"Tie Ta, are you alright?" Jianchen asked with concern.
Tie Ta shook his head and let out a long sigh. He said in a muffled voice, "I'm fine. It's just that I'm very hot. It's so hot that I feel terrible."
"That's good." Jianchen immediately let out a sigh of relief. He had been really worried that something would happen to Tie Ta when he saw him surrounded by raging fire.
At this moment, Jianchen's eyes suddenly narrowed. He turned his head slightly and glanced at a certain spot in the dense foliage behind him. A gleam of light flashed through his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up into an imperceptible smile.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The ground trembled slightly. The fire cloud beast approached Jianchen and Tie Ta with heavy steps. The ground shook slightly with every step it took. Red flames constantly spat out from its mouth as if they would shoot out at any time.
Tie Ta stared at the approaching fire cloud beast solemnly and said in a deep voice, "Changyang Shōten, this big guy's skin is very hard. How are we going to kill it?"
Jianchen also stared at the approaching fire cloud beast solemnly and said, "The fire cloud beast is wrapped in a layer of very hard skin. Unless we're all Saints, we can only break its skin with our weapons. Now it seems that we can only break through its eyes and attack its brain from there."
As soon as Jianchen finished speaking, the fire cloud beast roared angrily. It opened its mouth and spat out a hot fire snake again.
Jianchen and Tie Ta hurriedly jumped away. Jianchen held the iron rod tightly in his right hand and shouted at Tie Ta, "Tie Ta, go attract its attention."
"Don't worry. Leave it to me!" Tie Ta picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the fire cloud beast. He then ran to the other side.
The stone flew in the air and accurately hit the fire cloud beast, hitting its fangs that had been broken by Tie Ta.
The broken fangs seemed to be the pain of the Fire Cloud Beast. The Fire Cloud Beast's eyes immediately turned red and bloodshot. It kept spitting fire at Tie Ta.
Jianchen stared sharply at the fire cloud beast that had been attracted by Tie Ta. He held the slightly bent iron rod tightly in his hand. Then he quickly ran from the side of the fire cloud beast to its head.
Jian Chen was extremely fast. As he ran, his feet did not touch the ground. He ran on the short grass of the grassland as if he was dancing in the air.
In a short moment, Jianchen arrived below the fire cloud beast's head. He did not care about the intense heat coming from the fire snake. Jianchen jumped up high. When he was at the same height as the fire cloud beast's head, his right arm suddenly shook. He drove the iron rod towards the fire cloud beast's fist-sized eye.
Although Jianchen was very fast, the fire cloud beast's reaction was not slow either. Just as the iron rod was about to reach its eye, it suddenly closed its eyes.
Jianchen's eyes flashed. Success or failure depended on one move. At this moment, he focused his mind. Under his powerful senses, he slightly adjusted the direction of the iron rod. The tip of the iron rod was originally aimed at the fire cloud beast's eye, but now it pierced through the gap between the fire cloud beast's eyelids.
The iron rod easily pierced through the gap between the fire cloud beast's eyelids without any resistance. Immediately, bright red blood gushed out from the fire cloud beast's eye.
"Roar!" The excruciating pain caused the Fire Cloud Beast to let out a miserable scream. The sound shook the sky, and spread far and wide in all directions.
Jianchen's right arm exerted force again. The iron rod pierced deeper into the fire cloud beast's eye, trying to pierce its brain directly from the eye.
The fire cloud beast's screams became more and more miserable. Then, its head shook quickly, trying to get rid of the iron rod in its eye. However, the iron rod had already penetrated its eye, so it was not so easy to get rid of it. Moreover, there was a person on the iron rod. The more it shook its head, the more intense the pain was. After shaking its head twice, the more intense the pain was, so the fire cloud beast did not dare to move its head at all.
The fire cloud beast continued to scream. In the end, its huge body directly collapsed to the ground. It struggled painfully on the ground. Although the wound was not fatal to it, the piercing pain was something its brain could not endure.
Seeing the fire cloud beast on the ground, Jianchen's eyes lit up with joy. He immediately yelled, "Tie Ta, use more force and pierce the iron rod deeper." This task was best left to Tie Ta, who was born with extraordinary strength.
"Okay, I'm coming." Tie Ta ran over excitedly. He could see the dawn of victory now.
Tie Ta quickly approached the fire cloud beast. He extended his hand and grabbed the iron rod in its eye. Then, he forcefully pushed his right hand in. Immediately, the one-meter-long iron rod completely entered the fire cloud beast's eye. Only a small part of his fist remained outside.
"Roar!" The fire cloud beast let out a high-pitched scream. It was so loud that Jianchen and Tie Ta felt their eardrums ache. After the scream, the fire cloud beast seemed to have lost all its strength. Its huge body gently sobbed a few times on the ground before it stopped moving. Its other eye also slowly closed.
Seeing that the fire cloud beast was finally dead, Jianchen and Tie Ta could not help but let out a sigh of relief. Although the fire cloud beast was not very powerful among Class 2 magical beasts, its defense was outstanding. It was very difficult to kill it.
"It's finally dead. This magical beast is so hard to deal with. It can even spit fire. It burned all my hair away." Tie Ta rubbed his big bald head with a gloomy expression.
Jianchen chuckled. He looked at Tie Ta's tattered uniform that did not cover his body and said, "You should wear this." With that, Jianchen took out another wolf pelt from his spatial belt. Jianchen and Tie Ta had prepared many of these wolf pelts. There were still quite a few in his spatial belt. He planned to use them all to make clothes. After all, who knew how many battles they would have to go through in the forest. A single set of clothes was far from enough.
Tie Ta did not hold back. He took the wolf pelt and quickly made a simple set of clothes.
Afterwards, Jianchen and Tie Ta took out the monster core from the fire cloud beast's brain and set off on their journey once more.
Just as Jianchen and Tie Ta disappeared into the woods, a red figure fell from a lush tree. It was a tall woman in fiery red clothes. She was about 30 years old. Although she was not very beautiful, she looked gentle and quiet.
The woman looked at the fire cloud beast's corpse. There was still a trace of shock in her eyes. After taking a deep breath, the woman murmured in a low voice, "Tie Ta, Changyang Shōten, you two really live up to your reputation. You're actually so powerful. You're not even a Saint, but you can kill a fire cloud beast that specializes in defense with only two ordinary iron weapons. This really surprises me. It seems that I have to report this to the vice dean." With that, the woman used her movement technique and quickly left.
Not long after the woman left, another five youths with weapons in their hands arrived. The five youths' faces were dark, and it was impossible to see their faces. However, they were wearing tattered school uniforms. In their hands, three of them were holding greatswords, one of them was holding a machete, and the last of them was a burly youth holding a sledgehammer.
"From the sound of it, the roar just now should have come from here," said one of the young men with a huge sword.
The young man with the machete nodded and said, "That's right. If that magical beast hasn't gone far, then it should be nearby …" At this point, the young man's voice paused slightly. His eyes stared straight ahead and cried out in alarm, "Look, what is that …" As he spoke, the young man pointed his finger forward.
Hearing that, everyone looked over. Sure enough, they saw a fiery red object the size of a small mountain lying on the ground. It looked very much like a magical beast.
"Let's go take a look."
Very soon, the five of them arrived in front of the magical beast. However, when they recognized it, their faces immediately became serious.
An experienced young man crouched before the corpse of the firecloud beast and dipped his hand in its blood. He said, "This is a firecloud beast. Its defenses are very powerful, but its attacks aren't very powerful. However, its blood hasn't dried up yet and there's still some heat. Clearly, it died not too long ago. Looks like it was the one that roared just now."
A young man with a huge sword looked around before looking in the direction that Jianchen and Tie Ta had left in. He said, "Let's go. Let's chase after them immediately and see just who killed this firecloud beast. If they're strong enough, we can recruit them and hunt magical beasts together. If they're too weak …" With that, the young man smiled evilly.
Hearing that, the other four young men seemed to think of something. They all smiled evilly. Afterwards, the five of them quickly chased after Jianchen and Tie Ta.
Jianchen and Tie Ta made their way through the forest carefully. Since they had to be wary of magical beasts that could appear at any time and the difficult swamps on the ground, the two of them did not move quickly.
At this moment, Jianchen's ears trembled slightly. He immediately stopped Tie Ta and said, "Be careful, someone's catching up from behind."
Hearing this, Tie Ta immediately stopped and turned his head to look behind him curiously.
Very soon, the people behind them appeared before Jianchen and Tie Ta. There were five of them in total. Due to their dark faces, Jianchen was unable to make out their appearances. However, the weapons in their hands all gave off powerful pulses of Saint Force.
When the five young men discovered that it was only the two of them, a sliver of joy appeared in their eyes. They looked at each other, and as if they had agreed to this beforehand, they actually sped up and arrived before the two of them at the same time, surrounding them.
Seeing this, Jianchen and Tie Ta both had a bad feeling.
"May I ask what the meaning of this is?" Jianchen asked with a deep voice.
One of the young men waved the huge sword in his hand and smiled evilly, "What do we mean? What do you think we mean?"
"Obediently hand over your Space Belts, and we will definitely not make things difficult for you. Otherwise … hmph hmph hmph …" The large man with the hammer said with a cold smile.
Tie Ta's face suddenly changed when he heard that. He said furiously, "You want us to hand over our Space Belts? Hmph, don't even think about it." Tie Ta now understood what the young men were trying to do. They were actually trying to rob them.
Jianchen gently patted the Space Belt around his waist and sneered, "The Space Belt is right here. All the monster cores we've hunted are in there. Come and take them if you can."
Even though they knew that the five of them were all Saints, Jianchen and Tie Ta showed no fear at all.
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