Controlling the Horned Viper King

Seeing this, Lin Feng knew that Qing Lin had successfully controlled the Desert Rock Snake.

A flicker of joy appeared in his eyes. As long as she controlled enough snake-type Magical Beasts,

his chances of finding the Heavenly Flames would greatly increase.

"Mm."

Just as Lin Feng was imagining it, Qing Lin let out a soft hum in his arms and slowly woke up.

She shook her groggy little head, then raised it to look at Lin Feng, who was holding her. Her small face flushed slightly.

Seeing this, Lin Feng hurriedly massaged her temples with his fingers to help her recover her strength.

She looked around, then spotted the Desert Rock Snake still staring blankly nearby.

The moment she saw it, Qing Lin suddenly felt as though she had formed a strange connection with it.

With a slight thought, the Desert Rock Snake immediately flicked its tail and swiftly slithered toward the place she commanded.

Seeing this, Qing Lin asked excitedly but weakly, "Young Master, did we succeed?"

Lin Feng chuckled. "That's right, we succeeded!"

Upon hearing this, Qing Lin's little face instantly blossomed into a smile. She said happily, "That's wonderful. Qing Lin can help Young Master now too."

Of course, Lin Feng and Qing Lin were not the only ones excited at that moment.

At a camp not far from Stone Desert City,

a middle-aged man in the midst of cultivation suddenly sensed a strange ripple.

He instantly withdrew from cultivation and turned his head toward the nearby desert.

After pondering for a moment, he seemed to realize something and cried out in shock, "Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils?!"

Thinking of this, he immediately cast aside all his affairs and raced north at full speed.

The wind fluttered his clothes, faintly revealing the character "Mo" embroidered upon them.

Meanwhile, in the distant Heavenly Snake Empire, an elderly man who had been meditating for an unknown length of time abruptly opened his eyes and sharply turned his gaze toward the Jia Ma Empire.

His fingers moved slightly, and several soul messages shot forth, swiftly delivering his orders.

Before long, Qing Lin had recovered.

She had already forgotten her fear and was teasing the shrunken Desert Rock Snake in her hands.

She had even given it a name: Little Rock.

Lin Feng sat beside her, his eyes filled with envy.

After Qing Lin subdued the Desert Rock Snake, the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils automatically absorbed its energy and fed it back to Qing Lin.

Qing Lin had already been close to breaking through to the eighth stage of Dou Power, and with that returned energy, she successfully made her breakthrough in one go.

Lin Feng did not know what to say at the sight.

Back then, he had cultivated bitterly for several months before breaking through, but now...

After resting for a while, Lin Feng asked, "Qing Lin, ask it whether it knows of anywhere nearby where the temperature is abnormally high."

"Alright, Young Master."

Hearing this, Qing Lin began communicating with Little Rock.

After a while, Qing Lin said disappointedly, "Young Master, Little Rock says there's no place like the one you described in this area."

"It's fine. We'll keep looking for a stronger snake-type Magical Beast, then have it order some lower-ranked Magical Beasts to search. That'll be much more convenient."

Lin Feng gently stroked Qing Lin's soft hair as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Qing Lin turned and communicated with Little Rock for a while longer before saying, "Young Master, Little Rock says a third-rank Horned Viper King lives not far to the east. Should we go there?"

Lin Feng was tempted upon hearing that.

The Horned Viper King was the title given to the leader of a colony of Desert Horned Vipers, snake-type Magical Beasts that lived in the desert.

They were generally third-rank, but in terms of combat strength, they could rival a human Nine-star Dou Grandmaster.

Moreover, they could launch combined attacks with their own kind. Even ordinary low-level Dou Lings would not dare provoke them lightly.

However, although Lin Feng could not defeat it yet, if the control failed,

he was confident that he could take Qing Lin and escape safely with his Flying Dou Skill.

Still, thinking of Qing Lin, Lin Feng glanced at her worriedly and asked, "Can you control it?"

Qing Lin thought for a moment, then said, "I can."

"Good. Then we'll go there."

Hearing Qing Lin's answer, Lin Feng no longer hesitated.

He immediately stood, shielded Qing Lin behind him, and headed east.

After a while, the two arrived at the Horned Viper King's territory.

Looking at the Horned Viper King, over ten meters long and nearly a meter thick, both of them swallowed hard.

If Qing Lin had not been there, Lin Feng would never have dared provoke such a massive creature.

Not long after, seeing that Qing Lin was ready, Lin Feng opened his arms and gestured for her to come over.

Seeing Lin Feng's gesture, Qing Lin immediately cast her fear to the back of her mind, and a smile appeared on her lips.

She quickly ran forward a few steps, then leaped fiercely into the air, her petite body landing precisely in Lin Feng's arms.

Her hands tightly wrapped around the young man's waist as she buried her little head against his chest.

Breathing in Lin Feng's scent, Qing Lin felt that at this moment, she would dare to climb mountains of blades and plunge into seas of fire.

Holding Qing Lin, Lin Feng immediately circulated his Dou Qi. With a bang,

a pair of purple wings spread out behind him.

With a slight tremble of the Purple Cloud Wings, Lin Feng transformed into a black shadow and shot into the sky.

Arriving above the Horned Viper King, Lin Feng looked at Qing Lin in his arms and said, "Qing Lin, draw its attention over here."

Qing Lin nodded, then took a rather large cloth bundle from her Storage Ring.

Lin Feng had been worried that, while holding Qing Lin, it would be inconvenient for him to use Dou Skills, and getting close to a third-rank Magical Beast was too dangerous.

So he had made another oversized explosive pack, containing more than two hundred catties of gunpowder.

If it were on Blue Planet, even an adult would have struggled to carry it.

However, Qing Lin possessed the strength of seven stages of Dou Power, so lifting it was not too difficult for her.

Following what Lin Feng had taught her earlier, Qing Lin lit the fuse on top.

However, rather than aiming at the Horned Viper King, she threw it toward its nest.

Boom!

A few seconds later, the explosive pack detonated under the Horned Viper King's baffled gaze.

A muffled blast sounded from within its nest, and the sand cave it had painstakingly dug collapsed along with it.

Hiss—roar—

Seeing its precious home destroyed just like that, the Horned Viper King immediately flew into a rage.

It swiftly turned its massive head and looked upward in the direction from which the explosive pack had fallen.

When it saw Lin Feng and Qing Lin in the sky above it,

although its intelligence was low, it could still guess that these two were the culprits.

It immediately glared at them viciously and let out furious hisses again and again.

The other Desert Horned Vipers around it were also alarmed and glared fiercely at Lin Feng and Qing Lin.

Seeing that they had been discovered, Lin Feng immediately took the initiative to descend.

After dodging several attacks from the Horned Viper King, Lin Feng also figured out its attack range.

Once he reached a suitable altitude, he shouted, "Qing Lin!"

Hearing Lin Feng's call, Qing Lin hurriedly began to act.

With her previous experience, Qing Lin quickly activated the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils this time.

Three green dots abruptly appeared in her eyes, their ghostly light blazing brightly.

Then a powerful beam of ghostly light shot forth from them, enveloping the Horned Viper King before her.