Chapter 277: Begin Hunting

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Before Zhang Che started his killing spree, he needed to clarify one thing.

That was, whether the strange creatures in this secret world could only be killed with fire elemental attacks, or could other elemental attacks work as well?

Otherwise, it might be difficult to avoid getting into an accident if he could only rely on the Scarlet Flame Drake.

After all, even though the Scarlet Flame Drake could return to his spiritual sea and recover its vital strength after using its skill, it needed time to do so.

What if a powerful creature suddenly attacked him while the Scarlet Flame Drake was recovering its vital strength? Zhang Che would really be in a helpless position!

Keeping this in mind, Zhang Che directly recalled the Scarlet Flame Drake into his spiritual sea and rode the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, flying towards the black dots he had discovered moving in the sparse forest earlier.

First, he needed to verify whether the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s darkfiend frozen air could kill those strange creatures.

If that was possible, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon would be much more useful than the Scarlet Flame Drake, because his frozen breath had a longer reach than the Scarlet Flame Drake’s fiery breath.

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The trees in the sparse, dark green forest were all shaped weirdly. The soil on the ground was a bleak, pale gray color, like a place of exile.

If it wasn’t for the abundant, colorful moss that could be seen everywhere, this world simply had a deathly appearance, able to drive people mad.

Zhang Che found one of the strange creatures very quickly.

It was a strange snake about three meters long, with a row of sharp thorns on the scales on its back. It was pale gray in color, similar to the soil it was slithering upon, looking extremely weird.

Whoosh! The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon dove down quickly. Before that strange thorned snake could react, a stream of darkfiend frozen air blew its way.

Although that thorned snake reacted immediately, its body quickly winding up and shooting away to dodge the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s attack, it failed to avoid the stream of frozen air in the end. Its body was completely frozen before it could spring up a meter into the air.

A crisp sound rang out. The icy blue frozen thorned snake fell to the ground, breaking into countless ice shards. Afterwards, the ice quickly melted, thoroughly disappearing from Zhang Che’s sight.

At the same time, an unnoticeable mysterious energy seeped into Zhang Che’s spiritual sea.

Zhang Che was immediately relieved. It seemed that any elemental attack would work on these creatures, although they were invulnerable to physical attacks!

With that, Zhang Che had the ice and fire pair, the Scarlet Flame Drake and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, available to crush any of these strange creatures.

Of course, there might be extremely powerful creatures that even the Scarlet Flame Drake and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon couldn’t deal with. However, in Zhang Che’s opinion, those powerful creatures would be rarely seen. Unless he was unlucky to the extreme, he would probably not run into one of them.

After absorbing the thorned snake’s mysterious energy, Zhang Che could barely feel any change.

“Looks like even these strange creatures are divided in strength…”

Zhang Che had killed three different types of the strange creatures since last night. By comparison, he discovered that the black wolf he had first encountered had contributed the most mysterious energy to him, followed by that bunch of strange birds, and lastly the weak thorned snake before him.

However, due to the large numbers of those strange birds, the combined amount of mysterious energy they gave him was quite high.

Zhang Che sighed softly. He had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon fly into the air, at a few dozen meters high, and casually chose a direction to fly in.

The deep green bushes on the ground were extremely sparse. It was impossible to conceal any large creatures, and thus Zhang Che didn’t have to worry about missing any prey.

Even if there were creatures that could be concealed by the trees and plants, Zhang Che didn’t care. Those would probably not give him much mysterious energy.

Zhang Che soon discovered another target.

This time, it was a large lizard-like creature. Its entire body was covered in large pieces of bone shields like armor, and on its savage head were dense bone spikes just that thorned snake from before, giving it a fearsome appearance.

-The heck… aren’t there any normal-looking creatures here?-

Zhang Che didn’t have any energy to curse out. He ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to dive straight down and shoot out a stream of frozen air at it.

However, that few-meters-long lizard monster was much stronger than that thorned snake from before. It was alarmed as the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was diving down. All the bone spikes on its head shot out, producing a concentrated wave of whistling sounds, and struck the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s belly accurately.

A wave of crisp, clanking sounds rang out. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s extremely tough, crystallized body was actually punctured with holes. Deep blue darkfiend abyssal air immediately wafted out from the holes like a fog.

At the same time, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s frozen air had also reached the strange lizard, immediately enveloping the surface of its body with a layer of deep blue ice crystals.

However, the strange creature suddenly shook its body, shattering the ice crystals, which then fell to the ground. Afterwards, its large figure quickly crawled towards a pale grey crevice nearby.

Although the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s frozen air was able to hurt the lizard, his attack had failed to cause any fatal injuries.

“Don’t let it get away!”

At Zhang Che’s order, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon immediately charged in pursuit. The two sharp claws on his chest directly grabbed onto that strange lizard’s tail and dragged it out from the crevice. Afterwards, he opened his mouth and breathed out several streams of darkfiend frozen air at it.

When the extremely low temperature froze that lizard, leaving it unable to struggle anymore, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon raised the lizard’s tail and forcibly whipped the lizard at the rock wall.

A loud, dull sound rang out. The blue icy crystals covering the strange lizard’s body immediately shattered all over the ground.

To Zhang Che’s joy, he saw that the layer of armor on that fellow’s body was also smashed apart, revealing the pale grey flesh underneath.

However, as he had expected, that fellow’s body didn’t seem to contain any blood, either. A pale grey wisp of air was flowing out of the revealed pale grey flesh like liquid, not leaking out at all.

“This really is a cursed place. Could it be that it isn’t that the strange creatures here have no blood, but that flowing air substance is what’s sustaining their life?”

Although Zhang Che had many questions, now wasn’t the time to dwell on it.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon continued breathing stream after stream of darkfiend frozen air at it, shrouding the exposed pale grey flesh of the strange lizard.

A soundless shriek penetrated Zhang Che’s mind again. Afterwards, under his anticipatory gaze, the strange lizard was turned into a frozen statue, and was raised and smashed into the rock wall again, shattering onto the ground where it quickly melted, disappearing without a trace.

This time, the mysterious energy Zhang Che obtained was obviously much denser than the three types of strange creatures he slew before had provided him.

The pleasure he felt originating from his soul directly caused him to moan out.

“This is definitely a first-rate enjoyment in the world! Nothing can compare to this!” Zhang Che closed his eyes, enjoying this moment for a bit. In the end, he reopened his eyes, his face filled with satisfaction, and sighed, thinking regretfully, -Looks like these strange creatures only exist in the secret plane. When I leave this place in the future, when can I experience this pleasure again?

-Then, while I’m still here, I better go hunt more of those creatures!

-Kill as many as I can!-

As for the other resources, Zhang Che couldn’t be bothered to think about them. It would be his luck if he found them, and nothing to pity about if he didn’t.

How could external resources compare with directly raising his own strength!?

Well, although Zhang Che didn’t know exactly what benefits this mysterious energy would bring him, it was without a doubt that it wouldn’t be disappointing!