8 Chapter 8 – First Battle (2/2)
He clearly has no experience in fighting. This is his first fight in this life and his previous life included. He felt incredible pain on the side of his body and he realised he broke few ribs.
Thankfully the serpent was not too fast. Only the movement of its tail was incredibly swift. He know he cannot escape from it, and the only way is to either heavily injure it and escape or killing it. He only had blazing flame fist to use in the fight which is a close combat technique. He needs to get close to the serpent. He waited for the serpent to attack with its tail.
As soon as it attacked, he rolled towards the serpent, evading the tail, activated his blazing flame fist and used all his strength to attack it. He hit its body clearly and felt like hitting iron. He felt pain in his hand and took it back and looked at the part he hit in the serpent's body. The place he hit was scorched and it was bleeding slowly. He was about to hit it again, when the tail came around him trying to bind him. He rolled fast to the side and stood up ready to move again.
He felt cold sweat in his back. ”That was so close, if I was slow by even a second, it would have bound me and crushed me to death.”
He looked at the black serpent and its eyes were cold. It snarled at him clearly angry considering the fact that the puny human before him injured it. It opened its mouth and spit venom towards him suddenly. He rolled away again.
”I have to finish this fight soon or else I will definitely die from the venom. I can't last long” he thought to himself. He tried his best to calm himself down and think of a way out of this predicament.
Suddenly, an idea came to him ”What if I tried to manipulate the flame Qi formed in my fist. It wasn't supposed to form fire to the extent of basketball size according to what I learned about blazing flame fist. Yet, I made it look to the size of bonfire. Maybe it was because of my high rank elemental roots, absorbing lots of elemental Qi, but it's worth trying to see if I can manipulate the fire Qi and use it in a different way.”
He tried to form a fireball in his hand. He rolled away from another poison spit form the serpent and started to crazily absorb the fire Qi in the atmosphere and concentrated on forming a flame ball while moving left and right avoiding its attack. He formed a small fireball on top of his hand the size of tennis ball, and was ecstatic that his idea worked.
He tried to make it a bigger fireball when suddenly another venomous spit came towards to him. He instinctively threw the fireball toward the venomous spit. Fireball burned the poison and both neutralised each other in mid-air.
The serpent was shocked to see the fireball that neutralised its venom. It got more furious and started spitting more venom. He sidestepped the venom. He started crazily absorbing more fire Qi forming fireball on both his hands while moving, one hand behind his back.
He suddenly stopped and looked at the serpent. It spit venom again thinking he stopped due to exhaustion. But it couldn't be any more wrong.
He flicked the fireball from one of his hand towards the venom and immediately the other fireball towards its head. The serpent tried to spit more venom but it was too late. Fireball hit directly in its face and burned one of its eyes immediately.
It started thrashing left and right in pain. Zhu Xuan knew this is his chance. He immediately started to form fireballs by crazily absorbing Qi and started throwing it towards the serpent crazily while moving like a madman.
He didn't know how long he was attacking, but he found the serpent was not moving anymore. He stopped the attack and observed closely to find the serpent was limp and there were too many burns, and blood was flowing all over its body. He had finally killed the serpent. It died a miserable death.
Zhu Xuan let out a sigh and relaxed himself when he was sure the serpent is dead. He felt scared and excited at the same time remembering what he just experienced. This was his first battle after all and he came as the winner in the end.