31: Awakening to the second level, Phantom Fire Snake!

It was a small, pitch-black snake coiled among the countless vines on the cliff.

Its scales were shaped like fish scales, and a pair of cold snake eyes were fixed on Su Yuan's side, flashing with icy killing intent.

The color of this small snake was similar to the roots of the surrounding vines, and with the obstruction of the vine leaves, it would be impossible to notice if one didn't look carefully.

Su Yuan hadn't noticed this small snake before.

If it weren't for the fact that this small snake had just launched an attack, Su Yuan wouldn't have been able to discover it so promptly.

【Nether Fire Serpent】

Species: Snake / Fire Type, Shadow Type

Quality: Excellent 7-Star

Rank: Awakening Rank 2

Status: Alert

Skills: Shadow Split, Dark Fire, Corrosive Fangs

Evolution Count: 0

Evolvable Paths: 4

"An Excellent 7-Star Nether Fire Serpent, this is troublesome."

Su Yuan looked at the Nether Fire Serpent's attributes, and a grave expression immediately appeared on his face.

With Excellent 7-Star quality and Awakening Rank 2, the strength of this Nether Fire Serpent was definitely at the overlord level in the outer perimeter of the Molten Volcano Mountains.

Its Excellent 7-Star quality was not much weaker than Xiao Xuan's Excellent 9-Star quality.

Coupled with its high Awakening Rank 2, its combat power was even above Xiao Xuan's.

Such a Vicious Beast could easily kill even an Awakening Rank 5 Candlelight Spider.

Facing such a powerful Vicious Beast, even if Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan worked together, they would be no match.

After determining the strength gap between his side and the Nether Fire Serpent, Su Yuan didn't hesitate anymore and immediately prepared to have Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan retreat together.

Anyway, Xiao Xuan already had one foot in the Awakening-level; once Xiao Xuan reached a Breakthrough to the Awakening-level, they could just come back here to harvest these three sacred fire fruits.

There was no need to take risks now.

The sacred fire fruit would take another three days to fully mature. Su Yuan guessed that this Nether Fire Serpent had been guarding the sacred fire fruit for quite some time and must also be waiting for the moment it matured.

In three days, Su Yuan was confident that he could have Xiao Xuan push for the Awakening-level.

By then, an Awakening Rank 1 Xiao Xuan, combined with attribute suppression and superior quality, would find it much easier to face the Awakening Rank 2 Nether Fire Serpent.

However, the Nether Fire Serpent had missed its first strike, and at this moment, it also knew that its Disguise had been seen through.

Before Su Yuan could give the order to retreat, the Nether Fire Serpent took the initiative and launched an attack towards Su Yuan and the others.

The Nether Fire Serpent had been guarding this sacred fire fruit for two months. Seeing that the fruit was about to mature, it knew that as long as it swallowed these three sacred fire fruits, its strength would greatly increase, and it might even take a step into the Transcendent Level.

The Nether Fire Serpent was determined to have the three sacred fire fruits!

Now that it had been discovered by others, the Nether Fire Serpent would definitely not let Su Yuan and his Beasts leave safely.

"Hiss!!!"

After a hiss, the Nether Fire Serpent suddenly launched an attack.

A stream of dark blue flame spewed from its mouth, heading straight for Su Yuan on Xiao Xuan's back.

With Excellent 7-Star quality and Awakening Rank 2, the power of this attack from the Nether Fire Serpent was extremely astonishing.

Feeling the scorching wave of heat approaching, Su Yuan's expression changed slightly.

"The power of this dark blue flame cannot be underestimated; if it landed on me, I'd probably be done for."

"Xiao Xuan!"

Feeling the power of the Nether Fire Serpent's attack, Su Yuan didn't hesitate at all and immediately shouted.

Xiao Xuan's reaction was even faster than Su Yuan's; it had already responded the moment the Nether Fire Serpent launched its attack.

As the Nether Fire Serpent's dark blue flame came hurtling towards them, a water pillar, equally unyielding, suddenly erupted and rushed towards the dark blue flame.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!!

Water and fire collided, and the terrifying high temperature of the dark blue flame instantly evaporated a large amount of water, and the surroundings were instantly filled with white mist.

Although Xiao Xuan's current strength was not as high as the Awakening Rank 2 Nether Fire Serpent, it had the advantage of attribute suppression.

Xiao Xuan's Water Gun blast successfully blocked the Nether Fire Serpent's flame.

"Hiss!!!"

With its attack blocked, the Nether Fire Serpent's eyes turned cold, and it let out a series of highly threatening hisses, feeling that this was tricky.

Through the previous collision, the Nether Fire Serpent had already gained some understanding of Xiao Xuan.

After knowing Xiao Xuan's background, a hint of gravity appeared in the Nether Fire Serpent's cold eyes.

Xiao Xuan's Water Type attack completely suppressed its Fire Type attack.

Even though the Nether Fire Serpent could sense that Xiao Xuan was only at the Peak of the Common-level and had not yet set foot in the Awakening-level, it didn't dare to lower its guard.

Hum!!!

After realizing that its Fire Type skill attacks would be suppressed by Xiao Xuan, the Nether Fire Serpent didn't hesitate at all; its figure flashed and disappeared from the cliff wall.

A subtle energy fluctuation emerged, enveloping its body, and in an instant, the Nether Fire Serpent that was shooting towards Su Yuan from the cliff suddenly split into two.

Taking advantage of the visual obstruction of the water mist, they attacked Su Yuan from both the left and the right.

"Chirp, chirp!!!"

As the Nether Fire Serpent disappeared from the cliff and launched an attack on Su Yuan, Xiao Yan, who was circling above, immediately issued a warning.

Below, both Xiao Xuan and Su Yuan had grave expressions on their faces.

Even though their eyes couldn't capture the Nether Fire Serpent, which was perfectly hiding its figure with the help of the water mist, both Su Yuan and Xiao Xuan could feel a great crisis approaching.

Splash!!!

Without any hesitation, a large amount of water elements suddenly condensed around Xiao Xuan, and the next moment, the scene of the battle in the Misty Forest against the Gale Shadow Cat cub was recreated.

Countless waves surged continuously, surrounding Xiao Xuan and Su Yuan, covering the entire surrounding space.

Only two "bang, bang" sounds were heard as the Nether Fire Serpent's figure appeared, and the two snake bodies that were shooting towards Su Yuan were slowed down by the splashing waves.

After enduring a few splashes from the waves, one of the Nether Fire Serpents' figures directly dissipated.

Only the main body of the Nether Fire Serpent continued to push against Xiao Xuan's skill attack and charged towards Su Yuan.

The Nether Fire Serpent already possessed a not-insignificant level of intelligence; it understood that Su Yuan, the Beastmaster, was the backbone of the team.

As long as it killed Su Yuan, the Beastmaster, the remaining two Beasts would be nothing to fear.

Although Xiao Xuan's skill, Tidal Surge, was astonishing in power and could kill the Nether Fire Serpent's shadow image, it couldn't cause much damage to the main body of the Nether Fire Serpent.

Although the Nether Fire Serpent's figure was hindered, it was still rapidly approaching Su Yuan.

"This guy is really strong!"

"Damn it, does it really think I'm a pushover?"

"I'll fight you to the death!"

"Soul Arrow!"

Seeing that Xiao Xuan was unable to stop the Nether Fire Serpent from killing him, Su Yuan shouted a few times in his heart, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes.

Staring fixedly at the Nether Fire Serpent that was opening its mouth to bite him, the Mental Energy in Su Yuan's Sea of Consciousness surged out wildly.

An invisible arrow of Mental Energy formed in an instant and suddenly shot towards the Nether Fire Serpent.

Xiao Xuan's strength had reached the Peak of Common Rank 9, just one step away from entering the Awakening-level.

Consequently, Su Yuan's strength had also reached the level of a half-step Awakening-level Beastmaster.

Plus, Su Yuan possessed three Beasts of superior quality, as well as a Mythical-level Beast Taming Talent that surpassed everyone else's.

Su Yuan's Mental Energy was extremely powerful.

Now, under a life-and-death crisis, he unleashed his Soul Arrow attack with all his might, and the power that the Soul Arrow erupted with far exceeded Su Yuan's expectations.

Under the attack of the Soul Arrow, the pupils of the rapidly charging Nether Fire Serpent instantly dilated; it didn't even have time to let out a scream before its Soul was obliterated by Su Yuan's Soul Arrow, turning it into a vegetable snake.

Although the Nether Fire Serpent's body still relied on inertia to rush to Su Yuan's side, it was easily blocked by Su Yuan, and its corpse fell onto Xiao Xuan's back.

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