell was no pushover with a glance. It was probably saying something like, -Brother, we're both respectable beasts. If you're looking for food, there's plenty of little guys in this area for you to pick from. There's no need for us to fight.-

However, in the next moment, it saw Zhang Che's head peeking out on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back. Flames of rage immediately burned in all four eyes of both its heads.

A resounding roar rang out. The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon beat its wings, quickly flying away in the opposite direction…

It escaped, just like that…

Zhang Che, who was all prepared to have the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon go up and fight it, couldn't help butbe stunned.

-What happened to the feud of eating your young and ruining your family?

-What is the meaning of you roaring and running away? Shouldn't you rush up to me and draw me into a great battle, fighting for three hundred rounds?-

Zhang Che was depressed! From the looks of it, another chaotic battle was going to ensue.

After all, although the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was definitely able to handle fighting two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons, he wouldn't be able to look after Zhang Che if he did.

"Give chase! I don't believe it can escape to the ends of the world. That guy definitely returned to find its partner." Zhang Che slapped the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, his eyes radiating a golden light.

In any case, they were two six-star dark gold-quality exotic beasts. After obtaining their beast cards, even if he didn't use them for himself, he could wait for a good offer and keep them for now.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon instantly accelerated, speeding along like a bolt of blue lightning. Zhang Che sat on his back, not moving in the slightest. His lips curled up into a grin, -This really is the best mount possible! No matter how he flies, I don't have to worry about falling as long as he doesn't make a flip!-

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Chapter 218: Terrifying Stone Man

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The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was fast, but it wasn't faster than the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

Although both of them had the word dragon in their names, which one of them was the real dragon was visible with just a glance.

Zhang Che was already making guesses if the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon could break through legend-quality in the future, would his flying speed surpass the sound of speed?

It would be awesome if that was true. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon would totally become a biological supersonic mount!

At that time, was there anywhere in the vast world he couldn't go?

Well, naturally he was referring to the Mercury world…

In the beast worlds, where danger lurked everywhere, he couldn't roam about as he pleased, even if the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's strength broke through legend-quality. What if he encountered a divine-quality exotic beast? He couldn't run even if he wanted to.

Zhang Che had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon control his speed, catching up to the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon unhurriedly as he thought of the terrifying divine bird he had discovered in the west of the beast world, behind Qian Wei City's spatial gateway. -I wonder what level and quality is that big bird I saw in the past with golden snakes of lightning all over its body. It should be divine-quality at least, right?-

That was a terrifying existence that could leave you prostrating on the ground with a single glance. Even a real dragon could only run for its life.

Was that level of strength really only at divine-quality?

Although Zhang Che didn't understand the true powers of a divine-quality exotic beast, when compared to that divine bird, his subdued beasts and pets, be it the Purple Crystal Tortoise or the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon ahead of him, they were only ant-like existences before it! The difference between them was simply too great…

While the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon gave chase unhurriedly, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon ahead was flying with all its strength, wishing that it had another pair of wings or two to help it escape.

Although it hated Zhang Che for stealing its eggs and destroying its nest, his army of powerful babies had left a deep impression on it. It knew that there was totally no hope of victory against this man by itself.

Although an exotic beast's intelligence was inferior to a human's, it wouldn't be as dumb as a pig, either. It could still assess the situation sensibly. Only someone sick in the head would insist on fighting despite knowing it spelled defeat.

A mid-tier high quality exotic beast definitely wouldn't be sick in the head!

"Ahh, I wonder if the two Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragons laid any more eggs over the past few days?" Zhang Che swallowed uncontrollably when he thought of the benefits the two dragon eggs brought him. For a glutton like him, the attractiveness of a delicacy that was both delicious and strengthened him was simply indescribable.

———-

The chase went on for over a hundred kilometers.

The mountains under them flashed by. The peaks ahead gradually grew unusually steep.

Looking down from the sky, the vegetation on the mountains in this area grew scarcer and scarcer. What took their place was large areas of greyish-brown mountain rock.

The whole area was like an enlarged version of a rock forest.

Zhang Che felt that something wasn't quite right. There wouldn't be many exotic beasts moving around in this area. For them to build a nest here, it wouldn't be easy for them to hunt for food.

Moreover, if their nest was really in this area, the other Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon would surely have noticed his presence by now. It was impossible for it to not have showed up by now.

While he suspected something, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon ahead suddenly tilted itself up, flying higher into the air, its speed suddenly rising greatly, as if it were trying to throw something off its tail as fast as possible.

-What's going on with that guy?- Just as he thought that, Zhang Che suddenly felt a massive pull from the surrounding space. His body seemed to become ten times heavier all of a sudden, and even the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was caught unprepared and nearly plunged down.

Subjected to this pull all over his body, Zhang Che's organs felt terrible. He almost had to lay directly on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back.

If it wasn't for the fact that his physique was over ten times stronger than normal humans, perhaps his bones would snap in half after being subjected to this sudden pull.

-What is that!?- Just as Zhang Che was feeling astonished, a concentrated spread of large stalagmites shot their way at an unimaginable speed.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon sensed the danger, and hurriedly rose higher.

Alas, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was also affected by that pull. He couldn't adapt to it in such a short time, and his reaction time was slowed down considerably as a result.

Bang! A loud noise rang out. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's midriff was struck by a large stalagmite. A hole appeared in his crystallized body, so big the dragon was nearly broken in half.

Abyssal aura gushed out from the wound. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon tried his hardest to fly higher as he repaired his wounded body. Meanwhile, Zhang Che was so scared that his back was soaked in a layer of cold sweat.

He realized that this time he was set up and almost done in by a beast!

-How embarrassing! If I knew this would happen, I would have had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon catch up faster and directly get rid of that Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon. What was I thinking, trying to catch them all in one fell swoop?

-Although, what exactly is in here, it's actually able to control the gravity in a certain area!-

This kind of ability was simply unthinkable!

Raising his head, Zhang Che realized the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon had already flown far away. It was now only a tiny black dot in the distance.

-Thinking of running away after setting me up? No such thing!- Zhang Che's rage erupted. He directly ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to raise their altitude, leaving this area with the strange gravity field.

At this moment, a ripple seemed to spread out from the steepest peak of the mountains underneath them. A huge human-shaped creature stood up on the rocks on the peak.

The creature was shaped like a human, its body several dozen meters tall. Its body was made up of stones, its head bald, with only two large diamond-like eyes, and it was looking directly at Zhang Che and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

-Danger!- Zhang Che felt an inexplicable chill in his heart, his hair standing on end.

In the next moment, a streak of light flowed up from the giant stone man's feet, forming a large rock spear in its hand in the blink of an eye.

A soundless, furious roar rang out. The giant stone man took a step forward and heaved with its right hand violently. The dozen-meter-long rock spear shot forth like a bolt of lightning, shooting towards the airborne Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

The two were only a few hundred meters apart. The long spear arrived in an instant.

However, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had finally gotten used to the gravity field around him. Although it was already too late to dodge the oncoming rock spear, he managed to twist his body aside at the last moment.

Bang! An explosion rang out. The huge rock spear scraped by the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's side, directly pulverizing one of his crystallized hind claws.

"Hurry, leave this cursed place! I'm going to skin that Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon alive!" Zhang Che roared with a savage expression. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon didn't care about its powderized claw and directly fled from the gravity field around them. After quickly rising high into the air, they flew in pursuit of the nearly escaped Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon.

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Chapter 219: Levelling in Peace

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The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly flew higher. The giant stone man underneath let out another furious roar, and threw another huge rock spear at them.

However, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had escaped the invisible gravity field. His speed rose sharply, closing in on Mach One. Although the rock spear was extremely fast, it barely scratched the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's side and continued shooting higher into the air.

Zhang Che turned his head back and took a long look at the giant stone man on the peak of the mountain. A peculiar glint of light shone in his eyes, before he directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to chase in the direction the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon had left in.

It was embarrassing to even speak about; he was actually set up by an exotic beast!

If he hadn't reacted in time, wouldn't he have lost his life to that terrifying giant stone man?

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon directly brought out his fastest speed. Less than a minute later, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon was back within his sight.

"Hah, let's see how you escape this time!" Zhang Che let out an angry chuckle, directing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to chase straight towards it.

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon originally thought that it had gotten its revenge. However, only a short while later, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was back in its pursuit, scaring it greatly. It beat its wings with all its might, trying to escape as quickly as possible.

It was only now the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon realized that while it was setting Zhang Che up, he was similarly setting it up. He wanted to follow it back to its nest and get both of the dragons in one fell swoop.

As the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew at his fastest, the distance between both parties drew closer and closer. Zhang Che could already see the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's contours clearly.

Realizing that there was no escape, the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon decided to reuse its old trick, drawing an arc in the air and flew back towards the mountain range with scarce vegetation from earlier.

"Do you think it'll still work?" Zhang Che smiled in disdain. A five-colored ray of light shot out from between his brow. The Purple Crystal Tortoise appeared on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back.

"Shoot it down!"

Currently, the distance between them was only a few hundred meters. The Purple Crystal Tortoise's supersonic spear attack could reach it in an instant.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise's round head peeked out and aimed at the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon ahead. It opened its mouth wide and silently shot a bone spike.

Just as the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon sensed the danger, a bowl-sized hole appeared on its left head before it could make any evasive maneuvers. The tremendous pain left it unable to maintain its balance, spinning down to the mountains underneath.

Zhang Che took note of the direction the bone spike flew to, then ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to continue chasing, "Chase it down!"

The Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon, having lost its balance, suddenly slowed down by a large margin. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon caught up in a flash, exhaling a mouthful of deep blue frosty air at it.

How could the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon possibly dodge the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's attack after losing its balance? It took a direct hit. A thin layer of dark ice crystals formed instantly, enveloping its body. Its thin wings could no longer move, and its huge figure fell straight down.

Although it was over a hundred meters above ground, Zhang Che didn't believe falling at this height would kill a six-star dark gold-quality beast.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon dove down in pursuit, while the Purple Crystal Tortoise found another opportunity and shot another bone spike at it.

Another bang rang out. A hole was punched through the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon's other head. Its huge figure turned into a glow of light, condensing into a dark golden card, floating down.

"Hah, I finally got you!"

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly flew down. They caught up to the beast card in just a few seconds, and Zhang Che caught the beast card in his hand.

[Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon]

Level: Six Star (Level 57)

Quality: Dark Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: A Poison and Fire Dual Elemental Beast. Its Two Heads Each Wield a Different Element, and Can Breath Poison Mist and Flames Separately. Strong In Close Combat

Weakness: Ice Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Poison and Fire Dual Element Augmentation. Able to Breathe Fire and Poison Mist For Long Periods of Time to Attack Its Foe.

Skill: Venomous Black Flames. When Skill Is Activated, Both Heads Breathe Out Strong Flames and Poison Mist Simultaneously, Combining Into a Black Poisonous Flame. It Can Both Burn and Poison the Affected Target. Attack Range: 50 Meters, Lasts 2 Seconds, Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes

Potential: D Rank

The beast card's type was well within Zhang Che's expectation. It was the most common type, an Original Combat Body.

Although, it would be really weird and surprising if another type showed up on this kind of exotic beasts whose attributes were mainly for battle.

"Not bad. It can be considered a beast card with outstanding attributes." Zhang Che nodded with a faint smile. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly landed. The Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly ran off to search for the two bone spikes it shot out.

Those things were extremely valuable; naturally Zhang Che would not allow them to be lost just like that.

While waiting for the Purple Crystal Tortoise to retrieve the bone spikes, Zhang Che sat quietly on a rock, recalling the giant stone man they encountered earlier.

There was no doubt that the giant stone man's level and quality had exceeded his imagination. Zhang Che wasn't sure whether it was a divine-tier beast, but it definitely wasn't something his subdued beasts and pets could handle.

"Luckily we were in the sky this time. If we had accidentally walked into that area instead, I'm afraid we wouldn't have escaped…" Zhang Che finally felt the dangers of these lands.

Originally, he thought that with the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, Purple Crystal Tortoise, and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, he was sure even if he couldn't act without constraints in this area, he could retreat safely no matter the situation. From the looks of it now, that seemed to be a joke.

Although there weren't many dangerous places, they definitely existed. That giant stone man was a perfect example.

Although Zhang Che didn't know whether it was a skill or whatever, that terrifying gravity field's might had left his scalp feeling numb. The destructive power of the rock spears it threw was also extremely devastating. Perhaps none of his babies, with the exception of the Purple Crystal Tortoise, could withstand them.

-Hmm? If the Purple Crystal Tortoise could withstand it, doesn't that mean that the giant stoneman isn't a divine-tier exotic beast?- Thinking of that, Zhang Che's complexion grew even uglier.

-Looking at it now, there is at least another quality tier between legend and divine.

-If there are more of such exotic beasts in these endless mountains, I can't afford to move so carelessly in the future.-

"It seems like I'd better stick to hunting four and five-star exotic beasts around the mountains where the ferocious beast's skeleton is, raise my beastmaster tier to Tier Five, and then find my way out of here." Zhang Che decided to behave himself and spend his time levelling up.

He didn't want to encounter any more powerful exotic beasts like that giant stone man. It truly was a little too dangerous!

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Time flew by. Another four days passed.

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The thirty-sixth year, the sixth of July of the new age…

It was the last day of the tests organized by all of the high schools in the Hua Xia region aimed towards beastmaster-students.

In the hunting zone in the beast world behind the Jin City's spatial gateway, this extremely vast area had basically been fully explored by the examinees over the past half a month.

Due to the differences in their strength and luck, their results naturally differed.

Although Zheng Hongru's group of four had a few decent beast cards left behind by their leader, Zhang Che, the cards weren't too powerful after all. Their gains in the last ten days could only be considered average.

With such results, they had no hopes of enrolling into the top universities.

However, to them, who were originally the most ordinary Tier Two beastmasters, being able to enroll into an average university was already something to be celebrated.

Thus, they didn't care that there were still a few more hours before the hunt officially ended. After discussion, the four immediately turned around and left the deep parts of the hunting zone, heading back towards the rendezvous location.

"The reason we were able to obtain such good results this time was all thanks to the beast cards Brother Che left for us. So, I have decided to make a trip to Qian Wei City to visit Brother Che's mother after the test ends. What about you guys?" Zheng Hongru looked to the others as they continued walking.

"Of course I'm going. There's still a month's time before the pre-school-term-commencement training anyway. I want to go see what the place Brother Che lives at looks like."

"Right, right. Do you still have to ask? Of course we're going!"

"Mmm, I'm going, too."

Xiao Yi, Li Da, and Sun Zhi nodded one after another after hearing Zheng Hongru's question.

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Over the past few days, under Huang Tielan's arrangements, Sun Lan had settled down in Bei Du City. During this time, Huang Tielan brought her to all of the major hospitals in Bei Du, to see if there were any other methods of curing her illness.

The results were disappointing. After examinations from all the hospitals, the conclusion they got was the same as before. Unless there were new breakthroughs in genetic technology and a better genetic restoration medicine was developed, her condition could only be kept under control for three years with the current genetic restoration medicine.

Of course, the doctors from all the different hospitals also proposed a different solution, and that was to have an extremely rarely-seen healing-type beast heal her. It had a very high chance of curing her illness.

The efforts made during these days were pretty much for naught.

Sun Lan couldn't help but feel discouraged. On the other hand, Huang Tielan told her firmly, "Don't worry, Auntie. I'll be taking my practical test at the middle of this month. Once I pass the practical test and become a beast card cultivation student in Bei Du University, I can ask Professor Sun Qilong to help. At that time, your illness will surely be cured."

Only four days passed, and Miss Tienan seemed like she grew another size smaller. Her weight was already less than seventy-five kilograms. Although she still looked slightly overweight, she was over a hundred and eighty centimeters, and it was nothing.

Moreover, her skeleton was slightly bigger than ordinary girls. Her current figure was already well proportioned.

After learning the relevant information from her father, Huang Tielan actually knew that there was no hope of Zhang Che being alive. However, her subconscious mind refused to believe this. This period of time had actually been a torture for her.

It was also why she lost close to fifteen kilograms in barely two weeks.

Of course, she didn't tell this to Sun Lan. She was afraid that the latter wouldn't be able to take it. Instead, she told her what she hoped: that Zhang Che might not necessarily be in trouble, and that he would surely return, preventing Sun Lan's spirit from crumbling.

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"Time passed by really quickly these days. Another four days passed before I knew it," Zhang Che lamented, sitting under the ferocious beast's skeleton, calculating his gains for the past few days.

During the past four days, he had used this majestic mountain as the center and hunted three-stars and above exotic beasts within only a three hundred kilometer radius. He didn't think of going to hunt for high quality beast cards, only concentrating on "gaining experience" to raise his beastmaster tier to Tier Five as soon as possible.

In the end, advancing to Tier Five was still quite a distance away. However, his fusion skill successfully increased to level three.

This was all thanks to the abundant three-star exotic beasts in this area, and finding identical groups of exotic beasts was common. Otherwise, it really wouldn't be easy to increase it to level three.

Now that fusion was at level three, he could fuse identical four-star cards to make five-stars. The two four-star Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterflies in Zhang Che's spiritual sea could finally be fused into five-stars.

However, what troubled Zhang Che endlessly was that his beastmaster tier was only Tier Four right now. He estimated that he needed at least a week's time to advance, and that was if his luck was good, able to hunt a certain amount of four and five-stars exotic beasts every day.

"Going forward, I still have to continue working hard!"

Zhang Che knew that Sun Lan and Huang Tielan must be very worried about him. He had also struggled with these thoughts on multiple occasions, wondering if he should ignore all of this and find his way back to Mercury.

"However, I have already stayed here for over ten days. What's a few days more? After leaving here, it would be hard to find another place with such rich exotic beast resources and a high safety factor to raise my beastmaster tier to Tier Five in the future." Zhang Che was naturally aware that the skeleton behind him was the reason that he only truly met with danger once during all this time, which was when he left it behind when he was chasing the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon.

If he was at any other place, God knew how many dangers he would have faced.

As such, a chance like this to quickly raise his beastmaster tier in peace was truly a once-in-a-century opportunity!

In the end, he could only steel his mind. -I disappeared without a trace since that strange incident. Everyone must have thought that I'm already dead, right?

-Since that is the case, I can only let mom and the others grieve for a little longer.-

In these past four days, the three Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly cards in Zhang Che's spiritual sea had advanced in succession, especially the two-star silver-quality one, having advanced to gold-quality, and now had a skill that left him incredibly happy.

[Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly]

Level: Two Star (Level 20)

Quality: Gold

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Able to Disperse Hallucination Powder, Causing Those Affected to Become Mentally Confused

Weakness: Fire Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Amplified Confusion. The Effects of the Hallucination-Inducing Poisonous Powders are Greatly Amplified.

Skill: Enchant. Allows Temporary Control of Target After Activation, Obeying Any and All Commands. Lasts 5 Minutes, Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes. (Note: Skill is Ineffective Against Three-Star Dark Gold-Quality and Above Beasts, and Effect is Increasingly Stronger Against Weaker Beasts. Has Terrifying Effects on Humans. Non-High-Tier Beastmasters are Unable to Resist When Caught Unguarded.)

Potential: B Rank

Cultivating Directions: …

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Chapter 221: Advance to Tier Five

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Edited by Aelryinth

In Qian Wei City, outside the gates of a certain district…

Four teenagers came together. After they entered the district, they headed straight to the property management building.

It was exactly noon right now. There was only a middle-aged man in the property management center, looking bored stiff sitting at the desk, smoking.

Suddenly, four youngsters in their late teens walked in together. The frontmost, a handsome man, asked with a faint smile, "Big brother, may I ask where does Zhang Che live? We're his friends and came to look for him during the summer vacation."

-Big brother?- The man looked at the four youngsters. Then, he reached for his beard, caressing it, his mood instantly much brighter.

-Hmm, I'm still young, aren't I? Didn't these youngsters just call me big brother?

-Those teenager girls in this district are the annoying ones, always calling me uncle. Don't they know that my mental age is actually not that far from theirs?-

"Zhang Che, is it? Let me see…"

The four youngsters were obviously students. Naturally the middle-aged man wouldn't suspect them of ulterior motives. Moreover, there were security measures in place in this district. He wasn't afraid that a few mere kids would cause any sort of trouble.

"I'll be troubling you then, big brother." Zheng Hongru expressed his gratitude, showing another faint smile.

The man nodded without any emotion, and operated the computer before him for a short while. Afterwards, he looked up to Zheng Hongru and the others with a strange expression, asking, "Are you really Zhang Che's schoolmates?"

Everyone of them revealed doubtful looks on their faces, nodding subconsciously.

The man sighed, saying, "Then I suppose you guys probably aren't that close. They moved a few days ago, and have employed a professional housekeeping company to clean it every so often. You're too late."

Zheng Hongru and the others exchanged gazes with one another, thinking inwardly, -Could it be that Brother Che's mother was unwilling to believe that something untoward had happened to him, and thus rushed over to Bei Du personally to search for him?-

"Then, may I ask big brother, where did they move to?"

"This… I seem to recall hearing about them moving over to Bei Du's side. I'm not exactly sure which city, though."

Zheng Hongru and the others exchanged glances again.

-As expected, Brother Che's mother really went to find him!

-Looks like we have to make another trip back to Jin City. After Brother Che's mother found out about the news, she'd surely go to Jin City. It shouldn't be hard to find her if we ask around.

-But what do we say after we find her?

-Say that the strange black door appeared and only vacuumed Brother Che in, and ignored the rest of us who were right next to him?-

"Thank you big brother!" The four youngster's faces turned complicated. After they thanked the middle-aged man, they left the little district with heavy steps.

"Ai, youngsters nowadays…" the middle-aged man sighed inexplicably when he saw Zheng Hongru and the others leaving.

———-

"Hurry, hurry! Continue killing! I can sense that I might advance to Tier Five today!"

Zhang Che remained in the area for another six days. His luck was pretty good, and he managed to hunt large amounts of four and five-stars exotic beasts every day. Seeing the accumulation of soul force points about to reach its peak, Zhang Che grew so excited that he commanded his babies to slaughter a group of four and five-star low-quality exotic beasts ahead.

Speaking of which, the exotic beasts in this area were really unlucky. They thought they finally found a place with not many high-quality exotic beasts around, suitable for their survival. In the end, a group of demons appeared out of nowhere, searching and wiping out their puny existences every day. Truly, there weren't any tears, even if they wanted to cry!

On the other hand, Zhang Che naturally found great pleasure in all this. He didn't know another place with a population of mid-tier low-quality exotic beasts as concentrated as they were here!

Originally, he thought it would take quite a long while before he rose to Tier Five. To his surprise, he spent barely two weeks and he was already close to the breaking point.

As expected, steeling his heart to not return so soon had its merits!

"Haha, I can use the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword soon! Just thinking about it excites me!"

Once he rose to Tier Five, he could cover up the weakness of his paltry personal combat strength. The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's destructive power was simply off the charts! Zhang Che was confident that with it, he could take on an ordinary mid-tier dark gold-quality exotic beast alone, given that it wasn't too big for him.

Of course, he could forget about taking on something with the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus' size. Just a stomp from it and he would be turned into meat paste if he didn't dodge in time.

Also, once Zhang Che rose to Tier Five, his spiritual sea would expand again. He would be able to employ three more beasts, and he would be able to use the Seven Star Silver Beetle armor, greatly improving his defensive strength!

Thinking of that, there really were many advantages to it!

In order to raise his efficiency of hunting exotic beasts, during this period of time Zhang Che didn't care about whether he could get many beast cards or not. He even had his powerful pets, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus, going around killing.

In any case, Zhang Che really didn't care much for non-high-quality beast cards now.

The beast cards could only be sold for money, anyway. Despite losing a mountain of purple-gold crystal, Alliance dollars were only a bunch of numbers to Zhang Che now.

What he needed was those high-grade materials, or even natural treasures. Those were things that couldn't be exchanged for with ordinary beast cards, no matter the amount.

Since these ordinary beast cards no longer had much meaning to him, Zhang Che would naturally choose to kill as many exotic beasts as possible, raising his beastmaster tier to Tier Five as soon as possible.

As there were no other beastmasters in this area, Zhang Che totally let himself loose, allowing all his subdued beasts and pets, close to a dozen in number, to spread out in a one kilometer radius and sweep through the area.

Finally, when the sky was starting to turn dark, Zhang Che felt an explosion in his spiritual sea. Afterwards, he felt his entire body had become a little different.

He knew that he had finally risen to Tier Five!

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[Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword]

Level: Five Star (Level 49)

Quality: Legend

Type: Weapon Type

Characteristics: Contains Large Amount of Scarlet Meteorite Essence, Its Attacking Strength and Sharpness Shockingly High

Skill: Unparalleled Sharpness. Greatly Improves The Sharpness of The Huge Sword After Activation, Able to Penetrate All Non-Divine-Tier Defense. Lasts 10 Seconds, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes

Halo: Increased Sharpness

Potential: D Rank

Zhang Che immediately took out the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword card. After he successfully triggered a spiritual resonance with it and branded it with his spiritual imprint, he Summoned it out.

It was no different from when it was wielded by the insect. The Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword was two meters long, its widest part twenty centimeters across, and its thickest area close to five centimeters. The sword was entirely black in color, with concentrated scarlet starry dots in a pattern on it, giving it a faint scarlet glow.

Even though a beast card weapon could align itself with the beastmaster, when wielding the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword, Zhang Che still felt it was heavy in his hand.

This was simply a weapon made for killing!

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Chapter 222: Treasure Hunting Monkey

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Edited by Aelryinth

Looking as he did now, wielding the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword seemed a little incompatible.

Of course, even if he returned to his true height, it would still look a little strange wielding such a huge sword.

"Tsk, tsk. Why care so much? Let's have a look at our door board sword's power!" Zhang Che's lips were curled up into a smile. He found a protruding rock about a meter thick nearby and raised the huge sword above his head with both hands. After taking a deep breath, he swung down hard.

Chi! A soft sound rang out. Zhang Che nearly fell to the ground.

There was only the sword handle visible in his hand. Not only did the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's two-meter-long blade split the rock apart, it even cut the portion that was buried in the earth without any resistance.

If it wasn't for Zhang Che's tight grip, perhaps the entire sword would have disappeared into the ground!

"Shit, I nearly fell!"

Zhang Che exerted a little strength, pulling the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword out from the ground, looking at the deep scar left behind. He could only blame himself for his lack of imagination, and not for the fact that the door board sword was too sharp.

After testing the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's attacking strength, the result left Zhang Che pleased beyond his expectations. However, it was a pity that the nearby exotic beasts were all killed by his babies. Otherwise, he really wanted to find a defensive exotic beast to experiment on, and draw some blood.

"Now, let's see what the Seven Star Silver Beetle armor looks like. Will I look cool after wearing it?"

In the end, it was indeed very cool looking. Zhang Che went to the stream at the foot of the majestic mountain and looked for a relatively calm surface. He put on the silver armor and looked at the water. The reflection of a tall, silvery armored young warrior entered his eyes.

The Seven Star Silver Beetle armor had pronounced contours, shining with silvery light. It was much, much better looking than the two other sets of armor Zhang Che had.

He instantly came to a decision: This set of armor would be his usual battle armor from now on!

As for when he fell into a dangerous situation, naturally there was still the Purple Crystal Tortoise's Purple Crystal Armor skill, providing Zhang Che with an incomparable defense.

Zhang Che had tested it. When the Purple Crystal Tortoise transformed into armor, it looked like he was hiding himself in a purple tortoise shell, no matter how he looked at it. It was ugly to the extreme, especially that purple helmet. It was as ugly as it could get.

Luckily, the Purple Crystal Tortoise was not a Green Crystal Tortoise…

After returning to the mountain summit, Zhang Che began to have designs on the skeleton again.

-With such devastating attacking strength, the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword should be able to cut the skeleton, right?-

Alas, the results left Zhang Che very disappointed. Despite swinging the sword with all his might, he couldn't even leave a mark on the skeleton.

Not only that, he even used the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's skill, Unparallelled Sharpness. A layer of sword light glowed on the blade as he swung down. He discovered, to his astonishment, that there was still no damage to the skeleton!

It had to be mentioned that the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword's skill was able to penetrate all non-divine-tier defenses!

Without a doubt, the ferocious beast was a divine-tier exotic beast when it was alive. Perhaps even above that!

"What a pity. Looks like I have no choice but to have the Purple Crystal Tortoise bury the skeleton for now, and come back to retrieve it in the future if the opportunity arises."

In the end, Zhang Che reluctantly had the Purple Crystal Tortoise work as a coolie, pouring piles upon piles of rocks onto the enormous skeleton, burying it beneath.

———–

The next day, Zhang Che woke up early in the morning and went to the stream at the mountain foot to wash up. Afterwards, he didn't continue hunting exotic beasts. Instead, he had the Purple Crystal Tortoise spit out the cleaned corpse of an exotic beast. He roasted it over a bonfire and had it for breakfast. After that, he decided on a direction and prepared to leave.

Although he didn't know which direction led to the safety zone, Zhang Che had a solution.

At the area he first arrived after leaving the endless tunnel, the exotic beasts were obviously much stronger than where he was now. If his conjectures were right, there was an extremely high probability of finding the safety zone if he continued heading in this direction.

As for the other two directions, Zhang Che had encountered the unfathomable, yet extremely terrifying giant stone man when chasing the Poison Fire Twin-Headed Dragon. That was obviously unlikely to be the direction leading to the safety zone.

As for the only remaining direction, although Zhang Che had no way to tell, he didn't intend to go that way.

If the direction he chose now really turned out to be wrong, he wouldn't waste too much time correcting himself anyway.

Zhang Che took a last look at the majestic mountain behind him, thinking that there would be a day when he'd return here. He Summoned his army of powerful subdued beasts and pets and journeyed on.

——

In order to avoid encountering dangerous exotic beasts, Zhang Che chose not to fly in the sky on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Instead, he had the Purple Jade Condor scout their surroundings from the sky, while he led his babies and travelled overland.

Perhaps Zhang Che's decision was right. He kept heading west for a few hundred kilometers, and yet he didn't bump into a single powerful exotic beast. Instead, the number of low-tier exotic beasts gradually increased.

However, to be on the safer side of things, Zhang Che still chose to not fly in the sky. He wanted to make sure there wouldn't be any danger if he continued going this way, before opting to travel quickly via air.

Even though he was travelling on land, by the time evening came, Zhang Che had covered close to two thousand kilometers of ground.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wasn't only able to fly at high altitudes. He could also fly close to the ground.

During this two-thousand-kilometer journey, Zhang Che didn't encounter any powerful exotic beasts, nor did he see a trace of a beastmaster, leaving him very doubtful.

It was normal if you thought about it, however. Unless it was a beast world close to a super mega-city, it really wasn't such an easy thing to bump into other beastmasters. Everything depended on fate.

It was obvious that Zhang Che had yet to meet someone fated with him.

Although he didn't know whether his choice of direction was correct, Zhang Che still showed hints of happiness on his face. The frisky monkey was finally going to advance from silver to gold-quality!

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It was getting late. Zhang Che decided to have the Purple Crystal Tortoise dig a cave out of the body of a mountain, turning the place into his camp for tonight.

Just as the Purple Crystal Tortoise was done digging the cave, the frisky monkey had successfully advanced.

[Gluttony Monkey]

Level: Three Star (Level 26)

Quality: Gold

Characteristics: Lively and Mischievous, Extremely Skilled at Climbing, Excels in Finding All Kinds of Fruits

Weakness: Poison Attribute Attacks

Innate Attribute: Spiritual Reaction, Able to Sense the Spiritual Fluctuations of Spiritual Herbs Within an 800 Meter Radius.

Skill: Superstrong Spiritual Reaction. Able to Sense the Spiritual Fluctuation of All Spiritual Herbs Within a 5000 Meters Radius After Activation and be Aware of its Exact Location. Cooldown Time: 1 Day

Potential: B Rank

Zhang Che was at a loss for words after seeing the frisky monkey's new attributes. That Superstrong Spiritual Reaction skill was simply a bug! It allowed the frisky monkey to sense the spiritual fluctuation of all spiritual herbs within five kilometers, and informs him of their location!

This fellow, shouldn't his name be changed to Treasure Hunting Monkey?

The only regrettable part was that the cooldown time of this skill was a full day long, leaving Zhang Che cursing silently.

-The frisky monkey has such frightening treasure hunting ability after advancing to gold-quality. What if he advanced to dark gold-quality in the future? Would his scope be no longer limited to spiritual herbs, and include heavenly treasures and rare minerals?- Thinking of this, Zhang Che couldn't help but greatly look forward to it.

Translator's Note

1: Wearing a green hat ('helmet') can also mean being cuckolded in Chinese.

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Chapter 223: Disappointment and Happiness

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Edited by Aelryinth

-Should I try it now?- Zhang Che immediately grew tempted.

However, the sky was already dark. Even if there was a spiritual herb nearby, Zhang Che didn't dare to casually go search for it.

Although he had journeyed close to two thousand kilometers the whole day and didn't encounter any powerful exotic beasts, Zhang Che didn't dare to guarantee that his luck would remain this good, not to mention that it was nighttime.

As everyone knew, the nights in the beast world were at least twice as dangerous as the day!

"I'll just behave myself and rest for now. It's not too late to try it tomorrow."

Zhang Che ordered the Purple Crystal Tortoise to stand guard at the cave entrance. He laid down on the icy cold ground, ready to sleep. However, in the next moment, he recalled another matter and immediately sat up, calculating with the help of his fingers.

"There's no mistake. It's been two whole months since I acquired the Mutated Puffersword. According to the advancing patterns from the previous subdued beasts and pets, the time required for the next instance doubles every time they advance. Then, shouldn't it be two months to advance from gold to dark gold-quality?"

However, most of the day had passed, and yet there was still no signs in his spiritual sea, leaving Zhang Che feeling doubtful.

Although the Mutated Puffersword was merely at two-star gold-quality, and was no longer able to keep up with his current strength, he could gift it to Miss Tienan after it advanced to dark gold-quality.

If his memory served right, Miss Tienan had become a beastmaster for a long time now. She only needed to make a trip into the beast world and casually "farm" some exotic beasts to reach Tier Two easily. At that time, the two-star dark gold-quality sword could be given to her as a present.

"Could it be that the required time to advance from gold to dark gold quality is more than double of advancing from silver to gold quality?"

When all was said and done, the day was still not over. Although Zhang Che harbored some doubts, he wasn't able to find out the truth. He could only wait for tomorrow to know what the situation was.

Alas, the next morning was a disappointment. When Zhang Che woke up the next morning, he immediately went to check on his spiritual sea. There weren't any changes to the Mutated Puffersword card.

"Looks like dark gold quality is a threshold."

Shaking his head, Zhang Che could only accept this depressing result.

If rising from gold to dark gold-quality only needed twice the time from silver to gold-quality, the Golden Elephorse King was also on his sixtieth day today, if Zhang Che remembered correctly.

The moment he thought of Hanxue, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel deeply apologetic.

That fellow had remained in his spiritual sea for over twenty consecutive days without a chance to take a breather out here now. God knew how he was doing now.

Zhang Che had no choice, however. There was no chance to let him out since he exited the beast world previously, went to Bei Du, and arrived at this place out of the blue. It was too dangerous.

Moreover, the surrounding area was an endless range of mountains. It truly wasn't very suitable for him to move around in.

In his spiritual sea, the golden light representing Hanxue shone brightly a few times, sternly expressing his dissatisfaction to Zhang Che.

"Be good. I'll definitely let you take a good breather out here when I walk out of this mountain range and reach somewhere safe."

—

After consoling Hanxue, Zhang Che walked out of the cave. First he found a stream between two mountains and washed up, then had a simple breakfast… Well, he ate a few dozen kilograms worth of exotic fruits.

After eating and drinking his fill, Zhang Che set his gaze upon the frisky monkey at the side. "Come, come, let me have a look at your superstrong Spiritual Reaction skill, see if we can find a stalk of spiritual herb or two today."

"Zhizhi!" the frisky monkey immediately nodded. He showed a proud face, then suddenly shut his eyes. A ripple no one could sense quickly spread out in all directions.

After a full minute, the frisky monkey opened his eyes again, jumping up and down, pointing in two different directions.

-Oh boy… He really is a "treasure hunting monkey"… He actually found two places with spiritual herbs!-

"Which side is nearer?" Zhang Che asked, looking at the frisky monkey. The latter immediately pointed to the left.

—

Thus, Zhang Che brought his group of babies and headed towards the nearest spiritual herb in a grandiose manner, scaring the low-tier exotic beasts into running away in all directions, causing quite the commotion.

After running for slightly less than two kilometers, Zhang Che arrived at a valley and found a stalk of glistening jade green spiritual herb that resembled an orchid under the guidance of the frisky monkey.

However, it was very obvious that this thing's grade wasn't high. It was only an ordinary spiritual herb. God knew how much difference there was between this and a heavenly treasure. At least, none of Zhang Che's pets even bothered to take a proper look at it.

This was normal, however. If the heavenly treasures were really this commonly found, would they still be called heavenly treasures?

Zhang Che dug out the spiritual herb carefully. After that, he directly stored it into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension.

It was strange, speaking about it. Logically, wouldn't the plant he just dug out be considered a living object, too? It could actually be stored in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's body, and yet an animal, even an egg, could not. It truly was confusing.

After picking this spiritual herb, Zhang Che immediately headed to the other location.

This time, an exotic beast was guarding where the spiritual herb grew.

It was a pity, however. The exotic beast was only a four-star silver-quality trash, frozen into a lump of ice with a single breath from the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Afterwards, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon rushed over and smashed it into countless ice shards with a smack of its claw.

Zhang Che didn't try to stop the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's actions, either. In any case, this kind of trash might not necessarily drop a beast card. If he killed it, so be it.

The spiritual herb did surprise Zhang Che slightly, however. It was a tiny bush, which bore about a dozen thumb-sized red fruits. The frisky monkey actually showed desires of wanting to eat them.

Although the grade of this spiritual herb was at the level of heavenly treasures, it was probably one of the better ones.

Zhang Che couldn't be bothered to care if it was fully matured. He directly picked all the dozen or so fruits and stuffed them into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial pocket.

He didn't know how to use them anyway, and would have to ask around after he returned. However, spiritual herbs at this level were more likely to be sold.

After witnessing the effects of the frisky monkey's impressive skill, Zhang Che couldn't be any more satisfied. He resumed his journey, continuing on his way in his endless mountain range.

It was another half a day of speedy travel. The number of mid-tier exotic beasts Zhang Che encountered grew fewer and fewer, and their quality was also becoming lower and lower. In the end, it was rare to even run into a gold-quality exotic beast.

Zhang Che knew that he should be leaving the depths of the beast world soon. He was getting closer and closer to the safety zone.

Although… the number of people around here was a little too low, wasn't it? Logically speaking, there should be a few beastmasters moving around in these areas, at the least. However, Zhang Che still hadn't met any creatures that could walk on two legs.

—

When the sky started to gradually turn dark again, the mountain peaks ahead finally became shorter. It was no longer as grand and straight as before.

"Hmm? What is that?" Standing on the peak of a mountain, Zhang Che saw a few black dots quickly moving about on the ridge of a mountain several kilometers away.

If his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, they seemed to be a group of creatures standing upright on two legs… humans?

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Chapter 224: The Band of Sisters About to Knock on Hell's Door

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If his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, they seemed to be a group of creatures standing upright on two legs… humans?

Zhang Che nearly wept. It wasn't easy; he had finally seen living humans!

He had been living alone in the depths of the beast world for half a month. Zhang Che felt as if he was about to lose his ability to speak. If he continued like this, perhaps he might regress into a primitive that devoured raw meat and fowl.

"Hah, I can finally leave this cursed place!" Zhang Che smiled, ready to wave his hand to recall his babies, then run down this tall mountain and rode Hanxue over.

After all, he might frighten others if they saw his dozen or so "subdued beasts".

However, before Zhang Che could make any moves, he saw a large exotic beast suddenly appear behind the few black dots, chasing them.

-Damn, I was wondering why it looked strange. Why don't they have any subdued beasts around?- Zhang Che cursed inwardly. He hurriedly recalled every subdued beast and pet except for the Purple Jade Condor, then jumped onto its back and rushed towards them.

Those people..? Mmm, they should be people. They were the key to finding the direction to the safety zone. He didn't want to watch as the exotic beast chased them down and ate them.

—

Chen Lishan thought something must be wrong with her head. -Why did I agree to come to the beast world for a pointless so-called adventure with these all-bust-and-no-brain people?

-Look at us now. Our subdued beasts are probably all dead. When that powerful exotic beast catch up to us later, we'll all become its food.-

"Damn it! Jenny, it's all your fault! If it weren't for your suggestion, we wouldn't have come so deep into the beast world and run into this terrifying beast!" A shockingly well-shaped, young blonde grumbled at her own companion while running for her life.

"Hey, hey, hey, Monica, don't push all the blame on me. Who on earth was the one who raised both hands and feet in agreement with my suggestion in the first place?" another young woman immediately retorted loudly, unwilling to take the blame. She had short maroon hair, her face slightly tomboyish.

"Oh please, you still have the energy to argue? If we don't run faster, that terrifying exotic beast behind us will catch up in no time!" A tanned, black haired woman from the group hurriedly tried to break up the fight before it started.

Chen Lishan's face suddenly sank. She said in horror, "Shit! My subdued beasts are all dead! What about you?"

Hearing this, the other three turned to look at her in shock, nodding one after another.

"Fuck, quickly run!" the maroon-haired Jenny cursed. Her legs started running faster, the others tried their hardest to keep up.

Alas, despite these women exercising regularly, how could they actually run fast uphill, when the gradient was pretty steep?

Chen Lishan was losing hope. They were surrounded by steep cliffs on both sides, and the powerful exotic beast behind them was mostly likely catching up to them soon. -Am I really going to die here today?-

"Ah…!" A high decibel scream rang out. Chen Lishan turned to look. She saw Monica looking back, showing an appalled face.

She immediately looked back, too. She saw that savage beast had almost caught up to them. There was less than five hundred meters between them and the beast.

"We're finished…" Chen Lishan felt as if her strength had disappeared without a trace. Her legs seemed to be filled with lead, finding it difficult to move even a centimeter.

Suddenly, Monica's spirit crumbled completely. She sat on the ground and started crying, "Ahhh, I'm not running anymore. I'll just let that exotic beast eat me and be done with it…"

"Damn it! Get up, Monica, we can't give up just like this!" Jenny scolded angrily. She hurriedly turned around and tried to pull Monica up. However, the latter had completely given up all hope, sitting limply on the ground. How could she possibly pull her up so easily?

Jenny flung her sweaty, short maroon hair back, shouting towards her other companions, "Angelina, Lisa, come give me a hand!" {TLN: Lisa is Chen Lishan.}

It was only now that Chen Lishan reacted. She hurriedly walked up to them, and together with the black-haired woman, helped Jenny pull Monica up, running up the mountain in a half dragging, half tugging manner.

"Let me go. It's useless. We can't escape. Wuuhuu…" Monica's spirit had completely crumbled. She was struggling violently with her hands and feet, greatly slowing down Chen Lishan and the others pulling her along.

Pa! Jenny slapped Monica's face hard, angrily shouting, "You bitch! You really want to die so much? We haven't tried our best yet! We can still run! How can you give up so easily!?"

Monica was smacked senseless from that slap. She suddenly stopped crying and raised her hand, parting her messy blonde hair, her eyes suddenly revealed a heavy desire for survival.

"Mmm, you're right, Jenny! Even if we're going to die, we have to try our hardest first!"

"Then quickly get the hell up!" Jenny scolded loudy again, but a faint smile showed on her face. However, underneath that smile, there was more bitterness and desperation.

Actually, every one of them knew that since that terrifying exotic beast had caught up, their fates were already sealed. Other than them being eaten by that exotic beast, there was no other ending.

Just like that, the four exhausted young women continued jogging up the mountain, helping each other.

It was likely that they had seen past life and death in desperate circumstances. Monica suddenly turned to Chen Lishan and started teasing her, "Hey, I'm really sorry, Lisa, to let you die an old virgin."

Chen Lishan rolled her eyes back, replying, "You bitch, if people found out you died here, who knows how many of the men who bedded you will grieve?"

The atmosphere suddenly became more relaxed.

Jenny looked towards Chen Lishan and asked seriously, "Lisa, if a gorilla suddenly appeared here and demanded you to agree to spend a night with it before it would save us, would you agree?"

Angelina, who seemed to be the more gentle and quiet type all this time, suddenly interjected, "I think Lisa might not be able to take it. It's better to let Monica take her place."

Three of them burst into laughter at the same time, except for Monica, who suddenly showed a hint of shock on her face.

"What's wrong, Monica? Are you worried that you can't handle a gorilla?"

Monica extended her trembling hand, pointing to the sky at their backs, "There's no gorilla, but there is a very big bird…"

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