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 411: Once the Hunter, now the Prey

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When that terrifying green bird shot a glance in his direction, Zhang Che was so scared his heart almost stopped beating!

In the end, it went as he expected. The green bird Zhang Che guessed had already reached super divine-quality, paid no heed to him while he was in the form of a one-star bronze-quality little green frog, and directly returned to the tall mountains behind it.

Of course, it was also partly due to Zhang Che being quite far away from it. If the green frog was right in front of it, perhaps the bird might feel a little mischievous and shoot him to death with a ray of light?

It was akin to how a human wouldn't purposely go stomp an ant a few meters away from them for no rhyme or reason, but if the ant was right in front of their feet, perhaps they just might step on it.

When the terrifying green bird had disappeared, Zhang Che waited for a while more to be on the safe side of things before he flopped his frog limbs ferociously, swimming in the direction the white sword had fallen in.

After the high-tier beastmaster's death, his subdued beasts had naturally all turned into streaks of light and dissipated, joining him in the afterlife.

However, the white sword was different from subdued beasts. Naturally it was left behind!

After swimming ashore with much difficulty, Zhang Che still didn't dare return to his human form. If he accidentally drew that terrifying green bird back here, he'd really die without a complete corpse.

Flopping his four long legs, and his headlight-like eyes wide, he began his search for the white sword in the dense woods.

However, after transforming into an exotic beast, his physical features were basically no different from those of a green frog, other than his soul being a human's.

-Damn it, I can't even use my spiritual strength. How do I search for it?- Zhang Che cursed inside. Seeing the dense vegetation all around him, he didn't know where to start his search at.

He only knew the rough area where the white sword fell. Wanting to find its exact location would be very difficult.

It couldn't possibly be that the white sword would know he was looking for it and come flying to him on its own, right?

When he thought of this, however, Zhang Che's frog face couldn't help but change.

He finally remembered that the white sword wasn't an ordinary weapon, but a spiritual sword fragment.

After the green bird had killed the beastmaster, it was like the spiritual sword fragment was free from control and had regained its freedom. So… would it still remain here obediently?

-Oh, heavens, please don't fly away…- Zhang Che smiled bitterly inside. He knew searching for it like this was useless.He stopped on the spot and pondered for some time. Afterwards, he jumped around and back into a river on his own will, going along with the water flowing downstream.

After floating along the river for about a thousand meters, Zhang Che returned to his human form and jumped ashore. First, he used his spiritual senses to feel around towards the deep mountains apprehensively. He didn't notice anything strange, and finally let out a long sigh of relief.

In the next moment, a scarlet light shot out from his brow. The scarlet sword flew around him and shot off in the direction where the white sword fell previously.

Although he didn't know whether the white sword was still there, Zhang Che had his own method: release the golden vortex's control over the scarlet sword and use it as bait to go fishing for the white sword.

They were both spiritual sword fragments. They should have some special connections between one another. Perhaps the scarlet sword might just find the white sword for him?

Just as he was thinking of that, Zhang Che saw the scarlet sword was quickly flying back to him, with a white sword emitting a sharp aura following closely behind.

"Hmm? It really worked!"

Zhang Che didn't expect this method of his would produce results so quickly, and he immediately broke out into a wide smile.

In the next moment, however, he realized something was amiss.

The two spiritual sword fragments seemed like… one was running, and the other was chasing!

After taking a closer look, it was indeed so. The scarlet sword was being chased around by the white sword, escaping straight in Zhang Che's direction.

"The heck, that sword is so fierce?!" Zhang Che's eyes went wide. Just as he wanted to summon the ice-attributed white sword in his spiritual sea, it was already too late.

How fast were the spiritual sword fragments? The scarlet sword suddenly accelerated and turned into a scarlet light, entering Zhang Che's brow.

In the next moment, the metal-attributed white sword was similarly speeding in his direction like a bolt of lightning. Zhang Che couldn't react at all as it also turned into a sword light and flew into his brow.

"What is up with that thirst…" Zhang Che jumped in shock. Afterwards, he smiled bitterly. He truly didn't expect that metal-attributed white sword to be so fierce, wanting to devour his spiritual sword fragment.

How was that acceptable!?

Well, now that the metal-attributed white sword had chased its way into Zhang Che's spiritual sea, he had nothing to worry about.

With the golden vortex and the rainbow crystal keeping them in check, did he have to worry about them turning the world inside his head upside down?

Indeed, when Zhang Che looked inside, the golden vortex was already in control of the metal-attributed white sword. It was unmoving, hovering in the air high up in his spiritual sea.

Meanwhile, the two other swords Zhang Che possessed had surrounded this intruder, circling around it cheerfully. Judging from their appearances, it seemed like they were hunters who had discovered a tasty meal, slowly beaming with excitement.

"You can even eat that?" Zhang Che was pleasantly surprised. He didn't try to suppress the two swords' desire to consume it.

Although the metal-attributed white sword's attacking power was extraordinary judging by how that high-tier beastmaster wielded it, it was stolen property, after all. Zhang Che wouldn't dare to use it in public.

Since that was the case, why not let his two swords consume it? It would similarly strengthen him!

"Let's see how much your strength will increase after you two consume this sword…" Zhang Che only pondered for an instant before agreeing to it.

In the next moment, the two swords turned into two lights, one red, and the other white, and directly flew towards the suppressed white sword.

Zhang Che wasn't sure if he was imagining things, but he seemed to feel that the metal-attributed white sword trembled in fear, wanting to break free from the golden vortex's control.

Alas, its efforts were in vain.

In the next moment, the metal-attributed white sword was completely enveloped by the two lights.

Perhaps the metal-attributed white sword never imagined that it would get reverse-killed so quickly!

Was this what people call failing to do something, and getting something done to them instead?

Zhang Che revealed a faint smile at the corners of his lips. He knew the two swords wouldn't finish devouring their meal any time soon. Thus, he looked back in the direction he came from and left slowly and carefully.

He was too near to the terrifying green bird's territory. Zhang Che didn't dare summon the Purple Jade Condor. Otherwise, if he drew that bird's attention, he'd probably get killed even if he transformed back into the green frog.

As for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, he was currently recovering from his injuries in Zhang Che's spiritual sea. He wouldn't be able to come out any time soon.

When they were being pursued by that high-tier beastmaster, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had burned much of his cold aura. If Zhang Che didn't have the rainbow crystal to heal it's internal injuries, heavens knew whether it could even recover…

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Chapter 412: Turns Out They're All Gluttons

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Finally, after traversing the mountains and crossing rivers, Zhang Che found himself several kilometers away from that green bird's territory. He let out a long sigh of relief, then summoned the Purple Jade Condor and mounted it, quickly flying away.

He couldn't take it slowly. Heavens knew if that green bird would suddenly come out and take a breather.

Everything would come to an end if it noticed him.

The Purple Jade Condor flew about a dozen kilometers at low altitude, sticking close to the crown of the trees. Seeing as there weren't any signs of movement at his rear, Zhang Che finally relaxed.

"What a close shave! I'd better refrain from using such methods as much as possible. I'll hurt myself if I get careless, and perhaps even lose my life, at that!" Zhang Che felt the lingering fear in his heart ease up when the Purple Jade Condor left the area completely. He swore to himself he had to raise his strength quickly, to prevent coming into situations where he was pursued by powerful high-tier beastmasters and had no strength to retaliate.

This time, he got through by using a terrifying exotic beast and that beastmaster falling into his trap, killing him. Would he be so lucky next time?

That didn't seem likely at all…

"Hmm, I'd better go back quickly and pick that spiritual herb. It'd be too big of a loss to leave such a high-grade spiritual herb there. Who knows if another exotic beast will pass by and eat it?"The Purple Jade Condor kept flying. Half an hour later, Zhang Che finally returned to where the qilin-like exotic beast had died.

Luckily he was flying in a straight line when he was running from the high-tier beastmaster earlier. Otherwise, Zhang Che would never have been able to find his way back here, hundreds of kilometers away, without the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon leading the way.

Diving straight into the small mountain, Zhang Che soon found the spiritual herb previously guarded by the high-tier epic-quality exotic beast. It was an oddly-shaped flower growing straight up.

The stem of this flower was as thick as a thumb, round and green, its body smooth and hairless. Nine round lush green leaves grew on the stem, in a picturesque disorderly fashion. At the top of the stem was a flower with a beautiful mix of colors, about the size of a fist. A faint fragrance was coming from the pistil of the flower.

Zhang Che brought his face closer to take a whiff. He immediately felt a mass of robust spiritual force entering his nose, leaving him feeling refreshed.

"It actually has such potent medical efficacy!" Zhang Che couldn't help but be greatly surprised. He hurriedly took out a little hoe used for digging herbs from his spatial storage and dug out the spiritual herb out by the root. Afterwards, he threw it into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's storage.

Regrettably, Zhang Che came out in a hurry and forgot to bring a small piece of spiritual jade. Otherwise, he could bring back the spiritual herb alive.

"Mhm, I have to remember this lesson after I get back. I'll have to keep a piece of spiritual jade in my spatial storage next time!"

After all, with the Gluttony Monkey's ability to look for spiritual herbs, Zhang Che was sure to come across all kinds of spiritual herbs. Thus, it became necessary for him to bring a piece of spiritual jade around.

After digging up the spiritual herb, Zhang Che suddenly had an idea.

In the next moment, a ray of light shot out from his brow, turning into something like a sword.

It wasn't directly referred to as a sword because it was hard to tell if the thing in front of him was real. It didn't have a fixed shape, but had the overall appearance of a sword.

Two lights, red and white, were flowing around the unreal long sword, looking rather coordinated. It didn't give off any feeling of contradictions.

"This is… the two swords actually fused together after devouring the metal-attributed white sword?" Zhang Che opened his mouth slightly, his eyes filled with shock.

His gaze swept across a large mountain rock at his side, and he thought of something.

In the next moment, the red and white entangled light flew past it. The mountain rock was cut into two smooth halves silently.

"There doesn't seem to be any obvious increase in power..?" Zhang Che was slightly dissatisfied with the power the combined sword displayed.

Of course, it could be that the mountain rock he used for his little test was too ordinary, and so he couldn't tell the difference.

Zhang Che thought to himself, -I need to find a strong exotic beast to test it and find out exactly how strong this scarlet and white sword is.-

"Hmm? Something's not right!" His peripheral vision swept over the sliced mountain rock again, his eyelid twitching. Afterwards, he walked over to the rock with hurried steps.

"This, this, this…" Zhang Che was shocked at the sight.

The cut surfaces of the two rocks were actually flat and smooth. It was like two mirror faces, reflecting his face perfectly!

-Maybe this has something to do with the mountain rock's composition?- Zhang Che thought. He simply couldn't believe what he just saw. In the next moment, he summoned the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword and slashed at it, slicing another one of the rocks into two.

This time, however, although the cut surface was still incredibly flat and smooth, there wasn't the strange phenomenon of that mirror-like reflection.

How sharp did a sword have to be to produce a mirrored surface with a cut on a mountain rock?

Zhang Che didn't dare to imagine it. He only knew that the scarlet and white sword light was simply extremely terrifying after their fusion.

He didn't dare to claim that the sword light's sharpness could cut down a divine-quality exotic beast, but a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast would probably die instantly to one attack if its vitals were struck, right?

Zhang Che grew incredibly excited at the thought of this. He was like a kid who had found a new fascinating toy, directing the scarlet and white sword light to ravage the nearby plants and rocks.

Regrettably, he discovered to his disappointment that the scarlet white sword light's attack range had shrunk after devouring the metal-attributed sword and they had combined as one, with a reach of only around a hundred meters.

That was a problem. Epic-quality exotic beasts' False Domains could cover a five-hundred-meter radius at the very least. Zhang Che would have to bear quite the risk if he wanted to use the scarlet and white sword light to kill an epic-quality exotic beast.

Shaking his head, Zhang Che stopped thinking about this matter.

He took the qilin-like exotic beast's corpse he had snatched earlier out, and at the same time, summoned out the Umbra Wind God Leopard.

As he had expected, the Umbra Wind God Leopard immediately grew excited when he saw the exotic beast corpse on the ground, pouncing at it and tearing large mouthfuls off it.

"Why are these fellows all gluttons…" Zhang Che couldn't resist lamenting when he saw how happy the Umbra Wind God Leopard looked when eating.

This qilin-like exotic beast was a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast. The energy contained in its flesh and blood was massive. Despite the Umbra Wind God Leopard's shocking speed at eating, he still took more than half an hour before he finally finished eating the whole corpse, not leaving a strand of hair behind.

After eating his fill, the Umbra Wind God Leopard cried out a few times in satisfaction, then turned into a streak of light and returned to Zhang Che's spiritual sea, falling into a deep slumber.

Zhang Che was elated. -As I expected, the Umbra Wind God Leopard finally accumulated enough energy after consuming the qilin exotic beast's corpse! When he wakes up, he'll probably have grown out of his newborn phase and possess a certain amount of combat ability!-

After fantasizing for a while, Zhang Che didn't waste any more time. He summoned his army of capable babies and resumed clearing the nearby exotic beasts.

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Chapter 413: Dark Gold Gluttony Monkey. Truth

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Time passed quickly. Two days later…

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had recovered to his peak condition. After the two swords devoured the metal-attributed sword, the scarlet and white sword light they turned into had achieved great merits for Zhang Che.

Although the scarlet and white sword's attacking range had shrunk to nearly a third of what it was, its attacking speed, had increased by a huge margin, truly reaching the level of a sword of light. No exotic beasts could escape it.

In addition, the sword's attacking power had risen greatly. Its efficiency at hunting exotic beasts was even more impressive.

During those two days, Zhang Che travelled around on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Other than summoning the Earthen Rock Demon to take control of the area, Zhang Che couldn't even be bothered to summon out his other subdued beasts or pets. He directed the scarlet and white sword himself, slaying every exotic beast they came across.

As of now, Zhang Che had accumulated several hundred mid-tier beast cards in his spatial storage. It was the reward he got for sweeping all of the mid-tier exotic beasts in the surrounding few hundred kilometers.

It went without saying that Premium House wouldn't have to worry about the lack of stock!

During this period of time, Zhang Che had gotten close to the territory of those powerful exotic beasts on multiple occasions. However, with the map his father-in-law had prepared for him, he managed to avoid them in time. He didn't have to worry about encountering any danger. It was another reason why he had gained such huge rewards.

"Indeed, information is the greatest resource one can have!" This wasn't the first time Zhang Che had lamented the exact same thing. Without Huang Juyun's help, he would have needed more than twice the time to advance to Tier Seven beastmaster. At the very least, he would need half a year to achieve that!

Zhang Che wasn't the only one who had gained rewards. The frisky monkey had also finally risen to dark gold-quality.[Gluttony Monkey]

Level: Three Star (Level 28)

Quality: Dark Gold

Characteristics: Lively and Mischievous, Extremely Skilled at Climbing, Excels in Finding All Kinds of Fruits and Spiritual Herbs

Weakness: Poison Attribute Attacks

Innate Attribute: Spiritual Reaction, Able to Sense the Fluctuations of Spiritual Herbs Within a 1,500 Meter Radius.

Skill: Superstrong Spiritual Reaction. Able to Sense the Spiritual Fluctuations of All Spiritual Herbs Within a 10,000 Meter Radius After Activation and be Aware of Their Exact Location. Cooldown Time: 1 Day

Halo: Spiritual Force Sensitivity

Potential: B RankAfter breaking through to dark gold-quality, the changes to the frisky monkey's attributes were huge!

First, his senses could now detect spiritual fruits and herbs up to fifteen hundred meters away, and when activating his skill, he could expand his sensory range to ten thousand meters!

That range was extremely terrifying. After activation, any spiritual herbs within three hundred and fourteen square kilometers would be sensed by the Gluttony Monkey!

Three hundred and fourteen square kilometers! That was about four times the size of the town Zhang Che lived in his previous life!

Judging by the density of spiritual herbs growing deep in the beast worlds, perhaps he might not find mid-grade or higher spiritual herbs with every activation of the skill, but he would definitely find some ordinary spiritual herbs.

After the frisky monkey advanced to dark gold-quality, he also gained a Halo called Spiritual Force Sensitivity.

Zhang Che tried it out. Under the blessing of the frisky monkey's Halo, he gained sharp awareness towards spiritual force, too. However, the range was too small, only allowing him to sense the fluctuations for about a hundred meters around him.

For ordinary people, gaining such an ability would truly be a huge blessing. However, to Zhang Che, it simply wasn't any help.

Let alone a hundred meters, so what if he could sense a thousand meters around him?

That was still within the range of the frisky monkey's senses. It was useless to Zhang Che!

"It'd be countless times better if his Halo was changed into something else; whatever will do!" Although Zhang Che was very dissatisfied with this result, what could he do? He could only accept it passively..

During the past two days, the nearby mid-tier exotic beasts, as well as the sparse high-tier exotic beasts, were mostly killed by Zhang Che. Even if there were a few stragglers here and there, they were no longer worth his time.

"It's time to head back. After being pursued by the Zhen family all the way here, if I don't go back to settle this trouble, who knows what other tricks they'll pull the next time?"

It was getting dark. Zhang Che didn't set off right away. Instead, he found a large mountain and had the Purple Crystal Tortoise dig out a cave for him. Zhang Che hid in the cave together with the frisky monkey and enjoyed a meal of roasted exotic beast meat, then went to sleep, awaiting the dawn of the next day.The next morning, Zhang Che packed his belongings and mounted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, letting him find their way back. Half a day later, they were back at the safety zone.

It could be said that this trip to the beast world was fraught with troubles.

Not only were they pursued by a high-tier master from the Zhen family… [The Zhen family yelled silently, -It's really not us who sent him! This is simply the worst case of injustice!- …] they also encountered a powerful exotic beast who was possibly at super divine-quality!

Although Zhang Che guessed that the green bird was much weaker than that golden divine bird, it was much more powerful than ordinary exotic beasts regardless!

After all, the high-tier beastmaster who came to assassinate him couldn't even retaliate against the green bird's attack, and was killed instantly. It could only be described as extremely terrifying!After exiting the safety zone, Zhang Che boarded Dijiang-hao. After flying for about three hours, Zhang Che returned to Bei Du once more.

Zhang Che wasn't in a hurry to get home after arriving at Bei Du. Instead, he went to the Huang family's ancestral home.

During this period of time, the military and the government had been discussing their strategies for the future regarding the invasion of demonic creatures. As such, Huang Juyun didn't return to Qian Wei City. He remained in Bei Du, attending meeting after meeting.

When Zhang Che arrived at the Huang family's ancestral house, Huang Juyun was waiting for him at home.

Although Huang Juyun knew that Zhang Che surely had something to ask him about if he came to him, he wasn't in a hurry to talk about that, and instead asked about Zhang Che's trip. "How is it? Did you get a good harvest?"

"Uncle Huang, these maps for the beast worlds have really helped me a great deal!" Zhang Che grew unusually excited when this topic was brought up. He smiled brightly, saying, "I went to two places over these last few days. It was as indicated on the maps; the density of mid-tier exotic beasts was far higher than other places, and there were even mid- to low-quality high-tier exotic beasts! The harvest was plentiful!

"If I keep up at this pace, I'll only need two to three months at most to successfully advance to Tier Seven beastmaster!"

When he heard Zhang Che, Huang Juyun's face froze for a moment.

Two to three months and Zhang Che could advance to a high-tier beastmaster?

Even though Huang Juyun knew those places were filled with mid-tier exotic beasts, that speed still gave him a scare.

However, Huang Juyun immediately recalled that Zhang Che wasn't an ordinary mid-tier beastmaster. Not only did he have an epic-quality subdued beast, he also possessed an extremely rare spiritual sword fragment. His attacking power wasn't inferior to most high-tier beastmasters at all.

With such great strength, breaking through to Tier Seven beastmaster in about three months didn't seem like such a strange matter anymore.

"Alright. When you advance to Tier Seven, your strength will surely increase greatly. You won't have to fear even if the demon world invades us again and sends stronger creatures this time!" Huang Juyun praised, clapping his hands.

"Oh, right, Uncle Huang, the Zhen family set their eyes on me again on my trip to the beast world. They sent a high-tier beastmaster to pursue me."

Huang Juyun's face changed. He immediately said angrily, "What? Does the Zhen family really not want to preserve the slightest bit of face they still have?

"After the arena deathmatch, no matter how deep the grudges, both sides have to put it to rest! This is the rule set by both the government administrative office and the military! I can't believe the Zhen family actually dares to act so brazenly!

"Since they're like that, then don't blame us for acting immorally!"

-Are we going to start a war with the Zhen family, just like that?- Zhang Che felt that this was somewhat inappropriate. Let alone the fact that this matter had deep implications, more importantly, he had no evidence. If the Huang family started a war with them, they would become the target of public criticism.

After hearing Zhang Che's concern, a layer of dark clouds shrouded Huang Juyun's head. He nodded slowly, "This will indeed be extremely troublesome. Since that high-tier beastmaster is already dead and is left with no corpse in the beast world, we won't be able to produce any evidence, indeed.

"Right, do you remember that beastmaster's facial features?"

Zhang Che slowly recalled. He described that middle-aged man's appearance, and even pointed out the fact that he had a spiritual sword fragment.

After hearing this, Huang Juyun unexpectedly revealed a look of doubt. He said in confusion, "Hmm? The Zhen family doesn't seem to have such a high-tier beastmaster. Also, from what I know, although they do have a spiritual sword fragment, it isn't metal-attributed.

"Perhaps, this is their clan's hidden strength?

"Right, wait a moment. I'll go find someone who can draw a quick sketch. Describe that beastmaster's appearance once more later, and have him draw his face."

No matter if it was a high-tier beastmaster or a spiritual sword fragment, both of those were the high-end combat strengths of a clan. Usually other factions would have some information about those things.

Arriving soon after at Huang Juyun's orders, a soldier who excelled in sketching listened to Zhang Che's descriptions and drew the high-tier beastmaster's face through a long-distance video call.

Zhang Che was impressed when he saw the end result.

Just by listening to his description and making some changes afterwards, the appearance of the high-tier beastmaster who pursued him was reproduced almost perfectly on paper.

"This is…" Huang Juyun, who had also saw the sketch, suddenly sat up straight, his eyes wide, and let out a low exclamation.

"Xiaoche, is this man really dead, and has no corpse remaining?"

-As expected, father-in-law really knows this person!-

Zhang Che nodded firmly, saying, "That's right. This guy's strength was really decent. If it wasn't because of his overwhelming aura attracting a powerful exotic beast nearby, it would've been really difficult for me to escape from him!"

"He's not from the Zhen family," Huang Juyun sighed, his expression complicated.

"He's not the Zhen family's man? Then…" Zhang Che was really surprised.

-Since he's not someone from the Zhen family, could it be that I have offended some other large faction in Hua Xia? That is troubling.-

"He's the younger brother of the Japanese Miyazaki Clan's patriarch, Miyazaki Musashi! Among those in my generation, he is an exceptional talent!

"Years ago, I met him before in a secret plane. That's why I recognized him. At that time, he was already a Tier Five beastmaster, possessing really powerful subdued beasts.

"I didn't expect him to die by your hands."

Hearing this, Zhang Che's eyes finally shot wide open, nearly popping out from their sockets.

-He's actually from the freaking Miyazaki Clan!

-That makes sense! My grudge with the Miyazaki Clan runs deep. It's no wonder they sent out such a powerful beastmaster to assassinate me.-

Thinking back, this high-tier beastmaster by the name of Miyazaki Musashi was indeed powerful. If Zhang Che didn't have the Myriad Transformation Lizard's exotic beast transformation attribute, there was no way he could have used a powerful exotic beast to entrap him.

Under those circumstances, he couldn't run, either. He probably would have died in the end!

However, with how things had gone, the Miyazaki Clan would surely feel the pain when they learned the final results. Not only did they lose a powerful high-tier beastmaster, they also lost a rare spiritual sword fragment!

Most importantly, that high-tier beastmaster wasn't an ordinary clan member, but the younger brother of the Miyazaki Clan's patriarch! He was an extremely important member of the clan!

-Hmm, I hope they won't cry!-

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Chapter 414: Giving to Higher Authority. Prosperous Business

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"It's good that it wasn't the Zhen family," Huang Juyun sighed in relief. If it was really the Zhen family who were behind it, this matter would be rather complicated.

After all, they were a first-rate clan in Hua Xia, despite their heavy losses from the arena deathmatch. Their foundations were much deeper and stronger than the Huang family's.

Although they had lost a huge sum of money, their strength wasn't affected too greatly.

If the two clans really went to war against one another, the end results would be unpredictable.

"The Miyazaki Clan keeps looking for trouble with you. Do they really think they are the Miyazaki Clan of the past? It looks like I have to teach them a lesson before they will learn to act honestly." Huang Juyun narrowed his eyes slightly, a faint cold glint in his eyes.

Let alone the fact the Miyazaki Clan was now reduced to a third-rate clan, Huang Juyun wasn't afraid of them even when they were still in their prime! Since they dared to keep stepping on his son-in-law, then they should be prepared to face the Huang family's wrath!

Judging by Huang Juyun's tone, it seemed like he was going to start a war with the Miyazaki Clan?

"Ugh, Uncle Huang, I think we don't have to bother with them," Zhang Che quickly persuaded him otherwise.

What a joke. Although the Miyazaki Clan kept hounding Zhang Che and came looking for trouble with him, he didn't lose anything. On the contrary, he had gained much!

Under such circumstances, if the Huang family were to start a war with the Miyazaki Clan, although they were almost guaranteed to win, the Miyazaki Clan was far off in Japan. The Huang family would have to pay a certain price.

Moreover, it would be bad if the Japanese government were forced to interfere.

Since Miyazaki Musashi, one of the strongest figures of the Miyazaki Clan, had died to Zhang Che, he didn't have to worry about their next actions at all. He'd just kill whoever came next, no matter how many of them there were!

It wouldn't be too late for Zhang Che to go find trouble with them after he broke through to Tier Seven beastmaster and grew much stronger.

After listening to what Zhang Che had to say, Huang Juyun fell silent for a while. Afterwards, he realized that the current Zhang Che really had no need to fear the Miyazaki Clan taking their revenge on him. So, he nodded slowly and agreed.

After all, if his son-in-law wanted to take revenge with his own strength in the future, then it was better for him to not interfere.

Moreover, even Miyazaki Musashi had died by Zhang Che's hands. Whether the Miyazaki Clan had the courage to continue finding trouble with Zhang Che was still unknown.

After a period of time, Miyazaki Musashi's disappearance would surely shake the Miyazaki Clan. They would probably recognize Zhang Che's strength and not dare to keep finding trouble with him from now on, keeping to themselves.

On the side of the Bei Mei region, however, the faction behind that mysterious pharmaceutical company was pretty strong. They must have learned that Zhang Che was the one who stole their experimental data back then, leading to their conflict with the Miyazaki Clan.

Would they, who were used to having things go their way, let Zhang Che go so easily for such a deep grudge? That was absolutely impossible…

However, it had been so long and yet they still hadn't taken any action. Were they preparing something in the dark to deal with Zhang Che? Nobody knew!

-Looks like I have to watch out from now on…- Zhang Che thought to himself. Compared to the Miyazaki Clan, the mysterious faction from Bei Mei was obviously much more patient, not to mention Zhang Che had no idea how strong they were. Once they took action, it'd probably be a big attack that would be hard to defend against.

Of course, as long as Zhang Che didn't go to the Bei Mei region in his true identity, he didn't have much to fear.

The two lands were hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, and there was the shield of the Hua Xia government between them. They wouldn't be able to send too big of a force if they wanted to take action.

Zhang Che's strength was very different from before. As long as he paid attention, he didn't have to fear whatever method the other party used.

Thinking of the mysterious faction in Bei Mei region, Zhang Che suddenly recalled something.

Back then, in order to set up the Miyazaki Clan, Zhang Che took away the main device that stored the lab's experimental data. Currently, it was still stored inside the Purple Crystal Tortoise's storage.

Zhang Che would have totally forgotten about that if he hadn't thought of this matter today. After thinking for a bit, it was better to give this to his father-in-law to handle.

This thing should be extremely useful to the Huang family. It was nothing but a pile of useless metal if Zhang Che kept it in his possession, not bringing out any of its practical uses.

Of course, Zhang Che wouldn't take the device out from the Purple Crystal Tortoise's storage right in front of Huang Juyun.

He went to the washroom and transferred the device to the Meso Worm's spatial storage, then came back and brought up the matter to Huang Juyun.

Huang Juyun's jaw went loose from shock after hearing Zhang Che talk about this.

Huang Juyun had originally thought that this kid was very capable of stirring up trouble, but he didn't expect Zhang Che to be THAT capable. It was simply unrivalled!

"You're saying that you've brought back the main computer that stored their lab results in perfect condition!?" Huang Juyun was astonished.

Of course, there was research conducted on developing an exotic beast genetic evolution fluid in Hua Xia, too. But, due to the lack of test subjects, their progress had been slow. The brass had wanted to give up on this project before.

Obtaining that pharmaceutical company's experimental data would be an enormous help to Hua Xia. It was invaluable!

Zhang Che nodded. With a wave of his hand, he took out that gigantic main computer, presenting it to Huang Juyun.

After seeing the actual object, Huang Juyun was so excited his whole body was trembling.

This thing bore too much weight, figuratively speaking!

In Hua Xia, not a single clan dared to conduct such research in private, no matter how detailed their data was. It was something decided by the government affairs office.

However, the Huang family could totally present it to the higher authorities in exchange for huge benefits.

Huang Juyun had no doubts that if he did that, the Huang family would definitely rise to become a first-rate clan, albeit being on the weaker end, and receive huge support from the government. As long as they didn't do anything to betray Hua Xia, they had nothing to worry about.

The most direct benefit would be that with this thing, even if the Zhen family hated the Huang family and Zhang Che to the bones, they could only give in and endure the matter, not daring to harbor any ill thoughts against them. Otherwise, no one in all of Hua Xia would stand on their side. Not only that, most clans would even work together against them. Perhaps the Zhen family might even cease to exist from that point on.

After all, contributing this experimental data was too great a merit. The brass had to show some sincerity.

"You brat, why didn't you bring out something so good earlier?" Huang Juyun looked at Zhang Che, slightly irritated, and said, "If you handed this thing over earlier, the Zhen family wouldn't even have dared say a thing about you killing Zhen Long, and they would even have apologized to us!"

Zhang Che's eyes widened. -This thing actually has such an impact? I really didn't know!-

It was hardly surprising that Zhang Che didn't think of that. After all, if Zhang Che wasn't supported by the Huang family, a faction deeply rooted in the military, he'd only get some material rewards at the most if he handed this experimental data over. He wouldn't have gotten anything special.

However, it was different if the Huang family were the ones who presented it. After all, the exotic beast genetic evolution fluid project was headed by the military, and the Huang family was a faction belonging to the military.

Seeing the look of shock on Zhang Che, Huang Juyun laughed candidly. "You head back first. Once I hand this over to the higher-ups tomorrow and have the data verified as useful, you won't have to worry about the Zhen family within Hua Xia's borders.

"But, you have really offended those from the Bei Mei region. You still have to be careful and act cautiously!

"Well, it's best that you don't leave Hua Xia. Otherwise, we won't be able to provide help in time if they take action against you. It'd be useless no matter what we do if you're in danger."

Zhang Che nodded, "Don't worry, Uncle Huang. I won't leave Hua Xia's borders."

He thought to himself, -Even if there's anything I have to leave Hua Xia to settle, naturally I'll switch up my identity. No one will be able to find me.-The sky gradually darkened. Zhang Che didn't stay behind for dinner. He had Liu Gang drive him home.

Back at home, his mother Sun Lan had prepared dinner for him. When he arrived, he only saw Sun Lan and his great-aunt Sun Shaoying around during dinner.

"Mom, where's Uncle and the others? Are they at the store?"

Sun Lan nodded at Zhang Che's question. She said, "That's right. The store's business is doing very well recently. Your aunt and uncle can't even catch a breather. Sometimes, even your great-aunt has to go help them out at the store."

Naturally Sun Lan was very happy that Premium House's business was booming. It meant that not only would her son be making big money, her aunt's family could also settle down in Bei Du without worry and live a better life.

"Eh? Right, when your aunt came home yesterday, she mentioned telling you to bring another batch of beast cards when you get back, and that the stock in the store is running low. It will only last a few more days."

Zhang Che revealed a hint of surprise. -Has the store's business really been doing so well?-

"Alright. I'll go over and take a look after dinner."After dinner, Zhang Che didn't get Liu Gang to drive him, instead driving himself straight to Premium House. Just as he was done parking the car, before he even entered the shop, he saw the place was as busy as a market. Groups of beastmasters were entering and leaving the shop together. It was really lively.

"Tsk. This traffic is comparable to the period of time when the Nirvana Snake beast cards were on sale. It's no wonder the beast cards I'd prepared before are running low!" Zhang Che sighed, the corners of his eyes and forehead hinting at his happy mood.

Although he didn't care about that little bit of money he earned by selling beast cards, who would dislike earning more money?

Moreover, if the business was doing well, his great-aunt's family could settle down completely in Bei Du. His mother wouldn't have to worry about not having any companions around.

In a relaxed mood, Zhang Che walked into the shop and greeted his aunt and the others. Afterwards, he took out the hundreds of beast cards he had obtained this time inside the storeroom and handed them to his aunt, Xi Muyun.

Xi Muyun jumped up in shock when she saw Zhang Che taking out so many mid-tier beast cards at one go, in addition to some mid to low-quality high-tier beast cards!

-This nephew is incredible! How long was he gone for? He actually brought back so many beast cards!-

She knew very well that Zhang Che didn't buy those beast cards from other beastmasters. Each and every one of them was hunted in the beast world with his own strength!

-This boy is only eighteen years old!

-Indeed, a genius isn't limited by their age! This son of my cousin is a genius among geniuses! No one his age can measure up to him!-

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Chapter 415: Genius. Military Conference

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After dropping off the beast cards he'd obtained on this trip to the beast world, Zhang Che didn't remain in the store.

Although the Premium House's income had reached a shocking level for ordinary people, Zhang Che really didn't care about that small bit of money.

The reason why he opened this shop was to bring his great-aunt's family over from Tian Xing City and giving his mother some companions, keeping her from being alone.

Now, that objective had been perfectly achieved.After driving home, Miss Tienan had come back from school.

As of now, Huang Tielan was considered a "privileged" student among the freshmen of the Bei Du University's beast card cultivation major. She was free to skip the night self-study sessions. Not only that, if she had other matters to attend to, it was fine even if she didn't go to school. She only had to inform her professors.

The other students were really envy of this.

It couldn't be helped; Huang Tielan had already become an official beast card cultivator barely a month after school started!

Moreover, Huang Tielan's professional knowledge was among the highest. Even students in their second, or even third years, were only around her level.

Of course, the most important point was that Huang Tielan had already become an official beast card cultivator.

This point alone was much more practical than memorizing the necessary professional knowledge.

After all, the beast card cultivator profession was extremely unique. It wasn't like you could automatically become one after memorizing the relevant knowledge, including the known ingredients and herbs.

If you were unable to concoct beast card cultivation fluids on your own, it was useless no matter how profound your knowledge was.

This was exactly why Huang Tielan was looked upon favorably by the school and the professors. She was only eighteen years old and had become an official beast card cultivator!

Over the past decades, in all of Hua Xia, or even all of Mercury, she was the only one to achieve that.

Not only that, the professors already had high hopes for her. Perhaps the first divine-quality beast card cultivator would come from Bei Du University!

When Zhang Che returned to the lab villa, Miss Tienan was preparing the ingredients.

During this period of time, she had successfully researched the concoction recipes of three other beast cards. Her high success rate would shock anyone who learned of it.

If it weren't for the fact that those beast cards were only at low-tier low-quality, Huang Tielan could even try for intermediate beast card cultivator. Her talent in this area was indeed very high!

"Wait for a while, Zhang Xiaoche. I'm going to try concocting cultivation fluid for a mid-tier beast card today. If I succeed, I'll start striving to become an intermediate beast card cultivator from today on!"

"So soon!?" Zhang Che was shocked when he heard her.

-The beast cards I left for her previously were all only low-tier ones, right?

-How long has it been? This miss here is actually trying to concoct cultivation fluid for mid-tier beast cards already?-

-What is a genius? This is a genius!- Zhang Che sighed in endless admiration. He was far from comparable to Miss Tienan.

She had truly relied on herself and her own talent. What about Zhang Che? He was nothing more than someone using cheats!

"Of course! Look who you're talking to!" Huang Tielan said proudly, although she indeed had the qualifications to be proud. She was simply in a league of her own!

Zhang Che suddenly thought that if Miss Tienan hadn't chosen to develop in the path of a beast card cultivator, she'd probably be as outstanding in the field as a beastmaster, too.

Well, as long as she was willing to work for it, it shouldn't be too difficult for her to become a high-tier beastmaster within a year. Ordinary people could never compare to someone so outstanding!More than an hour later, the sky had darkened. Suddenly, Huang Tielan's suppressed cries of excitement could be heard from the lab.

She had actually succeeded in upgrading a four-star bronze-quality beast card to five-stars in one try!

Although the concoction recipe was given to her by the school's professor, actually succeeding in concocting the cultivation fluid wasn't something ordinary students could do!

After all, the higher a beast card's level and quality was, the ingredients required were increasingly complicated. In the process of concocting the cultivation fluid, any slight carelessness might render your efforts fruitless.

Huang Tielan succeeding at first try meant her talent was indeed so high that it was shocking.

Zhang Che wasn't shocked, however. He directly rushed in when he heard her cheers and hugged her.

He was missing her very badly after not seeing her for some time.The next morning, a fleet of cars set off from the Huang family's ancestral home and drove straight to the Hua Xia military.

On their way there, another fleet of cars joined up with the Huang family's fleet.

A elderly man in military uniform with no rank showing on his shoulders got in Huang Juyun's car.

"Uncle Fu," Huang Juyun greeted the elder very politely after he got in the car.

Fu Tianjiang nodded. He swept his eyes over the storage chest in the car and chuckled, "Here, here, bring out your family's unique medicinal wine. I'll have a sip first. The weather this year turned cold very early. This old man is turning pale from the cold."

Huang Juyun glanced at Fu Tianjiang's healthy pink face. He didn't dare to expose his lies, and could only open the storage chest silently and take out a jade bottle from inside. Afterwards, he opened up the small table in the car and placed two jade white wine cups on it, then filled them with the amber-colored wine in the jade bottle.

As the wine poured out, a thick fragrance spread in the car's narrow space.

Fu Tianjiang sniffled, and he immediately showed a drunken expression.

He wasn't polite about it. He directly raised the wine cup and downed the amber fluid in one shot, then sighed in satisfaction, "Smooth. Your Huang family's medicinal wine is the best. One shot of it and I feel much more comfortable. I say, can you brat not be so stingy? You always use such a small cup! Remember to switch to a bigger one next time."

Huang Juyun finished the other cup with a pained look. After hearing what Fu Tianjiang said, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Uncle Fu, it's not like you don't know that the spiritual herbs needed to brew this medicinal wine are rare. It's not easy to cultivate them, too. There's hardly any output per year…"

Before he could finish, Fu Tianjiang directly interrupted Huang Juyun with a wave of his hand. He huffed his beard, staring at him and said, "Nonsense. You really think this old man knows nothing? Lanlan's little boyfriend brought back a huge spiritual jade, and your family's research institute has a huge piece of land there. Will you be unable to cultivate those spiritual herbs?"

Done speaking, he directly grabbed the small jade bottle on the table and said, "Look, I'm not asking for much. Just take this bottle as the share for this year. Remember to put more aside for this old man next year. With that spiritual jade, I don't believe you'll have a shortage of this spiritual herb wine."

Seemingly worried of Huang Juyun rejecting him, Fu Tianjing immediately changed the topic and asked, "Are you sure the information in this thing is all real? This is no small matter; all the important figures in the military are gathered here."

Huang Juyun nodded and smiled confidently, "Rest assured, Uncle Fu. That kid Zhang Che directly snatched it from their base. It can't be wrong."

Fu Tianjiang nodded slowly. He sighed immediately, "I'm really envious of you. Your Huang family's third generation was looking rather bleak. Unexpectedly, you found such an outstanding son-in-law all of a sudden. Your contributions will be huge once the information is verified. No one will dare to make a move on that kid in the future."

As the two conversed, the fleet sped along, and soon drove into a building in the military zone. At present, almost every important figure of the military was gathered in the conference room there…

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Chapter 416: Verified. Pardon Token

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Many generals were gathered in the military conference room.

As the fleet of cars entered the building, a group of armed soldiers came up to guard the computer Zhang Che had handed over, escorting it to the conference room.

Of course, those soldiers were only a superficial protective force.

A number of high-tier beastmasters were hidden in every corner of the building. If any accidents happened, those powerful beastmasters would quickly summon their subdued beasts to take down the ones who dared to challenge the military's authority.

Well, no matter if it was before the arrival of the new age or after, no one had dared to cause trouble at the military department. No one thought they had lived too long of a life.

In the spacious conference room, a few experts who hailed from a unique department had been waiting silently.

The item the Huang family was presenting this time was too important. Today was the day to verify that item; it was no wonder everyone was treating it so seriously.

If they could verify the information was true and reliable, then Hua Xia could consolidate the information and make great progress on the development of exotic beast genetic evolution fluid.

Although they might not be able to produce an evolution fluid suitable for human use without any side effects, this process would be brought countless times closer to its completion. It would display great effect when defending against the beast swarm or the demonic invasion in the future.

After all, although beastmasters were powerful, they were only a tiny minority compared to the massive numbers of common people.

If there was a way to strengthen those soldiers who weren't able to become beastmasters, allowing them to display powerful combat strength, the chances for humanity to survive would greatly increase.

Also, if there was remarkable progress in the development of exotic beast genetic evolution fluid, not only would it strengthen the physiques of humans in all areas, it could also increase their lifespan! All the experts and people in authority would be glad to see that happen…

As the main computer was escorted into the conference room, Huang Juyun and Fu Tianjiang also walked into the room together.

All of a sudden, everyone's gazes were drawn to Huang Juyun.

Occupying the main seat of the conference room was an elder in military uniform. He had a head full of white hair, but his face was unusually pink. He nodded at Huang Juyun with a smile and said, "You're here, Juyun. Come take a seat quickly."

Huang Juyun nodded and soon found his seat in the conference room.

Immediately, an unnoticeable glint flashed across his eyes.

In the past, his seat was in the few rows in the back. Now, he was assigned a seat at the third row from the front in the conference room, in the middle of a bunch of Lieutenant Generals.

Of course, this was only temporary.

If the information in the main computer was verified to be false, his position would revert to the back rows, or even be assigned to the corner.

On the contrary, if the information was indeed useful, perhaps his position would stabilize, and he might even gain a star on his shoulder!

When Huang Juyun entered the room, the generals in the conference room were whispering among themselves. Their gazes contained various emotions of admiration, envy, and even jealousy.

After all, the military wasn't a rigid board. Every person had their own circle of influence.

If Huang Juyun were to gain favor through this, the Huang family's influence in the military would surely rise a level, which would affect the benefits of some other people as a result.

"Silence," the white-haired general at the main seat ordered in a low voice. The entire conference room immediately fell quiet. Afterwards, he turned to look at the experts at the side, who were trying to hide their excitement, and said, "Professor Yan, we'll have to trouble you and your team."

The experts weren't modest about it. They nodded and connected the main computer to a power source and screen, as well as a device for cracking codes, and went to work.

As expected, although Zhang Che had forcibly snatched the main computer while it was running, a password verification was needed when it was rebooted.

Even so, this didn't pose a problem to the prepared experts present. Using the password-cracking device, they soon started up the main computer forcibly.

Afterwards, the expert professors started verifying the feasibility and accuracy of the information in the main computer based on the results of their own research.

The information on the main computer was vast as the ocean. Naturally the experts wouldn't look through it bit by bit. Otherwise, they would have to spend the rest of their lives to finish it.

Very soon, they found the outline and the important parts of the information. Afterwards, they did some complicated calculations and verification.Time passed slowly.

Every general in the conference room sat quietly in their seats, waiting patiently. None of them made a sound.

Finally, the experts came to a stop.

The middle-old-aged referred to as Professor Yan by the white-haired general earlier pushed his glasses up, showing an extremely surprised smile and said, "Although there are still many items yet to be calculated in detail, we can already be sure that the information in here is unimaginably helpful to our research!

"I can proudly announce that with this information, we'll only need three years' time at the most to develop the first generation of genetic evolution fluid."

As Professor Yan finished speaking, a wave of enthusiastic clapping arose in the quiet conference room, not coming to a stop for a long time.

The fifth beast swarm would have yet to descend upon Mercury in three years' time!

If they really managed to develop the first generation of genetic evolution fluid by then, Hua Xia could produce large amounts of genetically evolved warriors at the time to make up for the lack of beastmasters, which would be hugely useful in the upcoming beast swarm.

Combined with the improvements in scientific weapons, everyone was confident that during the upcoming fifth beast swarm, they would pay a much smaller price to obtain the final victory compared to the previous invasions.At noon, Zhang Che suddenly received a call from his father-in-law while he was having lunch with Miss Tienan at Bei Du University.

"Xiaoche, you've achieved great merits this time!"

On the other end of the call, Huang Juyun sounded very agitated. His voice was so loud that even Huang Tielan, who was sitting across Zhang Che, could hear him clearly.

"The information was confirmed to be usable after calculations and verification by experts! Now, the military has come together with the relevant departments from the government and assembled a large amount of manpower and logistics to fully take in and digest all the information in the shortest time possible, and to produce some preliminary results before the arrival of the fifth beast swarm.

"The brass has expressed that as long as you didn't commit any wrong from now on, they wouldn't allow anyone to commit any harmful acts against you. Once discovered, they will surely be severely punished!

"Haha, kid, this is equivalent to the pardon token from the ancient times!

"From now on, the Zhen family won't dare to make any petty moves!"

Zhang Che was very happy when he heard this. Of course, to a larger degree, he was happy for the rise in Hua Xia's strength in the future.

As for himself, having this "pardon token" or not didn't mean much to him.

At present, he already possessed outstanding strength. Unless he was facing beastmasters with divine-quality subdued beasts, Zhang Che wasn't afraid of anyone.

The scarlet and white sword wasn't just for show. Unless they had an extremely tough defense, Zhang Che could kill anyone with a mere thought.

After ending the call with Huang Juyun, Zhang Che saw Miss Tienan staring at him from the opposite side of the table.

"Woah, Zhang Xiaoche, you actually snuck abroad to have fun!" Although she said that teasingly, Huang Tielan's eyes were filled with deep concern. Naturally she had realized how much risk Zhang Che had taken and how many fierce battles he had fought to get his hands on that information.

"Promise me not to go risking your life in the future, okay? The other countries aren't like Hua Xia; no one would be there to help you if you're in danger."

Seeing the worried look on her, Zhang Che quickly nodded and promised her, "Mhm, don't worry. I'll definitely not risk my life in the future."

However, he knew inside that as he gradually grew stronger, even if he wandered outside, he wouldn't be in much danger.

Moreover, he had the ability to switch up his identity. There was almost nothing to worry about!

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Chapter 417: Fusion Rank Up. Speaking Human

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Zhang Che didn't stay in Bei Du long. He set off the next day on a new journey according to the map his father-in-law gave him.

As long as he wasn't at Tier Seven, Zhang Che wouldn't be able to feel secure. After all, his strength had reached the limit.

Even his strongest subdued beast, the Earthen Rock Demon, could only manage to force a draw at best if they encountered a high-tier legend-quality exotic beast. If Zhang Che encountered a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast, the Earthen Rock Demon could only kneel in defeat despite its massive size.

As for the argument that the scarlet and white sword had the power to cut down high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts, the range at which Zhang Che could control it was too short, only around a hundred meters. The False Domains of high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts extended for several hundred meters!

Zhang Che couldn't guarantee he could get through such a long distance safely.

Of course, there were some epic-quality exotic beasts with no False Domains. They were surely not a match for Zhang Che. However, Zhang Che couldn't possibly place his safety in the hands of probability itself, right?

-In the end, I have to advance to high-tier as soon as possible. Once I become a high-tier beatmaster, my soul force will change and improve my physique greatly. With that, in addition to wearing a good set of armor, I can ignore the attacks of most epic-quality exotic beasts.-Although Zhang Che was tracked, ambushed, and nearly killed by Miyazaki Musashi in the beast world the last time, he didn't learn his lesson and rushed to his destination in Dijiang-hao.

In the information his father-in-law provided, many of the places were extremely remote. There was no transport available if he didn't pilot his own sky shuttle there.

If he just flew on his mount, the time needed for travelling would increase tenfold. It was obviously not worth it. Moreover, this time was different than the last.

The reason why Zhang Che wasn't able to retaliate before was because Miyazaki Musashi had a spiritual sword fragment with insanely high attacking power, not to mention his subdued beasts were extremely powerful, too!

Now, after Zhang Che's spiritual sword fragments had devoured Miyazaki Musashi's and fused into one, its attacking power wasn't inferior to that metal-attributed spiritual sword fragment at all. Not only that, its attack was faster and nimbler, giving Zhang Che great confidence.

Putting all else aside, if he encountered another high-tier beastmaster like Miyazaki Musashi, who would come out alive in the end was really up in the air.

"Moreover, now that the higher-ups have issued me a 'pardon token', there shouldn't be anyone stupid enough to find trouble with me in Hua Xia, right? As for the Bei Mei region, I don't think they'd dare to do anything in Hua Xia, either…"This time, Zhang Che was also headed south, continuing on the route he had planned before.

As usual, he parked Dijiang-hao inside the military camp and crossed the spatial gateway.

After presenting the genetic evolution fluid research material, the Huang family's position in the army was solidified. When Zhang Che came out to hunt exotic beasts, he could park Dijiang-hao in any military camp he wished to without worry.

"So that's the private sky shuttle from the airlines company? It's very cool, indeed!"

"Hubby, we have to work harder and buy our own sky shuttle in the future!"

"A sky shuttle plane would cost billions!"

The crowd in the camp noticed Dijiang-hao the moment it appeared, and people started talking about it.

It had to be noted that Hangtian Corporation really knew how to run a business.

After Zhang Che bought Dijiang-hao, they produced many ordinary models and invested more money into advertisements. Even ordinary citizens were now aware that private sky shuttles were now available on the market.

It didn't matter that the common people couldn't afford it. Just bringing the awareness to the public was a gain for them.

Moreover, who could be sure that common people now wouldn't be able to afford one in the future? After all, this was a new era!

If a talented beastmaster appeared in any household, they would have the financial ability to buy their own sky shuttle.

An ordinary sky shuttle cost about ten billion alliance dollars. When converted to purple crystal points, it was equivalent to a million. A mid-tier legend-quality beast card would be enough to exchange for one.

Of course, very few had legend-quality beast cards!

On the other hand, many beastmasters had mid-tier dark gold-quality beast cards. If one wasn't enough, they'd just have to get a few more of them to make up the numbers!

Anyone who had the need for a transportation tool that allowed them to save a huge amount of time and provided a very high safety factor would be tempted to buy one.

As Zhang Che walked past the crowd, the people were looking at him with envious and jealous gazes, but he was long used to it.

He looked straight ahead, ignoring them. After entering the safety zone, Zhang Che immediately summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, mounted him, and flew off according to the directions on the map.

-I wonder if there are many similar five-star exotic beasts here. It really is too difficult to rank up my fusion skill,- Zhang Che thought as he looked at the lands ahead.

His fusion skill was stuck at level three for far too long. Zhang Che only needed a hundred pairs of similar beast cards to rank up his fusion skill.

In the past, it wasn't too difficult when his fusion skill was only at level one or two. Now, in order to rank up his level three fusion skill, he needed a hundred pairs of five-star beast cards. It might seem easy, but Zhang Che was very clear on the actual difficulty in achieving that.

It had been months, and he hadn't accumulated enough experience for the rank up.

Although Zhang Che didn't specially go looking for similar five-star exotic beasts, the number of mid-tier exotic beasts he slew during this period of time wasn't low, either. Even so, there were extremely few similar exotic beasts.

"Luckily I'm only a few points short now. If my luck is good, perhaps I'll be able to hit it in one go."

Zhang Che looked at the fusion skill's experience points. It was currently at 92/100. He only had to obtain eight more pairs of similar five-star beast cards to successfully rank up the skill.With that in mind, Zhang Che diverted his attention slightly in this regard in the upcoming days. Although his harvests weren't great, on the fourth day, he finally accumulated 100 experience points and ranked up his fusion skill to level four.

After achieving level four, Zhang Che was able to fuse six-star beast cards into seven-stars.

At this stage, the fusion skill finally had a decent function. After all, an exotic beast's strength would increase greatly from mid-tier to high-tier.

A six-star beast could only fight against two five-star beasts of the same kind at the same time. A seven-star beast, however, could instantly kill a six-star. Even if it was facing against five of them at the same time, it had a very high chance of winning!

"Not bad. Although it won't be easy to find multiple six-star high-quality beast cards of the same species, there will be times when it'll come in handy. It's better than nothing!"

Zhang Che wasn't too excited when his fusion skill successfully ranked up. In any case, he wasn't depending on it to increase his strength. Having it or not didn't matter much.During the past four days, Zhang Che had almost cleared out the mid-tier exotic beasts in this area. It was about time for him to change locations.

Before that, however, he summoned out the frisky monkey with a wave of his hand.

Now that the frisky monkey's skill had a search radius of ten thousand meters, they would be able to find some spiritual herbs every time, although their quality might not be high. Quite a few spiritual herbs have been accumulated in his spatial storage.

Not only that, with the lesson from the last time, Zhang Che specially asked his father-in-law to cut out a big piece of spiritual jade for him before he embarked on his journey. That way, he could preserve the spiritual herbs in his spatial storage, and transplant them all to the Huang family's herb garden when he returned to Bei Du.

"Zhizhi, zhizhi!" the frisky monkey cried excitedly the moment he appeared.

Since he had to focus on hunting the exotic beasts, other than when looking for spiritual herbs, Zhang Che would keep the frisky monkey in his spiritual sea, leaving the pet feeling very terrible. Naturally he would be excited to finally have a chance to come out.

"Alright, stop crying. When daddy advances to Tier Seven beastmaster and becomes stronger, I'll be able to let you be out here all the time," Zhang Che consoled with a smile, caressing the back of the frisky monkey's head.

"Zhi… ba… baba…"

Zhang Che immediately froze on the spot when he heard the frisky monkey.

-Oh shit!

-Why does this fellow knows how to speak!?

-Is it turning into a demon spirit?!-

"What did you just say? Say it again!" Zhang Che said with a trembling voice, staring at the frisky monkey, afraid that he had heard wrongly.

The frisky monkey blinked a few times, then opened his mouth and moved his tongue with difficulty, stammering, "Baba, baba!"

Zhang Che nearly jumped up from excitement. He hadn't heard wrongly!

"Here, here, good boy, say that a few more times!"

"Baba, baba, baba…"

The frisky monkey's tongue became more and more nimble, crying 'baba' nonstop, but his pronunciation was off. (TLN: Baba is similar to father in Chinese. The monkey is using a different tone.)

Even so, none of this was important. It was like Zhang Che had discovered a new continent, staring at the frisky monkey as if he was looking at a very interesting toy.

Zhang Che was actually very shocked. Since when was an exotic beast able to speak?

Was it because of the frisky monkey's species? That fellow was a monkey, after all. It could be considered a distant relative of humans.

Moreover, this fellow's intelligence wasn't low to begin with. As his quality increased, his intelligence grew higher and higher. It seemed like gaining the ability to speak wasn't so ridiculous.

Then, did that mean as long as the frisky monkey's level and quality continued increasing, he would be able to speak better?

Just thinking about it was very exciting!

To put it in perspective, Zhang Che was often alone in the beast world for extended periods of time hunting exotic beasts. There wasn't anyone to talk to. As time passed, that feeling of loneliness would drive him crazy.

If the frisky monkey could learn to speak properly, he would be able to fill the role of a conversation partner, making Zhang Che's life in the beast world much more interesting.

"Hahahah, good boy, come, let's go look for the spiritual herbs in the area first. Daddy will teach you to speak later!" Zhang Che laughed loudly. He reached out and patted the frisky monkey's head, ordering him to activate his skill. They'd find the spiritual herbs in the area first before doing anything else.

Who knew? If their luck was good and found a high-grade spiritual herb, Zhang Che could feed it to the frisky monkey, letting him gain a level or two. Wouldn't he be able to learn to speak faster?! (TLN: Last record of the Gluttony Monkey's level is at Level 28.)

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Chapter 418: A Pig. A Powerful Pig

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

At the Bao Islands, Yapeng City…

At the location of the spatial gateway thirty-some kilometers southeast of the city district, Wang Bo stood a few dozen meters away from the gateway, his eyes shining.

"During this period of time, I've harvested the Yin energy from eighteen women with yin constitutions. I'm now fully in sync with this body. It's time to enter the so-called beast world to test out my strength."

A strange light flashed in his pupils as Wang Bo strode forward, crossing the spatial gateway.

Just as he walked through the spatial gateway, a hint of excitement shone in Wang Bo's eyes.

Sensing the abundant spiritual qi in the beast world, he took a deep breath, his expression drunken.

"As expected of the land of legends. The spiritual qi in here is so thick I'm about to cry!"

He ignored the strange looks from the people around him. He walked resolutely out of the safety zone.

Wang Bo's pace was very slow. It was like he was afraid of stepping on the ants under his feet, taking each step very carefully, leaving his footprints behind one by one.

When Wang Bo walked out of the safety zone, he realized he wasn't rejected by this world, and finally revealed a joyous smile.

"Nice!"

Looking at the place he had only heard of in legends, Wang Bo narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking, -Going forward, I'll have to wait for my other clones to fully take over their hosts' bodies, and to quickly raise my strength, then strive to obtain a position of power among the humans and work towards constructing a spatial tunnel in this world!

-It's probably impossible for a spatial restriction to appear in this world and leave our powerful warriors unable to arrive here, right?-

No one had yet to realize that although Wang Bo still appeared to be a human beastmaster, his soul had disappeared without a trace. What occupied his body was an almighty creature from the demon world, acting as one of its many identities.

The whole world was guarding against the hundred and eight black doors standing in the air in Mercury, not realizing that the demonic creatures had taken an alternate route and were preparing to invade the beast worlds!

Of course, opening a large and stable spatial tunnel in the beast world wasn't something they could achieve anytime soon, even if that almighty creature's clones slowly recovered their strength.In Hua Xia, deep in the beast world behind a spatial gateway in a nameless city, Zhang Che was both happy and shocked by the frisky monkey's attempt at human speech. He instructed the pet to activate his skill, scanning for ten thousand meters radius around them.

Soon, the frisky monkey scanned through the surrounding area, then jumped up excitedly and pointed to the northeast, stammering, "Baba, baba, herb, herb!"

"Hahahaha, not bad, not bad! Looks like I'll have to teach you how to speak properly!"

This truly was an unexpected piece of good news. He didn't think the frisky monkey would even know how to say spiritual herb, apart from his badly pronounced daddy, although he only learned a single word.

However, it meant that the fellow was trying hard to learn, didn't it?

As long as Zhang Che didn't recall the monkey back into his spiritual sea, the frisky monkey would surely learn more words. Learning how to speak properly in the end was only natural progression!

Of course, whether the frisky monkey could speak in full sentences was something to be verified. However, him being able to learn new words was something indisputable.

"Come on, we'll go see what grade the best spiritual herb this time is!"

Naturally, that wasn't the only spiritual herb the frisky monkey found this time, but the one in the northeast gave off the biggest reaction. That was why the frisky monkey pointed in that direction first.

The frisky monkey saying the word 'herb' meant that specific spiritual herb's grade would definitely not disappoint him. Zhang Che was filled with anticipation. He quickly picked up the frisky monkey and mounted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, flying in the direction indicated.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew for close to half a minute, passing several mountains, and finally dove down to a deep ravine below.

"Hmm? It's a spiritual herb that grew in a ravine?" Zhang Che couldn't help but find it a little strange.

Usually, spiritual herbs with a higher grade would be growing on the waist of a mountain or higher, or even at the top of a mountain. This kind that grew in a deep ravine was really uncommon.

Of course, Zhang Che wouldn't suspect the frisky monkey's senses made a mistake. The fellow had never made such a mistake before!

However, to guard against whatever danger might be in this ravine, Zhang Che summoned the Earthen Rock Demon and had the giant stone man scout the way forward, advancing cautiously into the valley.

After advancing a few hundred meters, Zhang Che's pupils contracted slightly. The Earthen Rock Demon at his side even let out a furious roar as a large rock spear appeared in its hand, throwing it into the fog-shrouded ravine with a whoosh.

An exotic beast making the Earthen Rock Demon act so cautiously had to be six-star epic-quality, at the very least!

-Hopefully it's not a divine-quality exotic beast, or I'll have no choice but to run.- Zhang Che prayed silently, but he wasn't too worried about it.

If it really was a divine-quality exotic beast, the Earthen Rock Demon's first reaction wouldn't be to attack, but to warn him and run.

As the rock spear flew deep into the ravine, a furious roar suddenly rang through the whole ravine. Afterwards, Zhang Che's sharp senses detected a wave of intense energy fluctuations deep in the ravine ahead.

"Oh shit!"

Zhang Che immediately put on his legend-quality armor, then ordered the Earthen Rock Demon to stand in front of him.

Before the Earthen Rock Demon could lower its raised leg, a concentrated wave of projectiles resembling black sharp arrows came flying at them.

Dang dang dang dang..!

Intensely clear and crisp sounds rang out. Zhang Che felt like artillery shells were blowing up near him. Although they didn't break the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor's defense, the massive impact still made his stomach feel terrible. He couldn't sit stably on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, and nearly fell off the dragon's back.

In the next moment, Zhang Che quickly willed the frisky monkey behind him back into his spiritual sea.

Fortunately the fellow was hiding behind Zhang Che moments earlier, and wasn't hit by the attacks. Otherwise, he might have died right there!

"That had to be the skill of an exotic beast at six-star epic-quality, at the very least!"

Zhang Che's gaze was grave. The Earthen Rock Demon had stepped in front of him, shielding the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and Zhang Che behind its heavenly pillar-like legs.

The wave of attacks from the skill came to an end.

Zhang Che discovered, to his shock, that those black arrow-like objects directly vanished after striking him and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, not leaving anything behind. Evidently, those black arrow-like objects were a kind of energy attack!

It also explained why the skill attack of an exotic beast who was likely to be high-tier epic-quality was fully blocked by a mid-tier legend-quality armor…

If it was a skill that dealt physical damage, the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor would most likely be damaged.

"Retreat! Out of the ravine!"

Although the Earthen Rock Demon was standing in front of Zhang Che, shielding him, he felt uneasy about it. It truly wasn't advantageous for him to battle in the thick fog in the ravine.

After receiving Zhang Che's order, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon turned around and flew out of the ravine, stopping a short distance away from the entrance.

Meanwhile, another rock spear appeared in the Earthen Rock Demon's hand, who threw it forward with a loud roar.

During the concentrated wave of black arrow-like attacks earlier, many had struck the Earthen Rock Demon, making it very angry. It wasn't be willing to retreat without hitting back.

"Hng!" an enraged cry resembling that of a pig was suddenly heard from the ravine several hundred meters in. The Earthen Rock Demon's spear had obviously struck its target, enraging that unknown exotic beast.

"Quickly, come chase us out here! Let me see what kind of an exotic beast you are!" Staying on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, Zhang Che narrowed his eyes, trying his best to look into the ravine. Regretfully, the fog was too thick. He couldn't see what was in there clearly.

However, he saw a blurry black silhouette as large as an armored car, becoming clearer and clearer. That epic-quality exotic beast was obviously charging out here.

"That fellow didn't seem very fast!"

After a rough estimation, Zhang Che realized the exotic beast's charging speed wasn't as fast as he had imagined

Compared to his subdued beasts and pets, Zhang Che noticed that exotic beast's speed was only on par with the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus at best. Even the Earthen Rock Demon was a little faster than it.

It was no wonder it chose to conceal itself in this ravine. With its speed, it probably wouldn't be able to catch up to many prey during its hunt for food.

Of course, no matter how slow that exotic beast was, it was only in relative terms. After Zhang Che discovered its silhouette in the fog, it only took the exotic beast about three seconds to charge out of the fog and appear before him.

After seeing the exotic beast's true appearance, Zhang Che's eyes nearly popped out!

It was actually a freaking pig!

Although the pig had six tusks, and its body as large as a heavy tank covered by dense black bristles, its basic characteristics were that of a pig. The loud thumping sounds produced by its black hooves when charging was the best proof.

Since when was a pig able to evolve to this extent, reaching epic-quality? Zhang Che felt this world was really too ridiculous.

Of course, Zhang Che wouldn't underestimate the exotic beast just because it had the appearance of a pig. Since it could reach epic-quality, and perhaps even high-tier, it wouldn't be ordinary, even if it was a pig. If Zhang Che fought it carelessly, he might not be its match!

"Hng!"

The pig-like epic-quality exotic beast immediately saw the hill-like Earthen Rock Demon after charging out of the fog. It quickly realized it was this thing that had attacked it earlier. Its eyes turned bloody-red, its six tusks straightened, and it charged at the Earthen Rock Demon without slowing a beat!

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Chapter 419: Second Epic-Quality Subdued Beast

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Zhang Che couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when he saw that pig-like exotic beast charging towards the Earthen Rock Demon and ignoring him flying right behind the giant.

"It's really a pig! Even though it's evolved to epic-quality, it still can't shake of the habits of a pig; so stupid!"

Zhang Che couldn't be blamed for cursing at the exotic beast. Any exotic beast that had achieved legend-quality or higher would know that the subdued beasts weren't the main enemy to focus on when facing beastmasters. They only had to kill the beastmaster themselves and those subdued beasts would naturally go away.

Even so, this pig-like exotic beast was charging straight towards the Earthen Rock Demon. It went without saying that its intelligence was very much lacking.

"But it's better this way. I only have to wait until that fellow is committed into a bitter fight with the Earthen Rock Demon and go ambush it, killing it with the scarlet and white sword in one strike!"

Zhang Che was naturally glad to see that the pig-like exotic beast didn't come find trouble with him.

Dong dong dong! Dong dong dong!

The charging exotic beast felt somewhat similar to a heavy tank storming the front lines. Its four large hooves produced loud thumping noises whenever it took a step, making the ground tremble violently.

"Strange. Why wasn't there any commotion when that fellow came charging out from the ravine earlier?"

Zhang Che quickly noticed something suspicious.

Could it be that the pig-like exotic beast didn't make much noise when it ran normally, and only caused such a huge commotion when it was charging at an enemy?

That didn't seem to make any sense. Who would purposely remind their enemies before attacking?

Since he couldn't figure it out, Zhang Che ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to retreat a little more and observed the battle ahead with narrowed eyes.

Soon, the pig came charging into range of the Earthen Rock Demon's False Domain. Even so, its charging speed was only reduced slightly. It wasn't affected much by the gravity field, and continued rushing at the Earthen Rock Demon.

Each of its six large tusks were as thick as a human thigh, over a meter long, and were slightly curved in arcs, shining with a faint dark red luster. One look and you could tell they were dyed in a lot of blood.

"Strange. That pig doesn't seem to have the powers of a False Domain?" Zhang Che suddenly realized there wasn't any special energy fluctuations around the exotic beast. It looked like there wasn't a False Domain in effect!

However, it was normal when he thought about it. Epic-quality exotic beasts only had a chance of having False Domains; not every epic-quality beast would have one. The pig not having a False Domain wasn't anything strange.

Moreover, although False Domains could be very useful in battles between epic-quality exotic beasts, sometimes they really weren't that important. Take this exotic beast in front of them, for example. It wasn't greatly affected by the gravity field!

What truly determined victory and defeat was the compatibility between the exotic beasts' attributes, as well as the amplification to their basic strength. Their level and quality would oftentimes be a lot more important than any other variables.

If this pig-like exotic beast's level was at seven-stars, or even eight-stars, the Earthen Rock Demon wouldn't be a match for it, despite having a False Domain.

The Earthen Rock Demon was naturally not afraid, despite seeing the pig-like exotic beast continuing its charge, while seemingly not affected by its False Domain. It raised its head and let out a silent, furious roar, and summoned another huge rock spear to its hand, hurling it out violently.

With a whoosh, the rock spear flew for less than a second across the five hundred meters between them at the huge pig.

At that moment, Zhang Che widened his eyes.

That huge pig didn't attempt to dodge or defend against the attack at all. The dense black bristles on its body rippled like water, producing a strange force that threw the Earthen Rock Demon's spear off its trajectory to the side. It hit the ground and left a large hole where it struck.

"There's actually such a use for it!"

Zhang Che was in disbelief. Although the force behind the rock spears the Earthen Rock Demon threw out couldn't be compared to its attacking skills, it was extremely terrifying nonetheless!

The bristles on that pig's body rippled and negated the attack completely. just like that!

That wasn't a freaking ordinary pig, but a pig that had definitely practiced Tai Chi!

The Earthen Rock Demon had obviously not expected its attack to fail so easily. By the time it reacted and summoned another rock spear to throw, the Tai Chi pig had already charged up to it, slamming its six terrifying tusks against one of the Earthen Rock Demon's thick legs violently.

A loud noise rang out. Crushed rocks streaked everywhere.

Zhang Che looked on blankly as the Earthen Rock Demon was pushed back several steps from the collision, a few large holes now visible on its thick leg.

This Tai Chi pig's attacking power was actually that terrifying!

Luckily the Earthen Rock Demon was naturally gifted with its size advantage. Otherwise, wouldn't it immediately collapse from injury after being rammed like that?

Zhang Che was immediately certain that the pig was a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast!

As for whether it was seven-stars or eight-stars, he'd only find out after getting a closer look at it with his data eyes.

It went without saying it was impossible for the fellow to be nine-stars. Otherwise, the Earthen Rock Demon wouldn't have only a few holes in its leg; its thick leg would have directly broken from the impact. It would have lost its balance and fallen to the ground, allowing that Tai Chi pig to torture it as it pleased.

"Hng!" the huge pig oinked. Pointing its six tusks straight ahead, it charged towards the Earthen Rock Demon's injured leg once more. With another loud crash, countless bits of rock flew everywhere.

After receiving two consecutive rams, the Earthen Rock Demon's leg was half shattered. Many cracks were visible near the wound. It was likely that its leg would shatter completely with another hit.

The Earthen Rock Demon was finally enraged. A dirty yellow light shone from its body, quickly drawing in the earth elemental powers below it to repair its damaged leg. Lightning flashed in its hand as it activated its attacking skill. A long spear flashing with electrical light instantly tore through the air, aimed at the back of the huge pig's neck.

That Tai Chi pig's defensive ability was activated again. However, the Earthen Rock Demon was using its skill. How could it be negated so easily? Although the rock spear's aim was thrown off slightly to the side, it managed to leave a deep wound on the back of the pig's neck regardless, directly tearing a large piece of meat off.

"Hnhnggg..!" the pig cried out miserably. Large amounts of fresh blood sprayed out from the neck wound it just received like a spring, immediately dying its black body red, adding some savagery to its appearance.

Zhang Che grew excited when he saw this.

However, epic-quality exotic beasts were sure to have two skills. That pig obviously still had a second skill left in its arsenal. Zhang Che didn't dare to approach carelessly.

Heavens knew what type of skill that pig had left, or how it attacked. Zhang Che's life would be in danger if his armor couldn't block it.

Moreover, the Earthen Rock Demon could still hang on. It wasn't necessary for Zhang Che to run forward at this point.

Receiving an injury on the back of its neck had instead aroused the huge pig's ferocity. It sprang forward, moving all four hooves quickly, charging endlessly at the Earthen Rock Demon's thick legs.

Although the pig's charge didn't have the acceleration of a running start, and as a result its impact was reduced significantly, under the continuous collisions, the Earthen Rock Demon's leg kept cracking further, bits of rock continuously ripped off of it. Despite the Earthen Rock Demon trying its best to manipulate the earth elements to repair its legs, it wasn't able to keep up with the destruction.

Even now, Zhang Che had yet to see this huge pig using an elemental attack, except for when it used its skill earlier.

Could it be that this epic-quality exotic beast only had reckless charging as its ordinary attack and that elemental attack skill?

It was impressive regardless. If it wasn't because of the Earthen Rock Demon's unique life, any other mid-tier epic-quality beast wouldn't be able to remain standing if they were in the giant's place..

In a fit of rage, the Earthen Rock Demon didn't care to keep an ace up its sleeves, and activated its other attacking skill.

In the next moment, with that huge pig at the center, extremely sharp earth spikes burst out from the ground with whistling sounds.

The pig wailed. Although the black bristles on its body rippled fiercely, they were unable to divert such a concentrated attack at all. The huge pig was immediately pierced by countless wounds of various depths on its body. Large amounts of fresh blood squirted out from those wounds, looking incredibly miserable.

-This fellow… it's about time to use your skill!- Zhang Che guessed. Just as he did, he saw the huge pig's body suddenly shake for a moment, then turn into an artillery shell. Launching from dozens of meters away, it directly slammed into the Earthen Rock Demon's abdomen.

There was a loud rumble. Countless rock bits flew in all directions like rain drops. Even Zhang Che, who stood a few hundred meters away, felt his armor get struck by the shrapnel, producing clanking noises.

His jaw nearly fell from shock at the sight ahead.

After the huge pig's full-body collision, the Earthen Rock Demon's massive body broke apart in the middle. The two halves of its body directly came crumbling down to the ground.

Fortunately, the fellow's weakness was its head. Otherwise, that huge pig's skill might have smashed it into a dissipating streak of light.

Although it didn't die, the Earthen Rock Demon was heavily injured. Although the fallen parts of its body was trying to fuse back together, the large amount of dirt-yellow light was unable to glue them together.

"Rush forward!" Zhang Che suddenly yelled when he saw the huge pig turning its body around and building up speed again, wanting to ram into the Earthen Rock Demon's upper body. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon instantly turned into a blur, traveling hundreds of meters and appearing at the Earthen Rock Demon's side.

A scarlet and white mix of light shot out from Zhang Che's brow like lightning, directly winding around the pig and cutting it into pieces.

Since both of that fellow's skills were exhausted, Zhang Che no longer had anything to fear. Naturally he would go all out and strive to cut it down in one attack!

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Chapter 420: Second Senior Brother. Ginseng Baby

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Although the huge pig had just rammed the Earthen Rock Demon's body to pieces, the impact had aggravated its injury, too. Fresh blood continued pouring out from its wounds.

Under such circumstances, naturally Zhang Che would grab the opportunity to cut it down. It would get tricky if he waited until it recovered, and a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast's recovery speed was shockingly high!

Moreover, if he didn't stop that huge pig's attack in time, the Earthen Rock Demon might really be knocked into pieces and succumb to its wounds.

It was Zhang Che's first epic-quality subdued beast. How could he bear to watch as it died in battle in front of him and do nothing?

The scarlet and white sword flashed. The huge pig sensed a huge threat approaching, forcibly twisting its body around in mid-charge, trying to avoid Zhang Che's sudden attack.

However, the scarlet and white sword had reached its target almost the moment Zhang Che willed it. How could it dodge so easily!?

With a whoosh, the big wound at the back of the huge pig's head was quickly enlarged multiple times, and a cut was slashed open on its spine.

A sharp pig's grunt rang out. The scarlet and white sword's attack had severely injured the huge pig-like exotic beast, causing it so much pain that it wished it was dead. Its tank-like body quickly turned around, wanting to escape into the ravine.

"You won't get away!"

A hint of excitement shone in Zhang Che's eyes after the scarlet and white sword's attack achieved merit in one strike. As he willed it, the sword light flashed once more, slashing at the wound on the back of the huge pig's neck.

In the next moment, Zhang Che heard a crisp and clear snapping sound. The huge pig let out another miserable grunt. Its spine was cut in half, large amounts of fresh blood spurting from the wound like a fountain, reaching a dozen meters high.

The huge pig could no longer maintain its balance after suffering such heavy injuries. It directly rolled to the side and fell to the ground loudly, raising a large cloud of dust.

"Strike while it's down!" Zhang Che let out a cry. A powerful wave of energy suddenly erupted from the golden vortex. The scarlet and white sword sped up considerably, slashing at the huge pig's spine at the back of its neck for the third time.

Another crisp snapping sound rang out. The huge pig's savage head fell and rolled on the ground. Large amounts of fresh blood sprayed from the wound, forming a thick layer of bloody mist in the air.

Seeing that pig's head on the ground with its eyes still open, Zhang Che was suddenly reminded of his past life when he'd decapitated a pig during the new year. Wasn't it exactly like this!?

-What a pity. Who knows how different it tastes compared to a domestic pig? It should be very nutritious, right?- Zhang Che sighed inside. The large pig head and the headless body quickly turned into a rainbow light. In the blink of an eye, the rainbow light dissipated, leaving a rainbow card with seven hexagrams on the messy ground, laying silently before Zhang Che's eyes.

"Hahahaha!…" Zhang Che suddenly laughed out loud when he saw the seven-star epic-quality beast card on the ground, feeling a sense of relief.

This was the first time he had slain an epic-quality exotic beast without any injury, not to mention it was a high-tier beast!

Although the pig wasn't as powerful as he had imagined, and it had exhausted all its skills during its battle against the Earthen Rock Demon, in addition to being wounded, it was Zhang Che's first time killing a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast with his own strength nonetheless!

The scarlet and white sword having such combat strength left Zhang Che brimming with confidence.

Such combat strength was something most high-tier beastmaster could never hope to obtain. Going forward, as long as he didn't encounter a nine-star or higher epic-quality exotic beast, or a divine-quality exotic beast, what was there for him to fear?

During his extended laughter, Zhang Che recalled the heavily injured Earthen Rock Demon back into his spiritual sea to recuperate, then strode forward with long steps and picked up the beast card on the ground. He swept his data eyes across it, and its comprehensive attributes were displayed before him.[Demonic Energy Large Boar]

Level: Seven Star (Level 68)

Quality: Epic

Characteristics: Excels in Ramming, Tough Defenses

Weakness: Metal-Attributed Elemental Attacks

Innate Attribute: Demonic Energy Protection. The Sharp Bristles on Its Body Contain Powerful Demonic Energy, Allowing it to Negate All Physical Attacks Weaker than it. Provides Tough Defense Against Physical Attacking Skills as Well.

Skill: Boar King's Ram. After Activation, Turns the User's Body into an Impact Bullet, Dealing a Terrifying Smash Attack Against its Target. Skill Attack Range: 100 Meters, Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes.

Skill: Demonic Energy Bristles. After Activation, the Demonic Energy Contained in Its Sharp Bristles Can Be Projected From Its Body, Forming a Volley of Demonic Energy Arrows, Causing Great Damage to Packs of Enemies. Skill Attack Range: 800 Meters, Requires One Day to Recover Demonic Energy After Use.

Halo: Demonic Energy Guard

Potential: E Rank"Woah, the Demonic Energy Large Boar's physical defense is really impressive. It actually has an innate attribute like the Demonic Energy Guard. It's no wonder the Earthen Rock Demon's ordinary spear attack wasn't able to injure it," Zhang Che lamented, putting the beast card away in satisfaction.

Although the Demonic Energy Large Boar beast card didn't have a False Domain, and its Potential was trash, it was a seven-star epic-quality exotic beast, after all. Its strength towered over a six-star epic-quality beast regardless. Once he broke through to Tier Seven beastmaster, his strength would increase greatly after equipping it!

"But, advancing to Tier Seven really isn't easy!"

Zhang Che got a headache the moment he thought of the massive amount of soul force he needed to break through to Tier Seven.

Going forward, he had to continue striving to hunt mid-tier exotic beasts. Otherwise, heavens knew how long it would be before he could equip that beast card.

-On the side of pets, the First Senior Brother that is the frisky monkey joined long ago. Soon, I'll have a Second Senior Brother among the ranks of my subdued beasts. After including the Golden Elephorse King, all that is left is for me to recruit a humanoid exotic beast and I can set out for India on a quest to study Buddhist scriptures!-

{ TLN : Reference to Journey to the West.}

Thinking of that, Zhang Che blinked a few times, in awe of his own imagination.

-Thing is, who knows if there are humanoid exotic beasts…

-But, it's very highly possible, isn't it?

-After all, the beast worlds are vast without ends. It's nothing strange even if there really are humanoid exotic beasts…

-The demon world, which obviously is closely related to the beast worlds, has many humanoid demonic soldiers. It doesn't make sense that the beast world doesn't have them…-

Done thinking, Zhang Che couldn't help but fantasize…

Some day, he'd ride on the Golden Elephorse King, and a monkey, a pig, and a humanoid monster would follow behind him, heading west…

"Pei! Won't I become Xuanzang, then?" Zhang Che spat, shaking his head fiercely. He already had Miss Tienan; why would he go become a monk!?After purging the strange thoughts in his head, Zhang Che summoned the frisky monkey and continued flying into the ravine.

The Demonic Energy Large Boar was dead. There wouldn't be any danger now.

While the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew ahead, Zhang Che took out the Demonic Energy Large Boar beast card he'd just obtained and said to the frisky monkey, "Look, I found your Second Junior Brother. You have to work hard; that fellow's strength is much higher than yours!"

The frisky monkey stared blankly at the beast card in Zhang Che's hand, not understanding what he meant by that.

Earlier, in order to protect him, Zhang Che had recalled the frisky monkey back into his spiritual sea. Thus, the frisky monkey didn't see the Demonic Energy Large Boar. What could he understand from looking at a beast card?

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew deep into the ravine.

Upon their arrival, Zhang Che realized this place was actually a hidden paradise. It wasn't as dark and humid as he had imagined. Instead, it was filled with spiritual qi, the vegetation was rich, and the air fresh.

"What a nice place! No wonder the Demonic Energy Large Boar would live here, unwilling to leave. Who would've thought there's actually such a beautiful side to this place?" Zhang Che sighed in admiration. Afterwards, under the guidance of the frisky monkey, they walked up to an ordinary-looking plant.

"This is a spiritual herb?" Zhang Che couldn't help widening his eyes. He really didn't think the plant seemed like a spiritual herb, no matter how he looked at it. If it wasn't for the faint yet powerful spiritual fluctuations emitting from the plant, he would have continued searching deeper into the ravine.

"Let's dig it out and take a look first," Zhang Che mumbled. He retrieved an herbal hoe from his spatial storage and started digging.

As he dug, his complexion slowly changed.

Seeing those fat roots, as well as the concentrated hairs on them, Zhang Che finally realized. Wasn't this a ginseng!?

-There's actually ginseng in the beast world!?-

However, just as this doubt popped up in his mind, Zhang Che couldn't help but break out in laughter, shaking his head.

Wasn't ginseng a common herb in all kinds of Xianxia and fantasy worlds? What was there to be surprised about when it appeared in the beast world? It couldn't get any more normal…

However, Zhang Che was still shaken when he saw the top part of the ginseng.

Just that top part visible to him was as thick as an adult's arm. If it was in his previous life back on Earth, only a thousand-year-old wild ginseng would grow to be this big!

When he dug out close to half of the ginseng, his face changed again. "Why does its shape look a little like a human?"

Could it be that this was a legendary Ginseng Baby?

Of course, legends were only that; legends. Whether a ginseng looked like a human didn't affect its medical efficacy. What was important was its age, as well as the environment it grew in.

If it really grew into human shape, it could be considered a good luck charm, increasing its value by a decent margin for no real reason. It was pretty good.

After a period of careful digging and finally unearthing the ginseng covered by root hairs, Zhang Che looked at the arm-thick, foot-plus long ginseng in a rough human shape in his hand, his eyes narrowed into slits.

Putting aside whether it was useful to beastmasters, the ginseng was surely a precious herb beneficial for ordinary people to extend their lifespans. After matching it with some other supplementary herbs, it could surely be made into medicinal pills extremely beneficial to ordinary people.

At the very least, if his mother consumed this kind of medicinal pill frequently, not only would it keep her healthy, her lifespan would be extended considerably.

After feeling the wave of joy washing over him, Zhang Che looked at the ginseng in his hand again. He really felt like the term Ginseng Baby wasn't suitable at all. With all those root hairs, it seemed more fitting to call it Ginseng Elder…

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Chapter 421: Xiong Er. Honey

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Just as Zhang Che was examining the large ginseng in his hand excitedly, the frisky monkey suddenly looked at him with a fiery gaze and cried out in a stammer, "Baba, eat!"

Zhang Che was stunned. "You want to eat it?"

"Baba, eat, eat, eat!" the frisky monkey said, gesturing animatedly, looking at the ginseng in Zhang Che's hand, almost going up to him and snatching it away.

"Eat my ass! Wouldn't it be a waste to let you eat such good stuff!?" Zhang Che rolled his eyes back and directly stored the ginseng away in his spatial storage.

Zhang Che naturally didn't doubt that a spiritual herb of such grade would allow the frisky monkey to rank up in level, perhaps even twice.

However, the three-star frisky monkey would only be five-stars even if he ranked up twice in level. There wouldn't be much change to its strength.

However, if the ginseng was refined into medicine, its value would definitely increase multiple folds.

Only a wastrel would do something like feeding the ginseng directly to a pet. Zhang Che was obviously not one.

Seeing Zhang Che putting the ginseng away, the frisky monkey looked at him with his eyes wide, resentment evident in his eyes, -I was clearly the one who found it. Why can't you let me eat it? How petty!-

Zhang Che reflected upon himself, thinking whether he was being too miserly when he saw the frisky monkey looking like he was on the verge of tears.

The frisky monkey was the one who found the ginseng, after all. Pocketing it for himself like that really seemed a little too stingy of him.

"Right, you searched in such a wide area earlier. Surely there are other spiritual herbs around, aren't there? Come on, bring daddy to go look for them; I'll give them all to you."

The frisky monkey opened his mouth, thinking, -You think a spiritual herb of that grade is like the cabbage you see in markets? Finding as many as you want?-

As of now, the frisky monkey's spiritual sense was incredible. After activating his skill, he could determine the grade of those spiritual herbs by judging how strong their spiritual signature was.

As such, although there were still quite a few spiritual herbs in this area, they were all low-grade stuff. None of them were able to increase his strength; it would be useless no matter how many of them he ate.

Alas, his baba had already said the word. The frisky monkey couldn't do a thing about it. He could only bring Zhang Che to various places in the area to gather all the spiritual herbs he sensed earlier.

"We're already so deep into the beast world, and yet there are still so few high-grade spiritual herbs. No wonder the prices of spiritual herbs in Mercury are so high!"The party swept through the area. Although they found more than ten spiritual herbs under the frisky monkey's directions, none of them caught Zhang Che's attention, leaving him lamenting.

On the other hand, the frisky monkey was looking at Zhang Che resentfully, as if he was saying, -Look, baba, like I said, those spiritual herbs won't be useful even if I ate them all. Give me my ginseng baby!-

"What are you looking at? We'll continue searching; it's still early anyways. We'll search deep into that direction later. Surely we'll find a spiritual herb that can increase your level. Don't worry."

Having advanced to dark gold-quality, the frisky monkey could sense any spiritual herbs within fifteen hundred meters around him even without using his skill. His efficiency was actually very high, too.

Moreover, with that fellow the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, they'd be flying as fast as a commercial airplane. Their speed when searching for spiritual herbs definitely wouldn't be too slow.

After hearing Zhang Che say that, the frisky monkey's eyes immediately shone with excitement.

-Mhm, I'll have to keep working hard. I'll get a good meal if I find another high-grade spiritual herb!-Half an hour later, Zhang Che had scavenged every spiritual herb in the area. He set his sights further into the beast world, directing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly deeper at a controlled pace, allowing the frisky monkey to scan the area like a radar.

They were already deep into the beast world, after all. There really were quite a few spiritual herbs around.

After advancing a few kilometers, Zhang Che added a few more spiritual herbs to the collection in his spatial storage. Although their grades weren't high, that was only relative to the ginseng baby from before.

Each of those spiritual herbs could be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, if he wanted to!

The key point was that those things had far higher demand than supply.

During the process of his search for spiritual herbs, Zhang Che didn't neglect to kill any exotic beasts they came across.

Although there weren't many exotic beasts in this area, their level and quality were not bad, mostly consisting of mid-tier silver-quality or higher. Zhang Che even obtained a few mid-tier dark gold-quality beast cards.

In the past, this was all good stuff that greatly excited him. Unfortunately, at present he had set his sights too high up. Dark gold-quality beast cards no longer interested him as much, unless they were at high-tier.

"A pity I didn't come across any mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts. Otherwise, I'd have gotten another epic-quality subdued beast right away."

The Demonic Energy Large Boar he had hunted earlier was at seven-star epic-quality. Although it was extremely powerful, Zhang Che was only a Tier Six beastmaster at present; he wasn't able to utilize it, and could only store it in his spatial storage for later.

Even so, epic-quality exotic beasts weren't something so easily found!

Zhang Che swept through a hundred kilometers, obtaining a large amount of spiritual herbs and beast cards. Let alone epic-quality, he didn't even see a single legend-quality exotic beast.

-Should I just continue going deeper in this direction?- Zhang Che thought, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the gradually steepening mountains ahead.

Breaking through to Tier Seven beastmaster wasn't something he could accomplish in just a few days. Since he had already come this far into the beast world, why not venture a little deeper? He would grow considerably stronger if he managed to get his hands on another mid-tier epic-quality beast card or two…

As for the dangers, Zhang Che wasn't really worried or afraid.

In any case, he could transform into a green frog at any time. Once he came across any exotic beasts he had no hopes of winning against, he'd directly turn into the extremely trash-tier green frog. Those creatures that stood at the top of the beast world would probably not pay any attention to such an insignificant creature.

"Take a risk, your bicycle becomes a motorbike; make a gamble, your Chery becomes a Land Rover!" {TLN: Chery is a Chinese automobile manufacturing company.}

During one's life in this world, who never had to take risks?

Zhang Che grit his teeth and immediately came to a decision. He'd continue exploring deeper into this mountain range and try to obtain another mid-tier epic-quality beast card or two before deciding on anything else.

Moreover, he had already promised the frisky monkey to look for a spiritual herb for him. There were still no signs of one. He mustn't break his promise to his pet!The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon continued flying deeper.

Just as they flew over a mountain and continued flying along a long valley, Zhang Che suddenly heard intense buzzing sounds, like a fleet of planes were approaching from far away.

His face immediately fell.

This was surely a group of some kind of insect-type exotic beasts. -I'd better hide myself quickly. I can't afford to provoke them.-

Those kind of insect-type exotic beasts would always be moving together in large groups, and would usually have poisonous attacks. Although Zhang Che was much stronger now, he didn't dare to take the risk. He immediately directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to hide behind one of the hills to their side.

After a short while, the buzzing sounds grew louder and clearer. At the same time, a low, furious roar was heard.

"Hmm? What's going on? There's other exotic beasts around?"

Before his eyes, a huge lemon-yellow bear suddenly came running in his direction from the other end of the valley in a sorry state, chased by a large spread of closely-packed bees, each as large as a duck.

"Damn it, Xiong Er!" Zhang Che stared wide-eyed. He happened to see that yellow bear licking its palm while running for its life.

On its palm was an amber-colored layer of sticky stuff.

-What else could it be, if not honey!?- Zhang Che immediately thought of the children's cartoon that kids loved the most in his previous life, and the character that loved honey and wouldn't care if it was chased by bees: Xiong Er!

This 'Xiong Er' in his sight was really thick-skinned and durable. Although it was occasionally stung by the bees behind it, covering its whole body in blisters, it wasn't slow in running at all.

Soon, it led the group of terrifying bees away and ran to the other end of the valley. Afterwards, it ran up the hill and soon disappeared from Zhang Che's sight.

Zhang Che couldn't help narrowing his eyes as he looked in the direction Xiong Er and the bees had disappeared to.

"I wonder how the honey in beast world tastes like..?"

Zhang Che immediately felt his heart burning up.

Honey was good stuff. Zhang Che remembered when he was young during his past life, he had the chance to try the honey his neighbor collected from his own bees. That feeling of sweetness to the heart was something he never forgot.

Ordinary honey was already irresistible. The honey produced by exotic beast bees in the beast world must taste a few times better at the very least, right?

Although those bees were a little far away earlier, leaving him unable to see their attributes, those little things' level and quality wouldn't be too high… probably? Otherwise, Xiong Er would have succumbed to their poison after being stung full of blisters.

Since those bees' poisonous attacks weren't very strong, their strength should be nothing impressive.

Most importantly, with the bees chasing after Xiong Er, there would surely not be many left at their nest. This was a chance!

"Let's go, frisky monkey. Daddy will bring you to find some honey!" Zhang Che cried excitedly when he finished thinking. He directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to follow the tracks the fleeing Xiong Er left behind and flew into the mountain range.

After flying over a few mountains, a huge valley suddenly appeared in front of them. Vegetation was rich in the valley, and colorful flowers bloomed among the rich grasses, giving off a delightful sense of beauty.

-That's it!- Zhang Che cheered. Since there were so many flowers in this valley, the bees' nest shouldn't be far from here.

As expected, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew deep into the valley along the yellow bear's tracks and arrived at a steep cliff.

Many slanted trees grew on the face of the cliff. The branches were dry and entangled, with many thick vines dangling to the ground.

It was obvious that Xiong Er had climbed those vines up to the trees and stolen the honey in the nest.

"Now, it belongs to me!"

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Chapter 422: A Bold Idea

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Edited by Aelryinth

Weng weng weng… A wave of chaotic buzzing sounds suddenly thrummed all around him.

Zhang Che found himself in an awkward position. He smiled in embarrassment, looking at the dozens of bees surrounding him from all directions.

"So you still have members around here, huh. Well, okay, I take back what I just said. The honey is still yours for now."

While he mused, Zhang Che put on the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor. A scarlet and white streak of sword light flew out from his brow, sweeping a hundred meters around him.

A few dozen split bee corpses fell like rain, turning into dissipating streaks of light one after another.

These four-star bronze-quality exotic beasts were truly too weak. Killing them with the scarlet and white sword was like shooting a machine gun at little chicks. They were incredibly easy to deal with.

Buzzing sounds kept rising. All the large bees within a few hundred meters came flying at Zhang Che. However, once they came within a hundred meters, they would be cut down by the scarlet and white sword, falling to the ground.

Zhang Che realized the drop rate today was really not bad.

He killed close to a hundred of those bees, and more than thirty beast cards dropped for him!

"A pity that these large bees are only four-star beasts. If they were five-stars, perhaps I'd be able to rank up my fusion skill to level 5 after killing all the bees here…"

Regrettably, fusing beast cards a second time wouldn't give Zhang Che any experience points. Otherwise, he could fuse the four-star beast cards to five-stars, then fuse the product into six-stars, accumulating quite a few experience points.

Alas, the skill was very strict about this. He could only obtain experience points from beast cards that hadn't been fused before.

Zhang Che felt his head aching when he thought about it. It was already so difficult when he only needed similar five-star beast cards. When the fusion skill was higher level in the future and needed high-tier beast cards, where was he supposed to find similar high-tier beast cards to fuse them?

"I don't care anymore. I've already killed off all the large bees around here, anyway. Now it's time to reap my harvest!"

He picked up the beast cards on the ground, then had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon fly up to the trees on the cliff.

Even though he was a few dozen meters away, Zhang Che could clearly see a huge beehive, close to ten meters across, supported between the thick branches.

At present, there weren't any bees around. They had all been killed by Zhang Che when they came flying at him earlier.

When he came up to the beehive, he was shocked at the size of it.

In his previous life, he had seen hornet hives built on trees and even the earth. Their size was only a meter-plus across at the most. They simply paled in comparison to the one in front of him right now.

The huge beehive in front of him was separated into two halves, top and bottom. The top half were covered in bowl-sized holes. It was probably used for reproduction.

The lower half, on the other hand, was a semi-open 'storage space'. Zhang Che only took a glance inside and he was already shaking with excitement.

When he came closer to the opening, an extremely sweet, thick scent of honey immediately swept over him, assaulting his nose.

Zhang Che felt his mind and body relax just taking a whiff of it. He started drooling almost instantly, and had to swallow quickly.

"Shit, no wonder that bear risked death to come steal the honey. The scent is really something. I can't take it anymore after taking just a whiff of it!" Zhang Che sighed. He didn't expect his luck today to be this good. He was clearly on a search for spiritual herbs, and he actually came across something so much better than ordinary spiritual herbs.

From now on, the honey really belonged to him!

Just as Zhang Che was reveling in the scent of honey, and was about to get a taste of it, the frisky monkey sitting behind him also grew excited all of a sudden and cried out in a stammer, "Baba, eat, eat!"

Although the honey contained thick and unscattered spiritual force, the frisky monkey's sense for it was truly too sharp. He immediately caught the saliva-inducing smell the moment he came close.

"Be good, you'll get to eat it very soon!" Zhang Che said to the frisky monkey, chuckling. Afterwards, he took out a big ladle from his spatial storage and reached into the beehive, scooping a big ladle of golden-yellow, half clear amber-like honey.

When he took out the ladle from the beehive, that thick scent of sweetness grew even thicker.

Saliva flowed out of the frisky monkey's mouth, dripping down in a long translucent thread.

Zhang Che opened his mouth and poured a mouthful of honey into it, immediately feeling like his body was floating. That delicate sweetness and scent simply couldn't be described with words.

As that mouthful of honey flowed into his stomach, Zhang Che felt an extremely pure energy erupting and spreading to every corner of his body.

The energy was clearly massive, yet so gentle, not causing any harm to his body at all.

Zhang Che even felt like this energy was so gentle it wouldn't even harm an ordinary person's body. No matter how weak a person's constitution was, they would be able to withstand it without a problem.

"Good stuff! I can bring it back and let mother and the others eat a little of it, too. It's definitely something good for their health!"

The pure energy from that mouthful of honey nourished the cells in Zhang Che's whole body, filling it with strength. His metabolism rate increased considerably all of a sudden.

The reason why humans gradually grew old and deteriorated was because their cells' metabolism grew increasingly slower. As a result, the organs slowly aged and all kinds of sicknesses found their way to them, leading to death.

If a person's metabolism could always be maintained at a high level, theoretically speaking, the person wouldn't grow old.

At the very least, the rate in which they grew old would be greatly reduced, achieving the result of extending their lifespan.

"Baba, eat eat eat! Baba, eat eat eat!" the frisky monkey behind him cried out loud, hopping about impatiently while Zhang Che was still drunk in pleasure, his eyes filled with anxiety.

"You glutton, all you know is to eat!"

Zhang Che turned around and glared at the frisky monkey after being snapped out from his fantasies. Afterwards, he took out another ladle and scooped some honey for the monkey.

The frisky monkey immediately received it in joy, almost burying his head in that ladle of honey, swallowing it with large mouthfuls.

"Let's have our fill first."

Zhang Che couldn't be bothered to think about anything else after seeing the frisky monkey eating the honey so happily. He took the other ladle and slowly enjoyed the honey, too.

That ladle of honey weighed half a kilogram at the very least. After finishing it in one go, a sense of satisfaction spread throughout his body.

The energy contained in the honey was truly too enormous. After eating slightly more than half a kilogram of it, Zhang Che was feeling full.

Similarly, the frisky monkey at the side didn't cry for another ladle after finishing his, either. Instead, he sighed in satisfaction as the massive spiritual force spread in his body, increasing his strength little by little.

"Hmm, this fellow is indeed a mutant. He can slowly grow stronger just by eating some honey. Too bad he can't eat too much of it in one go. Otherwise, wouldn't he directly rank up in level?" Zhang Che clicked his tongue in wonder. If it wasn't because the frisky monkey couldn't absorb more of the honey for now, Zhang Che definitely wouldn't hesitate to drown his pet in a few dozen kilometers of the honey until he ranked up.

From a rough estimation by sight, Zhang Che guessed there was close to five hundred kilograms worth of honey in that beehive. A terrifying amount!

That much honey was enough for him and his whole family to consume!

However, who would think they had too much of something good?

Zhang Che's eyes rolled around a little, suddenly thinking of a bold idea.

Translator's Note:

It was established a few chapters ago that his fusion skill had ranked up to level 4 by fusing level four and five-star beast cards. I'm not sure if he can continue gaining experience points towards level 5 by fusing five-star cards… or maybe the author is just being inconsistent.

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Chapter 423: A Failed Idea. Freemasonry

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Seeing the lower half of the beehive filled with honey, Zhang Che couldn't help but think, -If I can tame all those large bees, wouldn't those fellows produce an endless supply of honey for me?-

Zhang Che grew excited when he thought of having an endless supply of honey.

Although this idea didn't sound reliable, how would he know if it worked without trying?

Naturally it wouldn't be of much use if he only tamed those large bees. After all, the amount of pets Zhang Che could have was limited by the size of his spiritual sea. At present, he already had quite a few pets taking up some slots available. Even if he used all of the remaining space available to house the tamed large bees, he'd only be able to tame a dozen or so of them at the most. It was futile.

It was totally impossible to produce large amounts of honey with only a dozen bees.

Moreover, Zhang Che still had to leave some spaces for when he found suitable powerful exotic beasts to tame, to increase his strength.

He was actually thinking whether there was a queen bee or a king bee among them.

If there was a bee king that could command the other bees, all he had to do was to tame the bee king and indirectly command the bees. Then, those fellows would become his workers for free, producing an endless supply of honey for him.

However, Zhang Che didn't discover any traces of a bee king there.

Perhaps there was no bee king in this swarm. The possibility was pretty high. On the other hand, it was also possible that Xiong Er had enraged the bee king when it stole their honey, and as a result the bee king led a swarm of its underlings chasing after the bear.

After all, they were large bees from the beast world. Zhang Che couldn't predict their actions based on what the ordinary bees on Mercury or Earth would do.

He had no idea when those large bees would return. Zhang Che shifted his gaze back onto the large beehive.

Even the Purple Crystal Tortoise's spatial storage wouldn't be able to fit the ten-meter wide beehive.

Zhang Che let out a low groan. The scarlet and white sword light flashed, cutting off the top half of the beehive, where the large bees rested, leaving only the lower half that stored the honey.

It could now be easily fit into the Purple Crystal Tortoise's storage space.

Indeed, when Zhang Che summoned the Purple Crystal Tortoise, it opened its mouth and sucked the lower half of the beehive into its storage, occupying more than half of the space available.

However, that didn't matter. All that mattered was that it could store the beehive!

Zhang Che still had two spatial storage equipment beast cards, which was already enough for normal use.

Moreover, the beehive would only be stored inside the Purple Crystal Tortoise's body temporarily. When he returned from the beast world, Zhang Che would find another container and pour all the honey out, freeing the space in the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension.

After doing all this, a few large bees finally came flying back from gathering honey.

They immediately went crazy when they saw their hive destroyed, attacking Zhang Che without a care for their lives.

This time, Zhang Che didn't cut them down. Instead, he flew away on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and circled around the valley.

He was thinking that if he managed to tame the bee king, those fellows would become his free workers. Who would make honey for him in the future if he killed them all?

Just like that, Zhang Che led more and more large bees around. After circling the valley countless times, the swarm of bees that went chasing after Xiong Er finally came back. The swarm immediately discovered the invader Zhang Che when they returned to the valley.

At the same time, Zhang Che didn't know how those large bees communicated, but they immediately knew he had destroyed their beehive. As a result, all of them came swarming after him, looking like they would never let this matter rest unless either side fell.

Zhang Che wasn't worried about those little things catching up to him. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was too fast for them.

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes, searching the beast swarm.

After a short while, Zhang Che sighed in disappointment.

Indeed, the two different worlds played by different rules. Those large bees really had no king or queen among them.

Since there was no bee king, Zhang Che's idea wouldn't be able to come to fruition. As such, he no longer acted politely.

A scarlet and white sword light flashed like lightning, sweeping around Zhang Che in a hundred-meter radius at great speed. Moments later, the large bees were all cut down, gaining him another fifty-some beast cards!

"What a pity. It would've been great if these little things were at five-stars. That way, I would've accumulated close to half of the experience needed for next level at one go," Zhang Che let out a long sigh of regret as he looked at the thick stack of same species, level, and quality beast cards in his hand.

It wouldn't be easy to find such a large pack of identical exotic beasts together again!

Not only that, the higher level they were, the lower the chances of such a large group of exotic beasts appearing. He had a long way to go before advancing his fusion skill to the next level.

Afterwards, Zhang Che could only leave this valley, shaking his head and sighing, and bring the frisky monkey along to continue searching for spiritual herbs.

It was already a surprise obtaining close to five hundred kilograms worth of honey. Naturally Zhang Che wouldn't forget his aim of venturing deep into the beast world this time.

Even if he couldn't find enough spiritual herbs to let the frisky monkey level up, at the very least he had to find a mid-tier epic-quality beast card t before he was willing to return.In the southern part of Hua Xia, Feihe City…

This place was the center of one of the top city circles in southern Hua Xia. Although its scale was far from comparable to Bei Du City's circle, the population here was close to a hundred million.

As the center of this city circle, Feihe City had a population of more than twenty million people. It could be said to be one of the largest cities in all of southern Hua Xia.

In the southwest district of Feihe City was an undulating area of mountainous land. Various buildings were spread out in a messy way. There were some small pieces of land in between that had large spreads of withered, fallen corn stalks.

These lands weren't suitable for planting paddy fields, so obviously the production of corn was the highest.

Feihe City occupied an enormous piece of land. Not only were there large areas of farmland in the city, there were also some sporadic hills that provided Feihe City with large amounts of food.

After all, in the new era, places where exotic beasts were often seen weren't suitable to be plowed into farm lands, limiting farming to close to the cities.

Oftentimes, an exotic beast or two would be able to destroy large areas of farm land overnight. It was impossible for humans to completely eliminate the wild exotic beasts, too.

Therefore, inside the much safer city, the lands which were suitable for planting crops were used for that exact purpose!

Next to one of those sporadic corn fields, in a huge but simple courtyard, close to a hundred men and women, were gathered and sitting inside. Every one of them was looking at a man with fanatical expressions.

That man had an ordinary appearance. He didn't seem like anything special. However, a fingernail-sized crystal was barely visible on his forehead.

"By what right do those large clans and large companies claim the high-grade resources for themselves? It's already the new era; everyone can fight for the survival of humanity and play a part! During every beast swarm, it was always us ordinary citizens or low-tier beastmasters with the highest casualties!

"But, even so, those large clans and corporations still followed the bad practices of the old society, trying to claim all the high-grade resources for themselves. This is simply progressing backwards!

"Our aim for establishing a freemasonry is to break down all classes and build an equal society where everyone can enjoy all resources!

"Admittedly, we're still very weak. However, other than those in the large clans and corporations, everyone is our natural comrades. A day will come when we realize our ideals. We'll become strong together and drive the exotic beasts away, and in the end, build a world of harmony!"

The man's eyes were shining with a strange, dark light. The words he spoke were simply shocking.

Even so, the hundred or so beastmasters in the courtyard seemed like they were possessed, and were obsessed with the goal after hearing that man's words. Their faces were showing fanatical expressions.

"You're right, President He! All men are equal! By what right do those large clans and corporations hold their high positions in society? We have to take them down and build a harmonious world!"

"Right, right, right! Bring down those blood suckers. It's on us to save the world!"

Everyone echoed him crazily. None of them realized that a deep light was spreading from He Luotu's eyes. After the amplification from the strange crystal object on his forehead, everyone was covered by it. {TLN: He Luotu is the man who tried turning the secret plane into a utopia.}

He Luotu looked at the crowd's reactions in satisfaction. He suddenly half-raised his hand, keeping the situation in check and said, "Calm down, everyone. Although our freemasonry has a noble aim, we're still too weak at present. We mustn't draw the attention of those blood suckers.

"So, I ask for everyone to never reveal anything regarding the freemasonry to the outside world. Even among yourselves, try not to talk about these matters.

"Just slowly spread our ideals secretly. When the people have learned about our ideals and stand on our side, we'll drive away those blood suckers that hold high positions in society and build our harmonious world!

"Going forward, I hope everyone will turn into tiny sparks and spread our ideals while ensuring your own safety.

"Everyone remember, safety first!"

The beastmasters dispersed, a fanatical light in their eyes. He Luotu stood alone in the courtyard, revealing a faint, charmingly devious smile.

Feeling the miraculous effects of the strange crystal in his forehead, he mumbled to himself, "I really didn't expect these humans are able to command the spiritual beasts through such a method, turning them into all kinds of equipment in various forms. How amazing!

"But, this conveniently works in my favor. When I have gathered enough believers, and slowly get into contact with my other clones, we'll be able to head into the spiritual beast world and set up the large array to connect the two worlds, allowing our warriors to descend endlessly and in the end, occupy that paradise world!"

Imagining his plans coming to fruition, a layer of dark light shone in He Luotu's eyes once more.

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Chapter 424: Brilliant Use For the Spiritual Honey. Desert

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Perhaps finding that hive full of honey had used up all of Zhang Che's luck.

For the rest of the day, Zhang Che didn't find any other good spiritual herbs. As such, the promise he made to the frisky monkey naturally went unrealized.

"Hey, it's not that daddy didn't let you eat, but that you didn't find any. You can't blame me for that."Night fell. Zhang Che found a mountain and had the Purple Crystal Tortoise dug out a cave, resting there for the night.

The man and monkey sat in front of a pile of roasted meat. Zhang Che felt a little regret.

After all, if they managed to find another high-grade spiritual herb, perhaps the frisky monkey would rank up in level. Then, the range of his spiritual sense would surely expand a little more.

"Baba, honey, honey…", the frisky monkey suddenly stammered while looking at the roasted meat before him.

Ever since he got a taste of that spiritual honey, the frisky monkey seemed to have temporarily forgotten the matter of the spiritual herbs. Saliva started drooling from the corners of his mouth at the mention of the spiritual honey.

"You glutton!" Zhang Che rolled his eyes back. This fellow was indeed worthy of being called a Gluttony Monkey. He would always want to eat whatever good stuff they came across.

-Hmm? Right, I wonder how it will taste if I spread a layer of honey on the roasted meat?- Zhang Che was suddenly struck with the idea. He immediately scooped out a ladle of honey and applied a layer of it on the soon-to-be-cooked meat.

Immediately, a thick scent spread out, filling the whole cave.

Another string of saliva flowed out from the corners of the frisky monkey's mouth, but it was sucked back in with a loud slurp.

Even Zhang Che felt himself salivating.

After applying the honey, not only was the roasted meat even more fragrant, its color changed to golden-yellow, looking like a piece of art.

When the roasted meat was finally cooked, Zhang Che and the frisky monkey could no longer wait and immediately dug in, wolfing down the meat like the incarnations of hungry ghosts.

Zhang Che's eyes lit up when the roasted meat entered his stomach.

"Unexpectedly, not only does the roasted meat with honey taste especially delicious, there is also a burst of pure energy in my stomach. Such good stuff!"

Zhang Che needed to eat at least a few dozen kilograms of roasted to satisfy himself. Now, he would feel full after eating only half that amount.

"Not bad, not bad. With that, I can eat a lot less."

A surprised smile crossed Zhang Che's face. Actually, eating that much every meal used up a lot of time, and he had to prepare large amounts of food in his spatial storage. Those were all troublesome matters.

Now, he only had to apply a thin layer of spiritual honey, and a miraculous reaction would occur between the roasted meat and honey, greatly reducing Zhang Che's appetite. It was definitely good news.

Not only did Zhang Che eat a lot less, even the frisky monkey only ate a few dozen kilograms before he stopped, much sooner than other times.

In the end, a few large pieces of roasted meat were left skewered on the ferocious beast's bone spikes, continuing to emit a tempting fragrance.

"Hah, we'll leave it for breakfast tomorrow, then!"

As Zhang Che waved his hand, the Purple Crystal Tortoise at the side drew the roasted meat into its spatial storage.

Admittedly, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's unique dimension was truly a good place. No matter how long the roasted meat was kept in there, it would still be at the same temperature when he took it out again. It was simply a first-class thermal box!The next morning, Zhang Che and the frisky monkey continued exploring deeper into the beast world after eating their breakfast. This time, Zhang Che wasn't planning on returning immediately.

First, he had yet to find a high-grade spiritual herb capable of levelling up the frisky monkey. Second, Zhang Che wanted to find another mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast or two to increase his combat strength.

Under such circumstances, naturally he wouldn't leave this area just like that.

Zhang Che summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, then jumped up on the dragon's back along with the frisky monkey. They decided on a direction and sped off.

The further they went, the more Zhang Che felt like the number of exotic beasts in the area was getting increasingly scarce.

"Did I enter the territory of a powerful exotic beast?" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly.

Of course he'd be happy to see such a situation. It'd be best if he encountered a mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast. That way, he'd be able to achieve one of his two objectives.

Of course, even if he accidentally barged into the territory of an overwhelmingly powerful exotic beast, Zhang Che wasn't afraid.

He could transform into a weak exotic beast any time he wanted; he didn't have to worry about drawing the attention of those terrifying exotic beasts.

Why would a fierce tiger care about an ant that came into its territory?

Of course, to prevent any unwanted accidents, Zhang Che ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to slow down. That way, they could stop immediately even if they came into the territory of a powerful exotic beast and he would have time to transform and hide himself.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew about a dozen kilometers further. There weren't any more decently powerful exotic beasts to be found in their surroundings. Even if any silhouettes appeared, they belonged to small low-tier exotic beasts, hiding in the mountain forests. They were nothing out of the ordinary.

Zhang Che grew excited. Whether he could obtain a mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast depended on what showed up next!

However, when the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew over another spread of mountains, Zhang Che's expression suddenly froze.

"Damn, is this real? I was happy for nothing!"

Looking into the distance where the horizons met, it was actually a barren desert!

The desert spread without end, covering everything in his sight, completely blocking Zhang Che's way forward.

It was only now that he realized it wasn't that there was a powerful exotic beast ahead. Instead, the topography had suddenly changed. There wouldn't be exotic beasts resting where two completely different terrains met.

But, this was too odd…

The lands under him were still that of a rich jungle, but the area not far ahead directly became that of a barren desert, with no transition area.

Something must be off when there was an anomaly.

Zhang Che immediately ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to stop, no longer continuing forward.

"But, there shouldn't be any powerful exotic beasts where the lands intersect with the desert. No matter which direction I change to, it won't be easy to find a mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast."

Zhang Che really wanted to turn around and leave, but he was already deep into this area. If he turned back just like that, he'd waste a lot of time.

His gaze shone for a long while. In the end, Zhang Che grit his teeth and directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to continue flying into the desert ahead. Since he was already here, he might as well go take a look!

Perhaps there would be the mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts he was looking for in this extreme terrain…

As he entered the desert, Zhang Che felt a wave of heat suddenly sweeping over him.

"Strange. It's like the two terrains were forcibly pieced together, with not one bit of transition." Zhang Che knitted his brow slightly. He didn't retreat and continued flying deeper…

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The more skilled someone was, the bolder they got.

Zhang Che clearly realized something was wrong with the desert, but he believed his strength was high enough to handle the unknown situation, and instructed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly into the desert.

It couldn't be helped. He was already here. He couldn't leave empty-handed. Zhang Che smacked his lips, flying deeper in an unhurried pace, ignoring the heat.

After advancing a few kilometers, Zhang Che saw an exotic beast in the desert below him.

It was on a sand dune on the side shielded from the wind. A greyish-brown lizard was crawling around a cave entrance about a meter-some wide. It seemed to be enjoying its leisure time, spitting its thin tongue out from time to time.

When it saw the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flying in its direction, the lizard looked up very warily, then quickly withdrew back into the cave.

How could those exotic beasts that lived in such extreme environment not be cautious? Even though the lizard's strength was nothing noteworthy, it immediately reacted to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flying in the sky.

"That little thing is really cautious…" Zhang Che smiled, not interested in killing the lizard.

He wanted to explore deep into the desert as soon as possible, but was afraid of coming across unknown dangers. He had no choice but to let the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon fly at a controlled pace. At the same time, Zhang Che paid full attention to the situation around him.

Continuing on, they flew a few dozen kilometers further in. Zhang Che discovered several types of exotic beasts living in the desert in succession. Most of them weren't very large, and were basically either four-legged creatures or insect types with tough carapaces.

Only exotic beasts with unusually strong vitality would be be able to survive in the desert, as their demand for water wouldn't be high. They could even dig their way through to the damp layers of sand underground to absorb water, getting enough for their usual activities.

"Are there no stronger exotic beasts in this desert?" Zhang Che wondered doubtfully. Exotic beasts whose strength passed a certain threshold seemed to avoid living in such an environment.

However, an arrow that had been shot wouldn't return. Zhang Che could only continue flying ahead on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. After about an hour of flight, he was now hundreds of kilometers deep into the desert.

Looking around him, every direction was just an endless spread of yellow sand. Occasionally, there were some bramble-like plants, but they were half-dead, stubbornly hanging on to life in the sandy ground.

Suddenly, the horizon ahead turned blurry, and started sweeping quickly in Zhang Che's direction.

"This is…" Zhang Che looked closely for a moment, feeling shocked.

That blurry spread was actually a sandstorm, covering everything in sight ahead. It was approaching swiftly, covering the heavens and earth.

"Go, fly up!" Zhang Che patted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, instructing him to raise their altitude. He wanted to forcibly charge through the huge sandstorm from the sky.

However, even when the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was thousands of meters in the air, the sky ahead still looked as blurry as ever. The sandstorm covered everything, seemingly shrouding the whole space.

It was impossible to continue forward!

Heavens knew if there were any unknown dangers high up in the sky of the beast world. Zhang Che realized it was impossible to avoid the sandstorm.

He would not turn back. After making his way here, wouldn't it be cowardly of him if he just turned back?

Wasn't it just a sandstorm? Zhang Che wasn't afraid of it, to tell the truth.

Of course, in order to prevent the sandstorm getting him dirty, Zhang Che quickly summoned the Earthen Rock Demon and had it use its body to make a wind shelter.

When the several dozens-meters tall Earthen Rock Demon curled up, it easily created a little closed space for Zhang Che, ensuring that he wouldn't be affected by the sandstorm outside.

Naturally, it would be impossible for no sand whatsoever to get in.

Thus, Zhang Che quickly put on the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor, covering himself from head to toe. He sat down in the shelter, waiting for the sandstorm's arrival.The sandstorm was extremely fast. Just as Zhang Che was done making his preparations, violent whistling sounds came from outside. The sandstorm swept large amounts of sand and rock over them like a seemingly endless wave of yellow tide, instantly shrouding the Earthen Rock Demon.

The light in their surroundings turned dark all of a sudden, as if it was night.

Countless amounts of sand and rocks blew against the Earthen Rock Demon, producing wave after wave of pitter-patter sounds. Afterwards, the sand and rock slowly accumulated around him, gradually burying the Earthen Rock Demon.

"The force of nature is indeed fearsome…" Zhang Che listened to the rampaging sandstorm outside, not daring to crawl out of the Earthen Rock Demon's protection to experience it for himself at all.

He had no doubts that the violent sandstorm could directly sweep him off his feet, and in the end bury him deep under the sand and rocks.

Even though Zhang Che's physique had reached a superhuman level, he was still as weak as an ant when facing the forces of nature.The sandstorm lasted for an indeterminate amount of time. Zhang Che remained inside the half-sealed space the Earthen Rock Demon created for him. Everything was dark, and the air gradually became burning hot and heavy.

The sand had completely buried the Earthen Rock Demon. The air outside could no longer flow inside.

Gradually, the faint noises from the wind outside stopped.

Zhang Che had the Earthen Rock Demon shake off the sand, then stood on its shoulder as it straightened up from the enormous pile of sand.

When the sand had settled, Zhang Che looked down and nearly jumped in shock.

What a terrifying sight! After the sandstorm, the ground he was standing on had been buried twenty-some meters deep!

"If a weaker beastmaster in my place, they'd probably find surviving such a sandstorm incredibly difficult…" Zhang Che murmured to himself. He recalled the Earthen Rock Demon, summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, and finally continued his flight ahead.Some time later, just as he flew over a sand dune, the temperature ahead suddenly increased.

"Hmm? Could it be that I haven't truly entered the core area of the desert after flying hundreds of kilometers in? The temperature is actually still increasing!"

In the next moment, however, Zhang Che realized he was wrong.

The increase in temperature might not be because he entered the core area of the desert.

In the far distance, where the sky and earth met, a faint spread of scarlet lights rose to the skies, burning so hot that the space seemed a little twisted.

Zhang Che focused on the light from the scarlet flames in the distance. Suddenly, he summoned the frisky monkey and turned his head to the monkey, asking, "Come, tell daddy, is that the flaming mountains ahead? If we can't cross it, you have to go look for your sister-in-law and borrow her banana leaves fan." {TLN: Another reference to Journey to the West. The Monkey King Sun Wukong was a sworn brother to the Bull Demon King, and the latter was married to Princess Iron Fan.}

The frisky monkey had a confused look on his face, not understanding what Zhang Che was talking about at all.

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The frisky monkey had a confused look, opening his mouth and stammering, "Baba, hot…"

Well, it was indeed terrifyingly warm. Even the frisky monkey felt the heat was a little too much to handle.

They were still dozens of kilometers from the light of the scarlet flames. Wouldn't they melt if they went there?

Zhang Che was hesitant on whether to continue going forward.

-The flames ahead are burning very strangely. I better go take a look. If it's too hot, I'll just change to another direction…- Zhang Che thought for a short while. He recalled the frisky monkey into his spiritual sea, then urged the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to continue flying.

As Zhang Che had expected, as they drew closer to the fiery region ahead, the heat waves quickly shot up in temperature.

When the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was within mere kilometers from the flaming mountain, both Zhang Che and the dragon felt the heat was becoming unbearable, and had no choice but to halt their advance.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had been emitting wisps of cold aura from his body to combat the high temperature, making things much easier for Zhang Che. He wouldn't have been able to make it this far otherwise.

The spread of scarlet flames connected the heavens and earth, like it was burning from underground. It spanned dozens of kilometer, the ends of the fire nowhere to be seen.

"Something is off with this fire…" Zhang Che furrowed his brow, feeling the scarlet flames ahead were very unusual.

From what he could see, the ground under the fire was burnt to golden yellow. Nothing could possibly support such a huge fire.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Che summoned out the Scarlet Flame Drake. {TLN: Seems like author forgot about the drake's fire resistance halo.}

"Go scout out the situation ahead. Come back immediately if there's danger."

The Scarlet Flame Drake was a fire-attributed subdued beast with the ability to wield innate fire elements. Naturally it wasn't afraid of the flames ahead.

Zhang Che was worried there might be a powerful exotic beast in the fire. As such, he instructed the Scarlet Flame Drake to be as cautious as it could, and to run back to him once it came across any danger.

As the Scarlet Flame Drake appeared, it felt the concentrated fire elements present in the space, leaving it feeling incredibly comfortable. After receiving Zhang Che's orders, it shook its golden crest and dashed off.

Zhang Che sat silently on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, watching closely as the Scarlet Flame Drake ran forward, feeling somewhat nervous.

Although the Scarlet Flame Drake was sufficiently powerful, the flaming mountain ahead was too strange. Heavens knew if there were any epic-quality or higher exotic beasts in there…

If there was really an exotic beast inside the flames too powerful for the Scarlet Flame Drake to handle, it would become very difficult for that fellow to run back to Zhang Che.

Although it was no big deal for him to lose a legend-quality subdued beast or two given his current strength, as he could make it up in the future, he was someone who cherished the old times. Naturally he wasn't willing to lose the Scarlet Flame Drake, who had been with him for months.

However, Zhang Che's instincts were telling him that there might be great benefits in those flaming mountains ahead. He really wasn't willing to pass it up without letting the Scarlet Flame Drake scout things out.Although the Scarlet Flame Drake was scouting cautiously, it wasn't moving slowly. About three minutes later, its scarlet-golden silhouette had found its way into the flames.

Zhang Che's view blurred, losing sight of the Scarlet Flame Drake.

He knitted his brow slightly. In the next moment, he suddenly heard the Scarlet Flame Drake barking from inside the flames, its voice carrying a hint of wariness.

"So there really are exotic beasts inside!" Zhang Che's heart tightened.

Fortunately, there wasn't any fear in the Scarlet Flame Drake's cry.

The exotic beast it had encountered shouldn't be very powerful. There shouldn't be any problems for now.Inside the flames that seemed to burn space itself, the Scarlet Flame Drake was looking intently a short distance ahead at a weird creature with a humanoid figure, but a body made of flames.

Although it was a little apprehensive of the peculiar lifeform, the Scarlet Flame Drake's eyes carried a hint of concealed excitement.

It was able to sense a pure fiery aura from that humanoid fire creature's body!

The Scarlet Flame Drake knew instinctively that it would grow much stronger if it devoured the supernatural lifeform. The fire elements in its body would become much purer!

That humanoid fiery creature also discovered the Scarlet Flame Drake immediately after it barged in. It raised its head and let out a silent roar, breathing out a mouthful of scarlet fiery light and charged directly at the Scarlet Flame Drake.

Just as it took its first steps, a whip of flames suddenly appeared in the fiery creature's arms. It lashed the whip at the Scarlet Flame Drake with a sharp crack.

A trace of fear dashed through the Scarlet Flame Drake's eyes. It jumped nimbly, dodging the whip. It quickly charged afterwards, directly bulldozing its way into the fiery creature's chest.

Even so, the humanoid fiery creature wasn't afraid at all. The fiery long whip in its hands was like a nimble snake, twisting around in the air and continuing to lash at the Scarlet Flame Drake.

The Scarlet Flame Drake suddenly smiled craftily. It ignored the long whip about to hit its body. Instead, it further increased its speed and swiped its claw at the humanoid fiery creature's throat.

With a loud smack, the long whip accurately struck the Scarlet Flame Drake.

A terrifyingly hot blaze erupted where the whip struck, but it didn't hurt the Scarlet Flame Drake at all.

The Scarlet Flame Drake was a master of fire. How could it possibly be vulnerable to an attack of this degree? It was only trying to fool the creature earlier to get an opportunity to close in on it.

Seeing its attack had failed to accomplish anything, the humanoid fiery creature was stunned for a moment, not understanding why this invader wasn't afraid of its whip attack. However, the Scarlet Flame Drake didn't give it any time to think.

With a loud tearing noise, the Scarlet Flame Drake's sharp claws swiped across the humanoid fiery creature's throat. Sparks flew everywhere, and tongues of flowing flames that seemed to be its blood shot out from the wound.

After successfully landing an attack, the Scarlet Flame Drake didn't give its opponent any time to catch its breath. It continued tearing with its sharp claws, directly dismembering the creature.

The creature was obviously a fantastical lifeform. It didn't have any flesh and blood. Even though it was dismembered by the Scarlet Flame Drake, only flames scattered around.

In the end, the fiery creature disappeared without a trace, leaving only a fist-sized object that resembled a fruit seed on the burnt golden ground.

The fruit seed-like object was fully scarlet in color, with complicated and mysterious deep scarlet patterns faintly visible on it. Heat was spreading from it, as if it was formed from molten iron.

This object was most likely the core of that humanoid fiery creature. It was indeed a greatly beneficial tonic for the Scarlet Flame Drake. It swallowed the core without any hesitation, a satisfied look on its face.Shortly after the humanoid fiery creature was killed by the Scarlet Flame Drake, several low roars were suddenly heard from deep inside the flames. Afterwards, several identical fiery creatures appeared, running towards the Scarlet Flame Drake, each of them wielding weapons made of flames.

Even so, there wasn't a hint of fear in the Scarlet Flame Drake's eyes.

It had just gotten a feel for these fiery creatures' strength. There was no way they could be a threat to the Scarlet Flame Drake. Instead, they were only walking tonics for it!

It went without saying that the Scarlet Flame Drake was hoping for as much of this good stuff to appear as possible!

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Chapter 427: Fire Crystals. Great Supplements

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The fiery creatures slowly closed in. The Scarlet Flame Drake showed no signs of fear. Instead, it took the initiative to pounce at them!

A violent battle ensued. After the fight concluded, countless black scorch marks appeared on the Scarlet Flame Drake's body, but they were only minor injuries.

The fiery creatures, on the other hand, were wiped out by the Scarlet Flame Drake, leaving several scarlet crystal cores behind to be swifty devoured by the victor.

As the scarlet crystals entered the Scarlet Flame Drake's stomach, blazing scarlet flames suddenly rose from its body. The black burn marks quickly vanished without a trace, and its aura grew considerably stronger.

"Woof!" the Scarlet Flame Drake cried excitedly, feeling proud of itself.

In the desert several kilometers away, although Zhang Che didn't know what the Scarlet Flame Drake encountered, he finally relaxed when he heard its joyous cry.

-From the looks of it, the unknown creatures inside the flames were no threat to the Scarlet Flame Drake. But why did the fellow remain in there?-

Zhang Che really wanted to order the Scarlet Flame Drake to return and learn exactly what kind of exotic beasts were inside those endless flaming mountains.

However, judging by the Scarlet Flame Drake's cheerful cries, it had obviously obtained great benefits. He was afraid of missing out on some fortuitous encounter if he commanded the beast to return for a minor reason.

-Let's just wait a little longer…- Zhang Che mumbled inside. After thinking for a short while, he suddenly summoned out the Purple Crystal Tortoise. He wanted to find out whether the flames were burning on the ground or from underground.

At Zhang Che's command, the Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly sank into the sand, disappearing.As the scarlet crystal cores were being digested, fiery light circulated around the Scarlet Flame Drake's body. It was in peak condition. Its eyes were shining brightly, looking deep into the flaming mountains in excitement, hoping for another group of these fantastical fiery creatures to appear and give it another satisfying meal.

Of course, it didn't forget Zhang Che's instructions. It didn't dare to explore deep into the flames recklessly, only waiting where it stood.

The Scarlet Flame Drake wasn't disappointed.

After a short while, lights and shadows were suddenly seen moving deep in the flames ahead. Several large flaming beasts with flames overflowing on their bodies suddenly came charging out.

Each of the large flaming beasts were over three meters tall and close to five meters long, their auras at least twice as strong as the fiery humanoid creatures from earlier.

The Scarlet Flame Drake became slightly nervous at the sight of those large flaming beasts. It knew that the upcoming fight definitely wouldn't be as easy as before.

One of those large flaming beasts came pouncing at the Scarlet Flame Drake after letting out a furious roar. It breathed out a mouthful of scarlet flames, which morphed into the shape of a flaming long spear shooting towards the Scarlet Flame Drake, whistling through the air.

The nearby flames were visibly withdrawing wherever the long flaming spear flew past, the spear blazing loudly!

The Scarlet Flame Drake didn't dare let such an attack hit it. It jumped nimbly away, pouncing at the large flaming beast while it dodged the attack.

The flaming long spear flew a few hundred meters at high speed. Just as it was about to fly out of the flaming mountains' area, it suddenly exploded, turning into countless sparks falling into the surrounding flames.

Meanwhile, the Scarlet Flame Drake jumped in front of the large flaming beast, swiping its claw at the beast's abdomen.

The large flaming beast roared furiously, but didn't try to dodge the attack. It similarly swung its large flaming claws, ripping towards the Scarlet Flame Drake's head.

Unexpectedly, the Scarlet Flame Drake suddenly accelerated and lowered its body, making its way directly under the large flaming beast. Its sharp claws drew a blurry streak, ripping open a gaping wound in the large flaming beast's abdomen.

Scarlet flames gushed out from the large flaming beast's abdomen. It raised its head and let out a roar, then looked down with a savage gaze, biting down at the Scarlet Flame Drake's hips.

Pa! The Scarlet Flame Drake didn't try to dodge the attack. Its rear claws kicked out, slamming hard onto the large flaming beast's chin. It was thrown back and fell to the ground heavily.

The other large flaming beasts rushed their way over. Each of them breathed out flaming long spears at the Scarlet Flame Drake from all directions.

The Scarlet Flame Drake lowered its body once more, hiding behind the fallen large flaming beast's belly. Not only did it dodge the flaming long spears, it also quickly tore the first large flaming beast to pieces!

The Scarlet Flame Drake picked up a crystal core with countless scarlet flaming lights in its jaws and immediately swallowed it. The extremely pure fire elements were immediately absorbed into its body. The golden scarlet flame lights around its body burned brightly, and its aura grew stronger again.

It went without saying that the scarlet crystal core was a great supplement for the Scarlet Flame Drake! Its efficacy was no weaker than some mid-grade spiritual herbs!

The Scarlet Flame Drake sensed that it would be able to raise its strength by a large margin today if it ate sufficient crystal cores. Ranking up in level wouldn't be a problem!

Perhaps there was even a chance of advancing in quality and breaking through to epic-quality!Zhang Che was bored out of his mind waiting outside, but he had no way to enter the flaming mountains ahead to take a look. He gradually grew anxious.

However, the Purple Crystal Tortoise was not done scouting the situation underground. The Scarlet Flame Drake seemed to be gaining huge benefits right now, too. He couldn't possibly order them to return to him.

Zhang Che contemplated for a short while with knitted brow. He almost wanted to activate the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor's Elemental Protective Barrier skill and enter the flames ahead to observe the situation himself.

However, the Elemental Protective Barrier only lasted an hour, and its cooldown time was a whole day. Zhang Che wouldn't have much ability to defend himself if he came across any powerful fire-type exotic beasts.

Just as he was wavering on what to do, the sandy ground at his side suddenly sank down. The Purple Crystal Tortoise silently dug its way out.

"Hmm? This fellow is actually injured?"

What surprised Zhang Che was that the Purple Crystal Tortoise's body was actually emitting a strong wave of heat. It was in very bad condition. Obviously, the scorching flames had hurt it badly during its scouting mission.

-Could it be that the flames are really burning underground?- While he considered that, the Purple Crystal Tortoise suddenly opened its mouth, spitting out a bunch of fiery red crystals to form a small pile on the sandy ground.

A warm aura spread from the pile of fiery red crystals. Zhang Che could faintly sense those crystals contained fire elemental energy.

Although Zhang Che didn't know what exactly those scarlet crystals could be used for, he was able to conclude that they were an extremely rare mineral that no one had discovered before.

"Good boy, looks like I'm about to get rich!"

Zhang Che took a quick glance at the pile. There weren't many of those fiery red crystals, roughly about a hundred pieces of them, coming in uneven sizes. The big pieces were as large as a human head, and the small pieces were only the size of an egg.

He smiled faintly, then let the Purple Crystal Tortoise put those fiery red crystals away in its storage, and recalled it back into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand to recuperate from its injuries.

Although Zhang Che very much wanted to gather more of those fiery red crystals, he had to wait for the Purple Crystal Tortoise to recover from its injuries first!

As for the Scarlet Flame Drake who was still in the flaming mountains ahead, Zhang Che heard its happy barking again. Obviously it had obtained huge benefits, too!

His decision to come into the desert was really the right choice.

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Chapter 428: Scarlet Flame Drake Calls For Help. Flame Giant

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After swallowing a scarlet crystal core, the Scarlet Flame Drake's aura grew a little stronger. It barked at the remaining large fiery beasts and rushed at them as fast as lightning.

Seeing their companion killed and its life core eaten by the Scarlet Flame Drake, the rest of the large fiery beasts roared furiously, one after another. Each of them breathed out flaming long spears at the Scarlet Flame Drake from all directions, trapping it.

The flames whistled in the air, and a bitter fight broke out.Outside the flaming mountains, Zhang Che was bored out of his mind waiting for the Purple Crystal Tortoise to recover from its injuries.

"What exactly did the Scarlet Flame Drake run into in there? Why isn't it coming out after so long?"

Zhang Che had clearly instructed that fellow to go and scout the situation there. Who would've thought that it never came back, seemingly having forgotten his orders.

Needless to say, that fellow must have came across something greatly beneficial to it, and cried out so excitedly, forgetting about everything else.

A few minutes later, the Purple Crystal Tortoise's injuries were healed. Zhang Che summoned it out once more, asking it, "Are there more of those fiery red crystals in the ground ahead?"

Although he didn't know what exactly those fiery red crystals were, it didn't stop Zhang Che from realizing their value. They were definitely a type of rare mineral worth a fortune.

The Purple Crystal Tortoise nodded, but its eyes revealed traces of fear.

Evidently, it was too hot underground over there. Despite the Purple Crystal Tortoise being at legend-quality, it couldn't really handle the heat.

If it wasn't for the fact that subdued beasts would never go against their owner's orders, the Purple Crystal Tortoise would have rejected Zhang Che's request outright.

"Then be a little more careful. Come back immediately if you can't take it," Zhang Che instructed. The Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly sank into the sandy ground.

Zhang Che and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon were the only ones left again. He was bored of waiting and leaned back, laying on the dragon's back.

It was too hot here. Only by sticking close to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's body would he feel a little cooler. Even breathing the air here felt uncomfortable.

Regrettably, the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm's Elemental Protective Barrier skill only lasted an hour. Otherwise, Zhang Che wouldn't have to worry about the heat wave at all.

No matter what type of elemental damage it was, as long as it wasn't divine-quality, it would be perfectly blocked off by the Elemental Protective Barrier. It was simply a must-have skill!While Zhang Che was waiting leisurely outside, the Scarlet Flame Drake was displaying its might inside the flames, beating the living daylights out of the large flaming beasts. Sparks erupted from time to time, a sign of the Scarlet Flame Drake tearing the beasts' bodies to pieces.

Bam! With a loud noise, the Scarlet Flame Drake found an opportunity to directly tear the throat of one of the large flaming beast open. Its head fell off, and its body suddenly exploded, leaving only a scarlet crystal core behind on the golden yellow ground.

The Scarlet Flame Drake wouldn't miss such a delicacy. It immediately slurped up the crystal core, swallowing it into its stomach. The scarlet flame light on its body grew slightly more intense once again.

As the difference in strength between them increased, the remaining large flaming beasts found themselves less and less of a match for the Scarlet Flame Drake. They only managed to hold on for a few more minutes before they were all wiped out. The Scarlet Flame Drake obtained a few more fiery crystal cores, the dancing golden flames around its body now looked almost solid.

The Scarlet Flame Drake focused its eyes, looking deeper into the flaming mountains, hoping for more of those large flaming beasts to appear for it to kill.

However, there were no signs of movements after waiting for some time.

The Scarlet Flame Drake suddenly found itself at a loss for what to do. It didn't know whether it should continue exploring deeper.

After all, it still remembered Zhang Che's instructions. It was also afraid of an overwhelmingly powerful fiery creature appearing. At that time, it wouldn't be able to leave even if it wanted to.

However, the taste of those fiery crystal cores were truly too tempting.

In the end, the Scarlet Flame Drake's desire for food triumphed over its thinking. It carefully started forward, slowly walking deeper in.The Purple Crystal Tortoise rose from the sandy grounds once more. This time, the fiery aura remnant on its body was much less intense than before. It remembered Zhang Che's instructions very clearly; it immediately returned to him when it almost couldn't take it anymore.

Naturally, due to the reduced time the Purple Crystal Tortoise went underground, its harvests were less than the last time. It only managed to gather a few dozen of those fiery crystals, varying in sizes.

Even so, Zhang Che didn't feel any regrets.

Slow and steady was the way to go. He couldn't let the Purple Crystal Tortoise get into dangerous situations.

The fellow's strength and the space inside its body were extremely important to Zhang Che. He couldn't afford to lose it!

Moreover, that fellow was built from a mountain of gold. It had consumed tens of tons of purple-gold crystals. Even if they were converted to purple crystal points, it had been an astronomical sum.

Although the Purple Crystal Tortoise wasn't injured, it suffered pretty badly from the heat. It was temporarily unable to go gather more fiery crystals for Zhang Che.

Time was money; Zhang Che felt like he couldn't afford to waste it.

As such, he looked down at the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and instructed it with a soft voice, "Come, help it cool down."

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly turned his head and opened his mouth, breathing a mouthful of cold mist at the Purple Crystal Tortoise. The extremely cold aura quickly purged the heat from the Purple Crystal Tortoise. Not only that, it was so cold the Purple Crystal Tortoise couldn't help but withdraw its head and limbs.

Without needing Zhang Che to give it further instructions, the Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly sank into the sandy ground in the next moment, disappearing from sight.

Zhang Che had no idea how many more fiery crystals there were under the flaming mountains. Regardless, he was destined to get rich today!

Just as Zhang Che was dreaming about his life as a rich man, he suddenly heard the Scarlet Flame Drake barking anxiously from deep in the flaming mountains ahead.

Zhang Che was startled. -That guy… didn't I tell it to return immediately if it encountered any danger? Why did it go so much deeper?-

However, he couldn't possibly watch and do nothing when his subdued beasts were in danger.

"That fellow has a brain of a dog, not learning very well," Zhang Che complained softly. An elemental barrier suddenly rose around him from the surface of his armor. In the next moment, he jumped off the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back and ran towards the flames ahead.

The Elemental Protective Barrier was truly an amazing skill.

Zhang Che was clearly surrounded by scarlet flames all around him, and even the air was twisted from the heat. However, he no longer felt any of it. The Elemental Protective Barrier had perfectly blocked off the heat outside.

The Scarlet Flame Drake's cries for help grew increasingly anxious.

However, Zhang Che was still at least a thousand meters away from the Scarlet Flame Drake. He wouldn't get there within a minute or two.

"Freaking hell… who told you to go that deep?"

Zhang Che was running so fast his legs turned into circles, quickly advancing through the flames. Whether he could make it in time to help the Scarlet Flame Drake depended on heaven's will. {TLN: Think how some cartoon characters' legs were animated as circles when they run fast…}Currently, the Scarlet Flame Drake was covered in injuries. Fresh red blood flowed out from the wounds. The blood instantly dried in the heat, turning into scabs covering the wounds, looking extremely pathetic.

It was facing a ten-meter-tall flame giant with scarlet flames surrounding its body. It was wielding a pair of fire blades, brandishing them like a windmill, continuously slashing at the Scarlet Flame Drake as it gave chase.

The flame giant's attacks were extremely quick. Even though the Scarlet Flame Drake was trying its best to dodge the attacks, its movements were not very effective, and it was struck by the fire blades from time to time. Its flesh rolled out, and blood spattered everywhere.

The Scarlet Flame Drake kept barking as it ran for its life. However, it was slower than the flame giant, and could only get beaten on.

Whoosh! The blades in the flame giant's hands suddenly erupted with an intense fiery light, slashing down at the Scarlet Flame Drake's neck at lightning speed, trying to end its life right then and there.

A hint of fear flashed across the Scarlet Flame Drake's eyes. It could no longer afford to hold back and breathed out a column of scarlet flames.

It had resolved itself. Even if it were decapitated by the flame giant, it would make it pay a heavy price in return!

However, why would the flame giant trade hits with the Scarlet Flame Drake when its victory was within its grasp?

The massive figure sidestepped nimbly, dodging the column of flames the Scarlet Flame Drake breathed out. Afterwards, it quickly closed the distance between them and swung its blades at the Scarlet Flame Drake's vitals.

This time, the Scarlet Flame Drake had nowhere to run.

Just as the long blade was about to reach the Scarlet Flame Drake's neck, a loud cry was suddenly heard from hundred meters away. A scarlet and white sword light crossed the hundred meters in an instant, directly streaking towards the flame giant's head.

The flame giant was greatly alarmed and it quickly drew its blade back, defending itself.

Even so, the flame giant suddenly stiffened while withdrawing its blades. A mass of intense flames erupted from its head all of a sudden, and its body fell to the ground, turning into countless sparks and scattering.

When the sparks dissipated, Zhang Che saw a golden-scarlet crystal core about the size of a muskmelon on the ground. The Scarlet Flame Drake quickly pounced at it and gulped it down.

"What's this situation? Is that not an exotic beast?" Zhang Che widened his eyes in shock.

What he just saw had truly surprised him. That terrifyingly powerful flame giant was actually not an exotic beast!

In the next moment, golden flames suddenly erupted from the Scarlet Flame Drake's body. A powerful aura spread outwards. The fellow barked a few times excitedly, obviously in great mood.

Zhang Che finally understood why that fellow ignored his orders to return immediately when it found itself in a dangerous spot.

It turned out that the Scarlet Flame Drake was able to quickly increase its strength by consuming the crystal cores left behind by those flaming creatures after their deaths.

Zhang Che could vaguely tell that the Scarlet Flame Drake was now at a critical juncture. Perhaps it would successfully rank up in level after eating one or two more of those crystal cores!

Zhang Che was suspicious, not knowing what kind of creature that flame giant from earlier was, but since it was so important to the Scarlet Flame Drake, he couldn't be bothered to think so much. In any case, he had to continue killing his way further in.

No matter what, he had to help the Scarlet Flame Drake rank up!

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Chapter 429: Advancement. Elemental Queen

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Looking at its master, the Scarlet Flame Drake turned its head and barked in the direction of the depths of the flaming mountains.

Its meaning was obvious. Since its master had such powerful attacking strength, they should go deeper and kill a few more of those flame giants to obtain a few more fire crystal cores!

"You're also a glutton…" Zhang Che cast a glance at the Scarlet Flame Drake, at a loss for words as he kept track of the time silently. He jumped onto the Scarlet Flame Drake's back and waved his hand in the direction of the depths of the flames, exclaiming, "Come on, we're short on time! It all depends on whether you're fast enough if you want to eat more of those fire crystal cores!"

The Scarlet Flame Drake cried out excitedly in response, dashing madly further into the flames while carrying Zhang Che on its back.

After advancing not even a thousand meters further, the terrain suddenly rose. The silhouette of a tall, majestic mountain appeared vaguely before him.

He heard several furious roars. A few flame giants drew closer to them, each wielding fiery weapons of differently colored flames.

-Could it be that these fellows are actually guarding something?- Zhang Che suspected. After all, the Scarlet Flame Drake's encounter with the first flame giant was very close to here. It was impossible for these flame giants to not notice the battle from earlier.

Even so, they ignored the fight and let their companion die, and only made their moves when Zhang Che approached the mountain's foot with the Scarlet Flame Drake.

Zhang Che would not believe they weren't guarding something, even if he was beaten to death!

"One two three four… five, six!" Zhang Che swept his gaze around, realizing six flame giants had rushed up to them, and his eyebrows immediately rose in joy.

The Scarlet Flame Drake could totally rank up a tier after killing these guys!

Done thinking, Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly, calculating the distance between him and those flame giants.

The six flame giants soon came within the scarlet and white sword's attack range almost simultaneously.

Zhang Che didn't strike immediately. Instead, he tried to observe them with his data eyes. However, nothing happened.

He was finally sure that those flaming creatures weren't exotic beasts, but another type of fantastical lifeform.

-Why care so much? I don't research them anyway…- Zhang Che thought, shaking his head. A scarlet and white light quickly shot out from his brow and flew around the six charging flame giants.

The six flame giants' heads exploded in quick succession. Their bodies burst into masses of fire sparks and scattered.

Six golden scarlet fire crystal cores fell to the ground with clear, crisp sounds.

As expected, the scarlet and white sword dominated those elemental creatures easily. They could not put up any resistance at all, and the sword wiped them out instantly.

"Wuwuwoof!" the Scarlet Flame Drake immediately barked, growing excited. As if it had learned to ride the wind, it suddenly became faster and ran up to the six fire crystal cores, slurping them up one after another and devouring them all.

In the next moment, an intense golden scarlet flame light burst out from inside the Scarlet Flame Drake, shining like a miniature sun.

The enormous aura directly blew Zhang Che off of the Scarlet Flame Drake's back, and he fell on the ground about a dozen meters away.

"Damn, such a huge commotion! Looks like it's about to go through an advancement!"

Zhang Che quickly bounced back up to his feet, staring at the Scarlet Flame Drake in the golden scarlet flame, greatly anticipating what was going to come next.

The Scarlet Flame Drake stood there unmoving in the golden scarlet flames as its aura grew stronger and stronger.

Zhang Che didn't know how long the fellow would take to complete its advancement. He walked towards it quickly, preparing to recall it into his spiritual sea. He hoped the rainbow crystal's energy would help it break through more smoothly.

At that moment, he heard a furious roar from the majestic mountain ahead. A silhouette dove down the mountain, moving as swift as the wind.

"Hmm? It sounds like a female?" Zhang Che was a little shocked. He quickly recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake back into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand, then focused his eyes towards the peak of the mountain. However, he wasn't able to see past the flames to get a better idea of the oncoming figure's appearance, as well as what type of lifeform it was.

However, the furious roar from that figure was incredibly clear. It obviously sounded like a woman.

-Could it be that even those fantastical creatures have different genders?- Zhang Che suspected briefly. Truly, all kinds of strange things could be found in this world…

However, something must be up if an anomaly had appeared. Zhang Che grew wary inside.

Heavens knew how strong the oncoming figure was. He would have to run for his life if its flame attacks could penetrate his Elemental Protective Barrier.

-Hmm, I better not wait. It's best to get out as soon as possible!- Done thinking, Zhang Che no longer cared to see what kind of a creature the incoming figure was. He immediately turned around and ran.

That whirlwind-like figure quickly gave chase, letting out clear and elegantly furious cries as it chased him, rapidly drawing closer to Zhang Che.

After running for less than two hundred meters, Zhang Che was forced to stop and turn around.

He had no choice; he was too slow on his feet. The difference in speed was too great compared to these inhuman creatures. There was no way he could escape!

No matter what, he had to battle the creature!

At this moment, Zhang Che finally got a clear look at the creature's appearance. His eyes immediately shot wide open.

The creature that swooped down from the mountain was actually a woman!

Well, to describe it as a woman was a little misleading. To put it more accurately, it was a humanoid flaming creature whose figure closely resembled that of a woman.

Unlike the flame giants he saw earlier, whose flames were surging everywhere, this flaming creature seemed to be made of flesh and blood. It was tall and slim, covered in golden scarlet armor, and had a head full of fiery red long hair swaying in the wind, looking extremely graceful.

The woman's complexion was white as jade, and a flame-shaped pattern was visible on her forehead. Her eyes were emitting thick killing intent as she stared at Zhang Che. She wielded a golden scarlet halberd close to three meters long, giving off the aura of a martial goddess.

-She's dangerous!- Zhang Che immediately realized after he recovered from the shock of her breathtaking beauty.

Without thinking things through, the scarlet and white sword flew out from Zhang Che's brow, directly flying towards the mysterious woman and stabbing at her.

Zhang Che didn't dare to wait for her to make her move. He had to take the initiative and strike first, killing her before thinking about anything else!

However, in the next moment, Zhang Che's eyes opened so wide they nearly fell out of their sockets.

Standing a hundred meters away, the woman's figure directly scattered, turning into a mass of sparks and flying at Zhang Che. It was like the scarlet and white sword had struck the air, directly passing through and not injuring her at all.

"How is that possible!?"

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Chapter 430: Bitter Fight. Bullying With a Stronger Body

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The scarlet and white sword shot forth, directly passing through the sparks.

In the next moment, the sparks came together once more, turning back into that elegant woman. She suddenly swung her halberd, and a flame dragon swept towards Zhang Che.

The scarlet and white sword returned, having achieved nothing, leaving Zhang Che incredibly shaken. He had never encountered such a situation before.

Given the scarlet and white sword's attacking power, even epic-quality exotic beasts would suffer heavy injuries from it. Not only that, Zhang Che had reason to believe that even divine-quality exotic beasts might be injured if they were struck by the scarlet and white sword.

Even so, the graceful woman in front of him came out unscathed!

"How is that possible!?" Zhang Che shivered. Seeing the oncoming fire dragon, he quickly retreated, wanting to dodge the attack.

However, how could Zhang Che possibly be faster than her attack? Before he could retreat ten meters, the terrifying flame dragon swept over him, enveloping his whole body.

Seeing Zhang Che being engulfed by the flame dragon, a disdainful smile flashed on the mysterious woman's face. In the next moment, however, her smile stiffened.

The flames scattered. Zhang Che stood on the spot, looking surprised, and unhurt by the flames.

"Very good. This woman isn't as powerful as I imagined. Her dodging the scarlet and white sword's attack should be some kind of trick."

The flame dragon failing to penetrate the Elemental Protective Barrier's defense had left Zhang Che completely relaxed. Since his opponent was unable to hurt him, things became much easier!

A five-colored ray of light shot out from his brow, materializing into the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword in his hand. He strode forward quickly, directly closing in on the woman.

Since the scarlet and white sword was unable to do anything against her, then close quarter combat it would be! Zhang Che didn't believe the mysterious woman's close combat ability was stronger than his.

Well, weren't women born physically weaker than men? Not to mention Zhang Che's physique was altered. He wasn't just any ordinary man; he was a man among men, made for fighting!

"Zha!" the woman shouted after seeing her flame dragon had failed to injure Zhang Che. With her long halberd in hand, she too, charged at Zhang Che, her figure almost flying.

Zhang Che wanting to bring the fight to a melee was something she was glad about.

However, just as the both of them started running at one another, Zhang Che sent an order with his will. The scarlet and white sword that had flown in the opposite direction silently flew in from behind her, stabbing at the back of the woman's head.

-Only a fool would fight with you purely in close combat! Of course it will be best if I can kill you in one strike!-

Alas, it was like the woman had eyes in the back of her head. Her figure suddenly turned incorporeal again, and the scarlet and white sword hit air once more. Afterwards, she roared furiously and swung her halberd fiercely at Zhang Che's head.

To Zhang Che's sorrow, when facing that mysterious woman in close proximity, he realized she was actually half a head taller than him, despite him being over six foot tall.

Her halberd seemed to bear the weight of a mountain behind it, slamming down at him, leaving Zhang Che feeling like it was impossible to dodge it.

"Damn it, I don't believe you're stronger than me!" Zhang Che roared furiously, swinging the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword up with both hands and receiving the attack head on.

At present, Zhang Che was able to lift a few thousand kilograms. Swing his sword with all his strength, even a car would be sent flying. It shouldn't be a problem for him to receive the woman's halberd, right?

Dang!

A loud clashing noise erupted. Zhang Che's face changed greatly, feeling an unstoppable force pressing on the Scarlet Meteorite Huge Sword from above. His hands went numb from the vibration, the skin on them nearly splitting.

With a loud crunch, Zhang Che suddenly became shorter. His feet directly sank into the golden sand underneath him, burying him close to his kneecaps.

-She's definitely not a freaking human!- Zhang Che wailed in anguish inside. He was now absolutely certain this woman was not human. She was probably the same kind of lifeform as those flaming creatures from before, just at a higher tier.

His data eyes showed no reaction, either. It was impossible that she was an exotic beast.

Zhang Che barely managed to receive the halberd swing. A hint of shock flashed in the woman's eyes. She raised her halberd high up once more. This time, it was covered in a dense layer of golden scarlet flame light as she swung it down violently again.

"Damn it, don't push too far!" Zhang Che roared furiously. He pulled himself out from the sandy ground, no longer daring to block her attack head on. Instead, he jumped forward, directly stabbing at the mysterious woman's abdomen.

This sudden attack caught the woman unprepared. Her halberd missed its target, directly smashing into the ground.

Facing Zhang Che's quick stab, she seemed to have no way of dodging it.

Just as Zhang Che was feeling elated inside, thinking that he was finally going to injure the mysterious woman, her halberd suddenly snapped in the middle, parrying Zhang Che's attack and throwing his arm to the side.

After parrying Zhang Che's attack, the woman swept the half pole across, hitting Zhang Che and sending him flying a dozen meters away.

Zhang Che felt like his organs had nearly shifted position. A sweet taste welled up in his throat, and he nearly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

How pathetic! He actually couldn't win against a woman!

Zhang Che was depressed. His melee combat skills was obviously far lower than the mysterious woman. He could only abandon his idea of fighting her in a melee.

Well, he'd really like to wrestle her, but she'd obviously be unwilling to…

"Damn it, you think having great strength is a big deal? I'll show you who exactly has greater strength!" Zhang Che cursed. Afterwards, a rainbow light shot out from his brow. The Earthen Rock Demon's massive body suddenly descended, falling directly on the mysterious woman.

Although flames were burning fiercely in the surrounding area, they were unable to hurt the Earthen Rock Demon.

The fellow was an epic-quality beast, after all. How could it be hurt by elemental attacks of such degree?

The moment the Earthen Rock Demon appeared, the mysterious woman's face suddenly sank. She quickly moved away, wanting to avoid its fall.

However, her movement suddenly paused for a moment, and she nearly fell to the ground.

The Earthen Rock Demon's gravity field was no joke. It was pretty much the best False Domain when used in close combat, able to severely weaken its enemies, as well as slow them down greatly.

Dong! The Earthen Rock Demon's massive body landed, producing a loud, dull thump. The entire area shook.

Following the activation of the gravity field, the flames in a five hundred meters seemed to be suppressed. Their intensity suddenly fell by a large margin.

The mysterious woman's complexion became unusually grave, staring at the Earthen Rock Demon.

She seemed to be unaware that the giant would collapse without needing her to do anything as long as she killed Zhang Che.

Zhang Che finally let out a breath in relief, mumbling to himself, "Heh, bullying me with your superior physique, huh? Now let's see who's physique is better! I don't believe you can best the Earthen Rock Demon in a melee!"

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Chapter 431: Humanoid Pet. Epic Scarlet Flame Drake

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As the Earthen Rock Demon stabilized itself, a huge rock spear immediately appeared in its hand, and was hurled at the mysterious woman ahead with a whoosh.

The rock spear flew across so quickly it tore the air apart, instantly reaching the woman. Everywhere it flew past, the nearby flames faded.

For some unknown reason, the mysterious woman didn't use her technique from before, where she'd turn incorporeal to dodge the oncoming rock spear. Instead, she grabbed her halberd tightly and parried the projectile with a loud cry.

Bang! The halberd was thrown into the air. The tall and slender woman was directly blown back flying through the air, and spat out a mouthful of golden scarlet blood.

As the blood left her body, it turned into a mass of golden scarlet sparks and scattered.

"Oh shit, she's indeed not human!"

Seeing this strange sight, Zhang Che was finally certain that this being in front of him who had the appearance of a woman was no human at all. The essence of her being was only a fire elemental lifeform. However, there were many bizarre things about her.

First, the scarlet and white sword that had never failed him before was unable to harm her at all, and she was terrifyingly strong in terms of pure brute strength. Not only that, she was also skilled in fighting, probably no weaker than those powerful high-tier beastmasters.

If it wasn't because her flame dragon was unable to penetrate the Elemental Protective Barrier's defense, Zhang Che might have really died at her hands today!

Fortunately, the mysterious woman wasn't considered too powerful. The Earthen Rock Demon could basically steamroll her.

Zhang Che relaxed, willing the Earthen Rock Demon to attack in a frenzy.

After all, the Elemental Protective Barrier only lasted an hour. Over a quarter of an hour had passed. If the Earthen Rock Demon couldn't end the battle within the next half an hour, Zhang Che would have to consider retreating from this area. Otherwise, he would be burned into ash by the surrounding flames, without even needing the mysterious woman to make a move!

After receiving Zhang Che's orders, the Earthen Rock Demon let out a silent roar. Another spear formed in its hand, aimed at the mysterious woman in front, and was hurled out violently.

However, would the woman still dare to meet the attack head on after suffering a loss from before?

Her tall, graceful figure twisted nimbly. Despite the gravity field affecting her movements severely, she still managed to dodge the rock spear by a hair's breadth.

In the next moment, before the Earthen Rock Demon could attack again, she suddenly swung her halberd around. Golden scarlet flame dragons shot out one after another, closing in on the Earthen Rock Demon from all directions.

The blazing flames were entwined in multiple layers, nearly trapping the Earthen Rock Demon completely inside.

The terrifyingly heat burned its body, producing a concentrated wave of crackle noises. Large pieces of stone bits fell from the surface of its body.

Zhang Che furrowed his brow slightly. -Is this for real? Are the flames so powerful that even the Earthen Rock Demon can't withstand it?-

In the next moment, however, he finally relaxed.

A layer of dirty yellow light shone from the Earthen Rock Demon's body. Dense earth elemental power rose from its feet, quickly repairing the cracked areas of its body. In the blink of an eye, the Earthen Rock Demon was fully healed.

With the Earthen Rock Demon was standing on earth, as long as it didn't receive heavy damage instantly, it could use the power of the earth to quickly repair itself. Even though the ground here was abnormal, it didn't affect its regenerative ability.

Although the Earthen Rock Demon didn't suffer any actual damage, it was enraged. Without any hesitation, it activated its attack skill.

Countless earth spikes shot up from the ground towards the mysterious woman, leaving her with no space to dodge. She could only brandish her halberd with all her strength, parrying the spikes one by one.

Dang dang dang dang…!

Loud noises rang out endlessly. The excited Zhang Che noticed the woman would tremble slightly with every rock spear she blocked, her jade white face turning red in the end. Another golden scarlet flame dragon shot out as she fell backwards, her butt sitting on the ground.

"Ahhhhhh…!"

The Earthen Rock Demon's attacks seemed to have thoroughly enraged the mysterious woman.

She opened her mouth and let out a series of angry cries. Wave after wave of intense golden scarlet flame light burst out from her body. She suddenly took flight, and her halberd also instantly turned into an enormous golden scarlet flame dragon, shooting fiercely towards the Earthen Rock Demon.

"Finally, can she not hold it in anymore?!" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. The scarlet and white sword shot out from his brow once more, streaking towards the mysterious woman ahead.

Even though the scarlet and white sword couldn't harm her, it would distract her, leaving her unable to focus on dealing with the Earthen Rock Demon with all her strength.

Indeed, facing the scarlet and white sword's attack, the woman was forced to turn her body incorporeal again.

This time, however, Zhang Che drove the golden vortex to the extreme, controlling the scarlet and white sword to fly back and forth, not giving the woman any chances to solidify herself.

Having lost control of it, the halberd that had turned into a ferocious flame dragon lost all light as it reached the Earthen Rock Demon. It reverted back into a halberd, reaching its target weakly.

The Earthen Rock Demon raised its arm and slapped the halberd away. Afterwards, it walked up quickly and wound its thick arm back, slamming its huge fist at the mysterious woman's incorporeal figure.

"Ah!" came a miserable scream. The woman's figure was directly smashed through the void. Golden scarlet flames gushed out as she was sent flying dozens of meters back.

At this moment, Zhang Che grabbed onto the opportunity. The scarlet and white sword flew out once more.

The sword light punched through the woman's abdomen silently, leaving a gaping hole in its path. Sparks spattered fiercely from the woman's wound, like golden-scarlet colored blood.

With the combined strength of he and his subdued beast, Zhang Che finally found an opportunity to severely injure the mysterious woman.

"Strike while she's down!"

Killing intent rose in Zhang Che's eyes. The scarlet and white sword shot towards the woman once more, even as she was still falling in mid-air.

If it managed to hit her again, there was a good chance of killing her right there!

"Master!" the woman suddenly cried out unexpectedly. She forcibly bent down, kneeling on the ground, seemingly prostrating herself before Zhang Che.

"Hmm? She's submitted just like that?"

As he willed it, the scarlet and white sword veered off slightly to the side, narrowly flying past the kneeling woman. Afterwards, the sword light hovered above her head, ready to slash down at any moment.

"Master!" The woman opened her mouth once more and uttered the word. She raised her head slightly, her cruel and headstrong attitude from before no longer in her eyes. She intent on submitting to Zhang Che.

Even so, he didn't dare to be careless. Heavens knew if this was the mysterious woman's trick to stall for time?

-Big brother, it's time for you to make an appearance!- Zhang Che looked into his inner world, yelling inside at the rainbow crystal in his spiritual sea.

The rainbow crystal shook slightly. In the next moment, a rainbow talismanic rune flew out from Zhang Che's brow, directly flying in front of the kneeling woman.

"If you're really submitting to me, then let this talismanic rune enter your body without resistance," Zhang Che said with a low voice, ignoring whether she understood his words.

A miracle happened! It seemed like the mysterious woman really understood Zhang Che and obediently let down her mental guard, allowing the rainbow talismanic rune to directly enter her head, deeply imprinting itself onto her soul.

"Success!" Zhang Che almost cheered out loud. He didn't expect the rainbow crystal's ability to be this powerful, allowing him to even plant the rainbow talismanic rune on creatures other than exotic beasts.

-I wonder if the rainbow talismanic runes can be used to control humans..?- The thought found its way into Zhang Che's head for a brief moment. He walked up to the mysterious woman with a wide smile on his face, asking, "Exactly what kind of lifeform are you? Do you understand my words?"

The mysterious woman, who had now become Zhang Che's pet, stood up gracefully and submissively. Her perfect lips parted, her clear voice rang out, "I am the elemental queen of these flame lands. I pledge myself to master from today forth, and swear to fulfill all orders!"

"The heck, you really know how to speak!"

Zhang Che's horizons were widened. Why would this humanoid pet, who claimed to be the elemental queen of these fiery lands, know human speech?

-Then, since she knows how to speak, does she know how to warm the bed? Ugh, forget it. If she accidentally lost control of her flames, wouldn't I be burned alive?- Zhang Che shook his head, purging the evil thoughts in his mind. He asked, "How do you know human speech?"

Unexpectedly, a trace of confusion flashed across the elemental queen's eyes. She said with uncertainty, "When I was born, my inherited memories seemed to be fluent in human speech, but the servants in these flame lands had no way of conversing. Before this, I have never spoken a word. Naturally I was able to speak when I got to meet master today."

"Speak human. Your linguistics style sounds really confusing," Zhang Che couldn't help but comment, unable to stand the way she spoke.

"Yes, master!" the elemental queen answered submissively, acting however Zhang Che preferred.

He was speechless. Immediately, he thought of something, and asked again, "Right, are there more of your servants? Quickly summon all of them here. Your master needs them!"

Zhang Che was thinking that the amount of fire crystal cores the Scarlet Flame Drake absorbed seemed to be insufficient. Perhaps it was only enough to help it rank up in level. If there were more of those crystal cores, maybe it could even rank up in quality!

In that case, his combat strength would increase by a huge margin.

"Please wait a minute, master," the elemental queen replied softly. Afterwards, an invisible fluctuation spread from her body, rippling towards the depths of the fiery lands.

A few minutes later, silhouettes of various sizes suddenly came running from the depths of the fiery lands. The flaming servants consisted of humanoids as well as beasts.

At a rough estimate, Zhang Che realized there were a few dozen of them!

He was immediately wild with joy inside. There was hope for the Scarlet Flame Drake to advance to epic-quality now!

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Chapter 432: Good Things Come Together

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Zhang Che immediately grew excited seeing the bunch of elemental creatures running towards him.

There were dozens of them, and none of them were weak by any means.

If he could obtain those fellows' life crystal cores, it wouldn't be just a dream for the Scarlet Flame Drake to break through to epic-quality!

Done thinking, a scarlet and white sword light flew out from Zhang Che's brow, hovering above his head. He'd kill them all when those flaming creatures came within a hundred meters.

At this moment, the elemental queen suddenly said softly, "There's no need for Master to make a move."

Zhang Che was stunned for a moment. He turned to look at her in doubt.

-Could it be that she still cares about her relationship with her servants and want to keep those fiery creatures safe?

-That shouldn't be. All souls under the control of the rainbow crystal shouldn't have any thoughts of going against my will. The elemental queen shouldn't be an exception.-

Seeing the look of doubt on Zhang Che, the elemental queen quickly guessed what he was thinking and explained with a beautiful, charming smile, "Master wants the flame servants' crystal cores, right? You don't have to kill them, or their crystal cores will lose some of the energy.

"Master, watch this servant's methods."

Zhang Che was almost distracted looking at the elemental queen's beautiful face. He tried his best to look away, but to no avail.

If it wasn't for the fact that she had a rainbow talismanic rune planted on her soul, making it impossible for her to have thoughts of harming him, Zhang Che would surely think that she had used some secret skills on him.

-I can't take it. I really can't take it!- Zhang Che cried inside. In the next moment, he saw the elemental queen suddenly wave at fiery creatures running towards them. They, who had strong, majestic auras just a moment ago, suddenly collapsed inwards and directly turned into crystal cores in the blink of an eye, emitting dense energy fluctuations.

"Damn, so their energy scatters that much if they're killed!"

Zhang Che's eyes nearly popped out. Earlier, he had personally slain a few of those fiery creatures. The crystal cores obtained by the elemental queen by ordering those fiery creatures to kill themselves contained much denser energy than those he had obtained by killing them!

Zhang Che was immediately overjoyed. With this, it shouldn't be a problem for the Scarlet Flame Drake to advance to epic-quality!

While Zhang Che was lost in happiness, the elemental queen at his side collected all the scattered life crystal cores with a wave of her hand, forming a big pile at her chest. She said to Zhang Che with a smile, "Master, do you need this servant to refine them?"

-Damn, she was still referring to herself as I earlier, why is she calling herself this servant now?

-She's trying to kill me with her charm!-

{TLN: The elemental queen was initially referring to herself with the archaic form of I in Chinese.}

Feeling the charm coming from the elemental queen, Zhang Che's gaze nearly blurred.

He forcibly shifted his gaze away from the elemental queen, chanting Miss Tienan's name in his heart. He finally calmed down, then thought apprehensively, -This won't do. Why is she so charming?

-I have to think of a solution. Otherwise, as my pet, she'd surely be by my side all the time. As time passes, she'll cause problems very easily!-

-Oh, I got it! Since this woman claims to be the elemental queen of the fiery lands, her body must be constructed from the fire elements. I mustn't think of anything strange, or I'll be crippled by her flames!-

Zhang Che quickly thought of the scene in the movie A Chinese Odyssey, where the Monkey King Joker's pants caught fire. He trembled from fear, no longer thinking about anything strange.

Seeing Zhang Che muttering to himself and not answering her, the elemental queen asked again. "Master, do you need this servant to refine them? Don't worry, absolutely not one bit of their energy will disperse during the process."

Zhang Che blinked a few times, then nodded. Willing to accept her advice, he replied, "Refine them, then."

After hearing Zhang Che's reply, the elemental queen seemed to feel she was finally being useful and showed a bright smile. Huge golden scarlet flames rose from her pale palms, engulfing all of the flaming creatures' crystal cores.

A short while later, only a fist-sized red crystal faintly emitting an extremely concentrated fire elemental aura was left on the elemental queen's palm. Incredibly profound patterns could be seen on the crystal. Anyone could tell with a glance that this thing contained vast amounts of fire elemental energy.

Zhang Che estimated that a small city would be destroyed instantly if that thing exploded; it contained as much power as a small nuclear warhead.

Very well; the Scarlet Flame Drake was in for some good luck!

While he was thinking that, the five-colored light that represented the Scarlet Flame Drake in his spiritual sea suddenly erupted with an intense light. It was done advancing!

Zhang Che didn't summon the Scarlet Flame Drake out immediately. He had already wasted too much time here. The Elemental Protective Barrier's duration was running low. It was time to leave.

As such, Zhang Che informed the elemental queen as he turned to leave.

"Master, let this servant lead you out," the elemental queen behind him suddenly said softly. Before Zhang Che could react to this, a palm as white as jade suddenly grabbed his right hand. It really felt no different from the tender hand of a girl his age.

-Shit, what am I thinking? Do you want to be burnt into coal?- Zhang Che cursed inside, quickly collecting himself.

Under the elemental queen's lead, he flew quickly outside. The whistlings of the wind could be heard by his ear, the flames nearby directly scattered.

-This speed is almost a hundred meters per second!- Zhang Che sighed. He couldn't help but feel dispirited. A random pet he tamed was actually so much faster than him. Being the owner really didn't bring him much of a sense of accomplishment…Shortly thereafter, the elemental queen flew out of the flaming mountains with Zhang Che in tow.

At the sandy grounds outside, the Purple Crystal Tortoise and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon immediately looked towards the elemental queen curiously.

Both of them sensed the powerful aura on her. Their eyes carried a hint of fear.

"Hah, the Purple Crystal Tortoise is really hard working. It got its hand on another pile of fire crystals!"

A small pile of fire crystals, each varying in sizes, lay at the Purple Crystal Tortoise's feet. In Zhang Che's eyes, those were all purple crystal points. His eyebrows rose as he smiled widely.

"Master is amazing! Are they Master's pets, too?" A hint of curiosity flashed across the elemental queen's eyes when she first laid eyes on the Purple Crystal Tortoise and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. She could tell that those two fellows weren't weak, either, especially the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Although it wasn't very powerful now, the elemental queen could sense that cold-attributed fellow's future accomplishments would be a level higher than her.

Zhang Che ignored the elemental queen. She totally didn't have any self-awareness as a pet, always trying to seduce her master. He mustn't show her a nice attitude.

{TLN: Definitely not him having pervy thoughts…}

Zhang Che quickly walked over to the Purple Crystal Tortoise and stowed the pile of fire crystals away. Afterwards, he summoned the newly-advanced Scarlet Flame Drake out.

He swept his data eyes over it. The fellow was as Zhang Che had expected, having successfully advanced to six-stars!

Now, he'd see if the crystal core the elemental queen refined earlier was enough to help the Scarlet Flame Drake advance another level.

"Here, eat this!" Zhang Che smiled. He took out the fist-sized crystal essence, and the Scarlet Flame Drake's breathing immediately quickened, a look of greed in its eyes.

With a whoosh, the Scarlet Flame Drake rushed up to Zhang Che, coiling its tongue and immediately swallowed the crystal core essence down.

In the next moment, an invisible aural wave burst out from the Scarlet Flame Drake's body.

Zhang Che was involuntarily pushed several meters back by the aura. Afterwards, blazing golden flames rose from the Scarlet Flame Drake's body. The flames were extremely hot, instantly melting the yellow sand under its feet.

-Looks like there's a chance!- Zhang Che was wild with joy inside. He recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake back into his spiritual sea with a wave of his hand, then looked into his inner world, shouting at the rainbow crystal, -Come on, come on, come on, I shouldn't bother anyone else for the same matter, right? How about helping me out once more, big brother?-

The rainbow crystal gave face to its little brother Zhang Che. An endless stream of rainbow light immediately poured out, fully enveloping the mass of light that represented the Scarlet Flame Drake.What came next was a long and slow wait.

However, the crystal core essence's energy was enough for the job, not to mention the rainbow crystal was helping, too. Zhang Che had no doubt that the Scarlet Flame Drake would advance to epic-quality.

During the process of waiting, Zhang Che recalled the Purple Crystal Tortoise, then beckoned the elemental queen to ride with him on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, flying back along the route they came from earlier.

One should know when to be content. Entering the desert had given him benefits far exceeding his expectations. Zhang Che didn't want to continue exploring deeper. Heavens knew if there were even more terrifying creatures in the depths of this strange desert. They definitely wouldn't be something Zhang Che could deal with for now.

He had gathered a great harvest on this trip. Zhang Che was preparing to go home first and properly process his trophies, then continue on his journey to advance to Tier Seven beastmaster.

This part of the desert was safe. Zhang Che let the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon fly at full speed. Only an hour later, the edge of the desert could be seen on the horizon.

The Scarlet Flame Drake was still in process of advancing. Zhang Che was faintly anticipating it. The only thing that left him a little dissatisfied was that the elemental queen was a little too impolite. She was sitting closely behind him, a wave of heat pushing against his back. Wasn't that challenging his will a little too much?

Fortunately, Zhang Che would force himself to think of the monkey king's pathetic state every time strange thoughts popped into his mind. All the mood would be lost then.Shortly after flying out of the desert, the Scarlet Flame Drake was finally done advancing. Zhang Che quickly summoned it out impatiently.

The instant the Scarlet Flame Drake appeared once more, a heatwave erupted from its body, enveloping the surrounding area within several hundred meters. The vegetation inside the area quickly found themselves in a bad spot, withering away.

Feeling that wave of intense but harmless heat, Zhang Che's eyes lit up, and his lips drew back wide, smiling silently.

Without even needing to check with his data eyes, he knew the Scarlet Flame Drake had broken through to epic-quality.

This was a very clear-cut False Domain. Legend-quality subdued beasts never had one.[Scarlet Flame Drake]

Level: Six Star (Level 60)

Quality: Epic

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Excels at Wielding Flames, Unparalleled Defense

Weakness: Vulnerable to Innate Water Elemental Attacks of the Same Level and Quality

Innate Attribute: Fire Mastery, Normal Attacks Augmented with Fire Attribute

Skill: Liquifying Scarlet Flames. Breaths Out Scorching Scarlet Flames Up to 100 Meters Long, Able to Melt Steel Instantly, Lasts 30 Seconds. This Skill Is Extremely Exhausting of Vital Energy, User Needs to Rest for a Full Day Before It is Able to Use It Again.

Skill: Rain of Meteors. Exhausts the Innate Fire Elements in its Body to Gather the Fire Elements in the Surrounding 10,000 Meters, Forming a Rain of Meteors in a 50 Meter Target Area, Accurately Attacking Enemies At Any Location As Desired Within 1,000 Meters. Skill Lasts 10 Seconds, Requires 5 Days to Recover Vital Energy Before It is Able to Use It Again.

False Domain: Purgatory Flames

Potential: D Rank"Hahahaha, I finally have another epic-quality subdued beast!" Zhang Che couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw the Scarlet Flame Drake's new attributes.

As of now, the Scarlet Flame Drake had reached the limits of its potential. If there weren't any heaven-defying fortuitous encounters in the future, it wouldn't be able to advance in either level or quality anymore.

Its D-Rank Potential only allowed it to rank up twice in either of those attributes.

However, that was enough!

At present, due to its attributes, the Scarlet Flame Drake's attacking power was definitely far above that of the Earthen Rock Demon's. In Zhang Che's estimation, it was able to contend with ordinary seven-star epic-quality beasts. After all, the fire element was the most tyrannical element of all in terms of attacking power.

Moreover, the Scarlet Flame Drake's skills and False Domain were more biased towards attack. This made the distinction that its attacking power was far higher than ordinary six-star epic-quality exotic beasts.

"Hmm, this little guy actually became this much stronger!" the elemental queen sitting behind Zhang Che couldn't help but exclaim in shock when she sensed the aura on the Scarlet Flame Drake.

She could tell that the Scarlet Flame Drake, who could definitely only be passively beaten on by her earlier, was now no weaker than her. Although its manipulation of the fire elements might not be as good as hers, its attacks were definitely more tyrannical, and its efficiency at killing would surely be higher than her.

"Ha, my harvests this time is not bad. Let's return right away!"

Zhang Che was very satisfied. There was nothing he could pick on regarding his harvests this time.

Although he didn't obtain a new epic-quality beast card, the elemental queen was no weaker than an epic-quality beast, not to mention the Scarlet Flame Drake had successfully advanced to six-star epic-quality. Considering all that, it was more satisfying than obtaining an epic-quality beast card.

Other than that, he also obtained a large amount of spiritual herbs, close to five hundred kilograms of spiritual honey, and a large pile of fire crystals.

After listing his gains this time, Zhang Che realized the value of what he got was the highest of any of his trips! The elemental queen was especially noteworthy. Not only was she strong, she was also extremely pleasing to the eyes. She could also speak, and maybe warm the be.. Well, forget about that. She'd probably set the bed on fire…

Zhang Che was in high spirits, flying on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon back along the route they came from, not stopping at all.That night, when Zhang Che was resting in a cave somewhere along the way, the light representing the Umbra Wind God Leopard, which had shown no signs of activity for a long time, suddenly shone faintly.

He was immediately overjoyed. Who said that blessings never come in pairs?

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Chapter 433: The Umbra Wind God Leopard That Outgrew its Newborn Phase

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Zhang Che was far too deep into the beast world. He wouldn't be able to return to Mercury in just a day or two. So, he wasn't in a hurry.

When the sky gradually darkened, he found a huge mountain and had the Purple Crystal Tortoise dig out a large cave, hiding in there with the elemental queen and settling down for the night.

However, Zhang Che felt a little awkward about this. Was this considered going spelunking with a woman? {TLN: Sexual innuendo.}

Well, just from appearances alone, the elemental queen would be considered a woman…

Zhang Che had tried, but he couldn't let the elemental queen turn into a mass of light and enter his spiritual sea like his subdued beasts and pets. It was probably because they were a different type of lifeform.

With that, from now on the elemental queen would be permanently following Zhang Che by his side in that appearance.

"But why do I have a vague sense of happiness?" Zhang Che shook his head, dispelling his strange thoughts. He warned himself once more to not be like the Monkey King from A Chinese Odyssey. Even though his physique was at a superhuman level, he definitely wouldn't be able to withstand the burns from the flames.

Moreover, those weren't ordinary flames, but the powerful force of the fire elements!

While hiding in the cave, Zhang Che took out a large piece of exotic beast meat. The scarlet and white sword light flew about for a brief moment and cut the meat into smaller pieces. Afterwards, he had the Purple Crystal Tortoise spit out several bone spikes, skewering the meat and stabbing them into the rock wall.

The elemental queen blinked her bright eyes continuously, watching Zhang Che going through the series of action, feeling a sense of novelty.

Suddenly, Zhang Che turned to look at her and instructed, "Here, give me a hand. Use your smallest flame to try roasting them."

The elemental queen nodded, her eyes full of curiosity. She reached out with her jade white hand, and a weak tiny flame sprouted from her palm, roasting the meat skewers.

Zhang Che observed for a few seconds. He nodded in satisfaction and said, "Turn your flames a little stronger!"

The elemental queen was very perceptive. The flames on her jade hands immediately intensified a little.

After a few more adjustments, the elemental queen mastered the techniques on her own and became a passable meat roaster, her skills even above that of the Scarlet Flame Drake.

Zhang Che grew excited. With this, he wouldn't have to worry about not having delicious roasted meat to eat in the future!

When the fats were starting to melt and drip off the roasted meat, Zhang Che retrieved a ladle of spiritual honey and applied a layer of it to the meat evenly. The combination of exotic beast meat and spiritual honey was rich in spiritual force, and several times more delicious. Naturally Zhang Che would make good use of such a good resource.

Zhang Che had missed it, but the curiosity in the elemental queen's eyes grew stronger as she controlled her flames to roast the meat. Her nose also twitched a few times, and she even stuck out her little tongue, licking her lips.

When the roasted meat had turned golden yellow, Zhang Che instructed the elemental queen to retract her flames. After thinking for a moment, he summoned out the frisky monkey.

This time, he had broken his promise to find the frisky monkey a spiritual herb that would allow him to rank up. He'd better compensate his pet with some roasted meat; the latter would probably forgive his master daddy.

As expected, the frisky monkey was about to cast a resentful gaze at Zhang Che when he appeared. He took a whiff and was immediately drawn to the fragrance of roasted meat, a thread of saliva flowing out of his mouth.

However, when he saw the elemental queen sitting in front of the roasted meat, he immediately showed a look of confusion.

"Baba, muther…" The frisky monkey acted like he had just discovered a new continent, pointing at the elemental queen, looking at Zhang Che curiously.

He clearly remembered the original "muther" next to his master daddy wasn't this person…

-Oh, wait. This thing isn't…-

Just as the frisky monkey reacted to this, the elemental queen suddenly turned around and sent the frisky monkey flying with a slap, slamming into the rock wall behind, his head spinning and seeing stars.

The elemental queen shot a glance at him, her gaze filled with disdain.

-How dare you little creature point a finger at me. Don't you know I'm Master's most beloved baby?-

The frisky monkey crawled up, feeling wronged. He quickly turned to look at Zhang Che, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Baba, pain…"

Zhang Che rolled his eyes, "Serves you right!"

-Who told you to not get a good look at the situation?

-Didn't you see the elemental queen had already become the royal meat roaster? Not only that, her strength was far above yours, not to mention she looks pleasing to the eyes. She's much better than you, this little damn monkey!-

The frisky monkey felt even more hurt. He felt like his master daddy had a change of heart.

When Zhang Che and the frisky monkey started tearing large mouthfuls of roasted meat to eat, the former suddenly realized something was off. He stopped chewing and saw the elemental queen looking at the skewered meat in anticipation, sticking her tongue out to lick her lips.

-Heavens! This action is too alluring!-

Zhang Che quickly thought of the scene where the monkey king's pants caught fire. He pointed at the roasted meat and asked, "Why, you want to eat too?"

The elemental queen immediately nodded like a chicken pecking on rice, answering, "Master, may I?"

Zhang Che fell silent. He sighed inside, -Another freaking glutton…-

The thing was, wasn't this girl a fiery creature? Was she able to eat?

As things would have it, the elemental queen could not only eat, her appetite was pretty shocking, too! She could eat the combined amount of Zhang Che and the frisky monkey's appetite all by herself!

In the end, Zhang Che could only take out another pile of meat and skewer them, then let the elemental queen start roasting them.

After eating their dinner, Zhang Che washed up quickly and took out his sleeping bag, slipping his way inside, ready to go to sleep.

Suddenly, the elemental queen at the side looked at Zhang Che's sleeping bag curiously. Tempted to try it, she asked, "Master, may this servant come in and sleep?"

Zhang Che's body nearly swelled up. He subconsciously wanted to agree to it, but he quickly shook his head and said in an annoyed tone, "No, you don't even need to rest!"

-Heck, I nearly lost all reason!-

"But this servant wants to try."

Well, the elemental queen was purely curious about it. She wanted to copy whatever she saw Zhang Che doing. Heavens knew how dull her life was in the flaming mountains. Whatever novelty she saw, she would want to try.

How could Zhang Che agree to such a ridiculous request? But, when he saw her pitiful appearance, he would think maybe it wasn't that bad to let her try…

"I'll buy one for you next time. Only one person can sleep in this thing."

-Heh, what a joke. Is your master so easily seduced?-

The elemental queen nodded. She sat cross-legged on the ground next to Zhang Che and closed her eyes.

Seeing this, Zhang Che finally let out a long sigh of relief. Luckily she didn't insist on it, or it'd be hard to predict what the end results would be like.

-Mmm, the monkey king is really miserable. I better not copy him.-

Zhang Che closed his eyes, but sleepiness had yet to catch up to him yet. He suddenly opened his eyes again, a hint of joy flashed across his face.

In his spiritual sea, the light representing the Umbra Wind God Leopard quickly shone a few times, seemingly about to wake up from his slumber.

The little fellow had been in a deep slumber ever since he had consumed the two dark exotic beasts' corpses last time. Today he finally showed some signs of activity.Soon, the Umbra Wind God Leopard woke up completely.

Zhang Che quickly sat up in his sleeping bag. A streak of light shot out from his brow. An exotic beast with a three-meter-long body resembling a panther, covered in greenish-black fur, appeared in front of Zhang Che.

"He actually grew so much bigger!" Zhang Che was exhilarated when he saw the Umbra Wind God Leopard had grown a few times bigger.

Didn't that mean that the little fellow had finally grown out of his newborn phase and had truly grown up?

Zhang Che hurriedly used his data eyes, sweeping his gaze out to settle on the Umbra Wind God Leopard, bursting into laughter the next instant.

It was indeed as he had expected. The little fellow had really grown out of his newborn phase!

The elemental queen at the side opened her eyes in astonishment. She focused her stare on the Umbra Wind God Leopard apprehensively.

Of course, she wasn't in fear of the little fellow's strength. Although he had grown out of his newborn phase, the Umbra Wind God Leopard was still too weak as of now. The elemental queen could send him flying with a slap.

What she feared was the Umbra Wind God Leopard's potential. The little fellow had obviously just gotten through his newborn phase. He would become extremely terrifying when he matured into adulthood![Umbra Wind God Leopard]

Level: Five Star (Level 50) [Able to Reach Nine Stars When Fully Grown]

Quality: Dark Gold [Able to Reach Super Divine When Fully Grown]

Characteristics: Darkness and Wind Dual-Attributed Beast. Has Perfect Control of Dark and Wind Energies When Matured

Weakness: Restrained by Light Attributed Beasts of Equal Level and Quality

Innate Attribute: Dark and Wind Elemental Mastery. Able to Borrow the Powers of Both Elements to Take Flight, Attack, Defend, and Conceal Itself. [Is Too Weak Currently, Unable to Make Use of Its Concealing and Flight Abilities.]

Skill: Shield of Darkness. Able to Erupt the Dark Elements in its Body After Activation, Forming a Dark Elemental Shield on the Surface of Its Body. Among the Same Level, Only Light Elemental Attacks Can Penetrate the Shield. Skill Lasts 1 Hour. Requires 1 Day to Recover Its Energy Before It is Able to Use It Again.

Domain: UnawakenedZhang Che was both happy and confused when he saw the Umbra Wind God Leopard's new attributes.

Zhang Che was happy that the fellow had finally grown out of his newborn phase, and he looked pretty strong, too.

On the other hand, he was confused as to why the fellow didn't have a Halo effect, despite being at dark gold-quality.

Could it be that the Umbra Wind God Leopard would only awaken his Domain powers when he achieved super divine-quality, and he wouldn't have a transition Halo effect?

Thinking about it, it really seemed highly possible. After all, the fellow's attributes were too unique. There were huge differences between his and average exotic beasts' attributes.

-Forget it. I can't count on this little fellow for now. It'd be some time in the future before he really shines.-

Zhang Che recalled the little fellow back into his spiritual sea, then shut his eyes, slowly slipping into the land of dreams.

In his dream, there seemed to be a burning hot body silently slipping into his sleeping bag, and nature took its course, some indescribable event happened…

All of a sudden, blazing flames erupted from the hot body, charring Zhang Che black. His skin and flesh whirled about, overturned, falling off piece by piece…

"Oh shit!" Zhang Che suddenly sat up in his sleeping bag, his forehead covered in sweat.

He looked around. Sitting at the side, the elemental queen opened her eyes, too, looking at Zhang Che in confusion, not understanding why her Master had such a horrified look on his face. There was clearly no enemy ambush..?

Translator's Note:

1: Now that the author mentioned this, I checked my glossary and found that all epic-quality beasts introduced thus far have no Halo effects if they have a False Domain. Only the 7-star Demonic Energy Large Boar Zhang Che acquired recently at Chapter 420 has a Halo effect, but no False Domain. Still, that doesn't explain why the Scarlet Flame Drake had no flame resistance Halo effect in play at the flaming mountains.

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Chapter 434: Strong Will to Live

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Edited by Aelryinth

Going forward, Zhang Che flew straight back to Mercury on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

He had obtained enough rewards on this trip. He no longer had the mind to go deal with those scattered exotic beasts, letting many of them off.

After more than a day of flying, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon finally arrived close to the safety zone.

The journey wasn't boring, actually. The elemental queen had kept Zhang Che company, chatting with him.

After leaving the flaming mountains, she seemed to be curious about everything regarding the outside world, especially the two encounters with other beastmasters, leaving her very confused.

Weren't they of the same kind as her master? Why were they so much weaker?

In the elemental queen's heart, naturally Zhang Che was the strongest. The others were only trash.

Regrettably, Zhang Che didn't show any signs of happiness at the elemental queen's admiration.

His dream from that night had scared him badly. He would no longer have any weird thoughts about her.

-Ai, it's all because Miss Tienan is too conservative. If she did what she should, I wouldn't have those thoughts towards a non-human creature…- Zhang Che sighed. He was thinking if he should go find Huang Juyun and ask for Huang Tielan's hand in marriage when he returned.

-Would I get beaten to death by future father-in-law if I'm so impatient?

-Well, probably not, thinking about it. After all, father-in-law should be hoping to see me and Miss Tienan confirm our relationship as soon as possible, right? Otherwise, wouldn't he die from regret if another person suddenly comes along?

-It's more likely for Miss Tienan to beat me to death if she knows what I'm thinking, though…-After entering the safety zone, the elemental queen's impressive figure and appearance immediately became the focus.

It couldn't be helped. She stood close to a hundred and ninety centimeters tall, yet didn't give off an imposing feeling. Her perfect figure left some of the female beastmasters so ashamed that they wanted to commit suicide. That flame-shaped pattern on her forehead was especially noteworthy, adding a sense of mystery to her. Her tight-fitting golden armor showed off the curves of her body perfectly. It was simply the perfect combination of an angelic appearance and a devilish figure.

As a result, Zhang Che also became the focus of attention. Almost every male beastmaster cast envious gazes at him, hoping to replace him.

However, when Zhang Che felt the surrounding gazes, he was actually thinking if they knew about her real identity, they would be scared to death. Which of them would still dare to fantasize about her that way?

Even so, Zhang Che still felt very uncomfortable being looked at like that, The gazes from some of the men who didn't conceal their greed and lust when their gazes fell onto the elemental queen left Zhang Che feeling annoyed.

Although his pet couldn't warm the bed for him, he couldn't allow them to fantasize about her so casually, either!

In the next moment, Zhang Che's powerful mental strength erupted, sweeping outwards, emitting so much pressure that the people's faces changed one after another, no longer daring to look his way.

This world was still one where the strong reigned supreme!

Although Zhang Che wouldn't dare to do anything in the safety zone, heavens knew if an expert would bear a grudge and find trouble with them outside of the safety zone?

Beauty was pleasing to the eyes, but no one dared to risk their lives and continue sneaking peeks.After exiting the safety zone and crossing the spatial gateway, the elemental queen showed a look of excitement and curiosity again when she saw the buildings around the military camp.

When Zhang Che brought her into the military camp and boarded Dijiang-hao, her eyes were shining with an extraordinary splendor.

She felt that being taken in by her master was the best thing that could have happened. The flaming mountains could never be as fun as outside!

On the other hand, the person in charge of the camp was looking at Zhang Che strangely.

He clearly remembered this future son-in-law of the Huang family was alone when he came. Why was he with such an extremely beautiful woman after coming out of the beast world?

-Should I tell Huang Juyun about this in secret?

-Forget it. The Huang family will learn about this sooner or later with this kid bringing this woman by his side so openly. I have no need to go be such a vile character.-

Dijiang-hao slowly rose in the air, then suddenly accelerated, speeding off towards Bei Du.

Inside Dijiang-hao, the elemental queen finally couldn't suppress her curiosity any longer when she saw the scenery outside quickly flashing by. She asked, "Master, what is this? It's so fast!"

Zhang Che opened his mouth, but no words came out. He didn't know how to begin explaining the sky shuttle to her. There was too much knowledge involved in this. He wouldn't be able to explain clearly in a short amount of time.

In any case, the elemental queen seemed no different from human, other than the essence of her body not being that of a human. He'd just let her slowly learn about the world.

-Hmm, I'll just get her a personal terminal after we get back to Bei Du and let her absorb the information on her own from the internet.-

With the elemental queen's learning ability, it shouldn't take long before she integrated herself into human society. As long as he didn't say anything, there shouldn't be many people who could tell she was actually not human, right?

Of course, some experienced mid-tier beastmasters and high-tier beastmasters with powerful mental strength should be able to tell that she wasn't human…After about four hours of super high speed flight, Dijiang-hao finally landed safely at Bei Du Airport.

Seeing this incredibly prosperous huge city, the elemental queen felt like her eyes weren't enough to take it all in. She didn't ask Zhang Che any more questions. She looked left and right, like an innocent girl abducted by Zhang Che.

After returning to Mercury, Zhang Che had notified his close ones about his safe return.

Liu Gang was already waiting here with a car when Zhang Che walked to the arrival hall.

After seeing the elemental queen next to Zhang Che, his eyes nearly popped out.

-Damn, isn't this too much? Let alone finding a mistress outside, he even brought her back to Bei Du so openly. Isn't he afraid of being skinned alive by Young Miss?

-Hmm? Something's wrong. She's not human!-

As a high-tier beastmaster, Liu Gang was only misled for a moment before he quickly felt the enormous fire elemental energy inside the elemental queen. He quickly realized that she wasn't human.

But did the beast world have humanoid exotic beasts?

Liu Gang was incredibly shocked. He had never heard of the existence of humanoid exotic beasts. This young master was indeed extraordinary to actually get himself such a pet. How envious!

However, Liu Gang knew very well to not ask anything he shouldn't be asking.

So, even though he had many questions in his mind, he'd only keep to himself and drive the car honestly as long as Zhang Che didn't say a word about this, driving him and the elemental queen to the Huang family's ancestral home.This time, he had gathered many spiritual herbs, as well as close to five hundred kilograms worth of spiritual honey. Zhang Che needed to make a trip to his father-in-law's place to deal with those matters first.

Although the spiritual herbs were only ordinary stuff, other than that ginseng with extraordinary spiritual fluctuations, there was still a possibility of them becoming a tier better if they could continue cultivating the herbs in the herbal field, especially that ginseng. It mustn't be used directly. That'd be too much of a waste!

With the gigantic spiritual jade, the ginseng could totally continue growing. Even if they only used the root hairs in the future, it was enough for refining medicinal pills!

There was also the spiritual honey. The energy inside had an extremely gentle nature. Even ordinary people could consume it directly. If they could find some supplementary herbs to refine it with, surely they could display a greater effect!

Not only that, there was also the pile of fire crystals. Zhang Che needed to depend on the Huang family to confirm what kind of mineral it was.

Even if the Huang family didn't know the attributes of these rare minerals, they had enough resources to conduct research on it. They'd definitely be able to find out its uses in the end!After arriving at the Huang family's ancestral home, Huang Juyun's eyes contracted slightly at the sight of the elemental queen. He couldn't help but be in shock at Zhang Che's heaven-defying luck.

Huang Juyun naturally had some understanding of these fantastical non-exotic beast creatures. He had the fortune of coming across them in the past as well, but he had never heard of anyone taming them, not to mention the creature in question being a humanoid elemental creature.

Moreover, this womanly-like fire elemental creature was comparable to an epic-quality exotic beast. With Zhang Che's strength, it wouldn't be hard to kill her. But taming her? That seemed impossible, wasn't it?

-Looks like there are still many things I don't know about this kid…-

Zhang Che immediately saw through the doubt in Huang Juyun's eyes. He took the initiative to explain to him, "Uncle Huang, this is a fire elemental creature. I beat her so badly she was on the verge of tears, and in the end she shamelessly insisted on following me."

After hearing what he said, the elemental queen looked at him resentfully, thinking, -Master, don't you feel your conscience pricking at you?-

After recovering from the initial shock, Huang Juyun no longer cared about this. In any case, it was no use being envious of Zhang Che. He'd better take a look at the astonishing harvest he got this time.

During their earlier call, Zhang Che had briefly talked about his gains on this trip to the beast world. It really left Huang Juyun anticipating.

An arm-thick, over a foot-long ginseng, and close to five hundred kilograms of spiritual honey were all top-grade stuff! The Huang family's research on herbs couldn't be underestimated. Huang Juyun was clearer than anyone regarding those things' value.

Indeed, when Zhang Che took them out, even though he was mentally prepared for it, Huang Juyun still couldn't resist sucking in a breath of cold air. He was utterly speechless. This kid's luck was truly too astonishing!

Just as the two were looking into the gains Zhang Che obtained on this trip, Miss Tienan's voice suddenly rang from outside, "I'm back, Zhang Xiaoche!"

In the next moment, she came walking in excitedly with a bounce in her feet with the rainbow spider and the Four-Winged White Tiger following behind her.

Then, she saw the elemental queen standing politely next to Zhang Che, looking around curiously.

"Zhang Xiaoche, aren't you going to introduce her?" she said with a smile, her eyes narrowed. However, Zhang Che sensed a thick killing intent coming from her.

Zhang Che shivered from head to toe. He quickly pointed at the elemental queen and said with a smile, "Haha, she is a helper I found for you from the beast world! She's a pure fire elemental creature, with top-class control over flames. It'll be much more convenient for you to handle some ingredients in the future."

Zhang Che's strong will to live left him led to him directly selling off the elemental queen without any hesitation, or thinking things through.

"Really? Thank you so much!" Huang Tielan replied, smiling, but her gaze shifted over to her father. When she saw Huang Juyun nodding lightly with a smile, she finally believed Zhang Che's words and looked at the elemental queen with extreme curiosity.

-Is this beautiful woman really not human? How very interesting!-

Zhang Che immediately regretted the things he had said while driven by his strong will to live. He really wanted to slap his mouth.

-Do I really have to give Miss Tienan such a great pet? Why do I feel so unwilling…-

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Chapter 435: A Plan to Raise Bees

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"Master…" Resentment could be seen on the elemental queen's face when she heard her Master wanting to give her away.

As a powerful fire elemental creature, she would only submit to those who were truly strong, not to mention Zhang Che had planted a rune on her soul. It was impossible for her to acknowledge another as her master!

"Tch, you don't mean what you say," Huang Tielan pouted after hearing Zhang Che's words. She laughed, "Do you really think I'd be jealous of an elemental creature? What a joke! But, Zhang Xiaoche, can she really refine some unique ingredients?"

Huang Tielan was naturally aware that the elemental queen was an extremely powerful creature. She would have no use for such a powerful pet when she stayed in the city all the time. Zhang Che, however, was always on the go. He'd be safer with more combat ability at his side.

-Is she really not jealous? Then was I imagining things or what?- Zhang Che was sure his sharp senses were right. Miss Tienan didn't know the elemental queen wasn't human at the start. It'd be strange if she wasn't jealous!

He smiled awkwardly and said, "Since she's not willing to, then forget it. But her control over the fire element is really high. Whenever I'm at home in the future, I can have her help you refine some ingredients and save you a lot of trouble."

The cultivation fluid of low-tier exotic beast cards usually only required some bio-materials. The cultivation fluid of mid-tier or higher beast cards, however, started requiring all kinds of ingredients, including some that were very hard to obtain. It was very hard to refine them, and could only be done by relying on experimental apparatuses.

If the elemental queen helped out, naturally problems dealing with fire control would be solved!

Also, given Huang Tielan's talent in beast card cultivation, it probably wouldn't be long before she could start attempting to concoct the cultivation fluid for mid-tier beast cards!

"Right, there's some good stuff you'll surely like."

Zhang Che suddenly remembered the spiritual honey he brought back this time. Although some of it would be used to produce medicine, there were close to five hundred kilograms of spiritual honey! Producing medicine would obviously not use up that much. Aside from keeping some for himself to eat with roasted exotic beast meat, he could give the rest to his mother, Miss Tienan, and the others for consumption.

Since even ordinary honey had the effect of beautification, the spiritual honey from the beast world naturally had better effects!

Huang Tielan was incredibly surprised when she saw the spiritual honey. Not only was it delicious, its effects were strong. Almost no woman would be able to resist its temptation. As such, the tiny bit of jealousy remaining in Miss Tienan's heart immediately disappeared without a trace.The next morning, Zhang Che brought his things and followed Huang Juyun to the Huang family's Herbal Research Institution once more.

Adding on the hundred ordinary spiritual herbs Zhang Che had obtained on this trip, the herbal field was expanded considerably.

As for the ginseng with strong spiritual power, some of its root hairs were taken to produce medicine, then transplanted onto the huge spiritual jade in the center of the herbal field, becoming a neighbor of the ice and fire lotuses.

After transplanting the ginseng, Zhang Che could clearly tell that the ginseng's spiritual waves were even stronger than the ice and fire lotuses.

It was no wonder the frisky monkey had such a strong desire to consume it when Zhang Che first dug out the ginseng.

Without a doubt, the ginseng was definitely able to help the frisky monkey rank up and become a mid-tier pet!

-Looks like I have to find a spiritual herb potent enough to let the frisky monkey advance to mid-tier when I enter the beast world next time. Otherwise, his quality will forever be stuck at dark gold, unable to advance any further…- Zhang Che thought. This was a very important matter.

The frisky monkey's search range was already this wide at dark gold-quality. If he could advance to legend-quality, let alone him becoming stronger and giving Zhang Che the option to order a super strong bow for him, even without using his daily skill, his passive search radius would be wide enough for them to go searching for spiritual herbs.

Zhang Che even thought that after the frisky money advanced to legend-quality, they would never miss another spiritual herb wherever they went. All of them would be discovered!

At that time, with the Huang family's herbal research and medicine producing facilities behind him, the benefits he'd obtain would simply be unimaginable with him providing an endless supply of spiritual herbs for them.

"Hmm, at that time, perhaps we'll have to continue expanding this herbal field!"

The corners of Zhang Che's lips drew back in a faint smile as he looked at the blossoming flowers from some of the spiritual herbs in the field, an idea suddenly struck him.

He extended his palm. A bronze card with four hexagrams appeared on it. His data eyes swept across it, and Zhang Che's smile grew even wider.

"Uncle Huang, I have an idea!"

Huang Juyun, who was giving instructions to the research personnel about cultivating the spiritual herbs at the side, stopped for a moment, then turned to look at Zhang Che. He nodded, indicating Zhang Che should continue.

"I killed many bee exotic beasts while I was in the beast world trying to harvest that beehive, and obtained over eighty beast cards. So, I was thinking… if we can find some mid-tier beastmasters who no longer have much potential of developing further and have them employ the bees to gather the nectar of these spiritual herbs, producing more spiritual honey with even higher spiritual force?"

The spiritual honey Zhang Che obtained was produced from the nectar the bees gathered from ordinary flowers in the beast world, and already contained enormous spiritual force.

If they could gather the nectar of spiritual herbs to produce honey, wouldn't they be able to produce top-grade spiritual honey?

Of course, with only several dozens bees, Zhang Che wasn't too optimistic about how much honey they could produce.

However, there weren't too many spiritual herbs in the field, either. Several dozen of them was enough for the job.

"Hmm?" Huang Juyun was simply blown away by Zhang Che's idea. He stopped what he was doing and asked in a slightly suspicious tone, "Are you sure those fellows can still produce honey after turning into beast cards?"

"We won't know until we try it," Zhang Che smiled, "Maybe it really will work? If that is really the case, we'll be able to get top-grade spiritual honey. No matter how little the amount, it'd be an extremely precious ingredient for producing medicine."

In fact, Zhang Che knew these beast card bees were able to, because his data eyes saw the card's attribute indicating they could still gather nectar to produce honey.

Of course, he would not say that directly, and chose to only bring up the idea to Huang Juyun.

Hearing Zhang Che's proposal, Huang Juyun immediately grew interested. If Zhang Che's idea could truly be realized, the value in doing so would be huge!

"Fine. We have many retired mid-tier beastmasters in the military department, who, for different reasons, can no longer step onto the battlefield. We'll hire them to employ these bees. Not only can they continue playing a part, it'll also solve our shortage of manpower in the short term."

After all, ordinary mid-tier beastmasters usually already have a small fortune. It wasn't realistic to hire them to raise bees.

The retired mid-tier beastmasters from the military department were mostly afflicted with disabilities in battle, and could no longer step onto the battlefield. Hiring them was a most suitable solution.

If the bees could really produce spiritual honey with even stronger spiritual power, the Huang family's herbal research institute would gain another important ingredient.

At the same time, the spiritual honey could be directly absorbed by the human body. It was a rare good thing for both beastmasters and commoners.Huang Juyun quickly treated this matter with utmost priority and began contacting the military department, hoping to recruit some mid-tier beastmasters retired due to disabilities and have them come over to the herbal research institute to employ the eighty-some exotic beast bees.

Zhang Che finally completed the tasks he had to take care of. He went home and spent a day with his family, ready to set off once more the next day to head to the next beast world, striving to advance to Tier Seven beastmaster as soon as possible.

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Chapter 436: The Clan's Casualty. The Elemental Queen Who Loves Watching Television

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At the Miyazaki Clan's place in Rejing, Nihong…

Miyazaki Takehara's brow were furrowed tightly, his face bleak.

In front of him was a stack of paper, with the records of all information related to Zhang Che in recent days.

The information was very simple. It detailed Zhang Che's tracks during this period of time, where he flew to on Dijiang-hao, and news of his return to Bei Du yesterday.

"It's been many days without news of Musashi-kun, and Zhang Che is still alive and kicking. Does this mean…"

He didn't dare to complete this train of thought.

After a long while, Miyazaki Takehara started shaking.

Although he wasn't willing to believe it, from what the information had shown, Musashi-kun's mission had obviously failed.

Zhang Che wasn't dead. The chances of Miyazaki Musashi being alive were too slim.

"How is this possible? Musashi-kun is a top-class expert of our Miyazaki Clan. Not only did he have high-tier epic-quality subdued beasts, he also had an extremely sharp spiritual sword fragment! Even if he was fighting other beastmasters of the same tier, he wouldn't lose to them! How could he lose his life at the hands of a mid-tier beastmaster?

"Could it be that our decision was wrong?

"How detestable! If we don't take revenge for this… it's impossible to take revenge…"

Although he really wanted to send out every expert in the clan to go to Hua Xia and grind Zhang Che into powder, as the Miyazaki Clan's clan leader, Miyazaki Takehara had to think of the clan's future.

The Miyazaki Clan had already fallen to a second-rate clan. With the fall of Miyazaki Musashi, their high-end combat force had taken a severe hit! If they continued deepening their feud with Zhang Che, they'd probably find themselves in big trouble in the future…

Miyazaki Takehara's expression was extremely dark.

In the end, he could only accept this result unwillingly. From now on, the Miyazaki Clan really had no way to continue finding trouble with that kid from Hua Xia.

"How hateful. Our Miyazaki Clan has actually fallen to such a state!" Miyazaki Takehara ground his teeth, his expression constantly changing. In the end, the light in his eyes dimmed. He let out a long sigh in disappointment and slapped his palm on the table, turning the stack of information to powder.

The news of Miyazaki Musashi's death wasn't spread inside the Miyazaki Clan, but the executives were notified one after another. For a period of time, it could be said that the upper echelon of the Miyazaki Clan was shrouded in a layer of dark clouds.

Afterward, the Miyazaki Clan had to make adjustments for many of their plans, especially their businesses in Hua Xia. They were all brought to a stop, and all clan members were withdrawn from Hua Xia.

Since Zhang Che was able to take down Miyazaki Musashi, in addition to having the Huang family as his backers, it would be very difficult for the Miyazaki Clan to withstand it if the Huangs wanted to take revenge.

After this huge setback, the Miyazaki Clan finally understood a truth: stop throwing lives away. Keeping to themselves and building themselves up was the way to go.

Alas, they understood this point a little too late.

If they hadn't gone to find trouble with Zhang Che at the start, their clan wouldn't have faced a series of huge changes afterwards, falling from grace as a first-rate clan in Nihong, and now they would even have trouble maintaining their status as a second-rate clan.

However, the Japanese were admittedly very resilient.

Despite suffering such a huge setback, they never lost their heart to claw their way back up. Everyone was united and worked hard in their respective fields, fighting to restore glory to their clan.

Perhaps a day would come when the Miyazaki Clan returned to being a first-rate clan in Nihong.

Of course, even if they restored the former glory of their clan, they wouldn't dare find trouble with Zhang Che anymore.

That remarkable kid from Hua Xia was already so terrifyingly strong as a mid-tier beastmaster. How incredible would he be after achieving high-tier beastmaster?

This kind of person was someone they mustn't offend further!

Regrettably, it was already too late by the time the Miyazaki Clan understood this point…Zhang Che brought the elemental queen home, and was given a fierce stare by his mother Sun Lan.

After he explained to her about the elemental queen's identity, and she breathed flames from her mouth on the spot, Sun Lan finally accepted this shocking matter.

She couldn't imagine this slender beautiful woman, who was even taller than Huang Tielan, was actually not human!

But since the elemental queen wasn't human, Sun Lan no longer paid much attention to her.

Afterwards, Zhang Che brought the elemental queen to register her identity and applied for a personal terminal for her.

At present, only the Huang family and Zhang Che's family knew about the elemental queen's identity. He didn't reveal the truth about her not being human.

With the Huang family's help, registering an identity for the elemental queen and getting her a personal terminal really wasn't a difficult task.

For the rest of the day, Zhang Che didn't go anywhere. He stayed at home and taught the elemental queen how to use her personal terminal, and taught her some common sense in society, as well as how to read.

In fact, during the past two days since his return from the beast world, Zhang Che taught her how to read.

She truly was an incredible creature. Her intelligence was on par with an adult human, and her learning ability was extremely high.

After three days of work, she was already able to recognize close to a thousand Chinese characters.

Of course, this was related to her talent. After all, she knew how to speak from the moment she was born. Recognizing characters was much simpler.

Zhang Che had no doubt that she would be able to integrate into the life of a human in a month at the most.

"Ai, if only I had such terrifying learning ability in my past life… I wouldn't have failed to get into a university otherwise, and had no choice but to become a technical student…" Zhang Che lamented, feeling envious of the elemental queen's learning ability.

He felt like his intelligence was being humiliated. In the end, he left the elemental queen at home to learn by herself, while he went to the Premium House beast card card and added the beast cards he obtained on this trip to the inventory.Business was getting better and better at the Premium House. His aunt and the others could no longer handle the workload, and the staff had expanded from three to ten people.

Zhang Che's ability to obtain mid-tier beast cards was more than enough to supply a small-scale beast card shop. Moreover, his hunting for mid-tier exotic beasts in his recent trips into the beast worlds meant they were all at least bronze-quality, with many of them being silver or gold-quality, not to mention a tiny fraction of them being dark gold-quality beast cards.

The quality of the beast cards they offered wasn't inferior to those large-scale beast card shops.

Seeing his fortune growing everyday, Zhang Che's mood finally became much better.

Well, the elemental queen was a different species. There was no need to compare himself to her. There was nothing comparable, anyway. No matter how amazing she was, she was only his pet in the end, wasn't she?

Thinking of it that way, Zhang Che's mood immediately became even better.However, when he returned home, streaks of black lines quickly covered his forehead when he saw what the elemental queen was doing.

The elemental queen was actually in the study watching a science fiction movie on her personal terminal!

She didn't even notice it when Zhang Che walked in. It went to show how engrossed she was in the movie!

This scene seemed a little wrong..? Zhang Che truly found it hard to imagine her becoming obsessed with television, just like that.

But this was fine, too. If she really became a terrifying nerd, the blow to him would be too much…

"Ah, Master, you're back!" The elemental queen finally sensed Zhang Che's aura behind her. Flustered, she stood up quickly, looking like she had been caught playing games by her parent, fidgeting nervously.

Zhang Che smiled and said, "It's fine. Continue watching if you like it. Just don't forget about your studies."

Seeing her Master not blaming her, the elemental queen immediately smiled. She nodded and said, "Don't worry, Master. This servant will learn very quickly. I won't embarrass Master."

Zhang Che smacked his lips, thinking, -What are you talking about? I'm afraid you'll learn too quickly. I'll really be embarrassed then…-

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Chapter 437: The Best Assistant For Concocting Cultivation Fluid

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Zhang Che originally planned to leave Bei Du the next day and head for the beast world to continue hunting exotic beasts, striving to achieve Tier Seven beastmaster as soon as possible. However, he had no choice but to put his journey on hold because of a joyous matter.

Huang Tielan remembered Zhang Che's promise to her. When she returned from school that night, she immediately had him bring the elemental queen along to help her refine the ingredients for concocting cultivation fluid.

Miss Tienan's experience in beast card cultivation was getting richer and richer, and thus she was getting a little inflated.

That night, she decided to try concocting the cultivation fluid for a mid-tier beast card to see if she could do it!

If she succeeded, it would prove that Huang Tielan had hopes of advancing soon. She'd only have to successfully concoct a few more cultivation fluids for mid-tier beast cards and she'd rise to become an intermediate beast card cultivator.

To put it in perspective, even the most talented geniuses needed at least a few years to advance from a primary beast card cultivator to an intermediate beast card cultivator!

As for those with ordinary talent, heavens knew how long they needed to achieve it!

Huang Tielan knew that Bei Du University's Professor Sun Qilong was said to be the most talented beast card cultivator of the last few decades. Even so, he took more than ten years from when he started learning about beast card cultivation to become an advanced beast card cultivator!

"Zhang Xiaoche, let your pet see if she can successfully refine these ingredients."

After all, they had not tested it. Nobody knew if the elemental queen could refine ingredients. Zhang Che only made guesses based on the mastery of fire control the elemental queen had showed when she was roasting meat!…

Today, Huang Tielan had a three-star bronze-quality earth-attributed beast card prepared. There were a few mineral ingredients required for the recipe.

Those ingredients naturally couldn't be extracted like how sap was squeezed out of plants. Machinery was needed to refine them. The operation had many steps and the process was complicated. If anything went slightly wrong and the purity wasn't above the required level, it would directly cause the failure of the experiment.

So, if the elemental queen could easily refine those minerals, that would be extremely useful in helping concoct the cultivation fluid in the future!

"Alright. I'm also looking forward to see if she can successfully refine the ingredients." Zhang Che nodded and turned to give the elemental queen the cue.

The elemental queen nodded at Zhang Che with a faint smile. A stone on the experimental table flew through the air to her, and a small gold and scarlet flame sprouted between her hands out of thin air.

It was like the elemental queen was performing magic. The rock hovering in mid-air slowly melted from the heat. The impurities inside were separated bit by bit, leaving only what was needed for producing cultivation fluid.

Zhang Che and Huang Tielan gasped in amazement at the sight of this.

Her method was very much similar to how some characters refined pills in the Xianxia novels he had read in his past life! It was truly a miraculous ability!

It went to show that the elemental queen was not only at the level of being able to control her flames as she wished, even her mental strength was incredible!

After all, no matter how high her talent was, it wouldn't be easy to reach this level without high mental strength.

"Zhang Xiaoche, I believe I can advance to intermediate beast card cultivator in the shortest time possible with her help!"

Huang Tielan's eyes shone brightly. She didn't expect that the pet Zhang Che had randomly found was not only beautiful, she was also a great help to her own career! The elemental queen was simply the best assistant bestowed by heaven!

Of course, if Huang Tielan learned of Zhang Che's once extravagant hope of having the elemental queen warm his bed, perhaps she'd directly explode and beat him to a pulp…With the elemental queen's help, the toughest-to-refine ingredients had ironically become the easiest ones to extract essences from. The dozen or so bio-materials, on the other hand, left Huang Tielan flustered and kept her busy for half a day before she finally finished concocting the cultivation fluid.

However, she didn't know where the procedure went wrong. Seeing the murky cultivation fluid in front of her, Huang Tielan showed a hint of disappointment on her face.

"Aiya, why did I fail? I clearly followed the recipe to a tee!"

Zhang Che consoled, "It's alright. You're concocting the cultivation fluid for a mid-tier beast card, after all. How can you succeed so easily? We have lots of time and money. Slowly accumulate your experience. It's fine."

Well, Zhang Che could be considered rich and imposing. Although he had spent a huge amount of purple crystal points to buy Dijiang-hao, he was still richer than most people. Failing to concoct the cultivation fluid for a mid-tier beast card was really an insignificant loss to him.

"Perhaps the recipe is wrong?" Huang Tielan suddenly realized after thinking for a long time.

After all, this recipe wasn't provided by Zhang Che, she got it from school. Although other beast card cultivators had successfully concocted cultivation fluid according to this recipe, heavens knew if it was just a stroke of luck.

"Let me have a look."

Zhang Che realized the same. He immediately used his data eyes and scanned the three-star bronze-quality beast card, then compared what he saw to the recipe Huang Tielan had brought back.

"Hmm, looks like there really is a problem with the recipe."

After comparing, Zhang Che discovered the recipe provided by his eyes and the recipe Huang Tielan brought back mostly used the same ingredients, except for two of them.

Of course, the difference wasn't big. Perhaps it was possible to concoct the cultivation fluid successfully using that recipe, but there was still a chance of failing.

"Then we'll try again. This time we're using your recipe!"

Miss Tienan wasn't someone who was defeated easily. She immediately regrouped herself after the setback and retrieved the required ingredients from the inventory and cold storage at the side, busying herself once more.

The advantages of them sweeping through the ingredient market could be seen. They had a huge collection of ingredients in stock. The ingredients needed for ordinary mid-tier beast cards could basically all be found here.

Even if there were a few missing, it didn't matter. The recipes provided by Zhang Che's data eyes weren't the only usable ones. Many ingredients could be substituted, although the success rate would be slightly affected.

The influence caused by this was almost negligible. As long as their luck wasn't too bad, and they made no mistake in the process, the cultivation fluid could be successfully concocted!Indeed, more than an hour later, the three-star bronze-quality beast card successfully advanced to four-star. Huang Tielan immediately laughed excitedly.

"Hahahaha, Zhang Xiaoche, I finally did it!"

Zhang Che broke out into a smile when he saw how happy Huang Tielan was.

In order to consolidate what Miss Tienan learned from this experience, Zhang Che quickly decided to postpone his trip to the beast world for a day. He'd stay at home tomorrow and let Huang Tielan torment the elemental queen.

In any case, advancing to Tier Seven beastmaster wasn't something achievable in mere days. As of now, nothing was more important than for Huang Tielan to advance into an intermediate beast card cultivator.Obviously, the elemental queen wasn't too happy about Zhang Che's decision. However, she couldn't object to her master's decision.

"Then, Master, may I watch television while refining the ingredients?"

Zhang Che was slightly taken aback. "Won't that affect your refining of the ingredients?"

The elemental queen replied proudly, "Of course not! These are only the most basic tasks. I can guarantee zero mistakes even if I did it with my eyes closed!" As the fire elemental queen, naturally she had great confidence in herself.

"Alright then. As long as it doesn't affect the refining, you can do whatever you want."

Zhang Che wanted the elemental queen to integrate into human society as soon as possible. Watching television was a pretty good way of integrating herself. At the very least, the elemental queen could learn a great deal of general knowledge.

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Chapter 438: The Application of Fire Crystals

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After hearing the conversation between Zhang Che and the elemental queen, Huang Tielan's eyes quickly went wide.

"Zhang Xiaoche, she can understand television dramas?"

The elemental queen was a pet Zhang Che had brought back from the beast world. She had been in contact with human society for less than two days and she could already understand dramas? Not only that, based on what she had just said, Huang Tielan could tell that this humanoid pet not only understood the drama, it seemed like she was hooked on it!

Heavens, this wasn't making any sense!

Zhang Che nodded, smiling, "Yeah, I suppose there's nothing more interesting to her than television."

Huang Tielan was speechless, not understanding pets nowadays.

She turned back to look at the rainbow spider and the Four-Winged White Tiger playing around quietly at the side. She felt that those kind of pets were cuter.

Regrettably, those two little gluttons had to eat a lot everyday. But why weren't they growing any stronger?

It couldn't be helped; perhaps their potential was too high, and as a result it became especially difficult for them to grow..?

Thinking of pets, Huang Tielan remembered Zhang Che's Umbra Wind God Leopard and asked curiously, "Hmm? Oh, right, Zhang Xiaoche, I remember you have a little pet leopard. Why didn't I see you bring it back?"

Zhang Che was stunned for a moment after hearing that. He replied, "Oh, that little fellow really enjoys having freedom. I left him in the beast world. I'll bring him back next time."

Meanwhile, he was thinking he had really overlooked that point.

Nobody knew about him possessing the rainbow crystal, which allowed him to keep his pets in his spiritual sea. From the looks of it, he would have to bring the Umbra Wind God Leopard around at his side permanently. Otherwise, it could become extremely troublesome if others were drawn to this suspicious point.

"Hmm? How old is that thing? You left him in the beast world? Isn't it dangerous?" Huang Tielan asked. Her rainbow spider and Four-Winged White Tiger were still very weak. If they were left in the beast world, they'd probably not survive longer than three days. Wasn't Zhang Che afraid of an accident, leaving that little leopard alone in the beast world?

Zhang Che chuckled, "Nothing will happen to it. That little fellow ate a few powerful exotic beasts of the same attributes and is now at five-star dark gold-quality. I left him at a place close to the safety zone; he won't be in any danger."

Huang Tielan jumped in shock when she heard the Umbra Wind God Leopard was already at five-star dark gold-quality.

How long had it been, and that little fellow had already grown to that degree?

She cast another look at her own rainbow spider and Four-Winged White Tiger, feeling like their pets couldn't be compared with one another. Zhang Xiaoche was really too enviable…

-Luckily I'm not pursuing the path of a beastmaster as my career. Otherwise, wouldn't I lose all motivation to improve myself?-The next day, November of the Year 36 of the New Age, dawned on mankind.

Although it wasn't a weekend today, Huang Tielan managed to apply for a day off school very easily. At present, she was far ahead of her peers, and had an extremely unique status in school.

After all, a freshman like her, who had enrolled into the university for only half a year was already an official beast card cultivator! There was no precedent in a top-tier major like beast card cultivation at Bei Du University!

As such, the ways of managing ordinary students were no longer suitable for her.

Despite not having to go to school, Huang Tielan woke up early and took out the few mid-tier beast cards she had gotten from Zhang Che yesterday night, then started attempting to concoct their respective cultivation fluids.

Of course, Zhang Che didn't tell her the complete recipes. He withheld information on some key ingredients for every beast card's cultivation fluid's recipe, requiring Huang Tielan to figure things out on her own. It wouldn't be very useful for Huang Tielan's training if he gave her the complete recipes.

The elemental queen followed Huang Tielan into the lab, refining ingredients for her leisurely while watching television on her personal terminal.

Although she wasn't focused on the task, the elemental queen was able to refine every ingredient easily and precisely according to Huang Tielan's demands, leaving the latter in awe.

She realized her rejecting Zhang Che's "gift" two nights ago was really a big loss. After getting used to letting the elemental queen doing the refining, it became scary to think of having to do refining herself, going through all the complicated steps on the machines.

That was truly too much work, not to mention the high chance of making a mistake!

However, Huang Tielan wasn't someone who went against her words. Since she had rejected Zhang Che's gift at the start, she would never bring it up again.

If she had to work a little harder, then so be it. Zhang Che wouldn't stay in the beast world permanently, anyway. At the most, she'd just wait for Zhang Che to come back when she wanted to concoct cultivation fluids for mid-tier or higher beast cards.Miss Tienan busied herself for the whole day. Meanwhile, Zhang Che spent his day leisurely.

Having gotten used to fighting in the beast world all the time, it left him a little unused to suddenly doing nothing.

Luckily, his future father-in-law called for him around noon.

After ending the call with Huang Juyun, Zhang Che was shocked beyond words.

It had only been a little more than a day, and the Huang family already had some discoveries on the fire crystals' uses!

They truly lived up to their name as a large clan, having strength in all areas.

If it was Zhang Che himself, it really wouldn't have been easy for him to research the use of a new mineral, not to mention the mountain of administrative work in the process!Zhang Che rushed over to the Huangs' place. Huang Juyun handed him a stack of papers and said, "After these two days of research, the basic function of those fire crystals was found. But we'll definitely have to keep studying them to unearth all their applications."

Zhang Che received the information and took a look, feeling impressed.

Although it had only been a short time and they hadn't been able to find out all the uses of the fire crystals, the Huang family's research institution had done many experiments, and had preliminary conclusions.

First, the fire crystals contain an extremely pure and stable fire elemental energy. It was so stable that there was no hidden dangers of the energy inside exploding even if the fire crystal was melted.

This point alone was very important!

Due to its high stability, the researchers speculated that the fire crystals could be used as energy crystals, acting as a power supply for some new equipment.

Take Zhang Che's private sky shuttle, the Dijiang-hao, for example. If he used the fire crystals as its power source, the energy contained within was ten times that of the energy minerals he was using!

A kilogram of the original energy mineral could support Dijiang-hao's flight for about fifty thousand kilometers. If Zhang Che used the fire crystals as the energy source instead, a kilogram of them would allow Dijiang-hao to fly more than five hundred thousand kilometers!

Such a powerful energy source would simply shock anyone who heard about it!

The fire crystals Zhang Che brought back this time weighed about a ton in total. If he used them to supply energy to Dijiang-hao, he'd never have to worry about any problems related to energy supply again.

Of course, there was no need to use the fire crystals so extravagantly, since Dijiang-hao was already supplied with energy minerals.

There were still other uses of the fire crystals waiting to be discovered.

On the other hand, the researchers had discovered that by mixing a certain amount of fire crystals into cold weapons, the weapons forged would add strong fire damage to their attacks. Even mid-tier gold-quality exotic beasts would be harmed by those weapons.

That alone was much better than simply using them as an energy source!

After all, not every beastmaster had powerful subdued beasts. Oftentimes, beastmasters had to participate in battles themselves. If they had a powerful weapon with them, their survivability would no doubt increase greatly!

"Only these two applications have been discovered for now due to the lack of time. There should be other uses for the fire crystals; their value is truly hard to estimate," Huang Juyun sighed, "Oh, right, do you remember where you found the fire crystals? It'd definitely be a massive fortune if we can find more of them. Not only that, this type of new mineral is of epoch-making significance to humanity. With further research, it's not impossible to produce weapons that can deal fire damage from a long distance. If it is realized, your contributions will become even greater!"

Zhang Che had already obtained a "pardon token" after handing over the information of exotic beast genetic evolution fluid. Almost no one in Hua Xia would dare to do anything against him in the open. If he could supply a large amount of this new mineral, his status would surely soar once more.

Even without relying on the Huang family, Zhang Che could form a powerful clan by himself, becoming one of the most important members among the large factions in Hua Xia.

Zhang Che had obviously garnered the meaning behind Huang Juyun's words as well. He nodded, saying, "Uncle Huang, I still remember where the mine is located, but I'm not sure how many reserves are still there. I'll definitely go back and explore carefully when I head out the next time, and try to bring more back."

However, Huang Juyun waved his hand, saying, "No hurry regarding this matter. We still have to conduct further research on the fire crystals. The amount you've brought back this time is enough for now. The most important thing for you right now is still to advance to Tier Seven beastmaster as soon as possible. Your individual strength is what's important.

"As for the fire crystals, it's not too late for you to go back to dig for them after we're done exploring their applications and pushing them into the market. There's only three years left until the arrival of the fifth beast swarm, not to mention there's still the hidden threat of the demons behind all this. You need to strive to raise your strength to a higher tier, so you have the strength to protect yourself and your family during the horde.

"Remember, your own strength is more important than any material possession!"

Zhang Che straightened his face, nodding heavily, "I understand, Uncle Huang!"

Indeed, Huang Juyun was right. At present, Zhang Che's wealth was more than enough for him. It wasn't good to invest much more effort in this area.

Without strength, what use was having a greater fortune?

If even stronger exotic beasts appeared in the fifth beast swarm, or the demons launched another large-scale invasion, in addition to their high-end combat forces being able to enter Mercury, the results would be unthinkable!

"Alright, go back and prepare yourself. Continue heading into the beast worlds tomorrow," Huang Juyun waved his hand, shooing Zhang Che away from his place.After returning home, Zhang Che saw Miss Tienan was actually out of the lab.

She was chatting with Sun Lan and Sun Shaoying. When she saw Zhang Che had returned, she couldn't help but exclaim excitedly, "Zhang Xiaoche, the elemental queen is really too powerful! I succeeded in concocting the cultivation fluid for two more mid-tier beast cards, and levelled them up!"

Zhang Che revealed a faint smile after hearing Huang Tielan's slightly boastful words.

As long as Miss Tienan became an intermediate, or even advanced, beast card cultivator as soon as possible, there'd be hope for his subdued beasts to quickly level up.

Although an increase in level wouldn't bring about an improvement as significant as an increase in quality, it was still an improvement, especially for six-star subdued beasts. If they could successfully advance to seven-stars, which was advancing from mid-tier to high-tier, their strength would soar!

"Not bad, we still have to continue working hard going forward!"

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Chapter 439: Entering the Beast World Once More. The Origin Cult

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Edited by Aelryinth

The next day, Zhang Che rushed to Bei Du Airport early in the morning and set off in Dijiang-hao once more. He brought the elemental queen with him.

This left both Huang Tielan and the elemental queen dejected.

Miss Tienan lost a great assistant. She would have to go through complicated steps using the machines to refine some ingredients when concocting cultivation fluids from now on. She couldn't help but feel regret again. It would have been great if she had gone with Zhang Che's suggestion and kept the elemental queen at her side.

On the other hand, the elemental queen was sad that she could no longer watch television. She came to understand that human technology were unusable after entering the beast worlds. Even though she still had her personal terminal with her, it became something akin to a monk's comb; useless!

Of course, she knew that her master was in urgent need of raising his strength, and they'd be staying in the beast worlds for a long period of time in the foreseeable future.

This left her in even more pain. Without television to watch, the elemental queen felt like her life had turned dull gray.

Zhang Che didn't know whether to laugh or cry after understanding this. She was simply like a young internet-addicted girl, the kind who was deeply poisoned!

"Don't worry. When your master advances to high-tier beastmaster, we'll surely return and rest for a good period of time. You can watch all you want at that time," Zhang Che promised the elemental queen.

Of course, even if he didn't make such a promise, as a pet that was fully under his control, the elemental queen would execute all his orders unconditionally, even if he told her to kill herself.

However, she was a pet with human intelligence, after all. He still had to take care of her feelings.Dijiang-hao took off from Bei Du Airport, speeding off to the south.

It was worth mentioning that the Hua Xia Airline Company's business was developing rapidly.

At Bei Du Airport, Zhang Che saw three four-man sky shuttles, their models similar to Dijiang-hao. He could see that the materials used to build their bodies weren't as luxurious, however, only mixing in a small amount of purple-gold crystal and other rare minerals.

"That's normal. There aren't many who are rich and willing to spend like me," Zhang Che sighed contentedly, feeling like the other plane owners were all paupers, and he was the richest.

Strictly speaking, in terms of personal wealth, there might not be anyone in this world who was richer than Zhang Che.

Of course, the legendary high-tier beastmasters with divine-quality subdued beast might be able to rival Zhang Che's wealth, or even surpass him.

After all, a divine-quality subdued beast alone was an invaluable treasure. It couldn't be bought no matter how much wealth one had.

However, there shouldn't be many beastmasters of such caliber. Across all of Mercury, there shouldn't be more than a hundred beastmasters with divine-quality subdued beasts.

-I wonder when will I have a divine-quality subdued beast of my own…!- Zhang Che fantasized.

Although the Umbra Wind God Leopard had the potential to mature into a nine-star super divine-quality beast, he was only at five-star dark gold-quality at the moment. Heavens knew how long it would take for him to fully mature into his final form…

It would probably be impossible to grow to that stage without a few years' time just by relying on absorbing the rainbow crystal's energy. He wouldn't be able to make it before the next beast swarm. That was, unless Zhang Che could hunt large amounts of high-tier high-quality dark or wind-attributed exotic beasts to feed the Umbra Wind God Leopard.

Even so, such matters depended entirely on luck. Although Zhang Che knew that his luck had always been very good, it was impossible to be good to that extent!

While in Dijiang-hao, Zhang Che began looking fantasizing about the future, while the elemental queen used whatever time she had left to watch her favorite dramas and movies.

After entering the beast world, she wouldn't get to watch television for a few days at the very least. To someone like her, who had just gotten addicted to television, it was something unbearable.

Zhang Che cast a glance at the elemental queen, thinking to himself, -Perhaps I have to redirect her interests. I wonder if she likes reading?

-If I can use reading materials like novels to redirect her attention, she wouldn't have no entertainment even if we are in the beast worlds…-

The more Zhang Che thought about this, the more he felt this would work.

Regrettably, Zhang Che had never taken a proper look at the novels in this world. He didn't know if the web novel business was as big as it was on Earth.

It was unlikely. It had been decades since the beast worlds invaded Mercury. Humanity was facing a crisis that threatened their survivability. Who in the right mind would go write web novels?

-Could it be that I will have to write down the novels I've read?-

Although Zhang Che's mental strength had improved tremendously, especially since the golden vortex had appeared in his spiritual sea, and leading to his memory greatly improving (among other things), it would be a huge undertaking to reproduce the web novels he had read in his past life.

-It's impossible! I didn't transmigrate with The Great Writer [System]. How can I reproduce the things I've read?-

Shaking his head, Zhang Che quickly rejected that idea.Night gradually fell. John Black tidied his appearance, showing both excitement and anxiety on his face.

After a period of observation, his good buddy Helicis told him that the lord emissary of the Origin Cult had agreed to assess him. He would become a member of the Origin Cult once he passed the assessment.

From what he had heard, the lord emissary was a powerful high-tier beastmaster. Not only that, he could borrow the divine strength of the Origin God and had once slain a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast by himself.

Also, the Origin Cult would bestow powerful beast cards to their loyal members generously, greatly increasing their strength.

In the past, his good buddy Helicis only had a four-star silver-quality beast card. After passing the assessment and joining the Origin Cult, he was given a four-star dark gold-quality beast card, instantly becoming a few times stronger.

Just as John's imagination was roaming, his buddy Helicis hurried him, urging, "John, are you ready? We have to leave. There are many outer members being assessed tonight. We mustn't be late, or the lord emissary will think you aren't sincere enough towards the Origin God, and not approve you joining the cult."

"Ah, I'm ready, I'm ready. Let's go."

Both John and Helicis were from common households. Although they had become mid-tier beastmasters, due to their talent and their families, they were only at the bottom of the rung among mid-tier beastmasters.

Now that there was a chance to change his fate, John would naturally grab hold of it.

The two left. They first went by car to a chaotic slum in northwest Xinxiang City. Afterwards, under Helisis' guidance, they walked into an alley.

Why would the Origin Cult choose to set up their base in this slum? Although John felt curious and suspicious about it, he didn't think much about it when he thought of how much help the cult gave to its members, as well as his good buddy Helisis' personal experience.

It was likely that the Origin Cult setting their base here reflected their sincerity in helping the poor and the commoner beastmasters.

After all, the powerful beastmasters in the richer areas wouldn't care if the common beastmasters had powerful subdued beasts, or whether they could survive better in the beast worlds.After traveling close to half an hour along the complicated alleys, John finally arrived at the Origin Cult's building under Helisis' guidance.

A large number of mid-tier beastmasters were already gathered here. None of them were highly gifted, and all were from poor backgrounds. Everyone was brought here by their respective guides, standing quietly inside a large warehouse, waiting for the arrival of the lord emissary.

Two rows of beastmasters with powerful auras stood solemnly around the warehouse. Although they didn't summon out their respective subdued beasts, John could tell that those people were definitely high-tier beastmasters.

At the appointed time, a large door inside the warehouse suddenly opened. A tall young man shrouded in a layer of mysterious radiance walked out of the door.

Just as the blond young man walked out, people could sense the powerful aura on him, which was several times greater than the two rows of guards.

Not only that, for some unknown reason, John felt a faint impulse to worship this lord emissary when he first saw him.

According to the rumors, the lord emissary had received the teachings of the Origin God and had a trace of the Origin God's powers in him. It was probably one of the reasons he seemed incredibly powerful.

In that instant, John decided to become the most loyal believer of the Origin Cult, no matter if he passed the assessment or not!

He stared at the blond lord emissary, not realizing that his eyes were covered in a layer of strange light. It was exactly this layer of strange light that influenced his mind without him realizing it.

The blond emissary seemed to have noticed John's gaze, sweeping a gaze filled with warmth and a mysterious energy over, settling on him. This left John feeling as if he was fully exposed in front of the lord emissary, with no secrets to speak of.

John was incredibly shocked. -Is this Lord Emissary's true strength? Indeed, it's even stronger than what Helisis had described!

-Looks like I made the right choice. If I can join the Origin Cult and receive high quality beast cards bestowed by Lord Emissary, my life will change completely!-

"I, the messenger of the great Origin God, Giggs Bliss, hereby welcome everyone…"

His gaze swept across everyone present. A blurry, unnoticeable strange energy enveloped everyone. The blond youth's voice seemed to originate from the ancient void, directly ringing from the bottom of everyone's hearts.

For an instant, everyone present had a hint of blurry yet fanatical gaze in their eyes.

At that moment, even if the blond youth told them to go die, most of them would draw their weapons without hesitation and slice them across their own necks.

Giggs Bliss continued speaking. The light in everyone's eyes gradually became more serene…

Translator's Note

1: A reference to a web novel by author Mu Yi Shao Yi Heng. The title is just something I came up on the fly as there are no translations for the novel available.

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Chapter 440: Spiritual Herb Gatherer. First Snow

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

After flying more than four hours in Dijiang-hao, they finally arrived at their destination, Tianfang City.

This city didn't have a big population. It was similar in size to Qian Wei City, and situated in southeast Hua Xia.

When Dijiang-hao landed near the spatial gateway a few dozen kilometers south of Tianfang City, the elemental queen immediately looked at Zhang Che pitifully and pleaded, "Ah, Master, may I finish this movie first? There's less than half an hour of it left."

-Crap, this woman is completely obsessed with television.-

Zhang Che slapped his forehead, sighing, "Alright, we'll enter the beast world after you're done with the movie."

It was only half an hour. Zhang Che could spare that much time.

The key thing was, if he didn't let the elemental queen finish the movie first, she'd probably be unhappy for the next few days. As a result, she wouldn't look as pretty. In order to let his eyes enjoy her comforting looks, Zhang Che could only agree to her request.

"Ha, Master is the best!" the elemental queen cheered, jumping in joy, and kissed Zhang Che on his cheek.

Zhang Che blanked out for a moment. His face changed rapidly; he swallowed hard and asked, "Ugh, where did you learn that from?"

-Damn, the television nowadays can really teach children bad things very easily! A pure creature like the elemental queen only came into contact with television for two, three days and she actually learned this!-

As expected, when she heard Zhang Che's question, the elemental queen immediately chuckled, "From the television, of course! Isn't this the way humans express their gratitude?"

-Express gratitude?

-Express what freaking gratitude!?-

But, in order to prevent any unwanted accidents, Zhang Che deliberated this matter for a while and said, "Mmm, although I really like this method of expressing gratitude, it's better not to do it in front of others in the future."

The elemental queen chuckled, looking like she had seen through him and said, "I understand, Master. Especially not in front of Lady Master, right?"

-Lady Master? What a terrible way of addressing her. I hope Miss Tienan won't immediately fly into a rampage when she hears that.- {TLN: It sounds similar to paternal grandmother.}

-Also, she actually seems to know this action wasn't for expressing gratitude or whatever, and was purely teasing me?

-Indeed, a humanoid pet isn't really a completely good thing.- Zhang Che sighed inside, resolving to finding some serious books to let the elemental queen read. He mustn't let her be absorbed with television any longer. Otherwise, heavens knew how things would turn out in the future…Half an hour passed very quickly. Dijiang-hao's cabin door opened. Zhang Che walked out with the elemental queen under the envious looks of the soldiers in the military camp, and crossed the spatial gateway.

The elemental queen truly drew too many eyeballs.

After entering the safety zone, she became the focus once again, regardless of men or women.

Feeling the gazes from the surrounding people gathering onto them, Zhang Che couldn't help but frown slightly.

Although he wasn't afraid of any troubles, being looked upon like a monkey by others didn't feel good.

As such, he turned around and asked, "Can you cover your face?"

The elemental queen was slightly taken aback, then nodded and said, "Sure I can, Master. I can manipulate the fire elements to form an elemental veil. Do you want me to cover my face right now?"

"Forget it. We'll talk about this in the future," Zhang Che waved his hand helplessly. What a joke. If the elemental queen directly conjured a fire elemental veil on her face in front of the crowd, wouldn't that immediately signal to them that her identity was suspicious?

Zhang Che didn't want to draw unnecessary trouble to himself. It was better to save it for next time. He'd let her put on the fire elemental veil before they appeared in front of others.

In any case, others wouldn't be able to tell the veil was made from fire elements, like how the red tight-fitting armor the elemental queen was wearing looked like leather armor made from exotic beast skin.After walking out of the crowded safety zone, Zhang Che summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon out. He and the elemental queen jumped onto the dragon's back, flying off in a predetermined direction.

With the map and information provided by Huang Juyun, Zhang Che only needed to fly according to the route indicated on the map. They wouldn't waste any time on the way.

This time, he didn't want to just hunt down all the mid-tier exotic beasts at the places on the map. He also wanted to harvest all the spiritual herbs in those areas!

It wasn't just to find a spiritual herb potent enough to let the frisky monkey rank up. The more ordinary spiritual herbs, the better, too!

His father-in-law had already started recruiting retired mid-tier military beastmasters and begun the beekeeping business. He had to prepare more spiritual herbs in return!

Since Zhang Che had grown much stronger, and with the map marking out the dangerous areas accurately, he didn't limit the speed of the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. A two thousand-some kilometers journey was completed in less than three hours.

However, Zhang Che was still a little unsatisfied at that.

If the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon could become stronger, his flight speed would exceed the speed of sound. That way, they'd take less time travelling, not to mention the additional benefit of being able to shake off the powerful exotic beasts who didn't excel in flying when they found themselves in dangerous situations…They set off from Bei Du in the morning. By the time they arrived at their destination, it was already the afternoon.

Now, Zhang Che was left with less than five hours to hunt exotic beasts before he had to find a place to rest, as night would fall at that time.

Seeing the abundance of exotic beasts around them, Zhang Che was in a great mood. He summoned his capable babies one after another with a wave of his hand, then separated them into a few teams and went about massacring the innocent creatures.

Today, Zhang Che wasn't in a hurry to gather spiritual herbs. It was quite a waste of time to look for spiritual herbs while hunting exotic beasts. It was better to focus on doing one task at a time and wait until the exotic beasts in this area were killed off, then start searching for spiritual herbs starting tomorrow.

The main force in hunting exotic beasts was Zhang Che, flying on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon with the scarlet and white sword summoned out. The Earthen Rock Demon was strong, but its speed was a little slow, and thus it lagged slightly behind.

The third fastest was naturally the elemental queen, whose strength was on the level of epic-quality beasts.

The newly-advanced epic-quality Scarlet Flame Drake, however, was much lower in efficiency compared to the top three due to its static attacking method.

Of course, if they encountered some powerful exotic beast, that fellow's strength was just beneath Zhang Che's! Not only that, but from a certain perspective, its explosive power was even a little stronger than Zhang Che using the scarlet and white sword!

Half a day passed by quickly. Zhang Che had no choice but to stop and find a place to rest, then continue on his dry journey of grinding monsters to break through the next day.Although it was barely into November, the cold seemed to set in especially early this year.

On this morning, when the sky was barely lit, white snow suddenly fell from the skies above Bei Du.

Huang Tielan woke up early and saw the roofs and courtyard outside were covered in a thin layer of snow. However, the snow in the sky fell increasingly fiercely. No one could tell how thick the snow would accumulate in the end.

"Ah, it's snowing!"

It had been a few years since Huang Tielan had seen snow. When she left for Qian Wei City with her father, the winters there had no snowfall. Now that she suddenly saw snow falling, her mood was exceptionally great.

"What a pity that Zhang Xiaoche left for the beast world yesterday. Otherwise, we can go take a walk outside in the snow and have some fun together…" Huang Tielan couldn't help but feel a little down after her initial excitement.

The timing with which Zhang Che left was too coincidental. He just left yesterday and it started snowing today. How depressing! However, Huang Tielan immediately showed a smile. The young girl in her acted up as she ran to the courtyard and began building snowmen.

After working for some time, two big snowmen appeared on the ground.

One of them had the obvious features of a woman. It was standing, with one of its hands extended. The other had the features of a man, down on one knee. It was holding onto the female snowman's extended hand with both its hands, its head raised, seemingly asking for something.

Obviously, this was a scene of a proposal.

Seeing her handiwork, Huang Tielan first let out a bright smile, then came back to herself, crying, "Ah, how embarrassing! I can't let others see this…" She quickly went forward and pushed down the snowmen.

After doing all this, she looked around with a guilty conscience. Luckily, no one else saw that, or she wouldn't have the face to show herself…

Winter came. Spring wasn't far away.At the Huang family's herbal research base…

When the first snow fell, the staff in the base quickly became busy.

Although most spiritual herbs weren't afraid of the cold weather, some measures had to be taken to maintain a better growth environment for the spiritual herbs.

Close to a hundred staff went into motion, pulling out large amounts of building materials from the warehouse and started to build a huge greenhouse on the herbal field, ensuring the temperature inside wouldn't get too low and affecting the growth of some spiritual herbs, especially since some of them were about to bloom. If it was too cold, it might affect the blossoming!

Huang Juyun had been trying hard to apply to the brass, hoping they'd transfer a batch of disabled and retired mid-tier beastmasters to him to employ the bee beast cards and begin testing the production of spiritual honey.

If the blossoming of the spiritual herbs was affected, it would undoubtedly cause a huge delay to the project.

Having large amounts of manpower made things easy, in addition to the help of some engineering machines. The staff in the base soon finished building a large greenhouse that encompassed the entire herbal field. At the same time, they also built a heating system, allowing them to maintain the temperature inside within a suitable range.

When Huang Juyun came over to survey the herbal field, the greenhouse was already completed, and the heating system was being set up.

"Mmm, everyone has worked hard. We'll have to look after this herbal field well."

This concerned the production of high quality spiritual honey. They couldn't afford to be careless at all!

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Chapter 441: Snow Disaster. A Cold and Gloomy Underground Cave

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Snow wasn't only falling in Bei Du. Heavy snow was falling across almost all of northern Hua Xia today.

Also, once the snowfall started, there were no signs of it stopping.

At the start, it was only regular heavy snowfall. It grew heavier and heavier, and in the end, the snow falling from the sky was as large as a man's palm!

That was terrifying!

In Mercury's recorded history, there nad never been snowfall with snowflakes the size of a palm.

What did that signify? It didn't need any explanation. If the heavy snowfall persisted, soon it would become a terrifying snow disaster.

The government office and the military were immediately mobilized. They started arranging people everywhere to start clearing the snow, preventing it from accumulating too thickly, which would lead to the collapse of buildings and cause casualties.

At the same time, people started investigating why there was such a heavy snowfall, hoping to find the underlying reasons.

Obviously, it wasn't just the change in climate. There should be some external factors affecting it.

Soon, people thought of the demonic gateways that had appeared recently.

It had been over three decades since the arrival of the new age. Exotic beasts had once run rampant on Mercury, and some of the spiritual qi in the beast worlds leaked into this side of the world through the spatial gateways. However, it had never caused any changes in climate on Mercury.

On the other hand, the demonic gateways appeared on Mercury only recently, and such huge changes to the climate had occurred. Who wouldn't believe that those mysterious black doors were responsible for it?

At the start, everyone thought there would be a peaceful period after the withdrawal of the demonic army across the lands. In the end, they were too naive.

The change in climate was probably due to demonic energy seeping in through the black doors, making winter arrive early this year, and even prompting such terrifyingly heavy snowfall.

For a period of time, dark clouds shrouded the heads and minds of the top brass.Zhang Che had no idea such huge changes were happening on Mercury.

After he woke up in the morning and had breakfast together with the elemental queen and frisky monkey, they went on to continue their hunt for exotic beasts in this area, transforming into cruel slaughterers. Any and all exotic beasts in his sight that could provide him with soul force points were hunted down.

From mid-tier bronze-quality to high-tier dark gold-quality, countless exotic beasts lost their lives to Zhang Che's army, and he was quickly accumulating beast cards in his spatial storage.

"Ha ha! When I'm done sweeping all the marked beast worlds and exotic beasts in those areas, the beast cards should be enough to last the Premium House for a long period of time." Zhang Che couldn't help but grow excited.

Who else could supply the beast cards for a beast card shop that dealt with only premium goods by themselves? It would be very difficult even for a high-tier beastmaster!

Zhang Che's mood was even better. He let the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon display his terrifying speed, cutting down every mid-tier or higher exotic beast they came across.

After an indeterminate amount of time, the elemental queen who had separated from him to kill exotic beasts in another direction suddenly came flying back to him.

"Master, I found a place over there."

-Hmm?- Zhang Che was moved. He quickly asked, "What kind of place? Is there an epic-quality exotic beast there?"

There shouldn't be any other matter except the appearance of epic-quality exotic beast that would make the elemental queen act so serious and come to inform him.

Of course, it was also possible that she had discovered an extremely powerful exotic beast and came to warn him, in case he accidentally wandered into its territory. That would be very troublesome.

"It's a large underground tunnel. I can sense a cold aura inside. It's possible an epic-quality exotic beast is in there."

As a fire elemental spirit, the elemental queen was extra sensitive to the elements in her surroundings, especially the cold elements which were the exact opposite of her own element. She could detect them even from a distance.

-Underground… cold aura?-

Zhang Che knitted his brow slightly, then asked, "Are you sure the exotic beast inside won't be too powerful?"

After all, it was too cramped underground. It was definitely impossible for the Earthen Rock Demon to display its strength. It would greatly affect the overall strength of Zhang Che's army.

At the same time, if the exotic beast inside was too strong, he wouldn't risk himself so casually. If he went in there and encountered a divine-quality beast, who knew if he could even make it back out?

His life was of utmost importance. Zhang Che wouldn't enter such unknown environments casually, even for an epic-quality exotic beast.

The elemental queen nodded, answering with certainty, "I'm sure. Although the aura makes me uncomfortable, the existence inside shouldn't be too strong. Even if I can't win, with Master's strength, it should be no problem for you."

The elemental queen naturally knew how powerful Zhang Che's scarlet and white sword was.

Although she had her tricks to avoid it, that didn't mean that the exotic beast inside was immune to the scarlet and white sword, too.

Moreover, although the exotic beast had a conflicting attribute, and the elemental queen might not be able to display her full strength, her master had another similarly powerful fire-attributed subdued beast, didn't he?

One plus one was greater than two in battles. They'd be able to provide great support to their master.

After thinking for a short while, Zhang Che nodded heavily. "Come on, we'll go take a look over there."

He was confident in his strength. Since the elemental queen had said the exotic beast inside the underground tunnel wouldn't be too strong, then they should be able to handle it.

Also, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was in urgent need of devouring cold-attributed exotic beast to break through to the next level, or perhaps even advance in quality.

As long as the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon improved, his flight speed could go beyond the speed of sound. That was very significant to Zhang Che. In such a case, it was totally worth it to take this tiny risk!

Hence, Zhang Che gathered his troops and recalled them, then had the elemental queen jump onto the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, sitting in front of him to lead the way, and they flew towards that underground tunnel.

During the flight, the elemental queen suddenly asked mischievously, "Master, can you hold me? The wind is really strong!"

Streaks of black lines appeared on Zhang Che's forehead. -You're really poisoned from watching too much television… Also, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon can perfectly ward off the air resistance during flight. What do you mean, the wind is strong?-

"Stop fooling around. Focus on leading the way!" Zhang Che chided, slapping the back of her head lightly.

"Kakaka, Master, in the television, aren't people who ride together always hugging one another to prevent falling off?"

-Indeed, she's deeply poisoned…- Zhang Che decided to ignore her.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon only flew under the elemental queen's guidance for about two minutes before they arrived at a huge ravine.

This ravine wasn't very long, spanning only a few kilometers. However, the cliffs on both sides were unusually tall. As a result, the lighting in the ravine was rather lacking.

The underground tunnel the elemental queen had found was located on one side of the cliff, deep in the ravine.

It was a large cave entrance, about a dozen meters wide, extending in with a slight depression. It was naturally dark inside, and its depth was unknown.

Even from hundreds of meters away, he could feel it was as the elemental queen had described. Zhang Che could sense a threatening cold aura coming faintly from inside.

"This aura seems a little familiar..?"

Zhang Che felt a sense of familiarity, sensing the bone-chilling cold aura. He couldn't help but show a suspicious face…

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Chapter 442: Food For the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Zhang Che felt the aura coming out from the cave ahead was familiar. Meanwhile, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon underneath him was already crying out in excitement.

It went without saying the exotic beast inside was Yin, cold-attributed, and an extremely beneficial supplement for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon!

"So, you can't hold it in anymore, huh?" Zhang Che patted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, calming him.

As of now, they still have no idea about the situation inside the cave. Even if they wanted to enter, they needed to make the necessary preparations to prevent falling into a dangerous situation.

But it probably wouldn't be dangerous, right?

The elemental queen and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had already confirmed it. The exotic beast inside shouldn't be able to hurt him.

Zhang Che muttered to himself for a short while, then summoned both the Scarlet Flame Drake and the Purple Crystal Tortoise in succession. He let the two forge the way ahead, while he followed behind on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, delving into the cave.

Just as they entered the cave entrance, a cold aura swept towards them, making Zhang Che shiver all over, goosebumps rising on his skin.

He couldn't help but furrow his brow. If an ordinary person was in his place, they would find it very difficult to withstand this cold. Although it didn't have much of an effect on the surrounding temperature, the cold aura directly seeped into his bones. It was too much to bear.

Similarly, the elemental queen and Scarlet Flame Drake weren't fond of the cold aura, either.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, on the other hand, grew even more excited. If it wasn't for Zhang Che stopping him, he would have lost all control and directly rushed into the cave.

"Be more careful, all of you. Don't get ambushed by the exotic beast inside," Zhang Che instructed. The group slowly pushed forward.

Naturally, the one at the fore was the Purple Crystal Tortoise who had the most outstanding defense, followed by the Scarlet Flame Drake.

Zhang Che and the elemental queen both sat atop the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, and followed closely behind.

The cave extended straight in, and was extremely dark. Fortunately, the golden flames on the Scarlet Flame Drake were like a big light bulb, illuminating the surrounding hundred meters, sparing Zhang Che the fear born from being in an unknown darkness.

Humans always felt a sense of fear, born from the depths of their hearts, in unknown environments, no matter how strong or weak they were!The deeper they went, the thicker the cold aura around them became… and Zhang Che finally remembered where that sense of familiarity came from!

"When I killed that dark ice-attributed python back then, the lake also had a similar environment, didn't it?" he finally recalled. It was precisely after devouring that dark ice-attributed ice python that the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon grew much stronger and his potential increased!

The feeling inside this cave was extremely similar. It was no wonder the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was so excited. Perhaps this would be the place where the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had another fortuitous encounter and grew stronger again?

Zhang Che immediately grew excited, too!

As long as the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon ranked up from this… Zhang Che wasn't hoping for his pet to advance in quality. Even if he only broke through, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon should be able to break through the sound barrier, achieving supersonic speed!

Zhang Che's eyes lit up. The fear of being in an unknown environment disappeared without a trace.

What was there to fear? Any place that could strengthen his pets or subdued beasts were good places!

The underground cave didn't extend straight endlessly. After advancing a hundred-some meters, the path ahead started winding.

Suddenly, a few nearly unnoticeable air vibrations came from the depths of the underground cave. A few black silhouettes flew out from the underground cave like black streaks of lightning, directly pouncing upon Zhang Che's party.

"Woof!" the Scarlet Flame Drake barked. A few golden-scarlet sparks shot out from its mouth, sweeping towards the black silhouettes.

As for the Purple Crystal Tortoise, it wouldn't attack casually without Zhang Che's order. After all, although the bone spikes could be retrieved after shooting them, doing so would waste some time. Unless it was necessary, it was best to preserve that kind of killing move.

The scarlet sparks the Scarlet Flame Drake breathed out were very fast. However, the black silhouettes were even faster, directly dodging its attack and continuing towards Zhang Che.

"Hmm? These exotic beasts' level and quality aren't low; they're actually at five-star gold-quality!"

Of course, what surprised Zhang Che the most was that these exotic beasts, called Extreme Yin Bats, were clearly more than a tier weaker than the Scarlet Flame Drake, and yet they were able to dodge its attacks. Despite it being only its ordinary attack, that was really unusual.

However, Zhang Che didn't make any moves himself to retaliate against those Extreme Yin Bats rushing at him. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had already indicated his strong desire to devour them. If Zhang Che slew the Extreme Yin Bats, only beast cards would be left behind, providing no benefits for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon!

With a loud, excited roar, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon directly rushed forth, opening his mouth and breathed out several streams of darkfiend cold air, accurately hitting those Extreme Yin Bats. Their bodies froze, falling to the ground.

Naturally the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wouldn't let them drop to the ground just like that. He opened his mouth, and a vortex of wind drew all of them into his mouth with a satisfied cry.

"This guy… he ate a hundred million dollars worth of food in just one bite!" Zhang Che sighed. Raising a pet really wasn't easy! To make things worse, Zhang Che had way more than just one pet, especially the Umbra Wind God Leopard. The difficulty in trying to make them all grow as soon as possible simply couldn't be put in words.

If Zhang Che or his subdued beasts killed those Extreme Yin Bats, the beast cards he would have obtained would earn him about a hundred million dollars! But they were swallowed by the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon in just one mouthful, seemingly just stuffing the gaps between his teeth and not providing much benefits to the dragon.

"Alright, since you want to eat those Extreme Yin Bats, there's nothing I can help you with. You go hunt them on your own," Zhang Che sighed, patting the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back.

The Extreme Yin Bats were too small. If Zhang Che attacked with the scarlet and white sword, they would no doubt be killed straight away. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wouldn't be able to gain anything from that.

On the other hand, although corpses would be left behind if the elemental queen killed exotic beasts, her attacks were of the fire attribute. She'd easily burn those Extreme Yin Bats to a crisp. What would be left to eat, then?

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon roared excitedly, showing he understood.

The Extreme Yin Bats were too weak for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. They wouldn't be able to cause any trouble at all, and thus he didn't need any external help, either.

Afterwards, they continued exploring deeper. Extreme Yin Bats would fly out from the cave non-stop, becoming food for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon one after another.

Zhang Che was a little shocked by this.

-Isn't the cold energy around here a little too strong? So many five-star gold-quality exotic beasts are nurtured here!-

In other places across the beast world, five-star gold-quality exotic beasts were basically all solo adventurers. It was very rare for them to gather in groups with their fellow species.

If it wasn't for them being extremely beneficial to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, Zhang Che really wanted to kill them all and use their beast cards to increase his fusion skill's level!

However, compared to increasing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's strength, leveling up his fusion skill really wasn't important.

Zhang Che abandoned that idea and continued exploring deeper with the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.Following the winding underground path, they continued at least several thousand meters deeper. The cold aura around them grew increasingly thicker. Even with Zhang Che's superhuman physique, he started to feel the cold piercing into his bones.

Heavens knew how deep this underground cave was…

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