Gu Chenfeng had not expected that doubling back would bring him this.
Not only had he picked up a wealth of treasures, he had also killed his two enemies, Chen Xu and Alchemist Huang, along the way.
What an unexpected windfall.
"Little fellow, you're free!"
At that moment, the Little Azure Snake on Alchemist Huang's wrist slithered over to the corpse's heart and drank a mouthful of blood from it.
Then it raised its head, bowed to Gu Chenfeng, and swiftly slithered away.
Gu Chenfeng did not linger either.
He stripped Chen Xu and Alchemist Huang of all their treasures, then continued toward the area where the great battle had erupted.
Soon, he approached the battlefield and sensed Big Bear's presence.
By now, the vegetation surrounding the battlefield had long since turned to charcoal.
The earth, cracked like a spiderweb, was riddled with enormous, scorched pits, still billowing with gray smoke.
Waves of energy kept spreading in every direction, whipping up surging gales.
Gu Chenfeng leaped to the crown of a tall tree and gazed toward the center of the battlefield.
There, he saw one bear and three men locked in an earth-shaking battle.
Big Bear, a mutated Crimson Flame Savage Bear, now had blood-red eyes. Scarlet flames surged around him, and scorching pillars of fire spewed from his mouth.
Wherever he went, crimson waves rolled, and flames engulfed an area dozens of yards across.
He was a veritable "moving, active volcano."
The three black-clad men fighting the Crimson Flame Savage Bear were also extraordinarily powerful.
Of the three, one wielded a long-handled war saber, while another swung a heavy hammer.
Water-blue and earthen-yellow Source Qi crystallized around them into protective barriers.
With every swing of their weapons, saber light several yards long and hammer projections as enormous as millstones