Chapter 8

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

With his two arms hanging down lifelessly, Zhuo Bufan came out from the small house. With less than two days left until the arena match, his time was limited.

Therefore, even if he had to crawl, he had to use this remaining time to go out and try his luck. The Six-Legged Beast could not possibly land in his clearing out of thin air.

Finishing the remaining bit of roasted boar, Zhuo Bufan went out to try his luck.

Practically every step Zhuo Bufan would chant the Six-Legged Beast’s name, his pair of eyes searching around like a radar, afraid that he would miss a certain corner and brush past it.

Hiss… Hiss!

“What’s that sound?”

Zhuo Bufan looked around and did not find anything suspicious. It looked like he was too nervous, that’s why he started to hallucinate. It was probably like this.

However, he had only taken two more steps when that strange voice sounded again.

Hiss… Hiss!

Zhuo Bufan blinked his big innocent eyes. This time, he heard it much clearer than before, so he could be sure that that sound was absolutely not an illusion.

What was it!

Moreover, it was very close to him, definitely not more than five meters away.

Zhuo Bufan stood unmoving on the spot. No matter what it was, he wanted to see its true face today.

How could an able bodied living person like him be….

The second half of the sentence had yet to finish when Zhuo Bufan felt something dripping onto his face. He used his hand to gently wipe away the sticky and slurry substance, and it left an unbearably unpleasant fishy smell.

“Ueeghhh!”

Zhuo Bufan felt his stomach churning. Together with how oily the last bit of pork was, he vomited it all out.

Wiping the corner of his mouth, Zhuo Bufan stood up straight, and looked into the eyes of a large golden python.

The snake’s tongue was still swallowing and spitting, and that disgusting smell assaulted his senses.

After Zhuo Bufan reacted, he subconsciously jumped back, maintaining a certain distance from the python.

“Don’t come over. I’m very powerful. If you don’t believe me, I’ll let you have a taste of what it means to suffer the twin hells of fire and ice!”

Hiss… Hiss!

The golden python didn’t care about Zhuo Bufan’s threat and slowly came down from the tree branch that was resting. Then, it kept its head up, glaring like a tiger watching its prey.

He hadn’t encountered a Six-Legged Beast, but he had encountered a giant python instead. More importantly, he wasn’t sure if this thing was poisonous.

This lousy place was terrifying.

However, the main thing was not to panic when you encounter trouble. First, you should take a photo and ask everyone.

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[Big bosses, I’m doing it again. Is this snake poisonous?]

The moment the message was sent out, Zhuo Bufan did not even have time to take a look at the python before seeing someone immediately respond to him.

[Hey, demon, where do you think you’re going? Benefactor, give me your coordinates and I’ll go help you!]

It was that Emperor’s Brother [1. In the novel ‘Journey to the West’, Tripitaka has the status of a sworn brother to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.] again. But with him joining in the fun the last time, Zhuo Bufan did not bother to listen to him this time.

He was only waiting for Aika or Anasu to answer his questions.

But after waiting for a long time, he still did not see the two ladies talking. This made Zhuo Bufan feel perturbed in his heart. Should he get that Emperor’s brother to help then?

[Song Chenxing: That’s… the Magma Serpent. I’ve only seen it five times up till now!]

Zhuo Bufan looked at the message, looked at his ID, then looked at the message again!

Great, Boss Song was finally willing to show himself.

Before Zhuo Bufan could type, there were already people who could not wait.

[Boss, have you reached the Postnatal realm?]

[Song Chenxing: I thought the Postnatal realm was easy. As the saying goes, nine nine makes eighty-one. The last stage is the hardest.]

[Nothing is ever too difficult, you just cross the river. If I hadn’t forgotten what the old turtle told me after obtaining the sutras, the four of us wouldn’t have gotten wet.]

Zhuo Bufan had a head full of black lines. Back then, when he looked at the Four Great Names, he was rather reverent towards the monk Tripitaka. In order to obtain the true scriptures, he suffered all along the way and had to be on guard against being eaten.

To think that he was actually so indecent.

[Song Chenxing: I have gained experience from my failure. If I try again, I might succeed. I also wish everyone the best.]

After that, Song Chenxing did not appear again. There was nothing else about the Magma Serpent.

Zhuo Bufan was stupefied. What should he do now? He couldn’t continue to exchange glances with the serpent. Staying in this deadlock was not a solution.

It seemed like he could only fight it out with his life on the line. Thinking back to how even the Six-Legged Beast couldn’t withstand the two layers of ice and fire, the Magma Snake probably couldn’t take it either.

Taking out the Ice Fire Magestaff, Zhuo Bufan aimed at the magma snake and shouted loudly — “Ice!”

Countless small icicles fell from the sky. The Magma Snake was only shocked for a moment before it lowered its head and began to move in a wave like manner to dodge the icicles.

The Magma Serpent possessed the rough size of a python, but its speed was not slow. In just the blink of an eye, it already crawled in front of Zhuo Bufan’s eyes. The snake’s mouth opened wide, and its two poisonous fangs that were like needles were terrifying.

Zhuo Bufan’s heart also tightened, and he hurriedly waved the Magestaff in his hand. This opportunity was grasped precisely, directly giving the Magma Serpent a three-sixty degree freeze!

Seeing the snake frozen there motionlessly, Zhuo Bufan wiped the sweat on his forehead. But before he could even catch his breath, he saw that the ice on the outside of the magma snake was actually melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Only then did Zhuo Bufan realize why this snake wasn’t called a Golden Python, but a Magma Serpent. It was said that water and fire were incompatible, that was why he wanted to use ice to deal with it.

Unexpectedly, it triggered its instinct—the magma effect!

The ice quickly turned into water, and the fine scales on the Magma Snake’s body also opened accordingly. What was exposed between the scales was orange-red skin, no different from what people would see in fiery red magma.

“Today, either you die or I die. Let’s see who’s better.”

For a moment, Zhuo Bufan thought of Song Chenxing’s words in the Human Race’s chat channel. Since he could temper his body to the Postnatal realm, he must have had a lot of experience in battling creatures. Since he said that he had only encountered the Magma Serpent only a total of five times, this guy should also be quite a rare thing.

Perhaps it could be like the Six-Legged Beast, producing some good loot if he could defeat it.

Thinking up to here, Zhuo Bufan gripped the Ice Fire Magestaff in his hand tightly. The only thing he could rely on now was this magestaff, and…

He suddenly recalled that there was a treasure resting in his backpack, the Immovable Radiant King Armor.

Taking advantage of the Lava Snake not attacking for the time being, Zhuo Bufan immediately opened his backpack. The instant the armor was worn on his body, his defense was directly maxed out.

“Little Long Worm, come on!”

With 100% defense, Zhuo Bufan was not afraid all of a sudden. He did not believe that this smelly long worm could touch a single hair of his.

The Magma Serpent was already enraged. Its speed did not decrease, but increased instead, as it opened its mouth, aiming at Zhuo Bufan’s vital parts.

Since the defense of the armor only lasted for half an hour, he knew that he had to end the battle quickly and decide the winner within a limited time.

He waved his Magestaff again, and created a few ice pillars from the ground. The Magma Serpent’s body was trapped in between the pillars, and it squirmed for a long time without being able to escape.

This made Zhuo Bufan heave a sigh of relief. Looks like this Magma Snake still had a weakness to it.

But the heat emitted by the serpent’s body was also melting the ice pillars. Zhuo Bufan struck while the iron was hot and used his Magestaff to summon small ice awls, which landed on its body one by one. Some even directly pierced into its skin..