Fierce Battle! First Beast Flame!

Fierce Battle! First Beast Flame!

Bang!!!

Hissssss!!!

The small packet Wang Chen threw was smashed apart by the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake.

But immediately afterward, the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake began convulsing and hissing uncontrollably.

What Wang Chen had thrown was a specially prepared, enhanced version of a Realgar Packet.

And it had been strengthened by the Golden Finger.

Although the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake was a Third-Order Magical Beast, it was still a snake.

Naturally, it could not completely ignore Wang Chen's special concealed weapon.

Of course, as a mutated Third-Order Magical Beast, it still possessed a certain degree of resistance to such a special concealed weapon.

Even after taking a direct hit, it had not lost its ability to fight.

Its combat strength had merely declined somewhat.

Strike while the iron was hot!

Since he had decided to make a move, Wang Chen naturally would not hesitate or hold back.

He immediately activated his Dou Qi, gripped his long spear, and charged forward.

With the explosive power of Eight Steps Chasing Cicadas, Wang Chen arrived before the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake in an instant.

The long spear wrapped in Dou Qi stabbed straight toward the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake's head.

Hiss!!!

But it was still a mutated Third-Order Magical Beast. Though Wang Chen had caught it off guard, it had not completely lost its ability to resist.

At the critical moment, the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake swung its head to the right and narrowly evaded Wang Chen's fatal strike.

However, Wang Chen still slashed a wound half a meter long across its neck, and blood flowed without stop.

Rather than robbing the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake of its combat strength, this only stirred up the ferocity of the magical beast.

Ignoring its injuries entirely, it twisted its head and bit directly at Wang Chen, fighting in a completely life-for-life manner.

Wang Chen flicked his right hand holding the spear backward, knocking aside the attacking triangular head.

Then, using the formidable burst of Eight Steps Chasing Cicadas, he swiftly opened a distance of twenty meters.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!

After landing, Wang Chen once again took three small Realgar Packets from his storage space and threw them out.

They blocked the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake's attack routes from the left, right, and front.

Then he erupted again, and his Dou Qi-covered long spear struck toward the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake once more.

Seeing the three familiar packets, the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake had clearly learned its lesson this time.

Rather than forcing its way through, it retreated backward, intending to first evade the concealed weapons that made it so uncomfortable.

But this was exactly what Wang Chen wanted.

When it came to explosive speed, Wang Chen completely crushed this Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake.

As long as it retreated, it was equivalent to leaving its defenses wide open, allowing Wang Chen to launch a surprise attack.

The instant the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake retreated, a glint flashed in Wang Chen's eyes.

He erupted with Dou Qi once more during his charge, making his attack even fiercer.

Before the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake could even react, Wang Chen's long spear had already struck it.

Empowered by violent Dou Qi, the long spear easily pierced through the neck of the Third-Order Magical Beast.

Bang!!!

Thud!!!

Without hesitating for even a second, Wang Chen turned sideways and slammed a kick into the butt of the spear, directly pinning the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake to the ground.

Hisssss!!!

Having suffered such a devastating blow, the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake let out a painful hiss.

As a "great philanthropist," Wang Chen naturally could not bear to see this.

He once again took five small Realgar Packets from his storage space, along with several javelins.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Under Wang Chen's full-force assault, the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake finally stopped writhing and was freed from its pain.

Huff, huff~~

After repeatedly unleashing explosive attacks, Wang Chen took a couple of breaths.

After all, this battle could be considered the most dangerous one he had ever experienced.

Of course, that was mainly because Wang Chen had experienced too few battles.

But no matter what, he had won this time.

After adjusting himself slightly, Wang Chen did not rush to inspect the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake.

The more it was a time like this, the more cautious one had to be.

As a transmigrator, Wang Chen had heard plenty of stories in his previous life about dead snakes attacking people.

He did not want to stumble over something like that.

After carefully examining it and completely securing the Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake's head, Wang Chen finally began collecting his spoils.

"There really is one!"

With his powerful soul perception, Wang Chen found what he had been looking for.

Scarlet Flame Snake Beast Flame.

Since the Crimson Flame Snake had not used Beast Flame during the earlier battle, Wang Chen had thought that this Crimson Flame Snake had lost its Beast Flame because of its mutation.

Yet it actually still had one.

This was truly an unexpected delight.

Without wasting any time, Wang Chen directly used Dou Qi to control that Beast Flame and extract it.

In Wang Chen's palm lay a flame where crimson red and ghastly white intertwined, resting quietly.

"Strengthen!!!"

A surge of spiritual power vanished instantly, and the Beast Flame's power immediately soared.

Yet it caused Wang Chen no harm whatsoever.

After being strengthened, the Beast Flame leapt directly from the third order to the fifth order.

However, Wang Chen had completely refined it, so it could not possibly backlash against him.

Taking out a jade bottle and storing the fifth-order Beast Flame inside, Wang Chen continued sorting through his other spoils.

It was not that he did not want to devour the Beast Flame, but the circumstances did not allow it.

This was, after all, the Magical Beast Mountain Range, the territory of magical beasts.

Cultivating without any precautions in a place like this was simply treating one's life as a joke.

Wang Chen was not that kind of person.

"Looks like I'll have to specially forge a few weapons."

Looking at the corroded long spear and several javelins, Wang Chen could not help but frown.

These were all ordinary weapons he had bought in Wutan City.

Although they had been strengthened once, their foundations were too poor.

They still could not withstand the corrosion of a Mutated Scarlet Flame Snake.

It was not that Wang Chen did not want to buy good weapons, but there simply were none.

This Dou Qi Continent was a continent of alchemists.

Specialized weapon refiners were not entirely nonexistent, but they were exceedingly rare.

For cultivators, weapons simply had far too poor a cost-performance ratio.

Basically, they were only useful below the Dou Ling realm.

Those experts could completely use Dou Qi to condense their own weapons.

Not only did that require no cost, but it was also perfectly suited to their use.

At higher levels, the price of acquiring a weapon capable of increasing one's combat strength was simply far too great.

Using that cost to purchase pills could raise one's strength by several minor stages.

Thus, almost no one would specifically prepare a weapon after becoming stronger.

This made it impossible for weapon refiners to develop.

Weapon refiners were scarce, weapons were expensive, and their cost-performance ratio was low, so very few people bought them.

With few people buying weapons, prices naturally had to rise.

This created a vicious cycle, resulting in almost no one specializing in weapon forging anymore.

Generally, people would simply find some decent materials, casually forge them themselves, and add a magical core.

The main difference lay in the grade of the magical core; the weapon itself basically had little value.

Therefore, it was naturally impossible for Wang Chen to buy any good weapons.

(End of Chapter)