Chapter 416: Nature’s Precious Land
Translator: Irene Editor: TYZ, KLKL
A sword ray made from many fragnted pieces stabbed forward with a sharp hiss.
[Fragnted Sword]!
Ai Hui’s [Fragnted Sword] was quite different from before. The ray was now half the bulk but consisted twice as many fragnted pieces.
With more fragnted pieces, more speed was required during execution, and a smaller bulk ant that it had more compressed elental energy.
Ai Hui was much stronger than before; he hadn’t been frittering away his ti.
Sensing danger, the lava-spitting beast blew up its body like a balloon and floated backwards as its short snout sprayed wildly at the sword ray.
Balls of red glow flickered incessantly as they struck the sword ray consecutively. Yet, as each lava ball hit the ray, it splitted cleanly into two.
With its sharp whistling and unstoppable nature, the fragnted sword ray was like a rare treasure sword that could easily break through obstacles.
When the fragnted sword ray reached the lava-spitting beast, its round body released a dazzling red glow as the blazingly condensed fire elental energy ford a layer of solid defense cover.
Sss!
The sound of a knife slashing across a piece of cloth was heard.
The fragnted sword ray broke through the flaming cover and shot the beast’s body in a swift manner.
Pfff, a sound alike to the slashing of cowhide could be heard.
Another scar, more distinct this ti, appeared on the beast’s body, causing it to stiffen. The next mont, a piercing whine swept over the whole area like a high-rise tide.
Red lava splurt out from its wound and its balloon-shaped body deflated rapidly.
The lava-spitting beast turned around and floated away as its two snouts extended backwards and sprayed flas in a steady flow, its speed gradually increased.
Ai Hui imdiately realized that it was trying to escape!
But he’d expended more than half of his elental energy in his earlier pursuit for a destructive [Fragnted Sword] blow, leaving his body weak and empty and unable to recover in ti. He could only watch as the beast sped up.
A white figure whizzed across, along with a spear as her long black hair fluttered.
It was a plain, non fanciful thrust that produced no whistling but managed to hit the beast nevertheless. The lava-spitting beast’s body, as if struck by lightning, instantly exploded with a boom.
Like rain, lava sprayed at the direction where it had been fleeing.
Shi Xueman stood victorious.
Ai Hui was dumbstruck. Iron Lady’s skills were becoming increasingly terrifying. That ordinary-looking thrust made it apparent that she’d already perfected her control over all her elental energy, which kept it contained yet powerful.
Her execution had reached the realm where it appeared light as feather yet struck solid as a mountain.
Ai Hui felt that her current abilities were already of a Master’s standard but she’d sohow been suppressing her base level. When asked, she ntioned that this was a special kind of training thod.
Alright, Ai Hui was actually envious.
While he had been progressing significantly, there was still a relatively long path for him to beco a Master.
Ai Hui regained his senses, shouting, "Clean up!"
The tense atmosphere lightened up. Dire beasts were extrely dangerous but if a victory yielded, rich will be harvested.
Fatty flew over and reminded everyone, "Do not miss any pieces of skin and lava."
Everybody burst out in laughter. It was their first ti collecting war spoils from dealing with such a powerful beast without any casualties so they were all in high spirits.
Dire beast is full of treasure. How true a phrase.
The lava-spitting beast had yet to refine fire elental elixir but its skin was a fire elental ingredient of supre quality. Its snouts could be reactivated by skilled workn, and were the best defensive weapons when it ca to guarding the cities. Even the lava in its body was extraordinary. It had been harvested from earth fire and was therefore, through constant refinent, it would be richer and purer. In the market, each gram was sold for an alarming price.
Lava-spitting beasts lived in a land of ample earth fire. Rarely straying away from their hos, they were extrely difficult to hunt.
The gang swept everything within a ter radius, not overlooking any fragnted pieces at all. Their actions clearly expressed what it ant for one to be influenced by his or her environnt.
Ai Hui was rather moved, "I did not expect that I would’ve had the opportunity to hunt down a lava-spitting beast..."
No one responded.
Among the team, Iron Lady already possessed a standard equivalent to a Master’s. Ai Hui and Duanmu Huanghun excelled as well. While the others were slightly weaker, they were all in the Third Elental Realm. Plus, none of them were lacking in standard. In fact, they made an outstanding city expansion team.
Only Lou Lan praised loudly with an approving look on his face, "Ai Hui is amazing!"
No one let down their guard. They rested and recovered their elental energy on the spot.
The thick fire elental energy in the valley was exceptionally eye-grabbing. Lava-spitting beasts’ breath would disperse weaker dire beasts.
Elental energy in the Wilderness was in a mix, so to everyone, training efficiency was drastically reduced as they needed a longer ti and more revolutions in order to recover their elental energy.
The team set off upon full recovery. They were in the right direction since they bumped into a lava-spitting beast. Their destination was exactly a place where earth fire surged.
The team did not et any dangerous dire beasts again. Instead, they were caught in a rainstorm once again. Rainstorms in the Wilderness were much colder. It was bone-chilling. Advancing through a storm like this required active elental energy to withstand the cold, hence, elental energy consumption was very high. And because the elental energy amid the rain was very disordered, the team could had easily lost their way.
Having learnt from their previous experiences, the team stopped in a cave on the cliff to wait it out.
No one had expected Wang Xiaoshan to be the most useful person in the Wilderness. A simple technique of turning rocks into clay had been perfected and was made magical by him.
Drinking Lou Lan’s brewed soup in the cold night was simply a wonderful indulgence.
The rain went on for a whole night and was taken over by a clear and boundless sky the next day, raising everyone’s spirits. Nevertheless, no one dared to fly high as the extrely strong dire beasts residing in high altitudes weren’t monsters they could contend against right now.
Fiery Floating Cloud was only a few feet above ground and the gang scattered around in pairs, strongest with the weakest, strictly guarding.
A few days were all it took for everyone to feel the difference between the Wilderness and Avalon of Five Elents. Take the rainstorm as an example, rainstorms in the Wilderness were more powerful, cold and even more dangerous. In the avalon, rainstorms had no effect on their flight. They could still pass through cumulonimbus clouds and fly freely.
Ai Hui was at the far front. There were many extrely dangerous plants and he had to remind the gang to avoid poisonous plants, swamps and so on.
The Wilderness was a place where experience reigned supre. Even with master-like abilities, one would not survive long in the Wilderness without experience.
Apart from dangerous dire beasts, there were many hidden poisonous insects,which was a pain in the ass. Although Ai Hui was equipped with insecticides, there were so poisonous insects that were immune to it and hence unaffected.
After twenty days of arduous travelling, they had finally reached their destination. In the Wilderness, teams consisted of more than ten mbers operated in diminishing efficiency.
It was difficult to calculate the exact number of attacks they had been subjected to. The only glad worthy fact was that they hadn’t t any other dangerous dire beasts aside from that lava-spitting beast.
Fatty looked at the towering and fuming volcano before him, his eyes lit up. "Is that our destination?"
The fire here was exceptionally rich, a good training place for him.
Sang Zijun disliked the sulfur sll very much. "This stinks", she said while crinkling her brows.
Fatty responded with a drunk look on his face. "Stinks? Not at all! Such a beautiful fire elental energy odor."
Ai Hui ignored both of them. He brought everyone across a mountain range and pointed towards the front. "This is the place!"
Crossing over the range, everybody looked over and were pleasantly surprised.
The huge valley was enveloped in a thin layer of mist. The lush green forest could faintly be seen and even the babbling of river streams could be heard.
"How magical!"
"How can there be such a lively and flourishing place near a volcano?"
"Is it dangerous inside?"
The gang was excited. Other than fire elentalists like Fatty, no one liked the blistering hot and barren volcano land.
"Already checked. No dangers." Shi Xueman, too, broke into a smile. She rembered how happy she was to see this valley when she accompanied Ai Hui over to explore.
Ai Hui was excited as well since he’d finally brought everyone over safely. In ti, they were going to build a city in this valley. A city that belonged to them and a city that was going to be the foundation of their future.
"Alright, this is our territory now." Ai Hui declared. "Go down and take a look."
He led the way as others followed suit, excitent evident on their faces.
Upon entering the valley, it was as if they’d been transported into an entirely different world. The unpleasant sulphur sll was completely gone. The air within the valley was filled with the scent of grass and flowers. The exterior of the valley appeared to be engulfed in mist but the mist seed to beco milder and did not affect their vision at all on the inside.
The terrain in the valley was uneven so they were able to spot lakes, grasses and trees.
With a closer look, one would notice that the valley’s shape was like an irregular pentagon and could be divided into five sections. Its topography was also structured in a way that promoted the engendernt of the five elents. It was like a shrunken Avalon of Five Elents.
A mound was located at the highest terrain, it was likely ford from accumulated volcanic ashes. Under it was a weird, rugged cave. They did not know where it led to and the subterranean tal wind blew day and night, causing a weird whistle occasionally. The tal wind exited from the cave swept across the area, producing many gorges in a fan-like manner over ti. These gorges were extrely glossy and carried a tallic luster as if the cave had sprayed silver lines outside.
Following these silver gorges of uneven thickness, the tal wind plunged straight into a mini waterfall located mid-mountain, creating a big sheet of mist. It was this mist that enveloped the valley.
The small lake was situated at a low-lying area of the valley. Abundant underground water rushed out from cracks on the waist of the mountain, forming a small waterfall that eventually ford a small and clear jade-green lake.
By the lake was the lowest-lying piece of land. Grass and vines filled the ground and a few tall trees grew sporadically. The brimming lake water ford small brooks that covered the whole area.
Beside the grassland were raised black rocks in wrinkled folds. Red glow could faintly be seen within the folds as they emitted great heat. Not even a blade of grass grew on those rocks.
This natural land of five elents had everyone enchanted.
Nature’s precious land!
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