Chapter 137 (1/2)

Chapter 137

Chapter 137 Wonder Carp

Long Chen almost shouted when he saw that marvelous blossom . That was one of the main medicinal ingredients required to condense the second star of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, the Alioth Star .

Before leaving Phoenix Cry, Long Chen had already asked the alchemist guild and auction houses about the medicinal ingredients . Other than some subsidiary medicinal ingredients, he hadn’t found any main ingredients .

To refine the Alioth Star only required second tier medicinal ingredients, but those main ingredients were all extremely rare . Even the alchemist guild’s senior alchemists had never heard of many of them .

Long Chen had been extremely worried then . Now that he saw this Immortal Chrysanthemum, he required all his willpower not to shout out in shock .

“Nine leaves pointing to the sky like an Immortal pointing the way . Yes, this is definitely an Immortal Chrysanthemum . ” Long Chen once more confirmed that he hadn’t been wrong . Long Chen jumped up the cliff in just a couple steps, reaching the Immortal Chrysanthemum . But suddenly he felt a grave threat and dodged to the side .

A huge python shot just past Long Chen . If it weren’t for his quick reactions, he would have been bit by it .

“There’s a Magical Beast guarding it?” Long Chen was surprised . Some rarer medicinal ingredients would always have Magical Beasts guarding them . He hadn’t expected such a situation to occur within the Xuantian Monastery .

Carefully examining this huge python, he saw that it was a foot thick and its entire body was gold-yellow . In fact, its scales even looked as if they had been forged out of gold . Having missed, it now turned to face Long Chen, menacingly sticking out its tongue .

Behind it was a cave that was hidden behind a couple short shrubs . When he had been climbing, Long Chen hadn’t been at the correct angle to see that .

“Gold Scale Python, an overlord amongst second tier Magical Beasts . It’s also extremely rare . I wouldn’t have expected to encounter one here . ”

Long Chen’s heart shook slightly . During their trial, there were actually Magical Beasts present . That meant this was no ordinary trial; if you were defeated, wasn’t it entirely possible you could die?

Although everyone here were geniuses, their cultivation bases were only within the Blood Condensation realm . As for this Gold Scale Python, it was extremely powerful . The weaker partic.i.p.ants could very easily lose their lives to it if they ended up encountering one .

As Long Chen was thinking, that Gold Scale Python once more shot over like lightning, trying to bite Long Chen . Its mouth opened to almost the same height as Long Chen, four long fangs protruding out with a translucent liquid dripping off them .

“Pill Blaze!” Long Chen coldly shouted . Extending his hand, a ball of flame formed in his hand . When that Gold Scale Python was about to bite him, he directly threw that ball of flame into its mouth, retreating at the same time .

BOOM! That ball of flame exploded within the Gold Scale Python’s mouth . Flesh and blood shot everywhere as its entire head disappeared . The remaining half of its body began to wildly spasm .

Long Chen’s expression suddenly changed and he kicked away that corpse . Seeing that the Immortal Chrysanthemum was completely undamaged, he sighed in relief . It had almost been crushed by the Gold Scale Python’s body .

The Immortal Chrysanthemum had to be kept entirely intact . If part of it was damaged, the entire plant’s medicinal effect would sharply decline .

In reality, that Gold Scale Python was extremely strong . Its scales possessed an incredibly powerful defensive strength such that even blades were unable to harm it .

Even an ordinary Muscle Rebirth expert would find it difficult to break through its defense . Furthermore, it could even spit out poisonous gas, and once you were enveloped by that poison gas, even if you did stop breathing, you would still be poisoned . That poison was extremely difficult to treat .

But Long Chen had been lucky this time . Most of its powerful defense was focused on protecting its outer body, while Long Chen’s flames had been tossed into its mouth . Even if it had ten lives it shouldn’t have been messing around like that .

Carefully digging away the mud, he extracted the Immortal Chrysanthemum, leaving behind some mud on its roots .

Carefully placing it into a jade bottle, he put it into his spatial ring . Glancing at the Gold Scale Python’s corpse, he decided not to bring it .

The Gold Scale Python’s power was mostly focused on defense, not its poison . So its poison was not as powerful as that of the Huge Desert Scorpion .

And snakes without powerful poisons didn’t fetch much of a price on the market, not even their gallbladder[1] . So Long Chen still decided to just leave the corpse there .

Looking around, he saw a piece of flesh had landed in an underbrush . From that piece of flesh he extracted a palm-sized crystal core .

The crystal core contained the full essence of the Gold Scale Python and was extremely precious .

Whether it was as medicine, to be refined into medicine, or to be used as a weapon, anything was possible . That was especially true for using it for weapons . By embedding the crystal core into a weapon, it was possible for that weapon become much stronger . Those kinds of weapons were called Spirit Weapons .

Spirit Weapons could only be made with a powerful Forging Master . With the power of glyphs, they were capable of activating the Magical Beast’s crystal core to increase the power of the weapon .

But such weapons were extremely rare . Even up till now, Long Chen had never seen one in person .

This level of crystal core was still too low to be forged into a weapon . But it should still be worth some money . Putting the core away, Long Chen continued forward, following a small brook between two mountains .

Long Chen knew that it was this kind of place that was close to water that was most likely to contain precious, natural treasures . Having found the Immortal Chrysanthemum, Long Chen became much more lively .

As he followed the water, the small brook gradually widened, the water gradually growing calmer as it eventually formed a small river .

After walking another two hours, loud cras.h.i.+ng sounds came from the front . Walking closer, he saw a waterfall flowing down like a white ribbon . Millions upon millions of water droplets splashed out as the water cascaded into the rocks below . Under the dazzling sunlight, those water droplets practically looked like pearls, incomparably beautiful .

At the bottom of the waterfall was a natural pool around five miles wide . The water was extremely clear . He could easily see dozens of meters into the water .

The waterfall was like a ribbon while the pool was like a mirror reflecting the picturesque mountains, an absolutely enchanting sight . Long Chen was stunned by the beauty of it all .

“Oh, there’s fish in this water?”