"This is bad!"
Before Lin Feng could pluck the mature thyme fructus, he felt a strong sense of danger.
Without any time to think, he immediately retreated.
"Swoosh!"
Although his body was severely injured, under the effect of the thyme fructus's strange scent, a certain amount of immortal elemental energy had already been stored up in his body.
All of a sudden, he broke through two times the speed of sound in an instant.
Although his speed was slower than his peak state, he was still able to react fast enough. Before the danger had arrived, he had already retreated, allowing him to avoid the incoming danger.
"Whoosh …"
Just as Lin Feng was retreating, a thick black liquid shot out from the stream.
The place he had just landed on, after being contaminated by this black liquid, suddenly exploded out with ear-piercing sizzling sounds and a thick stench one after another.
The ground was then completely corroded and turned into a puddle of liquid. A fishy stench assaulted his nostrils.
"It looks like a corrosion force!"
Lin Feng's face changed drastically, his eyes becoming serious like never before.
Little by little, his gaze landed on the stream that was spitting out black liquid.
"Boom!"
A monstrous sound rumbled out from deep within the stream, and a huge black python shot up from the stream into the sky.
Such a huge python was actually out of the python's range. Its open mouth revealed two sinister fangs and a dark red snake's tongue. A pair of vertical pupils exuded an incomparably dark and cold aura. If it were an ordinary cultivator, they would feel a chill down their spine just by being stared at by this pair of vertical pupils.
The most terrifying thing was that this pair of vertical pupils seemed to possess the power to devour souls, as if any weakling would have their soul stabbed or even annihilated by this pair of vertical pupils.
Its enormous body was dozens of meters long, and every scale was the size of an adult's palm. It was like a real black dragon.
Dozens of meters in height, what sort of concept was that? According to the height of a floor, this black python should be at least as high as a dozen floors. Not to mention Lin Feng, even if it was most of the huge fierce beasts, they would only be insignificant ants in front of such a huge python.
Without a doubt, this was a vicious beast that was comparable to a cautious hill.
"Kacha, kacha …"
The black python soared up from the stream and circled above the water. With it as the center, a radius of a few thousand meters was covered by a cold chill.
The feeling of being in this place was like being in an icehouse. His entire body, from his pores to his bone marrow, was filled with a bone-piercing chill.
The plants and flowers were completely frozen by the coldness. When the coldness reached a certain point, cracking sounds could be heard. Even the air was filled with satisfaction after being frozen and then shattered. To be able to freeze the invisible air into something tangible, the coldness was terrifying to the extreme!
"Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python!"
Lin Feng's eyes slowly narrowed, his expression incomparably solemn.
The Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python was the previous body of the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Dragon. Once it matured, it would be able to transform into a Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Dragon, possessing the strength comparable to a real Flood Dragon. Therefore, even though the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Dragon had only just transformed, it would still possess the strength of subconscious state.
Even though the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python before it transformed was much weaker than the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Dragon after it transformed, the frightening power it possessed was still not to be underestimated.
This kind of Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python had already reached the age of half an adult and its realm had already reached the level of Golden Dan Perfection. Its scales were as hard as peak-level spirit weapon's, and practically nothing under the level of the treasure could break through its scales. The black flame it spewed out was extremely corrosive. It was enough to completely corrode all treasures below the rank of treasures. As for the body of an Immortal cultivator, without the strength of the Yuanying Stage, it was simply impossible to resist.
Furthermore, the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python's body was tough enough to match the peak-level spirit weapon's, so it was actually the strongest offensive weapon. Relying on the terrifying strength possessed by its enormous body, just the impact from its body was enough to flatten a mountain.
"With the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python here, forget about refining the thyme fructus, even if we run now, it would be too late!"
Lin Feng turned his gaze back and forth, his expression extremely solemn.
His current condition was that he had only recovered quite a bit of his strength from the strange aroma of a mature thyme fructus. However, the immortal elemental energy in his body was still lacking, and as for his physical strength, he had only recovered a little.
Under such a situation, not to mention dealing with a powerful Golden Dan Perfection beast like the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python, even if it were an ordinary peak of Jindan beast, they would have to continue activating the forbidden arcane in order to choose their team.
"Hiss …"
The Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python spit out its dark red tongue. In the midst of its ear-piercing hissing, it actually directly opened its big mouth, as it charged towards Lin Feng to swallow him up.
"Boom!"
The opening was over a hundred square meters.
What kind of concept was this? A normal three-bedroom house, under such a huge mouth, Lin Feng's body was not even worth mentioning.
In the span of a breath, it would be swallowed by the enormous mouth.
The Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python's body was filled with the kind of black flame that could corrode anything in its path. With Lin Feng's weakened body, the moment it was swallowed, the black flame would engulf his body. His fleshly body would definitely be melted in an instant. Even the soul in his sea of consciousness would not have the chance to escape, and would soon be melted as well.
"Plop!"
Lin Feng, who was unable to unleash his physical body's power, as well as use his immortal elemental energy to escape, could only roll on the ground lazily in the face of the devouring maw, barely dodging this world-shaking attack.
"Bam!"
Just as it was about to roll away, a huge crater appeared in the spot where it was originally standing, under the huge mouth of the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python.
It was about a hundred square meters in area and was forcefully swallowed into its mouth. It was as if a piece of land had been ripped out of the ground in an instant.
"Primordius!"
Lin Feng and the Chaotic Element Flying Sword had long since reached a mutual understanding.
With a thought, he summoned the Chaotic Element Flying Sword and once again rushed towards the thyme fructus tree.
The Crimson Armored Black Flame Python was bloodthirsty. Given his current condition, it was impossible for him to flee. Let the Sword Soul control the Chaotic Element Flying Sword and fight with the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python, then he would take the opportunity to take down the mature thyme fructus, and use the fastest speed to recover. This was the only hope left for him right now.
As long as he could, before the Sword Soul could continue to control the Chaotic Element Flying Sword, he could absorb all of the thyme fructus's power and reverse the situation. Otherwise, the Sword Soul and he would probably have to die here today.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Amidst its furious roars, the Scarlet Black Flame Python went berserk. It opened its huge mouth and spewed out a thick black flame.
Lin Feng ignored them and continued to rush towards the thyme fructus tree.
"Sssii!"
Under the control of the Sword Soul, the Chaotic Element Flying Sword vibrated in the air and released a hundred meter long sword light that slashed straight at the black flames.
The sharp sword beam was strong enough to split a meteorite or a mountain. After it landed on the black flame, it directly exploded it.
However, at the same time that the flying sword slashed out of the black flames, a sizzling sound also exploded from the sword. It was as if something was corroding the flying sword.
"Buzz!"
As expected of a black flame that could corrode any treasure below it. Even Chaotic Element Flying Sword s were corroded by the black flame.
Fortunately, the corrosion was not very deep. It only caused a black mark to appear on the sword before returning to normal.
"What, even Chaotic Element Flying Sword can corrode it!"
Although Lin Feng's entire attention was focused on the thyme fructus, he could still clearly capture the situation between the flying sword and the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python.
Up till now, he had never seen the hardness of Chaotic Element Flying Sword. There was any kind of treasure that could cause true damage to it, even if it was the low-rank treasure's flying sword, it would not be able to leave a trace when it landed on it.
"The black flames within the body of the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python was enough to melt all the magical equipment below the rank of Treasures. It could even cause damage to real artifacts. If you want to be completely unaffected by the black flames, the only way is to reach the level of a high-grade treasure before you can ignore them completely. "
"I had originally thought that Chaotic Element Flying Sword s that had their ranks dropped wouldn't suffer much damage, but now, it seems that their hardness would decrease along with their ranks. It's just that the degree of damage isn't as severe as the grade drop!"
"Just by looking at how hard it is, it's only at the level of a Middle Grade Treasure."
Lin Feng's mind spun very quickly, and in between his thoughts, he had already made a clearer judgement of the Chaotic Element Flying Sword's situation.
Previously, he had mistakenly thought that the hardness of the flying sword did not drop by much.
Now, after witnessing the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python's black flames that could cause some damage to Middle Grade Treasure, it could finally be considered to have completely understood the current situation of the Chaotic Element Flying Sword.
"Roar!"
"Sssii!"
After Lin Feng pondered for a while, the sword spirit controlled the Chaotic Element Flying Sword and started to fight with the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python once again.
After slicing open the meteorite, the sharp flying sword that was like a kitchen knife cutting a melon did not cause any real damage to the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python when it landed on its swinging tail. It only left a shallow white mark on its tail.
It was just like when he used his fingertip to scratch his skin that had just finished a bath.
Other than that, there was nothing else.
"Roar! Roar!"
Even so, it had still completely infuriated the Scarlet Shelled Black Flame Python.
"Whoosh …"
At the moment he opened his mouth, a black flame came out again.
When the black flame shot out, it was like a stream of water ejected from the nose of a giant elephant, reaching a length of several meters.
"Tss tss …"
This time, at the moment the flying sword broke through the black flame, two more black lines appeared on the sword. Adding on the previous one, the powerful corrosion force, the number of black lines left on the sword had increased to three.
"Hiss!"
Seeing that the number of black lines had increased to three, Lin Feng did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately took off the mature thyme fructus.
"Gudong!"
After swallowing it whole, Lin Feng sat cross legged and began to refine it.
In just a short moment, there were already three black lines on the sword.
At this rate, it would not take long for the sword to be covered in dense black lines under the corrosion force of the black flame. Once the sword was completely covered in black lines, the flying sword would completely lose its power. Even the sword spirit would become absent-minded and could return to its original state at any time.
From the void to the form of a soul, the sword spirit had devoured the souls of many experts, forming the shape of a soul bit by bit. No matter what, he couldn't let the sword spirit return to the void. In this way, not only would it take a lot of time for the Sword Soul to reform, even his strength would decrease by a lot as well. After all, if one wanted to obtain the strongest strength from a Chaotic Element Flying Sword, other than the grade of the flying sword itself, it would be him and the Sword Soul's strength.
"Bang, bang bang …"
At the mouth of the mature thyme fructus, streams of dense energy continuously exploded.
In the span of a breath, Lin Feng's body was completely filled with streams of dense energy. At this instant, the severe injuries from the backlash of the forbidden arcane, were also quickly healing at an unprecedented speed.
"Hualala …"
Lin Feng's current body was like a stream, and after the mature thyme fructus was engulfed, the only power that was released was that of a stream. As it flowed, the sound of flowing water could actually be heard from within Lin Feng's body.
As energy flowed through his body, the depleted immortal elements in Lin Feng's body quickly recovered to its saturation point and began to be continuously compressed. His body, which was formed from the indestructible body of the five elements, was also being further refined by the flowing energy.
Just like this, time ticked by second by second, and the surging energy that erupted from the mature thyme fructus was finally refined by Lin Feng to almost ninety percent. It would only take a few minutes to completely refine the remaining ten percent of the energy.
"As long as we can hold on for a few more minutes, everything will be fine!"
Just as Lin Feng was about to heave a sigh of relief, the sound of a sharp blade hitting the ground immediately caused him, who had yet to completely relax, to once again hover high up in the air.
His gaze turned, looking at the Chaotic Element Flying Sword that fell to the ground, Lin Feng's face suddenly changed.
"This is bad!"