Chapter 455 - Operation Purification. Dark Gold Fiery Scorpion (2/2)

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Indeed, when Dijiang-hao landed at the side of the spatial gateway at their next destination, there was still a few more minutes before the movie the elemental queen was watching ended.

Needless to say, Zhang Che waited for that much time before getting out of Dijiang-hao and entering the beast world.

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Since they had left a little late today, Zhang Che wasn’t able to get to the indicated location on the map before the sky turned dark.

While they traveled, Zhang Che knew that they wouldn’t be able to reach their destination in time. Thus, he decided to summon the frisky monkey out, ready to scavenge for spiritual herbs along their route.

Alas, they weren’t too far from the safety zone. Despite the frisky monkey being able to sense the spiritual fluctuations in a wide area around him, he didn’t find many spiritual herbs in the end, not even breaking through two digits.

As for the grades of those spiritual herbs, they were even poorer, barely making it within the standards of spiritual herbs.

“Looks like it isn’t very likely for mid and high-grade spiritual herbs to appear in these places. I have to go deep into the beast world again if I want to actually find something worthy.”

In fact, Zhang Che had this idea previously, and ended up exploring that peculiar desert in the end. Although he didn’t find any high-grade spiritual herbs that time, his gains weren’t small, either.

Putting aside the fact that he found a bunch of fire crystals, he even obtained a fantastical lifeform like the elemental queen as his pet, bolstering his combat force!

After shooting a sideways glance at the frisky monkey, Zhang Che shrugged and said, “Hey, don’t blame daddy for not finding a spiritual herb for you. There really isn’t anything good on our way.”

Although he really wanted the frisky monkey to rise in level, or perhaps even in quality as well, it wasn’t such an easy matter after all.

Were high-grade spiritual herbs so easy to find?

The number of high-grade spiritual herbs Zhang Che had obtained over the past few months could be counted with his hands, not to mention it was with the help of the frisky monkey’s ability. Otherwise, Zhang Che would be considered to have heaven-defying luck if he found even one high-grade spiritual herb!

Unexpectedly, the frisky monkey didn’t seem to care whether he could break through. Instead, he rubbed his hands excitedly, looking at Zhang Che in anticipation, saying, “Baba, spiritual honey, roasted meat!”

For a glutton, strength wasn’t important. What was most important was delicious food!

Ever since he had tasted the spiritual honey-roasted meat, the frisky monkey’s tastebuds were thoroughly conquered, wanting to eat a few meals a day.

So, when he heard Zhang Che’s apologetic words, he immediately grew excited. -Baba, you don’t have to feel guilty. Just feed me a few more meals of roasted meat!-

Zhang Che nearly rolled his eyes back. Really, eating was all this glutton knew!

However, he had yet to find the high-grade spiritual herb he had promised the frisky monkey after delaying a few days, after all. Zhang Che still had to satisfy the frisky monkey’s simple request as best as he could.

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As a result, in the cave the Purple Crystal Tortoise dug out afterwards, the elemental queen turned into a meat roaster once more, filling the whole cave with the fragrance of roasted meat and spiritual honey.

The elemental queen was indeed a specialist at controlling flames. After this period of time, her achievements at roasting meat had far exceeded the Scarlet Flame Drake, reaching the level of a grand master.

It could be said that the elemental queen had learned by heart how intense of a fire she should use during every minute and second of the process of roasting meat. Roasting the meat to a world-class standard was nothing strange.

Even though Zhang Che had long gotten sick of eating roasted meat a few months ago, he could still eat over a dozen kilograms of spiritual honey roasted meat and still not feel sick of it at all.

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After a filling meal, Zhang Che recalled the frisky monkey back into his spiritual sea, then took out two sleeping bags from his spatial storage and spread them open in the cave. The master and pet got ready to sleep.

Of course, the elemental queen had no actual need to sleep.

However, after watching Zhang Che sleep a few times, she learned the unique skill of sleeping without anyone teaching her, and she would even wake up a little later than Zhang Che.

It was still early. Naturally the two wouldn’t fall asleep so soon. As such, Zhang Che fished out a few books from his spatial storage. He had specially bought them for the elemental queen before embarking on this journey, aiming to help her get rid of her addiction to television.

However, it didn’t seem to be going well thus far.

Although the elemental queen had listened to Zhang Che’s suggestion and started reading books, it felt like she was reading them half-heartedly, probably thinking of watching television.

Zhang Che didn’t bother with her. He sat on top of his sleeping bag, flipping a book open as well and started reading with the help of the flames from the Scarlet Flame Drake, ready to waste some time.

At that moment, a change suddenly occurred in his spiritual sea. Zhang Che looked inside, a warm smile rising on his face.

The Fiery Scorpion Miss Tienan had gifted him in the past was now starting to break through, on its way to becoming a dark gold-quality beast card!