#8 - White Armor Silver Spear

On his way to Flame Mountain Valley, Jun Wuxie encountered several more attacks from flame beasts.

However, having cultivated to the extreme realm, these second-tier, sixth-level flame beasts found it difficult to break through his defenses. Without dodging or evading, he could withstand their sharp claws.

He was very satisfied with his physical body. Wherever his iron fists landed, flesh and blood flew.

In just a few rounds, he killed the flame beasts with his fists and retrieved their beast cores.

"This is it."

Jun Wuxie looked down at the valley below from a high vantage point.

The valley was surrounded by tall volcanic rocks, and the ground had many gullies filled with flickering flames, resembling flowing, unsolidified magma.

He carefully observed that the horizontal space inside the valley was about fifty meters, not very wide, and the depth was over a thousand meters.

At the deepest part of the valley was a rock wall hundreds of meters high, straight and steep, and at the bottom of the rock wall was a deep cave. Scattered in front of the cave were some broken weapons and human bones.

The temperature here was extremely high, and even with his physical strength, he felt a slight burning sensation, with fine sweat seeping from his skin.

"How strong is a third-tier ferocious beast exactly? I need to test it out to figure out a solution."

Jun Wuxie carefully pondered the situation inside the entire valley and discovered a problem.

The broken weapons and human bones at the cave entrance likely belonged to the members of hunter mercenary groups who had come to kill the flame python in the past six months and were wiped out.

Throughout the valley, the ground and the rocks on both sides clearly showed traces of fighting, but these traces were hardly visible at the valley entrance, and there were no traces of battle outside the valley.

"It seems that the flame python will not leave this valley. As long as one rushes out of the valley, it will no longer pursue..."

Jun Wuxie deduced after sorting out the clues. But why wouldn't the flame python leave the valley even a step? What could be the reason?

After thinking about it, there was only one reason that could explain it.

There must be something the flame python wanted to protect inside the deep cave in the valley.

Was it the flame python's eggs, or something else?

"Let's see how strong it is first!"

Jun Wuxie locked onto the small hills between the valley entrance and the cave, mentally simulated a plan, and then jumped down, using some protruding rocks on the cliff to descend into the valley in a few leaps.

As he went deeper into the valley, the temperature became higher and higher, but he inexplicably felt a chilling sensation.

When he was only two or three hundred meters away from the cave, he felt as if a pair of cold and terrifying eyes were staring at him from within the dark cave.

Just as he was about to continue forward, a sound like metal scraping against the ground came from inside the cave, and his heart tightened abruptly.

He saw a pair of eyes resembling two pale yellow, rhombus-shaped gems, staring fixedly at him from within the dark cave, cold and bloodthirsty.

Hoo!

Jun Wuxie took a deep breath, met the rhombus-shaped eyes in the air, and slowly lowered his feet, continuing forward.

At the same time, his muscles tensed, and vigorous blood energy surged within his body, gathering the power of the acquired extreme realm to its peak.

Jun Wuxie moved forward very slowly. He was about a hundred meters away from the nearest small hill behind him. If he lengthened the distance further, he might exceed the safe range.

"Hiss!"

Just as he was nervously anticipating the flame python's attack, the flame python finally emerged from the cave as he wished.

The roar shook the valley, and its bucket-thick, twenty-meter-long body covered in fiery red scales, like cast iron, collapsed the rocks at the cave entrance, making it extremely violent.

It was like a fiery red and thick iron whip. The moment the python's body rushed out, it swung in the air.

With a buzz, the python's tail exploded the air, directly smashing over, forming a hurricane-like airflow.

Although Jun Wuxie was prepared, he was still startled by such a display.

He instantly retreated, avoiding the python's tail strike, but the aftermath of the true energy carried by the python's tail still impacted his body, sending him flying more than ten meters. He felt excruciating pain, and when he looked down, he saw cracks in his flesh, with blood seeping out.

"So strong!"

Jun Wuxie's heart sank. He had long known that ferocious beasts above the third tier were extremely powerful, but he did not expect them to be so terrifying.

His physical body was equivalent to the strength of a first-star, low-grade spiritual weapon, yet it was cracked by the aftermath of its true energy?

Fortunately, he had broken through to the extreme realm before. If it were the quasi-spiritual-level body before the breakthrough, he would definitely have been done for here.

Without any hesitation, he turned around and ran, rushing towards the small hills, using his small size and agility to hinder the flame python's attacks with the mountain body, buying himself time to escape the valley.

At the same time, the flame python, missing its strike, immediately rushed up, its speed shocking Jun Wuxie, and it was behind him in an instant.

The twenty-meter-long python body wrapped around him, and the agitated true energy impacted him, almost making him unable to stand.

Jun Wuxie seized the opportunity, leaped up, stepped on the winding python body, and jumped out again.

Seeing its prey escape again, the flame python roared, its snake head chasing up, trying to swallow him in one bite.

Jun Wuxie's heart pounded. At the critical moment, he twisted in the air, barely dodging, and rushed behind the mountain after landing.

Boom!

The flame python's huge body crashed into the mountain, shaking the mountain, cracking the rocks, and raising a high cloud of volcanic ash.

Jun Wuxie ran two hundred meters at the fastest speed and rushed behind the second small hill.

Along the way, relying on the mountain rocks, he narrowly escaped the valley.

The flame python stopped abruptly at the valley entrance, staring at him coldly with its pale yellow, rhombus-shaped pupils for a moment before turning and leaving.

Hoo!

Jun Wuxie sat down on the ground, his whole body soaked with sweat.

The short moment just now had consumed a lot of his energy and spirit, and he felt a sense of exhaustion.

"This guy is too strong. I have to think carefully about how to deal with it..."

After resting for a while, Jun Wuxie left the valley entrance, found a high place, used the rocks as cover, and carefully observed the environment inside and outside the entire valley to see if there was anything he could use.

He had to kill the flame python, otherwise he would not get the bounty, and without resources to upgrade to the Xiantian realm, he would not be able to fight against Xiao Xu.

However, the difficulty was too high!

He racked his brains for several hours, and as he watched the setting sun, nearing dusk, he finally had a preliminary idea in his mind.

However, to implement it smoothly, there was still a key link, which was a condition that he did not currently possess.

"If there were other mercenary groups taking on this task, I might be able to use them a little..."

Jun Wuxie couldn't help but frown, his eyes falling on the top of the cliff where the cave was located.

"Hmm? What's that sound?"

His ears twitched slightly, his thoughts immediately returning from the cliff, and he turned to look in the direction of the valley entrance.

"This is... the sound of hooves?"

He almost suspected there was something wrong with his ears, that there was actually the sound of hooves?

The sound of hooves was very rapid and getting closer and closer.

A moment later, a person and a horse appeared in sight.

A snow-white Qianling steed that could travel a thousand miles a day, with true energy flowing from its four hooves, was ridden by a woman in white armor and a silver spear, with a sword on her back, looking valiant and heroic, and had now entered Flame Mountain Valley.

The woman's white armor-clad figure outlined exquisite and perfect curves, but she was too far away to see her features clearly.

"Could she also be here to kill the flame python after taking on this task?"

Jun Wuxie's heart sank. This woman came alone, so she must be very confident. If she really killed the flame python, he would have no chance!