In the Magical Beast Mountain Range

"Little Er Ha, look! There are several Snake Spirit Grass plants over there!" Slightly within the outer fringes of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Feng Wu pointed out several emerald medicinal plants shaped like snakes and coiled around a tree to Little Er Ha.

Snake Spirit Grass was a relatively high-grade medicinal herb, one of the essential main ingredients in many second- and third-grade pills. Its name even occasionally appeared in the formulas for fourth-grade pills.

"Good stuff. This clump of Snake Spirit Grass alone could sell for several thousand Gold Coins!" Feng Wu carefully surveyed the surrounding area.

Sure enough, an Iron Tail Leopard was crouching nearby. It had already spotted Feng Wu and Little Er Ha, hiding in the grass as it prepared to pounce!

"As expected, more valuable heavenly treasures are usually guarded by magical beasts." Feng Wu smiled confidently and patted Little Er Ha's shoulder, which was already nearly as high as his own, signaling to him.

"Little Er Ha, I'll leave it to you. I'll go harvest the Snake Spirit Grass. Be careful when you fight later. Don't randomly use long-range attacks and ruin the Snake Spirit Grass for me."

Feng Wu had barely finished his instructions when Little Er Ha had already dashed more than thirty feet away!

After briefly worrying about the safety of his Snake Spirit Grass, Feng Wu hurried into action as well.

While Little Er Ha was already attacking and had collided with the crouching Iron Tail Leopard, Feng Wu quickly took a detour and ran toward the tree where the Snake Spirit Grass grew.

As for Little Er Ha's safety, Feng Wu was not worried in the slightest.

The kid's strength had been growing rapidly lately! He had even awakened two Dou Skills: Wind Blade and Wind Riding Swiftness.

Among Rank 1 Magical Beasts, he was definitely among the best.

The Wind Blade Dou Skill was as simple as its name suggested. It was a new long-range attack Little Er Ha had learned.

However, under Feng Wu's guidance, Little Er Ha had recently begun trying to use Wind Blades for sudden close-range attacks, as well as attaching them to his claws to further increase his melee attack power.

Wind Riding Swiftness, meanwhile, was a Dou Skill that allowed Little Er Ha to increase his speed through his innate control over wind.

Feng Wu figured that if Little Er Ha were not so fat, then once he trained this Dou Skill to Major Completion, he might very well be able to fly.

Ever since Feng Wu had told Little Er Ha about that possibility, Little Er Ha had been clamoring to lose weight these past two days!

Feng Wu estimated that these two innate Dou Skills were at least as powerful as mid-level Profound Rank skills, and they could grow alongside Little Er Ha's talent.

Magical Beasts were born with innate skills and did not even need cultivation methods. They truly were blessed by nature.

Little Er Ha was very strong. In the blink of an eye, he had begun suppressing the Iron Tail Leopard, which was considered fairly powerful even among Rank 1 Magical Beasts!

Even the Iron-Tail Whiplash, an attack famed for its power and said to be capable of sweeping an ordinary mercenary into two halves with a single strike, was forcefully blocked by Little Er Ha's Wind Blade-enhanced Wind Claw!

Moreover, the Iron Tail Leopard's tail had clearly been injured. A bloody claw mark had appeared on it, and its latter half drooped limply to the ground, unable to rise again!

Seeing this, Feng Wu no longer worried and headed straight for the Snake Spirit Grass.

Little Er Ha had snapped the iron tail that accounted for thirty to forty percent of the Iron Tail Leopard's strength. The outcome was decided.

No longer needing to worry about Little Er Ha, Feng Wu rushed toward the Snake Spirit Grass.

When he reached the tree, Feng Wu had just taken out his jade shovel and jade hoe to dig up the herbs when he suddenly sensed that something was wrong!

Even the leaf tips of the Snake Spirit Grass vines swayed gently in the wind like slithering snakes, lifelike and vivid.

But Feng Wu suddenly struck out to the side with his palm, sending a green longworm flying away!

Yet it was not over. Among the Snake Spirit Grass on the tree, one "Snake Spirit Grass" suddenly transformed into a green arrow and shot toward Feng Wu!

"Courting death!" As Feng Wu twisted aside to evade, blazing peach-pink flames suddenly erupted from his body and lunged toward the emerald snake!

The little emerald snake actually let out a strange cry, twisting its body in midair and turning sharply to dodge Feng Wu's Peach Blossom Fire!

So agile!

"Rank 1 Magical Beast, Green Leaf Snake! Entirely emerald green and resembling Snake Spirit Grass, it often lurks beside Snake Spirit Grass to ambush other magical beasts or humans!

"Highly venomous and afraid of fire! Its speed and agility are both top-notch!"

Feng Wu recognized the magical beasts at once. Two Rank 1 Green Leaf Snakes!

"Hmph! Good thing I stayed alert, or I would've fallen for your trick!" Feng Wu said confidently as he shaped the Peach Blossom Fire into dancing snakes and attacked the Green Leaf Snakes.

Earlier, Feng Wu had felt something was off when he saw four Snake Spirit Grass plants on one tree. There were too many! So he had stayed on guard, and sure enough, they were Green Leaf Snakes!

These things were incredibly dangerous. Their venom was deadly!

With one bite, even a low-star Great Dou Shi would be helpless without an Antidote Pill.

Only because Feng Wu was taking advantage of the Green Leaf Snakes' extreme fear of fire could he suppress the two snakes like this!

Otherwise, one would normally take a detour to avoid getting bitten even once.

And the Green Leaf Snakes truly were extremely afraid of fire.

Not to mention being attacked by Feng Wu's Peach Blossom Fire, even the temperature radiating from the flames alone made them feel intensely uncomfortable!

At this point, both Green Leaf Snakes had already begun to consider retreating.

Rank 1 Magical Beasts were already quite intelligent. Enduring their discomfort around the flames, the Green Leaf Snakes fiercely counterattacked Feng Wu.

Naturally, Feng Wu did not dare take the Green Leaf Snakes' deadly venom head-on and could only evade quickly.

But this was merely a feint by the Green Leaf Snakes! After the two snakes shot past within a few feet of Feng Wu on either side, they did not even look back as they tried to flee directly!

"Wishful thinking! Did I say you could leave?" Feng Wu stomped forcefully on the ground as he watched the Green Leaf Snakes slither four or five yards away.

"You come when you want and leave when you want? What do you take me, Feng Wu, for? Earth Spring Impact!"

Feng Wu slammed his left foot down, and faint dark-red cracks appeared where he had stepped.

In the distance, along the route where the Green Leaf Snakes were slithering, a scorched fiery mark nearly identical to the crack here appeared and bulged slightly upward!

It looked as though it was about to explode at any moment!

Sensing danger, the Green Leaf Snakes frantically tried to escape the scorching ground beneath their bellies. But it was already too late!

Earth Spring Impact, the accompanying Dou Skill of the mid-level Earth Rank cultivation method, Volcano Skill!

At the Dou Zhe stage, it could form a spring of flame at any point within a range of ten meters and cause it to erupt!

The scorching ground within a one-meter radius beneath the Green Leaf Snakes swelled upward, faint streams of dark-red fire flowing beneath the surface!

Then came the sound of an explosion.

With a boom, a column of fire more than ten feet high exploded from the ground like a volcanic eruption, hurling the helpless Green Leaf Snakes into the air.

Then the erupting dark-red flame spring, occasionally mixed with bursts of Peach Blossom Flame, surged upward and swallowed the Green Leaf Snakes!

When the blazing spring finally subsided, the intense heat had left nothing underground except a Green Leaf Snake's Magic Crystal. Everything else had turned to ash.

After the flame spring finished erupting, all that remained on the ground was a scorched terrain mark resembling a volcanic crater, several meters wide and half a meter tall, billowing yellow smoke with faint dark-red streams of fire still cooling within it!

As for the other Green Leaf Snake, its courage had been utterly shattered. It had not even noticed Little Er Ha circling behind it before Little Er Ha tore it into two with one claw!

That was right, two whole snakes—not two segments!

Little Er Ha had ripped the Green Leaf Snake vertically down the middle, from head to tail!