It actually wasn’t the one he was searching for, so how come they looked so similar from behind?
Chapter 394
Chapter 394: Encountering Ao Feng Again
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Ling Han looked at Ao Feng. Several months had passed, yet this genius of the Ao Family already crossed into the Flower Blossom Tier. He had an intangible constitution, clearly standing there yet nonexistent like the void. That feeling made him sick to the point of wanting to vomit.
The best solution was not to look at him.
Flower Blossom Tiers surpassed mortals, even Spiritual Ocean Tier warriors couldn’t stare at them—an inkling of their power.
His expression was calm, but inside he was extremely vigilant. Flower Blossom Tier martial artists were too strong, such that even if he were at the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier now, he wouldn’t necessarily be able to resist; this limit was extremely hard to cross over.
If Ao Feng made a move, he would immediately enter the Black Tower.
…Thunder Battle Armor? Not to mention whether the power it could unleash in his hands was able to block Ao Feng or not, as long as he used it, wasn’t it equivalent to telling Ao Feng that he was “Han Lin”?
“Who are you?” Ao Feng asked indifferently, unleashing his godly might like a supreme god.
‘Cocky!’ Ling Han said inwardly. Only those newbies who just crossed into the Flower Blossom Tier would make a show of their presence. It was a sort of mentality as their strength surpassed the mortal limit—but would their mentality also make the same leap?
He showed no sign of fear, took out his golden badge, brandishing it, and said, “I am Ling Han, low level Earth Grade alchemist!”
‘Hiss!’
Ao Feng involuntarily gasped in astonishment—such a young Earth Grade alchemist? That was way too ridiculous. However, with his vision, he could tell that the badge was real with a single glance.
He was a Flower Blossom Tier warrior, which was certainly out of the ordinary. The problem was that low level Earth Grade alchemists were treated as equals to Flower Blossom Tier warriors, and because of the rarity of alchemists, they were actually a level higher—even Spiritual Infant Tier elites had to be very courteous toward alchemists.
But could Flower Blossom Tiers earn the courtesy of Spiritual Infant Tier warriors? No way. The tiers of martial arts were rigidly stratified; if someone at the Flower Blossom Tier were smug in front of someone in the Spiritual Infant Tier, the former would be swatted to death!
…Unless they had a father at the Deity Transformation Tier or the Heaven Tier or something; and if you had a Shattering Void Tier cultivator as your father, then making Spiritual Infant Tiers kneel down to lick your feet wasn’t something impossible.
“So it’s Master Ling.” Ao Feng withdrew his lofty attitude. He just entered the Flower Blossom and there might be a time in the future where he needed to ask Ling Han to refine pills. Besides, alchemists were a very united group, so offending one could mean offending the entire group. Thus, he’d rather not become enemies with Ling Han.
Of course, it was mainly because he had the thought of asking Ling Han to refine pills in the future, or else who would know that he killed Ling Han in the Dark Demon Forest?
Ling Han cupped his hands, and said, “You’re too polite.” He was neither cold nor indifferent, just right in expressing the arrogance peculiar to alchemists.
This was his true quality, so he naturally handled it with ease.
“How come Master Ling has come to Dark Demon Forest alone… No, with just the two of you?” Ao Feng asked. He had just saw Hu Niu and felt somewhat astounded that he overlooked her earlier.
At such heights as his, all things should be reflected in his consciousness regardless of size, but he overlooked Hu Niu… an extremely strange thing. Fortunately, it was just a five to six years old little girl, it mattered not if he overlooked her.
“I need a stalk of spirit medicine; if Brother Ao can find it, there’ll definitely be a handsome reward,” Ling Han said smilingly.
Hearing this, Ao Feng instantly felt full of revulsion within.
He was a Flower Blossom Tier, but a seventeen to eighteen year old youngster with the Spiritual Ocean Tier cultivation was actually calling him a brother… It naturally made him feel very out of sorts. It couldn’t be denied that Ling Han was an Earth Grade alchemist, and having a low cultivation and being young weren’t a problem at all.
“What spirit medicine is Master Ling searching for?” Ao Feng asked. He had set out to get on friendly terms with Ling Han, and now he naturally placed his stance lower.
“Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass,” Ling Han said seriously while laughing inwardly. If Ao Feng really found the spirit medicine, then when he refined the Restore Spirit Pill for Ling Dong Xing in the future, making his father’s cultivation skyrocket before at last suppressing Ao Feng and telling Ao Feng the truth… would this guy spurt out blood from anger?
It was truly something to look forward to.
“All right, I’ve remembered it. If there’s a chance, I’ll definitely deliver the spirit medicine myself.” Ao Feng nodded, then went on, “I have other things to take care of, farewell!”
“Please.” Ling Han also nodded.
Ao Feng left treading on wind, and very soon disappeared into the horizon.
Ling Han’s gaze turned cold. He was contemplating if he should become blood brothers with Ao Feng—wouldn’t this guy have to call Ling Dong Xing uncle? Ha, he immediately shook his head and forgot such distasteful stuff.
“Ling Han dislikes that bad guy?” Hu Niu suddenly asked.
Ling Han said smilingly, “Niu Niu is real smart, you even saw through that.”
Hu Niu giggled. She was most sensitive to presence and emotions; even if Ling Han intentionally suppressed the hatred, deceiving even Ao Feng, it couldn’t escape Hu Niu’s eyes.
“However, we’ll have to be careful from now on,” Ling Han said, walking into the valley with Hu Niu.
The Ice Fire Gourd Valley was half a world of ice and half surging with lava. Once one entered, there was boundless snow that covered the entire valley, a field of white without a single shred or inch of motley—it was a rather splendid sight.
“There’s a large snake here,” Ling Han said.
“Niu wants to eat snake meat!” Hu Niu’s eyes immediately lit up, saliva almost drooling out.
Ling Han laughed loudly and said, “That’s a peak stage Spiritual Pedestal Tier being, I can’t beat it, can you?”
“Niu can’t beat it.” Hu Niu sighed dejectedly, appearing extremely disappointed.
This shock was too great for a foodie.
“Our main purpose is to find Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass. This large snake can be taken care of when we come back in the future,” Ling Han said.
“En!” Hu Niu nodded lovably.
The two walked very fast, passing through the ice valley, and a sea of fire appeared before them, crimson colored lava rolling around—a scene that would make one’s scalp creep.
Between the sea of fire and the layer of ice was an expanse of boiling water that acted as a buffer. However, no matter whether it was the sea of fire or the layer of ice, the power of either was extremely strong, so neither was devoured by the other, existing like so for several thousand years.
…To Ling Han’s knowledge, there had been no such place like the Dark Demon Forest. Well, there might’ve been such a place, just that he didn’t know—after all, the vast lands were too massive.
Ling Han carefully searched locations where Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass could grow. Such a spirit medicine could only survive in the buffer zone, absorbing the power of the chilling ice and the raging flames, or else it wouldn’t be able to survive at all.
However, the buffer zone was all boiling water, without any surfacing rocks. This dictated that Crimson Red Chilling Ice grass couldn’t possibly grow, because this spirit grass disl
iked water environment.
He came for nothing.
Ling Han took out the map. On it were several special landforms that were marked, but other than this Ice Fire Gourd Valley, there were no other places that was suitable for the growth of Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass.
Unless… it was Dark Demon Forest’s core area.
Hong!
At this moment, earth-shattering sounds reverberated as a fully silver-colored large snake broke through the ice. The snake’s head alone was several meters high, and the length of the snake’s entire body was extremely shocking.
Ling Han was astounded—not because of the large snake’s length, but because of the tumor on the top of its head.
Was it turning into a flood dragon?
Chapter 395
Chapter 395: Battling The Great Snake
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Snakes turned into flood dragons, and flood dragons turned into dragons—such was the usual path of transformation.
The problem was that flood dragons had two horns, but what was that tumor on its head… was it transforming into a unicorn?
Hu Niu immediately crouched down, opened her mouth, and revealed her white teeth, making a roaring stance. If she had fur, it would definitely be standing on ends.
Ling Han also revealed a vigilant look. This great snake was the tyrant of the gourd valley, a ninth layer Spiritual Pedestal existence; but for some reason, it gave Ling Han a feeling that it was scarier than Ao Feng.
That was quite right. It was because Hu Niu also had that feeling that she immediately entered a defensive and threatening stance. Earlier, when Ao Feng appeared, Hu Niu was very calm.
The giant snake slowly “stood” up. The snake head kept rising, as if its body was endlessly long; after it had reached the height of the valley, its body still wasn’t fully out of the layer of ice.
This was very unbelievable; it was at least a thousand meters, and maybe several thousand meters long.
Ling Han was puzzled—could a Spiritual Pedestal Tier beast snake grow this large?
The larger the body, the more powerful a living creature was. For example, if a living creature during their maturity could grow to the size of the vast lands, then it didn’t need to cultivate. It only had to trample down a few times—even if the vast lands didn’t shatter, the people and other beasts would be decimated and only a few elites could survive.
Precisely because of this, the heavens strictly limited a living being’s body size. For beasts, only when their strengths increased could their size also increase accordingly. For a Spiritual Pedestal Tier, the body size limit was about a hundred meters, and only a Flower Blossom Tier beast could reach a thousand meters, but not surpass this limit.
However, this large snake was only at the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier and its body size not only broke past a hundred, but also a thousand meters, advancing into the Spiritual Infant Tiers On top of that, the tumor on its head was even stranger; there had never been stories of a Spiritual Pedestal Tier snake beast that could turn into a flood dragon.
Turning into a flood dragon was something to happen after Heaven Tier.
Strange, too strange!
It was a long story, but it was a matter of a breath’s time. With a hong , the large snake descended from the sky and smashed its head straight down—barbaric and rough—using terrifying power to gain the upper hand.
Ling Han’s face was all green. He took hold of Hu Niu who still wanted to soar into the sky to battle to her heart’s content and their figures flashed—they entered the Black Tower.
With the giant snake’s power, weight, and inertia of falling from the sky, such massive strength was enough to pound him and Hu Niu into minced meat, guaranteeing their deaths through and through. This was truly unreasonable—there was no comparison of skills, but simply crushing by brute force—yet it completely unleashed the great snake’s power.
“Strange, strange, why do I sense a familiar smell on this large snake.” Ling Han pondered, stroking his chin.
Spiritual Pedestal Tier beasts all had a special elemental attack—for example, spraying chilling mist or venom, and Ling Han had even seen beast snakes that turned all its scales into sharp blades and launched them.
However, this large snake didn’t seem to plan on using its special abilities at all, smashing with its head right off the bat—it was extremely well-practiced, the snake had to be a habitual offender.
Ling Han looked outside through the Black Tower, seeing that the large snake was searching for his and Hu Niu’s flesh and blood. The large snake’s eyes revealed it was at a loss, seeming to be puzzled by how the two just disappeared.
Idiot! Extreme idiot!
Ling Han felt it even stranger. Being able to cultivate to peak stage of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, which was one step away from crossing over the line of mortals, how could its intelligence be so lacking? Beasts possessed very high intelligence, and the higher their tier, the smarter they were. The intellect of Flower Blossom Tier beasts was definitely no lower than that of the wise men.
However, no matter how he looked, this large snake was sluggish and stupid, as if it only knew how to smash people with its head, battling with its instinct.
“Let’s try to fight it.” Ling Han came to a decision, and xiu , his figure flashed, exiting the Black Tower with Demon Birth Sword in hand and Thunder Battle Armor already activated. Hong , his left hand launched a flash of lightning while his right hand swung the sword, and xiu , seven flashes of Sword Qi flew unhindered.
Pu, pu, pu, pu , two attacks fired into the large snake’s body, but what surprised Ling Han was that the seven flashes of Sword Qi only left a few white marks on the snake’s scales while the lightning’s effects were only a bit greater, penetrating through scales and leaving a wound on the large body; however, for a large snake, this was truly neither painful nor ticklish.
The large snake was infuriated, smashing its head downwards again.
Ling Han hurriedly entered the Black Tower, evading this attack.
Peng , the entire valley trembled, showing the giant snake’s terrifying power.
Ling Han, however, laughed and said to himself, “If this were another ninth layer Spiritual Pedestal Tier, I really wouldn’t be able to deal with it, but this snake is too stupid, I could just exhaust it to death.”
He exited the Black Tower again, then shot out both fists continuously and activated Thunder Battle Armor’s power, forming flashes of lightning and firing it towards the large snake’s eyes.
The large snake was stupid for sure, but its instincts allowed it to avoid injuries to vital parts such as the eyes—it immediately tilted its head to evade. Then, it smashed its head downwards again, setting the valley quaking. Ceaselessly accumulated snow shot into the sky, then snowflakes fluttered all over the sky, while on the other side, the sea of flames boiled like the tide, splashing crimson red lava.
Ling Han continued to enter and exit the Black Tower, tirelessly attacking the large snake’s eyes. He only had to succeed once to gain a great victory, so he was absolutely in no rush.
The large snake was still sluggishly stupid, and if Ling han’s strength were stronger, it would definitely have drilled into the layer of ice long ago, not fighting Ling Han at all. However, from its point of view, Ling Han would die in one smash, and faced with such a tick, how could it run?
Besides, it was continually getting struck by Ling Han, and although it was thick-skinned, feeling only a bit of pain, the anger made it resolved to kill Ling Han.
One man and one snake exhausted each other like this.
Several hours later, the large snake appeared more irritable, continuously smashing its head at the ground as if it held the initiative. Ling Han searched for an opportune moment; the instant the large snake pounded the ground, he attacked from the Black Tower. Xiu , a flurry of sword strikes, eight hundred rays of sword light soared into the sky—it was Mysterious Three Thousand.
Pu, pu, pu, pu, the sword light fired simultaneously at the large snake’s right eye.
At this time, the large snake’s intimidating defensive power was displayed to its greatest extent. Even if the eye was a very frail vital area, several hundred rays of sword light shot into it were actually not enough to shatter it at first; only after the last hundred rays of sword light surged by did the eyeball finally show a gash. Then, as if porcelain had been smashed, it suddenly shattered. With a pa , a body of liquid poured out like tidal water from a dike.
Under the pain, the large snake violently twisted, and a massive power bashed sideways and straight on; the entire valley was as if it were going to be demolished.
Ling Han entered the Black Tower, immediately recovering Origin Power.
Now, striking out Mysterious Three Thousand at full strength wouldn’t consume all his power, but one third still seemed to have been depleted. He crushed a dozen pieces of Origin Crystal and recovered his Origin Power at an extremely fast pace.
He exited the Black Tower again after that and attacked the hole opened up in the large snake’s eye with his sword. Two vein-like lines were activated on the Demon Birth Sword; Sword Qi flew unhindered as Ling Han slashed recklessly to his heart’s content.
Chapter 396
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Despite the large snake’s stubborn frame that far surpassed normal Spiritual Pedestal Tier beasts, it couldn’t tolerate a flurry of slashes inside its head. Not to mention, Ling Han used the Demon Birth Sword, a tenth tier Spirit Tool—even if it could only emit a tiny bit of its power, the power of its sharpness was plain to see.
Add the Thunder Battle Armor’s prowess, and the large snake was electrocut, burnt on the inside and crisp on the outside.
Slash, slash, slash, slash, slash, Ling Han destroyed to his heart’s content. He bustled about in the snake’s head, and ten minutes later, the large snake no longer showed any signs of movement.
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