Chapter 101: Fog Zone

  "Vartz Fakk!"

  When Hu Gao came to his senses, he suddenly had the urge to cut off his own arm and escape. This Fire Cloud Toad was too much, hiding in his sleeve like that wasn't equivalent to having a time bomb strapped to his body?

  And it's absolutely the high-explosive type.

  Yun Feng and Han Chong immediately jumped back more than ten meters, staring at Hu Gao with a fierce gaze, their swords pointing directly at him. They wanted to take action but felt that it was not quite right, how could they attack their good brother? This also made Hu Gao feel very stifled.

  "Boss, don't worry, this Huoyun Chan has no hostile intentions towards you. He just wants to find me and absorb the faint dragon aura emanating from my body to help him grow and truly complete his transformation." At this time, the voice of Xiao Wu echoed in Hu Gao's mind again.

  "Metamorphosis?" Hu Gao wondered.

  "Hmm, this Huo Yun Chan is no longer an ordinary fire-attribute demon beast. He has begun to undergo a transformation. If I'm not mistaken, it's because he ingested a large amount of Black Fire Lotus, causing his strength to increase multiple times and even his spiritual awareness to grow, allowing him to understand human language. Once he fully transforms, he should be able to speak human words."

  "So that's how it is. I get it now. No wonder he's so formidable, even a martial artist at the second stage of Unity can say eat and just eat."

  "Hu Gao nodded suddenly, "So what do we do now? Just let him wait like this? You have to understand, he's a second-tier peak demon beast, equivalent to a high-explosive bomb that could go off at any moment. Waiting like this isn't a solution."

  "What is a high-explosive bomb?"

  "I'm saying it might swallow me up at any moment, like a burning swan! Tell me what to do now?"

  "Boss, don't worry about this. Firstly, Huoyun Cuan doesn't have any hostile intentions towards you. He's just simply waiting for me to wake up and is temporarily occupying a position on your body, which won't affect you. Moreover, boss, aren't you interested in taming a second-tier peak demon beast as a pet?"

  Xiao Wu smiled mischievously.

  "Raised as a beast's pet?"

  Hu Gao only felt his scalp numb, this idea he hadn't even thought of, if he didn't handle it well, he would definitely be eaten.

  "Uh... Boss, I'm not asking you to take him in as a beast pet right now, but rather later on. When the time comes, I'll personally take action. Yeah, once I break through to the second stage of demonic beasts, even if it's just mid-second stage, I have confidence that I can take him in as a beast pet."

  Xiao Wu felt helpless with Hu Gao's emotions.

  "Are you waiting for me to break through to the second-order demon beast level?"

  After Hu Gao's solemn consideration, he nodded in agreement. If it were up to him to subdue the Fire Cloud Toad himself, he would have waited until he was sure of his victory before making a move; otherwise, he wouldn't know how he'd end up dead.

  Xiao Wu has now also broken through to the first stage peak, and I believe it won't be long before he breaks through to the second stage. Anyway, Xiao Wu's cultivation speed is very fast, even faster than mine.

  "Boss, let's leave here for now, later on there might be a lot of people coming."

  "Uh-huh."

  Hu Gao nodded slightly and then calmly stored the Black Fire Lotus into his spatial ring, walking towards Yun Feng and Han Chong: "Let's go."

  As Hu Gao approached, Yun Feng and Han Chong retreated one after another. They had no objection to Hu Gao taking all the Black Fire Lotus, as they hadn't taken it to heart. Now their minds were all on the Fire Cloud Toad, a deadly thing that required caution. Repeatedly, they said: "Wait, wait, wait... Is he just going to leave like this? What about the Fire Cloud Toad?"

  Seeing the two people's performance, Hu Gao's face was expressionless, "On me."

  He really wanted to beat them up or throw Huoyun Chan onto their bodies.

  Yun Feng and Han Chong wanted to say something, but after seeing Hu Gao's expression, they wisely shut up and followed behind him in one direction, still keeping a certain distance from Hu Gao.

  All the way, Hu Gao saw that the Fire Cloud Toad in his sleeve seemed to be asleep, without any aura emanating from it. Although he could still sense its presence, he felt much more at ease and chatted calmly with Yun Feng and Han Chong as they continued their search for the Black Fire Lotus.

  Of course, Yun Feng and Han Chong mostly just brushed off his conversations, refusing to pay much attention to him and stubbornly keeping their distance from Hu Gao.

  Originally, Hu Gao had planned to leave the Fire Beast Forest directly. After all, he had already obtained enough Black Fire Lotus, and even if he wouldn't get any more, he would still be the biggest winner among all the warriors this time. Continuing to stay here might lead to unexpected events, especially since there were Three-Stage Body Refining Realm warriors present in the Fire Beast Forest.

  When the time comes, they won't let Xiao Wu take action, and they will definitely be unable to cope.

  But if Xiao Wu were to take action, Huo Yun Chan would definitely be alerted, and at that time, the consequences would be unpredictable.

  It's really embarrassing, Hu Gao is in such a dilemma, and he came to the foot of Huo Zhi Peak. The whole area was shrouded in mist. The three people walked through several small hills, and within two hours, they were already in front of a vast expanse of fog.

  "Hooo..."

  In the distance, amidst the fog, there were continuous roars of beasts coming out, and these roars seemed to be a mixture of snake hisses and dragon chants, indistinguishable from one another.

  "This foggy area is hiding a lot of dangers, have you considered it?" Hu Gao asked.

  Yun Feng said directly: "I entered the Flame Valley to find some Black Fire Lotus for my brother, and now I've even harvested a lot of Black Fire Peony. I haven't had a chance to repay you properly yet, Brother Hu Gao. Plus, I unexpectedly broke through to the Tongti realm, so it's settled that I'll accompany you into the Flame Spirit Peak, no need to hesitate!"

  Han Chong also nodded solemnly: "Actually, my main purpose for coming to the Fire Beast Forest is not to search for treasure, but to increase my strength. Now that I've achieved a breakthrough in my first goal of reaching the Transcendent Realm, I feel like I need to go through more life-and-death experiences. Let's go, let's enter. Some dangers might just give me an even bigger breakthrough."

  Between their words, they had already taken steps forward, walking into the misty area ahead.

  "These two guys, how come you didn't show such bravery just now?" Seeing their actions, Hu Gao felt very unbalanced in his heart.

  But he had no choice and followed behind.

  As soon as I entered the fog area, the beast's roar in front of me suddenly weakened and disappeared completely within less than half a minute.

  "Huh? What's going on?"

  Hu Gao and his three companions were all bewildered, unsure of what was happening. They all focused their minds and remained vigilant, prepared for any unexpected event to occur.

  Hoo-hoo!

  Suddenly, a chill wind blew around, and white fog swirled in all directions, soon enveloping the three of them.

  "Be careful, everyone!"

  Hú Gāo hastily let out a loud shout.

  But at this moment, he suddenly felt a dizziness, as if the whole person was about to move to another place, and after being shrouded in mist, he couldn't see the surrounding situation at all.

  Faintly, he heard two voices saying "Hugao brothers be careful", and then there were no other sounds, only the sound of cold wind whistling through the surroundings, which was very eerie and terrifying.

  When Hu Gao regained his senses again, Yun Feng and Han Chong were nowhere to be seen.

  "What's going on?" Hu Gao asked Xiao Wu, his perception ability greatly suppressed, and he couldn't find any trace of the two friends.

  "Boss, it seems like we've been teleported. This foggy area seems to have something special about it, and in an instant, it separated the three of you. I only sensed their disappearance for a moment. Moreover, the surrounding fog is suppressing my senses too much, I can't even sense things a thousand meters away." Little Five explained helplessly.

  "Is your perception also being suppressed? I don't know how they are doing." Hu Gao was somewhat worried, "Xiao Wu, is there any danger around?"

  Xiao Wu sensed it again and said: "There shouldn't be any danger, except for some fire poison, didn't sense any fire beast... Boss, be careful!"

  As soon as Xiao Wu's warning sounded, Hu Gao heard a buzzing noise coming from behind him.

  What is this?! How can it get so close?!

  A dangerous aura made Hu Gao's back feel chilly, and he swung the Shadowless Sword to release a wave of sword light that splashed towards the red mist behind him.

  All that could be heard was the sound of a sword slicing through the air, accompanied by a beast's screech. In the red mist that erupted from the explosion of the sword light, a gigantic poisonous bee, nearly one meter in length, fell to the ground not far from Hu's feet, its body twitching.

  "This is, Flame Wasp?" Hu Gao recognized the Flame Wasp's identity from the sword energy that had shredded its wings, flame-like wings being a hallmark of this mid-stage first-tier demonic beast.

  "Boss, it was too dangerous just now. The Flame Wasp was hidden in the red mist with a fiery aura. I wouldn't have found it if I hadn't approached you. This foggy area is too treacherous." Little Five explained, his tone filled with disgust and apprehension towards this foggy area.

  "It's just a mid-tier first-order, Little Five. We must be careful, there are definitely more powerful fire beasts here, and maybe even the Fire Beast King!" Hu Gao was worried about Yun Feng and Han Chong, as they didn't have his strong perception abilities. But fortunately, the sound of the flame bee's flight wasn't small, and once it got close, with their two abilities, they would definitely be able to detect it.

  "Alright. However, boss, I feel that the fire energy is thicker in a certain direction, there might be treasure, do we want to go over?" Xiaowu's spirit was raised to twelve points, his perception was fully open, and he immediately felt the difference around him.

  Hú Gāo thought for a moment and said: "Let's go take a look, it's all misty around us, we don't know which way to go. Let's head in this direction, maybe we'll find something."

  All the way through the darkness, in Hu Gao's mind, Xiao Wu's annoyed voice kept echoing: "Boss, Flame Bees are coming again..."

  All the way down, I encountered no less than thirty flame wasps. Xiao Wu was fed up with counting them, and Hu Gao killed them until he was fed up too. There were early-stage ones, late-stage ones, and even peak-stage ones. They weren't very strong, but they were more annoying than flies. After using a lot of effort to kill all of them, not a single demon core was obtained.

  All the way down, Hu Gao suspected that he had practiced a one-hit kill, and these flame bees were not very dangerous and did not bring any gains.

  "Boss, the flames are getting thicker and thicker, and second-order flame bees may appear."

  After Hu Gao took down the three Flame Wasps, Xiao Wu said, "However, I found something strange. In this thick fiery aura, there's a hint of chilliness."

  "'Cold air?' Hu Gao found it somewhat inconceivable, 'How can there be cold air in the Fire Beast Forest?'"

  "I don't know. It's like throwing a piece of ice into the fireplace, I feel that there is a low-temperature place in the fierce fire, and some chilliness. Boss, do you think there might be some treasure?"