After All That, His Clothes Were Barely Dirty!

"Cooperate?"

The old man froze, staring at Chen Ming with a strange look in his eyes.

What could a Level 6 Shield Guard possibly cooperate with him on?

Were young people this confident nowadays?

"I can get the resources from that pool. You help cover up the disturbance here."

Chen Ming was blunt. "I want the Azure Flame stuff, and you can have the Moonlight Essence."

He had already been at his wits' end.

Then a high-level Class Changer had suddenly appeared and even helped him deal with the barrier.

As for the other man's current predicament, Chen Ming understood it perfectly.

The Phantom Guardian stood by the pool. To get the resources, he would have to defeat it.

And if he did that, the Giant Wolf would definitely notice what was happening here.

Angel Old Man: ...

What on earth was this guy talking about?

Didn't he know his own limits?

The Wolf King Phantom could kill a Level 10 Class Changer with a single fart.

A Level 6 one would be even easier.

"Who gave you the nerve?"

The old man was already getting impatient and didn't want to deal with Chen Ming.

The situation was already tense, and now some clueless rookie had shown up to make trouble.

"So, what do you say? Don't waste time. Hesitate and you'll lose."

Chen Ming urged him.

The aftershocks of the battle in the distance had begun to fade. He didn't know if it was over.

If they dragged this out any longer, they might really be discovered.

Hearing Chen Ming's words, Angel Old Man was so angry he laughed.

The kid had his priorities completely backward—now he was the one being hurried along.

"Come on, then. Let's see how you get past it!"

The old man glared, his beard bristling with rage.

In the end, he simply agreed.

He wanted to see whether the kid would be slapped to death by a paw or whipped to death by the Wolf King Phantom's tail!

Seeing that the old man with the Angel class had finally agreed, Chen Ming nodded.

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he walked straight toward the hollow.

"That kid's got a death wish. He's really doing it?"

Behind him, the old man saw Chen Ming move.

His brows knit tightly as he realized the kid wasn't joking.

But soon he turned his gaze away.

If the young fellow died, he'd already decided he wouldn't intervene.

He'd brought it on himself...

He didn't have even a shred of self-awareness.

Up ahead.

The instant Chen Ming stepped into the hollow, the Giant Wolf Phantom sprang into action.

Its enormous shadow flashed, and in an instant it was right before him.

Boom—!

The Wolf King Phantom raised a claw and brought it down from above.

At that moment, its oppressive presence seemed to twist the very space around it.

If the barrier weren't sealing off the area, the whole region would likely have been shaken violently!

And yet.

Chen Ming stood motionless, his expression calm.

This was his first time facing an attack from a beast of this level, and curiosity got the better of him. He tilted his head up to take a look.

A terrifying torrent of flames poured down from the sky, like a rain of fire.

"What's that kid doing?!"

Behind them, although he'd already decided the ignorant rookie would die a horrible death, the old man couldn't help taking another look.

But when he saw Chen Ming strolling along at his leisure as if he were out shopping, the corner of his mouth twitched hard.

He'd thought the kid was blindly confident in his speed and planned to take a chance.

Maybe he meant to snatch the resources from the pool and get out fast.

But now...

The kid was just walking straight in.

Then he even tilted his head up slightly, watching the Wolf King Phantom's attack come at him.

Just as the old man thought Chen Ming was about to be torn to pieces beneath the wolf's claws,

he saw something that made him question his whole life.

The terrifying claw strike hit the boy with a thunderous boom.

But the gruesome scene he'd imagined never happened.

The Wolf King Phantom's enormous claw stopped right in front of Chen Ming—and didn't move another inch.

"Wait, it stopped?"

Why would that happen?

A skill phantom had no consciousness. It should attack anything that came near the hollow.

Yet now it had stopped right in front of that rookie.

"No..."

But the next moment, the old man's eyes widened.

He saw that the tip of the claw was pressed against the boy's shoulder.

The phantom hadn't stopped attacking...

The attack had been forcibly blocked!

And the shockwaves from the strike had also vanished in an eerie fashion.

As a high-level Class Changer, the old man could clearly perceive attribute energy.

That attack from the phantom had been like hitting a void. Not only had the strike itself failed, but the flames that followed and the shockwaves from the blast had also been completely nullified.

"What's going on?"

The old man was no longer calm.

He'd never encountered—no, never even seen anything like this.

He even rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

Then he saw Chen Ming move, and the Wolf King Phantom move again with him.

Boom—

Boom, boom—

One after another, terrifying attacks came crashing down.

The entire hollow shook nonstop.

The old man watched, his heart in his throat. Those relentless attacks would be hard even for him to withstand if he tried to tank them.

That was exactly what had given him pause.

Even with his strength, he couldn't safely enter and leave while ignoring the Wolf King Phantom's attacks.

But if he defeated the phantom, he would surely draw the Pale Moon Wolf King's attention.

And yet now someone really was withstanding the Wolf King Phantom's attacks and entering the hollow.

Only...

That person was a Level 6 Class Changer.

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Chen Ming walked through the hollow.

Above him, enormous claws rained down one after another, each carrying a suffocating, terrifying force, as if it would crush everything to pieces.

Dense attacks formed from flames and Moonlight Essence wove together, their combined power just as dreadful.

Beneath his feet, the ground shook without end.

At last, he reached the pool in the very center.

Chen Ming bent down and looked at the fluid inside.

Two liquids that looked completely different flowed through the pool, divided down the middle by a sharply defined line.

[Azure Flame Molten Fire]: Fire-element, spirit-type attribute

[Moonlight Glaze]: Light-element, spirit-type attribute

Chen Ming's eyes lit up.

This wasn't the Flowing Fire he'd obtained before. It was Molten Fire!

Azure Flame that had already been condensed into liquid!

That showed just how concentrated it was.

A single drop of this liquid probably took countless Azure Flame Flowing Fire to condense.

Chen Ming tamped down his excitement and prepared to gather it in a container.

"Hmm?"

Just then, his gaze sharpened as he looked at the place where the Molten Fire and Moonlight Essence met.

There, a very inconspicuous little sphere caught his attention.

The sphere floated quietly between the two resources, like it was suspended at the boundary between ice and fire.

Chen Ming swept it with a mental probe.

[Azure Flame True Core]: ???

Its level was beyond the range of the probe!

Chen Ming's breath caught.

Then he took two containers from his mental space and began collecting the resources from the pool, all without giving anything away.

There wasn't actually that much Azure Flame Molten Fire or Moonlight Glaze in the pool.

Once he'd gathered it all, it barely filled a bottle the size of an ordinary one.

Only after he'd finished everything did Chen Ming leave the hollow.

And outside...

The old man watched Chen Ming emerge, still ignoring the Wolf King Phantom's attacks, with Azure Flame Molten Fire in one hand and Moonlight Glaze in the other.

He was already completely dumbfounded.

He'd been questioning his whole life ever since the start.

The Pale Moon Wolf King's skill attacks were something even he wouldn't dare take head-on, yet they seemed to have no effect whatsoever on a Level 6 Class Changer.

It was almost as if...

He was immune to the Wolf King's attacks!

After all that, his clothes were barely dirty!