Chapter 95 – The Purple Vine (1/2)
Chapter 95 – The Purple Vine
(Mustang: Hey guys, this is the third regular chapter for this week.)
Bi Fan knew that Wang Zhong was holding back something significant, but instead of asking, he started walking towards the Cycads.
Cycad cores are considered excellent refining material for weapons, and hence are quite valuable, and since they had found some, it was very important for them to find a way to take some with them.
The moment Lone Leaf and Blue Dragon arrived next to Cycads, a few beasts of the Devil’s Race sprang out from the forest to confront them.
These few beasts were reasonably strong; two of them were inside the ‘enormous strength’ layer, while the other five were ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer beasts; it was evident that this place was worthy of being considered in the top-ten most dangerous places, since, even the beasts that were at the edge of the forest, were as strong as the ones that they were confronted with.
“Man, it seems like this place is going to very interesting!” Blue Dragon chirped out of excitement, as he rushed over to the beasts, with his scimitar in his hand.
His scimitar stormed downwards, and beheaded one of the ‘Spiritual intelligence’ layered beasts in a single strike.
Blue Dragon was a fairly sturdy youngster, and was accustomed to using his scimitar like a heavy-assault weapon.
Lone Leaf’s strength had improved a lot, and the might of his ‘Six Yang Horseshoe’ Attack, had increased manifold.
His sword had barely hit the beasts, and they started falling to the ground.
“You are getting more and more powerful Brother!” Bi Fan arrived on the scene.
Blue Dragon and Lone Leaf, both, expressed their desires at the same time, individually: “Brother Bi Fan, stay out of this, these beasts belong to us.”
Bi Fan touched his non-existent beard, as he decided to silently stand while they killed the beasts.
A total of seven Devil’s Race beasts weren’t going to prove out to be much of a competition for Lone Leaf and Blue Dragon, and they finished them off quite quickly.
They quickly collected the corpses of their kills, and prepared to hew down the Cycads.
Wang Zhong also came over. He silently stood there, with a sly grin on his face, as he watched them prepare.
Blue Dragon was first to strike, and his scimitar chopped at the Cycad that stood in front of him.
“Bang!” The collision gave rise to a very crisp sound, but Blue Dragon was able to skim off only a very small bark from the Cycad.
“These things are extremely hard; they really are worthy of being used for making weapons. But I don’t care if they are made of iron, I want them.” Blue Dragon said in a loud voice.
Lone Leaf smiled: “Brother Dragon, if you really want them so badly, then I can help you in getting some…”
“Hegemon Overlord!”
In order to cut down the Cycad, Blue Dragon actually resorted to using his best attack.
“Boom!” this time, sparks flew; but once again, his attack was only able to give the Cycad a shave.
The scimitar bounced off the tree’s trunk and hit Blue Dragon’s chin, which had already started, faintly, aching.
“These trees are so hard! How do we cut them?” Blue Dragon seemed very disheartened: “Brother Wang, that’s not fair… you deliberately didn’t tell us, just so you could watch us suffer. It’s obvious that you’ve also failed in procuring these Cycad cores in the past, and you just wanted to make fun of us as we failed. It’s not my fault, okay…”
Bi Fan laughed: “If chopping these things down was that easy, then Brother Wang would have taken them all by now. I have feeling that we won’t be able to get any.”
“Brother Wang, how can we cut down these Cycads?” Lone Leaf asked for some sincere advice.
Wang Zhong said: “There are two ways, which can allow you to cut down the Cycads with ease. First, you need to be inside the ‘Emerging from the Womb’ layer; in which case, you can mobilize your inner aura and easily cut down these Cycads. The other way, requires you have a top-grade weapon, and the Cycads are yours….”
“Damn it! Damn it!….. Brother Wang, that’s not fair. You tried to fool us, you should have told us about this earlier!” Blue Dragon was extremely disheartened.
The requirements weren’t much, but none of them were capable of fulfilling them at the moment.
So, Bi Fan said: “It seems that we can’t fulfil either of those conditions, so let’s just enter the forest quickly, and find some Panacea, and kill some Devil’s Race creatures.”
The four of them stepped into the Devil’s Secret Forest, shoulder to shoulder, and their adventure began.
The Devil’s Secret Forest, was studded with several other tall and towering trees, apart from the Cycads, which were blocking of the sun altogether.
The Devil’s Forest’s air was filled with a very negative energy, while the environment was extremely damp and moist, which made it very suitable for poisonous creature to survive and breed in the environment.