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"Blood Qi Like Flame? What kind of martial art is that?"

The woman stared at Lin Chen, completely unharmed, frozen in place. If it had been her, she would have been severely injured by now, yet the giant python's attack hadn't posed any threat to Lin Chen at all.

The giant python didn't understand Lin Chen's meaning, but it could sense his hostility and threat, turning to flee into the depths of the forest.

"Big Baby, don't run! Throw a few more Little Bastards my way!"

Seeing the giant python trying to escape, Lin Chen wasn't having it. He moved, charging straight at the python and grabbing its tail.

The giant python reacted, coiling its body rapidly to wrap around Lin Chen and crush him.

"Damn, stay back, you stink!"

As the python tried to coil around him, Lin Chen's expression shifted slightly. He exerted force with his hands, swinging the python left and right, slamming it into the ground.

Boom~ Boom~

The five-to-six-meter python whipped through Lin Chen's hands like a long flail, its head repeatedly smashing into the earth with dull thuds.

"Gulp..."

The woman not far away swallowed hard at the sight. "That's brutal!"

After a while, the python—struck who knew how many times—had its head reduced to a bloody pulp and went still. Only then did Lin Chen stop.

"It's not dead, is it?"

Lin Chen looked at the motionless python, full of regret. He should have held back. If the python was dead, where would the mutated venomous snakes come from?

"Not right!"

Suddenly, Lin Chen's focus sharpened. At that moment, the bloody snake head moved, turning into a streak of crimson light shooting straight for Lin Chen's head.

The woman nearby saw this, her pupils contracting as she cried out, "Watch out!"

"Little trick, think you can fool me? Take another punch!"

Facing the incoming snake head, Lin Chen sneered, channeling his Blood Qi True Flame and throwing a punch at the python's skull.

Boom~

As his fist landed, the python's head was engulfed in Blood Qi True Flame, and most of its body exploded into dust, dissipating in the air.

A pungent smell of Charcoal Grilled Spicy Strips wafted over. Catching the clearly burnt odor, Lin Chen tossed the python's tail away in disgust.

"The system didn't even give a kill notification. Trying to play dead in front of me? You're still too green."

Lin Chen clicked his tongue. He had to admit the python's vitality was tenacious—its head was nearly flattened, yet it still lived. Too bad it ran into a Cheater like him.

Dead or not, the system always had a prompt!

"Killed Second-Order Mutated Creature Poisonous Python. Origin +1000."

"Origin: 3000"

"Available for enhancement: Phoenix Undying Body, First Layer (0/9)"

"That's more like it!"

Seeing the panel change, Lin Chen understood that the giant python before him was now slain. A Second-Order Mutated Beast gave double the Origin of a First-Order one!

"Not bad."

With a total gain of two thousand three hundred Origin this time, Lin Chen was quite satisfied. He immediately tried to enhance, but was again told his Origin was insufficient.

"A thousand Origin isn't enough? Could it be ten thousand?"

Lin Chen's expression soured. He had thought it would be like before, needing only a thousand Origin to enhance a martial art, but even three thousand wasn't enough.

If not a thousand, then likely ten thousand—this dashed Lin Chen's hopes of quickly growing stronger.

"Origin, Origin!"

At that moment, only one word echoed in Lin Chen's mind: Origin. He had to get more Origin!

"Senior..."

A weak voice sounded in Lin Chen's ear. He turned to see the woman in the ink-gray short shirt speaking.

"You talking to me?"

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow. Was he already a senior at his age?

And why did it feel like the woman was looking at him with a hint of fear?

"Am I that scary?"

"Senior jokes. If not for you stepping in, I would have been in danger."

The woman quickly shook her head, though inwardly she was grumbling: You treated a Second-Order Mutated Beast like a loach, smashing most of its body into nothing and turning the rest into Charcoal Grilled Spicy Strips—and you ask if you're scary?

But she dared not say that out loud. She used to love barbecue, but she had no desire to become one herself!

"I am Chen Xue. Thank you, Senior, for saving my life. May I ask your name..."

"Lin Chen!"

Lin Chen waved a hand, cutting off Chen Xue's words. "How did you end up here?"

Once a bounty mission is accepted, no one else can take it at the same time unless the mission fails. Lin Chen had already accepted the mission, so in theory, Chen Xue should have had no mission.

"I heard there were mutated creatures lurking around here, so I came to look. I happened to run into the giant python attacking a chicken farm and followed it all the way back to its lair..."

"What did you say? A lair?"

Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he looked at Chen Xue excitedly. "Quick, take me to the giant python's lair!"

Huh?

Seeing Lin Chen so worked up, Chen Xue was taken aback. Was this really about the lair?

But since Lin Chen had spoken, Chen Xue didn't dare refuse. She hurriedly led Lin Chen toward the giant python's lair. At this moment, Lin Chen's mind was completely occupied with the lair—maybe there were other mutated venomous snakes there, and those were all Origin!

"Heh~ heh~ heh~"

Thinking about more Origin coming his way, Lin Chen couldn't help but let out a cheerful laugh.

Chen Xue, walking beside him, heard his sudden laughter and tensed up, cold sweat trickling down her back. Right now, Lin Chen didn't look like a good person at all!

Instinctively, Chen Xue put a little distance between them. If Lin Chen really was an evil demon, at least she might have a chance to escape... but she couldn't escape, could she? What should she do!

"Maybe... I could seduce him?"

The thought flashed through Chen Xue's mind, but the next moment, an image of her body cut in half appeared before her eyes.

This old devil hadn't even glanced at her properly since he appeared—would seduction even work?

Self-imagined horror was the worst. Lin Chen had no idea that in this short time, Chen Xue had already pictured him killing her and disposing of her body.

"What's that..."

Under Chen Xue's guidance, Lin Chen soon spotted a pile of weeds beside a boulder in the forest. There were signs of the giant python having nested there, with some chicken feathers scattered around. It was clearly the python's lair.

Swoosh~

Lin Chen tapped his foot and dashed straight for the lair. With one punch, he flipped the pile of weeds open, revealing several venomous snakes and a nest of snake eggs.

Bang~ Bang~

Without any hesitation, Lin Chen swung his fists, and in the blink of an eye, he had killed all the mutated venomous snakes.

"That's it!"

With his heightened senses, Lin Chen could clearly tell there were no more mutated venomous snakes nearby. A wave of disappointment washed over him—he had only gained six hundred Origin.

"Six hundred fifty Origin?"

Lin Chen was momentarily stunned. Six mutated venomous snakes should have given him six hundred Origin. Where did the extra fifty come from?

"Snake eggs!"

Lin Chen recalled the kill notifications, and his eyes lit up. Besides the mutated venomous snakes, there seemed to be a prompt for a mutated snake egg!

Shua~

Lin Chen's gaze swept across the area and instantly locked onto the nest of snake eggs. A grin spread across his face as he headed straight for them.

"What kind of grudge is this? Not even sparing the snake eggs, and getting so excited about it?"

Watching Lin Chen cackle as he charged at the snake eggs and burned the entire nest to ash, Chen Xue's face turned deathly pale.